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KCUR Evening Newscast 3-7-08

By Steve Bell

KANSAS CITY, MO –
KCUR Evening Headlines (1 min 48 sec)

  • Community leaders met this morning to launch a new campaign to renew the bus tax. The 3/8th cent tax first approved in 2003 funds almost a third of the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority's operations.
  • The Overland Park City Council formally approved the annexation of an 8.5 square mile area.
  • Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt is demanding that the attorney general's office pay more than a half-million dollars to obtain e-mail records from the governor's office.

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