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Michele Munz

@michelemunz.bsky.social
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Retired after 30 years in journalism, mostly with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Photos: More than 1,000 Webster Groves students walk out to protest ICE www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Photos: More than 1,000 Webster Groves students walk out to protest ICE
Webster Groves High School and Hixson Middle School students walked out of classes Friday to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions. Students at Kirkwood High School staged a similar walk...
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants
The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services. The cuts could total as much as $2 billion.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Clayton reckons with the city's past, one marker at a time: "We're seeing some collective effort around the stories we tell in public, and the values that are represented in those stories," said WashU prof Geoff Ward. "It's acknowledgement as a counter to erasure." www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Clayton leaders reckon with the city's past, one marker at a time
A Black neighborhood. The Philippine Village. An Osage trail. Clayton plaques add to city history
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Roland Klose @rwklose.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
More than a year after Missouri voters approved enshrining abortion rights into the state constitution, the vast majority of Missourians seeking the procedure are still traveling out of state. @michelemunz.bsky.social explains why. www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Missouri legalized abortion, but most residents can't get appointments and go elsewhere
State figures show 80 abortions took place in Missouri clinics through October. Most Missourians seeking abortions are still traveling to other states.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
It’s hard, because I love journalism so much. This job has opened my eyes and heart in ways I never imagined, and for that I am most grateful. But I’m excited for a change and new adventures! Thank you to everyone who has shared their stories with me over the years. ❤️
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Founder leaves pioneering St. Louis 'bullet' clinic to focus on tornado recovery www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Founder leaves pioneering St. Louis 'bullet' clinic to focus on tornado recovery
Dr. LJ Punch has resigned as medical director of the Bullet Related Injury Clinic and formed an organization focused on post-tornado care.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
FEMA to pay for crisis counseling for Missouri tornado victims www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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FEMA to pay for crisis counseling for Missouri tornado victims
One St. Louis agency will hire four full-time crisis counselors to canvas neighborhoods and attend community events.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Love my city ❤️ My latest story is about how people are pitching in to help their neighbors, and how you can too:
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Food drives launch across St. Louis area as region braces for halt in SNAP www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Food drives launch across St. Louis area as region braces for halt in SNAP
Free article: Organizations are organizing food drives, donating proceeds from sales and offering volunteers to prepare for the loss of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beginning Saturday...
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
St. Louis residents turn to food banks amid aid cuts. 'Everything you need is going up' www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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St. Louis residents turn to food banks amid aid cuts. 'Everything you need is going up'
A grandmother who has seven family members living with her. A woman who's four months behind on her mortgage. A family displaced by May's tornado in St. Louis.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Jamaa Birth Village in Ferguson adds school, library and a museum of Black midwifery www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Jamaa Birth Village in Ferguson adds school, library and a museum of Black midwifery
Black midwives throughout history were not only experts in the birth process but also served as healers, herbalists, spiritual advisors and therapists for mothers and their families.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
More than 650,000 Missourians to lose food stamp benefits next month under shutdown www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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More than 650,000 Missourians to lose food stamp benefits next month under shutdown
More than 320,000 Missouri households rely on federal food stamp benefits to supplement their groceries
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Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
More evidence that the COVID vaccine is SAFE AND EFFECTIVE “A study of hundreds of thousands of infants in France did not find any increased risk of birth defects among those whose mothers received a Covid vaccine in the first trimester, building on previous evidence for the vaccines’ safety”
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Covid Vaccines in First Trimester Not Tied to Birth Defects, Study Finds
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The shutdown means Medicare won’t pay hospitals for some telehealth services and it has halted a promising program used by the Mercy that allowed acutely ill patients to receive hospital-level care at home, just as wait times for hospital beds are increasing. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Federal shutdown threatens telehealth for Missouri seniors, some in-home care
The shutdown means Medicare won't pay hospitals for some telehealth services
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
“Our trade policy right now makes no sense to me as a farmer,” said Blake Hurst, a farmer in northwest Missouri. “No, I don’t want the tariff money sent to me as a payment. I want to be able to sell my damn soybeans.”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/10/2025
They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
