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Business Beat
5:37 pm
Wed October 31, 2012

Campaigns focus on small business but not farm bill

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Small business owner Daniel Finke of Moberly says fair trade is the most important issue to him this election when it comes to his company.
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Countdown to Election Day is upon us.

And while business development continues to surge as a hot topic this campaign season, the expired farm bill seems to have disappeared off candidates' radars completely. Harvest Public Media’s Amy Mayer has this report on just how much candidates are talking farm policy...in farm country.

By most accounts, Missouri is a pink state.

Not red. Not blue. Pink.

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Politics
4:40 pm
Tue October 30, 2012

Preparing for the election, even though they can't vote

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Oakland Junior High student Johnson Hunter in front of his poster board on Vice President Joe Biden on October 25.
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Oakland Junior high students Abby Theroff and project partner John Dingo talk to the candidate they researched, Vicky Hartzler, at the mock political convention on October 25.
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Teacher of Oakland Junior High's Honors Government class Joshua Johnson talks to his students at the mock political convention held on October 25.
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By Jessica Reese

What if there was one political convention where all political parties were represented? Well, a group of people not even of voting age did just that in Columbia. Oakland Junior High 9th graders spent the last two months preparing for a mock political convention representing local, state, and national candidates.

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