Ongoing Coverage:

Scott Pham

Content Director

Scott Pham got his start in radio at KBOO Portland community radio as a volunteer news producer and anchor.  Since then he's spent time interning at NPR in Washington, DC and making radio in the San Francisco Bay Area for Pacifica Radio.  His news and documentary work has aired on WAMU in DC, KQED in San Francisco and on Pacifica radio nationwide.

As KBIA's content director, Scott's goal is to make the station's considerable news and arts content easily available, easily shared and smartly delivered. 

In addition to his duties at KBIA, Scott is also the director of the Missouri Drone Journalism Program.

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Weather
10:57 am
Wed February 20, 2013

Everything we know about tomorrow's big storm

Credit National Weather Service
Thursday morning's winter storm. Snow is worse to the west of Columbia, lighter to the south.

Updated at 8:00 p.m. with information about school closures and the gas explosion in Kansas City.

So there’s a huge storm coming into Missouri tonight/tomorrow morning and the Weather Channel says you can blame California (sort of).

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Politics
3:14 pm
Fri February 8, 2013

What does Medicaid have to do with Missouri's credit rating?

Credit images_of_money / Flickr

  Governor Jay Nixon loves to brag about Missouri’s “spotless Triple-A” credit rating and did so again in his State of the State speech. But that rating might be in danger now, according to a statement released by credit rating agency Moody’s on Tuesday.

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12:04 pm
Thu February 7, 2013

Uncovering the lost albums of Lena Hughes, Missouri musical legend

Lead in text: 
We'll admit that we've never heard of it till this NPR story came along: parlor music. It's a genre of music popular in the late 19th century--before recorded music gave people something to listen to in the parlor. Lena Hughes was never famous outside of Missouri but she was a master of the genre. Now, more than a decade after her death, one of her superfans is reissuing the only recording she ever made.
  • Source: Kbia
  • | Via: Ariel Morrison
Sometime in the mid-1960s - no one's really sure when - Lena Hughes walked into a recording studio, probably in Arkansas. What we do know is that she
Science, Health and Technology
5:20 pm
Wed February 6, 2013

While students checked email, computers at CMSU were breaking mathematical records

Credit Koen Vereeken / Flickr

While students at Central Missouri University browsed the internet and checked their email, their computers were slowly working toward a world record.  

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Business
3:23 pm
Thu January 31, 2013

UMKC’s new ‘Digital Sandbox’ joins a growing list of startup incubators in Missouri

Credit University of Missouri-Kansas City
UMKC Innovation Center

The University of Missouri-Kansas City's Innovation Center is starting a new program to help entrepreneurs build sustainable high-tech startups and create jobs.

Gov. Jay Nixon and top executives from Sprint, Hallmark, Cernert Corp. and other businesses will be at the university Friday to inaugurate the Digital Sandbox KC.

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Crime
1:55 pm
Wed January 30, 2013

The science behind closing an 8 year homicide case

We learned today that the MU Police Department (MUPD) closed the homicide case of Jeong H Im, a retired faculty member at the University of Missouri.

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Politics
2:02 pm
Tue January 29, 2013

“Missourah” and “Missouree” by the numbers in Nixon's state of the state address

2011 State of the State Address
Credit File Photo / KBIA

A notorious flip-flopper in the age-old "Missourah"/"Missouri" debate, democratic Governor Jay Nixon has been known to switch from one to the other in a single sentence.  In speeches, he tends to favor "Missourah."  At this year's State of the State address, he leaned on "Missourah" 1.7 times for each "Missouri."

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Politics
5:02 pm
Mon January 28, 2013

Governor Nixon delivers State of the State address

2011 State of the State Address
Credit File Photo / KBIA

Governor Jay Nixon called for a wide range of state health, education and business improvements in his State of the State address tonight at the Capitol in Jefferson City. Measures proposed by the governor address domestic violence prevention, mental health coverage, health care, education and business expansion abroad.

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Science, Health and Technology
12:39 pm
Tue January 22, 2013

Missouri girl undergoes cryopreservation

Credit venturist.info
Kim Suozzi, pre-cancer.

Kim Suozzi, a graduate of Truman State University, passed away on January 17.  Upon death, her body was cryopreserved--frozen--and relocated to a cryopreservation facility called the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Arizona.

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Politics
1:00 pm
Thu January 17, 2013

Is Missouri on board with Obama's new gun proposals?

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Gun control is going to be at the top of President Obama’s agenda this year, and Missouri’s US Senators are divided on what to do about it.

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