Abbie Fentress Swanson

Abbie Fentress Swanson is Harvest Public Media's reporter based at KBIA in Columbia, Mo.

Follow her on Twitter @dearabbie.

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Farm Bill and Drought Mean Campaigns Woo Heartland Hard

Monday, August 20, 2012

Political scientists and agricultural economist say this is the most attention they’ve seen farmers get in decades.

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Home from War, Reservists Struggle to Find Support

Friday, July 13, 2012

Forty percent of the service members fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are members of the National Guard and the Reserves. Deploying these weekend warriors abroad -- and sometimes in c...

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Mapping out New York City's Best Underground Music

Monday, June 25, 2012

Back in May, WNYC asked listeners to help us map out the city's best underground music by snapping shots and sending in video clips of favorite subway performances. And you deli...

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Watch | 5 Films about TV Nightly News Before 'The Newsroom' Premiere

Thursday, June 21, 2012

With the debut of "The Newsroom" just a few days away on HBO, WNYC decided to pull together a list of five other films set in and around TV newsrooms. Watch trailers here.

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'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit' Mapped: Walking the Beat with Benson and Stabler

Monday, June 18, 2012

NBC's fall season will offer the Olympic games, the return of "Sunday Night Football" and new episodes of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit." Check out WNYC's "SVU" map to see wher...

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New Arts Space to Open in Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Thursday, June 14, 2012

The Brooklyn Academy of Music unveiled its new performing arts space on Thursday. The 40,000 square-foot Richard B. Fisher Building, or BAM Fisher, sits in the footprint of the old ...

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Watch | A Celebration of Bloomsday

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Symphony Space is among the many places in the city that marks Bloomsday with a reading from Ulysses. Beginning at 7 P.M. Saturday, watch the live performance of this year's happening...

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Map | Where to Find the 'Girls' in NYC

Monday, June 11, 2012

The new HBO series "Girls" follows four women in their early 20s who are living in New York City -- Hannah, Marnie, Jessa, Shoshanna -- along with their friend, Adam. The crew hangs...

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Musical 'Once' Sweeps Tony Awards

Sunday, June 10, 2012

The Broadway musical "Once" won eight Tony Awards on Sunday night, including for best musical and best direction of a musical. The play "Peter and the Starcatcher" won five Tonys. Oth...

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From Balloon Dogs to Paper Puppets, Jeff Koons Teaches Art to City Kids

Monday, June 04, 2012

Jeff Koons visited P.S. 112 Jose Celson Barbosa to teach the 16 second graders how to make moveable animal puppets using paper and fasteners. His visit kicked off Visual Arts Apprec...

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‘Mad Men’ Mapped: A Guide to NYC Locales Frequented by Our Favorite Characters

Monday, June 04, 2012

Where your favorite characters go to drink or cry or cry over drinks. 

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First Cultural Non-Profit to Move to Lower Manhattan Post-9/11 Signs New Lease

Friday, June 01, 2012

Community members and elected officials gathered at the company's theater on Friday to hear the terms of the new agreement -- which lowers DNA's monthly rent and rental debt.

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25 Musical Acts Win Spots to Play Underground

Thursday, May 31, 2012

A Latin-ska-reggae fusion band, a female mariachi group and a wind quintet were among the 25 new musical acts selected to be part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Music Under New York program.

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City School Students Practice Tap Moves for Bojangles Tribute Show

Thursday, May 24, 2012

About 100 elementary school kids will dance their way into the hearts of audience members when they honor tap legend Bill Bojangles Robinson with a performance Friday on what woul...

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Rushdie Talk on Censorship Wraps Up PEN Festival

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The 2012 PEN World Voices Festival ended with a talk about censorship at the Cooper Union by novelist Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses). Listen to and download ...

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Balanchine, Sufjan Stevens and Wheeldon Highlights of Upcoming City Ballet Season

Monday, May 21, 2012

New York City Ballet announced its 2012-'13 season — which features 150 performances of 65 ballets and musical scores by 44 composers — on Monday.

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Map | Discovering the City's Best Underground Music

Monday, May 21, 2012

Help us discover the city's best underground music by snapping a shot or sending us a video clip of your favorite subway performance.

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Historian David McCullough, Composer Steve Reich to be Honored at Awards Luncheon

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Writer and historian David McCullough and contemporary music composer Steve Reich will receive the academy's most significant prizes — gold medals for distinguished achievements in b...

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Library Presidents Urge City Council to Restore Funds

Monday, May 14, 2012

The New York City Council met Monday morning to discuss Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed $100 million in budget cuts to the city's three library systems. Presidents from the libra...

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Discovering the City’s Best Undergound Music

Saturday, May 12, 2012

On Wednesday, musicians will play their best songs in front of a panel of judges in Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall in the hopes of being selected to be part of the MTA's M...

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