Government

Zoo Tax Wins

KCUR | By Frank Morris

Published November 8, 2011 at 10:02 AM CST

By Frank Morris

Kansas City, Mo. – The budget for the Kansas City Zoo is about to get a whole lot bigger. Voters in both Jackson and Clay Counties have approved a one-eighth-cent sales tax to support the Zoo. The tax will generate about $14 million a year. With their new millions, Zoo officials plan to expand, offer new exhibits (penguins maybe) and attract almost twice as many visitors, about a million a year.

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Frank Morris

I’ve been at KCUR almost 30 years, working partly for NPR and splitting my time between local and national reporting. I work to bring extra attention to people in the Midwest, my home state of Kansas and of course Kansas City. What I love about this job is having a license to talk to interesting people and then crafting radio stories around their voices. It’s a big responsibility to uphold the truth of those stories while condensing them for lots of other people listening to the radio, and I take it seriously. Email me at frank@kcur.org or find me on Twitter @FrankNewsman.

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