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Last time we spoke about the Jiangqiao Campaign and resistance of Ma Zhanshan. Ma Zhanshan, born in poverty in 1885, rose to prominence through his exceptional skills and military service. Appointed acting governor of Heilongjiang during the 1931 Mukden Incident, he defied orders to surrender to Japanese forces. Leading a spirited defense of the Nenjiang Bridge, Ma's troops repelled repeated Japanese assaults despite heavy casualties. His resistance inspired national pride and drew global attention. Ultimately outnumbered, Ma's forces retreated, but his bravery became a symbol of Chinese resistance to invasion. On December 7, Japanese and puppet troops attacked Sanjianfang, but Chinese forces, led by Ma Zhanshan, mounted a fierce counterattack, inflicting heavy casualties. Despite being outnumbered and lacking resources, the defenders showcased remarkable bravery, even shooting down an enemy aircraft. After intense fighting, Ma's troops withdrew to avoid further losses, facing starvation and exhaustion. Though Qiqihar fell to the Japanese, Ma's resistance inspired national pride and calls for unity against the invaders, drawing support from across China.   #141 The First Tientsin Incident Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. This episode is going to be dealing with an old friend of ours, Mr Colonel Kenji Doihara. Now I don't think I dabbled much in the early history of Doihara, so where better to start. Doihara was born in Okayama City of Okayama prefecture in 1883. He attended military preparatory schools in his youth and would graduate 16th of his class at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1904. His first assignment was to an infantry regiment as a junior officer, before he returned to school where he graduated 24th in his class at the Army Staff College in 1912. During his military and academic years he learnt how to speak Mandarin fluently, alongside picking up some other Chinese language dialects. Because of his language skills he was chosen for military intelligence, specifically targeting China. During the early 1920's he took up various postings in Northern China. During 1921-1922 he took part in the Siberian Intervention. In 1926 he was attached to the 2nd IJA regiment, the next year the 3rd IJA regiment. In 1928 he took an official tour of China attached to the 1st IJA Division. It was that same year he was made a military adviser to Zhang Zuolin, whose death he most certainly had a heavy hand in. In 1929 he received a promotion to Colonel and was given command of the IJA 30th regiment. In 1931 he was made head of the special service section of the Kwantung Army stationed in Mukden.  As we are quite now familiar with, Doihara was part of the team that engineered the Mukden incident. It was he who ordered Lt Suemori Komoto to place and detonate the bomb on the tracks. Doihara would become a key agent during the conquest of Manchuria, being one of those specialists who helped facilitate cooperation between the Manchurian officials such as Zhang Haipeng, Zhang Jinghui and Xi Qia. However Doihara also performed covert operations during this time period, quite bold in scale. Believe it or not one of these rather insane operations would be to try and restore the Qing Dynasty. Shocking I know, who would want that old corrupt thing restored? You would be surprised how many old Manchu loyalists were still kicking around and how many youth saw China to be such a pit of despair, they would rather turn the clock back to a time they assumed was better for China.  The Japanese had sunk their teeth into two provinces of Manchuria and only needed to seize the last one for total conquest of China's northeast. On September 22nd a secret meeting was held in the Kwantung Army chief of staff office. There Doihara presented a new plan to ensure the establishment of a new puppet state in Manchuria and possibly inner Mongolia. The plan was to kidnap the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi. After the Xinhai revolution, Puyi continued to live in the forbidden city, however in 1924 he was expelled by Feng Yuxiang and took refuge in the Japanese concession in Tientsin. Puyi had met with many Japanese military and civilian leaders during his stay in Tientsin. He had a distant relative and occasional house guest named Yoshiko Kawashima who just happened to be a close confidant of Doihara. Doihara and his like minded colleagues presented Puyi with a scheme, they would seize Manchuria and restore the Qing throne over it, forming a new state with Puyi as its emperor. For Puyi it seemed like a stepping stone to restoring Qing rule over all of China, but he certainly feared becoming a puppet to the Japanese. Doihara planned to kidnap Puyi, but he had a tight timetable as it was going to be necessary to depart from the port of Yingkou, which was soon to freeze over. Therefore his operation needed to be concluded prior to November 16th. Doihara was a meticulous man in his work, but his plan was leaked. The Japanese foreign Minister Kijuro Shidehara had learnt of his scheme to kidnap Puyi and instructed the Japanese consul general at Tientsin to oppose Doihara. On November the 1st, the Consul-General contacted Doihara, but Doihara responded that if the Emperor was willing to risk his life by returning to Manchuria, it would be easy to make the entire affair seem as if it was instigated by Qing restorationists. He further added that he would talk to Puyi and if he was unwilling, he would dispatch a telegram to the military authorities at Mukden to call the entire operation off. The next day, Doihara visited Puyi and told him the time was ripe and there would never be an opportunity like such again. He stated Japan would recognize him as the Emperor of an independent Manchu state and form a military alliance with said state against China proper if they attacked. Puyi dragged his foot on the issue without giving a concrete answer. Meanwhile the consul-general continued to dissuade Doihara, and a Chinese newspaper in Tientsin called Yishie reported on November 3rd, that Doihara had secretly come to the city and was taking a residence in Tokiwa Hotel. The next day the same newspaper confirmed that Doihara had come to the city for a few days. Under stress, Doihara resorted to a very Doihara scheme. He sent Puyi a bomb in a basket of fruit with a threatening letter allegedly from the Iron Blood Group. He also planned a riot. Doihara hunted down 2000 Chinese, bandits, triads, soldiers, hooligans, drug addicts and such. He used the foreign concession as a HQ and began issuing the men weapons procured from Itagaki. They were going to be unleashed on November 8th and they would attack targets such as the Hebei Provincial Government building, the Public Security Bureau and a police station near the Jingang Bridge. Allegedly each man was paid 40 Mexican dollars by their Japanese agents. The rioters would be colloquially known as the plainclothes members, as they were dressed in civilian attire. One of their members, a man named Ma Longting who was later captured by Chinese authorities, under interrogation stated they had received arms from the “International Apartments” ie: Japanese officials at the concession and likewise received training from the Japanese. "My detachment was located at No. 5 Yuqingli in the Japanese Concession. The detachments were stationed in the International Apartments and Huazhong Apartments. We received guns from the International Apartments. The first detachment received 20 pistols; the second detachment received 25 pistols; the third and fourth detachments each received 20 pistols. Each gun had 100 bullets. The meal allowance for each person was 1 yuan, 60 cents, or 40 cents a day. I received a total of 5,000 yuan (the currency at the time). After receiving the guns, the detachments were divided into Zhongyuan Company, Weishengchi, Laojiuzhang, and Luzhuangzi to deploy defenses in order to attack the Chinese area. The Japanese followed with guns to supervise us. When we reached the Sino-Japanese border, the Japanese retreated and put up an electric fence. We were caught in a dilemma and were captured." Another captured plainclothes member, named Zhang Jinhai gave his life story and involvement during interrogations. He had lived in a small house at Taikoo Wharf in Tanggu. He made a living unloading cargo from ships, earning roughly 20 cents a day. A man had approached him to asking if he would take up a job as a plainclothes. He agreed and went through intense training under Japanese officers every day and was paid 20 cents per day. At 1pm one day, he alongside 7 other members each carrying a pistol, boarded a train for Tientsin. There they were to assemble at QianDezhuang for further information. However before he could do so he was captured at East Station near the East floating bridge. The riots were done by two separate plainclothes teams who were manipulated and supported by Japan. The first rioted from the evening of November 8th to noon of the 20th, the second from the 26th to the 30th.  On the night of the 8th, the Japanese garrison HQ ordered a large number of plainclothes to depart the Japanese concession to suddenly and violently attack the Chinese government offices. This was intentionally done during a time period in which there was meeting with the League of Nations on the 12th. Therefore obviously the Japanese were eager to make it seem Chinese hooligans, such as the notorious Green or Red Gangs were creating havoc in Tientsin prior to said meeting. The Japanese hoped this would provide an excuse for not having to withdraw their troops in Manchuria as the Kwantung army at this time was attacking the Jinxi area. Many Japanese officers believed the Manchurian army would not resist and simply retreat once the riots broke out. It would mean Tientsin was within their reach and would dramatically alter the North China situation.  Wang Shuchang, the chairman of Hebei's provincial government and Zhang Xueming the Mayor of Tientsin and director of its security bureau were informed 3 days prior to the riots from the a Special Agent team of the Public security Bureau that "the Japanese military and consulate stationed in Tianjin have instigated our frustrated military personnel Zhang Bi, Li Jichun , some leaders of the Tianjin Green and Red Gang, and famous bandit leaders Cao Huayang, Xiao Yunfeng, Gao Pengjiu, etc. to organize plainclothes teams to carry out riots." After receiving said report, Wang Shuchang convened a joint meeting of provincial and municipal military, political and security officials to come up with countermeasures. He divided the security police teams into groups and placed them all on high alert, issuing out guns and ammunition. He proclaimed during the meeting "I am a soldier and have the responsibility to defend my territory. If there are riots and disturbances in Tianjin, we must adapt to the circumstances, use a combination of firmness and flexibility, think carefully, and make appropriate plans to resolve them. But I will never be like Zang Shiyi (Zang was the chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Government when Japan attacked Shenyang), a national sinner, and let the elders and brothers of Tianjin scold me for being incompetent." He then slammed the table and adjourned the meeting. Some gangsters and bandits gathered by the Japanese were familiar with the special forces of the Public Security Bureau. They reported that the uprising was initially planned for the evening of the 7th. However, due to the heightened alert and concerns for the young emperor Puyi, the Japanese military camp temporarily informed them to postpone the attack to the evening of November 8th. At that time, the alarm bell at the Japanese military camp in Haiguang Temple rang, signaling the plainclothes team to mobilize. Using Datong Apartment to the west of Zhongyuan Company in the Japanese Concession and Wanguo Apartment on Furong Street as their bases, they advanced toward Machang Road, Caochang Temple, and the fish market area, opening fire on us. Simultaneously, the Japanese Concession had arranged for security at various key intersections, with the Japanese garrison and military police also deploying together. That night, over a thousand volunteers organized by Japanese expatriates in the concession were armed and stationed at important roads. The Japanese military police, believing that the plainclothes team they had organized was merely a mob incapable of fighting, actually fired weapons in the Japanese Concession to rally them. The sounds of gunfire echoed throughout the night. Two hours prior to the plainclothes team's assault, the security team and the Public Security Bureau implemented the strategy devised by Chairman Wang. To manage the ensuing chaos, a temporary curfew was imposed, and all traffic at intersections near the Japanese concession was completely halted. The security teams set up their defenses in accordance with Chairman Wang's directives. He also instructed all officers and soldiers of the Tenth Army to prepare for the defense of Tianjin at a standard readiness level and to brace for a large-scale invasion by Japanese forces landing in Tanggu. Around 10:30, a plainclothes team of approximately 2,000 individuals emerged from the vicinity of Haiguang Temple in the Japanese Concession, following their prearranged plan. The Japanese provided cover and oversight from behind, firing into the Chinese territory. They successfully seized control of six stations in the first district of the Public Security Bureau in Nanshi, close to the Japanese Concession, as well as six stations in the second district at Haiguang Temple, while separately harassing the south gate of Dongmalu. The first captain of the security battalion, Bai Lunbi, and the third captain, Li Yinpo, led the security team and police in a courageous effort to block and repel the attackers step by step. By around noon, the six stations in the first district were reclaimed. However, the plainclothes team continued their assaults on various locations. That night, over ten rioters from the plainclothes team and numerous firearms were captured. Upon inspection, most of the weapons were Japanese-made Type 38 rifles and new guns produced by the Shenyang Arsenal in Northeast China, which had not yet been delivered to us. The riot orchestrated by the plainclothes team, under the guidance and manipulation of the Japanese garrison, transformed the once-thriving Tianjin into a ghost town overnight. Even Asahi Street, typically bustling with activity, was left deserted. Around 1:00 a.m. on November 9, plainclothes teams launched coordinated attacks from various intersections. One group targeted the Public Security Bureau from the northern gate but was unsuccessful due to heightened security. Meanwhile, another plainclothes unit disrupted the South City and assaulted the Second District Six Office, leading to a retreat of the police forces. The Japanese soldiers then took control of the office and raised their flag. In the southeast corner of the city, at Caochang Temple, a fierce battle ensued, ultimately resulting in the defeat of the plainclothes attackers. the Public Security Bureau cavalry and security team sustained some casualties. By 5:00 a.m., despite a night of disturbances and looting, the plainclothes team ultimately failed in their efforts. The Japanese military at Haiguang Temple then resorted to diplomatic tactics, issuing a verbal warning to Wang Shuchang. They claimed that the Chinese security team had attacked the plainclothes group, resulting in injuries and fatalities among Japanese soldiers due to stray bullets, which they argued endangered the lives of overseas Chinese in the Japanese concession. They demanded that the Chinese security team and police withdraw 300 meters by 6 am, threatening to take action otherwise. This unreasonable demand clearly had ulterior motives. Observing that the plainclothes team, supported and directed by the Japanese army at Haiguang Temple, lacked combat capability and that the Japanese army was not directly involved, Wang decided to avoid escalating the situation. He ordered a withdrawal of 300 meters from the blocked entrance to the Japanese concession while maintaining close surveillance. This order was issued and executed at 5:30 am on the 9th. However, the Japanese army violated their promise and fired over 30 cannon rounds at 6:40 am One shell struck an earthen shed of a store about 100 meters east of the Public Security Bureau, while another exploded at the intersection of Sanma Road in Special District 2. Fortunately, due to the cold weather in late autumn, most people were indoors, and the streets were empty, resulting in no casualties. At that moment, the plainclothes team, supported by Japanese artillery, regrouped near the gate area and launched a significant attack against us. However, due to the security team being on high alert and defending valiantly, the plainclothes team ultimately failed. By noon, the gunfire had diminished, but the Chinese area remained deserted, with no pedestrians in the Japanese concession, except for a few Japanese soldiers and residents. At 5 pm, the plainclothes team initiated another harassment operation in the Wandezhuang area outside the South Gate, leading to continued gunfire. After a fierce battle, the attackers retreated. As the evening progressed, the gunfire became less frequent. According to intelligence reports, "The plainclothes team is preparing for a general assault in Tianjin. Wang Shuchang and Mayor Zhang have visited various locations to enforce strict precautions and have also telegraphed General Zhang Xueliang in Beiping." However, it remained calm until late at night on the 9th. On the 9th, 61 plainclothes rioters were apprehended. Ten were shot at the scene, all of whom were leaders involved in looting, arson, and pillaging; 37 were sent to Beiping, and three were killed by the security team. The remaining individuals were taken to the Second Army Headquarters for strict interrogation and subsequently handed over to the military court for prosecution. It was discovered that the headquarters of the plainclothes riot were located in Datong Apartment, Wanguo Apartment, Taipingli, and other sites within the Japanese Concession. Before dawn on the 10th, the plainclothes team hurried from the Japanese concession and Haiguang Temple into the Chinese territory. The most intense fighting erupted around the first district, the six schools, and Nankai Middle School. The sounds of cannon fire and heavy gunfire echoed back and forth. Nankai and the Nanshi area were suddenly shrouded in darkness. Two fully armed Japanese tanks patrolled along the riverbank, instilling fear among the citizens of Tianjin. Early on the 10th, the security team bravely searched for gangsters in the conflict zone. By around 7 am, they had recovered five rifles and 50 rounds of ammunition near Nankai. At 7:45, 26 members of the plainclothes team, along with seven rifles, numerous gray military uniforms, and three flags, were captured in Shengcai Village. Concurrently, five rifles and over 30 bullets were found in a public restroom at the South Gate. Subsequently, the plainclothes team attempted several attacks throughout Tianjin but was thwarted by the security team each time until the 20th. After the Chinese and Japanese sides reached an agreement on restoring Tianjin's status before November 8, the defensive structures in the Chinese area were gradually dismantled, leading to a steady improvement in the situation. Around 3 pm on November 22, Mayor Zhang dispatched representatives Ning Xiangnan, Shen Dijia, Jie Ruchuan, Jia Guofu, along with Japanese leader Goto, staff officer Miura, and translator Yoshida, to conduct a follow-up inspection at Dongmalu after the defenses were removed. The order in the area was commendable, and the defensive installations in the Japanese concession had also been taken down. Both parties expressed satisfaction with the outcome, and all shops in the Japanese concession were open for business. However, at 8:00 pm on November 26, gunfire erupted once more, accompanied by the sounds of machine guns and artillery. Sudden gunshots rang out from Xiguangkai and the White Bone Tower, which appeared to be a covert signal. Machine gun fire was reported in the southeast corner of the city, near the Kawasaki Foreign Company in the Japanese concession, as well as at the gate, Nanguan Xiatou, Haiguang Temple, and other locations. Simultaneously, the booming of mortars echoed throughout the city, plunging it into a state of panic. Japanese officers took direct command of the operations, targeting the Dongfuqiao Public Security Bureau and the Jingangqiao Provincial Government. The artillery was aimed toward Haiguang Temple at the gate. Fortunately, both locations were unoccupied, and the shells fired did not cause any damage. By around 7:00 pm the Japanese had repositioned the electric fences in the Japanese concession, stacked sandbags, and heightened their alertness. Additional infantry police were deployed at key intersections, and the Japanese-organized volunteer army was also mobilized. The gate was in close proximity to the Public Security Bureau at Dongfu Bridge, making the situation particularly tense. The plainclothes team gathered on the main street near the gate, while the Japanese army strictly prohibited pedestrians from passing through. The Mitsui & Co. building, which was tall and faced the Haihe River, allowed access to the Public Security Bureau along the river. The Japanese had also prepared command flags in advance to direct the plainclothes team in an assault on the gate. The situation was quite critical at the southern end of Nanguan Street, particularly at the intersection of Nanshi and China, as well as at the southeast corner of the city. Key locations within the Japanese concession, including Jinshan Pharmacy, Xinming Grand Theater, Zhongyuan Company, the Japanese Public Hospital, Laojiuzhang Silk Shop, Taichang Pawnshop, and Shengdeli Building, were also under tight security. Consequently, this second plainclothes riot was a coordinated effort by the Japanese to undermine public security in Tianjin, aligning with developments in the Northeast, with the ultimate goal of further occupying and seizing Tianjin. On the 27th, a plainclothes unit operating under Japanese command launched a fierce assault on the gate around 1 a.m., retreating only after facing a counterattack from the forces. Beginning on the 28th, the Japanese military significantly increased its troop presence, creating a tense atmosphere that compelled the Tianjin authorities to withdraw their security team back to Hebei and dismantle all fortifications. This allowed the Japanese army to bolster its military presence in Tianjin, although they were unable to gain control of the city. While the plainclothes riots were being planned, Doihara was talking with Puyi. On November 3rd, Doihara met with him at the Jingyuan Garden in Tientsin. In his memoirs Puyi stated Doihara was a Japanese soldier who had made his entire career by invading China. He was 48 years old when they were speaking and the muscles around his eyes showed signs of relaxation. He had a small mustache and his face was always gentle and he acted very respectfully. His smile always gave the impression that everything he said was unreliable however. "He asked about my health and then got down to business. He first explained that the Japanese army's actions were only aimed at Zhang Xueliang, saying that Zhang Xueliang "made Manchuria miserable, and the rights, lives and property of the Japanese could not be guaranteed, so Japan had no choice but to send troops. He said that the Kwantung Army had no territorial ambitions for Manchuria, but only "sincerely wanted to help the Manchurian people and build their own new country. He hoped that I would not miss this opportunity and return to the birthplace of my ancestors soon to lead this country in person; Japan would sign an offensive and defensive alliance with this country, and its sovereign territory would be fully protected by Japan; as the head of this country, I could do everything on my own.” Puyi was extremely weary of the entire thing. Here is a transcript of some of their conversation as told to us through the memories of Puyi: I still had a very important question in my mind, so I asked: “What kind of country is this new country?” "I have already said that it is independent and autonomous, and the Emperor Xuantong has the final say." "That's not what I'm asking. I want to know whether this country is a republic or a monarchy? Is it an empire?" "These problems can be solved in Shenyang." "No," I insisted, "if it is a restoration, I will go, otherwise I will not go." He smiled and said in the same tone: "Of course it is the Empire, there is no problem with that." "If it's the Empire, I can go!" I expressed my satisfaction. "Then please ask the Emperor Xuantong to leave as soon as possible, and arrive in Manchuria before the 16th. We will discuss the details when we arrive in Shenyang. Yoshida will arrange the departure."  Afterwards Doihara congratulated Puyi on his safe journey, bowing respectfully to him. After Doihara left, Puyi met with Jin Liang who had come with Doihara. He brought further news from Manchurian veterans led by Yuan Jinkai, stating they could call upon the old Northeast Army to surrender. After enduring various forms of coercion, inducement, threats, and intimidation, Puyi was concealed in the trunk of a two-seater saloon car on the evening of November 10, just three days following the Tientsin Incident. As planned, he was driven out of Jingyuan. With the covert protection of the Japanese secret service, he changed into Japanese military attire and then took a vehicle from the Japanese military headquarters. He reached the British Concession Pier without any obstacles and boarded a small, unlit motorboat. Subsequently, he quickly fled to Dagukou under the escort of more than ten Japanese soldiers. He was then promptly transferred to the Japanese merchant ship "Awaji Maru," arriving at the Manchurian Railway Pier in Yingkou City on the 13th. On November 18, the Kwantung Army moved Puyi to the Dahe Hotel in Lushun, where he was closely "protected." Later on March 1, 1932, under the direction of the Kwantung Army, the puppet state of Manchukuo was officially declared "established." Puyi assumed the role of "ruler" of this puppet regime on March 9th. Two years later, his title was changed to "emperor." At this point, the Japanese invaders had successfully achieved their objective of holding Puyi hostage and establishing the puppet Manchukuo regime. Despite the Chinese army's efforts to quell the plainclothes riot, Japan seized upon the pretext of "endangering the lives of Japanese expatriates in the Japanese concession" to insist that the Chinese security forces withdraw 300 meters from the border of the concession. They threatened to take unilateral action if their demands were not met. On the 15th, during negotiations, the Northeast Army authorities conceded to Japan's unreasonable requests. Nevertheless, Japan proceeded to bombard the Hebei Provincial and Municipal Government buildings and the police station with artillery. Following the suppression of the second plainclothes riot, the Japanese, feeling humiliated by their foiled plans, sought new excuses and made further unreasonable demands. They insisted that the Chinese army withdraw from Tientsin and that the local populace refrain from anti-Japanese activities. Concurrently, they deployed additional troops to Tientsin, using intimidation tactics against the Chinese. The Nationalist government ultimately acquiesced to Japan's demands, ordering the security team, primarily made up of the Northeast Army, to retreat to what is now the Hebei District on November 29th. As the soldiers withdrew from their positions, tears were shed, and onlookers mourned their departure. Beginning December 1st, streets in the Japanese concession were illuminated, and Japanese merchants displayed flags to celebrate their perceived victory. They even coerced Chinese residents into hanging Japanese flags under threat of imprisonment. The contrast was stark between the Tientsin Security Team's defeat, which felt like a loss without actual defeat, and the Japanese invaders' hollow victory. Several Chinese soldiers who distinguished themselves in the fight against the invasion were reassigned from Tientsin. Despite failing in the riot, the Japanese successfully executed their plan to secretly extract Puyi from Tianjin and compelled the Chinese army to withdraw. This paved the way for a series of conspiratorial events, including the "Chadong Incident," "Hebei Incident," and "Zhangbei Incident." Ultimately, these actions led to their proposals for "North China Autonomy" and the "July 7 Marco Polo Bridge Incident," marking a gradual realization of their ambitions to invade China. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. And thus our dear old friend Doihara performed yet another scheme to push forward with the Japanese invasion of China. Its sad to say it won't be his last. The invasion of Manchuria was coming to a swift end and soon a new puppet state would take hold, but would Japan stop with the northeast? 

