Jazz musicians Jeff Lederer and Matt Wilson have a friendship and musical partnership that reaches back to the early '90s. The pair have just released a new live album as the Leap Day Trio with bassist Mimi Jones. Lederer and Wilson recently spoke with KMUW's Jedd Beaudoin about the album.
Plus, more on these stories:
- The Kansas Senate has approved a bill making it easier to get a religious exemption from vaccine requirements.
- Kansas House lawmakers advanced a bill Wednesday that would require doctors to tell patients that abortion pills may be reversible. That’s despite safety concerns.
- Older Kansans receiving food assistance might soon face work requirements to stay on the program.
- The Food and Drug Administration has approved overdose-reversing drug Narcan as an over-the-counter medication, and what that means locally.
- The owner of the Kansas City Royals baseball team says that plans are progressing toward a new downtown ballpark and they could leave 50-year-old Kauffman Stadium as early as 2027 or 2028.
- The Kansas Senate approved a plan to hold state-run primary elections for the 2024 presidential nomination process instead of party-run caucuses.
- The Kansas Legislature has sent a bill to the governor that increases the legal age for buying cigarettes, electronic cigarettes and other tobacco products to 21 from 18.
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