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Pakistan's elections unlikely to affect relations with US
Pakistan has reached a milestone for democracy. For the first time, the country has transferred power from one democratically elected government to another
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Editorial cartoonists resist censorship
The editorial cartoon is a dependable measure of press freedom in a given country. As advocates point out, a cartoonist cannot work when there is no
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Inside the decades-long dispute over the Western Sahara
Western Sahara is nearly as big as its northern neighbor, Morocco, but in truth, this stretch of desert along the Atlantic Ocean may be Africa’s most
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Journalists on the front lines in Honduras
Honduras has become akin to a war zone, since the 2009 coup that deposed the former president, Manuel Zelaya. The country of around 8 million people,
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Filmmakers expose US covert operations around the world
In the past few months, a trio of documentary films and the feature film Zero Dark Thirty have given viewers an inside look at counterterrorism and covert
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More journalists killed in Iraq than any other war
Ten years ago this week, U.S. and British troops took control of Baghdad. A tank crew helped Iraqis pull down an enormous bronze statue of Saddam Hussein
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Legacy of 'comfort women' still sparks anger outside of...
In a New Jersey park, there is a stone and bronze memorial dedicated to the 200,000 or so women from South Korea, China and the Philippines who were
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How some filmmakers evade censorship in former Soviet...
During the True/False Documentary Film Festival in Columbia, directors from around the world gather to screen their films and talk about their craft.
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Pakistani journalists discuss the dangers of their...
In the past decade, Pakistan’s media has become larger, more powerful and more independent. The number of private television channels has grown from just
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NPR strategist discusses tweeting the Arab Spring
Social media pioneer Andy Carvin drew high praise from fellow journalists for his coverage of the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria. The NPR
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How elections are playing out in Kenya
Five years ago, disputes over election results in Kenya sparked weeks of ethnic violence in the relatively well-developed African country. More than one
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How the death of Hugo Chavez could affect Cuba
World leaders from five continents gathered in Caracas on Friday to pay their last respects for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan leader
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'Dirty Wars' exposes US covert operations around the...
This story is part of True/False Conversations, a series of in-depth interviews with the filmmakers of this year’s True/False Festival. Find the rest of
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Will it become easier to report on China?
China’s new leadership will soon set the agenda for the world’s most populous country for the next decade. Changes in the Communist government’s top tier
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What the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI means for the...
The Catholic Church is at a crossroads. Pope Benedict XVI surprised just about everyone this week by announcing his resignation. The leader of the world’s
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Why jihadists are taking root in North Africa
The recent hostage crisis at a gas plant in Algeria, and Islamist violence in Mali, both illustrate the reach of jihadist movements in Northern Africa.
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Elections in Israel shift focus to political center
In elections held last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party received the majority of the votes, which secures him another term as prime
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A conversation with columnist Mona Eltahawy
Last year, the University of Missouri School of Journalism gave eight individuals the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism.
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A conversation with Ken Paulson
Ken Paulson, president and chief executive officer of the FirstAmendment Center, was among last year’s Missouri Honor Medalwinners. The Missouri School of Journalism gives the annual awards for DistinguishedService in Journalism.Paulson was the editor or managing editor at newspapers in fivestates, launched online newspapers and was part of the team that founded USA Today in 1982.After receiving the honor medal, Paulson spoke with GlobalJournalist reporter Nina Pantic in the studio about his...
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A look into the U.S. war on drugs
A documentary film called The House I Live In takes a critical and comprehensive look at the 40- year war on drugs in the United States.The House I Live In, directed by Eugene Jarecki, was named the best documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The judges called it "the definitive film on the failure of America’s drug war." To learn more about the film, and the origin and impact of the war on drugs, Global Journalist spoke to the producer of The House I Live In, Melinda...
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Reporting on religion
According to a recent poll, two-thirds of Americans believe that media coverage of religion is too sensationalized. So how could journalists best cover the subject in a fair and balanced way? To find out, Global Journalist spoke to two journalists that have devoted years to the religion beat.Tom Heneghan spent 25 years working for Reuters, where he reported from 30 countries. He now directs the news agency’s coverage of religion internationally. He’s joined the show by telephone from Paris...
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Filmmaking in Iran
This has been an eventful year when it comes to Iranian filmmakers. First, Iran’s Culture Ministry formally dissolved the House of Cinema, the only domestic organization that supports independent film. The ministry replaced the House of Cinema with a committee that would not deviate from strict Islamic guidelines and politically permissible topics.Then, an independently produced Iranian film, “A Separation,” won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The film, which was directed by Asghar...
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A look at press freedom in Turkey
Turkey portrays itself as the leading nation in an increasingly turbulent region of the world. The country that straddles Europe and the Middle East is a secular democracy with a thriving economy. It's also a member of NATO and a potential member of the European Union.But there are major conflicts both inside Turkey and just outside its southeastern border -- in Syria, Iran and Iraq. Also, Turkey is drawing widespread criticism for jailing more reporters than any other country in the...
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Conflict erupts in northern Mali
There’s a West African city that represents the end of the world, the remote place that inspired the phrase, “From here to Timbuktu.”But today, Timbuktu, along with the rest of northern Mali, is drawing the world’s rapt attention, a place no longer a vague destination but the target of an impending western-backed military intervention.The region -- as big as Texas -- has been taken over by Tuareg rebels and Islamist militants linked to the al-Qaida terrorist movement.They’ve imposed a...
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An outside look into the United States presidential race
In just a few days, we’ll find out whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will be leading the world’s most powerful country for the next four years. While Americans are eager to leave the grueling political season behind, many in foreign countries are eager to hear the first hints about their biggest concern, foreign policy.They certainly didn’t hear much during the campaign. The economy is driving and foreign concerns are in the back seat. Or perhaps more accurately, on the side of the...
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A conversation with columnist Mona Eltahawy
Earlier this month, the University of Missouri School of Journalism gave eight individuals the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism.One of the eight is Mona Eltahawy, a columnist based in New York and an international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues. Eltahawy has been named one of Newsweek Magazine’s “150 Fearless Women of 2012,” one of Time Magazine’s “People of the Year” and one of Arabian Business Magazine’s “100 Most Powerful Arab Women.”She joined Global...
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A conversation with investigative journalist Umar Cheema
The Taliban’s attack on a 14 year old human rights campaigner in Pakistan has drawn condemnation from within the country and throughout the world.Taliban militants stopped a school van and shot Malala Yousafzai in the head. The child was recently flown to Britain, where doctors are trying to save her life.To help put this attack in perspective, and in context, Global Journalist was joined my the Pakistani investigative journalist, Umar Cheema. He writes on corruption, politics, national...
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A conversation with director Scott Thurman
There is nothing unusual about political fights over public school curricula and the content of textbooks. The textbooks can influence how people think about history and social issues, sometimes for decades or more. So, the battles take place around the United States, and they take place around the world.But the Texas Board of Education took these culture wars to another level when members made highly controversial decisions on how evolution is taught in the classrooms.Director Scott Thurman...
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Chinese media expands into Africa
Kenyans that want to hear the latest international news can listen to the BBC, the Voice of America, or Al-Jazeera. Africans can also tune in China Radio International, which is gaining ground in the crowded market.In the capital Nairobi, they can read local newspapers with articles provided for free by the Chinese state news agency, Xinhua, Or they can get a mix of international and African news on China Central Television, or CCTV.Earlier this year, CCTV built its first international...
