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Elected Officials, Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative Rep Talk Flooding, Solutions

St. Louis Public Radio | By Evie Hemphill
Published May 13, 2019 at 4:50 PM CDT
From left, Jo Anne Smiley, Colin Wellenkamp and Phil Stang joined Monday's talk show.
Evie Hemphill | St. Louis Public Radio
From left, Jo Anne Smiley, Colin Wellenkamp and Phil Stang joined Monday's talk show.
From left, Jo Anne Smiley, Colin Wellenkamp and Phil Stang joined Monday's talk show.
Credit Evie Hemphill | St. Louis Public Radio
From left, Jo Anne Smiley, Colin Wellenkamp and Phil Stang joined Monday's talk show.

Residents of towns along both the Missouri and Illinois sides of the Mississippi River are all too familiar with the effects of flooding on their communities. The disasters happen again and again, and as the New York Times’ reporting indicated in early May, people are eager for a path forward – and for solutions that look beyond levees.

On Monday’s St. Louis on the Air, guest host Ruth Ezell talked with Jo Anne Smiley, the mayor of Clarksville, Missouri, and Phil Stang, the mayor of Kimmswick, Missouri, about their goals moving ahead. Colin Wellenkamp, executive director of the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative, also participated in the discussion.

Listen to the conversation:

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Evie Hemphill
Evie Hemphill joined the St. Louis on the Air team in February 2018. After earning a bachelor’s degree in English literature in 2005, she started her career as a reporter for the Westminster Window in Colorado. Several years later she went on to pursue graduate work in creative writing at the University of Wyoming and moved to St. Louis upon earning an MFA in the spring of 2010. She worked as writer and editor for Washington University Libraries until 2014 and then spent several more years in public relations for the University of Missouri–St. Louis before making the shift to St. Louis Public Radio.
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