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"The Next Harvest" is bold gold text is center left over a grid of tan and green squares mimicking the bird's eye view of farmland. The green squares on the grid form and arrow pointing up and right.
The Next Harvest
Season Two is here! A KBIA News Series exploring what needs to change to sustain agriculture. Reported and produced by Jana Rose Schleis.
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Samantha, 32, left, and her fiancé, Jeffery, 29, right, cuddle together for warmth on Dec. 19, 2024, outside Room at the Inn in Columbia. “We like to fight for what we want and need in life,” Samantha said. The couple got engaged about a week ago, and Samantha said they are “wanting to start over and do better" by securing jobs so they can get a car — and eventually a home — in order to have somewhere warm to stay in the new year. "If I can make it from 13 to 29 on the streets, just imagine what else I can do," said Jeffery, who has been homeless since he was 13 years old.
Bailey Stover
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Bailey Stover
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MU's Choi wants Columbia to “clean up” homeless encampments. What does he mean?
Caspar Dowdy
The UM president addressed homeless encampments and downtown crime in a Sept. 27 letter to students and employees.
Sarah Mosteller sits on her desk in her room on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at her apartment in Columbia. She is a lesbian photographer who runs her own business and is trying to attract more queer clients. “Honestly, being able to be myself at this point, and not having to hide who I am, is so freeing, and it feels just so good to just be yourself and not have to worry about that,” Mosteller said. “The best love I've ever experienced— and best friendships, relationships—has come from people who accept me. I thought that the people who didn't accept me, I thought that what they were showing me was love. But I think discovering what actual unconditional love feels like, it's just so rewarding that I don't even let those people in my past get to me because I used to think that that's all that love was. But then when I learned what it actually felt like I realized there's so much more to life than what they had to offer.”
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Sarah Mosteller: "I kind of feel like my body and my mind knew that I was gay before I did."
Bailey Stover
A "Speed Limit 55" sign is visible in the left side of the image. The sign stand in a medium of a highway. The road in the background has construction barriers restriction a lane. A blue semi drives past in the background.
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Missouri adds speech impairment designation to driver’s licenses
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S4E13 – Serving voters at home and those serving overseas with Arlington County, Virginia’s Gretchen Reinemeyer
In this episode, hosts Eric Fey and Brianna Lennon speak with Gretchen Reinemeyer, the General Registrar/Director of Elections for Arlington County.
They spoke about some of the challenges that come from running elections in an area that has a large overlap with other metropolitan areas, as well as a large and ever changing number of military voters.
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