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From The Newsroom: Small Business Success; Meeting 'Cutie And The Boxer'

Jerome Weeks
The completed painting by Ushio Shinohara.

The top local stories this morning from the KERA Newsroom: Yolanda Cuevas grew up picking cotton in Central Texas, but these days, she runs a successful small business in Fort Worth. Her business was recently awarded a $150,ooo grant from Chase Bank. Also, the subjects of the Oscar-nominated documentary Cutie and the Boxer are in town for a show in Deep Ellum.

You can listen to the segment weekdays at 8:20 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on 90.1 FM.

Former KERA staffer Krystina Martinez was an assistant producer. She produced local content for Morning Edition and KERANews.org. She also produced The Friday Conversation, a weekly series of conversations with North Texas newsmakers. Krystina was also the backup newscaster for the Texas Standard.