It could cost the state an additional $67 million next year to ensure Missouri complies with new federal work requirements for Medicaid recipients under rules brought forth this summer by President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Drive-thru, free flu vaccine clinics begin in St. Louis area amid vaccine confusion www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Drive-thru, free flu vaccine clinics begin in St. Louis area amid vaccine confusion
Free vaccination clinics are beginning across the St. Louis area as health officials prepare for respiratory virus season and work to overcome questions about vaccines and how to get them.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The internal pressures are in tandem with external pressures caused by the Trump administration, including a crackdown on immigration, which has contributed to major decline in international student enrollment — falling 22% this fall compared to last.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Confusion over federal COVID-19 vaccine guidelines affects St. Louis-area pharmacies www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Confusion over federal COVID-19 vaccine guidelines affects St. Louis-area pharmacies
Unsure how to proceed, pharmacies differ in how they are doling out the vaccine
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Missouri’s local health departments have emerged as among the most trusted public services, according to a statewide poll recently conducted for the Missouri Public Health Institute, a nonprofit working to improve the state’s public health system.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The disease has mostly been considered one Americans get while traveling to another country, but scientists argue that enough evidence — including a case in MO — shows people can get infected here too.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Dangerous signs are being missed in Missouri pregnant women, leading to deaths www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Dangerous signs are being missed in Missouri pregnant women, leading to deaths
This year’s maternal mortality report found a lack of knowledge of warning signs that require immediate follow-up.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
In blue states, nearly 80% of the CDC grant cuts have been restored, compared with fewer than 5% in red states, according to the KFF Health News analysis.
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Barton Lorimor @bartonlorimor.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
= Federal PREP funds support state programs on adolescent health and sex education, targeting groups with high teen birth rates, such those in foster care or in rural areas. = @michelemunz.bsky.social >>
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Feds order Missouri to cut references to gender identity in sex ed programs www.stltoday.com/news/local/e...
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Feds order Missouri to cut references to gender identity in sex ed programs
Forty states have been told to remove references to gender identity in sexual health education programs or risk losing millions of dollars.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Was hoping he might have been one of those rare cases that survives. 😢 www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Man infected by brain-eating amoeba in Lake of the Ozarks has died
The man was infected after water skiing at the lake during the first week of August.
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Beacon Reproductive Health Network @beaconrepro.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Let's get to know each other! Check out yesterday's Beacon launch coverage from the Post-Dispatch. 👇 Special thanks to ‪@michelemunz.bsky.social‬ for helping us share the good news! 🙌 #WeAreBeacon #ReproFreedom #CareWithoutBarriers
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Reproductive health mission is key to Missouri health agency's rebranding
Beacon supports a regional network of 63 health centers in Missouri and three in Oklahoma, providing contraception, cancer screenings, and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/07/2025
One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
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‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants
Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Trump is calling for an end to a program that helps residents pay their utility bills. At the same time, Ameren Mo just won approval to raise gas rates, adding around $13 to the average customer’s monthly bills. And Gov. Kehoe has signed legislation projected to add $1,100 per year to utility bills.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 23/07/2025
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, in a lawsuit, says Planned Parenthood is violating Missouri’s consumer protection law by falsely advertising medication abortions as safe.
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Missouri AG accuses Planned Parenthood of misleading women about safety of medication abortions
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, in a lawsuit, says Planned Parenthood is violating Missouri’s consumer protection law by falsely advertising medication abortions as safe.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
According to a January analysis by the Missouri Department of Social Services, it will take the embattled agency at least two years to install a system designed to administer the provisions of a work program.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 22/07/2025
Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” requires states to implement a work requirement for most adults on Medicaid.
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Missouri faces time crunch with Medicaid work requirements on horizon
Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” requires states to implement a work requirement for most adults on Medicaid.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 17/07/2025
St. Louis’ leading research university has quietly removed references to the university’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion from many of its websites amid rising federal scrutiny of higher education.
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Washington University scrubs webpages of DEI content. ‘If you fight, you will be punished.’
St. Louis’ leading research university has quietly removed references to the university’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion from many of its websites amid rising federal scrutiny of higher education.