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Colombian peace talks could end decades of violence in...
Peace talks between Colombia’s government and the country’s most powerful rebel groupare scheduled to take place in October at a neutral site: Norway’s capital, Oslo.The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC,has been trying for nearly 50 years to overthrow the government.FARC says it’s fighting for the rural poor -- in a struggle against Colombia’s rich and powerful. But the leftist guerrilla organization is financed primarily by kidnappings and drug trafficking.A decade ago, peace...
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Tensions flare up between China and Japan over disputed...
There’s a new twist to an epic territorial dispute between Japan and China.Japan’s government plans to nationalize a group of tiny, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea that separates the two countries. Japanese newspapers are reporting this week that the government will pay the Japanese family that owns the islands the two billion yen, the equivalent of $26 million.The problem is, China claims ownership of the islands, called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan. The dispute has...
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Ethnic violence engulfs India
India’s northeast state of Assam is suffering through its worst communal violence in more than a decade.Clashes broke out in July between indigenous Bodo tribes and Bengali-speaking Muslims. The conflict escalated this month. Eighty-five people have been killed so far. About 400,000 residents have been forced to flee their homes and are living in makeshift camps. This time, the violence is threatening to spill over to other states in the isolated region.There are social, political and...
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Reporting in war torn Syria
The trick to a war photographer’s success is being in the right place at the right time -- and, of course, not getting wounded, captured or killed.Jonathan Alpeyrie believes the right place, right now is Syria. He’s heading there next week for the second time since the rebellion began.Jonathan Alpeyrie, our guest on Global Journalist today, has risked his life repeatedly to bring home photographs from nearly a dozen conflict zones, beginning in the South Caucuses as a freelancer in 2004....
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Censorship in South Korea
When you think about enemies of free speech in Asia, North Korea comes to mind as the biggest villain.South Korea, on the other hand, has a robust democracy and a thriving economy. It’s perhaps the most wired country in the world, with the highest number of broadband connections per capita and an internet penetration approaching 90 percent.But in the past few years, censorship in South Korea has increased dramatically. The number of censored articles doubled after President Lee Myung-bak...
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Bloggers evade censorship in China
Blogs and microblogs are the primary sources of independent news in China.But the government has gradually restricted online discussions of political and social issues. Even popular artists are being targeted. And "the Great Firewall", as its known, has become better and better at censoring social networks. This spring, for example, censors introduced a real-name registration requirement for microbloggers.To get a better sense of what its like to be a blogger in the country, Global...
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Curtailing drug violence in Mexico
A new president is about to take power in Mexico amid a raging drug war. The biggest question facing Enrique Pena Nieto is this: what will the federal government do to curtail the gangland violence?More than 50,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since 2006, when President Felipe Calderon launched a military-led crackdown on the drug cartels. The dead include gang members, security forces, police, bystanders and, increasingly, journalists.Global Journalist spoke with Dudley...
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Festival Brings New Music to Columbia this Weekend
Classical music fans and others who venture out to Columbias Missouri Theatre this weekend for the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival will hear music not heard on KBIA. They will hear music not heard anywhere before for that matter.Thats because Saturdays performance by the ensemble Alarm Will Sound is performing a world premiere of eight new compositions. Alarm Will Sound members are spending the week leading up to Saturdays concert immersing themselves in these new compositions.While 15...
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Drought should have little impact on honey producers
The ongoing drought is hurting many farmers and their crops, but not honey.Ray Nabors is pretty positive about this years honey crop. Hes a retired apiculture specialist for the Delta Research Center in Portageville, Missouri and hes kept bees for over 35 years.In Missouris Bootheel, bees gather nectar from cotton and soybeans.The nectar thats coming out of that cotton and soybeans because of this really hot, dry weather is thick. Its not thin. So the bees are not having to dry it down as...
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UM Curators review guidelines for student conduct
The University of Missouri Systems Board of Curators plans to elaborate on its definitions of sexual harassment and violence in the guidelines for student conduct.Though the board of curators is still nailing down the exact language it wants, it does have plans to include sections on stalking, harassment and invasion of privacy. Previous definitions were deemed too general.These changes come on the heels of a 2011 letter sent by the U.S. Department of Education. The 19-page letter says that...
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My Farm Roots: Making a home, out on the ranch
Its not every day that a trip to the drug store can change your destiny.For 20-year-old Nan Arnold, it was a day in 1956 in Ashland, a small, dusty dot on the open range of western Kansas near the Oklahoma border.Nan had landed her first job as a music teacher at the Ashland school just a year before. She lived with the stores owner because her parents thought she was too young to live alone. Henry Gardiner, just back from the service, was in the drug store that day to buy film for his...
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Paying to do farm chores? It's called agritourism...
Picking fruit, tasting wine, petting a goat, roping a cow. When customers pay for the honor of taking on such farm chores ... or delights its called agritourism.California, Texas and Colorado have the lions share of this business in the U.S. Still, over the last few years, farmers and policymakers in the Midwest have been trying to get in on the action. But what theyve found is that even if you build it those customers dont always come.For a tourist attraction to succeed, it helps if...
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Remembering Sally Ride
Former astronaut Sally Ride passed away on Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. In addition to being the first American woman in space, Ride was committed to getting young people interested in the STEM fields of science, math, engineering, and technology.Linda Godwin is a professor in the MU Department of Physics and Astronomy. Godwin also was a former NASA astronaut and knew Ride. She spoke to KBIAs Kris Husted.
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Storyteller Larry Brown
Today Paul Pepper chats with local storyteller LARRY BROWN, who shares an original - and personal - story about a guitar.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5uBkIbv7_k
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Newscast for Friday, July 27, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Intense demand prompts Nixon to announce more water funding for farmersMU Faculty call to postpone press shutdownDrought puts cows in Midwest at risk of nitrate poisoning
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MU Faculty call to postpone press shutdown
In the face of a looming University Of Missouri Press shutdown, the campus faculty has decided to send a strong message to President Tim Wolfe: Dont shut the publishing group down just yet.A frustrated Faculty Council is calling on the president to postpone the closure of the UM Press pending further discussion.That discussion the council is requesting is a right it says it should have had before the decision to pull the plug was made. According to several members, the administration held...
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Journalists visit MU as part of cultural exchange program
Global Journalist was joined by four mid-career journalists from four vastly different countries: Kenya, Pakistan, Malaysia and South Africa.What they have in common is this: the desire to learn new professional skills and knowledge and to gain a broader view of the world.They visited the Missouri School of Journalism as part of a cultural and professional exchange program for journalists: the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships. The organizations goal is to strengthen journalism in changing...
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Columbia public-housing residents share concerns with...
Columbia public housing residents are raising concerns about the Columbia Housing Authoritys plan to renovate current housing and add more units as part of its long-term strategic plan.At a meeting Wednesday night hosted by Grass Roots Organizing, Columbia Public Housing CEO Phil Steinhaus discussed possible renovations to current public housing units as part of its plan.The Columbia Housing Authority has hired outside consultants to research a long-term revitalization plan to renovate old...
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Drought puts cows in Midwest at risk of nitrate poisoning
Junior Roberts cows near Billmore, Missouri, are lucky. The grass theyre grazing on just tested negative for high levels of nitrate. But Roberts says hes not through testing his 1,400 acres, and he knows that many farmers are selling off their herds rather than pay for alternative foods for their cattle.Youd be better off to sell them then to turn them in on a field where theyre gonna lay down and die, he says. Its a problem if thats all theyve got left to eat and its poison. It aint gonna...
