McPherson

LAST WEEK McPherson Editor Jack Grone was a guest of McGraw Milhaven on radio station KTRS. The discussion focused on McPherson’s recent story on the modest decline in violent crime in St. Louis County in 2021, following an extremely violent 2020. You can listen here. –McP–

WHAT’S GOING ON WITH CRIME? Is it up or down? And what about violent crime — not just murders, but things like robberies and assaults? Questions like these are getting asked a lot these days. In St. Louis County, the most populous county in the region, violent crime fell modestly in 2021 from a spike […]

Technology jobs, the Cortex innovation district, growth in the St. Louis area: These were among the topics McPherson Editor Jack Grone discussed on Friday during an appearance on the McGraw Show on the Big 550 KTRS. The interview took place two days after McPherson’s story on why the Brookings Institution calls the St. Louis metro […]

THE ST. LOUIS METRO AREA comes out looking pretty good in a new report from the Brookings Institution, which calls attention to St. Louis and other “rising stars” that have done a solid job in recent years of adding jobs in fast-growing technology sectors. Employment data from 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]

ON AUG. 17 McPherson Editor Jack Grone was a guest on The McGraw Show, hosted by McGraw Milhaven on radio station KTRS. The conversation covered McPherson’s recent story about ArchCity Defenders and a companion story about the organization’s relationship with St. Louis media outlets. It also touched on the Deaconess Foundation, the “Close the Workhouse” campaign, St. […]

WHEN TISHAURA JONES WAS ELECTED IN APRIL as the first African-American woman to be mayor of the city of St. Louis, progressive activists and the organizations they work with erupted in delight. The morning after Jones’s historic win, ArchCity Defenders, a St. Louis nonprofit that built its reputation as a holistic legal advocacy organization for […]

ARCHCITY DEFENDERS HAS WORKED HARD since its founding in 2009 to cultivate relationships with St. Louis-area journalists. Media advocacy is now a core part of ArchCity’s work. The organization’s most recent annual report boasts that “in the past year, [ArchCity] placed 151 stories locally in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the St. Louis American, St. Louis […]

ON JUNE 30 McPherson Editor Jack Grone was a guest on The McGraw Show, hosted by McGraw Milhaven on radio station KTRS. The conversation addressed the rise in crime in St. Louis County in recent years, including the county’s record-setting murder rate, factors driving the increase, and the difficulties in recruiting new police officers. You […]

IT STARTED AS A DISPUTE over grass clippings. According to local news reports 29-year-old Allen Waller, who lived in the Glasgow Village area of north St. Louis County, got into an argument on June 6 with the men who cut his neighbor’s lawn, over debris they allegedly kept leaving behind. The dispute quickly escalated. Guns […]

HOUSING COSTS IN ST. LOUIS CITY are generally affordable, according to a February poll of likely voters. About 79% of respondents in the poll said their housing costs are either “somewhat” or “very” affordable, compared to only 9% who said their housing costs are not affordable at all. Forty-three percent said their housing costs have […]

FOR GREATER ST. LOUIS INC., the new business-civic organization that officially came into being on Jan. 1, it’s crunch time. On Wednesday GSTL unveiled its updated STL 2030 Jobs Plan, the centerpiece of an ambitious effort to generate high-quality jobs, put the region at the forefront of new technologies, and drive faster and more inclusive […]