Unbound Book Festival 2024 is here!
Check out our author conversations from this year and prior years. The Unbound Book Festival aims "to bring nationally and internationally recognized authors of world-class renown to Columbia, Missouri, to talk about their books, their work, and their lives."
Check out our author conversations from this year and prior years. The Unbound Book Festival aims "to bring nationally and internationally recognized authors of world-class renown to Columbia, Missouri, to talk about their books, their work, and their lives."
Jessica Pryde is a black reader, writer, and librarian in Tucson, Arizona, Her book Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters is an intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators.
MISSOURI NEWS
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A pair of studies found that tens of thousands of construction workers in Missouri and Kansas are incorrectly classified as independent contractors. That means their employers are avoiding withholding income tax and paying into programs like Social Security, unemployment insurance, Medicare and others.
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2023 was the 11th consecutive year the state has topped the list, which is compiled to highlight cruelty and neglect among commercial dog breeders.
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The center's goal is to help farmers become more efficient and sustainable by harnessing technology like artificial intelligence.
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Crews will commence operations in both directions on sections of I-70 and U.S. 63 on Wednesday.
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Once seen as a musical relic, audio cassettes have survived the eras of CDs and streaming to win over music lovers of a new generation. That’s in large part thanks to the National Audio Company in Springfield, Missouri, the largest cassette manufacturer in the world.
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A spokeswoman for Rice’s attorney confirmed to The Associated Press in the evening that Rice turned himself in at the Glenn Heights Police Department.
NPR TOP STORIES
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Our sun was born in a cosmic cradle with thousands of other stars. Astrophysicists say they want to find these siblings in order to help answer the question: Are we alone out there?
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A study showed states made more mistakes when executing Black prisoners by lethal injection than they did with prisoners of other races. Execution workers and race experts said they're not surprised.
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The Senate rejected the two articles that accuse Mayorkas of refusing to enforce immigration laws. The House voted to impeach him in February.
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The Missouri Legislature approved a bill that allows counties to freeze property taxes for those 62 years old and older.
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Members of the Raymore City Council approved legislation that would pay developers $3.73 million to abandon their project at a proposed south Kansas City site.
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The death of O.J. Simpson has brought up many questions for those in the news media, things we haven’t thought about since the mid-1990’s. What’s changed in how we approach covering domestic violence, race and the criminal justice system? What effect did the criminal and civil cases have on American pop culture? Also, an NPR editor’s criticism of the network leads to some introspection among staffers, movie marketing gone wrong, and the portrayal of journalists on the silver screen. From the Missouri School of Journalism professors Amy Simons, Earnest Perry and Kathy Kiely: Views of the News.
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"We just want to get as many kids as possible out there doing what they love." -- Tricia Koedel, executive director, Day Dreams Foundation Joining Tricia is Amber Bussey, a parent whose two kids benefitted from what Day Dreams does best; however, what they do best takes money, and so on today's show we learn more about their upcoming fundraiser! April 16, 2024
The April At Sea Exhibit (4-5-2024 through 4-27-2024) features Maritime Prints & Paintings from 1803-Present
Sager | Reeves 2024 April Exhibit
Sager | Reeves 2024 April Exhibit
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