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Partners Sam Collins and Cricket Osborn met in Chicago and have been together for about three years. They spoke about the somewhat chaotic start to their relationship and their decision to choose love over fear.
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Residents and community members gathered at the intersection of West Boulevard and Ash Street Wednesday evening, in protest of Columbia's Ash Street Improvement Plan. -
Columbia coffee shops are planning for prices to increase as the Trump administration implements tariffs. -
Supporters of the bill said that while they weren't eager to expand access to gambling, it would be more harmful to leave the machines unregulated. -
Three Senate bills authorizing video lottery games still haven’t received a hearing from the Senate Appropriations Committee. There are only five weeks left before the Senate adjourns and the state budget remains unfinished. -
Current mayor Barbara Buffaloe was elected to another term Tuesday night. Her win came after a race focused on public safety and state advocacy. -
The money will be used to buy new firefighting vehicles, equipment and other improvements, fire district officials said.
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It's a "ready-to-use therapeutic food" that's had remarkable success in treating malnourished kids. The State Department says it's still available. Factories and field workers have a different view. -
Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums. -
Pope Francis will be buried in St. Mary Major church, not Saint Peter's Basilica, in a break with tradition.
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Room at the Inn, which welcomes about 100 guests per night, provides resources for unhoused people in Columbia. -
Behind the scenes, Columbia's boards and commissions provide the city council with information to make decisions about issues such as staffing, discrimination and affordable housing. -
St. Louis non-profit organizations search for tangible ways to combat gentrification and anti-displacement. -
Michael Pagano and Derek Laney are part of Invest STL’s Rooted: Cultivating Black Wealth in Place project in St. Louis, which seeks to empower Black homeowners in the West End and Visitation Park neighborhoods with financial assistance that can combat displacement.
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The firings are part of a sweeping, nationwide effort to remove probationary workers from the federal government. -
Some of president Trump's executive orders target what he calls gender ideology. KBIA's Alex Cox has sat down with Marcia McCormick, a professor of law and women and gender studies at Saint Louis University, to talk about how these policies affect universities, specifically Title IX offices.
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In this episode, hosts Eric Fey and Brianna Lennon speak with married election officials Akyn and Noah Beck in Georgia. Akyn is the Elections Supervisor in Floyd County, and husband Noah is the Elections Director in neighboring Polk County. They spoke about how the couple met and fell in love – over poll books and precinct population data, and about how they have seen the landscape of Georgia election administration change in the last few years.
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