Serviceberries are a sweet native fruit – and these Midwesterners want you to try them ^26.8%

KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR - By Kate Grumke - 6/22/2026, 8:00 AM

Attempt to Sell a Product or Service 14.8% - Availability Heuristic 13.6% - Optimism Bias 13.3%

On the bluffs of the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois, Crystal Moore-Stevens and her family grow something you won’t find on most farms: serviceberries. “When we first moved to this property, we invested in dozens and dozens and dozens of serviceberry trees,” said Moore-Stevens, co-owner of Flourish Farm and Folk School. “This is... more

Serviceberries are a sweet native fruit – and these Midwesterners want you to try them ^23.8%

STLPR - By Kate Grumke - 6/22/2026, 8:00 AM

Attempt to Sell a Product or Service 16.9% - Optimism Bias 14.6% - Anecdotal 10.2%

On the bluffs of the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois, Crystal Moore-Stevens and her family grow something you won’t find on most farms: serviceberries. “When we first moved to this property, we invested in dozens and dozens and dozens of serviceberry trees,” said Moore-Stevens, co-owner of Flourish Farm and Folk School. “This is... more

Steve Ewing's beloved family pet killed in Tower Grove Park dog attack ^23.5%

STLPR - By Lacretia Wimbley, Kate Grumke - 6/4/2026, 7:37 PM

Appeal to Authority 11.8% - Negativity Bias 10.2% - Indoctrination 10.1%

Steve Ewing, a St. Louis musician and owner of Steve’s Hot Dogs, said his wife and family dog were attacked Tuesday evening by two pit bulls in Tower Grove Park. Their pet died of its injuries. The city has received hundreds of complaints about dangerous animals in recent years. Ewing said his wife, Beth, was walking their Maltipoo,... more

Federally funded demos begin in St. Louis tornado’s path ^14.3%

STLPR - By Kate Grumke - 5/14/2026, 8:04 PM

Optimism Bias 13.2% - Framing Effect 12.8% - Availability Heuristic 9.6%

St. Louis announced a new wave of demolitions is now starting in the path of the May 16 tornado. The state began demolishing homes that are eligible for reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Thursday. “Demolishing the buildings that can’t be salvaged doesn’t make the community whole, but it does mean we’re seeing... more

Is FEMA all to blame? How decisions in City Hall also slowed St. Louis' tornado recovery ^9.3%

St. Louis Public Radio - By Kate Grumke, Kavahn Mansouri - 5/11/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 24.7% - Anecdotal 14% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 13.4%

The sun was shining over the Mississippi River as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers leaders filled a conference room on a boat docked next to the Gateway Arch. They were in St. Louis for their annual low-water inspection trip on Aug. 15. From the outside, it might have looked like a routine gathering of officials. But the attendees were some... more

Missouri election results: St. Louis, St. Charles and Jefferson County ^1.1%

STLPR - By Kate Grumke, Katie Grawitch - 4/7/2026, 11:30 PM

Framing Effect 24.2%

Voters in the St. Louis area cast ballots on Tuesday for municipal and school board races. Key races in the region include whether to renew the St. Louis 1% earnings tax, Francis Howell School Board elections and a handful of contested mayoral races. Polls closed at 7 p.m. Results below will update periodically throughout election night. more

New documents reveal why Missouri's tornado cleanup has been so painfully slow ^0%

KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR - By Kate Grumke - 4/5/2026, 9:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 21.3% - Negativity Bias 16.9% - Optimism Bias 10.6%

St. Louis, FEMA and Missouri went back and forth on requests for tornado recovery help, clarity and time — at times taking months to respond. Here's how the last 10-plus months passed with little progress. Most of the debris removal from the St. Louis tornado has been stalled for almost a year as city officials waited for clear marching... more

New documents reveal why St. Louis tornado cleanup has been so painfully slow ^52%

St. Louis Public Radio - By Kate Grumke - 4/3/2026, 10:00 AM

Ambiguity (Equivocation) 28.8% - Negativity Bias 16.6% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 15.3%

Most of the debris removal from the St. Louis tornado has been stalled for almost a year as city officials waited for clear marching orders from federal and state partners, and after a federal agency denied assistance that would have sped up the process significantly. St. Louis Public Radio obtained more than two dozen documents that... more

Thursday was the warmest March day St. Louis has ever recorded ^0.5%

St. Louis Public Radio - By Kate Grumke - 3/27/2026, 1:41 PM

Appeal to Authority 11.1% - Confirmation Bias 10.2% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 9.9%

Thursday was the warmest March day St. Louis has ever recorded, according to the National Weather Service. The high temperature at the airport was 93 degrees, which broke both that day’s record and the month’s record. The previous March record stood for nearly 100 years — that was 92 degrees, set on March 24, 1929. Thursday also set... more

Greater St. Louis Inc. took public officials on trips to tour huge data centers with Ameren in tow ^54.7%

St. Louis Public Radio - By Kavahn Mansouri, Kate Grumke - 2/4/2026, 8:54 PM

A Google Data Center near Papillion, Nebraska, in November. Greater St. Louis Inc. took public officials from Illinois and Missouri to Nebraska to tour a hyperscale Google data center in December; the organization confirmed it has organized multiple similar trips. As public pushback against data center proposals raged, a nonprofit... more