Michele Munz
Health Reporter at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch health reporter. Mom of 3. From Tulsa. Former All-American track athlete for the University of Arkansas, but now I just dance. She/her
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2 weeks ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Michele Munz
Share She lost her grandparents’ home — her place of comfort and love. Just months earlier, she had lost her grandmother. Her mind can’t grasp how it was all taken so quickly. How she survived. How her neighborhood looks like a war zone.Her knees buckle when it starts to rain. Her sense of normalcy and safety is shaken. She struggles to describe how she’s grateful to be alive, but also angry.“I still haven’t processed, really, what’s going on,” Higgins said.
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2 weeks ago |
stltoday.com | Michele Munz
ST. LOUIS — After her night shift as a dispatcher at a rental car agency, Nyla Higgins woke up at 2:36 p.m. on May 16 to her phone vibrating with weather alerts. It began to storm, and she put her dog in a crate. Suddenly, the wind shattered her bedroom windows. Debris swirled everywhere. Higgins, 34, could barely open the door and get to her sister, 27. As Higgins saw her bedroom pull away from the house, she and her sister were flung into the bathroom and into the tub.
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2 weeks ago |
stltoday.com | Michele Munz
ST. LOUIS — From handing out free food on street corners to creating complex community hubs of services out of parking lots, hundreds of volunteers and community organizations across St. Louis have joined forces in the aftermath of Friday’s devastating tornado.
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4 weeks ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Michele Munz
A long line forms as people wait Thursday, May 8, 2025 to get free health care on the final day of the four-day Pathway to Health clinic, run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, at America’s Center in downtown St. Louis.ST. LOUIS — People began getting in line at 5 a.m. for a free mega health clinic held at St. Louis’ downtown convention center this week.
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4 weeks ago |
stltoday.com | Michele Munz
ST. LOUIS — People began getting in line at 5 a.m. for a free mega health clinic held at St. Louis’ downtown convention center this week. Lines stretched for blocks by the time it opened at 7 a.m., and hundreds were turned away. “We always have more people needing services than we can offer,” said Randy Griffin, a volunteer dentist from Indiana, as he tried to focus on the number he helped instead of those who didn’t make it through the doors.
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