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(8:05am) MORNING NEWS DUMP Missouri's 58th Governor, Mike Kehoe, signed 6 executive orders on Monday. Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2025/01/13/missouri-governor-kehoe-signs-6-executive-orders-after-inauguration/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=organicclicks&tbref=hp Stephen Miller comments on border security and Pamela Smith, DC's Chief of Police, comments on Inauguration Day security. Some of the performers scheduled for Inauguration Day include Carrie Underwood, the Village People, and Lee Greenwood. First responders from Butler, PA, have been invited, and the MAGA garbage truck will be part of the parade. Biden delivers his final foreign policy speech. Reps. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., and Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., commented on bipartisan efforts to deal with the California wildfires and other disasters. Residents in the Botanical Heights neighborhood in South City have decided to hire their own snow plow to clear the streets. Story here: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/st-louis-resident-fundraiser-snow-plow-neighborhood-streets/63-c407d264-68ff-4a53-a97d-500f24bfff09?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot Blues (20-20-4) host the Calgary Flames (21-14-7) tonight at Enterprise Center at 7pm. Oddly enough, the Flames stay in town to face the Blues again on Thursday night. (8:20am) Neighborhood residents in Botanical Heights in South City decide to hire snow plows to clear their streets because the City isn't doing the job. Story here: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/st-louis-resident-fundraiser-snow-plow-neighborhood-streets/63-c407d264-68ff-4a53-a97d-500f24bfff09?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot (8:35am) Bob Hoge from RedState gives us the emotional personal side of dealing with the California wildfires. He lives in the Pacific Palisades area in SoCal. He and his family are OK, but he knows several people and families who have lost everything. One of numerous stories from Bob on the wildfires: https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/01/12/newsom-announces-executive-order-regarding-rebuilding-as-la-continues-to-burn-n2184251 More columns from Bob here: https://redstate.com/author/bobhoge (8:50am) California will have a tax crisis following the destruction caused by the wildfires in SoCal. NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsTalkSTL Livestream 24/7: bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.   In this episode of APEX Express, host Cheryl shares Part 1 of a powerful intergenerational conversation featuring the OG organizers of Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) and young leaders from Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP). The discussion highlights the challenges and inspirations that drove CAA's founders to join the Asian American Movement of the '60s and '70s, offering valuable lessons for sustaining activism across generations. Important Links: Chinese for Affirmative Action: Website  |  Instagram Hmong Innovating Politics: Website  |  Instagram Transcript   Cheryl Truong: good evening and welcome to tonight's episode of apex express. I'm your host, Cheryl Truong and tonight is an AACRE night. Now you might be wondering what is AACRE. AACRE stands for the Asian Americans for civil rights and Equality network, which is made up of 11 grassroots, social justice groups. Together leverage the power of our network to focus on longterm movement, building and support for Asian-Americans committed to social justice. And speaking of AACRE groups. APEX express is proud to be a part of the AACRE network.  For tonight's show, I'm thrilled to share a really special and intimate recording from a panel discussion we hosted here at the AACRE network that bridges generations of organizing. This panel brought together the OGs– originals– who helped build chinese for Affirmative Action or CAA into the esteemed 50 year old civil rights organization it is today. Alongside young organizers from Hmong Innovating Politics, also known as HIP, who are paving the way for Hmong Americans in Sacramento and Fresno. Both hip and CAA are vital groups within the AACRE network. The purpose of this exchange. To spark an intergenerational dialogue between seasoned CAA leaders and current hip staff and exploring how their roles in the movement have evolved over time.  Together, they delve into the strategies they've employed to sustain their impact over decades of organizing. However, this is only part one of what is and was a much longer conversation. So for tonight's episode, we'll focus on getting to know some of the CAA OGs. You'll hear them introduce themselves. Share some of the hardships they faced as pivotal organizers during the Asian-American movement of the tumultuous sixties and seventies. And reflect on what catalyze them to get involved in the movement. Through the stories we hope to uncover lessons from the past that can guide us in sustaining and evolving the fight for justice today. So stay tuned. It's going to be an inspiring and reflective journey into the heart of activism.  So I'm pleased to introduce. The panel facilitator, Miko Lee who is AACRE's director of programs. And CAA OGs Germaine Wong Henry Der Laureen Chew Stephen Owyang and Yvonne Yim-Hung Lee  Miko: Yvonne,  what was a kind of chrysalis moment for you in terms of social justice? Yvonne Yim-Hung Lee: First of all, when I got the email, I didn't know what O. G. was, so I said “Oh Geezer!” That's how I interpret it. I said “Oh, I'm there!” This is going to be a really honest and frank family gathering so thank you inviting me and I'm really excited to be here with my, peers and colleagues and more importantly to really hear from you, your experience. I am a first generation immigrant. My parents were very well to do business people in Hong Kong. They decided to immigrate to this country with three young kids. My father when he was young, he was the richest boy in his village. Overnight, people came and forced his father to give up 98 acres of their 99 acre farm. So from being the richest boy in town, in his village, to have to go to Hong Kong to live with this uncle. My mom was from a rich family in China also. Her father was one of the few merchants who came to the U.S. after the Chinese Exclusion Act, he went to New York, opened up a pastry shop, but he found his goal. He won second prize of a New York lotto. So he decided to go back to China because even though he was a merchant, he experienced a lot of discrimination. He never talked about his experience in America. But my mom was a little princess. You know, we used to call her , and her friends, the little Paris Hilton of the group, because that's what they did. They went to school as ABC's, never had to work a day in their life. But one thing, She and my father, because they were both from richest families in different villages, they were supposed to be matched up. But by the time they were at marriage age, he was already a poor kid. But my mom told the father, said, a promise is a promise.. So she married this poor guy, moved to Hong Kong, and he did quite well for himself. So we were brought up, ” money is not what should drive you in your life. You can lose it in one day. The most important thing is to have a good heart, to make sure that everything in this world, you have to make a difference. Whether it's to your family, or to others. You cannot be angry, because someone else is going to make you angry. When we came, it was a really tough time for him. You know, we lived really well in Hong Kong. Coming here to live in Chinatown back in the 60s really wasn't that pleasant. But, we made do based on the three principles. We came here for freedom. We came here for knowledge. And knowledge doesn't mean just college. So we were lucky. We never were forced to study certain fields so that we can make money because for him, it was always experience to really, really take in the nourishment for yourself, but give out whatever you have to others. So based on the guidance and that's how, that's my North Star. That's what's driven me. So I went to Davis. Yay Davis and the Cows! They're still there. What really got me to community activism was when I was 16, I was in the hospital. And They put this, at the time I thought she was elderly, but thinking back she was probably in her 30s. But when she was 16, anyway over 20 is elderly. And she could not speak English. And they could not communicate with her. And half of the hospital staff was making fun of her. And that was in, 70? 1970? It wasn't that long ago. It was still in my our lifetime. So, I was young but I acted as her translator. It was very difficult because she has women issues. And I didn't know her. And her husband was standing there. And she had to tell me her most intimate thing. And all the room of doctors, nurses and everything– they were very dismissive of her because of the fact that she did not speak their language. So because of that I felt that that's wrong. Because prior to that, even when we were living in Chinatown, I still felt I was privileged. You know, we weren't poor. We were still doing well. But after seeing that experience, it really taught me that even though we came to America for freedom, freedom is only for those who could really stand for themselves. And there are some who, if they cannot, send someone else in to fight with them. Not for them, but with them. So that's how I started my career, and I jumped from place to place. I'm not the CAA member, but I'm the honorary member of CAA because I had the privilege of working with Henry. All the meetings that we had back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s and everything with Ted and Steve on redistricting, immigration reform, census, welfare reform, everything that we today take granted. We don't even think about it. Came from here. This room. Before this room, it was another room. It was a little less, little place. We, we moved up by, by moving here in the 90s. So, thank you so much for this privilege and I look forward to our conversation. Miko: Thank you, Yvonne. And I just, OG, just so you know, does not mean OG. Does anybody want to explain what OG means? Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP) Staff: Old Gangster   Miko: It's actually a hip hop terminology for gangster, but it actually means the original. Who's the original, the source of the knowledge, the source of the power. So it's, we use it with love and honor.  Yvonne Yim-Hung Lee: Intergenerational communication.  Miko: I'm sorry I did  Henry Derr: I have to say, I never liked the term O. G. when I first heard it. Because I thought it meant an old guy, Even though I'm old, I didn't want to admit that I was old. , one thing I have to say straight away is, you all are happy about this weather, I'm very unhappy about this weather, because I, even though I'm a native of San Francisco, Chinatown, at the age of seven, my family moved into Stockton. I went through all my schooling till I graduated from Franklin High School on the east side of Highway 99. Some of you may have, your high schools may have competed against Franklin High School. When we moved into Stockton for the longest time, We could never figure out why in the hell our father moved us into Stockton, because we were the only one or two Chinese family on the east side of Stockton right there on Main Street. And then over time, and actually very recently when I think about it, there was, he probably had a good reason for moving us into Stockton. Because my father was actually quite clever in terms of circumventing the discriminatory impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act. As some of you may know, a lot of Chinese men who came here to the United States after the Exclusion Act had to lie about who they were. They would claim that they were sons of U. S. citizens in order to enter the United States. Well, it turned out that my father and my mother on paper had 17 children. And in our family, there were really only just eight of us who were born from our parents and my oldest brother who was adopted. The rest were actually paper sons. So my father moved the family into Stockton because I remember very clearly when I was less than five years old, my mom said to us, children, don't say anything about the family when you go out the streets and I could never understand why don't say anything about that. Well, it turned out that. There were a lot of immigration agents prowling around Chinatown during the fifties, during the confession program. So, I think my father made the right choice to move the family into Stockton. And we always longed about coming back to San Francisco. But also looking back at it, it was actually a blessing in disguise. Because I actually grew up, as some of you may know, from Fresno, Sacramento, Visalia, Ceres, Modesto, then, not now. It was actually, I lived in a very diverse neighborhood. There were blacks, there were Mexicans and there were whites and the whites were not rich. They were like the rest of us. They were poor from Oklahoma. So probably the first social, I would consider this first social justice consciousness that I developed during the 19 50s and 60s when I was growing up. In addition to following what was going on and unfolding with the Black Civil Rights Movement in the South, was that Stockton Unified was impacted by school desegregation and there was busing. So there was a lot of talk that kids from our high school in Franklin were going to be bused to Stagg High School. And at that time, in the 50s and 60s, Stagg was all white, they were all wealthy, and we basically protested, said, we are not going to go, that we're not, we don't need those rich white folks. We're okay by ourselves. So that kind of built a consciousness in me. And I would say the other big social justice consciousness was really actually during college, when many of us protested against the war in Vietnam. We marched to the Oakland Army Induction Center in Oakland. We had a sleep in, in the old student union on the college campus. We didn't get arrested like the kids are being arrested today who are protesting the atrocities in Gaza. During my last year in college, There wasn't anything known as Asian American Studies, but there were enough black students who wanted black studies on the campus. So, we just joined in and helped protest that there was an absence of black studies on the college campus. After I graduated from college, I knew that I was going to go into Peace Corps because I was inspired by President Kennedy. And it didn't make, truth be told, it made no difference what college I was going to go to. I knew I was going to go into Peace Corps, and that's what I did, because the last year I was in college, they offered Swahili, and I said, oh, that's perfect, I'm going to enroll in Swahili, and I end up going to Kenya for two years. And after two years of service in Kenya, you know, it kind of made sense for me to say, you know, if I can go halfway around the world to do public service work, I can certainly come back to Chinatown and do community work. And that's how I end up coming back to San Francisco in 1970. And then, The rest is whatever I did.  Female speaker: The rest is history.  Female Speaker 2: The rest is documented history.  Miko: We'll get into that a little bit more. Steve, what about you? What was your first kind of experience of recognizing social justice?  Stephen Owyang: Okay, so, Both sides of my family came to the U. S. a long time ago in the 1870s from Southern China. And they were in San Francisco until the big earthquake in 1906, after which point most of the family went into the Sacramento Valley. So I was born in Sacramento. I was raised in, down the river in the Delta. I'm really excited to meet you because my father had a small business back then and we went up and down Highway 99 all the time. So, Stockton, Lodi, Modesto, Merced, Kingsburg, Fresno, Hanford, Ripon, Visalia. And my father's business was basically delivering stuff to little mom and pop grocery stores run by Chinese families, mainly from one little county in Guangdong province. There was no I 5 back then, just 99, and you know, in the summer, as you know, it gets really hot. So it was a treat for me to go along with my father because I always got free sodas at every store, so I would go out with him and you know after six or seven sodas It was like, it was a great day. My first glimmers about social justice were just growing up in the Delta and I'll give you three stories.  It's the town of Walnut Grove, and the town of Walnut Grove on Highway 160 is one of the few delta towns that are on both sides of the river. There's a bridge that connects it. And on one side of the river, it's middle class and upper middle class and wealthy white families. Our side of the river, you had the folks from the Dust Bowl days, as Henry mentioned, people from Oklahoma and Texas who came out during the Depression. You also had a small Chinatown, a small J Town, a small Filipino area, a small Mexican area. And that just reflected the social conditions of California agriculture, because each one of those communities at one time was the main source of farm workers. And in fact, my own family, because of the alien land laws, they were farmers, but they couldn't own farmland, right? And so they were sharecroppers. Just, you hear about sharecropping happening in the South, but it also happened in California. So when I was growing up, three things. On the rich side of town, the white side of town, there's a swimming pool that was only open to white families. It was a private pool. You could only go there if you were a member. You could only be a member if you were white. The only way I could go there is if a friend who's a white, from a white family, who's a member, takes you there as a guest. So that's number one. Number two. My best friend was from one of these landed white families, and we were, we were very close. We were good students in elementary school. And then one day in the seventh grade, he, he takes me aside and he says, You know, I can't hang out with you anymore because my mom says I need to have more white friends. So he just cut it off like that. And I, that's the, that's, that's the truth. That's just how it happened. I guess the other thing that affected me back then was I used to go to a little American Baptist church and we had, I guess visits to black churches. And I remember going up to Sacramento on one of these visits and one of the kids there did Martin Luther King's, I have a dream speech from memory. And, it's like amazing oration. And I thought, wow, there's something. going on here that you sort of opened up my eyes to the situation in this country.  So basically until high school, I was a country kid, you know, but then we moved out to San Francisco and it was a big culture shock, big shock. So I was in, I basically came out for high school and this was in the late 60s and I remember it was 1968 when Laureen was on strike for, uh, Ethnic Studies and the Third World Strike in SF State. My high school was literally a few blocks away. I was at Lowell High. And students from SF State were coming over and leafleting us. I started reading that stuff and that's when I really got interested in what was going on at State and later on when I was at Berkeley, you know, in Ethnic Studies. So I think my grounding came from Ethnic Studies, the anti war movement, and, you know, I would love to talk to you about the whole thing about the Vietnam War because, You know, I'm guessing maybe your parents or grandparents were involved in the secret war in Laos, a war that the U. S. wouldn't even acknowledge happened even though we were bombing Laos. So it was ethnic studies, the civil rights movement, and the anti war movement that got me involved. In Berkeley, I was involved in some of the ethnic studies stuff. Even though I'm a fourth generation Chinese American, it's always been very important to me to try to learn the language so I was in the Cantonese working group. So I helped put together the curriculum stuff that was going on in Asian American Studies. I think before Germaine was there, or maybe around the same time. Yeah, I've known these folks for literally 50 years. It's kind of scary. So, um, I was inspired by what was going on at CAA, what Laureen was doing at SF State. So I joined CAA. Biggest mistake of my life. Because I saw this little ad in East West newspaper, used to be this community newspaper, and there was literally a coupon that you would clip out. And I sent in the coupon with a 5 check. It's like the most expensive 5 I've spent in my whole life. And then I went to law school, and I was involved in the law caucus and a number of other things, but my first job out of law school was Right here at CAA. Well, not here, but up on Stockton Street. Henry was my boss. You know, I feel like I would have been less burned out had we done some of this stuff. But we didn't do any of this. I remember my first desk had literally a door on top of like cardboard boxes. That was our office back then. And in one form or another, I've been involved in CAA ever since. I've been in a couple of organizations. Other organizations, but CAA is the one that's closest to my heart, and I'll tell you why. One, I met my wife here. And number two, I feel like the great thing about CAA is it's never lost its real community roots. I feel like other organizations do great work, don't get me wrong, but I feel like CAA has always maintained a real close connection to the community, and that's why everybody. I wrote that 5 check and, and several others. So yeah, that's, that's my story.  Miko: Thanks, Steve. Laureen, what about you?  