By Maria Carter
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Two of the most wreck-prone intersections in Kansas City can be fixed by an overpass. The cost is estimated at 23 million dollars. Four million would need to be raised locally.
Jackson County is getting a big funding boost to fight chronic diseases.
Activists are forming a partnership called KanVote to try to keep the state from moving up the start date of a new voter identification law.
The ribbon was cut on a $68 million federal courthouse in Jefferson City, named for former Missouri Governor and U.S. Senator Kit Bond.
Conservative Kansas lawmakers are finding fault with an audit of state benefit programs that looked for but found few disincentives that might keep people from getting married.