KCUR Evening News 8-5-09

KCUR

Published August 5, 2009 at 6:09 PM CDT

By Steve Bell

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Kansas City, MO –

Council committe endorses scaled-back plan for rubber-tired trolleys from the River Market to Waldo.

MoDOT rail-transit stimulus application list includes rolling stock, track for KC-St.Louis Amtrack.

Millions in federal grants to Smith, Ford for electrical vehicle production.

Parkinson repeats stance against Guantanamo detainees in Kansas.

Nixon presents federal education-tech grants in KC area.

Defunded, but not defeated.

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

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