The state has spent $50 million in order to persuade Ventria Bio Science to relocate to Missouri. The company was supposed to help kick-start Northwest Missouri State’s life sciences program with its plant-made pharmaceuticals, but brewery giant Anheuser-Busch wont nothing of the sort. The first of my three-piece story on RxRice ran this morning in [...]

Friday, Oct 22 2004, 09:10:10 AM Cat Welch, news director at KBIA, the local NPR station, offered me an opportunity to work for them. She now has me hooked on radio. It is like writing for the paper, but shorter and more concise. In my first story, I am reporting on the two candidates for [...]