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KCUR Morning News 5-15-09

By Maria Carter

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Kansas City, MO –
As many as 500 men and women stand to lose jobs as Chrysler prepares to close eleven Kansas City metro dealerships.

Kansas City, Missouri will have a new zoning ordinance within a few weeks, but the council wants two more weeks to study the 360-page document.

Kansas will have a new lieutenant governor.

The final day of the 2009 Missouri legislative session has arrived, and one of Governor Nixon's top priorities is no closer to passage than it was three months ago.

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

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