By Maria Carter
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Kansas City, MO – Missouri will have more than 500 new bridges by the end of 2013 under a $490 million project that has been awarded by the state transportation commission.
About $250 million in federal economic stimulus money will help Missouri speed up the payment of hundreds of thousands of individual income tax refunds.
The Kansas City city council received the first report on a proposed new 1,000-room downtown hotel with cautious enthusiasm yesterday.
While economic conditions remain weak, rural bankers in 11 Midwest and Plains states reported improvements for the third month in a row.
State commerce officials say, despite the nation's economic slump, exports of Kansas products were nearly $12.5 billion last year.
The number of confirmed swine flu cases in Kansas has reached 62 after 10 new cases were announced yesterday.
The St. Louis School District is reporting its first case of swine flu.