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‘Trains & Trolleys’ explores the railroads that altered St. Louis’ fortunes

St. Louis lost out to Chicago when tracks were first laid for the transcontinental railroad. Author Molly Butterworth explains why on "St. Louis on the Air."

Nikki Love-McIntyre, of Swansea, Ill., on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. Love-McIntyre, who has worked at the hospital for nearly 8 years, had a double kidney transplant completed in October 2015 after being diagnosed with end-stage renal disease –– the failure of her kidneys –– as a complication of Type 1 Diabetes. “It was just terrifying,” she said of the diagnosis while emphasizing the need to listen to your body. “If something is going on, it’s going on for a reason. Don’t not go to the doctor or think it’ll go away or [say] I’ll go if it gets worse.”

SLU doctors urge Black people to enter kidney research to boost transplant outcomes

Members of the kidney transplant team at St. Louis University Hospital say including more Black people in kidney research and as donors could help address racial disparities in transplant outcomes.

As civil war rages in Ethiopia, Missouri’s Tigrayans find support and community

A support group helps Tigrayan expats in St. Louis and Kansas City process the violence and turmoil in Ethiopia.

Unpublished report details weaknesses in Illinois' long-term care oversight

As Gov. JB Pritzker attempts to overhaul how the state reimburses nursing homes with Medicaid patients — a move they say will engender more accountability and equity — an unpublished report paints a complicated picture that neither fully bolsters Pritzker’s argument for an overhaul nor the resistance from the nursing home industry warning its cash-poor facilities will close en masse.

Vivian Gibson, the author of “The Last Children of Mill Creek,” stands in for a portrait on Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, at her home in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Mill Creek Valley was 454 acres in the heart of downtown St. Louis that comprised the nation's largest urban-renewal project beginning in 1959. The predominately Black neighborhood was designated as “blighted” by city officials was torn down to make way for new developments.

Ending the racial wealth gap through reparations: Local policies or federal payments?

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is one of a dozen U.S. mayors calling for local reparations to address the racial wealth gap by ending racist policies.

Missouri's black bears will be hunted again starting Monday. The population was decimated in the early 20th century but the Conservation Commission has decided the repopulation is sufficient for a regulated harvest.

Missouri is holding its first black bear hunt. Some conservationists are as unhappy as the bears

Missouri's black bears were decimated in the early 20th century, but have come back in recent years. With an estimated 800 bears now living in the state, the Department of Conservation is holding a regulated hunt to help with population control.

The design phase of a public art installation to honor the former neighborhood of Mill Creek Valley is underway along a planned one-mile stretch of greenway in downtown St. Louis along Market Street. Several monuments, shown here in a rendering, will be placed within the new Major League Soccer stadium district.

A new St. Louis greenway will honor Mill Creek Valley, a Black neighborhood demolished in the 1950s

A one-mile stretch of the Brickline Greenway along Market Street in downtown St. Louis will host an art installation commemorating the history of the former neighborhood.

Artwork is displayed on Monday, Oct. 11, 2021, at the Gates family home in Ferguson, Missouri. Shalon Gates said she began homeschooling over a decade ago to give her children custom educational experiences that public school may not provide.

A growing number of Black families are taking education into their own hands by homeschooling

The U.S. Census Bureau published findings from a survey that found the rate of Black families swapping traditional learning with homeschooling between the spring and fall of 2020 was five times more than any other racial group in the country.

Yamelsie Rodríguez, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, asked for federal intervention over new rules brought by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services regarding Medicaid eligibility for family planning clinics.

Planned Parenthood asks for federal help as new Medicaid rules take effect in Missouri

New rules require state inspectors to report violations directly to Medicaid auditors, which could jeopardize funding.

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire at the Missouri Chestnut Roast Festival on Oct. 2. Chestnut farming is a growth opportunity for Missouri agriculture.

Chestnuts growing on an open field. Missouri farmers can make $6,000 an acre harvesting them

The U.S. imports a lot of chestnuts, and there is opportunity for more of them to be home grown.

Yellow’s corporate offices are in Overland Park, Kansas, and its operations extend throughout the Midwest.

A Kansas City-area trucking company got $700M from the CARES Act after support from Trump official

A congressional subcommittee is asking for records that would show any communications between Trump White House staffers and representatives of Overland Park, Kansas, trucking company Yellow Corporation. The committee wants to know why Yellow got a $700 million CARES Act loan.

Family members Larry D. King, Delores King, David King, and Bernard King are working with the Emma L. Wilson King Foundation to restore or recreate the fountain in Jones Park in honor of Emma L Wilson King.

This new East St. Louis festival hopes to restore a fountain and pride in a changing city

The festival organizer hopes Saturday’s event will not only bring people into the city but also ensure that they don’t leave.

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