By Ted Gest >> Before former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Nick Pistor died of a sudden illness on April 8 at the age of 43, he was in a battle with St. Louis officials about temporarily regaining his old office space. Pistor, a book author who covered city hall for the newspaper between 2011 and
By Elizabeth Tharakan >> Iowa is one of the leading states for book bans in America, second only to Florida, according to PEN America. Earlier this year, Iowa’s state Board of Education adopted the rules for a sweeping 2023 education law. The law — and the rules that enforce it — ban “sexual content” in
Publisher’s note: GJR is sharing an open letter from law school faculty members at Washington University Law School stating that “rule of law is facing grave peril” from the government of President Donald J. Trump A LETTER FROM WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL FACULTY TO THE LAW SCHOOL COMMUNITY — APRIL 7, 2025 We are faculty
By Don Corrigan >> In an age of digital media, podcasts and streaming, the good-old-days of community radio seem to be at an end – not with a bang or even a whimper. It’s more about lawyers conversing in bankruptcy court. In St. Louis, KDHX is deep in the red and close to pulling the
By Robert Koenig and Mary Ellen Noonan Koenig >> After the defeat of Nazi Germany, the United States – in addition to basing thousands of troops there – built dozens of “America House” cultural centers to help Germans learn about America. And when the Soviets blockaded Berlin in 1948-49, the U.S. sent thousands of flights
