by Kristin Torres | Jan 15, 2017
When I got the email that I had been chosen for Next Generation Radio, I was so excited that I ran to tell the first person I could find—a very confused administrative assistant in my office at the University of Missouri. But then, panic. I hadn’t touched a... 
by Kristin Torres | Jan 13, 2017
“It starts at the home,” said officer Sean Connolly, addressing residents at the Maryvale Community Center for the first Coffee with a Cop meeting of the year. Connolly, the neighborhood’s outgoing police commander, urged attendants to speak with... by Kristin Torres | Jan 13, 2017
“That’s why I started the block watch–because I had big problems,” says Rosa Pastrana, founder and captain of the Osborn Block Watch. After her truck was stolen three times, she decided to take a more active role in keeping her neighborhood safe. Last year, a... 
by Kristin Torres | Jan 11, 2017
Today was a lesson in flexibility. My mentor and I left at 8 a.m. to get to the Abrazo Maryvale Campus, a hospital, and the site of the quarterly Coffee with a Cop event where I would be interviewing Rosa Pastrana, the subject of my story. I had the details of the...
