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KCUR Morning News 3-11-09

By Maria Carter

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Kansas City, MO – The Missouri House voted down a bill yesterday to expand Medicaid through an increased tax on hospitals.

Missouri senators are backing new restrictions on red light cameras.

A committee in the Kansas House has begun several days of hearings on a bill that would ban smoking in nearly all indoor public places.

The maker of Wonder Bread is closing two bakeries, including one in Missouri.

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