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Julie Bierach

Julie Bierach is the morning newscaster/news producer at St. Louis Public Radio. She was born and raised in St. Louis and graduated from Southeast Missouri State University. She started her career in Cape Girardeau, Mo. as a student announcer.

Bierach returned to St. Louis Public Radio in November 2010 after working in public relations at the Missouri Botanical Garden. She was previously the station’s science and technology reporter.

Bierach worked in Tucson, Arizona at Arizona Public Media where she was the host of the station’s weekly news magazine, Arizona Spotlight. While in Tucson, she reported on a variety of topics facing the desert southwest, including illegal immigration. Her reports have been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and Day to Day.

  • The federal probation office in St. Louis has one of the biggest caseloads of violent offenders in the country — and one of the lowest recidivism rates. That's in part because of a former felon who knows how to keep ex-offenders from returning to prison.
  • U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill says there will be a political price to pay for state legislators who allow the federal government to run the state’s health…
  • Former Republican Missouri Senator Kit Bond will lead a delegation of St. Louis-area business leaders to China later this year. Bond's consulting firm that works on international trade will accompany regional and statewide businesses and academic institutions to China in December. Tim Nowak, executive director of the St. Louis-based World Trade Center, says the trip is an opportunity to connect companies in Missouri with business partners, government entities and academic partners in China, which he says is one of the fastest growing export markets for the state. "China consumes 8 percent of all of Missouri's exports," Nowak said. "It has gone from roughly $50 million in exports 15 years ago, to now we will pass more than $1 billion in exports to China." In 2011, a package of tax incentives to help create a China cargo hub at St. Louis Lambert Airport failed to gain enough support in the Missouri legislature. Follow Julie Bierach on Twitter: @jbierach
  • When Missourians go to the polls Tuesday to vote on a number of candidates to compete in the November general election, they'll also be asked to decide on an amendment to the state's constitution. Amendment 2 is better known as the "right to pray" ballot measure.