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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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.
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Seven emergency shelters are available for overnight stays. Each shelter is specialized to different populations in the community.
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KBIA's Missouri on Mic team went to the Daniel Boone Regional Public Library in Columbia last week to learn what the community is looking for in its next chief of police.
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Environmentalists express their concerns after the demolition of the Rocheport bridge.
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The Jefferson City Capitol dome will light up white and blue this weekend to show support of Israel, its people and American lives lost following recent Hamas attacks, according to a news release.
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Columbia's new La Calle Ocho Café owner talks about chasing his dream of opening a coffee shop.