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Mark Horvit

  • Director, State Government Reporting Program, University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia
As seen in: EIN News, Columbia Missourian, Global Investigative Journalism Network, News-Press Now, KPVI-TV (Pocatello, ID), Reynolds Journalism Institute, Cherokee Tribune Ledger-News, Branson Tri-Lakes News, Sedalia Democrat, Houston Herald and
Director of the State Government Reporting Program and Associated Professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism; board member, @nfoic, @imidwest

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Living between worlds: Jewish teen navigates a unique path in mid-Missouri

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By Coby Spratte, Mark Horvit, Emma Lehman
| Columbia Missourian Verified
On Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m., Akiva Trachtenberg walks into Congregation Beth Shalom and takes his place at the front of a classroom of third graders. There are usually four of them, sometimes six. He teaches them Hebrew — a 22-letter alphabet with characters unlike anything they’ve seen in their Columbia public school classrooms. He is 17 years old. “I’m not doing it for the money,” Akiva said. “Like that doesn’t matter to me.
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Bucking a trend: 12-year-old envisions his future on family ranch

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By Annie Goldman, Mark Horvit, Molly Fox
| Columbia Missourian Verified
Ely Buso is only 12 years old, but he knows what his legacy will be. Ely Buso, 12, moves cattle between pastures on June 24 at his home in Holden. Ely regularly helps on the ranch, taking on tasks such as moving and working cattle, taking care of cattle and horses, tagging cattle and mowing the lawn. A photo tacked on the wall of his bedroom shows a much younger Ely, barely old enough to walk, sitting atop a horse. When he was 6, his father bought a cattle ranch.
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Bucking a trend: 12 year old envisions his future on family ranch

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By Annie Goldman, Mark Horvit, Molly Fox
| Columbia Missourian Verified
Ely Buso is only 12 years old, but he knows what his legacy will be. Ely Buso, 12, moves cattle between pastures on June 24 at his home in Holden. Ely regularly helps on the ranch, taking on tasks such as moving and working cattle, taking care of cattle and horses, tagging cattle and mowing the lawn. A photo tacked on the wall of his bedroom shows a much younger Ely, barely old enough to walk, sitting atop a horse. When he was 6, his father bought a cattle ranch.
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