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Secular Coalition for Missouri starts organizing...
A newly formed secular lobbying group is one step closer to finalizing its leadership after its second state-wide organizing call Thursday.The Secular Coalition for Missouri plans to lobby for stronger separation of religion and government at the state level, much like its parent organization, the Secular Coalition for America, does at the national level.First, the group needs leadership. Thats exactly what Kellen Gracey is interested in. Hes a graduate student at St. Louis University...
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Newscast for July 26, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Scammers using government letterhead to steal moneyDog takes center stage in campaign adMU faculty and colleagues outline list of goals for UM Press and its staff
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Scammers using gov. letterheads to steal money, Mo. AG...
The latest scam designed to separate Missouri residents from their money involves phony letters from the State Attorney Generals office, the IRS and other government agencies.The letters include a fake government letterhead, and state that the recipient has wonamillion dollars or morein prize money. Attorney General Chris Koster (D)says the intended victims are then informed that they owe thousands of dollars in taxes and fees on the winnings and are instructed to pay them via Western...
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Newscast for July 25, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:Steelman loans campaign $100,000Corn growers endorse Nixon for governorNixon appoints new circuit judges
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Aurora Massacre; Penn St. Sanctions; the Olympics'...
Substitute host Lee Wilkins and guest-panelists Margaret Duffy and Rod Gelatt share their insights on a number of recent headlines from around the world.
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Following the Arkansas River to track the drought
This week on the show: Harvest Public Medias Frank Morris follows the river to show the impact of this years drought.Drought has spread this week across a wide swath of the Country. But all along the Arkansas River drought has been torching crops, depressing tourism and threatening municipal water supplies for months. Reporting for Harvest Public Media, Frank Morris begins where the drought does, at the Arkansas headwaters, high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and follows river to its...
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Drought brings misery to Arkansas River basin
Drought has set in early and hard across the Midwest, parching the Arkansas River basin. The river trickling out of the mountains is dry before it reaches some of the major agricultural uses downstream. And the drought is torching crops, sapping tourism and threatening supplies of drinking water.High in the Rocky Mountains, about 10 miles north of Leadville, Colo., the Arkansas River starts as a trickle running off some of the tallest peaks in the continental United States.In a normal year,...
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Columbia NBC-affiliate KOMU purchases online-coupon...
Local NBC affiliate KOMU has purchased The Holos Network, a daily deals company that offers online coupons.When the daily deals company Groupon began its ascent four years ago, television stations were worried.Groupon let local businesses reach a large audience without paying the high upfront fees of a television commercial.Local stations across the country got into the online coupon business themselves to stave off that competition. University of Missouri-owned KOMU joined the pack with the...
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City Manager presents 2013 budget proposal
Columbia City Manager Mike Matthes is asking council members to consider his recommended budget for the 2013 fiscal year. He says the proposal comes closer to balancing the citys budget gap by 2014.The proposal brings the budget gap down to $1.3 million, a reduction of $1 million from the previous year. Matthes says that reductions in city pension obligations and retiree health care premium subsidies helped close the gap."The city in this budget, will cease subsidizing that premium. So the...
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More water, faster for farmers under state drought...
As the dry conditions and excessive heat continue to bear down on Missouri, Governor Jay Nixon was in Springfield Tuesday to announce emergency assistance for farmers who need access to water.At the Springfield Livestock Market, Governor Jay Nixon outlined a plan to make more state dollars available faster to farmers who need access to water. An existing cost-share program is expanding. The state will pay 90 percentof the cost of deepening or drilling wells; previously, the state had covered...
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Army Corps to restore Birds Point-New Madrid floodway to...
The Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday that it will restore the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway to its original height by the end of this year.The Mississippi River Commission made the decision last week, according to Army Corps spokesperson Jim Pogue: Our level of confidence in our ability to finish this work this year is real high. Weve had good weather, good river stages and assuming that the contractor continues to make good progress and our other work in the confluence area goes...
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Newscast for July 24, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Rural Mo. town serves as health care experimentMissouri press supporters to meet with UM leaderMo. town passes anti-discrimination law
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Newscast for July 23, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:A Task Force will help try to secure federal funding for a small nuclear reactor project in MissouriGov. Nixon declares a state of emergency in Missouri because of the droughtAn update on the proposed horse slaughterhouse in southern Missouri.
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Affordable housing in Columbia
Watch the show and join the conversation on the Intersection website.With the Columbia Housing Authority looking to upgrade public housing facilities and new apartment buildings springing up alongside inexpensive older neighborhoods, we explore the state of affordable housing options in the city and discuss efforts to maintain them.Scheduled panelists:Randy Cole, community development coordinator, City of ColumbiaPat Fowler, president, North Central Neighborhood AssociationPhil Steinhaus,...
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Newscast for July 23, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:Mo. Gov. and MU Pres. tout nuclear planColumbia honors fallen soldier Sterling WyattPresident Barack Obama nominates Mo. native as Guard chief
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Columbia deemed "city to watch" by nonprofit group
The City of Columbia has been highlighted as a city to watch by a nonprofit group based in several northwestern states.The report, released last week by the nonprofit Climate Solutions, highlights small and mid-sized communities finding creative solutions in clean energy. Nine communities, including Eugene, Oregon and Oberlin, Ohio, are profiled at length in the report Columbia is not one of those. Instead, Columbia is one of 12 cities considered a city to watch for energy-efficiency...
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Paul Pepper: Central Missouri Dietetic Assoc. & Arrow...
Today Paul Pepper chats with CMDAs JESSICA MYERS about the importance of hydration. Also, QUIN GRESHAM, with the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, discusses the rest of the summer season and whats ahead.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTQgRICoh9A&feature=g-user-u
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Science camp teaches middle school students biophysics
The University of Missouri hosted a week-long science summer camp for central Missouri middle schoolers last week. The camp, called Biophysics and Your Body, aimed to teach students how the study of physics relates to the biological functioning of the body. Assistant professor of Physics Gavin King collaborated with faculty from the physics, education, and biochemistry departments to create a curriculum for the camp. King says the goal was to create a curriculum that teachers across the...
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Thousands gather in downtown Columbia to remember fallen...
Columbia came together on Saturday to remember a fallen soldier. A radical protest group had said it would be in town for the funeral, but it was overshadowed. The event was much more than a response to a protest.http://youtu.be/dQS79_fKnVwThousands of people in red shirts gathered in downtown Columbia to form a human wall around the family and funeral of 21-year-old Army Specialist Sterling Wyatt, who was killed while serving in Afghanistan earlier this month. The group surrounded First...
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Newscast for July 20, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Nixon seeks to allow Mo. farmers to graze animalsAfter Colorado shooting, Missouri lawmaker wants to restart conversation on gun lawsFlags surround church in honor of fallen soldier Sterling Wyatt
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After Colorado shooting, Missouri lawmaker wants to...
After the shooting in Aurora, Colorado early this morning that left at least 12 people dead, one lawmaker in Missouri is calling for stricter gun laws.The shooter in entered the movie theater in a suburb of Denver with three guns, including a semi-automatic assault rifle."What this really goes back to is the availability of weapons," saidMissouri State Representative Stacey Newman, a Democrat of St. Louis County. She said last nights tragedy should restart dialogueabout gun legislation in...
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Blue Highways Revisited: Photographer Ed Ailor captures...
