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KCUR Morning Newscast 5-22-08

By Maria Carter, KCUR Newsroom

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Kansas City, MO – Efforts to approve two coal fired power plants in Kansas are dead for now.

The Kansas City Council's Finance and Audit committee yesterday approved asking voters in August to consider raising the museum property tax to ten cents.

Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline will ask the Supreme Court to let him state his case in the abortion records lawsuit that is holding up his prosecution of Planned Parenthood.

Union members at the GM Fairfax plant in Kansas City Kansas are returning to work today.

Springs native David Cook became the newest American Idol.

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