JW Sunday, February 20, 2022
Events 📆
Mardi Gras 🎭
- Thousands pack Soulard for Mardi Gras events – KSDK
- 29th Annual Purina Pet Parade Returns to the Streets of Soulard – FOX 2
STLfish 🐟
BuySTL 👜
STLfood ⚜️
- Bellacino’s Closing ⏳ – stLouIST
- A maker of healthier chocolates opens new Clayton factory, eyes growth beyond St. Louis – KSDK
- Highest-rated brunch restaurants in St. Louis, according to Tripadvisor – FOX 2
- Highest-rated Mexican restaurants in St. Louis, according to Tripadvisor – FOX 2
Neighborhoods 🏡
Sustainability ♻️
- Arch Resources reverses losses, posts profits in latest quarter – stltoday.com
Infrastructure 🚽
- Volta is installing 1,000 EV fast-charging stations at Walgreens locations – Engadget
- Spire ‘created unnecessary panic and confusion’ with warnings of gas outages, regulators say – Missouri Independent
Ecology 🦝
- Unusual amount of crows found dead in St. Louis area – FOX 2
- Southwest megadrought is now the worst on record – Kevin Drum
STL99 😱
- Demo Alert: Cotton Belt – NextSTL – r/StLouis
- Judge backs Post-Dispatch owner’s rejection of hedge fund nominees as takeover fight continues – FOX 2
- Police identify 2 killed after SUV crashes into Schnuck’s in south St. Louis – FOX 2
STL100 💯
- City Announces Stadium Naming Rights – The Big 550 KTRS
- Centene Stadium to be name of new St. Louis CITY SC soccer stadium – FOX 2
- It’s official—CITY SC’s new home will be called Centene Stadium – St. Louis Magazine
- St. Louis Blues program outfits children for hockey, life – KSDK
- St. Louis native Ian Quinn going for gold this weekend at the Olympics – KSDK
STLhelp ☎️
99MO 😱
- Meet the convoy leaders – Kevin Drum
100MO 💯
Crime 🗯
- New study shows lead in water causes higher levels of juvenile delinquency – Kevin Drum
- Boy, 13, returns fire after being shot in downtown St. Louis – KSDK
- Truck and equipment worth $80K stolen from St. Louis company – FOX 2
Police 🚓
DotGov 🏛
CityGov 🏛
- Plan to exempt some remote workers from St. Louis earnings tax advances in Missouri House – r/StLouis
LocalGov 🏛
- New effort underway to get Bi-State to run a revived Loop Trolley – stltoday.com
- Bi-State again being asked to run Loop Trolley – KSDK
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri’s Governor Still Insists Reporter Is A Hacker, Even As Prosecutors Decline To Press Charges – Techdirt.
- Missouri Prosecutor Ignores Governor’s Call to Go After Journalist for ‘Hacking’ – Gizmodo
- No charges filed against Post-Dispatch reporter in ‘hacking’ investigation – KSDK
- Prosecutor isn’t pressing charges against reporter who found flaw in state website – Missouri Independent
- Before ouster, Missouri health director drafted a letter to senators that was never sent – Missouri Independent
- American Farm Bureau Federation claims it’s the ‘voice of agriculture.’ Others beg to differ – Missouri Independent
- Analysis: Sports betting could generate $15 million in tax revenue in Missouri – stltoday.com
- Missouri lawmaker admits illegally selling prescription drugs, says it was unintentional – Missouri Independent
FedGov 🏛
- St. Louis Federal Reserve President: ‘This is a lot of inflation’; calls for rate hike – FOX 2
Covid19 Info 🦠
- Counties with the highest COVID-19 death rate in Missouri – FOX 2
- Missouri plotting official ‘end’ to COVID-19 pandemic as soon as March, document says – Missouri Independent
- Threat of getting fired hasn’t persuaded some to get COVID-19 vaccine. How are resisters affecting the pandemic? – stltoday.com
- When will St. Louis County lift the mask mandate? Page says trends look good – FOX 2
Jobs 📄
- Union, ‘shocked’ by decision to close plant that employs 900, presses for answers – KSDK
History 🦕
- St. Louis founded in a winter wilderness on this date in 1764 – or maybe it was the next day – stltoday.com
- St. Louis’ Namesake Harbor Boat – The Waterways Journal
DIY 🪓
- Trim Trees, Shrubs In The Dormant Season For Stronger, Healthier Plants – RiverBender.com News
- BliKVM – a PiKVM (KVM over IP) box based on the Compute Module 4 – Jeff Geerling’s Blog
TechSTL 💾
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- This floating mega-palace full of people paying minimum $3K a person is apparently coming here. – r/StLouis
- Jeffrey Epstein crony Jean-Luc Brunel found dead in cell – Boing Boing
- Roboto serif, a new typeface from Google – Boing Boing
- Managing lists in Drupal | Morpht – Pinboard (electroponix)
