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Published May 23, 2009 at 6:30 PM CDT

By Steve Bell

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Kansas City, MO –

Funds for wading pools, spraygrounds held, then restored.

Fourth of July fireworks at Shawnee Mission Park cancelled.

City council cautiously embraces new downtown hotel plan.

K-State to fight "secret" $3.2 M pact with former coach.

Board of Regents to raise tuition at Kansas universities.

Parkinson restores $250,000 for Planned Parenthood.

Kansas bills on energy, stimulus for unemployment signed.

Missouri law fails test for federal unemployment stimulus.

MoDOT head campaigns for veto of "no helmet" bill.

Nixon taps stimulus dollars to pay delayed tax refunds.

Skillicorn execution Missouri's first in four years.

Defunded, but not defeated.

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

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