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Christy Ferguson started the Mensi Project in 2018 at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville to donate unneeded menstrual products to someone who could use them. Now the university is funding the effort.

Jacob Kirn of the St. Louis Business Journal discusses his reporting on the Dome, which faces big maintenance needs even as it's set to soon lose funding for them. Locals' lawsuit against the NFL could change the equation.

Twenty years later, the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the response to the attack still define America in many ways — and continue to shape the world far beyond U.S. borders. St. Louisans share their reflections in this episode.

Soul-jazz pianist Dave Grelle takes the stage this weekend at the inaugural Music at the Intersection festival with his band Playadors and Funky Butt Brass Band.

Carol Diaz-Granados, along with her husband James Duncan, have devoted years of time and anthropological research to Picture Cave, and are appalled by the prospect of its auction. They would like to see the property in the care of the Osage Nation. In this episode, we hear from the couple as well as Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers.

Post-Dispatch columnist Benjamin Hochman discusses the Cardinals' triumph in the 2011 World Series in this encore epsiode. Listeners also share their stories about Game 6, Hochman's pick for the greatest game in World Series history.

Edison Agrosciences is the St. Louis based agricultural biotechnology company working to develop alternative rubber crops. In this encore episode, here why it believes sunflowers can become a source of homegrown rubber.

Author and punk musician G'Ra Asim discusses his new book in this encore episode, and how he feels about moving back to St. Louis, the city he left as a 10-year-old.

Hampton, a formerly four-lane thoroughfare, now limits traffic to one lane in each direction, with the addition of a center turning lane plus wider parking lanes on the sides. The city has plans for a somewhat similar transformation along Lindell Boulevard by Forest Park.

Rising star Washington University neuroscientist Rebecca Schwarzlose discusses her new book "Brainscapes," and what scientists have learned about the maps in our brains

Listen to reporter Jonathan Ahl and feral hog trapper Kevin Crider discuss Missouri's success in culling the feral hogs wreaking havoc in rural areas. bit.ly/2YqmEtp

St. Louis Public Radio will soon have a veteran public radio journalist and station leader as its new CEO. Tina Pamintuan joins STLPR on December 1.

This show is celebrating its silver anniversary. We listen back to the beginning of the very first episode in 1996, hear staff reflections and some favorite excerpts.

Sri Chellappa, co-founder and president of Engagedly, discusses the company's meteoric growth, move from a downtown incubator to Maplewood and the St. Louis area's startup scene, as well as his own new role as the owner of a recording studio

Acclaimed musician Kishi Bashi previews his multimedia performance of "Improvisations on EO9066" by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. It explores Japanese internment during WWII.

Local historian Mark Sundlov discusses the "Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II" exhibit at Soldiers Memorial Military Museum.

Two years ago, Hogan Haake of Webster Groves decided to embark with his son on a quest: to unicycle in all 48 continental states before the teen graduated high school.

Jessica Bueler details what led her to found <a href="https://welcomeneighborstl.org/">Welcome Neighbor STL</a> in 2016, and how it continues to help. Syrian refugee Mawda Altayan joins the conversation.

St. Louis has long thought of itself as a Black and white city. Now U.S. Census Bureau numbers show the region’s composition changing, with increases in Asian, Latino and multiracial residents.

More than 300 artifacts and artworks comprise the current exhibition at the Mercantile, which is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River.

Sharon Smith of the Missouri Historical Society joins us to discuss the bridge’s history. We also hear from Great Rivers Greenway about some big plans for the site going forward.

Liberty Vittert, a professor at Washington University who serves on the North American arm of the UN Refugee Agency, discusses its work in Kabul and how you can best help Afghan refugees

The Field House Museum boasts a wide collection of quilts on display, ranging from 19th-century creations to more modern quilts. Now one final quilt completes the collection: the MO Bicentennial Quilt. He hear about how its pieces came together.

This weekend’s event is the fourth iteration of the natural hair and beauty celebration that St. Louisan Leslie Hughes first launched in 2017.

On the first day of the semester, as Maria Ellis waits to meet her students and kick off a brand-new arts and activism focus at the recently saved school, Chuck Berry tunes played quietly through a speaker. St. Louis stops by to document the anticipated rehearsal.