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
St. Louis Post Dispatch: 'WashU closing its Long COVID clinic, leaving struggling patients worried about their care' '“I am terrified to lose access to the only doctors who not only believed but understood me,” said Jess, 36, of St. Louis.' www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...
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WashU closing its Long COVID clinic, leaving struggling patients worried about their care
Patients fear the clinic’s closure will end their access to the latest research, clinical trials for new treatments, and specialists with expertise in treating Long COVID symptoms.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
WashU closing its Long COVID clinic, leaving struggling patients worried about their care www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...
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WashU closing its Long COVID clinic, leaving struggling patients worried about their care
Patients fear the clinic’s closure will end their access to the latest research, clinical trials for new treatments, and specialists with expertise in treating Long COVID symptoms.
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Tony Messenger @tonymess.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Messenger: Missouri is bad at feeding poor people. SNAP cuts will make it worse. www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
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Messenger: Missouri is bad at feeding poor people. SNAP cuts will make it worse.
Too many people who qualify for food stamps in Missouri can't get them. The problem could get worse soon.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Measles outbreak reported in southwest Missouri county as US cases continue to climb www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...
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Measles outbreak reported in southwest Missouri county as US cases continue to climb
Five people have contracted measles in Cedar County, which is located northwest of Springfield, state and county health officials say.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 30/06/2025
Editorial: Hawley vowed to protect Missourians' Medicaid. Now he’s voting to gut it.
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Editorial: Hawley vowed to protect Missourians' Medicaid. Now he’s voting to gut it.
Josh Hawley’s anti-populist betrayal
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Missouri health providers and advocates raise alarms ahead of vote on ‘big, beautiful’ bill www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Missouri health providers and advocates raise alarms ahead of vote on ‘big, beautiful’ bill
Missouri stands to lose $23 billion in federal Medicaid funds over the next 10 years if proposed changes become law, the Missouri Foundation for Health says.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
St. Louis biomed firm was on the cusp of a breakthrough TB drug. Then its funding was cut. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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St. Louis biomed firm was on the cusp of a breakthrough TB drug. Then its funding was cut.
Fimbrion Therapeutics was blindsided by an abrupt and unexplained cut in National Institutes of Health funding. Not only is its research jeopardized, the company may close.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 20/06/2025
Fimbrion Therapeutics was blindsided by an abrupt and unexplained cut in National Institutes of Health funding. Not only is its research jeopardized, the company may close.
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St. Louis biomed firm was on the cusp of a breakthrough TB drug. Then its funding was cut.
Fimbrion Therapeutics was blindsided by an abrupt and unexplained cut in National Institutes of Health funding. Not only is its research jeopardized, the company may close.
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Staci D. Kramer @sdkstl.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
"I can’t even imagine what this will be like going forward."
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Unseen devastation of the St. Louis tornado: mental health. 'I will never be the same.' www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Unseen devastation of the St. Louis tornado: mental health. 'I will never be the same.'
"I know I don’t have a home anymore, but it’s still mind-boggling. I feel like I’m in a movie, like I’m living somebody else’s life."
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Clayton, University City schools to close, hundreds of St. Louis students to relocate after tornado damage www.stltoday.com/news/local/e...
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Clayton, University City schools to close, hundreds of St. Louis students to relocate after tornado damage
Leaders in St. Louis Public Schools scrambled over the weekend to reassign students and staff to other schools for the last week of class.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Here’s how to help, or find help, after St. Louis tornado www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Here’s how to help, or find help, after St. Louis tornado
Volunteers are needed after a tornado hit the St. Louis area.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Hundreds of volunteers lend a hand after St. Louis tornado. ‘That’s how people are here.’
Hundreds of volunteers and community organizations across St. Louis have joined forces in the aftermath of Friday’s devastating tornado.
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Michele Munz @michelemunz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Free health clinic in downtown St. Louis draws thousands. ‘It’s just a drop in the bucket.’ www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Free health clinic in downtown St. Louis draws thousands. ‘It’s just a drop in the bucket.’
The mega clinic, a humanitarian mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, helped thousands of people. But it still wasn’t enough to meet the need.
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