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Update: Covering our youth 🎬☺️📚🤓🎥
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Lots of news in the St. Louis Public Schools community today! Sharing this here:
City of St. Louis Education community
October 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Today 🖤
July 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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📺 Watch here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/business-of-disaster/
June 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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💡Beyond the money, "The Business of Disaster" showed how prolonged recovery wore people down. Stress. Anxiety. Depression. For many, the aftermath was worse than the storm. But the film also offers lessons about oversight, equity & what must change before the next disaster.
June 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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📄🌀In New York and New Jersey, lower-income & minority communities often waited the longest. Confusing policies, endless paperwork & unqualified caseworkers from high-priced consulting firms delayed help—leaving families displaced for years.
June 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🏚️ These doctored reports led to flood insurance underpayments. Survivors were told their damage was pre-existing or unrelated. Many felt ignored, denied, or even blamed for their own devastation.
June 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🔍🚨 Engineering firms hired by insurers were caught fraudulently altering damage reports—ignoring photo and physical evidence. This was also confirmed by Congressional oversight and audits found flaws in claims processing.
June 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Recovery in STL after the May 16 has me reflecting on a past disaster I covered. The silences after storms tell their own story...

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In college, I worked w/ PBS Frontline for a documentary where I interviewed families whose homes were destroyed by Superstorm Sandy. "Business of Disaster" uncovered how insurance companies profited $400 million—while survivors were left fighting to rebuild. 🧵Insight for STL
June 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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📸 Seen some great coverage this week in St. Louis. The role that media and narratives play is powerful, influential and essential. Here are just a few reminders.

Also please take care of yourselves. This is hard, necessary work!
May 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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The Shelley House in St. Louis was at the center of Shelley v. Kraemer, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that struck down enforcement of racially restrictive housing covenants.

Path of the tornado in St. Louis followed the lines of race and power the ruling challenged at its core.
May 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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The house next door had its roof blown off, but the Shelley House still stands on Labadie in St. Louis after the May 16 tornado.

The national landmark is central to a pivotal civil rights case that challenged racial housing discrimination and reshaped U.S. housing law.
May 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Glad this story keeps traveling.

A front-page in Texas Metro News. A TV sit-down with KSDK. On air with St. Louis Public Radio. Grateful this piece on pretrial monitoring is sparking real conversations—in & beyond Missouri.

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#GPSmonitoring #InvestigativeReporting #PublicSafety #JusticeReform
April 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM