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Published February 20, 2010 at 6:37 PM CST

By Steve Bell

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Kansas City, MO –

Superintendent stands firm on closing 30 schools despite furor.

Hundreds attend schools cuts hearings in K.C. suburbs.

Overland Park cuts future budgets for street maintenance.

$50 million area transit stimulus grant to go mostly for buses.

Study faults Kansas for failure to fund employee pensions.

Indoor air okay at Bannister Complex, more tests to come.

Topeka missionary back home after 3 weeks in Haitian jail.

Party leaders back Democrat Tom Holland for KS governor.

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