After years of planning and development, William Porter and other Cherokee Street leaders and community members reopened Love Bank Park last Sunday to play basketball, chess, hear live music and eat. St. Louis Public Radio stlpr.org/culture-histor… #STLMade

St. Louis-based Gateway Pundit, an influential website that regularly peddles falsehoods and conspiracy theories, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it faces multiple defamation suits.

Via NPR: stlpr.org/government-pol…

In fiscal year 2025, the Grant District 110 in Fairview Heights will reduce its expenditures by about $266,000 due to staff attrition and some students not being placed in out-of-district programs.

@bellevileenewsd reports: buff.ly/4btrnuH

Illinoisans who need a notary public can now access those services online through a new “E-Notary” portal launched by the secretary of state’s office.

Capitol News Illinois: buff.ly/44drOGS

Fifteen years after the EPA said greenhouse gasses are dangerous to public health, the agency finalized rules to limit climate-warming pollution from existing coal and new gas power plants.

Via NPR: buff.ly/3QeJufG

The Eads Bridge, which connects East St. Louis and the City of St. Louis, was completed 150 years ago this July.

Learn more about the design, construction and political challenges the Eads Bridge faced in this St. Louis on the Air episode: buff.ly/3xSDLFW

“Love” is the theme for the 17th annual QFest: self-love and acceptance, romance, familial bonds, fictive kinship and all.

Listen to this St. Louis on the Air episode for more on storytelling by and for queer filmmakers: buff.ly/4dgjQAQ

Webster University paid its top two officials large bonuses last school year as the school struggled financially.

Students and alumni say they're concerned that the university is spending too much on such benefits.

✍️: Lauren Brennecke buff.ly/3UBALqw

.U.S. EPA reports that more than 300 Superfund sites nationwide are at risk of flooding.

Science Friday reports on what worsening floods mean for Missouri Superfund sites, such as the West Lake Landfill: buff.ly/3wjr1rg

A Missouri lawmaker is pushing for legislation that would require candidates running to represent a congressional district to live in that district.

Thoughts?

Report via Columbia Missourian: buff.ly/4dex4hx

Bi-State Development led public meetings this week to get residents' feedback on a proposed 5.6-mile, north-south #MetroLink expansion route called the Green Line.

The agency will also host a virtual meeting next Tuesday: stlpr.org/economy-busine…

For the second year in a row, Missouri dispensaries across the state experienced IT problems April 20 — the industry’s biggest and most important sales day.

Missouri Independent reports: buff.ly/4aPVBYP

In 'The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church,' NPR's Sarah McCammon📻 explores the alliance between evangelicals and Donald Trump. buff.ly/4aPVqwD

Missouri lawmakers has passed legislation that bars any state funding, including Medicaid reimbursements, from going to abortion providers or their affiliates.

Sarah Kellogg reports: buff.ly/3Jxrzgf

More than 1.5 million people live with unhealthy air in Missouri, Illinois and Kansas.

Holly Edgell of The Midwest Newsroom reports on latest “State of the Air,” which says deadly particle pollution is “the most severe” it’s been in the history of the report. stlpr.org/health-science…

There will soon be 1 to 1.5 million cicadas PER ACRE in #STL .

I'm excited, but will be wearing hats and ponytails for the foreseeable future. As Elaine Cha advises in this St. Louis on the Air interview: 'Don't run with your mouth open.' 😂 stlpr.org/show/st-louis-… MO Botanical Garden Sophia M Sachs Butterfly House

Last month, I had the honor of talking with Sarah McCammon📻 about her extraordinary NYT Best Seller book The Exvangelicals.

You can listen to our conversation we had in front of a live St. Louis Public Radio audience in the link below:

stlpr.org/race-identity-…

Missouri and Illinois U.S. Senators voted on opposite sides of a $95 billion aid package to aid Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan on Tuesday.

Jason Rosenbaum reports: stlpr.org/government-pol…

The Millennium Hotel, a prominent and long-vacant property in the heart of downtown St. Louis, may soon see new life now that the city is targeting it for eminent domain.

Here's why: stlpr.org/economy-busine…

Nick Cuchetti has started using biochar on his family farm in Franklin County, MO. Burying biochar on a farm also sequesters carbon, helping to fight climate change. Story St. Louis Public Radio stlpr.org/health-science… #STLMade