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This interview will be on “St. Louis on the Air” during the noon hour Friday. This story will be updated after the show. You can listen live. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and after 10 years of pursuing music professionally, Lloyd Nicks couldn’t have anticipated the year 2020 being his biggest yet. But last summer, everything changed when one of his songs started hitting airwaves across the U.S. “During quarantine I released ‘Never Fail,’ and it kind of just went crazy,�...

Originally published on February 8, 2021 8:22 pm As soon as some people hear the word “data,” they start to tune out. But not Allyson Mayer: She associates huge amounts of information with hope. It was a handful of years ago, as a doctoral student at Washington University, that the exciting possibilities of data first really struck her. “I realized, ‘I just generated all this data myself; so did my classmates,’” Mayer recalled in a recent interview with theSTL.com. “I remember th...

Originally published on February 5, 2021 6:13 pm Bubonic plague. Influenza. The Red Death. An infection of zombies. For Marie Lathers, reading fiction about these and other pandemics has proved to be a surprisingly comforting experience over the past year. “Every text you read, even from back in the Middle Ages, you recognize a lot of things,” Lathers explained to St. Louis on the Air. “It’s the same fears, same angers, the hoarding, looting and despair. It’s comforting to realize w...

As the coronavirus pandemic and political turmoil drag on into the new year, the related stress is exacerbating mental health issues such as anxiety and

Ever since it opened in 1997, Cooper House has prided itself on offering a vibrant quality of life to people who are unable to live independently as a

Originally published on January 11, 2021 8:37 pm It was 1979 when Terri Krueger was hired at KSDK. Fresh out of journalism school at Mizzou, she was determined to work as a news photographer in her hometown. There was just one catch: No woman had ever done that. So Krueger took a job as a production assistant at KSDK, going out with the crews at night without pay to prove herself. In just one year, the news director offered her a job. But, she recalled, he had three conditions: take the worst ...

Originally published on December 18, 2020 7:35 pm On Tuesday, St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent Kelvin Adams agreed to delay for one month the school board vote on a plan to close 10 schools and transition another. Adams had asked for the closures in light of declining enrollment. But activists, alumni and local politicians have pushed back on the closure plans, claiming they were rushed and came with too little public notice. The city’s Board of Aldermen voted 19-1 on a resolution opp...