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Alex Cox
Student Reporter & ProducerAlex Cox is a Junior in the Missouri School of Journalism. They're a reporter and producer for KBIA, and are passionate about community-focused coverage. In their free time, they are a Dungeon Master for their friend's Dungeons & Dragons campaigns.
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Incumbent Dwayne Carey and Charles Blair last ran against each other in 2020.
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Kat and Aly Wright are a queer married couple in Columbia. Kat is queer and nonbinary, and Aly is a bisexual transgender woman. They met and fell in love while playing roller derby. They spoke about how some unexpected circumstances changed their original wedding plans – perhaps for the better.
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Struby is a queer athlete who's played soccer for nearly her entire life. She spoke about finding space on the pitch for her queerness, as well as her athleticism.
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Amid a nationwide staffing crisis in the nursing industry, Missouri saw a statewide vacancy rate of 15.6% for registered nurses working in hospitals last year, with a 16.3% turnover rate, according to the Missouri Hospital Association's annual workforce report.
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Jefferson City, Missouri elected its first black woman to the city council last month. This comes 45 years after the city elected Randy Halsey, the first black city councilor, in 1979.
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Crystal Wilkinson is the author of the 2024 book, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts. While she was in Columbia for the Unbound Book Festival, she visited KBIA’s Jessica Vaughn Martin and Nina Mukerjee Furstenau to do some cooking.
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The Missouri General Assembly addresses the thousands of people who flee from law enforcement during an attempted arrest.
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Treaka Young was elected last month to the Jefferson City City Council, but previously worked as an ombudsman for the state. A long-term care ombudsman is often a volunteer who helps families and individuals ensure their rights and needs are being respected and preserved in long-term care facilities, like nursing homes. Treaka spoke a little about an ombudsman’s role and how people can reach out to them for help.
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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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Stacey Mei Yan Fong recently wrote her cookbook, "50 Pies, 50 States: An Immigrant's Love Letter to the United States Through Pie." She spoke with KBIA's Alex Cox about her unique Missouri pie creation and what inspires her to create.