The call of the open road has long beckoned Americans and in 1978, William Least Heat-Moon answered the call and embarked on a drive around the country, taking the roads less travelled. Starting in Columbia, he followed a circular route that totaled nearly 14,000 miles. The result was Blue Highways, a New York Times Bestselling book.Thirty years later, photographer Ed Ailor III and his son, Edgar Ailor the IV, retraced that path, photographing the sights and people described in the original...
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My Farm Roots: When you hail from farm country, roots...
This is the first installment of My Farm Roots, Harvest Public Medias new series chronicling Americans connection to the land. Kate Edwards hasnt always been a farmer. No, she came back to the farm after college, grad school and a stint as an environmental engineer.Now, she farms a small one-acre plot near Solon, Iowa. On her small farm, she feeds 30 families through a Community Supported Agriculture project, a CSA. Edwards was drawn back to farming, she says, because of family memories.When...
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Newscast for Friday, July 20, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Engineers check on reconstruction following floods last yearMcCaskill targets Republican opponents in TV adsSister company of Missouri lead producer criticized for pollution in Peru
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Engineers check on reconstruction following floods last...
The Army Corps of Engineers visited Cairo, Illinois on yesterday to check on reconstruction projects following last years devastating floods. The Corps will invest more than $100 million toward flood protection systems at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.About $20 million are going towards flood protection at Cairo. Another $6.5 half million are directed at Hickman, Kentucky. And $65 million worth of repairs will re-establish the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway in Missouri,...
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Paul Pepper: RoseHeart Hypnotherapy Success Centers, Inc
Today Paul Pepper chats with DR. DAVID NEWMAN from RoseHeart Hypnotherapy Success Centers, Inc. Dr. Newmans topic today is "hypno-birthing."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWGZXreu3MM&feature=share
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Covering North Korea from within
In June, Global Journalist producer and MU graduate student David Cawthon traveled to Seoul where media professionals gave a glimpse of its like to report within the shrouded borders of North Korea. He joined Global Journalist to discuss what journalists revealed about one of the worlds most secretive nations.
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On cancer
On todays show, well have a look at cancer.Pediatric leukemia is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. With treatment, about three-quarters of affected children are able to beat the disease.But for those with whats known as high risk leukemia, the odds of survival are much worse.Washington University pediatric oncologist Dr. Todd Druleyhas been trying to use genetics to understand why some leukemia is so hard to treat. He spoke with St. Louis Public Radios Vronique LaCapra.Also, radioactive...
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Newscast for July 19, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:A report on the procession for Columbia soldier Sterling Wyatt, whose body was returned home today.NOAA predicts the hot, dry weather will linger in the fall.Mark Twain National Forest expects above average fire damage this year.
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Unwinding the helix: using genetics to treat childhood...
Pediatric leukemiais a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. There are about 3,000 new cases in the United States every year, typically in children between the ages of four and six.With treatment, about three-quarters of affected children are able to beat the disease.But for those with whats known as high risk leukemia, the odds of survival are much worse.Washington University pediatric oncologistDr. Todd Druleyhas been trying to use genetics to understand why some leukemia is so hard to...
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Roots N’ Blues’ Economic Impact on Local Businesses
Columbias fourth annual Roots N Blues N BBQ festival hits the streets of downtown this weekend. Festival officals expect to bring in 75,000 people to listen to the blues and eat barbecue from vendors from all across the country. But how much impact does the festival have on local businesses?Columbias Convention and Visitor Bureau is partnering with the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival and the University of Missouri to conduct an economic impact study on the effect that the festival has on...
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Newscast for July 19, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Fort Leonard Wood honors female soldierAnother fire at a former Columbia city landfillMo. AG candidate calls for creation of task force
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Paul Pepper: Missouri Cures & Maplewood Barn Theatre
Today Paul Pepper chats with MARGARET TOLLERTON, Missouri Cures, who discusses the latest breakthrough concerning sickle cell anemia. Also, "Hamlet" is Maplewood Barn Theatres current production; hear from first-time director ALLI CASCIO.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji13SRWZIbY
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Officials on the lookout for forest fires
During a typical year, Missouri has a spring fire season and fall fire season. Summer is usually a downtime for forest fires. Thats not the case this year.In June and July alone, there were 50 wildfires that burned more than 4,000 acres in the Mark Twain National Forest. Compare that to an average year, when about 5,000 acres burn over 12 months.Rick Case is the assistant forest fire management officer for the Mark Twain National Forest. He says fire managers are keeping a close eye on...
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KBIA Newscast for July 18, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Details on the 24th heat-related death in Missouri since JuneHear from an author who wants the rights to his book back from the University of Missouri PressA Missouri judge has terminated the parental rights of a Guatemalan woman who was contesting her sons 2008 adoption by a Carthage, Mo. couple.
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Keeping cows cool: serious stuff
Its going to seem like this weeks show is all about keeping cows cool, and it kind of is, but keep in mind this is a serious threat to agriculture in Missouri, and thus, the overall economy in the state.Crops arent the only things wilting in the sweltering summer of 2012; the largest animals on the farm are also under stress. One option is hoop barns, which are getting more common across the Midwest. Rick Fredericksen reports for Harvest Public Media from Iowa, where the versatile structures...
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Heat stress? Now there's a cow app for that
When a cow is stressed from the heat, it affects a producers bottom line. The animal eats less, meaning less mass in beef cattle. For dairy farmers, the hurt comes in the form of a 10 to 20 percent loss in milk. Researchers at the University of Missouri think we can change this trend by putting information in the hands of producers. Theyve built a tool that can detect the threat of heat stress in specific animals before it starts.At the research farm owned by the University of Missouri, the...
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Hoop barns becoming more common in Midwest
Crops are not the only things wilting in the sweltering summer of 2012; cattle, the largest animals, on the farm are also under stress.Some cattle producers are protecting their herds by putting them hoop barns, which are gaining acceptance across the Midwest. The simple structures are made from stretching fabric over strong metal arches, or hoops, providing vital shade and protection from rain, snow or sun.Tanner Rowe, a cattle producer near Dallas Canter, Iowa, has found hoops barns can...
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Author wants his book back from University of Missouri...
The backlash continues over the so-called new model for the University of Missouri Press. one of the Press authors wrote a letter to UM System President Tim Wolfe, who closed the old press as a cost-cutting measure.Author Don Spivey notified Wolfe of his desire to remove his biography of baseball legend Satchel Paige from the University of Missouri Press. It was published in May, and Spiveys worried about the future of his book.You know I dont want to go through a situation where I start...
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Newscast for July 18, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:18 applicants for Mo. Supreme Court openingMcCaskill uses disaster declaration to push farm billSarah Palin backs Sarah Steelman in Mo. Republican U.S. Senate primary
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New autism center director talks research, treatment,...
The MU Thompson Center for Autism is one of the nations leading autism centers, combining treatment, training and research. Starting in September, the center will have a new director. I spoke with Stephen Kanneabout the challenges and opportunities ahead for autism research, treatment and accessibility of treatment.Over the past decade, autism numbers have been steadily rising. In March, the Centers For Disease Control announced the latest statistics: 1 in 88 kids is now diagnosed with the...
