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Sarah Fenske is St. Louis Magazine‘s executive editor. She manages news and business coverage, edits The Daily newsletter, and hosts The 314 Podcast. She’s been a reporter, columnist, and radio host, as well as the editor in chief of two late, great alt-weeklies, in more than two decades of journalism in Cleveland, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and St. Louis. She is currently host of the monthly Legal Roundtable on St. Louis Public Radio and a panelist on Nine PBS’ Donnybrook. She lives in the city, where she attempts to juggle herding her kids to sports practice and swapping political gossip over a good martini.

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