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Ashley Byrd

Columbia

Director of News Services at Missourinet

Veteran broadcast journalist who still loves to learn. I oversee amazing radio and web news networks in the Midwest. Good stories are everywhere.

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  • Trump Admin seeks to dismiss Missouri AG's abortion pill lawsuit; Hawley disagrees

    1 week ago | missourinet.com | Ashley Byrd

    The Trump Administration is asking a federal judge to dismiss Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s lawsuit that seeks to restrict access to a popular abortion drug. The U.S. Supreme Court allowed access to the abortion drug last year. And last December, then-President-elect Donald Trump said he was committed to ensuring FDA access to mifepristone. A U.S. Justice Department brief says Bailey’s lawsuit was filed in Texas, which is not a plaintiff in the case.

  • Pope’s astronomer lectures in Missouri the day of Catholic leader’s death

    3 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Ashley Byrd

    Share On the day Pope Francis died, the Vatican’s astronomer gave a lecture on “faith and science” at Central Methodist University in Fayette. Brother Guy Consolmagno – a fellow Jesuit – spoke to Missourinet about his leader’s legacy. “Among all of the other accomplishments he had, he was a great theologian,” Consolmagno said. “He was actually a scientist.

  • Pope's astronomer lectures in Missouri the day of Catholic leader's death

    3 weeks ago | missourinet.com | Ashley Byrd

    On the day Pope Francis died, the Vatican’s astronomer gave a lecture on “faith and science” at Central Methodist University in Fayette. Brother Guy Consolmagno – a fellow Jesuit – spoke to Missourinet about his leaders legacy. “Among all of the other accomplishments he had, he was a great theologian,” Consolmagno said. “He was actually a scientist.

  • Mizzou, S. Korean partners launch NextGen reactor plan, to be largest capital investment in school history

    4 weeks ago | missourinet.com | Ashley Byrd

    The University of Missouri signed an agreement today to create what they call a roadmap for building a second nuclear reactor — not for power, but to increase its production of cancer-fighting radioactive isotopes. The NextGen MURR (MU Research Reactor) and its support infrastructures comprise of the largest capital investment in the university’s history. President Mun Choi said that investment will pay off.

  • Missouri State economist on tariffs: Not great news, but don’t overreact (LISTEN)

    1 month ago | missourinet.com | Ashley Byrd

    Last weeks latest tariffs against trading partners with the U.S. have left some economists scratching their heads—and that includes Professor David Mitchell director of the Center for Economic Education at Missouri State University. He tells Ashley Byrd that consumers must be careful about one thing:

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RT @Forbes: North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday confirmed 92 people from North Carolina are still missing nearly three weeks after Hu…

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RT @WilliePStyle: I asked ⁦@CharlotteFC⁩ GM Zoran Krneta on @wfnz about Patrick Agyemang’s contract situation (two option years remaining),…

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