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Hannibal native Melissa Scholes Young discusses her second novel, "The Hive," with host Sarah Fenske.

The Illinois legislature passed a number of animal welfare bills and while the trajectory of such legislation in Missouri is usually bleak, there was a bright spot there too.

The video game Farming Simulator, in which players run a farm, has found a loyal and niche audience in the gaming world.

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House Majority Leader Dean Plocher talks with St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum for a discussion about the twists and turns of the 2021 legislative session. Plocher's appearance on the definitive show about Missouri politics marks the 500th episode that's focused on interviewing a guest. That's an admittedly arbitrary milestone, since the show went over 500 episodes one or two years ago if you include "roundup" or "chat" shows.

The spring of 2021 has been a time of celebration for the Central Institute for the Deaf, which has served children for more than a century. Two weekends ago, 11 students graduated from the St. Louis-based school, each of them ready to attend neighborhood schools alongside their peers in the fall. And last week, the organization offered a tribute to its longtime executive director, who has seen deaf education change in remarkable ways over the course of her career.

William Potter will judge the terrier group when the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show returns this weekend. He explains what goes into a judge’s assessment, and how he really feels about “Best in Show”

While the former Illinois House speaker liked to play gatekeeper, and keep tight control of the agenda, his successor flung those gates open this year — for better or for worse.

Linn County, in north central Missouri, has a coronavirus case level five times the state average. Meanwhile, employees at coal-fired power plants in Illinois are fighting new clean energy legislation.

Karen Aroesty left her job as regional director of the Anti-Defamation League Heartland on May 31. In this interview, she shares what she learned about fighting xenophobia during that time — and what gives her hope for the future.

In this episode, managers and employees alike join SLU's David Kaplan and STLPR host Sarah Fenske for a wide-ranging conversation about navigating shifts from remote work back to on-site expectations — and finding the best path forward.

The Soulard Community Improvement District (CID) is in the process of installing 71 new trash cans throughout Soulard. Over the coming weeks, residents will see the cans appear on street corners throughout the district boundaries, from Broadway to 13th and Sidney to Marion. The CID has also contracted with a trash management service to empty […]

Increasingly, farmers don’t own the land they work. That’s particularly true in the country’s breadbasket and can have environmental consequences. Farmers who rent appear less likely to use conservation practices.

After a month of disclosures about the Trump Justice Department pursuing surveillance records of journalists through leak investigation subpoenas — culminating in yesterday’s revelation of a subpoena and a gag order pertaining to four New York Times journalists, served by the Trump administration and initially defended by the current Department of Justice — the Biden administration has announced a new policy that could signal a major shift in the interaction of press freedom and state surveillance.

White House press secretary Jen Psaski released a statement today saying “the issuing of subpoenas for the records of reporters in leak investigations is not consistent with the President’s policy direction to the Department.” The Justice Department separately told reporters: “in a change to its longstanding practice, [the DOJ] will not seek compulsory legal process in leak investigations to obtain source information from members of the news media doing their jobs."

The following statement can be attributed to Freedom of the Press Foundation executive director Trevor Timm:

This announcement is a potential sea change for press freedom rights in the United States. Over the past decade — spanning multiple administrations run by both parties — the Justice Department has increasingly spied on reporters doing their job, casting a chill over investigative reporting and putting countless whistleblowers at risk.

While we’re encouraged to see this announcement ending this invasive and disturbing tactic, the devil is — of course — in the details. The Justice Department must now write this categorical bar of journalist surveillance into its official ‘media guidelines,’ and Congress should also immediately enshrine the rules into law to ensure no administration can abuse its power again. If they follow through, this commendable and vitally important decision by the Biden administration has the potential to stem the tide of more than ten years of erosion of press freedom.

Over the past two years, an area of Forest Park the size of more than 15 football fields has been transformed into the Anne O’C. Albrecht Nature Playscape. It opened to the public earlier this week, sporting a colorful range of native and diverse plant species — and curiosity-sparking play elements made out of everything from limestone to willow branches.

The Missouri Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling this week and struck down a 2018 law that sought to impose new restrictions on collective bargaining for public sector unions — while exempting public safety unions from the requirements.

The LA-based author discusses her new novel, "The Mysteries," which is set in 1973 St. Louis.

A preview of an online exhibit that examines how Black artists are responding to COVID-19 and police brutality.

When we were researching the Hammer Dry Plate Company, we learned of the impact of the Hammer family on St. Louis historic photography.

Homes in the St. Louis area continue to move quickly and they go under contract for more than what sellers ask. We talk about this trend with two real estate agents and hear home buying experiences.