An Illinois Professor's Quest To Save Music Of Ecuador
Since 2004, a music education professor at McKendree University in Lebanon, Ill. has been collecting and documenting the indigenous music of the native Kichwa people of the Ecuadorian rain forest. With...
View ArticleSt. Louis County Making Progress Against Heroin Epidemic
For the past year, St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch and community organizations have held nearly two dozen town hall meetings to raise awareness of the heroin epidemic. Deaths from heroin...
View ArticleOfficer Down: does rise in police deaths indicate deteriorating...
It’s been a bloody year for cops around the country. Already, dozens have been killed in the line of duty. In St. Louis, two law enforcement officers have been killed. Some in the criminal justice...
View ArticleOfficer Down: how St. Louis area police try to stay safe and reach out
Federal and local officials are worried about the number of law enforcement officers killed so far this year. Yesterday, St. Louis Public Radio’s Julie Bierach looked at the scope of the problem.Today,...
View ArticleTo these kids, 9/11 is history: teaching a national tragedy
It’s been ten years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. To mark the anniversary, teachers are discussing the event with students.Julie Bierach reports on how one fifth grade teacher at a St. Louis...
View ArticleTillie's Corner: a St. Louis neighborhood institution revisited and reimagined
On the corner of Garrison and Sheridan in St. Louis stands a vacant building that for decades housed a thriving African American business. Its owner is remembered as an entrepreneur and informal...
View ArticleMissouri History Museum exhibit traces early history of African American...
An exhibit now on display at the Missouri History Museum takes a look at the early history of the African American community in Kirkwood.St. Louis Public Radio’s Julie Bierach spoke with Curator David...
View ArticleSantorum win presents problems for Republicans according to political scientist
Rick Santorum is the winner of Missouri's presidential primary. The primary was held Tuesday and is non-binding.Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul were on the ballot, Newt Gingrich was not.Early...
View ArticleVisiting Mom, in prison: bill would launch visitation program for children of...
Last week, the Missouri House passed a bill that would make it easier for children to visit their mothers in prison. It would launch a two-year test program requiring the Department of Corrections to...
View ArticleA St. Louisan shares his Holocaust experience
Our own Julie Bierach shares this first-person account from Mendel Rosenberg of his experiences during the Holocaust. Rosenberg, along with three other concentration camp survivors, will share their...
View ArticleMissouri Right to Pray, or wrong to confuse? Voters to decide
When voters go to the polls on Tuesday they’ll be asked to decide on an amendment to the state constitution. Supporters say the Missouri Right to Pray amendment will protect residents’ right to...
View ArticleUnlikely Secret Weapon: Former Felon Becomes Probation Worker
There are thousands of people on federal probation in the St. Louis area. And officials are always looking for ways to keep them from going back to prison, by creating new programs and hiring new...
View ArticleUnlikely Secret Weapon: Probation Program Led By Former Felon
Clark Porter is a social worker at the Federal Probation Office in St. Louis. Once upon a time, he was a violent felon. But he turned his life around and is now helping ex-offenders on probation do the...
View ArticleAn Illinois Professor's Quest To Save Music Of Ecuador
Since 2004, a music education professor at McKendree University in Lebanon, Ill. has been collecting and documenting the indigenous music of the native Kichwa people of the Ecuadorian rain forest. With...
View ArticleSt. Louis County Making Progress Against Heroin Epidemic
For the past year, St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch and community organizations have held nearly two dozen town hall meetings to raise awareness of the heroin epidemic. Deaths from heroin...
View ArticleArch Grants: Round Two
A local organization trying to build successful companies in St. Louis is now accepting applications for round two of its startup competition. During the first round, Arch Grants awarded fifteen lucky...
View ArticleOfficer Down: does rise in police deaths indicate deteriorating...
It’s been a bloody year for cops around the country. Already, dozens have been killed in the line of duty. In St. Louis, two law enforcement officers have been killed. Some in the criminal justice...
View ArticleOfficer Down: how St. Louis area police try to stay safe and reach out
Federal and local officials are worried about the number of law enforcement officers killed so far this year. Yesterday, St. Louis Public Radio’s Julie Bierach looked at the scope of the problem.Today,...
View ArticleTo these kids, 9/11 is history: teaching a national tragedy
It’s been ten years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. To mark the anniversary, teachers are discussing the event with students.Julie Bierach reports on how one fifth grade teacher at a St. Louis...
View ArticleTillie's Corner: a St. Louis neighborhood institution revisited and reimagined
On the corner of Garrison and Sheridan in St. Louis stands a vacant building that for decades housed a thriving African American business. Its owner is remembered as an entrepreneur and informal...
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