Brian Heffernan
Brian Heffernan is the digital editor and special projects editor at St. Louis Public Radio. Before coming to the newsroom in April 2018, Brian reported for a variety of publications including Al Jazeera America, St. Louis Magazine, Riverfront Times, San Francisco magazine and the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette newspapers in South Carolina. He also worked in St. Louis' burgeoning startup and tech industry as a project manager and quality assurance specialist. A St. Louis native, Brian received both his master's and bachelor's degrees of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. When he's not plunked down in front of a computer screen, Brian enjoys traveling, exploring the outdoors, cooking and playing the very adult, sophisticated game of wiffle ball.
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St. Louis voters will also decide races for mayor, aldermanic elections in 16 of the city’s 28 wards, whether again to retain the earnings tax and six ballot issues addressing the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District borrowing $500 million to improve wastewater service and changes to the utility’s charter. St. Louis County voters will also weigh in on MSD.
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Updated at 10:30 a.m. July 7 with a video released by Florissant Police Florissant police arrested 17 demonstrators Sunday night outside their...
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White coat wearing-health care workers, teens too young to vote and members and allies of the LGBTQ community were among the groups that showed up by...
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Hundreds of protesters marched in St. Charles on Wednesday, blocking traffic on Route 94 and later filling Main Street with a crowd that stretched more...
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The number of new coronavirus cases in the St. Louis metro area is decreasing. Although the overall number of positive cases continues to rise, fewer...
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Updated at 10:50 p.m. March 15, with comments from school and county officials Dozens of school districts across the St. Louis region will close this...
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Berkeley Mayor Theodore "Ted" Hoskins has been charged with five felony counts of election fraud. A special prosecutor, Jean Peters Baker, announced...
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A Major League Soccer stadium is coming to the western edge of downtown St. Louis — and it’s going to be bigger than originally thought. The ownership...
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Architects of a proposed future home to a professional soccer team in downtown St. Louis unveiled designs for a 22,500-seat stadium Saturday morning....
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Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill and her GOP rival, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, sparred over how they would improve health care in an...