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A ‘Living’ legend

2 years 8 months ago
“My parents always said when God closes a door he opens a window,” said Ruth Ezell, senior producer of Nine PBS’ Living St. Louis show. “My career has been when I see a door cracked I slide it open.”
Danielle Brown | The St. Louis American

St. Louis Is Among the 10 Worst Places in the US for Air Pollution

2 years 8 months ago
A new report in the Guardian has St. Louis ranking highly — but it's not something to brag about: The British publication says swaths of the metro area are among the 10 most polluted in the U.S. The paper boasts that it used "cutting-edge modeling" developed by researchers at institutions including the University of Washington. It reveals something that anyone who paid attention to Wash U's "For the Sake of All" report already knew — that race is a huge predictor of health due to the inequalities that plague neighborhoods with a significant minority population, and that, in America, "neighborhoods burdened by the worst pollution are overwhelmingly the same places where Black and Hispanic populations live."
Sarah Fenske