The Gateway

The Gateway

Essential news for the St. Louis region. Every weekday, in about 8 to 10 minutes, you can learn about the top stories of the day, while also hearing longer stories that bring context and humanity to the issues and ideas that affect life in the region. Music by Ryan McNeely of Adult Fur.

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Thursday, Oct. 1 - Concerns with funding Missouri education

October 1, 2026 • 11 mins
Retiring Ritenour School District Superintendent Chris Kilbride says school funding is among the biggest challenges he’s faced.
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Wednesday, Sept. 30 - Ameren Missouri's new plan

September 30, 2026 • 10 mins
Data centers play a prominent role in Ameren's 20 year plan, and renewable energy advocates are skeptical.
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Tuesday, Sept. 29 - High prices have farmers feeling gassed

September 29, 2026 • 10 mins
Missouri produces the third-most beef cattle in the country, and it also grows a lot of corn and soybeans. That diversity has traditionally been a buffer against a bad year in any one sector. But diesel prices have soared in recent weeks, and they affect all farming sectors.
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Monday, Sept. 28 - No free rides

September 28, 2026 • 12 mins
Most school buses run on diesel fuel…which just hit another record price. In Illinois, it’s just one of several factors pushing school transportation costs to what some say is a crisis level.
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Friday, September 25, 2026 - Kid Markets

September 25, 2026 • 10 mins
A market run by kids for kids is paving the way for young entrepreneurs to bring their small businesses to customers in the Metro East and St. Louis.
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Thursday, Sept. 24 - What's the buzz around data centers, anyway?

September 24, 2026 • 12 mins
As large-scale data center proposals pop up around St. Louis, one of the biggest concerns among residents is noise. St. Louis University Professor Kasey Fowler-Finn studies sound and especially low frequency noise like what comes from data centers. She sat down with St. Louis Public Radio’s Kate Grumke to talk about why these projects are so loud.
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Wednesday, Sept. 23 - Thousands flock for Fulton Sheen

September 23, 2026 • 11 mins
Archbishop Fulton Sheen was a popular mid-century Catholic leader and televangelist from outside of Peoria. The Vatican has now certified a miracle in Sheen’s name – and his Beatification Ceremony is happening in St. Louis tomorrow. Why thousands are making the pilgrimage to The Dome for the event, and the influence Fulton Sheen’s had on modern Catholics.
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Tuesday, Sept. 22 - Eyes on Flock

September 22, 2026 • 11 mins
Some Midwest states have little to no regulations of Flock Safety cameras or other automated license plate readers. As surveillance companies face bipartisan backlash, that is likely to change during the next legislative session.
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Monday, Sept. 21 - Race, rock, relationships

September 21, 2026 • 11 mins
As a Black teen joining the punk rock scene in a predominantly white Maryland suburb, G’Ra Asim was sometimes an outsider among the outsiders. His parents moved east from St. Louis when he was 9. Asim is now a creative writing professor at Washington University, and plays guitar in two bands. In a new book of essays, he charts his path through 21st-century romance and pop culture.
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Friday, Sept. 18 - Gettin' your rest on Route 66

September 18, 2026 • 14 mins
Route 66 turns 100 this year. One of the prominent features on the mother road that made car travel from Chicago to California possible was the small motels people would stop at along the way. Most of them are long gone, but one of them has been rescued, and is back open. St. Louis Public Radio’s Jonathan Ahl takes us to the Shamrock Court Motel in Sullivan.
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Thursday, Sept. 17 - Conor Murphy's new album with Smidley

September 17, 2026 • 12 mins
Since the St. Louis band Foxing went on hiatus, Conor Murphy has focused on Smidley, and they have new album with new inspiration.
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Wednesday, Sept. 16 - Uncovering an important voter

September 16, 2026 • 9 mins
There's a headstone in the central Illinois town of El Paso for the first Black man to cast a ballot in the state, but historians aren't sure if that's where David Strother is actually buried.
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Tuesday, Sept. 15 - Passing on classrooms

September 15, 2026 • 12 mins
Since Missouri streamlined enrollment in its full-time virtual learning program for K-through-12 students following the COVID-19 pandemic, enrollment has quadrupled. Growth in demand for online education comes at a time when more teachers appear frustrated with being in a classroom.
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Monday, Sept. 14 - The path to save the butterflies

September 14, 2026 • 12 mins
One of the world’s great migrations has begun. The eastern monarch butterfly is flying south, through the central U.S., to overwinter in Mexico. A decade ago, a federal task force laid out a plan to help monarchs along their journey by returning roadsides to native habitat, including Interstate 35 that goes through part of Missouri. Harvest Public Media’s Rachel Cramer explores what happened to the “Monarch Highwa...
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Friday, Sept. 11 - 50 years of The Black Rep

September 11, 2026 • 10 mins
The Black Rep is celebrating 50 years. Founder and producing director Ron Himes says each season he’s just surviving, but the theater’s mission to expose communities to Black stories will be its continued legacy. St. Louis Public Radio’s Andrea Henderson takes us behind the scenes of one of the largest African American professional theater companies in the country.
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Thursday, Sept. 10 - Doubling downtown population? New development chief says it can happen.

September 10, 2026 • 11 mins
St. Louis Development Corporation CEO Stephen Westbrooks says for downtown St. Louis to feel like a neighborhood, it needs nearly double its current population. He says new incentives can get it there.
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Wednesday, Sept 9 - Map chaos and court rulings

September 9, 2026 • 13 mins
Missouri's congressional map is in turmoil following contradictory orders from a U.S. Supreme Court justice and a federal judge in St. Louis.
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Tuesday, Sept. 8 - Disney's path through Missouri

September 8, 2026 • 10 mins
For most people, Walt Disney's name evokes cartoons, castles and the sprawling theme parks in California and Florida. But for a group of students from Western Michigan University, understanding Disney's imagination meant starting somewhere much smaller: a town of roughly 2,000 people in north-central Missouri.
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Friday, Sept. 4 - Breaking down the redistricting ruling

September 4, 2026 • 12 mins
The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that a new Congressional Map that would have made it more difficult for Democratic Congressman Emanuel Cleaver to be re-elected is subject to a vote. That means that a Donald Trump-backed effort to oust the Kansas City Democrat may have failed. STLPR’s Jonathan Ahl talks with St. Louis Public Radio’s political correspondent Jason Rosenbaum about the decision’s impact.
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Thursday, Sept. 3 - Getting deer out of the headlights

September 3, 2026 • 12 mins
Of the more than one million animal-related car accidents across the country each year, more than 3,000 of them happen in Missouri. As Trevor Grandin reports, a recent study by the Missouri Department of Transportation aims to stem the problem with wildlife-friendly infrastructure.
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