Laureen Chew: Wow, this is amazing. Listening to everybody else's story, really. I guess I'll start pretty much how, my family was. My grandfather came in 1870s. I think I found out when I went to the roots program, which is only like five years ago, that was an adventure. so my parent, my father and his whole family was born here and born during Chinese exclusion. And so obviously they lived in Chinatown and nowhere else to go, even though they, my father and especially his, younger siblings. They all spoke English. Interestingly, his first two sisters were born here too. They didn't speak a lick of English because they never went to school. So what was really interesting for me, so I was born and raised in Chinatown. Okay. I wasn't born in Chinese Hospital. I was born in Children's Hospital, which everybody thinks is odd. But that's another story. My mother is actually an immigrant. She's a first generation, but she didn't come until 1947. So what's interesting is that I'm always kind of stuck between generations, like one and a half. But having a very strong mother who spoke only Chinese and my father's side, who's mostly English speaking. But a lot of them, my cousins or whatever, they were a lot older. They did speak Chinese also. But what's really stark to me is because growing up in Chinatown, you go to school with basically majority Chinese kids, right? And so you live in this community that on the one hand is very nurturing, very safe. Very intimate in a lot of ways. All my cousins and whatever are here. I mean, to show you how large my father's side was, when my aunt, the oldest aunt had her 50th anniversary wedding anniversary, she married when she was 14 because otherwise women, people forget. I I'm probably the first generation of women that either had a choice to not get married and I was still able to eat because I made my own money. Okay, my mother's generation, no, all her friends, no, you know, so don't take that one for granted either as women. So what was interesting was the fact that because she is very strong in being Chinese and then my father's side are total assimilationists, mainly, which was really interesting because many of them who grew up during Chinese exclusion. It was horrific, but you would never, I never heard one story. His family must have had over 300 people because his sister had 13 kids. Okay, then they had all had kids, one at 10, one of her daughter in law. So it was like huge. Growing up in this area, I just never felt I was different than anyone else because you don't come in contact with anyone that's really different until I went to high school. My mother is the immigrant. She wanted to send me to a school that was not a public school that a lot of the Chinatown kids went to, which was Galileo, because she somehow felt that I would be the kind of kid that would go not the straight and narrow, but more towards the the More naughty kids, to put it mildly, she knew that. So what she did was that she sent me to a Catholic school, okay, because she, God knows, oh yeah, she went to school for two years in Hong Kong. She's another story, she didn't have any money, and so she was given to an aunt to be raised. So she married to get out of Hong Kong because At twenty, she told me the only thing she told me was at twenty seven, I was considered an old maid. And then my father, who was, didn't have, there weren't very many women here because of Chinese exclusion, and he had to marry Chinese, actually saw my mom, and my mom's a picture bride, so they didn't even know each other when they got married. But she took over. My mom is like the queen of the family and the decision maker. And my father made the money and she spent it however little she had. Okay. And going to Catholic school was one thing that she felt that would help me become a good girl, except that I had never been to a where there were white kids. And so this school Was not only Catholic, but it was also a school that was considered kind of the, the best girls, Catholic high school. It was at the end of Chinatown. And that's the only reason why she wanted me to go there because I didn't have to take the bus. I can walk home. It's, it's a French school called Notre Dame de Victoire. So I went there and I thought I would have a really good time, just like all, all the high school. My problem was, was that. I was different, but never to know that you're different until you're in high school. Because you know, you know how mean girls can be in high school. And then they're all, it's an all girls school and it's a small school. And so my mom told me very clearly, you know, it's $150 a year. We really don't have that money, but. You know, we'll scrape and do whatever we can to send you through that. I said, Oh, okay, cool. Right. Except I had no friends. I mean, I was one of three Chinese girls in the school and I never knew how different I was until I got there because I used to get home perms, you know, permanence. And all the other girls had money. They were at least middle class, if not richer, and they all went to beauty parlors. My mom cut my hair and gave me the home perms, and she was into saving money, like I said, so she always kept the perm on longer than you should have it. I swore one year it came out like I had an afro, and I was so embarrassed. I made her cut it just to make it look straighter, but it was horrible. I don't have a picture. No, first of all, pictures aren't that common back then, you know, it costs money to have film and a camera. You didn't even have a camera. Yeah. So anyway, plus another thing is that because I wasn't the smartest Chinese girl either. Okay, the other two Chinese girls did pretty well. They were smart, and they were good in sports. I was neither. And I looked like a dork. Then what would made it even worse was that my mother spoke no English. My father did, but he might as well be absent because he slept during the day and worked at night. So we have things called mother daughter fashion shows. Mother, daughter breakfast. And I saw the way those mothers were dressed and I saw the way everybody acted and my way of dealing with it was I had no mom. I never brought her to the school. Any mother, daughter thing, I didn't go to. You didn't have to. I mean, that made me even less part of the school. And it was very painful because I didn't understand why I would be treated that way. Just because I looked, but I spoke English, it didn't matter. I did look a little weird, you know, so to this, I think it influenced me a couple of ways. One, whenever I had money, clothes was going to be my big deal. It still is, you know, it's kind of psychological. And then secondly, then that was a time that I figured out like, how come I don't, I hate myself and my family versus versus hating those girls. Right. I mean, that's how I dealt with it. It was, I call it a form of self hatred and it's, it's done by schooling. It's done by not only schooling in terms of omission about who we were as a people here, but omission about racism. Omission about discrimination and just about our histories here. But I didn't have a label for it in high school. I just, I really thought there was something wrong with me and my family. And that's the greatest danger about racism, is this form of internalizing it and not having a vehicle to deal with it. And there was nothing in our schools that dealt with it, you know, and I think what I came out of there realizing was that. Oh, another thing, I had mixed messages about what was happening because Martin Luther King was already on TV, and I was trying to watch it, and then I was still in high school, and my mom would, and my cousins, American boys, don't watch the black people. They're troublemakers. You know, all they do is make trouble, you know, they don't, they should be like us. We don't complain, right? We don't make trouble. And that's how you succeed. You succeed, I think, in my, what I was raised with, with the older generation of American born who had to go through this horrific history, you know, one, you don't get a job in Chinatown. You should get a job outside of Chinatown because it means that you're working for white folks and working for white folks is better than working for your own. So self hatred doesn't just run in yourself. It kind of permeates how we feel. feel as, as a group of people, right? And so, my whole thing was that I was looking for answers as to why, why I felt the way I did. And not only that, I wasn't the only one. That's what was interesting. And I didn't realize that until I went to San Francisco state, you know, because I was told, my mom said, you want to go to college, you're going to have to You know, find your way up to court because she, you know, she spent that on my fabulous high school education, which I came up miserable and, and I would tell her I want to go to Galileo. I want to go there. She said, no, you're not going to go. I said, she goes, what is wrong with you? Because I started crying certain times and she would just say, well, you're going to school to learn, not to make friends, so forget about it. I'm giving you the best with best intentions. But then when I went to college, this one girl who grew up in South City, similar experience because South City was all white back then. So she said to me one day, she was, she's Chinese too. And she says, you know, there's a meeting there that's huge. The people are talking about all this stuff. We talk about how we were mistreated in high school and how people are blah, blah. There's a name for it. It's called racism. I was called what racism. Okay. She goes, you want to go? I said, well, who's there? She said, black people. But I said, Oh, my mom would kill me. I mean, I was really worried because my mom doesn't even know what I do at state. So I went. I think that time we had some pretty interesting people. One time there was Eldridge Cleaver, who was the head of the Black Panther Party. Um, there were people like Carlton Goodlett, who was from the Bayview Hunters Point, who had certain people from the mission. They were all kind of leaders of different communities. There was Yuri Wada, who was a Japanese American. He was very prominent in dealing with civil rights. Chinatown, I, George Woo, George Woo is an infamous person also. He was the spokesperson for gang kids in Chinatown. He was very, very, very alive and took over in terms of the whole thing about the youth problems in Chinatown. So he was not part of this group, but just hearing the stories of these other ethnic groups that were very similar, not the same, but this whole thing of like just being dissed for the way you look, the way you speak, and supposedly your values. And my whole thing is that, that thing opened my eyes to the extent that helped me to release a lot of my anger towards something I didn't know who to be angry at, right? So you have to, I felt that the San Francisco State Strike, I mean, I was all in and with a small group of Chinese that were there, including Mason, all these people. And we had to really open our eyes to working with other people that were not like us. And what was more interesting for me to see was that every single group said that if we're ever going to have classes on ethnic studies, a key part of those classes should be why we are getting an education. And why we're getting an education primarily is to serve our communities. So there is a real strong component to ethnic studies that was community based. And because of that, during my college years, I actually came back, I mean came back, I was still living in Chinatown, but I actually placed myself in the Chinatown that I knew nothing about, which is our issues, our problems. And during my time, it was mainly about youth problems. We had a gang problem. We had girls that were on drugs. We had immigrant kids that didn't speak any English and just thrown into schools nilly willy without anybody helping them. So I was lucky enough for three years or four years during college that I worked as a house parent for runaway girls. I worked trying to tutor immigrant kids, you know, and I was trying to become a teacher. So those formative years, in terms of just having my feet in different things really showed me that, you know what, I don't want next generations of people who kind of look like me to have to go through the struggle of hating myself. Because of things that are my home, that are based home base, you know, this country, this is what I feel that very strongly about the United States, that I think people are losing sight of, especially now that we're all in very ethnic silos. This country is very different in the sense of just the whole fact of different groups mixing, you know, you go to China or whatever it's still basically you. you're Chinese, even in my north, south, pink, whatever direction you are. It's still basically Chinese, but in this country you can come from different areas and different places of the world and still have a vision that ties you together. That should be a singular vision, which is a democracy at this point. And then also this very simple statement of justice. And equality for all. We sometimes forget about the all, if we're just kind of in our little silos. But I think that's the reason why, from state on, and reacquainting to my community, it was life changing. Whatever job I took after that, whether I was a teacher, a faculty, associate dean, chair of the department. My main focus was that I'm here for the students and the people, quote unquote, who are here with me that have this similar vision, that we all have a place here. And in order to, for us to really respect others, we have to respect ourselves. And that includes what we're raised with in terms of our values and also our history here. Miko: Thanks, Laureen. Germaine?  Germaine Wong: Oh. well, my experience is similar to many of yours and a little bit different. I grew up in Oakland, Chinatown, and Went to a school that was only three blocks from where I live. And the school was Mexicans, blacks, as well as Chinese. Although I would say maybe half the school, at least half the school was Chinese. And I didn't, I didn't speak any English until I went to school, so I had that experience too. And then, my father was always very upwardly mobile, wanted to live the white middle class life. And I didn't know it at the time, but, he managed to buy property in Castro Valley, Southeast of Oakland. At the time, they wouldn't sell to Chinese. So he got somebody at work to buy the property for him. And then sold it to my father. That's how we got to move there. So I started high school in Castro Valley. I was the only non white in the whole school. The janitors, the cafeteria workers, everybody was white. I was the only one in that school who was not white. But I'm a little bit more dense than all of you, so I was not aware of whatever racism there was. At that time Castro Valley was really white. And also very affluent. So most of my classmates. It's unlike in Oakland, Chinatown, these classmates, they were children of doctors and lawyers and engineers and dentists and most of the people in my high school, they, the kids either had horses or cars. At that time, Castro Valley was not the suburb it is today. Our neighbors, for example, our next door neighbors had chickens and goats So it was really different. So it was all so different from Oakland Chinatown. And then I finally experienced some racism the following year when a black family moved in and somebody really literally did burn a cross in their front lawn. Wow. Yeah. And she was in the same grade I was in, one of the daughters. And then another Chinese girl moved in. And I recognized her, but we were never friends in Oakland Chinatown. And that's where I first experienced reverse discrimination. Because I met the stereotype of an Asian student, right? So I did well in math and all the classes. Well, she was definitely a C student and the teachers treated her as if she was an F student. Teachers just expect us to excel in our classes. So that was my first, really, where it hit home for me. And then in the 50s, in Oakland, Chinatown, I experienced what Henry did during the confession program. So my mother was going through all these things. These are your aunts and uncles and these are not your aunts and uncles. And so if any white person comes and starts asking you about your family, just remember these people are not related to you because all of us had paper names. Like I'm not really a Wong. My family's really a Kwan. But in my situation, I had a great grandfather who was here legitimately. And then the next generation, when they went back, they decided we're never coming back to the United States. So they sold their papers. So then when the next generation decided to come back, they had to buy papers. So my family went through that situation. I had jobs where I lived in, during college, I, I had live in jobs, I lived with a family first when I was going to UC Berkeley, and then later on when I transferred over to San Francisco State, I worked for an older white woman, and so I, I got to see what upper white middle class families lived like, and then with this older woman that I lived in with here in San Francisco, what the rich people lived like, so that was kind a different world. And then somebody asked me to work at the Chinatown YWCA here. And I got to experience San Francisco Chinatown then. I was assigned to work in a pilot program where I worked with third grade Chinatown girls. One group were immigrant girls who lived in the SROs here. They literally are eight by eight rooms with a whole family lives in them. And the kitchen and the bathrooms are down the hall. So that was the first time I had ever seen people living like that, in such crowded digits. And the other group of girls I worked with, again, were middle class, upper middle class Chinese girls whose parents were doctors and dentists and like that. And the woman who was the executive director was a Korean American woman named Hannah Sir. And this was all when I went to college when President Kennedy was assassinated and then Lyndon Johnson became president. And so it was during this time that this Korean American woman said to me, you have to apply for this program because right now, President Lyndon Johnson only thought about blacks and Hispanics who needed help. And we really need to get Asian Americans in. So she convinced me to apply for program and some miracle happened and I got into the program. After I went to that summer training program, I came back here to San Francisco and I was assigned to work in the Bayview, Hunters Point, and Fillmore areas of San Francisco working with black gang kids. That was a new experience for me too. Then from there, then I went to grad school, then when I came back, I got assigned to working here in Chinatown, where I worked mainly with immigrant adults looking for jobs as well as the gang kids, both English speaking as well as Chinese speaking. And, from there, I met people like Ling Chi Wong and Eileen Dong. who were already working in Chinatown before I was. And that's when we got together and Ling Chi was actually the organizer, the lead person. And, we started CAA. So all of us had other jobs. We had full time jobs and so we were doing this kind of on the side. I think Ling Chi was the only one who didn't have a job. He was a graduate student. And I want to tell you, he was a graduate student in Middle Eastern ancient languages. That's what he was studying at UC Berkeley at the time. And, uh, but all the rest of us had full time jobs. We started CAA as a volunteer organization. We had no office, no staff, no money. And that's how we started. And eventually I first met Laureen, who really helped us out with one of our first major projects. Teaching English on television, remember? You and Helen, yes. You and Helen Chin really helped us out. Laureen Chew: Okay, nice to know.  Germaine Wong: And then I remember meeting, and then when Henry came to Chinatown and his Swahili was better than his Cantonese. Wow. Yes. Wow. Anyway, and I met all of these good people and CAA continued to grow. And there still is. Yep. Amazing, amazing story.  And that wraps up part one of this incredible intergenerational conversation. Between the OGs of Chinese for affirmative action. And the young organizers of mung innovating politics. Tonight. We got a glimpse into the powerful stories of CAS.  Of CA's founders.  Their hardships resilience and what drove them to commit their lives to the movement. Their reflections, remind us that the fight for justice is not just about the moments of triumph and the victories, but also about the struggles, the sacrifices. And perhaps most importantly, the. Vital importance of being grounded in our communities and our values. Be sure to join us next time for part two, where we'll dive into the dialogue between. Seasoned OJI leaders and today's. Today's youth Changemakers from Monday innovating politics. Together, they'll explore strategies, how strategies have shifted over the decades and how we can sustain our work for social justice in the longterm. As always thank you for tuning into apex express. For more about Chinese for affirmative action and mung innovating politics.  Please do check them out on their websites, which will be linked in the show notes. At apex express. At kpfa.org/apex express. Until next time. Apex express is produced by Miko Lee, Paige Chung, Jalena Keane-Lee, Preeti Mangala Shekar. Shekar, Anuj Vaidya, Kiki Rivera, Swati Rayasam, Nate Tan, Hien Nguyen, Nikki Chan, and Cheryl Truong  Cheryl Truong: Tonight's show was produced by me, cheryl. Thanks to the team at KPFA for all of their support. And thank you for listening!  The post APEX Express – December 19, 2024 – Bridging Generations appeared first on KPFA.

