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KBIA's Off Air: Holiday Magic: A Community Thanksgiving in Centrailia
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Saturday, December 4, 2010. Holiday Magic: A Community Thanksgiving in Centrailia. This year, I snuck in a little work over the Thanksgiving holiday. Usually I’m pretty brutal about dividing the business and personal life. But when you are a public-radio reporter, work merges into your life in positive ways, for you and your family. Off I went to Centralia’s Friendship Christian Church. The dinner was taking place inside the church annex building right next door to Prenger’s Grocery. In Centralia’s...
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KBIA's Off Air: November 2010
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Monday, November 29, 2010. Catfish" And The Spoiler Debate. I just saw the movie. My aunt chides me for reading movie reviews, saying they give too much away about the plot. A common cause for complaint among movie-goers is previews that give the best parts away: often, the trailer is funnier/more compelling than the movie. The trailer for Ben Affleck’s The Town. Comes on just because I already know what happens to Freddo. Did knowing that Sofia Coppolla was going to suck ruin. This is especially pertine...
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KBIA's Off Air: Sarah Got the Mumps!
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Saturday, December 4, 2010. Sarah Got the Mumps! When I think of mumps, I think of kids a generation or so ago, lying in bed with puffy cheeks and those old-fashioned, mushroom-shaped ice packs plopped on their heads. I certainly never pictured myself as one of those kids. 8221; that I even considered it. The doctor was initially as perplexed as I was. I was vaccinated against mumps as a baby, and in all likelihood I should never have gotten the disease as an adult. I even had the MMR booster. Reports th...
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KBIA's Off Air: Endangered Pallid Sturgeon
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Saturday, December 4, 2010. Over the past week I’ve been working on a story about a study at the USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center. Researchers there, in conjunction with those at the University of Missouri. And the Iowa State University. Are developing models to help predict how the Missouri River sturgeon. Population may respond to climate change. Wildhaber says the dog-like sturgeon have actually inhabited the Earth since dinosaurs roamed around. But now their numbers are dwindling. ...8220;...
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KBIA's Off Air: "Catfish" And The Spoiler Debate
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Monday, November 29, 2010. Catfish" And The Spoiler Debate. I just saw the movie. My aunt chides me for reading movie reviews, saying they give too much away about the plot. A common cause for complaint among movie-goers is previews that give the best parts away: often, the trailer is funnier/more compelling than the movie. The trailer for Ben Affleck’s The Town. Comes on just because I already know what happens to Freddo. Did knowing that Sofia Coppolla was going to suck ruin. This is especially pertine...
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KBIA's Off Air: December 2010
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Saturday, December 4, 2010. Sarah Got the Mumps! When I think of mumps, I think of kids a generation or so ago, lying in bed with puffy cheeks and those old-fashioned, mushroom-shaped ice packs plopped on their heads. I certainly never pictured myself as one of those kids. 8221; that I even considered it. The doctor was initially as perplexed as I was. I was vaccinated against mumps as a baby, and in all likelihood I should never have gotten the disease as an adult. I even had the MMR booster. Reports th...
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KBIA's Off Air: The Devil in the Detail: The Scope of the Cole County Surtax Issue
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Thursday, December 2, 2010. The Devil in the Detail: The Scope of the Cole County Surtax Issue. Because Blair Oaks School District is unwilling to go along with Cole County's surtax plan. At least three government entities appear headed for a court. How small is it? But to understand why this small surtax has big implications. Under the county's plan, the district would pay that back over the next 20 years — something the district generally agrees it should do. But the district doesn't like the...It's po...
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Views of the News: January 2011
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011. Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Posted by Stephanie Tabor. This week's topic links. State of the Union Civility. Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: " Obama's Next Impossible Speech. David M. Herszenhorn and Carl Hulse, The New York Times: " Lawmakers Aiming to Increase Civility. Paul Krugman, The New York Times: " A Tale of Two Moralities. KE Campbell, American Thinker: " Civility claptrap. TA Frank, The New Republic: " How the Media Botched the Arizona Shooting. The NPR Ethics Code.