Marian O'Shea Wernicke's novel "Toward That Which Is Beautiful" draws on her time as a nun in Peru. She explains why she entered the convent as a St. Louis teen and why she left 11 years later

Jennings Superintendent Paula Knight shares how educators are rethinking back-to-school this year. Like others across the region, the district plans to proceed with in-person classes Monday through Friday, even with the threat of the Delta variant.

The Missouri History Museum's new exhibit was designed like an album, with both the greatest hits of St. Louis music and some deep cuts from more obscure favorites. The museum's Andrew Wanko discusses the region's impact on popular music

Attorneys Jennifer Joyce, Connie McFarland-Butler and Nicole Gorovsky dig into legal matters in the news, including the AG's suit against school mask mandates, problems at the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office and a high-profile case of attorney discipline

Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration gave full approval of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. And while that doesn’t directly affect the legality of vaccine mandates in the workplace, it may make it easier for employers to institute one.

ZZ escaped Kabul just 10 hours before the Afghan government fell. She's happy to be in St. Louis but is worried about her family that's still there.

ZZ escaped Kabul just 10 hours before the Afghan government fell. She's happy to be in St. Louis but is worried about her family that's still there.

The organization's president and CEO, Arrey Obenson, joined the show. The St. Louis community could welcome upwards of 1,000 Afghans to the area.

Dr. Debbye Turner Bell — the first and only Miss Missouri to be crowned Miss America — shares details from her new memoir, "Courageous Faith: A Lifelong Pursuit of Faith Over Fear."

There are about 138,000 outstanding bench warrants in St. Louis. Judge Newton McCoy discusses how the court is helping people clear their warrants — and get vaccinated at the same time.

Chef Freddie Bitsoie is partnering with St. Louis restaurant Bulrush on two meals celebrating the cuisine of the Hopewell tradition, which flourished in the Midwest before Europeans colonized the continent. He discusses the cuisine with Bulrush chef/owner Rob Connoley.

Javier Mendoza, who goes by Hobo Cane as a solo artist these days, will rejoin original members of his band in St. Louis this Saturday in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the album.

Photo Flood St. Louis formed nine years ago, organizing local photographers to "flood" St. Louis' 79 neighborhoods and document each one. Founder Jason Gray discusses the group's journey -- and what it was like shooting the 79th neighborhood at long last

The Modern Widows Club has grown to 37 chapters across the U.S., with more than 1,000 members who lost a partner far too young. Hear about how the local chapter is helping its newest members.

Washington University biologist Aryeh Miller explains how he analyzed data from 2,600 lizard species to find if lizards with toepads had an evolutionary advantage for life in the trees relative to their padless counterparts.

Terrell Carter, the new executive director of the nonprofit Rise Community Development, talks about his vision for the local community development organization.

Overall jail admissions in St. Louis County declined over the last decade. Yet the number of people in the jail at any given time remained stubbornly high, according to a new report produced by criminologists at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Many pregnant women have not gotten vaccinated against COVID-19. As the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic hits the St. Louis region, many of them are ending up in the ICU.

A total of 22 independent productions comprise this year’s series of events. The hybrid festival wraps up Sunday, with some of the virtual offerings to be available on demand soon afterward.

Enfolding visitors in a wide-ranging, walk-through reimagination of the artist's work and mind, the audiovisual spectacle has proved to be a wildly popular one in all sorts of cities. This fall it's headed to St. Louis.

Collinsville High School grad Michelle Bartsch-Hackley helped the U.S. women's indoor volleyball team win its first ever gold medal. She describes what it was like and her path to the Olympics.

Michael "Bare Hands" Beran is the star of a new reality TV pilot airing on Animal Planet and Discovery+. He discusses his journey to the screen and wildlife work along with local producer Michael D. Francis

SSM Health respiratory therapist Sherri Pipkens says that in previous coronavirus waves, most of her patients were elderly, overweight or had pre-existing conditions. Now, she’s treating patients of all demographics.

Since forming the indie-rock band in 2013, it's become their longest running gig yet.

St. Louis County Councilwoman Lisa Clancy discusses her failed attempt to reinstall a county-wide mask mandate and the criticism she's taken for caring for her two-month-old baby during council meetings.