Missouri state Rep.-elect Nick Kimble didn't have to go through an arduous primary or general election to get to Jefferson City. The St. Louis Democrat ran unopposed in the primary to succeed state Rep. Donna Baringer in Missouri's 82nd House District, which takes in a southwest portion of the city. That basically sealed Kimble's election since the district is heavily Democratic. But as Kimble noted on a recent episode of the Politically Speaking podcast, the 82nd District features perhaps the largest concentration of Republicans in the city of St. Louis. And that gives him a different perspective on how to represent the area in Jefferson City. “Growing up in the district, I knew a lot of those Republicans,” Kimble said. “I went to school with them. I was friends with their kids, I mowed their lawn, I delivered pizzas. So I think that helps. I consider myself a center left and moderate person. I don't go around to the fish fries or various things on the Hill in South City talking about partisan issues or partisan politics.”

HCP - Ep. 227 - Intro to Values (Place Cont.)On this podcast Larry and Drew continue the discussion of place in ministry. Where we gather matters, but it shouldn't be more important than everything else. How do we rightly design space for worship and gatherings in a way that it serves the church's mission and ministries, not the other way around. Larry asks Drew about more specifics on South City and how this conversation of place has played out in their transition from church campus designed for Sunday School to a more missional model designed around small groups and neighborhood gathering. You can email us at info@healthychurchpodcast.com orTo find more information about The Healthy Church Podcast go to:http://www.healthychurchpodcast.comor find us on FaceBook!For a video of today's podcast, you can find it on FaceBook or YouTube!

