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Steve Paul spoke with the Missouri on Mic team at the Unbound Book Festival in April. He spoke about his work at the Kansas City Star, as well as Ernest Hemingway’s time at the paper.

Selinda LeVoir was a 9th grader when she spoke with the Missouri On Mic team at the state fair last August. She recently moved to the state due to her Mom finding her own extended family online through 23andMe—a company that helps connect people to biological relatives using DNA testing.She spoke about her recent move to Missouri, how it’s different from living in the city and a little bit about how she’s settling into her new home.

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Quinn Calvert is a Missouri resident who – in the past – had to travel from Columbia to St. Louis to get an abortion.They spoke about the ways that lack of access influenced their choices leading up to that abortion, and about the concerns they have if the procedure becomes even more inaccessible.As a note, this conversation took place after the Dobbs draft decision was leaked. But before the official ruling overturned Roe vs. Wade on Friday, June 24.

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA newsroom.

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA newsroom.

In June, hosts Brianna Lennon and Eric Fey, along with Managing Editor Rebecca Smith, traveled to Central and Eastern Europe to learn more about election administration in democracies overseas. In this episode, they speak with Alexander Shlyk, the Special Representative on Elections for Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and the former head of the Elections Department of OSCE ODIHR, or the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Tsikhanouskaya is the leader of the leader of the Belarusian democratic movement who many believe truly won the 2020 election against President Alexander Lukashenko. Shlyk is currently living in exile as one of the 16 people working for Tsikhanouskaya, and he’s working to prepare the legislative and practical framework for democratic elections in Belarus – which he believes will inevitably happen.

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA newsroom.

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA newsroom

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA newsroom.