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The Municipal League of Metro St. Louis is in the process of submitting petitions to the election boards of the city and county that would begin the Board of Freeholders process. In this segment, Sarah Fenske talks with political correspondent Jason Rosenbaum and Municipal League executive director Pat Kelly who help explain how the Board of Freeholders process will work in the coming weeks and months.

The Manila-born artist spent some of the summer combing through archives from the 1904 World’s Fair, particularly materials related to the so-called Filipino Village. A site-specific installation building from those materials will be part of an exhibition that examines the use of photography and other images to create social narratives related to imperialism and colonization.

On Thursday’s St. Louis on the Air, host Sarah Fenske was joined by Richard Ivey and Bailey Gettemeier, the actor managers of The Darkness and Creepyworld, respectively. They talked about running haunted houses, getting punched in the face on the job, and what it means to work as a scare actor.

Dr. Benjamin Rush is not yet the subject of a Ken Burns miniseries, but he surely ought to be. The Philadelphia physician was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, an anonymous polemicist who helped inspire the Boston Tea Party and the editor of Thomas Paine’s wildly influential “Common Sense.” And, as detailed in a new biography by Stephen Fried, he both treated and became a close friend to several U.S. presidents. He personally brought Thomas Jefferson and John Adams back together after their friendship seemed permanently ended. In this episode, Fried discusses “RUSH: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father.” Published last year, the book is just out in paperback.

Tamia Coleman-Hawkins is 12 and the owner of Mia’s Treats Delight. Tamia, also known as Mia, told her mom she wanted to start a bakery when she was 8. She's gone on to inspire other kids to start their own businesses.

A lot has been said about music streaming, from its power to shift consumer habits to its role in shaping how artists get paid. For better or worse – it’s completely disrupted the music industry. Host Sarah Fenske talks with Anthony Anderson, founder of GF Music Group, and St. Louis Musician Kayla Thompson (KV The Writer). Also featuring comments from Jay Washington (Qwerty) in conversation with STLPR producer Alexis Moore.

Two high-ranking city officials join host Sarah Fenske to discuss the state of the St. Louis Lambert International Airport privatization process: Paul Payne, the city budget director and chairman of the airport working group, and Linda Martinez, deputy mayor for development.

LA-based comedian and podcaster Rhea Butcher is well aware that there are some bad things going on in today’s world. But the focus of Butcher’s current “Good Things Comedy Tour” lies elsewhere: with the good stuff. “To only look at the bad would be to give in to the bad, I feel like, in these times,” the Midwest native tells St. Louis Public Radio’s Kae Petrin. “And so to have a good time, or to spend time in goodness and having fun and being kind and being joyous and happy, is not to ignore the bad things. It’s actually a form of self-care and growth and invigoration to take care of each other, I’ve found.” That’s the kind of vibe that eventgoers of all ages can expect at the Ready Room this Sunday.

Missouri students can get two years of community college paid for if they complete 50 hours of tutoring through the A+ Scholarship Program. But access for low-income students is uneven.

Danny Wicentowski conducted lots of different interviews for his latest Riverfront Times cover story digging into the status of a proposed $190 million Novus redevelopment near Interstate 170 and Olive Boulevard. The same word — limbo — kept popping up in his conversations with various sources, as he mentions in his piece. The proposed development was publicly unveiled more than a year ago. Yet residents and business owners in the path of the Costco-focused "University Place" are still waiting to find out whether it's definitely moving forward. That's left their future in the neighborhood uncertain. Host Sarah Fenske talks with Wicentowski about his reporting on the saga. The conversation also includes comments from longtime U City homeowner Letha Baptiste, who has thus far declined to accept Novus’ offer of an option contract on her house.

Thirteen-year-old St. Louisan Tarek Husseini spent four weeks in Los Angeles this past summer competing for a $25,000 prize. Now, for the last six weeks, viewers of the Food Network’s “Kids Baking Championship” have watched Husseini and other up-and-coming bakers impress the judges with one kitchen creation after another. The Ladue resident made it through the semifinal episode that premiered on Monday. In this talk show segment, he chats with host Sarah Fenske ahead of next week's final episode.

In this interview, Dr. Jessica Gold, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis, talks with Sarah Fenske about the danger of a perceived link between mental illness and gun violence.

Sen. Lincoln Hough is the latest guest on the Politically Speaking podcast. The Springfield Republican talked with St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Jaclyn Driscoll about the upcoming special session — and what to expect when lawmakers come back to Jefferson City in January. Hough represents Missouri’s 30th Senatorial District, which takes in a big chunk of Springfield and Greene County. He was sworn into office in early January for a four-year term.

The state of Missouri has taken some local control away from counties and cities to regulate where large livestock operations locate. We examine what the new regulations mean in Missouri.

A multitude of truncated earthworks — more commonly known as mounds — once dotted the St. Louis landscape. For the ancient Mississippian people who constructed them many centuries ago, these structures were full of meaning and purpose. The mounds also drew the interest of European newcomers to the region long after the mounds were built. But by the late 19th century, most of these sacred Native American places had been destroyed — the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville, Illinois, being a significant exception. In this conversation, host Sarah Fenske talks with Patricia Cleary, a St. Louis native who is currently working on a book about the mounds that she plans to publish leading up to Missouri’s bicentennial celebration of statehood in 2021.

In April of 1968, Jane Elliott was a third-grade teacher in the small town of Riceville, Iowa. On the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, she felt compelled to shift her lesson plans. She decided to teach her young white students about discrimination by telling the children that brown-eyed people were superior to their blue-eyed peers. She watched as the students turned on each other. Then, the next day, she reversed the script. The exercise highlighted the arbitrary and irrational basis of prejudice, an issue that Americans continue to grapple with more than five decades later. In this episode, host Sarah Fenske explores that topic and others with Elliott ahead of the internationally known lecturer’s address at the Washington University School of Medicine on Monday evening. Also joining the conversation is Rachelle D. Smith, a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Leader for the School of Medicine.

When children are killed by gun violence it can have a ripple effect on the child’s school, from classmates to teachers. Crisis response counselors are sent in and learning can be disrupted as kids respond in different ways. But in neighborhoods where gun violence is the norm, even the youngest students can grow numb to the loss.

St. Louis County Councilwoman Kelli Dunaway is the latest guest on the Politically Speaking podcast. The Chesterfield Democrat talked to St. Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Julie O’Donoghue about her childhood in rural Illinois and her first month in office. Dunaway’s district includes Creve Coeur, Maryland Heights, Overland and Hazelwood. She joined the St. Louis County Council in after a special election to replace Sam Page in August.

In this conversation, we hear from an UMSL researcher who analyzed seven years of arrest data to see whether the so-called “Ferguson effect” caused an increase of crime in St. Louis. The “Ferguson effect” refers to the idea that when police face a high level of scrutiny, law enforcement activities are stifled, and that leads to a spike in violent crime. Lt. Colonel Ronnie Robinson of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department also joins the discussion.

Did the spokesman for a group exploring privatizing St. Louis' airport call into St. Louis on the Air under a fake name? An audio forensics expert who listened to the recording says it's "very likely." In this segment, Sarah Fenske talks with St. Louis Public Radio reporter Corinne Ruff, who looked into this story.