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Tadeo Ruiz
Student Reporter & ProducerTadeo Ruiz is a Freshman in the Missouri School of Journalism from Mexico City. He's a native Spanish speaker and wants to specialize in investigative and international journalism.
He's a reporter and producer for KBIA. When he's not in a sound booth, he can usually be found drinking coffee at Shortwave working on homework or on the road hunting for new stories to tell.
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In the final episode of season one, we’re turning things over to River Town Producer Tadeo Ruiz. Tadeo is pretty new to Missouri – via Mexico City - and he’s been surprised to learn about how much people here love the river. But during his reporting for River Town, he started to feel connected with one Missouri River town in particular… Rocheport. Follow him along his journey as he gets to know the river and the people who love it.
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Water is life. It gets us places. Connects us to each other. It holds history and tradition. It keeps all these things, and us, alive. History, and modern stories, show us this. For this episode, we explored these connections by documenting modern Indigenous relationships to the Missouri River and other sacred waters, caught a boat ride with historian and author Greg Olson, and observed a water blessing at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
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In this episode of River Town, we’re going to meet River Town’s youngest upstanding citizens, learn what people are doing to protect our waterways from pollution, and what’s happening in Missouri water policy right now.
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In this episode, we’re having some fun. We’ll meet people who choose to spend their time sweating on the river. Our producers spent this past autumn meeting casual trail users, dry-land athletes and big river paddlers who enjoy actually getting their feet wet.
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In the very first episode of River Town, we’re exploring how the Missouri River of today inspires artists -- from folk musicians, to watercolor painters with a penchant for pretzel paddle boating, to writers recounting their childhood “flood monster” memories. We want to know . . . no shame for this pun . . . How does the Missouri River help artists find their flow?
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Winter is coming and that creates some new challenges for the unsheltered population of Mid-Missouri. But as KBIA’s Tadeo Ruiz reports, one Columbia-based organization is providing much needed services to unhoused folks – now with funding and support from the city.
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Kari Utterback is a senior planner at Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services – focusing on coordinated entry and homelessness. She spoke about some of the resources unsheltered and unhoused Columbians have this winter, as well as about some of the roots causes of homelessness in our community.
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Since March, Holden Minor Ringer has been walking from Washington state to Washington D.C.
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Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine organized a rally on Saturday to call for a ceasefire to the ongoing conflict in the Gaza strip.
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The LiUNA! Local 955 workers union held a protest outside of Jesse Hall on Saturday asking for the University of Missouri to bargain in good faith with the union.