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Newscast for July 17, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Mo. declared federal agricultural disaster areaMo. lottery has no plan for extra moneyState government receives $38 million in national mortgage settlement
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Newscast for July 17, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:The University of Missouri announces a "re-imagining" of the University of Missouri PressMo. Gov. Jay Nixon tours the drought-stricken stateAmeren Missouri presents energy efficiency plan to Mo. Public Service Commission
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Ameren Missouri presents energy efficiency plan
St. Louis-based Ameren Missouri presented details of its energy efficiency plan to the Missouri Public Service Commission on Monday. The proposal would cost around $145 million, which would result in the average home electric bill going up about $3 per month. Ameren officials say, though, the plan would result in long-term savings of nearly half a billion dollars. Kevin Gunn chairs the Public Service Commission, which heard the utilitys presentation in Jefferson City.Because were asking them...
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MU announces new university press model
Watch the show and join the conversation on the Intersection website.Theres been a new development involving the University of Missouri Press. On Monday, the University of Missouri announced what its calling a "reimagined" model for the press. To discuss what itll look like and what it means, the program was joined by MU Provost Brian Foster. Also in studio were author William Least Heat-Moon, and Ed Ailor III, author of Blue Highways Revisited, which was released earlier this year by the...
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Newscast for Monday, July 16, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Nixons re-election war chest growsTeachers visit New Madrid to learn about famous quakesFire damages Worley Street Head StartMU announces "re-imagined" University of Missouri Press
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Nixon's re-election war chest grows
Gov. Jay Nixon is building a big bank account for his re-election campaign.Finance figures released Monday show Nixon raised $2.1 million from April through June and had $7.6 million in his account at the start of July.Nixons campaign said it was his strongest fundraising quarter this election cycle and that his bank account is twice as large as it was at a similar point in July 2008.The Democratic governor will face the winner of an Aug. 7 Republican primary in which several candidates have...
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Teachers visit New Madrid to learn about famous quakes
Twenty science teachers from six different states visited New Madrid, Missouri today to learn more about that towns claim to fame: earthquakes.Its part of a University of Missouri program to teach teachers about mid-continental earthquakes and geology.Lloyd Barrow, who teaches science education at the University of Missouri, said the trip to New Madrid allows the teachers to see first-hand the places they discuss in their textbooks."By being able to say, I was there they will relate to the...
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Newscast for July 16, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:A newly formed state committee on disaster recoveryMissouris elk population settling into its new homeMo. agriculture officials use Facebook to share drought info
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Missouri's elk population settling in
Missouris elk population appears to be settling into their new home state, according to state conservation officials.Dr. Joseph Millspaugh updated the Missouri Conservation Commission Friday on the states elk herd, which he said seems to be doing well.Evidence of survival rates [and] reproductive rates that are average to high, we see diet quality certainly within the range of what we would expectthe stress response: nothing there that is indicative of a problem, said Millspaugh.Thirty-four...
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Paul Pepper: Mizzou New Music Summer Fest & MU Health
Today Paul Pepper chats with STEFAN FREUND from the MU School of Music, promoting the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, which begins next Monday, July 23. Also, COURTNEY BARNES, MU Women and Childrens Hospital, talks "Best Fed Beginnings".http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6JjdQ7qDvA
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Newscast for July 13, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Mo. audit faults billing for new telephone systemCrop duster plane crashes in Randolph CountySoutheast Missouri County faces increasing number of indigent burials
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Volunteers honor Sterling Wyatt and his family
Scores of people showed up to Shepard Boulevard Elementary in Columbia Friday afternoon to line the streets with American flags along the route to the home of the family of Sterling Wyatt, who was killed by an IED in Afghanistan Wednesday. Wyatts family is expected to return home Friday night after retrieving his body. Listen to the audio postcard above to hear from those at the event, including Wyatts grandmother.Another Columbia soldier, 20-year-old Army Reserves member Zane Lee, died on...
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Newscast for July 13, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Farmers talk drought at MU field dayState House candidates face off in ColumbiaNixon vetoes controversial contraception bill
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Portrait of a Dreamer: Young Missourians consider a...
20 year-old Diana Martinez likes to say she was born in Mexico but made in America:We came on a bus, she says, remembering her arrival to the United States. We crossed the border. We came with visitors visas, and overstayed our stay, so we became undocumented at that point.Martinez calls herself a Dreamer. Shes part of a national movement of undocumented students who grew up in the U.S. and are fighting for the passage of the DREAM Act. If passed, it would allow them to stay in the country...
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Staying or going: 'My Life, My Town' in Glasgow
A high school senior, Madelyne cheerleads, serves as the Glasgow FFA President, and participates in Band and Choir. On the weekends, she works at the local bank. She cannot wait to leave the small-town life and the farm."I dont want to come back, but I will probably just end up back here," she says.She aspires to become an actress, but is still deciding where she is going to school in the fall.Her brother Landon is a sophomore. He is involved in sports like baseball and track, FFA, Band and...
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Farmers talk drought at MU field day
Missouri is in the midst of the worst drought since 1988 that was the buzz on the MU campus yesterday, as more than 200 farmers and researchers gathered for the annual Pest Management Field Day. Although they came to learn about the latest research on pesticides and herbicides, conversation frequently turned to the bone-dry conditions on Missouris farms.On Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported 60 percent of the corn crop in Missouri to be in poor condition. Thats no surprise to...
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Paul Pepper: Mel Zelenak's Consumer Tips
Today Paul Pepper is joined by resident consumer expert MEL ZELENAK. Mel talks about how to bid online for cheap travel and how to book an airline over the internet using the multi-city option.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV183VFzApY
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KBIA Newscast for July 12, 2012
Regional News coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Governor Nixon vetoes 10 bills - including a controversial one involving insurance coverage for contraceptionTwo Columbia soldiers have died in the last 5 daysThe city of Columbia is proposing major changes to benefits for future city employees
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Escalating tensions in Egypt
Egypt is an ancient civilization with a newborn democracy. So, after revolutionaries toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak, growing pains were expected. The top generals have been ruling the country for six decades, and they werent about to give up power without a fight.They dissolved the legislature in June after a court order, and they seized all law-making and executive authority.Egyptians recently elected a parliament dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood. And in June, they elected a conservative...
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On starting a startup
This week, well hear from the creator of a new start-up that aims to connect people with free music.Nick Kampe is a 22 year old college dropout that studied computer science and information technology at Mizzou. This last 4th of July, he officially launched Listener Approved. Its a web-based application that provides listeners with free music, while giving independent artists exposure. The site has a voting system built into it, so the more popular a song is, the higher up itll appear in the...
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Paul Pepper: Columbia Cultural Affairs & Missouri...
Today Paul Pepper welcomes CHRIS STEVENS with the City of Columbia Cultural Affairs office to talk Artrageous Fridays, Hot Summer Nights and more. Also, DANA DRAKE, representing the Mid-Missouri Chapter of the Missouri Mycological Society, brings examples of mushrooms to show - some that are edible.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0e_K4Kyabc
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Mo. Gov. takes no stance on health care exchange
The idea of a health care exchange in Missouri continues to be a political sticking point between Republicans and Democrats. And Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has yet to take a stance on the issue.The day after Republican Lt. Governor Peter Kinder filed a lawsuit that alleges the wording for a healthcare exchange ballot initiative is misleading; Governor Jay Nixon did his best to sidestep the issue.In fact, Nixon says he hasnt really looked at how the ballot measure is written. As for the idea...
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Alleged cattle rustler in custody
US Marshals arrested an alleged cattle rustler Tuesday night after he scammed livestock sellers across the country. Ron Shepard had warrants for his arrest in at least five states, including Missouri. Shepard was also wanted in Texas, Kentucky, Arkansas and Florida. The Goreville, Ill. native allegedly bought livestock from auctions and never paid for them. Shepard went on the lam in April as the arrest warrants started piling up.The U-S Marshals learned he was holed up in northern Mexico....