For his Roaming St. Louis segment this week, KMOX host Scott Jagow went to Fanetti Park in the Patch neighborhood, South City, home of the Fanetti Fest.

Linda Weiner and Kathleen Smith, founders of Breathe Better STL, join Megan and Tom to share their concerns about air pollution that they allege is coming from the Metro East. They say their complaints to the EPA have not been addressed.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 10-09-24 (6:05am) St, Louis City approves marijuana drive-thru at the Kind Goods Marijuana Dispensary on S. Broadway in South City near Lift for Life Academy. Story here: https://fox2now.com/news/fox-files/city-approves-marijuana-drive-through-near-st-louis-school/   MO Attorney General Andrew Bailey says he will appeal the ruling that struck down part of the restrictions on sex offenders. Story here: https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/missouri-ag-plans-to-appeal-ruling-against-halloween-signs-for-sex-offenders/   (6:20am) Planned Parenthood will close 3 Missouri clinics and expand their telehealth services. Story here: https://missouriindependent.com/2024/10/08/planned-parenthood-consolidation-st-louis-joplin/   (6:35am) Young KC Chiefs fan who got called racist by Deadspin gets the legal go-ahead to sue the media outlet for defamation. Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/10/08/deadspin-loses-bid-toss-defamation-suit-over-article-accusing-young-chiefs-fan-racism/?tbref=hp   (6:50am) MORNING NEWS DUMP Florida prepares for Hurricane Milton which is scheduled to hit land overnight tonight (Thursday morning), probably near Bradenton and Sarasota, just south of Tampa/St. Pete, between 2am and 4am. More on the storm here: https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/hurricanes/live-blog/hurricane-milton-live-updates-rcna174624 Missourians are ready to step in to help with hurricane relief once Milton rolls through Florida. Elon Musk blasts FEMA and FCC regarding Starlink issues. Story here: https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-tech/elon-musk-slams-fema-helene-response-north-carolina-spacex-starlinks Also story here: https://www.yahoo.com/news/tech/starlink-publicly-disclose-total-network-211838939.html MO AG Andrew Bailey will appeal a federal judge's ruling that struck down part of a sex offender law. Today is the last day to register to vote or update your registration in MO for the Nov. election.Blues kick off their regular season with a 3-2 win over the Kraken in Seattle. Up next: the Sharks in San Jose on Thursday.   NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsTalkSTL Livestream 24/7: bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 10-07-24 (7:05AM) Brooke Foster from the No On Amendment 2 campaign talks about the sports gambling amendment in Missouri. (https://noamendment2.com/)  (https://noamendment2.com/2024/09/13/missourians-against-the-deceptive-online-gambling-amendment-releases-new-television-ad/)   (7:20AM) Join us for breakfast on Wednesday, October 16, at Nadine's Hash House at 1802 South Broadway in the historic Soulard neighborhood in South City, just a couple of blocks from Soulard Market. It's Mike Ferguson in the Morning LIVE IN THE CITY! More info on Nadine's here: https://www.nadineshashhouse.com/   A Missouri Court ruling late last week was in favor of a convicted sex offender. He sued because he got in trouble for not posting the required warning sign for Halloween. Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/10/04/federal-judge-declares-portion-missouri-sex-offender-halloween-law-unconstitutional/   (7:35am)  The FEMA funding fiasco continues as they backtrack on their claims that they're short on cash after spending millions on illegal aliens. Story here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fema-head-denies-agency-is-short-on-money-for-disaster-relief-because-funds-went-to-illegal-immigrants/ar-AA1rNKxy?ocid=BingNewsSerp More here: https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/10/06/speaker-johnson-levels-feds-on-hurricane-helene-response-theyve-been-a-massive-failure-n2180207 And more here: https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/10/07/watch-peter-doocy-owns-karine-jean-pierre-so-hard-that-she-storms-out-of-the-briefing-n2180256   (7:50am) We discuss what exactly is "weird" these days. List of top 5 here: https://imgur.com/a/mtfOrFX   NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsTalkSTL Livestream 24/7: bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lord Mayor of Dublin James Geoghegan discusses the new ban on businesses' from leaving their waste out in plastic bag.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 09-05-24 Kirk Hilzinger from the St. Louis City GOP tells us about this Sunday's GOP BBQ picnic event in Tower Grove Park in South City. That's from 12pm-3pm, it's free, and it features Missouri State Treasurer Vivek Malek. We also discuss current issues in St. Louis City. More information on Sunday's event in Tower Grove Park here: https://www.stlouiscitygop.com/   NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsTalkSTL Livestream 24/7: bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 09-05-24 (7:05am) Chris Dorr from the American Firearms Association talks about Wednesday's school shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia (northeast of Atlanta) and the Left's efforts to capitalize on the situation in order to push for more gun control.  (@2A_Freedom) (https://americanfirearmsassociation.org) (https://joinafa.org) (https://www.missourifirearmscoalition.org/)   (7:20am) Is it another Russian hoax or is it real interference in our politics by a foreign adversary? Time for the Democrats to dust off the Russia boogeyman again. Story here: https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2024/09/05/kamalas-campaign-is-flailing-so-badly-the-doj-just-tried-to-toss-her-a-russia-collusion-lifeline-n2178917 Also story here: https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/09/04/doj-indictment-alleges-a-conservative-media-company-took-millions-from-russian-state-media-n2178926   (7:35am) Kirk Hilzinger from the St. Louis City GOP tells us about this Sunday's GOP BBQ picnic event in Tower Grove Park in South City. That's from 12pm-3pm, it's free, and it features Missouri State Treasurer Vivek Malek. We also discuss current issues in St. Louis City. More information on Sunday's event in Tower Grove Park here: https://www.stlouiscitygop.com/   (7:50am) We discuss stuff that irritates us...like gaper's blocks on highways, drivers going 35 in the left lane, the famous St. Louis rolling stops, etc.   NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsTalkSTL Livestream 24/7: bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 07-31-24 Mary Theresa McLean from the St. Louis City GOP talks about this Thursday's meeting and event (August 1) in South City featuring  Lt. Governor candidate David Wasinger. That's at the St. Louis Police Officers Hall at 3710 Hampton (near Chippewa) at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm). She also discusses her week in Milwaukee at the RNC Convention. More info on Thursday's event here: https://www.stlouiscitygop.com/   NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsTalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 07-31-24 (7:05am) Collin Mosley, Director of the Illinois Freedom Caucus, talks about the Democratic National Convention coming up in a few weeks in Chicago and the possibility that JB Pritzker could take the slot of Vice President.  (https://illinoisfreedomcaucus.org/)   We discuss the upcoming Missouri primary next Tuesday and issues like eliminating taxes.   (7:35am) Mary Theresa McLean from the St. Louis City GOP talks about this Thursday's meeting and event (August 1) in South City featuring  Lt. Governor candidate David Wasinger. That's at the St. Louis Police Officers Hall at 3710 Hampton (near Chippewa) at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm). She also discusses her week in Milwaukee at the RNC Convention. More info on Thursday's event here: https://www.stlouiscitygop.com/   We discuss what we would tell our 13-year-old self about life. How about you?   NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsTalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HCP - Ep. 211 - South City 2.0On this podcast, Larry interviews co-host Drew Cline about what he's calling South City 2.0. South City Church has been working towards a paradigm shift as a church where the focus of ministry was based around the Sunday service, and is now people belonging to smaller “CityGroup” families in the church. They gather twice a month in groups on Sundays for more relational connection (one-anothers) as well as more missional intentionality in their neighborhoods, and the rest of the Sundays is on campus as the entire congregation. Drew shares that the heart of the elders of South City is to see the church own their part of the great commission and do more than attend a service - instead to help equip partners to become disciple-makers. They have been renovating a new building as a ministry hub and full-time coffeeshop/cafe.For more information about South City, you can watch or listen to their sermon series called Paradigm Shift here:www.SouthCity.Org/sermonsYou can email us at info@healthychurchpodcast.com orTo find more information about The Healthy Church Podcast go to:http://www.healthychurchpodcast.comor find us on FaceBook!For a video of today's podcast, you can find it on FaceBook or YouTube!

