St. Louis on the Air

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush is introducing legislation that would directly fund local governments disproportionately impacted by climate change. The Green New Deal for Cities would authorize $1 trillion in spending over the next four years.

STLPR's Jonathan Ahl explores the political fallout from a mask mandate and other coronavirus-related restrictions in Rolla.

Missouri Independent editor-in-chief Jason Hancock explains what’s happening in the Missouri legislature. The discussion involves the ongoing snafu around unemployment overpayments, Rep. Rick Roeber, Rush Limbaugh and more.

The podcast's creator, Aaron Doerr, has released six episodes just in the past two months, featuring local bands ranging from Middle Class Fashion to Mathias & The Pirates. More conversations and tunes drop every other Tuesday.

Michael Kinch's new book, "“The Price of Health: The Modern Pharmaceutical Enterprise and the Betrayal of a History of Care," digs into the many factors leading to exorbitant drug prices. He discusses what he found, and what it would take to address them.

In 2017, St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson was elected the city’s top executive, making her the first woman to win the job. Four years later, she’s set to retire, marking an end to 24 years in public service.

Chabon, who is this week receiving the 2020 St. Louis Literary Award, discusses his successes, his struggles and how the joy of good sentences continues to sustain him.

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.

Sauce Magazine's Meera Nagarajan highlights six new food and drink establishments in the region.

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.

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.

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

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.

Washington University Sociology Professor Jake Rosenfeld discusses his new book, “You’re Paid What You’re Worth And Other Myths of the Modern Economy,” and the complicated issues surrounding compensation.

St. Louis Public Radio reporter Corinne Ruff discusses a proposal by Missouri House Budget Chair Cody Smith, R-Carthage, to roll back or delay a voter-approved minimum wage increase.

Tishaura Jones' landmark mayoral win ushers in a new era for St. Louis politics.

Since late December, five protests have erupted at the Justice Center in downtown St. Louis. This latest came Sunday night, when a group of detainees broke windows on the third floor and threw objects out of the windows. Inmates could be heard chanting, “We need help” and “We want court dates.”

Last week, as Laurie Bowen watched movers transport her cherished upright piano from the front of her home to the trailer hitched to their truck, she grew a bit emotional. She wiped away some tears. But they were happy ones, especially as she thought about what the instrument would mean for its new owner, 11-year-old piano student Amani Dugger, who lives in St. Louis.

KnowInk founder Scott Leiendecker shares how he developed the Poll Pad and how his voter registration company is becoming one of the fastest-growing companies in the region.

In his book “Hemingway’s St. Louis: How St. Louisans Shaped His Life and Legacy,” Andrew J. Theising argues that many of Ernest Hemingway’s great adventures have roots in St. Louis. He explains how Hemingway's three St. Louis-born wives and their family fortunes helped to launch the novelist.

Federal prosecutors will retry two St. Louis police officers charged with beating an undercover colleague after the jury deadlocked last week. A former federal prosecutor shares his analysis of what went wrong at trial -- and what this means for others making similar claims against St. Louis Police.

In January, shortly after poet Amanda Gorman inspired the nation with her reading at President Joseph Biden’s inauguration, St. Louis' outgoing youth poet laureate, Sarah Abbas, and the city’s next poet laureate, Grace Ruo, shared their hopes for bringing written and spoken words to bear on society.

In this encore episode, we listen back to a conversation with Washington University Sociology Professor David Cunningham, who shares what we can learn about right-wing, white nationalist groups today — and best practices for defeating them — by studying their mobilization during other moments in our nation's history.

Republicans in the Missouri House this week declined to fund the expansion of Medicaid. To their colleagues across the aisle, including state Rep. Peter Merideth, D-St. Louis, the GOP arguments in recent days against funding the change haven’t made much sense. In this conversation, Merideth, the ranking minority member of the House Budget Committee, offers his sense of recent developments and where this battle may be headed next.

This year's reigning Mrs. Missouri is one of just two Black women ever to hold the title, and at 57, the oldest yet. She shares how pageants prepared her for life in the Marines and discusses why the St. Louis Diaper Bank is close to her heart.

