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KCUR Morning Newscast 5-21-08

By Maria Carter, KCUR Newsroom

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Kansas City, MO – General Motors and the United Auto workers have reached a tentative agreement to end a strike at the Fairfax plant in Kansas City Kansas.

Missouri is set to become the seventh state to sign an education compact for military kids.

A transportation lobbyist in Missouri says lawmakers appear to be ignoring a looming highway funding shortfall that's due to arrive in two years.

Republican Congressman Jerry Moran and Democrat Dennis Moore have both filed paperwork to run again for their seats.

The Topeka school that was prominent in the landmark U S Supreme Court decision on segregation has been placed on a list of endangered historic places.

Congress just eliminated federal funding for KCUR, but public radio is for the people.

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