Kae M. Petrin
Digital ReporterKae Petrin covers public transportation and housing as a digital reporter for St. Louis Public Radio. They write for web and radio, take photos and video for multimedia storytelling, and analyze data to produce graphics. Kae began reporting investigative stories in 2016 and has since covered landlords, development deals and public datasets. Kae won the 2019 Missouri Broadcasters Association award for Convergent Media. Kae’s bylines have appeared in St. Louis Magazine, The Riverfront Times, Alton’s Telegraph, The Common Reader and Shakespeare & Punk. They have a bachelor’s from Washington University in St. Louis and a programming certificate from LaunchCode.
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The St. Louis board responsible for the city’s real estate and financial decisions on Wednesday granted NorthSide Regeneration an extension on its…
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Two more highway construction projects this weekend will join the closures that have been slowing and frustrating St. Louis-area drivers since early…
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Updated Feb. 3 with closure announcementFive Interstate 64 ramps closed permanently Monday near downtown St. Louis. The ramps will be replaced by new…
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Updated Jan. 31 with adoption by the full Board of AldermenThe St. Louis Board of Aldermen has taken a stand against state action to change the city’s…
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Updated on Jan. 31 with new information on negotions between SEIU Local 1 and contractors.The janitorial bargaining team representing SEIU Local 1 has…
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Missouri’s Transportation Department is losing employees at a worrisome rate, said Patrick McKenna, its director. McKenna said that nearly half of the…
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The quest to bring the Loop Trolley back to life under St. Louis’ regional transit agency has failed. Bi-State Development committee members on Friday…
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St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson has raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour for civilian city workers. The move is part of a strategy to attract and retain…
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Missouri’s minimum wage increased to $9.45 an hour this week. The 85-cent wage hike, which took effect Jan. 1, is part of a five-year series of raises…
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This weekend, the Delmar Loop Trolley could make its last run.The beleaguered trolley has run out of funding after struggling to grow ridership amidst…
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A federal judge has ordered Illinois state prisons to immediately overhaul their policies for providing medical care to transgender inmates. Currently,…
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Union workers for the St. Louis region’s transit agency on Tuesday voted to accept Metro Transit’s latest contract proposal, ending months of…