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MIZZOU SURVEY: Aims to teach

MIZZOU SURVEY: Aims to teach "news literacy" to teens

Keeping kids from becoming low information voters

COLUMBIA, 5/20/13 (Beat Byte) -- To help teens avoid becoming so-called "low information voters," Mizzou researchers have developed a test to measure "news literacy" they hope will teach critical thinking skills about news media.

“News literacy is seen as an important component of democracy,” said project director Stephanie Craft , an associate professor in the University of Missouri School of Journalism.  “It is not just that I follow the news, but that I know enough about how the news was produced so that I can make good decisions through how I vote or what I buy ."

Today's news gathering organizations bear little resemblance to the Walter Cronkite-Edward R. Murrow media of decades past.  Partisanship drives reporting on all sides of the political ...

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BLIND BOONE RENOVATION: City Council, staff work to fulfill unanimous campaign promise

BLIND BOONE RENOVATION: City Council, staff work to fulfill unanimous campaign promise

Ordinance appropriates more modest funding; "necessary for the welfare and improvement of the city."
 
COLUMBIA, 5/17/13 (Beat Byte) -- A promise that dominated the April Columbia City Council elections may be on its way to fulfillment.  A bill before the Columbia City Council appropriates $326,855.00 to finish renovating the interior and exterior of the Blind Boone Home .

"It is in the public interest to construct improvements to the interior and exterior of the JW Blind Boone Home," declares Council bill B148-13 , which will be read for a first time at Monday night's Council meeting.  "It is necessary for the welfare and improvement of the city."

To a person, Council candidates promised to fix the Boone Home at a Columbia Muleskinners forum after attendee Khesha Duncan held their feet to the figurative ...

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STAFF SNEAK? Public hearing notice leaves out eminent domain threat

STAFF SNEAK? Public hearing notice leaves out eminent domain threat

But description complete in all other ways

COLUMBIA, 5/16/13 (Beat Byte) -- An eminent domain threat that has loomed large in the debate about how to widen Providence Road has been left out of a public hearing notice that provides otherwise complete details about three road-improvement options.

The notice also lists the options out of numerical order, with the most controversial first , the previously rescinded Option IX. The moves remind of other subtle -- and not-so-subtle -- senior city administrator attempts to manipulate the hearing process .

Against opposition from Columbia public works director John Glascock and a group of Grasslands residents, Columbia City Council members on April 15 rescinded Option IX -- a two-phase, nearly $7 million road-widening project that includes demolition of eight his...

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UNFRIENDLY FIRE: A CoMo area Army Vet remembers a mass murder in Iraq, Part 4

UNFRIENDLY FIRE: A CoMo area Army Vet remembers a mass murder in Iraq, Part 4

Michael Yates and son Kamren

U.S. Army Sgt. John Russell was found guilty of 5 counts of premeditated murder this week, with powerful testimony from the subject of this story, Dr. Michael C. Jones.    Part 4 of six

By Mike Martin

T hough Jones resists comparisons to a detective, psychological care involves detection from the client’s first words.   “We try to ascertain clues in their demeanor,” Jones explains.    “We look at past reports if they are available.   We try to get a sense of what kind of risk the soldier might pose, to himself, herself, or anyone else.”  

Why are you here?   the psychiatrist asks.    What is the presenting problem?    What can I—what can we—do to help?

Almost weekly, Camp Liberty’s combat stress unit faced a volatile situation, Jones says.   Somebody overdosed.    Someone else threatene...

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CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS? Landlords sign away tenants' rights under city rental laws

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS? Landlords sign away tenants' rights under city rental laws

Renters have no say when or how their homes are se...
SMART LIFE SAVER: Mizzou app may save farmers from tractor rollover deaths

SMART LIFE SAVER: Mizzou app may save farmers from tractor rollover deaths

Rushing emergency responders to desolate locations...
TREE CONTROVERSY: Forest destruction, permit violations anger Councilman, prompt repeal request

TREE CONTROVERSY: Forest destruction, permit violations anger Councilman, prompt repeal request

"This project has caused considerable conflict."

CO...
UNFRIENDLY FIRE: A CoMo area Army Vet remembers a mass murder in Iraq, Part 3

UNFRIENDLY FIRE: A CoMo area Army Vet remembers a mass murder in Iraq, Part 3

A wartime psychiatrist  and longtime CoMo resident...

THE VIRTUAL COLLEGE EDUCATION: CoMo textbook supplier takes big leap in digital publishing

THE VIRTUAL COLLEGE EDUCATION: CoMo textbook supplier takes big leap in digital publishing

How soon will an online degree be S.O.P.?

COLUMBIA,...

"KEWPIE EXPRESS": Fills important gap in teen transport

To Hickman High -- and beyond!

COLUMBIA, 5/8/13 (Be...
UNCONSTITUTIONAL? Unusual coalition building to challenge CoMo rental and occupancy laws

UNCONSTITUTIONAL? Unusual coalition building to challenge CoMo rental and occupancy laws

Fourth Amendment prohibits search without probable...
TIGER HOTEL PARKING: Beautification efforts top City Council agenda

TIGER HOTEL PARKING: Beautification efforts top City Council agenda

Troubled hotel owners asking for more City Hall he...
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