Kansas City Week in Review – February 8, 2013

Published March 3, 2013

Kansas City Week in Review – February 8, 2013 –

Lawmakers scramble for unclaimed lottery prizes

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Members have been shading the prize legislation to change which agencies controlled the money and whose pet causes would benefit, from gambling addiction programs to assorted social needs or maladies. Here in Texas, where even a big oil boom has …
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C. Everett Koop, 'rock star' surgeon general, dies

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In 1996, he rapped Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole for suggesting that tobacco was not invariably addictive, saying Dole's comments "either exposed his abysmal lack of knowledge of nicotine addiction or his blind support of the tobacco …
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