Sarah Fenske
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Executive editor at @stlmag , STLPR Legal Roundtable host, Donnybrook combatant. RIP, RFT. Seeker of truth, maker of mischief. Email sfenske @stlmag .com
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Is it just me or is it almost impossible to connect with local news on Twitter anymore? There's a solution to that, St. Louis.... our new
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A Missouri teen, Mary Walton, started recording after her geometry teacher used the n-word multiple times in class. The video went viral, even though Walton didn't post it on social media. Now Walton has been suspended.
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Call me crazy, but I feel like if you or I crashed our cars into the front of a building in the wee hours of the morning, they'd give us a toxicology test
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“We will continue to dissect Sen. Hawley and understand what it is that makes him upset, and we will continue to do that until he decides it’s no longer worth the effort to continue to serve as United States Senator."
@reedgalen
via
@STLonAir
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A St. Louis County woman was arrested after police claimed she repeatedly attacked two officers. Bystander video shows a much different scene -- instead showing the officers hitting HER. Yet prosecutors continue to press charges. New at
@stlmag
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@Cindy79499276
@RiverfrontTimes
There is definitely a "chilling effect" in actions like this. I'd love to see people rally behind this brave student
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Breaking news by
@RyanWKrull
: the police officer accused of giving Bar:PM's co-owner a black eye was previously accused of breaking multiple bones of an arrestee in 2019. Full story:
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For everyone shocked at Mike Moon's attitude toward child marriage, it's important to remember he is not alone in Missouri. Far from it, as
@D_Towski
explained a few years back
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And with that, the RFT has left the building. Much gratitude to Wash U Libraries for stepping into preserve 46 years of St. Louis history — and print journalism
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A woman called the sheriff's department to say she'd found a dog wandering after a storm. Rather than try to find Parker's owners, deputies shot him -- and then, when he didn't die, shot him again 8 minutes later. Unbelievable cruelty from Stoddard County:
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Well, on this story the RFT got scooped, and
@stlpublicradio
has a good overview of what we know about its future. It breaks my heart that the good stories we were working on won't be published. It breaks my heart that good people lost their jobs today
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St. Louis vs. errrbody
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A St. Charles County man illegally sold guns throughout Missouri -- approximately 250. At least 30 ended up at crime scenes. Now he's been sentenced to, that's right, probation
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First they sought to criminalize school librarians. Now, after library associations dared to push back, the Missouri GOP is going after public library funding
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Some professional news: I've accepted a job as executive editor for Euclid Media. In a month, I'll be supervising the editorial content for papers in Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati, Louisville & St. Louis (yes, the RFT!). Through June 22, you can still catch me at 12 on
@STLonAir
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Some professional news: I'm excited to share that
@RyanWKrull
and I are getting the band back together (at least the two-man version!). We launch a new daily newsletter and podcast via
@stlmag
next month. Sign up via now so you don't miss a thing
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Gotta love a lady from Brentwood buying up 39 condemned houses in St. Louis, thereby stopping residents from rehabbing them -- and then using them to prey on the city's most vulnerable residents. This suit is a bombshell, and it's exciting to see
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Devastating. St. Louis city's first Covid-19 fatality was 31, had "no known" prior medical conditions
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Neighbor is getting a new roof. The roofers were working when I got the paper at 7 am and working when I returned home at 7 pm. It was 100 degrees and muggy in St. Louis today … and I am never complaining about my job again
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Despite Dred Scott's massive impact on American history, the only marker on his grave at St. Louis' Calvary Cemetery is an ordinary 2 1/2 foot headstone. His great-great granddaughter wants to change that -- but she needs your help
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"Police cruiser crashes into bar, then police arrest bar owner" is just about the most St. Louis story ever
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The worst thing about the new AI-generated RFT is that the old RFT isn’t around to mercilessly make fun of it
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The Cardinals indoctrination starts so early in this town, all the 3-year-olds at daycare are wearing jerseys and ballcaps .... in St. Louis babies apparently come with Cardinals apparel for each developmental stage, from newborn to toddler
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Dear people driving 75 miles or more to work, let me tell you about this magical place called St. Louis where *everything* is a 20-minute drive or less and there are lovely houses just a mile or two from downtown
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The FBI tracked Ferguson activist Darren Seals as a "self-described revolutionary who has espoused somewhat militant rhetoric and has access to weapons" -- and even had him pulled over by local police. Story by
@RyanWKrull
via a FOIA by
@autisticoop
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The 3-year-old surveys her first game at Busch Stadium. “Is everyone in the world here?!?”
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Bystander video contradicts the St. Louis Police account of what happened yesterday at Bar:PM, says attorney Javad Khazaeli. "They falsely claim that speaking loudly is against the law. And they use that as a predicate to arrest Mr. Morris."