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Newscast for July 11, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Governor Nixon signing legislation aiming to protect senior citizens and the disabled from financial exploitationRep. Vicky Hartzler weighs in on the vote to repeal the Affordable Health Care ActMajor changes to the process farmers use to apply for low interest loans during a droughtResearch at Washington University could help diagnose early onset Alzheimers Disease more than a decade before it occurs.
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New app aims to help connect Columbia Transit, riders
This week: an app may help the Columbia Transit system deal with an unengaged ridership. Plus, Harvest Public Media looks at the lasting impact of the Homestead Act.But first, The Columbia Transit system is, well, lets put it this way, these wont be the good old days. Big budget deficits and low ridership keep the bus system searching for new ways to boost support. One unusual place theyre looking is the League of Innovators, a group of tech-oriented entrepreneurs. Scott Pham has the...
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Soon you can app your route on Columbia Transit
Big budget deficits and low ridership keep the Columbia Transit system searching for new ways to boost support. One unusual place theyre looking is the League of Innovators, a group of tech-oriented entrepreneurs.The advocacy group Columbians for a Modern Efficient Transit said, in a list of recommendations that usability was its number one concern. The Columbia bus system is complicated, and the schedule is irregular. Even Columbia Transportation Supervisor Drew Brooks agrees: Well we dont...
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The lasting heritage of the Homestead Act
LITTLE RIVER, Kan. Before this town was here, before the railroads were here, before a post office was here, the Hodgsons were here.In 1871, Hannah and Henry Clay Hodgson moved into a one-room dugout on the banks of the Little Arkansas, their view an Indian camp on the other side of the river. They arrived in central Kansas in November, in the midst of a blizzard, and it took them three days from the train stop in Salina to get the 60 miles south to this outpost.The Hodgsons had nine...
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Congress votes to repeal 'Obamacare,' again
The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives voted today to repeal the federal health care law. The House has voted more than 30 times to repeal or defund the Affordable Care Act. Every Republican in Congress voted for the repeal, including mid-Missouris two representatives.The very day the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Affordable Care Act, Republican Congressional leaders scheduled a vote to repeal so-called "Obamacare."Republican Representative Vicky Hartzler, who represents part...
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TV campaign ads; Papers burning; Obamacare messup;...
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Half a million Missourians to gain insurance under...
In Missouri, an estimated 835,000 people dont have health insurance thats about 14 percent of the states population. But in the next couple of years, that figure is going to change. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld most of the federal health care law, about half a million Missourians will join the rolls of the insured either through Medicaid, the private insurance market, or with the help of subsidies provided by the federal government. The percentage of uninsured will drop to five...
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Paul Pepper: Central Missouri Astronomical Association...
Today Paul Pepper chats with VAL GERMANN from the Central Missouri Astronomical Association about the recent partial eclipse of the sun and transit of Venus. Val shares stunning photos from both events.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGO-J0PFD2A
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Newscast for July 10, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Mo. Gov. Jay Nixon takes unclear stance on Medicaid expansionMo. House panel researches states transportation needsVice President Joe Biden rallies support for Mo. Sen. Claire McCaskill at fundraiser
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Report shows two-thirds of Missouri's uninsured could...
A new report by the Missouri Foundation for Health estimates that about two-thirds of Missouris more than 800,000 uninsured could get health insurance under the federal health care law. The county level data suggest that rural counties will benefit the most.The analysis uses census data to project how the number of uninsured could change in every county in Missouri under the Affordable Care Act.The Missouri Foundation for Healths Ryan Barker, says most of Missouris newly-insured will be from...
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Blue Ribbon transportation committee meets
A panel created by the Missouri House to review the states transportation needsmet Monday afternoon in Columbia.Most of the testimony heard by the Blue Ribbon Citizens Committee on Missouris Transportation Needs centered on improving the states highways, and whether those improvements should include a toll road -- be it I-70 or another major highway. Bob Gilbert with the Jefferson City Chamber of Commerce told the panel that the state should also upgrade U-S Highway 50."We believe in...
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Paul Pepper: PACE Performance of "Little Women"
Today Paul welcomes TRENT RASH and two cast members of PACE to perform a number from their current production of "Little Women".http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMQs8OsYzms
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Newscast for July 9, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Work to resume at damaged Mo. leveeReport finds new federal health care law could cover two thirds of Mo. uninsuredThird person electrocuted at Lake of the Ozarks
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The future of university presses
Watch the show and join the conversation on the Intersection website.In light of the announced closure of the University of Missouri Press, well explore the current state of academic publishing, and find out what the future holds for university presses.Panelists:Nancy Rediger, Director, Truman State University PressClair Willcox, Editor-in-Chief, UM PressTom Quirk, Professor of English, MURichard Brown, Director of the Georgetown University Press (joining by phone)
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Newscast for July 9, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Former Missouri Gov. Roger Wilson to be sentenced todayHardees to stop buying pork from producers who use gestation cratesWater use in Columbia is on the rise this summer
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Water use on the rise in Columbia
Columbia Water and Light says its customers water use is up this summer, amid hot and dry weather over the last few weeks.The Department saw a significant increase in water use in June compared to June of last year. Spokesperson Connie Kacprowicz says in July theres already been 20 million gallons of water used in Columbia most days, even getting as high as 23 million gallons a day.Generally this is the type of water use that we see in late July or August when it gets really hot and dry. So...
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Hardee’s to end use of gestation crates
The fast food chain Hardees says it will stop buying pork from suppliers who use gestation crates the cramped metal cages where many industrial pork producers house pregnant sows for most of their adult lives. Hardees is headquartered in St. Louis. Along with Carls Jr. and their parent company CKE Restaurants, Hardees has committed to eliminate use of the crates from its supply chain by 2022.The food policy director for the Humane Society of the United States, Matthew Prescott, says his...
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Columbia could change trash pickups
The city of Columbia could be changing the way it picks up trash next year. The city will currently pick up trash bags left on residential street, but a new proposal would change the method to only collecting trash from bins provided to residents by the city.The proposal would reduce the number of trash collectors, but Columbia Solid Waste Utility Manager Richard Wieman says those positions would be transitioned to another part of waste collection."It is estimated that there will be four...
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Paul Pepper: Hepatitis C Alliance & Rocheport's "Wine...
Today Paul Pepper talks to JIM WILLIAMS with the Hep C Alliance about news coming out from the CDC concerning the baby boomer generation. Also, KEN LARASS and BILL WILLIAMS stop by to promote "The Wine Stroll" in Rocheport this September.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OwzG3533Ls
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Out in a small town: 'My Life, My Town' goes to Macon
On this weeks edition of "Off theClock,"we hear a third portrait from the My Life, My Town series that documents the stories of teens in rural Missouri. Today we visit Trinity Rainey in Macon.KBIA and the Columbia Missourian have been working with rural teens all over Missouri to get their stories about being a teen, in rural Missouri. Called My Life My Town, the project worked with teens to create multimedia portraits about their lives. Over the last few weeks, weve heard the audio versions...
