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How 13 million pounds of hazardous powder wound up in an abandoned Missouri warehouse

1 month 2 weeks ago
Trucks filled with 66 tons of hazardous material left Yazoo City, Mississippi, on Oct. 30, 2013. Full of sacks containing plastic dust contaminated with lead, cadmium and chromium, the trucks made their way to the outskirts of Berger, Missouri, a town of 250 people along the Missouri River. The next day brought another 85 tons. […]
Ceilidh Kern, Harshawn Ratanpal

Missouri’s search for meaning

1 month 2 weeks ago
Growing up in Missouri in the 1980s, the Show Me State meant something. We built America’s cars. We brewed America’s beer. We even had America’s best baseball teams. Missouri was a bellwether state. If you wanted to know what was happening in the country, Missouri could show you. But my home state, once proudly independent, […]
Eric Morse

Tuesday, Dec. 23 - A Grand transformation

1 month 2 weeks ago
A hub of arts activity grows on Grand Center’s eastern edge, after the Kranzberg Arts Foundation spent $50 million dollars repurposing old buildings there. As St. Louis Public Radio’s Jeremy Goodwin reports, the nonprofit says it has set the stage, and now it’s time for more public and private dollars to take a leading role.

David Wasinger (2025)

1 month 3 weeks ago
On the latest episode of Politically Speaking, Missouri Lt. Gov. David Wasinger talked about his desire to see the Senate’s rules change, which provoked a backlash among GOP officials earlier this year. Wasinger said lengthy filibusters often feature long-winded soliloquies that aren’t germane to legislation at hand and result in dysfunction. Wasinger conceded that he doesn’t have the power to compel senators to change their rules. “I don't have a magic wand where I can just unilaterally say, ‘Here are what the rules are going to be,’” he said. “I just simply threw that out as a topic of discussion.”