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Feels a bit unfair that the 'QAnon Shaman' sucked up so much attention and we're only now hearing about the 'Colonial Cosplayer' from Missouri
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New: St. Louis Police crashed into a church sign -- and then covered their tracks to the point that the church's pastor assumed the damage was vandalism. Months later, he's still waiting for answers
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Bombshell press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office: the brothers behind Lux Living/Asprient/CityWide have been indicted for attempting to defraud the city of St. Louis
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I’m in one of the all-time great St. Louis bars and it feels good
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One of the fanciest suburbs in St. Louis, and the streets are filled with protesters
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At Wesley Bell's victory party last night over Congresswoman Cori Bush,
@RyanWKrull
talked to the Rev. Phillip Duvall, who supported Bush over Lacy Clay in 2020 but this time supported Bell. “I don’t need a protestor," he said. "I need a congressperson."
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That's one vanity trip for a super-rich man, nothing at all for mankind
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Do any St. Louis restaurants have curbside margaritas to go? Let’s just pretend I’m asking for a friend
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I moved to St. Louis from Arizona and never changed my AZ phone number -- and now I'm really second-guessing that. Suddenly a 314 area code feels like a true status symbol, a proof of belonging.
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Reupping this today for no particular reason, really
The worst thing about the new AI-generated RFT is that the old RFT isn’t around to mercilessly make fun of it
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Here's why rape victims shouldn't get an exception from abortion laws, per Rep. Barry Hovis. "Most of the rapes" he saw in law enforcement didn't involve "gentlemen jumping out of bushes. Most of them were date rapes or consensual rapes..."
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Welp,
@RyanWKrull
got the video of a police SUV swerving to avoid basically nothing and then crashing into Bar: PM. And it's exactly what you'd expect:
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@PaulPetruska
@stlmag
Except they tend to move much faster to dismiss these things when you're famous! This nurse has now lost two jobs over the pending charges
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Congresswoman Cori Bush boasted of helping a Jewish, AIPAC-affiliated constituent who'd collapsed at an event. But the constituent says there's a problem with the story: She has no association with AIPAC and she's not Jewish
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I know the Brentwood Target remains the worst — but fighting zoo traffic to get to the St. Louis Art Museum on a lovely weekend morning is still a special kind of hell
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Prosecutors have dropped all charges against the co-owner of Bar:PM, who was arrested after St. Louis Police crashed into his bar. The decision comes as the lengthy record of misconduct complaints against the officer who made the arrest has become public
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The St. Louis Police officer who handcuffed one of the owners of Bar:PM within 30 seconds of arriving, after cops crashed an SUV into the bar, has left the department.
@RyanWKrull
has the scoop:
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This is really, really bad news for anyone who cares about journalism in St. Louis (which ought to be everyone in St. Louis)
NEW: Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known for cutting journalists at local papers to maximize profits, has announced an offer to acquire Lee Enterprises, a local newspaper firm, for $24 per share. (Statement below)
— Alden acquired remainder of Tribune earlier this year
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Instead of hiring John Goodman to do voiceovers, I want Explore St. Louis to license this video of Lizzo dancing in front of
@GatewayArchSTL
. This is the glow up STL needs
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Running the streets of St. Louis, you become keenly aware of what we lost by digging giant highway trenches through neighborhoods
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Running for Senate, Josh Hawley derided
@clairecmc
as "Air Claire." Now he's spending six figures of campaign cash to fly private. Scoop by
@RyanWKrull
at
@stlmag
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Pro tip: If you want to get a certain sort of St. Louisan wound up, write a story about how a study has concluded the Gateway Arch is "America's safest national park." Half of the region now appears to be foaming at the mouth over this one
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This being St. Louis, someone I know must know *someone* who was trapped in the Arch yesterday and lived to tell the tale.
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Inbox: St. Louis city and county to reinstate their mask mandate for all indoor public places, starting Monday
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Who wants to hate on the St. Louis Wheel being used for a gender reveal with me?
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Why did Missouri hold a mass vaccination event in a town with just 65 residents while its big cities go begging? The state's rollout boggles the mind
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For Sarah Fenske Day, I hereby decree that the gin must flow, the drivers must stop at crosswalks and everybody must read the story before commenting on it. Is that too much to ask?
In honor of today being
@sarahfenske
's last day hosting a live show as host of
@STLonAir
,
@saintlouismayor
Tishaura O. Jones has declared June 22, 2022 Sarah Fenske Day in the City of
#StLouis
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Alderwoman
@CaraSpencerSTL
's bill to prohibit the open carry of firearms in St. Louis without a concealed carry permit won 16-0 approval today -- enough to override any potential mayoral veto
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@rjberner46
Why wouldn't there be reasonable suspicion if someone smashed into the front of a bar on an empty street? Maybe I've been in St. Louis too long, but that seems to immediately suggest impaired driving
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Never underestimate a child’s desire to possess toy versions of your most tedious appliances. My 3-year-old is freaking out. “It’s what I always wanted!” To do laundry???
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Royce Hotchkiss' walk across St. Louis proved something most of us city dwellers will happily tell you, if you ask: "It's great; you'll see."