This summer, we are featuring stories from diverse perspectives in order to stir curiosity and compassion for others. While we don't necessarily endorse every stated view, we stand by each guest as a fellow image-bearer and a human of inherent value. We invite you to listen with an open mind and open heart as you hear the pain, struggle, and triumph of other children of God. Joani and her husband pastored at a West County Church in St. Louis for 18 years. During this time they also led short term mission trips around the world with teams from their church. In 2004 the Lord opened their eyes to what was happening in the city of St. Louis Refugees from the wars going on in the Middle East and Africa were pouring into our city only 20 minutes from their house. After visiting with some of these families their needs were pretty evident. The Lord directed them to leave their positions at the church. By miraculous intervention they bought a building in South City by Bevo Mill in 2006 and started reaching out and loving and helping the new refugees that were coming into the city. Some of the help Oasis provides: furniture, household items, clothing, baby showers for new moms, English and Citizenship classes, monthly community BBQ's, help in finding jobs, utility and rental assistance, good neighbor program. Since January 2024, 820 families have walked into Oasis for some kind of assistance, 183 families from 33 countries received furniture or household items. Aseel Thamer and her family are refugees from Iraq and now proud citizens of the United States. She met Joani through Oasis and now works for them and for Youth in Need, all in St. Louis. You can also find Oasis International and Youth In Need on Facebook or Instagram.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 07-02-24 You can buy those fireworks, but don't fire them off! Story here: https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/st-louis-county-responders-warn-against-illegal-fireworks/ Landmark O'Connell's Pub on Shaw Avenue in South City goes up for sale. Remember...this was a local business that bought into the tyrannical vaccine mindset, demanding vax papers from customers and slamming the unvaxxed, telling them to NEVER return to O'Connell's! Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/07/01/south-city-pub-sale/?tbref=hp Their vaccine statement in July, 2021: “We don't want you to come and sit outside and then send a server to go out and wait on the people who are not vaccinated. No way. Just don't come to the pub, ever. It's not safe for you to come now or at any point in the future,” the pub wrote. “If you aren't vaccinated or don't plan to be vaccinated, don't come. Ever.” Story here: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/st-louis-restaurants-requiring-proof-covid-vaccination-list/63-ae545773-1447-414e-99e2-9b0c31266acf   SCOTUS rules that former presidents are entitled to some immunity from prosecution. Story here: https://www.newsmax.com/politics/supreme-court-immunity-trump/2024/07/01/id/1170816/ Also story here: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-immunity-supreme-court/2024/07/01/id/1170836/   Maria Baer from WORLD magazine talks about gaslighting and the left backing off of gender ideology. Story here: https://wng.org/opinions/the-gaslighting-has-begun-1717546264 (https://wng.org/) More articles from Mary here: https://mariaebaer.wordpress.com/ MORNING NEWS DUMP: SCOTUS rules that former presidents are entitled to some immunity from prosecution. Story here: https://www.newsmax.com/politics/supreme-court-immunity-trump/2024/07/01/id/1170816/ Also story here: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-immunity-supreme-court/2024/07/01/id/1170836/ Gas prices rise in Missouri and Illinois as new taxes take effect on July 1. Missouri Gov. Parson uses his veto pen on various portions of the state budget. The remaining budget is still over $50B for the fiscal year. The end is near for Chesterfield Mall  with closure on August 31, demolition on October 15, and then they begin a $2B mixed-use redevelopment project. Cardinals begin a 3-game series in Pittsburgh this evening with the Pirates. First pitch at 5:40pm. NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Mike Ferguson in the Morning 06-13-24 St. Louis Veterans Job Fair is today at Chaifetz Arena at SLU in midtown with over 55 companies looking to hire folks. Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/06/10/over-55-companies-looking-hire-st-louis-veterans-job-fair-thursday/ Another crime wave in St. Louis...flowers are being stolen from Tower Grove Park in South City. Story here: https://fox2now.com/news/tower-grove-park-seeing-rise-in-plant-thefts/ Women rejoice!!! Swimmer Lia Thomas is out of the Olympics after losing a legal challenge. Story here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/transgender-swimmer-lia-thomas-out-of-olympics-after-losing-legal-challenge/ar-BB1o8fts?ocid=BingNewsSerp Suzanne Bowdey from The Washington Stand talks about some pro teams backing off of their involvement in Pride month as fans and consumers continue to push back against the ideology. Suzanne's article here: https://washingtonstand.com/commentary/major-sports-leagues-dump-pride-as-biden-fights-to-fill-the-void  More of Suzanne's articles here: https://www.frc.org/suzanne-bowdey (https://washingtonstand.com/) MORNING NEWS DUMP: Game over!! Somebody found Kim Gardner!  She finally met with the staff of the Missouri Auditor's Office on Wednesday. Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/06/12/kim-gardner-met-with-missouri-auditors-staff-wednesday/ The U.S. House votes to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for defying lawful subpoenas and refusing to turn over the audio recordings of Biden's interviews with former special counsel Robert Hur. Story here: https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/06/12/breaking-house-of-representatives-votes-to-hold-ag-merrick-garland-in-contempt-of-congress-n2175399 Eight men from Tajikistan with potential ties to ISIS were arrested in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Story here: https://nypost.com/2024/06/11/us-news/six-suspected-terrorists-with-isis-ties-arrested-in-sting-operation/ Port of Baltimore reopens for business. Story here: https://www.foxnews.com/us/port-baltimore-fully-reopened-100m-cleanup-collapsed-francis-scott-key-bridge Ozark Bible College establishes the Davy & Natalie Lloyd Memorial Scholarship. Story here: https://wng.org/sift/u-s-missionaries-killed-in-haiti-remembered-with-college-scholarship-1718050796 Senate Republicans and Democrats are trying to deal with what they call a vaping epidemic that's affecting kids throughout the U.S. Story here: https://fox40.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/senators-grill-fda-about-vaping/amp/ Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 as pitcher Sonny Gray picked up his 8th win. They'll wrap up the 3-game series with the Pirates this afternoon at Busch Stadium at 1:15pm.  Then it's on to Chicago for a 3-game weekend series with the Cubs at Wrigley Field.  NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 06-12-24 We contemplate how big the crowd will be at The Dome for the UFL Championship Game this coming Sunday without the Battlehawks. It'll be the Birmingham Stallions against the San Antonio Brahmas on Sunday afternoon at 4pm. Tickets are available at TheUFL-dot-com. Biden talks gun safety after Hunter's conviction on Tuesday. Story here: https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/06/11/biden-remarks-to-everytown-n2175332 Missouri Rep. Tony Lovasco talks about Hunter Biden's conviction and possible implications regarding the 2nd Amendment. (http://tonylovasco.com/) (@tonylovasco) (https://house.mo.gov/memberdetails.aspx?district=064) MORNING NEWS DUMP: Hunter Biden was convicted on all three federal felony charges including lying to a federally licensed firearms dealer and illegally possessing a firearm while on narcotics. Story here: https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/06/12/are-convicted-felon-hunter-bidens-legal-woes-about-to-get-much-more-serious-jonathan-turley-weighs-in-n2175357 House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) vows to continue investigating the Biden crime family. Story here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-vow-continue-pursuing-biden-crime-family-after-hunter-bidens-guilty-verdict Missouri executed another convicted murderer, 69-year-old David Hosier, on Tuesday evening in Bonne Terre. He was convicted of the 2009 murders of his girlfriend, Angela Gilpin, and her husband, Rodney Gilpin. After dozens of car break-ins in the Shaw neighborhood of South City recently, St. Louis City police now report more car break-ins over the past two weekends on The Hill.  The UFL Championship Game is coming up this Sunday without the Battlehawks. It'll be the Birmingham Stallions against the San Antonio Brahmas at The Dome on Sunday afternoon at 4pm. Tickets are available at TheUFL-dot-com. Cardinals lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates last night 2-1 at Busch Stadium. Game 2 of the 3-game series is tonight at 6:45pm. NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 06-12-24 RedState columnist Bob Hoge talks about Hunter Biden's conviction on Tuesday on all three counts related to deliberately lying about his crack cocaine addiction on a federal gun purchase form. Story here: https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/06/11/jurors-on-hunter-biden-gun-case-were-split-at-first-but-overwhelming-drug-evidence-swayed-the-panel-n2175334 Recent columns from Bob here: https://redstate.com/author/bobhoge (https://redstate.com/) MORNING NEWS DUMP: Hunter Biden was convicted on all three federal felony charges including lying to a federally licensed firearms dealer and illegally possessing a firearm while on narcotics. Story here: https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/06/12/are-convicted-felon-hunter-bidens-legal-woes-about-to-get-much-more-serious-jonathan-turley-weighs-in-n2175357 House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) vows to continue investigating the Biden crime family. Story here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-vow-continue-pursuing-biden-crime-family-after-hunter-bidens-guilty-verdict Missouri executed another convicted murderer, 69-year-old David Hosier, on Tuesday evening in Bonne Terre. He was convicted of the 2009 murders of his girlfriend, Angela Gilpin, and her husband, Rodney Gilpin.  After dozens of car break-ins in the Shaw neighborhood of South City recently, St. Louis City police now report more car break-ins over the past two weekends on The Hill.  The UFL Championship Game is coming up this Sunday without the Battlehawks. It'll be the Birmingham Stallions against the San Antonio Brahmas at The Dome on Sunday afternoon at 4pm. Tickets are available at TheUFL-dot-com. Cardinals lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates last night 2-1 at Busch Stadium. Game 2 of the 3-game series is tonight at 6:45pm. Three teenagers were arrested after they allegedly vandalized a Pride flag-painted intersection in Spokane, Washington. Story here: https://thepostmillennial.com/3-teens-arrested-for-leaving-scooter-skid-marks-on-painted-spokane-pride-intersection?utm_campaign=64466 More Father's Day gift ideas! NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 06-06-24 Professional sports leagues are quietly scaling back their Pride Month promotions. Story here: https://washingtonstand.com/commentary/major-sports-leagues-dump-pride-as-biden-fights-to-fill-the-void Ari Bargil, senior attorney with the Institute for Justice, talks about their Zoning Justice Project for protecting the freedom to use property. Read more about the project here: https://ij.org/issues/zoning-justice/ (https://ij.org/) Will the Chiefs move over to the Kansas side of Kansas City? Kansas will try to entice them, and the Royals will also continue to push for a new stadium. MORNING NEWS DUMP: The Shaw neighborhood in South City sustained another series of car break-ins this week, following nearly 60 break-ins last weekend. Some neighbors report that they're frustrated because they were told by police that there's nothing they can do unless a gun is stolen. Hunter Biden's trial continues today. Story here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-still-mum-laptop-gets-entered-evidence-hunter-biden-trial Today is the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France. Missouri could lose the Chiefs to the Kansas side of Kansas City. Kansas' Democratic governor and top Republican lawmakers are building a plan to entice the Chiefs to leave the Missouri side of the state line and relocate in Kansas.  Four Battlehawks' players are on the first All-UFL team, including running back Jaco Saylors, wide receiver Hakeem Butler, offensive tackle Jared Jones-Smith, and center Mike Panasluk. On defense, it's defensive lineman Willie Harvey. Cardinals beat the Astros 4-2 in Houston. They're back home tonight to open up a 7-game homestand with the first of 4 against the Colorado Rockies at Busch Stadium. First pitch at 6:45pm. NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 06-06-24 Patrick Parsons from the American Firearms Association talks about Congress pushing for a national red flag law, Biden demanding an "assault weapons" ban, and Biden's use of executive orders and administrative rules to enact gun control measures.  (https://www.americanfirearmsassociation.org/) (@IllinoisFirearmsAssociation) (https://www.illinoisfirearmsassociation.org/) (https://www.missourifirearmscoalition.org/) MORNING NEWS DUMP:The Shaw neighborhood in South City sustained another series of car break-ins this week, following nearly 60 break-ins last weekend. Some neighbors report that they're frustrated because they were told by police that there's nothing they can do unless a gun is stolen.Hunter Biden's trial continues today. Story here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-still-mum-laptop-gets-entered-evidence-hunter-biden-trialToday is the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France.Missouri could lose the Chiefs to the Kansas side of Kansas City. Kansas' Democratic governor and top Republican lawmakers are building a plan to entice the Chiefs to leave the Missouri side of the state line and relocate in Kansas. Four Battlehawks' players are on the first All-UFL team, including running back Jaco Saylors, wide receiver Hakeem Butler, offensive tackle Jared Jones-Smith, and center Mike Panasluk. On defense, it's defensive lineman Willie Harvey.Cardinals beat the Astros 4-2 in Houston. They're back home tonight to open up a 7-game homestand with the first of 4 against the Colorado Rockies at Busch Stadium. First pitch at 6:45pm. We continue our discussion on the importance of today's ceremonies in remembrance of the 80th anniversary of D-Day when Allied forces landed on the beaches at Normandy.  NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstream   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Meera and Michelle discuss dining at Casa Don Alfonso inside The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis where they tried a pasta tossed with deep-fried zucchini and for dessert their dazzling pistachio profiteroles with pistachio cream. Also in the conversation was an epic office lunch with spring salads from Knead Bakehouse + Provisions and several pizzas from Fordo's Killer Pizza including their ramp spring special, wild mushroom and four cheese with honey drizzle. From saucemagazine.com they discuss several restaurant openings like Off Elm in Webster Groves, Sunday Best reopening a take-out concept in South City and Sugar Shack Cafe in Granite City, Illinois. Finally they discuss 3 gas station dining destinations serving barbecue and also Indian food that are hidden gems throughout St. Louis. Casa Don Alfonso 100 Carondelet Plaza, Clayton, 314-719-1496 Knead Bakehouse + Provisions 3467 Hampton Ave, St. Louis, 314-376-4361 Fordo's Killer Pizza 3730 Foundry Way, St. Louis City Foundry 3730 Foundry Way, St. Louis Sunday Best, formerly Juniper, has reopened at the Hill Food Co. in south St. Louis Sugar Shack Cafe now open in Granite City offering Southern flavors and retro vibes Poke One is now open on South Grand in former Tower Grove Creamery space Cube Tea Studio 8041 Olive Blvd., University City, 314-942-1289 3 St. Louis spots making boba that will blow your mind The Vandy, STL Barkeep team will open Off Elm in Webster Groves this fall Khanna's Desi Vibes in Chesterfield is closing 3 awesome under-the-radar restaurants inside gas stations around St. Louis Olivette Station is serving delicious Pakistani food in an unassuming gas station in St. Louis County 3 Bay BBQ & Bakery 14195 Clayton Road, Town & Country, 636.227.1208, O'B. Que's 158 Long Road, Chesterfield, 636.778.9675, obques.com Olivette Station 9680 Olive Blvd., Olivette, 314.991.3082

