A series of conversations with persons in and around the KCUR listening area that gives our listeners a look into lives and viewpoints that may differ from their own. Coming from all walks of life and from every direction, 90-Mile View reveals new colors in our landscape.
Weather plays a major role in agriculture. Just ask dairyman Eric Neill. Last summer it was drought, then record snows this past winter. Now it's rain . . . lots and lots of rain.
James White is the fifth-generation publisher of the Benton County Enterprise, the weekly paper started by his great, great grandfather in 1879 down in Warsaw, Missouri.
Recent events in the Boston area put the spotlight on law enforcement as the nation followed the investigation and manhunt following the explosions at the city's marathon.
Visit Grandview Park Presbyterian Church on any regular Sunday and, unless you know him, you're unlikely to distinguish Rev. Rick Behrens from his congregation.
Newspaper publisher Sarah Kessinger keeps a close eye on the goings-on in her neck of the woods, in and around Marshall County, Kansas so it didn't escape her notice when an area resident made it to national TV.
The last time Patricia Porsche was with us we learned why she became homeless by choice. When we left off Trish had just worked her way back to being employed and out of a women's shelter. Today we hear the rest of her story.
When we first met Officer Nicole Wright last December we learned why this Kansas City, Mo. native chose to serve on the force and in the neighborhood where she grew up. Today Nicole returns to tell us about her first call of a day back in January that turned out to be her last call of the day.
Being raised to be self-sufficient, gaining the rank of Sergeant during six years of military service and maintaining employment as an experienced office worker doesn't add up to homelessness for most of us. Before 2007 Patricia Porsche probably would have agreed with you.
Maybe 2009 wasn't the best year to decide to become a full-time dairy farmer but Eric Neill had waited long enough. Despite the economic downturn and some severe weather, Eric exhibits the optimism for which farmers and ranchers are known.