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Nov 17, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Kathy Kiely
The biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his prosperity, his home, his health, and his children. Eventually, an agonized Job curses his own existence as well as the god that created him. Issues of evil, justice, and divine wisdom are explored, and while the Book of Job surrenders divine wisdom to God, it recognizes that the work to be done here on Earth is our own.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Kathy Kiely
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Yasmeen Saadi |Josh Stotler |Anna Colletto |Kathy Kiely
Glenn Cobbins Sr. was born in a rural Missouri community, just like brothers Justin and Jon Angell. Today, the three men live just a half-hour drive apart, but sometimes it feels like a thousand-mile distance. Cobbins moved to Columbia as a boy; he's a longtime community activist who'd like to see more government help for the people he serves. The Angell brothers are the sixth generation of their family to live in Centralia.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Truth Leem |Ezra Bitterman |Kathy Kiely |Fred Anklam
Kamala Harris won't be campaigning in Missouri in the final stages of her too-close-to-call presidential campaign against Donald Trump. But if the Show-Me State is ever going to regain the bellwether status it once had in presidential races, it may be because of candidates like Adrian Plank.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Kathy Kiely
On Halloween night, when the two leading contenders for the U.S. Senate seat on this year's Missouri ballot hold their second and final debate, moderators have an opportunity to conduct a radical thought experiment. The hosts of the Nexstar televised event could ask Sen.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
missouriindependent.com | Kathy Kiely
by Kathy Kiely, Missouri Independent October 24, 2024 On Halloween night, when the two leading contenders for the U.S. Senate seat on this year’s Missouri ballot hold their second and final debate, moderators have an opportunity to conduct a radical thought experiment. The hosts of the Nexstar televised event could ask U.S. Sen.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Ezra Bitterman |Kathy Kiely |Anna Colletto
By Ezra Bitterman,Kathy Kiely,Anna Colletto The Missouri Democratic Party is getting a national boost in its uphill battles to win statewide elections, break the Republican legislative supermajority and enshrine abortion rights in Missouri's constitution. The Democratic National Committee announced today that it will be giving the Missouri Democratic Party almost $100,000 to boost local organizing for its candidates and the abortion referendum.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
kbia.org | Kathy Kiely
History, politics, protest, conflict, and journalism. This is a part of our state's political history. And for a week this summer it was a group of southern Missouri elementary students who were holding the microphones and cameras to experience living history, and testing their First Amendment rights at the Stars and Stripes Museum and Library’s second annual Journalism Camp.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Katie Taranto |Kathy Kiely
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein spoke to supporters in Columbia on Sunday after she and two campaign managers were arrested while protesting the war in Gaza at Washington University in St. Louis the day before. Stein addressed about 30 people at the Roger B. Wilson Boone County Government Center as she campaigns to get on the ballot in Missouri and several other Midwest states.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Katie Taranto |Kathy Kiely |Fred Anklam
By Katie Taranto,Kathy Kiely,Fred Anklam Some Boone County Republicans - as well as some state and party officials - are voicing concerns about the party's March 2 presidential caucus, the first of its kind in Missouri since 2012. Voters face a confusing landscape as the state's major political parties are being forced to find new ways of nominating presidential candidates after the legislature voted in 2022 to eliminate funding for a presidential preference primary.
