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Student should register by March 8 to vote in this upcoming election!

Let’s Show the Voting Booth Some Love

Adriana Paez, Staff Writer
March 3, 2023

  Local elections are coming up on April 4 across the Kansas City metro area, but most young voters, ages 18-29, will not be casting a ballot.   “People wonder why there’s this disparity in terms of so much more money spent on older folks,” said Steve Kraske, UMKC...

Young people looking up with hope and faith in the future

Young voter turnout: beginning a lifetime of civic engagement

Anna Ryan
November 16, 2020

With a worldwide pandemic in full swing, overdue midterms piling up and exhaustion tugging at  caffeine-addled brains, college students this year had every reason not to make a trek to the polls.   And yet, perhaps those were the perfect reasons for countless...

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