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Politics

5:11 pm

Mon May 13, 2013

Historical society to plan for Mo. bicentennial

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Republicans in the Missouri Senate want to make sure the governor doesn't create a health care exchange without their consent.

By Associated Press

It's still eight years away, but Missouri lawmakers want the planning to begin for the bicentennial celebration of Missouri's statehood.

Media Talk From The Missouri School of Journalism

11:26 am

Wed April 17, 2013

Views of the News: Boston Marathon Bombing, Pulitzer Prizes, BBC Undercover in North Korea

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By Amy Simons

Boston Marathon Bombing

Media talk from the Missouri School of Journalism

10:29 am

Wed April 3, 2013

Views of the News: Coach Fired,Ware's Awful Injury, No More Illegal Immigrant, Sexist Scientist Obit

By Mike McKean

ESPN Helps Bring Down Coach

Agriculture

5:37 pm

Thu September 27, 2012

Mud and Moonscape: Missouri towns struggle with flood recovery

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"It is pure sand dunes," Atchison County Sheriff Dennis Martin said, of Corning, Mo. land still covered with sand a year after surging Missouri River waters receded. "Before the weeds started growing up, it looked like the moon."

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media

Down the road, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is one of the flood's casualties. It closed after waters rose three feet high. Then the water sat there for months.

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media

A mud line marks how high the waters went on the 1893 Gothic Revival building.

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A toilet graveyard sits behind the church.

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media

The one-room 1912 schoolhouse behind the church is still caked with dried-up mud the river left behind. It also sustained water damage in 1952 and 1993.

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media

The waters put this schoolhouse stove under water. Church elders don't know if and how they will re-open the church.

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media

But Sheriff Martin says Corning is resilient. "We're going to see crop ground ... that has been renovated and the expense they are going to try to get this back in production has got to be phenomenal. But it is their life … it’s their home."

By Abbie Fentress Swanson

Back in April, Harvest Public Media’s Grant Gerlock headed to Tekamah, Neb., to see how planting was going for farmers on the Missouri River floodplain. The river's surging waters put thousands of farm acres in Nebraska under water last summer, causing more than $100 million in crop losses in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.

Education

8:59 am

Thu August 23, 2012

Higher ed dept: Mo. college costs trend lower compared to rest of U.S.

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By Rehman Tungekar

Speaking on KBIA’s Intersection earlier this week, Deputy Commissioner for the Missouri Department of Higher Education Paul Wagner said that Missouri has been a national leader in keeping college tuition down. He said that tuition increases at public four year institutions in the state were the lowest in the country over the last three years. That statistic comes from a College Board Report released earlier this month. Wagner points to two factors that have helped limit tuition increases.

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