90-Mile View

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.

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90-Mile View
5:23 pm
Fri June 14, 2013

90-Mile View: Saundra Hayes

Credit Danie Alexander / KCUR
The Bancroft Elementary School currently undergoing remodeling with the help of the Make It Right foundation.

Saundra Hayes lives in Manheim Park and she, along with her neighbors, is working hard to revitalize her neighborhood.

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90-Mile View
1:51 pm
Thu June 6, 2013

90-Mile View: Eric Neill

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.

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Up To Date
2:16 pm
Fri May 31, 2013

90-Mile View: James White

Credit Missouri Press Association
James Mahlon White, Publisher of The Benton County Enterprise

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.

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90-Mile View
11:11 am
Fri May 24, 2013

90-Mile View: Eric Peterson

Trains have been making news lately, both good and bad.  Amtrak engineer Eric Peterson can relate.

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Up To Date
6:00 pm
Wed May 15, 2013

90-Mile View: Dr. Gary Yarbrough

Credit Courtest of Gary Yarbrough
Gary Yarbrough, M.D.

Dr. Gary Yarbrough has practiced family medicine in small towns for 30 years.  In that time he's met some memorable people.

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90-Mile View
10:20 am
Wed May 8, 2013

90 Mile View: Saundra Hayes

When Saundra Hayes returned to her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, it wasn’t to become a neighborhood advocate.

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90-Mile View
12:41 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

90-Mile View: Nicole Wright

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.

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90-Mile View
3:04 am
Fri April 12, 2013

90-Mile View: Eric Peterson

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Eric Peterson

How many of us followed a childhood dream into the job of our dreams?  Eric Peterson did.

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90-Mile View
6:00 pm
Tue March 26, 2013

90-Mile View: Rick Behrens

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.

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90-Mile View
6:00 pm
Tue March 5, 2013

90-Mile View: Sarah Kessinger

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.

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90-Mile View
10:05 am
Wed February 20, 2013

90-Mile View: Patricia Porsche

Credit Danie Alexander / KCUR-FM

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.

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90-Mile View
1:01 pm
Tue February 12, 2013

90-Mile View: Nicole Wright

Credit Danie Alexander / KCUR-FM

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.

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90-Mile View
9:44 am
Wed February 6, 2013

90-Mile View: Patricia Porsche

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.

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90-MIle View
6:00 am
Fri February 1, 2013

90-Mile View: Eric Neill

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.

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90-Mile View
6:00 am
Wed January 23, 2013

90-Mile View: Howard Blender

Cattle grazing in the Flint Hills

There are few images of the West as iconic as cattle and few people as optimistic as a cattle rancher.  Just ask Howard Blender.

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