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Newscast for July 6, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder filing another law suit against a healthcare measure.Missouris Military History Museum gets some updatesGov. Nixon signs Mo. license plate, higher ed fund bill
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Mo. insurers to issue nearly $61M in refunds
Some of Missouris largest insurance companies will be refunding consumers almost $61 million this month under a provision of the federal healthcare law. Insurers who failed to spend at least 80 percent of premium-dollars on medical care and quality improvement have to repay the difference to consumers.Deborah Wiethop is thepublic relations director for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Missouri. She says her company has already started to mail out rebate checks.We are saying that we are...
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Paul Pepper: Museum of Art and Archaeology & the...
Today Paul Pepper talks to BRUCE COX from the University of Missouris Museum of Art and Archaeology about two exhibits currently on display, including "City Scapes". Also, TIM REINBOTT with Bradford Farm discusses the invasion of the Japanese Beetle - and even brings one to show!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zieN0FuUdk
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Missouri Military Museum undergoes renovations
The Missouri military history museum in Jefferson City has decided to move to a larger building and undergo a technology renovation.The museum currently has 2,000 square feet of exhibition space, and will move to a building three times that size. The museum director Charles Machon, says the museum was running out of space."We are always collecting and preserving Missouri military artifacts, memorabilia and paper works. And over the years, weve been collecting so many that the building in...
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New study looks at connection between childhood obesity...
Sara Gable is an MU Associate Professor of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology. She and two colleagues recently published a study that links childhood obesity to poor math skills in school.
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On obesity and poor math performance
On this weeks show, well revisit a story about iPad technology at Benton elementary school, and hear about a study that links childhood obesity to poor math skills in school.
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Newscast for July 5, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Former Mo Governor Roger Wilson is expected to ask for probation on federal finance fraud charges.MO Sen. Claire McCaskill finally weighs in on the Supreme Courts ruling on the Affordable Care ActGovernor Nixon signs a bill into law limiting the hours employees can work at mental health facilities
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Newscast for July 5, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Kirksville School District approves budget after losing nearly $800,000 in federal fundsMo. refinances $500 million of bondsHow the drought affects Missouri vineyards
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Hot, dry conditions bring mixed forecast for Missouri...
Missouri winemakers are watching their grape vines carefully this summer. A little stress can positively effect grape quality, but as wine experts are concerned this years heat and drought may be too much.
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Paul Pepper: Morgan County Historical Society
Today Paul Pepper takes a trip back in time to the 19th century to meet "Granny Martin", with the Morgan County Historical Society.
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Kirksville R-3 approves budget
The Kirksville R-3 School board has approved its budget for the next school year. The district expects to see a reduction in state and federal funding by almost $800,000.Despite the cut in federal funding, the district doesnt expected to make any drastic cuts. Superintendent Pat Williams says the district had actually expected the subsidy reduction and had already started taking steps to provide cushion for the next school year.
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Newscast for July 4, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:An update on which cities will have their fireworks displays tonight, and which wont because of dry conditions.Mo Republicans cry foul over Secretary of States ballot summariesA story from a 4th of July event put on by Mormon Congregations in Columbia
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Flying overseas - to look at wheat?
Visits from foreign buyers play a role in sustaining certain agriculture markets in the Midwest. Plus, educators, designers and engineers team up to try to fund the next big innovation for small farms.
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Importers get the whole wheat tour
Kansas wheat farmers may be tied to the land, but their crop isnt. About half of the wheat grown in the United States each year is exported.
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Mid-Missouri Mormons celebrate religious freedom with...
Columbias Mormon congregations celebrated religious freedom this morning and marked an event from the churchs history.
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Farmers + Engineers = Farm Hack
"Hack isnt a word usually associated with agriculture, but that might be starting to change. A group of small farmers across the country has started to come together to pool their ideas for solutions to small-farming challenges, just like computer hackers working together to solve computer issues. They call it Farm Hack.
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Newscast for July 4, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Missouri Highway Patrol urges drivers to pay attention on the roadways during the holidayDespite several towns cancelling fireworks shows, Columbia and Jefferson City are still going ahead as plannedThe Jefferson City Fire Department wants voters to decide on funding fixMo. Republican candidate for Gov. gave another $500,000 to his own campaign
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Jefferson City Fire Department wants voters to approve...
The Jefferson City Fire Department is asking voters to fund the plan that would purchase new equipment and trucks, cover technical upgrades, and pay for firefighter training. Captain Scott Spencer says unfortunately, a lot of the departments equipment is getting old.This fire department improvement plan is for the community. It all transcends down to the end user, the taxpayer, the customer that might be relying on us for emergency medical services, which were going to be upgrading," said...
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Paul Pepper: Simpatico Quartet
Happy Fourth of July! Today Paul Pepper invites the all-female voice stylings of SIMPATICO to entertain with two patriotic tunes.
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Columbia and Jefferson City fireworks shows expected to...
There will still be fireworks displays in Columbia and Jefferson City today, despite exceptionally dry conditions lately.
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Southeast Mo. man dies from copperhead bite
A southeast Missouri man died from a copperhead bite this past weekend. Its only the second recorded copperhead bite fatality in the state and the first since 1965.
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Missouri Medicaid expansion up in the air
After last weeks Supreme Court decision upholding most of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama declared victory.But there was one major gray cloud -- or silver lining, depending on your point of view -- leaving open the question of Missouris participation in the expansion of Medicaid envisioned by the federal health care law.
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Newscast for July 3, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Forest Service reports progress on Mo. firesMo. to get nearly $32 million from drug settlementState ends fiscal year with higher than expected revenuesMo. Supreme Court suspends St. Louis attorneyState troopers to watch for distracted drivers on the 4th
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Newscast for July 3, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Arson suspected in Mark Twain Forest FireHeat takes a toll on Missouri cropsGov. Nixon signs legislation aimed at more on the job training for veterans
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Fire department says goodbye to battalion chief
The Columbia Fire Department bid farewell to Battalion Chief Steven Sapp at a public reception Friday afternoon. More than 40 people came to City Hall to honor Battalion Chief Steven Sapp for his 22 years of service in the Fire Department.
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Paul Pepper: Jo Manhart and the Missouri Egg Council
Today Paul Pepper talks with JO MANHART from the Missouri Egg Council. Jo shares egg safety tips when preparing and when attending outdoor holiday festivities.
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Newscast for July 2, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:Economy slowing in 9 Midwest, Plains statesMo. job incentive program comes up shortOccupiers camp out in Columbia for Conference
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Rick Perry endorses Ed Martin for Mo. AG
Texas Governor Rick Perry visited Cape Girardeau on Friday to drum up Republican support for Attorney General candidate Ed Martin.
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MU Medical School focuses on LGBT health
Health for the LGBT, or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender population is expected to become a focus of the MU Medical School.
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KBIA newscast for July 2, 2012
Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:Missouri to decide on medicare expansionMo. police, union investigate misconduct claimCooling centers provide escape from the heat
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Missouri to decide on Medicaid expansion
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling, upholding the federal health law, has provided more clarity to the region and country.
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Cooling centers provide escape from the heat
Triple-digit temperatures with heat advisories and excessive heat warnings continue today, throughout much of the state.
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Occupy supporters gather outside City Hall
Supporters of the Occupy Movement gathered outside of City Hall to kick off what they are calling a state-wide Occupy event.
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Where cultures come together: Columbia group seeks to...
As a refugee from Bosnia, SenadMusic knows firsthand how difficult it is to get acclimated to a new culture. He says when he came to America 16 years ago he found it difficult to adapt to the culture, and he is trying to make the transition easier for newer refugees.On a recentweekend atColumbiasWorld Refugee Day,that means manning the grill during the World Refugee Celebration.My mission today is kind of cook food, you know, be on the grill, and welcome people from the community and other...
