Kansas City Week in Review – February 8, 2013

Kansas City Week in Review – February 8, 2013 –

Kansas Legislature to debate drug testing recipients of welfare, unemployment …

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“This is to identify people with substance abuse problems and get them the help and job skills they need to get out and be productive in the job market.” King said he's still figuring out what percentage of benefit recipients would be tested, … About …
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Parole Officer No. 2: Minnie Barton and The Crusade for Lost Women

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Minnie Barton was born in Kansas in 1881. By 1905 she was a mother of three boys, living with her husband John in boom-town Los Angeles. L.A. was still a rough place with a wild west atmosphere, filled with lost women with no families or education, who …
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APNewsBreak: Effort building to change US pot laws

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They call for directing the money to law enforcement, substance abuse treatment and the national debt. Last fall's votes in Colorado and Washington state to legalize recreational marijuana should push Congress to end the 75-year federal pot prohibition …
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