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KCUR Morning News 1-29-10

By Maria Carter

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Kansas City, MO – The brief public war between Kansas City and Jackson County over handing good tax deals to developers appears over after yesterday's city council meeting.

Friends and family of a local pediatrician on a medical trip to Haiti have still not heard from him.

Wyandotte County is asking voters to OK a 3/8th cent sales tax in April.

A proposed constitutional amendment that would replace state income taxes in Missouri with an expanded sales tax was heard by a state Senate committee.

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

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