Former professional journalist and current amateur artist. Read about my career below. Click menu above to see my art. .… Read more MATTHEW FRANCK

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has devoted considerable energy in the past several months on the heroin epidemic. Reporter Jesse Bogan… Read more Heroin and St. Louis

St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Nancy Cambria and photographer Laurie Skrivan spent months exploring the hidden toll that poverty and related… Read more ‘The Crisis Within’ • Toxic Stress and children

The shooting of black teenager Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9, 2014 became… Read more Ferguson coverage

Few Missouri Supreme Court rulings have had the kind of impact as one issued in June 2013 on a decades-old… Read more School transfers

In my seven years as an editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, my team of reporters has won numerous awards for… Read more Projects I’ve edited

For three years, one of my roles at the Post-Dispatch has been to edit religion coverage. I’ve had the pleasure… Read more Religion editing

I pride myself in explanatory journalism that makes the arcane clear. And in my career I’ve tackled some complex issues,… Read more News analysis

For four years I covered the Missouri Legislature, a beat that means writing about almost everything under the sun. Examples… Read more State capital reporting

Education policy is important to me. For the past 18 years I have rarely strayed far from it, both from… Read more Education reporting