Theo Keith
Theo Keith
Theo Keith, a junior broadcast journalism and political science double major at the University of Missouri, is from Saginaw, Michigan. He is a lead State Capitol bureau reporter and editor for Newsradio 1120 KMOX in St. Louis.
The 2009 spring legislative session featured his reports on business, economic development and budgets. He has worked as a Web site content editor at KOMU-TV , the Columbia/Jefferson City NBC affiliate, since January 2009. He started as a television reporter at the station in October 2009. Theo is also the news director at KCOU-Columbia 88.1 FM, the University of Missouri's student radio station, a position he's held since May 2009. Theo formerly worked as the station's business director and hosted a political debate show on KCOU.
Theo interned in summer 2009 in New York for "Your World with Neil Cavuto," a business news show on the FOX News Channel . He was a staff reporter for his hometown newspaper, The Saginaw News , during summer 2008.
He plans to work as a business or political news reporter before moving into corporate or government communications. For more, check out Theo's blog .
Stories by Theo Keith in 2009 include:
11/16/2009: Radio Story - The state's unemployment rate dipped in October as 4,000 more Missourians found work.
11/16/2009: Radio Story - A judge has denied Missouri's state auditor the right to audit the state's retirement system for local government workers.
11/ 2/2009: Radio Story - A Group of Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers have turned over nearly 500 illegal immigrants to the federal government since 2007.
10/19/2009: Radio Story - President Obama is telling federal prosecutors not to press criminal charges against medical marijuana users in states that OK the practice.
10/19/2009: Radio Story - At an event to celebrate a renewable energy project near Jefferson City on Monday, Gov. Nixon did little talking about renewable energy.
10/ 5/2009: Newspaper Story - As the H1N1 flu vaccine becomes available in Missouri, it will be distributed through local health departments and health care providers.
10/ 5/2009: Radio Story - Missouri will get nearly 20,000 doses of swine flu vaccine this week, but the state Health Department is telling local governments to figure out distribution themselves.
9/28/2009: Radio Story - The state Transportation Department has given bonuses to more than 1,000 employees, the only state agency to give bonuses at all.
9/14/2009: Radio Story - Missouri's economic development director, Linda Martinez, resigned Monday after a rocky eight months on the job.
9/14/2009: Radio Story - The state auditor says Missouri's House and Senate have used lobbyist money to buy gifts and meals for members.
8/31/2009: Radio Story - The state treasurer's office is making strides in giving unclaimed property back to Missourians, but there's still a long way to go.
5/ 6/2009: Radio Story - House Republicans shot down a bill Wednesday that would put 35,000 Missourians back on Medicare, saying it was welfare.
5/ 6/2009: Radio Story - A House Republican accused Gov. Jay Nixon's office of a major crime: bribing in return for a vote on an important bill that would put thousands of Missourians back on Medicaid.
4/29/2009: Newspaper Story - Without debate, Missouri's House restores $31 million for Columbia's Ellis Fischel Cancer Center
4/29/2009: Radio Story - The Missouri House perfected a bill that restores funding for Columbia's Ellis Fischel Cancer Center.
4/27/2009: Radio Story - Democrats on the House Rules Committee walked out of a vote to decide how to spend more than $1 billion in federal stimulus money.
4/22/2009: Radio Story - The senior most member of the House of Representatives called Gov. Nixon's $100 million jobs training program a mystery.
4/20/2009: Radio Story - The state's budget director told lawmakers that tax revenues may fall more than expected, but the state will pay back the money it borrowed from reserves by the deadline.
4/20/2009: Radio Story - The House Budget Committee stripped $100 million from the job training pushed by the governor to fund projects that would benefit legislative home districts.
4/15/2009: Radio Story - St. Louisans will board less-crowded METRO buses if a $20 million funding plan in front of the House Budget Committee gains lawmakers' approval.
4/ 8/2009: Radio Story - The House Budget Committee approved nearly $100 million in federal stimulus money for state agencies to use in the next three months.
4/ 6/2009: Radio Story - Officials say the state's unemployment insurance fund will be $1 billion short in the coming years, and the House Workforce Committee passed a bill that would lift the borrowing limit.
4/ 6/2009: Radio Story - In response to a federal bill, a measure passed a House committee that forces workers to use secret ballots to form unions.
4/ 1/2009: Radio Story - A quarter of a million Missourians are unemployed, but some aren't giving up hope.
3/30/2009: Radio Story - Arguments, a fire alarm, and dozens of questions sidetracked a bill Monday that would let Missourians decide whether workers can still vote by secret ballot.
3/11/2009: Radio Story - There are more Missourians out of work these days than there have been in the last 25 years, according to a report released Wednesday.
3/ 9/2009: Radio Story - The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to take control of federal highway dollars away from the Transportation Department, against the objections of MoDOT's director.
3/ 4/2009: Radio Story - A bill that would cut businesses' taxes and cost the state an estimated $100 million in the first year came and went during a Senate committee hearing without debate, not even from businesses.
2/25/2009: Radio Story - Employers will no longer be able to discriminate based on someone's sexual orientation if one measure makes it's way to the Governor's desk.
2/23/2009: Radio Story - Missouri employers are on the hook for some of the federal stimulus money Gov. Jay Nixon has accepted.
2/18/2009: Radio Story - There's plenty of excitement surrounding Missouri's cut of federal stimulus money, but few specifics.
2/16/2009: Radio Story - Strings attached to Missouri's $4.4 billion cut of the federal stimulus package led some Republican senators to question the long-term effects of the money.
2/11/2009: Radio Story - As the Senate Agriculture Committee approved a requirement that truckers pump biodiesel into their tanks, other legislators want a measure repealed.
2/ 9/2009: Radio Story - Missouri's treasurer says when times get tough, it's time to get conservative with the state's investments.
2/ 9/2009: Radio Story - Missouri's emergency management chief says life for many southeast Missourians is back to normal, although some remain in the dark.
2/ 4/2009: Radio Story - A Jackson County Republican wants to end the state's ethanol requirement at gas stations three years after its passage.
2/ 2/2009: Radio Story - The state has requested two-hundred 60 million dollars from the federal government to continue payments to unemployed Missourians.
1/28/2009: Radio Story - Governor Jay Nixon sent letters to universities across the state Wednesday terminating a three-hundred million dollar program initiated by the former governor.
