Grandparents face legal issues, financial strain when raising grandchildren
On April 24, the family resource organization Parentlink will hold a special conference in Jefferson City for Grandparents raising grandchildren in the state of Missouri. The free event will provide...
View ArticleForget fuel tax, Missouri pushes sales tax increase to fund MoDOT
Summer is coming, and Missourians are hitting the open road, which, after a brutal winter, has taken quite a beating. The Missouri Department of Transportation is looking into making Missouri roads...
View ArticleMissouri dental clinic serves state's most desperate
Back in 2005, Missouri de-funded dental care for all Medicaid recipients except, children, pregnant women and the disabled. And it’s left a lot of people with only bad options.
View ArticleCharity dental care gives uninsured Missourians something to smile about
Note: A portion of this story was aired as part of the Health & Wealth Update for 5/14/2014 When I think about adult dental care in Missouri, I think of Ben Affleck. In the movie Argo , CIA agent...
View ArticleRural hospitals a model for cutting healthcare costs
Rural hospitals play a vital role in delivering quick emergent care to people in some of the more isolated areas of the country. These institutions provide 24/7 emergency services to rural communities...
View ArticleMcCaskill announces results of veterans survey at MU
Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) spoke at the Veterans War Memorial on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia on Friday, where she announced the most recent results of her Veterans Customer...
View ArticleSenator Blunt addresses VA wait times at Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital
Missouri Senator Roy Blunt continued his tour of mental health facilities in the state on Thursday with a stop at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital in Columbia. Blunt spoke with Veterans...
View ArticleIntersection Live: How to talk to your Doc
Have you ever left a doctor’s office with more questions than answers? Don’t let that happen again. Join us Thursday, July 24th for an evening of conversation with health literacy experts Dr. Steve Pu...
View ArticleIntersection: How to talk to your doc
On this week's Intersection, we are talking with board members from Health Literacy Missouri about how to talk to your doctor.
View ArticleIn 'low tax' states, how low can you go?
Missouri is headed to the polls this week to vote for, among other things, a ¾ cent sales tax increase that would be used to fund Missouri’s Department of Transportation, or MoDot . Missouri citizens...
View ArticleYouth in Ferguson: 'I want more for my city than what it is now'
Last August KBIA's news team filed this report from Ferguson, Missouri.
View ArticleBillion dollar day care
Zsanay Duran lives at the end of a cul-de-sac in her neighborhood in Springfield, Mo. Inside her house looks less like a home and more like a daycare center. Duran began providing unlicensed home...
View ArticlePart 1: A game changer for Nevada
This is the first story in a series from the Health & Wealth desk on Healthy Nevada . Pookie Decocq is the healthy living coordinator for the YMCA in Nevada, Missouri. She’s also the town’s...
View ArticlePart 2: In Nevada, healthy change starts with 'bleeps' and 'bloops'
This is the second story in a series from the Health & Wealth desk on Healthy Nevada . The town of Nevada, in southwest Missouri, is changing in very subtle ways. To see it you really need to know...
View ArticlePart 3: A container of ideas for Nevada’s diabetes problem
This is the third story in a series from the Health & Wealth desk on Healthy Nevada . Dr. Kristi Crymes is a family medicine doctor at the Nevada Medical Clinic. Crymes came up from Springfield...
View ArticlePart 4: Nevada’s 'Leslie Knope' brings Cerner to the community
This is the fourth story in a series from the Health & Wealth desk on Healthy Nevada . The TV show “Parks and Recreation” chronicles civic life in the small fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana. Rural...
View ArticlePart 5: Cerner’s strategy in Nevada gets tested
This is the fifth story in a series from the Health & Wealth desk on Healthy Nevada. All this week we’ve been talking about the population health experiment that the health technology company...
View ArticleIntersection: Missouri: State of Obesity
Obesity is the number one public health issue in Missouri – it affects more than 30% of adults and nearly one in seven children between the ages of ten and seventeen.
View ArticleFor cash-strapped rural hospitals, survival is uncertain
If you’ve ever lived in - or even visited - a small town, you know they can be pretty quaint. And Milan, Mo, population 1,881, is no exception. Milan’s local hospital, Sullivan Country Memorial , has...
View ArticleWhy Columbia's ash pond was given 'high' hazard potential rating
This week the EPA will make a final decision on a proposed new rule for the disposal of coal combustion residuals, called CCRs, or coal ash.
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