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KBIA's Darren Hellwege talks with Jami Clevenger, Executive Officer of the Columbia Home Builders Association, about this year's Parade of Homes.
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"Our whole goal is to not only get veterans off the street, but to keep them from becoming homeless again." And thanks to contributions received from fundraisers like Casino Night (the 10th annual is coming up!), Welcome Home has been able to do just that since its founding in 1992. Guest: Megan Sievers, executive director of Welcome Home | October 23, 2025
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Creating Space offers comprehensive home organizing services, including packing and unpacking, for projects of any size, from single pantries to entire houses. Owner Lindsay Tagai says she operates on a "judgement-free philosophy," noting that it can be "...an emotional process. We are very patient. Sometimes there's tears, we have hugs." October 17, 2025
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KBIA's Darren Hellwege talks with Mark Price of Columbia College about this year's Schiffman Ethics in Society Lecture. The guest this year is Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case in which a right for same-sex couples to marry was confirmed. He will be speaking at Launer Auditorium Thursday, Oct. 23rd.
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As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more and more a part of our daily lives, ITCOMO owner Robert Ricketts wants it to be known that, "it has no empathy, no sentience... All it can do is reply based on its training model, which is just a bunch of words. There's nothing behind it." October 16, 2025
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On today's show, Kyla Dunn tells us all about the 16 highly diverse events scheduled for the 118th University Concert Series, now underway! (One such event will see the stage inside Jesse Hall become an ice rink.) October 15, 2025
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High Turnout Wide Margins recently traveled to the 40th annual Election Center conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, and spoke with election administrations and officials from across the county about how they do the work of elections in their communities.In this episode, hosts Eric Fey and Brianna Lennon speak with Lisa Marie Manning Bridges, the Registrar of Voters in the Parish of Orleans in Louisiana.They spoke about the unique nature of Louisiana elections, how the work is divvied up by different parish offices and how the parish works alongside the Louisiana Secretary of State to serve their voters.
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Cranktivus is a 12-year-old annual food drive where participants ride their bikes to various grocery stores to collect items for a holiday meal. Those items are then donated to The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri. Founder Beth Shepard says, "...the community has really...made it what it is." October 14, 2025
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COMO Flavors is back, and this year the number of food vendors has doubled! Organizer Evan Foster, along with Ray Hall from Dream Tree Academy, a beneficiary, join us to talk about this very special one-day-only event! October 10, 2025
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"If you like to be scared, this is your show." Talking Horse Productions presents 'The Woman in Black' for two weekends only beginning October 16th at their theatre in Columbia. Today's guests, Adam Brietzke and Mary Paulsell, pull back the curtain - but not too much! - on what's been called "the original ghost story." October 9, 2025
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Learn more about how to be safe while hunting this fall on this week's Discover Nature.
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"We were founded to support the deaf community and particularly provide crisis intervention and advocacy for deaf survivors wherever they're at in their journey and whatever situation they've been in." -- Wende Wagner, development manager, explaining DeafLEAD's mission on today's show. October 8, 2025