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.

Episodes

Thursday, July 3 - Cote Brilliante Church looks to the future

July 3, 2025 • 10 mins
Cote Brilliante Presbyterian Church is one of several Black churches in north St. Louis destroyed or severely damaged by the May 16th tornado.
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Wednesday, July 2 - The Big Beautiful Bill and Missouri Medicaid

July 2, 2025 • 9 mins
The wide-ranging budgetary package making its way through Congress curbs a key funding mechanism that Missouri uses to help pay for its Medicaid programs.
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Tuesday, July 1 - Tariffs could hurt Midwest ag exports

July 1, 2025 • 11 mins
China is a major buyer of U-S agricultural specialty products. Some producers worry the on-and-off tariffs with the country could hurt America's reputation as a reliable seller.
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Monday, June 30 - Rolla activists support ICE detainees

June 30, 2025 • 11 mins
“Abide in Love” is a group of 50 that help detainees with contacting their families and small acts of comfort and kindness as the jail has become part ICE holding facility.
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Friday, June 27 - 8th Ward election and music healing after a tornado

June 27, 2025 • 15 mins
Tuesday is the special election in the 8th ward and IN UNISON members reflect on how music is helping them post tornado.
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Thursday, June 26 - Returning ancestral lands in the Midwest

June 26, 2025 • 9 mins
Over the past decade, there’s been more momentum behind the “land back” movement -- where native tribes try to regain ancestral lands.
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Wednesday, June 25 - A Stuckey's in Rural Missouri is a halal rest stop

June 25, 2025 • 9 mins
A Stuckey’s just outside of Rolla is trying to meet the needs of an increasing number of Muslim truck drivers and road trippers.
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Tuesday, June 24 - Building temporary housing and training teenagers

June 24, 2025 • 9 mins
As tornado recovery efforts continue across St. Louis, one person is trying to provide alternative housing for victims while teaching trades to a new generation.
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Monday, June 23 - Area animal shelters are struggling

June 23, 2025 • 9 mins
Housing insecurity and May's tornado are straining St. Louis city and county animal shelters.
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Friday, June 20 - Missouri farmers want health care

June 20, 2025 • 9 mins
A bill currently on Governor Mike Kehoe’s desk would enable the Missouri Farm Bureau to offer its members a health plan. But the policies are not technically insurance and therefore aren’t subject to federal Affordable Care Act regulations.
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Wednesday, June 18 - Strengthening hospital care for sexual assault survivors

June 18, 2025 • 10 mins
Lawmakers have strengthened Illinois’ nearly 50-year-old sexual abuse survivors law in an effort to make sure patients get critical care after sexual assault. The changes come after an investigation last year revealed that dozens of hospitals violated that law.
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Tuesday, June 17 - Bullet clinic steps up despite loss in funding

June 17, 2025 • 10 mins
The Bullet Related Injury Clinic in St. Louis, known as The BRIC, is helping the community heal through acupuncture in the aftermath of the tornado that tore through St. Louis last month. The nonprofit is one of dozens of organizations that lost half of their federal funding just before the storm, but organizers say that isn’t stopping them from getting resources to residents who need them.
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Monday, June 16 - It's been a month since a deadly tornado hit St. Louis

June 16, 2025 • 9 mins
Today marks one month since a deadly tornado blew through parts of St. Louis. Since the storm, relief efforts led by the community and organizations have filled a much-needed gap.
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Friday, June 13 - Why is earthquake insurance so expensive in the Missouri Bootheel?

June 13, 2025 • 9 mins
The price of earthquake insurance in Missouri’s bootheel has skyrocketed over the last 25 years. There are some possible government solutions to the problem, but the will to implement them is lacking.
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Thursday, June 12 - How this ghost story turned into an opera

June 12, 2025 • 11 mins
This month the Opera Theatre of St. Louis is producing a new opera by one of the world’s most-celebrated living playwrights. Lynn Nottage — the only woman so far to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice — wrote the libretto for “This House” with her daughter, Ruby Aiyo Gerber. The opera looks at African American history through the intersecting powers of memory and place.
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Wednesday, June 11 - The future of KDHX

June 11, 2025 • 10 mins
A bankruptcy judge approved the sale of community radio station KDHX for $8.75 million to Christian broadcast network Gateway Creative Broadcasting. We sort through the judge’s decision, and what happens next.
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Tuesday, June 10 - Trump is "giving out pardons like candy"

June 10, 2025 • 10 mins
The decade-long criminal pursuit of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan finally comes down to this. On Friday, a man once regarded as the state’s most powerful politician will be sentenced for multiple corruption convictions. If Madigan gets a long prison term, could his next step be to seek relief from President Trump?
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Monday, June 9 - Trapped under rubble while calls to help went unanswered

June 9, 2025 • 12 mins
Centennial Christian Church sits in the heart of Fountain Park. It’s the lifeline of the north St. Louis neighborhood. But last month, an EF-3 tornado destroyed the 121-year-old church. Three people were trapped inside buried beneath the rubble for nearly two hours. One of them did not make it out alive. Repeated calls from a victim inside Centennial to the city’s 911 emergency line went unanswered.
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Friday, June 6 - Hawley pushes Trump on FEMA

June 6, 2025 • 12 mins
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley called for swift federal help for victims of the May 16th tornado in St. Louis. But President Donald Trump hasn’t signed Gov. Mike Kehoe’s major disaster declaration request, which would unlock direct aid to St. Louis and St. Louis County residents.
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Thursday, June 5 - A look into legendary house shows in Columbia

June 5, 2025 • 11 mins
You might remember the alt-rock band The All-American Rejects and lead singer Tyson Ritter from their handful of turn of the century hits such as “Dirty Little Secret.” As University of Missouri seniors graduated this spring, the band played the latest in a series of pop-up shows it’s been doing at people’s houses. We hear what the band, concertgoers and even the police think about this diversion from the current era of arena conce...
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