In this season premiere of Cover Story with Stephanie Shonekan, Stephanie sits down with KBIA Morning Edition host Darren Hellwege to discuss "Living After Midnight" by Judas Priest. It's a rebellious track about running amok under the cover of night. The Donnas covered it in 2001.
Nick Nack is transgender man who underwent top surgery. He spoke a little about the process and about the happiness and euphoria he now feels.
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The Missouri Department of Social Services announced that all Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants in Missouri will receive full benefits for November.
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Mizzou is expanding nuclear science research opportunities to students by collaborating with a Korean research institute.
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Administrator D'Markus Thomas-Brown said this funding would help with proactive responses to violent crime.
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The Daniel Boone Regional Library has opened nominations for One Read 2026, aiming to encourage life-long learning.
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Hallene Darland and Tina Sherman are a married autistic and ADHD queer couple. They spoke about the similar unmasking processes they went through when figuring out they were queer and when they got their ADHD and autism diagnoses.
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Scientists say leaving autumn leaves on the ground can add important nutrients to the soil and create needed habitat for insects.
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The New Music Friday and Pop Culture Happy Hour host had a hard time narrowing his favorite albums of 2025 down to 10 — the year in music was good enough to fill a list two or three times longer.
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This may have been a year when Latin music exploded globally, but the Alt.Latino and El Tiny host also sensed a desire among musicians for softness and stillness.
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The Tiny Desk series producer shares his favorite records of the year.
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The Columbia Regional Airport set a new record for total passengers, with 28,810 total travelers in October.
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"It's not *will* my data be stolen or misused, it's *when* and *how often*?" On today's show, ITCOMO owner Robert Ricketts is all doom and gloom as he pulls back the curtain on app and web designs intentionally created to trick or mislead users for the benefit of the website owner. November 17, 2025
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The Missouri Department of Conservation conducts mandatory sampling for chronic wasting disease during deer season.
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Advocates say the proposal, which would ban people from occupying many city medians, unfairly targets homeless people.
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Nightjar Arts Collective teaches creative writing classes on a sliding scale for accessibility and hosts events around art and activism.
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Advocacy group People Not Politicians has until mid-December to collect more than 100,000 signatures across six of Missouri’s eight congressional districts. The lawsuit may help decide whether 90,000 collected in September and early October are valid.
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In this episode, hosts Eric Fey and Brianna Lennon speak with Eduardo Repilloza Fernández. He’s the Director General of Transparencia Electoral, an election organization in Latin America that is working to promote and protect democracy through election observation, research and training.
They spoke about the work of the organization, the focus the organization has placed on data privacy for individual voters and about how the work of the organization is important to the security of democracy in the region.
They spoke about the work of the organization, the focus the organization has placed on data privacy for individual voters and about how the work of the organization is important to the security of democracy in the region.
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