Lauren Brennecke
General Assignment ReporterLauren Brennecke is a general assignment reporter at St. Louis Public Radio and a recent graduate of Webster University. When in college, she worked with several student publications and enjoys print and audio storytelling. On her free time, you can find Brennecke spending time with a book and Poppy — her 7-year-old Beagle.
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For the first time since 1990, the St. Louis region is among the nation’s top 10 metro areas for job growth. Employment in the 14-county region that includes the Metro East has risen 2.16% this year — surpassing the national rate of 1.7%. -
St. Louis Public Schools students will be taken to school by school buses operated by First Student and a hodgepodge of 18 smaller vendors. The district’s emergency plan follows a decision by Missouri Central Bus Co. to terminate its contract last school year and permanently close two of its facilities in St. Louis. -
Hundreds of low-income families will lose city funding this month. A St. Louis judge temporarily halted guaranteed basic income payments after a lawsuit claimed the program is unconstitutional. -
The largest military drill in St. Louis history involved hundreds of emergency personnel working across the region. Training followed the National Guard’s three-day plan for a major earthquake along the New Madrid Fault line. -
Disaster drills Monday through Wednesday will close some downtown streets to make room for military vehicles, helicopters and hundreds of federal responders to simulate a response in the St. Louis region. -
The report shows 40% of the region’s crashes are in economically disadvantaged areas. It could help officials apply for federal funds to help reduce vehicle and pedestrian crashes by half by 2050. -
Library officials have tabled a plan to close three branches to fund other parts of the library system. Some library patrons and protesters said they worry the smaller branches won’t stay open for long. -
Students, parents and teachers protested proposals to prohibit discussions on gender identity and allow people to request books be banned. But the school board introduced the measures over those objections, with final votes coming as early as July. -
One of the proposals the school board will introduce would allow anyone who lives in the district to call for bans on books and classroom materials — and prohibit books that lack school board approval. -
The 425-acre plot sits in Spanish Lake, near Ferguson at the junction of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. -
The study shows homelessness has risen since last year —and outreach workers aim to place people in permanent housing with the help of a new data-collection method. -
The right haircut can build anyone’s confidence — but for a transgender person, it can be the first, or final, step to gender assertion.
