Seg. 1: Northeast News Anniversary | Seg. 2: Cool Summer Foods

KCUR | By Sam Zeff,

Emily Aiken

Published July 25, 2019 at 2:50 PM CDT

Segment 1: Northeast News celebrates 21 years with current publishers

Northeast News has been providing Kansas City with local journalism for more than 90 years. In that span, it has developed a website, a podcast and worked with four owners. This year the paper is celebrating 21 years of publishing with owners Michael Bushnell and Christine Adams.

Michael Bushnell, publisher,Northeast News

Segment 2, beginning at 24:24: Beat the heat of the summer with cool snacks

This summer is heating up, and a bowl of hot soup probably isn't the best food choice to cool you down. Chef Ted Habiger gave his suggestions for light and cool nosh that will help you beat the heat for the rest of the summer.

Ted Habiger, owner, Room 39

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Sam Zeff

Sam grew up in Overland Park and was educated at the University of Kansas. After working in Philadelphia where he covered organized crime, politics and political corruption he moved on to TV news management jobs in Minneapolis and St. Louis. Sam came home in 2013 and covered health care and education at KCPT. He came to work at KCUR in 2014. Sam has a national news and documentary Emmy for an investigation into the federal Bureau of Prisons and how it puts unescorted inmates on Grayhound and Trailways buses to move them to different prisons. Sam has one son and is pretty good in the kitchen.

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