Sarah Fenske
“St. Louis On The Air” Host/ProducerSarah Fenske joined St. Louis Public Radio as host of St. Louis on the Air in July 2019. Before that, she spent twenty years in newspapers, working as a reporter, columnist and editor in Cleveland, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles and St. Louis.
She won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for her work in Phoenix exposing corruption at the local housing authority. She also won numerous awards for column writing, including multiple first place wins from the Arizona Press Club, the Association of Women in Journalism (the Clarion Awards) and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
From 2015 to July 2019, Sarah was editor in chief of St. Louis' alt-weekly, the Riverfront Times. She and her husband, John, are raising their two young daughters and ill-behaved border terrier in Lafayette Square.
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The Downtown St. Louis Community Improvement District is facing major challenges not only in its quest to keep downtown safe and attractive to visitors, but in reauthorization for 2022 and following. -
Nicole Gorovsky, Yinka Faleti and Dave Roland discuss litigation over the Rams’ departure from St. Louis and more during the Legal Roundtable on "St. Louis on the Air."
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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."
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Only 18 of Missouri’s 500-plus school districts have signed up for screening testing for COVID-19, even though the program is entirely free thanks to the federal government.
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Council Chair Rita Heard Days won’t budge on issuing bonds for a $210 million convention center expansion until convention backers make good on a rec center for her district.
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Joy Grdnic Christensen is handing her restaurant off to new owners and gearing up for a new adventure.
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St. Louis-based lactation consultant Erin O’Reilly has the recipe for breastfeeding support.
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Author Suzanne Corbett shatters myths about St. Louis food innovations and details how many cultures came together in Missouri to eat, cook and imbibe.
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“The Gradient,” which premieres at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis on Friday, is playwright Steph Del Rosso’s attempt to deal with the thorny questions surrounding men accused of sexual misconduct — and the startup culture that attempts to commodify everything in modern America.
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Former Missouri Appellate Judge Booker Shaw discusses the latest Hail Mary attempt by Stan Kroenke and the NFL to move their trial out of St. Louis, and the “extraordinary” writ of petition they’ve filed with the appeals court.
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St. Louis Art Museum curators Melissa Wolfe and Amy Torbert discuss “Art Along the Rivers,” the new show examining art from St. Louis and the surrounding confluence region, where the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers come together.
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Michael Politte is serving a life sentence after a jury found he murdered his mother, Rita Politte, as a 14-year-old in Washington County, Missouri. On this special edition of "St. Louis on the Air," attorneys for the Midwest Innocence Project and the MacArthur Justice Center explain why he’s not guilty — and what investigators got wrong.