Stéphane Denève and Marie-Hélène Bernard of the St. Louis Symphony discuss the effects of the pandemic, returning to Powell Hall and their vision for the future.

For the past four years, CC Ice has been helping Elizabeth Olsen portray the Marvel superhero Wanda Maximoff, assisting the actress with everything from flying to fight scenes as her stunt double. That work culminated in the January 2021 premiere of “WandaVision," which focuses on Wanda’s corner of the Marvel universe. For Ice, who grew up in Barnhart, Missouri, it’s been a thrill watching fans devour a show starring the character she’s spent years developing.

Last week, the St. Louis County Courts began again allowing eviction proceedings under limited circumstances. On April 5, it will allow a much broader array of evictions to resume — with about 600 cases already in the final phases and ready for service.

The debate between Alderwoman Cara Spencer and Treasurer Tishaura Jones, one week before the mayoral election, featured several pointed exchanges on everything from how they would allocate federal COVID-19 relief funds to their plans to improve police accountability.

A federal jury is weighing the case against three St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers charged with beating a colleague as he worked undercover at a protest. The Legal Roundtable analyzes the case against them and other legal matters, too.

As Missouri lawmakers contemplate laws making it harder to vote without a photo ID, 42 other states are considering more than 250 bills that would raise barriers to voting.

Women of color hold just 4% of C-suite jobs in the U.S. Three St. Louis women who’ve defied the odds share stories of the challenges they faced, and how they rose to the top.

St. Louis Public Radio reporter Shahla Farzan discusses her report, in collaboration with American Public Media, about how the city's decision to relocate homeless residents to temporary shelters across the city may have put residents in even greater jeopardy.

What’s it like growing up in a Black and white city when you don’t fit neatly in either category? A Chinese American and Thai American share their perspective on life in St. Louis — and the deadly attacks in Atlanta that have galvanized Asian American communities across the U.S.

"In the City: Memories of Black Presence" opens March 26 at the Griot Museum of Black History and Culture. It showcases the works of St. Louis artists examining the city as part of a fellowship at Harvard University.

We meet the founder of the local nonprofit Grind + Growth and one of the startups getting a boost from her efforts. Valerie Liddell’s goal is to help Black and other rminority entrepreneurs achieve their dreams.

A $3 million, multi-year effort, TRANSforming Community TRANSforming Care is billed as the first program of its kind in Missouri, expanding access to health care regardless of a patient’s ability to pay.

St. Louisan Natasha Bahrami discusses her family’s journey in the restaurant industry, her recent induction into the Gin Hall of Fame and more.

What does your body’s reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine reveal about your immune system? And what’s with reports of a post-vaccine arm rash? In this episode, the director of St. Louis University’s Center for Vaccine Development discusses the latest vaccine news and answers listener questions.

After an active first few months of the 2021 legislative session, lawmakers return to Jefferson City with several priorities on the agenda of the Republican supermajority.

It took Michael Yo months to fully recover from his early and scary case of COVID-19 last year. But now the horizon is looking a lot brighter, and Yo is even traveling to St. Louis for in-person appearances this weekend at the Funny Bone in Maryland Heights. Those will be safe, masked, limited-capacity shows, and they’re expected to sell out.

Carolyn Cox discusses her new nonfiction book, which explores how the FBI was able to end the plague of kidnappings that terrorized St. Louis and the U.S. in the 1930s.

The Sinkhole owner Matt Stuttler and Arch City Audio Visual Services event producer Chris Keith share about how the pandemic impacted their services, and discuss details about their virtual concert series, “I Watched Music On The Internet.”

Though Missouri has been vaccinating seniors for months, nearly half haven't received COVID-19 shots.

The district defender for St. Louis says the way the circuit attorney and judges handle preliminary hearings is a major reason defendants spend months in jail without being convicted of a crime. He explains what needs to change.

In this encore from last October, we talked with director and Belleville native Ken Kwapis. He launched "The Office" and has directed 11 feature films. His recent book is "But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct: Lessons From a Life Behind the Camera."

The entertainer Clownvis is from St. Louis and after cold weather, his shows resume at Yaquis on Cherokee Street this weekend. Here's an encore of our conversation from last October with this zany, talented and thoughtful musician.