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UMSL Chancellor Tom George and Provost Kristin Sobolik address the state of the university.

13-year-old Kennedy Holmes took many people by surprise because of her mature voice on the 15th season of NBC's The Voice singing competition. During the blind auditions, all four celebrity judges spun around in approval to ask Holmes to join their team. Host Don Marsh talked to the Florissant teen about her experience on the show and what her life has been like since going viral. 

What's possible when we humans talk to each other? Brian Ettling believes a talk can turn the tide of harmful changes to Earth's climate. He's been acting on this conviction since 2012, when he joined the Climate Leaders Network, and became an active force in the Citizens' Climate Lobby.

Brian returns to Earthworms with an update on his interactions with legislators and fellow citizens - and an emphasis on key solutions each of us has the power to achieve:

• Communicate with elected leaders about climate issues
• Get involved with a group to "make your voice louder"
• Invest in clean energy and energy efficiency in your life
• Vote!

Coming to St. Louis October 17 - Brian Ettling and Fred Miller present "How to Speak about Climate Change with Confidence" hosted by St. Louis University - AND teaching a 3-hour adult class on Climate Change at St. Louis Community College, October 13. 

Music: Jamie, performed live at KDHX by Yankee Racers

THANKS to Anna Holland, Earthworms Audio Engineer

Related Earthworms Conversations:
David & the Giant Mailbox: Walking and Talking Climate, Nation-wide (December 2015)

DRAWDOWN: Solutions to Reverse Global Warming (May 2018)

Climate of Hope with Sierra Club's Carl Pope (April 2018)

Brian Ettling for the Citizens Climate Lobby (December 2016)

Over the past 40 years, San Francisco-based Chanticleer has gone to great lengths and unexpected places to refine and expand its vocal repertoire, bringing striking arrangements of popular music into the mix as well as commissioning new choral works by contemporary composers. But centuries-old songs can also be full of surprises – including Antonio de Salazar’s arrangement of “Salve Regina.”

Democrat Robert Butler is the latest guest on Politically Speaking. He joins St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Abigail Censky to talk about his bid for the 22nd District Senate seat.

Butler is running against incumbent Sen. Paul Wieland, an Imperial Republican who first captured the Jefferson County-based district in 2014. Wieland’s episode of Politically Speaking was posted on Monday.

Butler is an attorney who has lived in Jefferson County for more than 20 years. The Barnhart resident is not a first time candidate: He’s run for a state House seat encompassing part of northern Jefferson County twice, losing both times to House Majority Leader Rob Vescovo.

On Tuesday's St. Louis on the Air host Don Marsh spoke with author and Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel about the erosion of civil public discourse, political polarization, and the role of truth in American democratic life.

Sen. Paul Wieland is the latest guest on Politically Speaking. He talked with St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum, Jo Mannies and Abigail Censky about his re-election bid in Missouri’s 22nd District Senate seat.

The Imperial Republican represents a portion of Jefferson County in the Missouri Senate. His race against Democrat Robert Butler is one of the most competitive state Senate races in the entire state — and could give a sense of how other statewide campaigns shake out.

On Monday's St. Louis on the Air, host Don Marsh talks with Sue McCarthy, the owner of Vault Luxury Resale and author of the new book "Good Better Best: The Rags-to-Riches Story of the Upscale Retail Queen."

East St. Louis native and Olympic gold medalist Dawn Harper Nelson is taking a break from running and spoke to host Don Marsh about her career, being a female athlete, activism and upcoming speaking engagements. 

Longtime journalist Margaret Wolf Freivogel shares her impressions of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings she observed in 1991 and 2018.

The universal concept of friendship will be explored musically in the St. Louis Chamber Chorus's opening concert to its 2018-2019 season, “States of Being." The SLCC's artistic director Philip Barnes and Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds talked to host Don Marsh about their musical collaboration. 

Rosetta Watson was functionally evicted from Maplewood after a former boyfriend attacked her. She recently spoke with St. Louis Public Radio’s "We Live Here" podcast team after winning a settlement against the city.

Host Don Marsh talks to St. Louis Public Radio education reporter Ryan Delaney, who clarified the status of charter schools in the St. Louis area.

St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Jo Mannies look at the importance of Jefferson County in this year’s statewide election.

Whenever there’s a competitive statewide election, Jefferson County often gets a lot of attention. That’s because voters there almost always pick winners of statewide elections — as they did in 2016 and 2012.

Host Don Marsh delves deeper into the “Beyond the Ballot” project with St. Louis Public Radio reporter Ashley Lisenby and Harvest Public Media editor Erica Hunzinger to see what Missouri voters' aspirations are for the November midterm elections. 

Democrat Patrice Billings is the latest guest on the Politically Speaking podcast. The St. Charles County resident talked to St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Jo Mannies about her bid for Missouri’s 2nd Senatorial District seat.

Billings worked for several decades a helicopter pilot for the St. Louis County Police Department. She is squaring off against incumbent Sen. Bob Onder, a Lake Saint Louis Republican who recorded an episode of Politically Speaking earlier this month.

 Dr. Sandeep Jauhar spoke about his newest book 'Heart: A History,' which examines the historical, philosophical, and physiological characteristic of the human body's most complex organ, the heart.

St. Louis County Assessor Jake Zimmerman joins St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Jo Mannies to talk about his re-election bid — and what he learned from his successful run for attorney general two years ago.

The Olivette Democrat has served as St. Louis County assessor since 2011. Before that, Zimmerman was a member of the Missouri House and a staffer for governors Jay Nixon and Bob Holden.

St. Louis on the Air's monthly Legal Roundtable reconvened Wednesday to discuss a variety of local and national legal stories, from the Kavanaugh confirmation controversy to the new sex discrimination lawsuit surrounding a retirement community in Sunset Hills.

In a downtown office building, entrepreneurs work side by side with a visiting group of Tibetan monks. Business ideas are taking shape and a brilliantly vivid "painting" with sand is, literally, making peace. It's all in a week's work for innovation culture in St. Louis!

Earthworms' guest Geshe Monlam Gyatso and his fellow monks of the Drepung Gomang monastery are on a Sacred Arts Tour to U.S. cities. Earthworms' friend (and fellow guest) Patty Maher is hosting this group, as she has with groups of monks for several years. The T-Rex incubator welcomes their creation of a World Peace Mandala, Sept 25-30. On Friday Sept 30, the monks'  Dissolution Ceremony will transform this beautiful work into a blessing of the waters of the Mississippi River in a ceremony everyone is welcome to attend.

Namaste!

Music: Balkan Twirl, performed live at KDHX by Sandy Weltman and the Carolbeth Trio

THANKS to Anna Holland, Earthworms' ace audio engineer.

Related Earthworms' Conversations: Photographer Neeta Satam Documents Himalayan Climate Change (March 2018)

Patty Maher's Historic Green Home Rehab (August 2017)