For 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, the St. Louis Crisis Nursery welcomes children in need of care due to factors like homelessness, illness or extreme parental stress. Its clinical worker explains how it assists those families -- and how the pandemic affected its work.
Richard Kieninger founded the burg of Stelle, Illinois on the belief that Armageddon would occur in the year 2000. A version of this story appeared in the Riverfront Times and FOCUS/Midwest. C.D. Stelzer It has been nearly 10 years since the Battle of Armageddon was supposed to have occurred, according to the predictions of the […]
Scott Air Force Base swore in roughly 20 members of the new U.S. Space Force in February. The former Airmen are now called Guardians. They will remain at Scott for another 12-to-18 months before they transfer to an official Space Force installation.
First hired by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1980, Martin has been drawing the beloved Weatherbird character for 35 years now. He’s the sixth artist to carry on the legacy since the cartoon first appeared in the February 11, 1901, edition of the newspaper.
On April 6, Knapper earned support from 58% of voters. The federal administrative law judge and school board member, who defeated incumbent Mayor Barry Greenberg, joins host Sarah Fenske to discuss her campaign and her hopes for her community's future.
When the Greater St. Louis Citizens’ Committee for Nuclear Information touted its $10,000 grant from the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the public didn’t know the foundation was a CIA front. first published at firstsecretcity.com The announcement came at the second-annual meeting of the Greater St. Louis Citizens’ Committee for Nuclear Safety at the Heman Park Community […]
Much of the green energy focus on transportation is on cars and trucks. But barge traffic along inland waterways is critical to shipping crops. More focus on climate change could lead to improvements in the industry or leave it behind.
More than two decades ago, an ATF study of guns confiscated from criminals in St. Louis showed that the merchants of death were often federally licensed firearms dealers from white suburbs. There is no reason to believe that correlation has changed. A version of this story appeared in the Riverfront Times, March 31, 1999. [In […]
Up for a road trip? In this encore episode, we listen back to our conversation about a self-guided tour promoted by the visitor's bureau in Quincy that highlights 30 of the city’s trove of mid-century modern designs.
In this encore episode, we listen back to a conversation with local author NiNi Harris, where she drills down on which places can claim to be the oldest in St. Louis.
The day two off-duty cops protecting NRA President Charleston Heston assaulted me. A version of this story appeared in the Riverfront Times, March 31, 1999. It all started with an 11-year-old girl in a red jumpsuit. She sang a patriotic anthem, karaoke-style, her blond locks bobbing, sequins sparkling and go-go boots shuffling. After the tiny […]
Latinos are far less likely to receive the COVID vaccine. A reluctance to get the shot grounded in language, culture, and other factors piles onto the health care inequities that many Latinos already face. That could leave many meatpacking communities at risk.
State Rep, Dan Shaul, R-Imperial, talks extensively about election administration and redistricting policy with St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum.
After decades on the lam, a student anti-war protestor is busted. A version of this story first appeared in the Riverfront Times, Feb. 16, 2000. Howard Mechanic was granted a pardon in January 2001 by out-going President Bill Clinton. Penny Overton, a young reporter for the Scottsdale (Ariz.) Tribune, found it difficult to believe when […]
As a frontline worker, Dr. Tiffany Osborn lived in an RV for the past year to protect her family from the coronavirus. She's fully back home now, and joins the talk show to share other reflections she’s had throughout the year — and the fate of the RV trailer.
Sports writer Joan Niesen goes deep on baseball’s steroid era in her new podcast, Crushed.” She explains how she fell in love with baseball as a 10-year-old in St. Louis, and how subsequent revelations affected her fandom
After helping James Earl Ray escape prison in 1967, his brother says they reached out to the St. Louis underworld. A version of this story appeared in Illinois Times, April 2, 2008. The last time John Larry Ray visited New York City was in 1965. He was between jobs, collecting unemployment benefits. While there, he […]
St. Louis County is slated to receive about $190 million in federal coronavirus relief funding from the most recent stimulus package. Officials are still figuring how to spend the money. And with a majority of the council opposed to County Executive Sam Page, there could be a fight.
Less than 48 hours since her victory in Tuesday’s big race and with only 12 days until she’ll be sworn into office, St. Louis Mayor-elect Tishaura Jones said on Thursday's show that she’s ready to move fast on a number of fronts — including how to address the critical issues currently facing the City Justice Center.
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