Harshawn Ratanpal

3 weeks ago | wvnews.com | Ezra Bitterman |Harshawn Ratanpal

NEW MADRID, Mo — If you lived near New Madrid, Missouri in 2000, it would cost just $57 a year to insure your home against an earthquake. With seismic fault lines under your feet that could — and a few hundred years ago, did — decimate the area, that was a steal. It’s been over one hundred years since the last major earthquake, but prices have skyrocketed in the last couple of decades. Why? One cause is inflation.

3 weeks ago | kbia.org | Harshawn Ratanpal |Ezra Bitterman

If you lived near New Madrid, Missouri in 2000, it cost just $57 a year to insure your home against an earthquake. With seismic faultlines under foot that could – and two hundred years ago, did – decimate the area, that was a steal. But today, insurance costs have become unaffordable for many. According to state data from 2023, it’s now $569 a year on average - ten times as much as at the turn of the century. So why have prices skyrocketed in the last couple of decades?

1 month ago | columbiamissourian.com | Harshawn Ratanpal |Jana Rose Schleis

By Harshawn Ratanpal,Jana Rose Schleis The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cancelling the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Project. The $3 billion initiative funded agriculture research and programs across the nation. Over $1.2 billion went toward 36 programs that involve Missouri. Many of these programs offered incentive payments to farmers who adopt an environmentally sustainable or "climate-smart" practice.

1 month ago | bransontrilakesnews.com | Harshawn Ratanpal |Jana Rose Schleis

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cancelling the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Project. The $3 billion initiative funded agriculture research and programs across the nation. Over $1.2 billion went toward 36 programs that involve Missouri. Many of these programs offered incentive payments to farmers who adopt an environmentally sustainable or “climate-smart” practice.

2 months ago | kbia.org | Anna Spidel |Harshawn Ratanpal |Rebecca Smith

For years, Columbia’s Room at the Inn homeless shelter was much like the people it serves: moving from place to place and spending the winter in whatever warm church would temporarily allow them to stay. But in October 2023, the shelter became year-round and found a permanent home at 1509 Ashley Street, on the city’s Interstate 70 Business Loop. On December 19th, 2024, a team of KBIA reporters spent a full day and night chronicling the lives of shelter workers and Columbia’s unhoused community.