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Kansas Sees Results of Expanded Gaming Act Two years ago, Kansas lawmakers passed the Expanded Gaming Act, which would legalize gambling at four new casinos, all state-owned. Now that Kansas is facing a $400 million dollar budget deficit, the state could use the casino revenue more than ever. While lawmakers in Topeka now consider amending that act, KCUR's Sylvia Maria Gross recently went out west to see how it's working.
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Several bills that would enact a statewide smoking ban have been introduced in the legislature this session. The Kansas House is hearing a new one this Wednesday afternoon. But as Kansas Public Radio's Bryan Thompson reports, the House and Senate versions are quite different.
The former Kansas City man convicted of killing Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller speaks via YouTube for the first time since his trial.
About one in ten people deal with traumatic brain injury. Awareness has gone up in recent years, but it's still a silent epidemic, according to Betsy Johnson. Johnson's a speech language pathologist and director of the Brain Injury Association of Kansas and Greater Kansas City, which is launching a public forum this Wednesday to revise the plan Kansas has for dealing with the issue.
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