Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval
Student Reporter & ProducerTadeo Ruiz is a Senior in the Missouri School of Journalism from Mexico City. He's a native Spanish speaker and wants to specialize in business 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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Every day, Missourians pay a small tax with each purchase they make that’s been supporting conservation efforts in the state. And now that Missouri is in a drought alert, those dollars are helping farmers prepare. -
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The Missouri Family Health Council saw a spike in emergency contraception kits following election day. To keep up, volunteers gathered in Jefferson City to help build the kits. -
Healthcare providers say they’re seeing a drastic increase in the number of emergency contraceptive kit requests by Missourians since the election. -
The amendment calls for a 10% sales tax on all collected gambling revenue to be directed toward funding education and the compulsive gambling fund. -
Title X grantees say they are unsure of the fund’s future financing and rule changes. -
For more than twenty years, when Columbia’s pipes need to be replaced, the city has rehabilitated them instead through a method scientists now say could put workers in danger. -
Critics say sports gambling revenue could have little effect in Missouri's education. -
![Jared Young(cq) converses with journalists before an interview Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024 at the Columbia Jet Center at Columbia Regional Airport in Columbia. “If I was in the House as an Independent, I wouldn’t be able to do much- I’d just get squashed,” Young said during the interview. “But in the Senate, every single individual Senator wields tremendous power. [Independent Senators] are involved in every decision that’s made in the Senate.”](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/18ba966/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1750x975+0+186/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Faf%2F03%2F28b5dee44dfe88549819b454495b%2Fjared-young.jpg)
A long shot against incumbent Josh Hawley, Young seeks support from disenfranchised voters. -
Planned Parenthood lost the ability to reimburse patients with Medicaid coverage in late August.
![Jared Young(cq) converses with journalists before an interview Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024 at the Columbia Jet Center at Columbia Regional Airport in Columbia. “If I was in the House as an Independent, I wouldn’t be able to do much- I’d just get squashed,” Young said during the interview. “But in the Senate, every single individual Senator wields tremendous power. [Independent Senators] are involved in every decision that’s made in the Senate.”](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3270c82/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1750x975+0+186/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Faf%2F03%2F28b5dee44dfe88549819b454495b%2Fjared-young.jpg)
