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Did you know that May is National Osteoporosis Prevention and Awareness Month? And did you also know that approximately 50 million people in the U.S. are affected (at some level) by #osteoporosis? Does your lifestyle put you at risk of being a part of this statistic? We ask OsteoStrong Columbia owner DAYNA GLANZ! Also, The Missouri Symphony is rebranding their popular Hot Summer Nights series with a new name this year! Executive director TRENT RASH is here to tell us what we can look forward to at the first-ever Firefly Music Festival. (4:50) May 17, 2023

Somebody, somewhere, can’t get enough of chestnuts. Even though chestnuts seem to have phased out of American culture over the last hundred years or so and we don’t think of them as a big part of our diet anymore, farmers seem to be selling out of chestnuts year after year. In this episode, we’re going in search of the communities that can’t get enough of chestnuts. Our explorations will take us to a chestnut orchard, a kitchen where we’ll make chestnut soup, and an Italian restaurant on The Hill in St. Louis where a renowned Italian chef recalls his first teacher in the kitchen: his grandmother. This episode takes us on a magical food adventure to explore what it is that makes chestnuts a cultural cornerstone. And yes, in spite of producer Lauren Hines-Acosta’s best efforts to keep it out of this episode, you will hear that iconic holiday song. You know the one.

New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi was recently embedded with Iraqi troops fighting to liberate western Mosul from ISIS. She reports that the Islamic State looks "more fierce than ever."

Djokovic bowed out with a 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 loss to 28th-seeded Alexei Popyrin of Australia, another shocking result at Flushing Meadows one night after Carlos Alcaraz exited.

In this episode, hosts Brianna Lennon and Eric Fey speak with Matthew Weil, the executive director of the Democracy Program at the Bipartisan Policy Center.They spoke about some of the work his team is doing, some ways local election administrators can get more involved in the policy making process, and about some of the challenges American democracy is facing – like Moore v. Harper, a case being heard this week by the US Supreme Court that could have major implications about how elections are administrated and election policy is made.

In this episode, hosts Brianna Lennon and Eric Fey speak with Missouri Senator Roy Blunt and reflect on his 26 years in Congress and his previous careers in local election administration – as both the County Clerk in Greene County, Missouri, and the Missouri Secretary of State.

Mushrooms have captured people’s attention for centuries. They pop up in ancient Chinese art, Celtic fairy tales and today’s Indigenous medicine. And over the last few years, mushrooms have rapidly increased in popularity. We’re going foraging for mushrooms with Missouri’s state botanist, we’re making mushroom hash with a chef who’s turned his fungi passions into a mushroom-production business, and we’re talking about the many characteristics of mushrooms that make them a new symbol of queer community. Our “Shroom Boom” episode takes us through some new avenues where communities are connecting through fungi.

In this episode, hosts Eric Fey and Brianna Lennon speak with Mark Kampf, the former clerk in Nye County, Nevada. He stepped into the role in the summer of 2022 after the Nye County Commission voted to move to hand counting ballots and his predecessor resigned.That fall, Kampf proposed a plan for Nye County to hand count during the midterm elections, which faced a legal challenge from the ACLU (https://news3lv.com/news/local/nye-county-clerk-tempers-hand-count-expectations-calls-it-a-test), and ultimately served as a parallel trial of hand counting. In March 2024, Kampf resigned from the position of Nye County Clerk.They spoke about these hand counting efforts, as well as Kampf’s work to beef up chain of custody processes during his tenure in office.

More than 6,000 incidents involving children and liquid laundry packets have been reported to poison control centers so far this year. The health problems include respiratory distress and vomiting.

The state's homicide victimization rate for its Black residents was 54.9 per 100,000 people in 2023, well above the national rate of 26.6 per 100,000.