Missouri Republicans are sweeping state office contests by wide margins with incumbents Andrew Bailey and Vivek Malek joined by Denny Hoskins and Dave Wasinger. More than 93% of the precincts were reporting as of midnight Tuesday. Attorney general After serving as attorney general for two years, Bailey cruised through his first election bid. Bailey was […]
Kavahn Mansouri
Kavahn Mansouri joined KCUR 89.3 and the Midwest Newsroom from the Belleville (Illinois) News-Democrat in 2021.
There, his beat focused on covering local government, with a mission to hold elected officials and public agencies accountable. He also contributed to the breaking news beat daily and maintained the paper’s Public Pay Database, which tracks salaries and wages at taxpayer-funded institutions throughout the state.
A native of St. Louis, Kavahn is a graduate of Webster University. He started reporting when he was 15 years old, working on his high school newspaper.
Since Kavahn has honed my craft into investigative reporting, where he seeks to tell stories about how every day people are affected by complex issues. Through interviewing people and documents alike, he aims to uncover stories in which people in power do wrong.