Sarah Fenske
Sarah Fenske joined St. Louis Public Radio as host of St. Louis on the Air in July 2019. Before that, she spent twenty years in newspapers, working as a reporter, columnist and editor in Cleveland, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles and St. Louis. She won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for her work in Phoenix exposing corruption at the local housing authority. She also won numerous awards for column writing, including multiple first place wins from the Arizona Press Club, the Association of Women in Journalism (the Clarion Awards) and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. From 2015 to July 2019, Sarah was editor in chief of St. Louis' alt-weekly, the Riverfront Times. She and her husband, John, are raising their two young daughters and ill-behaved border terrier in Lafayette Square.
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Born in Boonville, Missouri, C.T. Vivian made his way from western Illinois to Nashville, where he became a civil rights leader and confidant of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Author Steve Fiffer discussed Vivian's memoir, which he co-authored, on "St. Louis on the Air."
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A new study from Gender & Society found that, in states where schools doubled down on remote learning, the difference in labor force participation between mothers and fathers grew significantly, exacerbating the preexisting gap. Washington University sociologist Caitlyn Collins discussed the study on "St. Louis on the Air."
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St. Louis singer-songwriter Haley Woolbright explains how the secret love song she wrote to surprise her fiance at their wedding has become a song for her husband due to the pandemic canceling the wedding they'd planned. She shared her new track "Long Game" on St. Louis on the Air.
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St. Louis County Council Chair Rita Heard Days discusses her hopes and agenda for the council moving forward.
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The Missouri Supreme Court ruled against Lamar Johnson on March 2. The St. Louis man has been helped by the Midwest Innocence Project and the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office in seeking his freedom after 26 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit. Attorney Lindsay Runnels discussed his next steps on "St. Louis on the Air."
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Cole County Circuit Court Judge William E. Hickle ruled last month that the Missouri Office of State Public Defender violated the constitutional rights of indigent people awaiting trial by forcing them to wait for weeks, and even months, before being assigned an attorney. Tony Rothert of the ACLU of Missouri and state Rep. Tony Lovasco discussed what comes next on "St. Louis on the Air."
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Carey Gillam’s new book, “The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption and One Man’s Search for Justice,” takes readers behind the scenes as DeWayne "Lee" Johnson’s lawyers plot against the agriculture giant — a case that resulted in a $289 million jury verdict. She discussed it on "St. Louis on the Air."
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Aaron Fowler's first solo exhibition in his hometown, N2EXISTENCE GENESIS, opens at the Luminary in St. Louis on March 6. The artist discusseed it on "St. Louis on the Air."
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Co-authors John A. Wright Sr. and John A. Wright Jr. discuss the new second edition of “Extraordinary Black Missourians," an updated version of the book first published eight years ago by Reedy Press.
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On "St. Louis on the Air," the Legal Roundtable discussed the most important developments in the past month involving the area's judicial system, including two 8th Circuit rulings on qualified immunity and lawsuits over Missouri's Sunshine Law.