Expect long lines at the polls tomorrow. There are 1.84 million registered voters in Kansas.
Voter registrations surge in Kansas for 2018 election https://t.co/J8rS1AFbn1 pic.twitter.com/VG3FDK6Hy5
— St Joseph Post (@StJosephPost) November 5, 2018
Republicans remain the dominant party with 817,713 registered voters, while Democrats grew their ranks to 463,114. Unaffiliated voters totaled 543,403, while Libertarians totaled 17,618.
A comparison shows the state has added 40,825 people to voter rolls since September 2017.
The ballots are full of diversity in Kansas.
‘I have anarchists who support me.’ Third party candidates face long odds in 2018 as races in Missouri and Kansas look to be close. #ksleg #moleg https://t.co/AEXz3XgNau
— Hunter Woodall (@HunterMw) November 5, 2018
“I’ve had a communist write me a whole page saying that he supports me and I have anarchists who support me and I have everything in between,” Caldwell said.
The other independent in the governor’s race is Rick Kloos of Topeka, who serves as the director of God’s Storehouse, “a church that operates as a thrift store,” according to its website.
The first rule about Pre-K Fight Club: It’s illegal.
Two St. Louis day care workers accused of running toddler fight club https://t.co/Lil08ED7qr pic.twitter.com/sFp98QDqfa
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch (@stltoday) November 5, 2018
Charging documents say on Dec. 7, 2016, Guliford and Dailey were in charge of a class at the Adventure Learning Center at 5440 Gravois Avenue in St. Louis. They “encouraged and directed the children to engage in fistfights with each other,” charging documents say.
The fights lasted 35 minutes and involved at least six children, the charges say, equipped with a padded glove on one hand. The fights were captured on the center’s surveillance video and by one fighter’s 10-year-old brother. A video shows one child crying after a fight, and Guliford “jumping up and down with excitement.”
It’s a race against the clock on tariffs.
Trade war fallout: Fears of rotting unsold soybeans
• China has all but stopped buying soybeans from the U.S.
• Sales are ⬇️ by 94%
• Soybeans are piling up
• Some farmers are souring
Scoop from @BCAppelbaumhttps://t.co/Ft9jfOinxm— Clifford Levy (@cliffordlevy) November 5, 2018
“I’m trying to follow and figure out who the winners are in this tariff war,” Mr. Gebeke said. “I know who one of the losers are and that’s us. And that’s painful.”
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China is by far the world’s largest importer of soybeans. The country consumed 110 million tons of soybeans in 2017, and 87 percent of those beans were imported — the vast majority from either Brazil or the United States. While soybeans are grown throughout the Midwest, the soybean fields of North Dakota are the part of soybean country that is closest to the Pacific Ocean, and so its beans are mostly sent to China.
The Brief is a daily roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.