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 04-30-24 Missouri Sen. Nick Schroer talks about current  legislative issues in Jefferson City including IP reform, preventing illegal aliens from voting, tax relief (property tax & income tax), budgetary issues, along with campus protests. (https://www.nickschroer.com/) (@NickBSchroer) (https://www.senate.mo.gov/Senators/Member/02) MORNING NEWS DUMP: St. Louis City Board of Aldermen President Megan Green is an adjunct professor at Washington University and says she has been put on paid administrative leave because of her role in the pro-Hamas protests on campus over the weekend, including allegedly opening doors with her pass card to let protesters into school buildings. Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/04/30/boa-president-megan-green-says-washington-university-placed-her-administrative-leave-after-saturday-protest-barred-her-campus/ The investigation into Missouri Speaker of the House Dean Plocher is over. Story here: https://missouriindependent.com/2024/04/29/missouri-house-ethics-panel-drops-probe-of-dean-plocher-after-blocking-pushing-to-release-evidence/ The Sudanese couple that had camped out for a few years at the corner of Chippewa and Spring in South City are now back on the street after being moved into housing by the city. They were spotted at Gravois and Spring, and they're refusing further help. Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/04/29/homeless-couple-center-complaints-legal-battles-back-streets-after-declining-help-again/ Cardinals were rained out yesterday in Detroit. That postponed game will be played as part of a doubleheader today against the Tigers. It'll be a regular doubleheader, not a day/night doubleheader, with Game 1 at 2:40pm CT. Former Cardinal starter Jack Flaherty will face his former team for the first time in Game 1 of the doubleheader. NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 04-30-24 The Sudanese couple that had camped out for a few years at the corner of Chippewa and Spring in South City are now back on the street after being moved into housing by the city. They were spotted at Gravois and Spring, and they're refusing further help. Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/04/29/homeless-couple-center-complaints-legal-battles-back-streets-after-declining-help-again/  Also story here on the homeless couple: https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/sidewalk-squatters-move-up-the-road-after-tarp-encampment-torn-down/ George Santos is back...on Cameo, where he offers video greetings in his drag queen persona. Story here: https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4629388-george-santos-cameo-drag-queen-kitara/ Washington University says you won't do THAT here! St. Louis City Board of Aldermen President Megan Green gets suspended and put on paid administrative leave from her adjunct professor teaching role at Washington University because of her role in the pro-Hamas protests on campus over the weekend, including allegedly opening doors with her pass card to let protesters into school buildings. Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/04/30/boa-president-megan-green-says-washington-university-placed-her-administrative-leave-after-saturday-protest-barred-her-campus/ Bonner Cohen, senior policy analyst with CFACT, talks about disruptive nationwide supply chain issues thanks to different emissions standards for locomotives operating in California. This scheme that could quickly spread to other states, threatening reliable rail transport of goods throughout the country. Here is Bonner's op-ed piece in The Hill: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4549111-us-freight-rail-supply-chain-now-at-the-mercy-of-californias-net-zero-emissions-rule/ (https://www.cfact.org/) MORNING NEWS DUMP: St. Louis City Board of Aldermen President Megan Green is an adjunct professor at Washington University and says she has been put on paid administrative leave because of her role in the pro-Hamas protests on campus over the weekend, including allegedly opening doors with her pass card to let protesters into school buildings. Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/04/30/boa-president-megan-green-says-washington-university-placed-her-administrative-leave-after-saturday-protest-barred-her-campus/ The investigation into Missouri Speaker of the House Dean Plocher is over. Story here: https://missouriindependent.com/2024/04/29/missouri-house-ethics-panel-drops-probe-of-dean-plocher-after-blocking-pushing-to-release-evidence/ The Sudanese couple that had camped out for a few years at the corner of Chippewa and Spring in South City are now back on the street after being moved into housing by the city. They were spotted at Gravois and Spring, and they're refusing further help. Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/04/29/homeless-couple-center-complaints-legal-battles-back-streets-after-declining-help-again/  Also story here on homeless couple: https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/sidewalk-squatters-move-up-the-road-after-tarp-encampment-torn-down/ Cardinals were rained out yesterday in Detroit. That postponed game will be played as part of a doubleheader today against the Tigers. It'll be a regular doubleheader, not a day/night doubleheader, with Game 1 at 2:40pm CT. Former Cardinal starter Jack Flaherty will face his former team for the first time in Game 1 of the doubleheader.  NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 04-30-24 In a TikTok video that went viral this week, A Utah woman who described herself as a state employee can be seen in a TikTok video justifying pulling down a teenager's mini skirt in the lobby of a St. George restaurant. While she threatened to call authorities on the teenager, she is now the one facing criminal charges. Story here: https://www.abc4.com/news/southern-utah/karen-in-viral-video-facing-sexual-battery-charge-for-pulling-down-teens-skirt-in-utah-restaurant/ MORNING NEWS DUMP: St. Louis City Board of Aldermen President Megan Green is an adjunct professor at Washington University and says she has been put on paid administrative leave because of her role in the pro-Hamas protests on campus over the weekend, including allegedly opening doors with her pass card to let protesters into school buildings. Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/04/30/boa-president-megan-green-says-washington-university-placed-her-administrative-leave-after-saturday-protest-barred-her-campus/ The investigation into Missouri Speaker of the House Dean Plocher is over. Story here: https://missouriindependent.com/2024/04/29/missouri-house-ethics-panel-drops-probe-of-dean-plocher-after-blocking-pushing-to-release-evidence/ The Sudanese couple that had camped out for a few years at the corner of Chippewa and Spring in South City are now back on the street after being moved into housing by the city. They were spotted at Gravois and Spring, and they're refusing further help. Story here: https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/04/29/homeless-couple-center-complaints-legal-battles-back-streets-after-declining-help-again/  Also story here on homeless couple: https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/sidewalk-squatters-move-up-the-road-after-tarp-encampment-torn-down/ Cardinals were rained out yesterday in Detroit. That postponed game will be played as part of a doubleheader today against the Tigers. It'll be a regular doubleheader, not a day/night doubleheader, with Game 1 at 2:40pm CT. Former Cardinal starter Jack Flaherty will face his former team for the first time in Game 1 of the doubleheader.  More discussion on the Utah lady facing criminal charges for pulling down the mini-skirt of a teen in the lobby of a restaurant in St. George. NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 04-26-24 Caroline Moore from Parents Defending Education talks about anti-Israel propaganda showing up in public school curriculum through "Teaching While Muslim." The curriculum claims that Israel is committing "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing." The ideology isn't learned in college. It actually begins much earlier, often subtly, in K-12 education. Story here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/islamic-education-consulting-group-brainwashing-public-school-students-with-anti-israel-propaganda/ More on "Teaching While Muslim" here: https://defendinged.org/incidents/perth-amboy-high-school-psychology-teacher-has-consultant-company-that-claims-israel-is-committing-genocide-and-ethnic-cleansing/ Parents Defending Education website: https://defendinged.org/ MORNING NEWS DUMP: St. Louis City workers finally cleared out the homeless encampment at the corner of Chippewa and Spring in South City. The Sudanese folks had been living there for at least 3 years. The Trump immunity trial continues today in NYC. A New York appeals court overturned the rape conviction of film producer Harvey Weinstein. Look for steeper tax increases if Biden wins reelection. Story here: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-vows-let-trump-era-tax-cuts-expire-next-year-meaning-higher-rates-millions Cardinals were off yesterday. They open up a 3-game weekend series against the Mets in New York tonight at 6:10pm. The Battlehawks (now 3-1) face the DC Defenders at Audi Field in Washington, DC, on Sunday at 11am CT. TV coverage on ESPN. NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 04-26-24 Financial advisor Paul Curtman talks about the campus protests, financial markets, taxes, and Gov. DeSantis' response to the changes in Title IX. (https://www.paulcurtman.com) (@paulcurtman) Paul's financial website: https://www.prcurtman.com St. Louis City workers finally cleared out the homeless encampment at the corner of Chippewa and Spring in South City. The Sudanese folks had been living there for at least 3 years. Cubs pitcher Luke Little was forced to change gloves during a game because of an illegal American flag on the glove. It's a uniform regulation. Story here: https://apnews.com/article/cubs-luke-little-glove-668d5a2f2bfdfd61c5879e2e311c5b20 MORNING NEWS DUMP: St. Louis City workers finally cleared out the homeless encampment at the corner of Chippewa and Spring in South City. The Sudanese folks had been living there for at least 3 years. The Trump immunity trial continues today in NYC. A New York appeals court overturned the rape conviction of film producer Harvey Weinstein. Look for steeper tax increases if Biden wins reelection. Story here: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-vows-let-trump-era-tax-cuts-expire-next-year-meaning-higher-rates-millions Cardinals were off yesterday. They open up a 3-game weekend series against the Mets in New York tonight at 6:10pm. The Battlehawks (now 3-1) face the DC Defenders at Audi Field in Washington, DC, on Sunday at 11am CT. TV coverage on ESPN. NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Ferguson in the Morning 04-26-24 St. Louis City workers finally cleared out the homeless encampment at the corner of Chippewa and Spring in South City. The Sudanese folks had been living there for at least 3 years. MORNING NEWS DUMP: St. Louis City workers finally cleared out the homeless encampment at the corner of Chippewa and Spring in South City. The Sudanese folks had been living there for at least 3 years. The Trump immunity trial continues today in NYC. A New York appeals court overturned the rape conviction of film producer Harvey Weinstein. Look for steeper tax increases if Biden wins reelection. Story here: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-vows-let-trump-era-tax-cuts-expire-next-year-meaning-higher-rates-millions Cardinals were off yesterday. They open up a 3-game weekend series against the Mets in New York tonight at 6:10pm. The Battlehawks (now 3-1) face the DC Defenders at Audi Field in Washington, DC, on Sunday at 11am CT. TV coverage on ESPN. Kia and Hyundai offer a free software upgrade to help stop stolen vehicles. It's Friday and Saturday at Busch Stadium from 8am-6pm and this Sunday at Chesterfield Mall from 8am-3pm. Clayton is considering a ban on gas-powered lawn equipment. Speaking of lawn equipment, Stel shares a story about his neighbor mowing the lawn on a riding lawn mower this week and the mower tumbled down a hill into the creek behind his house! The neighbor yelled for help because he was pinned under the mower in the creek. Kathie heard him and called 911, and most of Washington, MO, responded. Well, not quite, but numerous police cars and first responders were there immediately, took the gentleman to the hospital, and he recovered OK. More campus protests and USC has canceled their 2024 commencement ceremony. So the Class of 2024 lost their high school commencement in 2020 and now their college one in 2024.  NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2: Jared Maples, with the National Weather Service, joins Mark Reardon, Sue Thomas, Fred Bodimer, and Alex Rich to share on the upcoming Severe Storm Spotter courses online or next week at Carpenter Library in South City. Then, Sue brings you today's Sue's News on today's three national celebrations, a German museum tech who hung up his own artwork, and the Random Fact of the cay on the USDA's cheese caves in Missouri. Later, The gang discusses the Wall Street Journal article that slammed on Downtown St. Louis, a new update for Scrabble, and more!