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Union Station has become a three-year family tradition for my 5-year-old’s birthday— and I’m blown away by how it just gets better each year. A great family experience
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Hot damn, the expanded
@CitygardenSTL
is sensational. Once they turn the splash pad on and open Burger 809, my kids are never leaving
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Wow, I worked years for this great honor. Thanks, Facebook!
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The St. Louis Police Officers Association has terminated the employment of Jeff Roorda -- the controversial spokesman who wished Darren Wilson a "HAPPY ALIVE DAY" on the anniversary of Michael Brown's death ... among many other acts
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A wonderful thing about St. Louis is that even in the dead of winter, every three weeks or so you get the most wonderful reprieve and the sun shines and it’s like a little promise of spring
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Fed-up St. Louisans are fleeing Missouri for Illinois -- what one lawmaker calls an "uncountable diaspora" of red state refugees
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Hanging out in Pittsburgh and struck by how woefully St. Louis fails to take advantage of its river. Check out this riverfront walkway lined with benches ... where you can just sit and admire the view
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🤷♀️
My name is JD (
@jdavis
) and I’m your new Executive Editor. Here’s why I accepted this position & how I plan to save RFT 🧵 [1/11]
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Dred Scott's great-great-great granddaughter Lynne Jackson has been raising money for a proper monument for her famous ancestor since 2020, and thanks to her dedication and crowd-funding, it's finally led to a monument at Calvary Cemetery
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This story is a frustrating example of why we can't have nice things -- and why visitors to St. Louis are frequently left with complaints about the experience
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Gotta give mad props to my neighborhood
@SchnuckMarkets
. Despite y’all trying to induce panic on social media, those shelves were stocked. Toilet paper! Soap! Gin!
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So hard to remember that “Hoosier” is not an insult anywhere but Missouri
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Someone tell Josh Hawley he can drop the phony accent: Turns out fewer than 10 percent of Missouri voters now say "Missour-uh," according to a new
@SLUPoll
:
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Can't say I saw this coming: Embattled St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is currently enrolled in an advanced nursing program at Saint Louis University. Her spokesperson wouldn't answer
@RyanWKrull
's questions about the time commitment
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Struck by the fact that Missouri Governor Mike Parson devoted just one line in his State of the State address to the issue I suspect many residents care most about: vaccine distribution.
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In the Midwest, drivers share a fervent conviction that cars must form an orderly single-file line *at least* one mile before any road blockage. The zipper merge is reserved for coastal hellholes where people don't write thank-you notes
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Right now, says
@CaraSpencerSTL
, Kansas City requires anyone openly carrying a firearm in its borders to have a concealed-carry permit. St. Louis doesn't -- but could. She hopes her bill to require permits could be a game changer for a city ravaged by guns
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One of an introvert's great pleasures, writes
@writesjenna
, is living vicariously through Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper as they drunkenly banter on New Year's Eve. Don't let the Ryan Seacrests of the world take that away from us!
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Seeing my four-year-old point at the pink-washed sky right now and shout, “Mommy, my first rainbow! My first rainbow!” just canceled out a whole lot of this week’s unhappiness
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One of Missouri's finest has been arrested in D.C.
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Wait so Uber drivers aren’t bound by priest-penitent privilege and required to keep our tawdry secrets??? Very distressing tbh
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You go, girls! St. Louis has more women-owned startups than any other metro area in the U.S.
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Here to announce an 8th circle of hell has just been detected and it’s the parking lot at Johnnie Brock’s Dungeon on Halloween weekend
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Of the 1,900 homicides in St. Louis city from 2014 through 2023, 1,000+ remain unsolved. Black people made up around 90% of those killed. Police solved fewer than half of those killings, but cleared nearly two-thirds involving white victims.
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Is there any 80s kid who can look at a dead mall without a pang in their heart? (Even if so, I am not among them.) These Chesterfield Mall photos make me nostalgic for a mall I never even visited
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If you ever find your ego growing too large, I highly recommend commissioning a portrait from a four-year-old.
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Three LGBTQ St. Louis bars received threatening calls yesterday,
@RyanWKrull
reports . In one, the unnamed caller said he was coming in at 3 a.m. to "shoot the place up" and used a slur for gay men, saying he was "tired of" them
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I have found the hill I will die upon
“Our low income St. Louisans are right now being failed by our bus system.”
@sarahfenske
says the bus system needs to be improved before Metrolink is expanded.
#DonnybrookSTL
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My friend Mike became convinced "hoosier" needed a collective (you know, "herd of cattle," "murder of crows," etc). He came up with "a gravois of hoosiers." I slipped it into the RFT a few years back. One of my greatest disappointments is that it failed to take off from there
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Being a woman in America means each day confronting an existential question: Do I dress for the temperature outside, or I dress to withstand the icy blasts of air my employer plans to torture me with
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"Who's Chuck Berry???" the intern asked, and now I am deceased
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It's a St. Louis miracle: The Board of Aldermen has agreed to new rules that will block members from participating in meetings while behind the wheel
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Our hotel is no longer offering newspapers because of “Covid safety protocols” and yet the breakfast buffet is packed
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