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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Tonka’s owner, a Missouri woman named Tonia Haddix, says he is dead. PETA doesn’t buy it. -
Betty Frizzell is the former police chief of Winfield, Missouri. Her memoir, “If You Can’t Quit Cryin’, You Can’t Come Here No More," explores her family's history of poverty, crime and mental illness.
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Alabama native Bettie Mae Fikes discussed the voting rights bill and her history in the civil rights movement.
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Rachel Greenwald Smith’s book of essays “On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal” may leave you deeply discomfited. It may also elucidate everything that’s wrong with politics and art in 2022.
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Jacob Chansley received a 41-month prison sentence for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. He’s now appealing the sentence.
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St. Louis-based author Margaret Hermes finally finished the novel she started 39 years ago.
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St. Louis on the Air's list of the best books featured on the show in 2021.
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The Legal Roundtable discusses Amazon’s liability during a deadly tornado, a Cole County ruling on mask mandates and more.
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Sophia Benoit’s first book is the essay collection “Well, This Is Exhausting.”
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St. Louis Alderman Bret Narayan sponsored the bill that successfully legalized possession of up to 2 ounces of marijuana in the city.
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VocalEase preserves perfect acoustics even when protecting wearers from airborne germs.
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Clever Real Estate is growing fast by disrupting how real estate agents are found — and how much they get paid.
