Segment 1, beginning at 5:01: Governor Parson addresses Missouri residents ahead of what will be a difficult year between the pandemic and the state budget.
Missouri currently ranks last among states in vaccinations per resident. In spite of this and a recent outbreak in the statehouse, Governor Parson delivered the State of the State in person. The legislature currently has no mask mandate for lawmakers at the capitol.
- Aviva Okeson-Haberman, Missouri Politics and Government reporter, KCUR
- Peverill Squire, professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri
Segment 2, beginning at 30:29: For decades, exclusive photos of famed painter Thomas Hart Benton at work in his Kansas City studio sat in a box completely hidden from view of the public until now.
It wasn't until photographer Nick Vedros received them from his uncle that their existence became known. The photographs paint an intimate portrait of the prolific painter who once called Kansas City home.
- Nick Vedros, photographer, Kansas City
- Steve Sitton, director, Thomas Hart Benton Home State Historic Site
