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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A new office would be placed under the supervision of the Secretary of State.
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The Missouri House of Representatives passed a bill that stops affiliates of abortion providers from being reimbursed through the state's health care programs.
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Rachel Winograd is the director of the Addiction Science, Practice, Implementation, Research, & Education (ASPIRE) Lab at the University of Missouri St. Louis.
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Representative Doug Richey proposed a new tax credit bill to benefit non-public school families.
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Addiction science expert Rachel Winograd spoke about how the dominant perception of people who use drugs can impact their ability to seek care and recover
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Missouri Democrats have filed a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the State Constitution which would give local governments more power to make gun regulations.
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Armadillos and other animals who have moved into Missouri find themselves looking for a habitable area and facing an age-old conundrum.
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Ask any beekeeper about the sound of bees working, and they’ll tell you: It’s a gripping sound - the sound of hard work, of production, of interconnection. This episode of Canned Peaches is taking us to the beehives at three Missouri farms - one small farm and producer in central Missouri, another in Spanish Lake in St. Louis County, where Black and BIPOC beekeepers and producers find meditation and connection through audio and bees. And we’ll road-trip to a southwest Missouri farm and research center where veterans are beekeeping for resilience and community. And of course for honey. We’re going out to explore honey, and the world of sound involved in producing it.
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Mushrooms have captured people’s attention for centuries. They pop up in ancient Chinese art, Celtic fairy tales and today’s Indigenous medicine. And over the last few years, mushrooms have rapidly increased in popularity. We’re going foraging for mushrooms with Missouri’s state botanist, we’re making mushroom hash with a chef who’s turned his fungi passions into a mushroom-production business, and we’re talking about the many characteristics of mushrooms that make them a new symbol of queer community. Our “Shroom Boom” episode takes us through some new avenues where communities are connecting through fungi.
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Canned peaches not only preserve fruit, but also time. The memory, the smell, the summer sun are all captured when the lid is sealed. But the past year has been rough for peaches. Some people drove for hours in search of fresh ones. In our namesake episode, Canned Peaches, we’re adventuring to a cannery that bottles up our nostalgia into glass jars full of all kinds of goodness. We’ll go fruit picking at a peach orchard, and follow the growers to the farmers’ market where we’ll join a long line of Missourians waiting for a bag of fresh peaches and talking about their peach dreams. This episode, we’re going in search of fresh fruit and discovering how canned peaches connect people through a complex food web that crosses time and space.