By Maria Carter
KANSAS CITY, MO –
KCUR Morning Headlines (3 min 8 sec)
- Kansas City, Missouri's Transportation and Infrastructure Committee endorsed a Red Bridge Road renovation plan yesterday. Council members John Sharp and Cathy Jolly spearheaded a successful move to scale back original city plans that called for a five-lane street and four-lane bridge.
- The Missouri Senate passed a bill last night that would create a quick path for professionals to become teachers, despite an attempt to kill the bill by filibuster.
- The clinical research company PRA International has completed two million dollars in renovations at its pharmacology center in Lenexa, Kansas.
- The Kansas Senate has given preliminary approval to a bill that transfers the State Division of Travel and Tourism to an independent government agency.