Peggy Lowe
Peggy Lowe joined Harvest Public Media in 2011, returning to the Midwest after 22 years as a journalist in Denver and Southern California. Most recently she was at The Orange County Register, where she was a multimedia producer and writer. In Denver she worked for The Associated Press, The Denver Post and the late, great Rocky Mountain News. She was on the Denver Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of Columbine. Peggy was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2008-09. She is from O'Neill, the Irish Capital of Nebraska, and now lives in Kansas City. Based at KCUR, Peggy is the analyst for The Harvest Network and often reports for Harvest Public Media.
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Parents of kids who are in the Kansas foster care system described it Saturday as chaotic, deceptive and traumatizing to children. About two dozen...
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From cries of heartbreak to a call for the prosecution of men who pay for sex with girls, Kansas lawmakers said the story of Hope Zeferjohn, a teen...
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Kansas Foster Care Instability Led To Surge In Runaways, Left Children Vulnerable To Sex TraffickersAt first, they wanted to save her. Then, after she fled the Kansas foster care system at age 16 and fell victim to the commercial sex trade, social...
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Hope Joy Zeferjohn was missing from the Kansas Capitol on the day her family was posing for pictures with the governor. It was May 22, 2015, and then...
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A detainee at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Chase County, Kansas, has tested positive for mumps, and 22 other...
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A small city in Kansas is determined to prove The Onion wrong. Folks in Emporia, Kansas, weren’t laughing when the satirical paper named it “ best town...
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Come in and sit down at Anita Parsa’s kitchen table. Help yourself to the chocolate chip cookies and she’ll get you an iced tea. Might as well make...
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A massive voter-tracking program run by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach — which purports to help states keep voter rolls accurate — has halted...
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A congressional watchdog agency called on the federal government this week to better protect meatpacking workers, who are often exposed to dangerous…
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For the first time in its annual survey of rural America, the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that mortality rates of working-age adults are on the…