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Newscast for January 2, 2012

Confederate national flag variant.
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Confederate national flag variant.

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

  • Higher education leaders in Missouri are expecting a dismal year when it comes to state funding.
  • U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill considers herself both a watchdog and an underdog.
  • Missouri legislative leaders will be redefining their approach to economic development when the 2012 session begins.
  • Transportation officials have released a plan exploring two options for expanding passenger rail service in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
  • The American Civil Liberties Union has warned the St. Joseph School District that it's coming close to breaching the separation of church and state
  • Missouri soon will be displaying an array of battle flags from the Civil War
  • A group of students at the Missouri University of Science and Technology have found a way to use segments of DNA embedded in bacteria to detect glucose.
Scarlett Robertson joined KBIA as a producer in February 2011. She studied psychology at Lake Forest College and holds a masters degree in journalism from Syracuse University. Scarlett began her professional career in psychology, jumped to magazines and then came to her senses and shifted to public radio. She has contributed to NPR member stations WAER in Syracuse, KUT in Austin and Chicago’s WBEZ.