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3 weeks ago | 
themarshallproject.org | Katie Moore |HG Biggs |Emily Curiel
The first thing Sandra “Sandy” Hemme did after walking out of prison in July 2024 — after spending 43 years behind bars — was visit her father. He was in the hospital battling kidney failure. Ten days later, he was gone. Hemme, now 65, had been held for a crime she said she didn’t commit — the 1980 murder of a woman in St. Joseph, about an hour north of Kansas City. In June 2024, a judge agreed. By then, she had lost decades with her parents, siblings and a young child.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
ivpressonline.com | HG Biggs
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
chqdaily.com | HG Biggs
Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, addressed the underlying philosophies of the United States’ founding documents during his lecture Wednesday morning in the Amphitheater, part of the Chautauqua Lecture Series’ Week Nine theme, “Rising Together: Our Century of Creativity and Collaboration with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.” His most recent book, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the...
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
chqdaily.com | HG Biggs
In her morning lecture, Sayu Bhojwani wanted Chautauquans to consider if the community and connection they create during the summer “is something we could create everywhere without limit.” Bhojwani continued the Chautauqua Lecture Series Week Nine exploration of “Rising Together: Our Century of Creativity and Collaboration with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra” on Tuesday in the Amphitheater by discussing factors standing in the way of equality and exploring the...
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
chqdaily.com | HG Biggs
On Monday morning in the Amphitheater, jazz legend Wynton Marsalis discussed overcoming the struggles of writing a piece of music that successfully brings not only instrumental families together, but also the people that listen to them. The result of Marsalis’ challenge was the piece “All Rise,” which will be performed by Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, and Chautauqua’s Music School Festival Orchestra twice this week.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
kansascity.com | HG Biggs
Inside Look is a Star series that takes our readers behind the scenes of some of the most well-known and not-so-well-known places and events in Kansas City. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at [email protected]. Music thrums through the cavernous room. People on roller skates speed around the outside edge of the hardwood floor. In the center, skaters dance and practice skills at a slower pace.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
chqdaily.com | HG Biggs
Alison Criscitiello has studied ice cores from some of the most remote regions of the world, including Canada’s Mount Logan, the second-highest peak in North America and located in the largest non-polar ice field in the world. Mount Logan stands on lands sacred to the Kluane, Champagne-Aishihik and White River First Nations, and Criscitiello thanked her team’s First Nations partners for allowing Criscitiello’s ice core expeditions.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
chqdaily.com | HG Biggs
National Geographic Explorers Rachael Z. Miller and Agustina “Tati” Besada took to the Amphitheater stage on Wednesday morning to discuss the vast problem microplastics and microfibers pose to Earth’s biggest bodies of water.