This week Michelle and Meera discuss some of their favorites at Grace Meat + Three including their specials, their kitchen sink salad and catfish nuggets. They also talk about a recent visit to Coffeestamp in South City and their lineup of empanadas stuffed with elotes or egg and prosciutto and even a caprese version with tomato and mozzarella. They also talk about two upcoming events: Food Truck Friday and Saucy Soirée. Food Truck Friday returns for its 2024 season on April 26 in Tower Grove Park and Saucy Soirée, a grand tasting party, makes its return to Union Station on June 23. They also talk about a new spot Neon Greens, which is one part salad-centric restaurant and one part hydroponic farm, and a few of their standout salads. Grace Meat + Three 4270 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-533-2700 Food Truck Friday returns April 26 Coffeestamp Roasters 2511 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-797-8113 Saucy Soiree returns to St. Louis Union Station Sunday, June 23 Saucy Soirée presale tickets Neon Greens 4176 Manchester Ave., The Grove First Look: Neon Greens in the former Rise Coffee space in the Grove 5 new and forthcoming breweries in the St. Louis region Rock & Horse Brewing Co. 419 N. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, 314.361.1060 Dressel's in the Central West End is a St. Louis landmark Blue Jay Brewing Co. 2710 Locust St., St. Louis Mississippi Culture 201 S. Union St., Staunton, Illinois Narrow Gauge Brewing Co. 1545 N. Hwy. 67, Florissant Main & Mill Central 10 Main St., Festus Cugino's has opened a second location at The Meadows at Lake Saint Louis Pink Willow Cafe 5523 Oak St. in Cottleville First Look: Pink Willow Cafe at Oak Street Inn & Lounge in Cottleville

On this week's episode presented by Busey Bank, Josh drops a line with Shalie Dahl Moore who recently opened Wheelhouse Fish Co. – a sea to plate fish company providing products that she and her family catch on their own boats out of Petersburg, Alaska. She's an incredibly passionate person launching into her business with a real focus on simply sharing her love for the people and the products from her hometown. Josh and Shalie talk about growing up on a boat, her journey to the Midwest on a basketball scholarship and how she brings her product to market. Wheelhouse Fish Co.'s items are currently available at Urban Eats in South City and the University City Farmer's Market with lots more on the horizon. Grab your net and let's go… #fishing #seatotable #alaska 

Step onto the field of dreams as we dive deep into the captivating soccer journey of Angel—player, coach, and the driving force behind Futsal Alliance. In this episode, Angel shares personal anecdotes of resilience, the pivotal role of family, and the indelible mark left by mentors like Coach Sean Lawrence. Explore the challenges and triumphs of coaching, the birth of Futsal Alliance, and the vision to cultivate a unique soccer culture in the heart of Texas. From tearful defeats to the euphoria of success, Angel's story is a testament to the transformative power of soccer beyond the game itself. Join us for an inspiring conversation that unravels the layers of Angel's experiences, touching on mentorship, community building, and the relentless pursuit of passion. As we navigate through this soccer odyssey, discover the profound impact of the beautiful game in shaping lives. This episode is not just about soccer; it's a narrative of resilience, mentorship, and the enduring spirit of the soccer community. Strap in for a journey through the highs and lows, the laughter and lessons, as Angel lays bare the beautiful, unpredictable tapestry of his soccer life. #SoccerOdyssey #Resilience #Mentorship #FootsoreAlliance #BeautifulGame --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chatbythepitch/message

Join host Ian and special guest Coach Angel in this episode of "Chat by the Pitch." Dive into their conversation on the challenges and joys of youth soccer coaching. They discuss player development, managing parent expectations, and the rewards of patiently nurturing young talents. Discover insights into Angel's coaching philosophy, emphasizing long-term goals and fostering a positive learning environment. The guest shares experiences, highlighting the importance of starting players on a development journey from scratch. Explore the issue of clubs prioritizing existing skills over potential and passion. Ian and Angel advocate for patience, inclusivity, and a focus on continual improvement. Learn strategies for keeping players engaged and excited about the game. The episode concludes with a powerful message on viewing losses as opportunities for growth and building resilience in players and coaches. Join the "Chat by the Pitch" family for this insightful conversation. #ChatByThePitch #YouthSoccerCoaching #CoachAngel #SoccerTalks #PlayerDevelopment --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chatbythepitch/message

Male grooming. Jeremy Rutherford joins the show to talk Blues and their losing ways as of late. Two-part questions. JR addresses his thoughts on Kyrou's situation. Mark Hannah in studio and reflecting on the Kelly Chase interview. Audio of Max Strus' buzzer beater last night. More fun with audio as a Kentucky couple got married in a gas station bathroom. Plowsy is taking wedding pics in front of a gas station in South City. EMOTD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The idea 'Stay Civil' is one we could all use a little more of in today's day and age. That's the motto at the South City brewery Civil Life. Founded in 2011 by Jake Hafner, Mike Bianco and Dylan Mosley, the brewery is known for their malt-driven beers. Their best seller and crowd favorite is the Civil Life Brown. It's a beer head brewer Dylan never imagined would take off in the way that it has. Dylan and Mike sat down with us inside the wood-filled cozy pub to talk about how it all began with home brewing and how it's transformed into what it is today – a brewery with a solid food menu, classic beers and one of the best outdoor patios around. You know we love a good chat with St. Louis' best brewers, we'd love to know where's your favorite brewery in town. Let us know on social media – find us on Facebook and Instagram at Meet St. Louis podcast. And let us know what brewery we need to visit for our next podcast.

In this episode, one of the Bay Area's youngest politicians shares his vision for South San Francisco. We spend a day with South City's newest mayor. Then, Oakland writer Tommy Orange talks about his new novel "Wandering Stars." And, we hear why February is dedicated to Black history.

In the 3rd hour of the Marc Cox Morning Show: Joe Rogan says kids can be convinced to believe anything, that's what we need to watch who's teaching them Jim Talent, former US Senator, joins the show to discuss Trump saying that Nato shouldn't be funded as much by America and other countries should donate 2% to their own defense.  Marc and Jim also talk about the Ukraine funding Bill.  City not moving homeless encampment in South City that is in front of someone's home, but they were quick to move the encampment that was across from City Hall Justin Roethlingshoefer, A performance coach to elite athletes, joins the Marc Cox Morning Show to discuss why so many young athletes are having heart problems Coming Up: George Rosenthal and Shannon Bream

Bevis Schock, the attorney for the South City homeowners at the corner of Chippewa and Spring, joins Mark Reardon to share why they are demanding the City remove a homeless tent outside their house.

Hour 1: George Rosenthal, an owner of Throttlenet, joins Mark Reardon to discuss today's nationwide cell phone outage affecting mainly AT&T users. Then, Bevis Schock, the attorney for the South City homeowners at the corner of Chippewa and Spring, joins Mark Reardon to share why they are demanding the City remove a homeless tent outside their house. Next, Steve Butz, Missouri State Representative, hops on the line to share his experience and thoughts on the squatters.

This week Michelle and Meera discuss a classic egg salad sandwich at Union Loafers in Botanical Heights and also talk about drinking out of a disco-ball-shaped-punch bowl at Hidden Gem, a new bar in Midtown St. Louis. They also talk about a recent visit to Millpond brewing in Millstadt, Illinois, where their hazy IPAs stood out amongst their delicious lineup of beers. New spots are opening and familiar favorites are expanding and reopening and they chat about the latest wave of news from Tiger Soup Dumplings opening in Des Peres, Amrut Fusion Cusine in Chesterfield and The Shaved Duck in South City. Hidden Gem 3118 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-925-8931 Union Loafers Cafe and Bread Bakery 1629 Tower Grove Ave., St. Louis, 314-833-6111 Millpond Brewing 308 E Washington St., Millstadt, Illinois, 618-476-9933 Tiger Soup Dumplings is opening a location in Des Peres in spring 2024 2022 Best New Restaurants // No. 8 Tiger Soup Dumplings Amrut Fusion Cuisine 17392 Chesterfield Airport Rd, Chesterfield, 636-778-9380 Fine dining Indian restaurant Amrut Fusion is now open in Chesterfield First Look: Amaizing Arepa Bar in downtown St. Louis Dressel's 419 N. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, 314-361-1060 Dressel's in the Central West End is a St. Louis landmark 12 great St. Louis restaurants that are definitely open on Monday, Vol. 4 Fattened Caf

Greenville, South Carolina, has become an attractive destination, frequently included in lists of the "Best Small Cities" in America. But, the city's growth and renewal started over 100 years ago, during a remarkable period of progress during which World War I acted as a powerful catalyst.In her book, “Our Country First, Then Greenville" - A New South City during the Progressive Era and World War I (2023, USC Press) Courtney Tollison Hartness explores Greenville's home-front experience of race relations, dramatic population growth (the number of Greenville residents nearly tripled between 1900 and 1930s), the women's suffrage movement, and the contributions of African Americans and women to Greenville's history.In this episode of the Journal, we'll talk with Courtney about how Greenville's experience during this progressive period served to generate massive development in the city and the region. It was this moment that catalyzed Greenville's development into a modern city, setting the stage for the continued growth that persists into the present-day.

This week Michelle and Meera discuss Hidden Gem, the new disco-dive bar that opened up in Midtown St. Louis. They also discuss two vegan spots SweetArt in South City and the newly-opened Looking Meadow Cafe in Maplewood. They also discussed several spots they look forward to trying in the new year including Brasas in the Delmar Loop and Taqueria Morita in the Central West End and Telva at the Ridge in Webster Groves. Hidden Gem 318 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-925-8931 First Look: Hidden Gem in Midtown St. Louis SweetArt 2203 S. 39th St., St. Louis, 314-771-4278 Eat This: The Maine Event at SweetArt Looking Meadow Cafe 2500 Sutton Blvd., Maplewood First Look: Looking Meadow Cafe in Maplewood Eat Crow 1931 S. 12th St., St. Louis, 314-934-1400 More on Eat Crow in Soulard Andrew Cisneros will open Brasas in the Delmar Loop in spring 2024 Taqueria Morita will open permanent location in former Wasabi space in the Central West End in spring 2024 More on Neon Greens Telva at The Ridge 60 N. Gore Ave., Webster Groves, 314-395-2760 Gerard Craft will open Expat BBQ at City Foundry STL