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Democratic candidate for St. Louis County executive Mark Mantovani addresses issues pertinent to his campaign in advance of the Aug. 7 primary elections.

Florissant resident Cori Bush is an ordained pastor and registered nurse – and is currently running to become a congresswoman.

Kameel Stanley joins host Don Marsh to talk about the upcoming episode of “We Live Here.”

Catherine Klene, Stephanie Zeilenga and Jorge Calvo Jr. discuss Peruvian cuisine in this month’s Sound Bites segment with Sauce Magazine.

Winter weather brings out fleets of vehicles working to keep roads clear and parking lots free of icy hazards. But run-off of the salt and chemicals used will harm the life in creeks and streams.

      
Biologist Danelle Haake has researched options to treat slippery pavement without compromising her ecological focus, water quality. "Brining" uses conventional road salt, dissolved, in much smaller quantities.  Her findings are informing local decisions with data on salt concentration in streams during icy-road treatment periods.

Her perspective can help officials and citizens alike care for aquatic critter health.

This Earthworms conversation affirms the importance of urban and suburban streams and supports transportation safety efforts.

Local presentations on this topic are open to the public. Summer is the time to consider ecological winter road maintenance..

THANKS to Anna Holland, Earthworms audio engineer.

Music: Inferno Reel, performed live at KDHX by Matt Finner

Lawyers Bill Freivogel, Blake Strode and Dan Epps discuss the latest local and national judicial news during this month’s Legal Roundtable.

Host Don Marsh and guests discuss memories of the flood alongside a crowd of listeners calling and writing in to the show with their own vivid recollections.

Attorney General Josh Hawley joins Politically Speaking to talk about the nationally-watched contest for Missouri’s United States Senate seat.

Hawley is the most well-known and well-funded Republican seeking to take on U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill in the fall. He’s facing off against 10 GOP candidates in next month’s Aug. 7 primary, including two, Austin Petersen and Tony Monetti, that have been guests on Politically Speaking.

This week’s Politically Speaking takes a look at three competitive elections in St. Louis County. It comes as relations between St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger and the St. Louis County Council have deteriorated.

Stenger is facing an expensive bid for re-election against businessman Mark Mantovani. St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch is engaged in an increasingly high-profile race against Ferguson City Councilman Wesley Bell. And two Democrats are challenging Councilman Pat Dolan’s bid for re-election.

Missouri voters will decide whether to pass Proposition A during the Aug. 7 primary election. Host Don Marsh examines both sides of the hotly contested ballot issue.

St. Louis Public Radio political reporter Jason Rosenbaum joined St. Louis on the Air host Don Marsh to provide analysis and a behind-the-scenes look at the president's recent visit.

Actress, comedian, singer and activist Jenifer Lewis discusses her career highlights that led to the release of her book “The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir.”

Jenna Budreau, Dail Chambers and Marissa Southards discuss how social media influences body image, especially among youth.

In January, St. Louis-area resident Jane Beckman came across an article about a man in need of a new kidney – and another man who came to his aid. “I could do that,” Beckman thought to herself.

Metro Transit's Jessica Mefford-Miller and CMT's June McAllister Fowler discuss what the new stop and other plans in the works could mean for the future of transit in the St. Louis region.

Investment pro Woody Tasch is evolving his own field.

Profoundly inspired by the nature of soil - yes, that BROWN stuff we typically march right over - his work serves its loamy muse by plowing, so to speak, "Nurture Capital" directly into the Local/Sustainable Food movement, yielding ROI of healthier soil and stronger local community economics and culture. He calls this prophet-able enterprise Slow Money.

Woody Tasch's turns of phrase and process grew an investment movement from his publication a decade ago of the now-classic Inquiries Into the Nature of Slow Money - Investing As If Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered. 

Now he is structuring SOIL, Slow Opportunities for Investing Locally. He articulates how and why the transformative aim of this economic system works in his mytho-poetic and colossally detailed new book SOIL 2017 - Notes Toward the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital.

Tasch is the bard of a new economic saga, the story of bringing our human relations with money soundly back to Earth. His work is surely, slowly meeting a "lively serious," planetary-scale human need.

Music: The Exotic Future of Money, performed live at KDHX by Kinetics
THANK YOU Anna Holland, engineer for Earthworms

Related Earthworms Conversations: The Genuine Progress Indicator with Dr. Eric Zencey (March 2015) 

2% Solutions for the Planet, Courtney White's Super Stories of Green Innovation (Oct 2015) 

Slow Food St. Louis Project Garlic (October 2015)

St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch joins Politically Speaking to talk about his bid for re-election.

McCulloch is one of the longest serving elected officials in Missouri. He’s squaring off against Ferguson City Councilman Wesley Bell in the August 7 primary. Since no Republican filed for the position, the winner of that contest will get to serve a four year term.

Holly Ingraham, Amadi MuseMorris and Lizzy Mills discuss how Cultural Leadership honored the life of Emmett Till.

Host Don Marsh revisits his 2014 conversation with Simeon Wright, cousin of the late Emmett Till, in light of the Department of Justice reopening Till’s decades-old cold case.

Sarah “Bricktator” Arnosky and Brooke “Vicious van Gogo” Clark discuss the sport of roller derby and the Arch Rival Roller Derby’s upcoming opportunity to compete internationally.