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Top Stories of the Week

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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