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UM Curator open to public input on university press
UM Board of Curators Chair David Bradley says he is open to public input about the University of Missouri Press.
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Off the Clock: Faith and Fiestas in Mexico, MO.
On this editionof Off the Clock,we visit Monica Martinez, a teen whose Latin American family is putting down roots in Mexico, Missouri.
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Newscast for June 29, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Missouri receives No Child Left Behind waiverFire in Mark Twain forest underscores heat threatRepublicans pick new nominee for 47th House District
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Missouri receives No Child Left Behind waiver
Missouri elementary and secondary schools will now have more flexibility from the federal No Child Left Behind requirements. More control is back in the hands of the state after the US Department of Education announced Missouri as one of five states granted a waiver Friday.
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Newscast for June 29, 2012
Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:After Supreme Court decision on health care, Missourians split on next stepCourts Medicaid ruling could leave thousands uninsuredMissouri will get No Child Left Behind waiver
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Court's Medicaid ruling could leave thousands uninsured
As part yesterdays Supreme Court decision on Obamas health care law, the justices ruled the federal government cant revoke states Medicaid funding for failing to comply with the laws required Medicaid expansion. And as Vronique LaCapra reports, that could leave some Missourians without access to health insurance.
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Managing the Missouri River
This week, well hear about efforts to manage the Missouri River.
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Control of Missouri River divides communities
Along a vast stretch of the Missouri River, the floodwaters that ravished homes, businesses and farms last year are not a distant memory.
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Newscast for June 28, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Top Mo. Republicans have no intention of expanding Medicaid eligibilityLt. Gov. Kinder reacts to Affordable Care Act decisionColumbia cooling centers provide relief from the heat
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After Supreme Court decision on health care, Missourians...
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of the federal health care law in a ruling this morning. Among Missouri officials, and on the streets of downtown Columbia this afternoon, reaction was mixed.Skip Ducharme, who owns a downtown coffee shop, said hes nervous about the effects of the ruling, if he has to buy insurance for his baristas. "Im a small business owner with 25 employees. I cant afford that. Theres a real chance Ill be out of business in a couple years, along with 25 other people," he...
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Secular Coalition for America to create Missouri chapter
Missouri is next on the list to create a state chapter of a national organization that lobbies for strong separation of religion and government.
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Online newspapers bypass censorship in Malaysia
The most popular website in Malaysia is an enigma an online newspaper thats thriving in a country where freedom of the press has always been suffocated.
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Newscast for June 28, 2012
Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:City planners seek feedback on adding more Tax Increment Financing districtsGovernor Jay Nixon signs law offering tax breaks for some small businessesBurn bans underway in central Missouri fire districts
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Talks continue about resuming rail service between...
Conversations about reestablishing service on the 27-mile rail line between Mexico and Fulton have been ongoing for the past decade. The line has been out of service since the late 1990s when it failed to generate enough business to stay running. In 2007 the project became more feasible when new owner Mike Williams showed an interest in developing the line. President of the Fulton Area Development Corporation Bruce Hackmann says progress has been made but many details of the project remain...
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You've heard of ethanol, but what about enzymes?
This week on the show: an enzyme factory aims to be a big part of the ethanol industry, and a business incubator in Columbia lands a state tax credit.
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Enzyme factory mixes into ethanol's future
Inside a new facility in Blair, Neb., north of Omaha, a gleaming maze of steel tubes connect a line of giant fermentation tanks that will cultivate some of the most advanced biotechnology in the ethanol industry.
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KBIA Newscast for June 27, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Gov. Jay Nixon signing one education bill, and vetoing anotherNixon also signs off on small business tax creditUM Press closure to go on as expectedColumbia Fire Marshal to retire on Friday
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Columbia business incubator awarded tax credits
The Missouri Department of Economic Development awarded state tax credits to five small business incubators on Monday. The Life Science Business Incubation Center in Columbia was awarded a $100,000 in tax credits.
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New dental school targets Missouri's dentist shortage
About 20 percent of Missourians live in areas where there arent enough dentists, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In Kirksville, the A.T. Still University is tackling the problem by building a new school of dentistry, which, in a few years, will be graduating dozens of new dentists each year.
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Views of the News: Anthony Shadid; Can Women Have It...
Anthony ShadidAbby Ohlheiser, The Slatest: "Reporter Said To Have Blamed NYT for His Death"Jo Tuckman, The Guardian: "Mexico journalists tortured and killed by drug cartels"
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Newscast for June 26, 2012
Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:Sen. McCaskill to skip Democratic National ConventionTraffic fatalities increasing according to MoDOTMemorial Stadium expansion plan approvedMU students, faculty attend UM Board of Curators.
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Traffic fatalities rising according to MoDOT
The State Department of Transportation says traffic fatalities in Missouri are increasing after falling for six straight years.
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Newscast for June 26, 2012
Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:Jefferson City may divide high schools into academiesNixon says individual insurance mandate is not good for MissouriRural provisions of health care law could be affected by court ruling
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Farm service assesses impact of heat wave
The Department of Agricultures Farm Service Agency is beginning an assessment of damages inflicted upon Missouri livestock and crops by recent high temperatures across the state.
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Jefferson City may divide high schools into academies
David Luther is the assistant superintendent with the district. He says the school will offer seven different academies something he refers to as seven schools within a school. These will align with a students possible career path, but are also fairly broad in nature.
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Nixon says individual insurance mandate is not good for...
Speaking at ceremonial bill signing in St. Louis, Governor Nixon sounded more like a Republican when he asked about the Supreme Courts impending health care ruling.
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Paul Pepper: Missouri State Historical Society
Today Paul Pepper chats with JOAN STACK with the State Historical Society. The latest exhibit features political cartoons and Joan shares a couple on the show.
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Newscast for June 25, 2012
Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:Missouri seeks stadium expansion for SEC moveRural provisions of health care law could be affected by court rulingJefferson City Schools announce belief statement
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Jefferson City Schools announce belief statement
Leaders in the Jefferson City Public School District have drawn up a statement of seven beliefs that they think will better define Jefferson City Public Schools and drive student success. David Luther is the Assistant Superintendent with the school district. He was also at the retreat last week where leaders worked on the list.The discussion was very good it was pretty intense," Luther said.Leaders began with about 20 statements. Luther says their goal was to boil down the ideas to eliminate...
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Rural provisions of health care law could be affected by...
The U.S. Supreme Court will likely rule on the fate of the federal health care reform law this Thursday. That ruling could affect provisions of the law aimed at improving health in rural America.
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Newscast for Monday, June 25, 2012
Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:Centro Latino promotes healthy food choice for children this summerMissouri joins job network to connect students to careersBoone Co. sewer district starts two large projects
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Centro Latino promotes healthy food choice for children...
The Columbia group Centro Latino is working this summer to promote healthy choices for children.
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Missouri joins job network to connect students to careers
Missouri students are expected to see a change in career guidance in school as part of a new initiative to better prepare students for their future. Missouri is one of six states that joined the Pathways for Prosperity Network this week.
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Governor's budget withholdings felt by higher education
Governor Jay Nixonswithholdings announced Fridayare expected tobe felt by Missouris higher-education institutions.Nixon announced the removal of$9millionfrom the budgets of Missouris public colleges and universities, effective July 1st.Its part of $15 million withheld from a budget Nixon says is $50 millionout of balance.
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