STL: Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Events 📆
- Elections 🗳 – stLouIST
BuySTL 👜
Restaurants 🍲
- Grbic Restaurant closing August 28 to focus on private events and weddings – St. Louis Magazine
- Vangel’s Restaurant & Bar offers quality-minded, affordable Italian cuisine – St. Louis Magazine
- St. Louis’ best pizza and Italian restaurants from the STL 100 – stltoday.com
STLfood ⚜️
- Dogtown Pizza moves St. Louis production facility to meet demand – FOX 2
- Chinese Restaurant Bracket Final Four. Vote on r/STLFood – r/StLouis
Neighborhoods 🏡
STL99 😱
- Robert Sanders Waste Systems Business Now Part Of Republic Services – RiverBender
STL100 💯
- St. Louis area centers open to help flood victims – FOX 2
- Red Cross opens multi-agency resource centers across St. Louis area – KSDK
- MADE for Kids is a dream come true for kids who like to create – KSDK
99MO 😱
- Wait times grow longer as out-of-state demand for Illinois abortions skyrockets – stltoday.com
WW99 😱
- Nancy Pelosi’s Plane Is the Most Tracked Aircraft Online Right Now – VICE US
- Taiwan’s Presidential Website Down After Cyberattack as World Anticipates Pelosi’s Visit – Gizmodo
Police 🚓
- Non-emergency lines restored for most police departments around St. Louis area – KSDK
DotGov 🏛
CityGov 🏛
- City is said to seek more than two-thirds of $513M Rams settlement – KSDK
- STL City Elections 🗳 – stLouIST
- St. Louis voters pass propositions increasing school funding, fines for illegal dumping – KSDK
- Voters approve Proposition S to help St. Louis schools – FOX 2
- 2022 primaries: Here are the results in federal, state, and local elections – St. Louis Magazine
LocalGov 🏛
- Sam Page Wins Primary for St. Louis County Executive – RFT
- Sam Page declares victory in St. Louis County Executive Race – FOX 2
- Page defeats Dueker for Democratic nomination in St. Louis Co. Executive race, will face Pinner – KSDK
- Rita Days takes big win in St. Louis County Council race – stltoday.com
- Voters pass school bond measures in St. Louis and Webster Groves – stltoday.com
- Poll workers report brawl, death threat, candidates trying to run over each other outside St. Louis County voting centers – KSDK
MoGov 🏛
- Beer heiress Trudy Busch Valentine captures Missouri Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate – Missouri Independent
- Trudy Busch Valentine wins Democrat primary for Missouri US Senate – FOX 2
- Trudy Busch Valentine Ekes Out Victory in Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate – RFT
- Cori Bush Crushes Steve Roberts in Missouri Democratic Primary – RFT
- Eric Schmitt Wins Republican Primary to Fill Open U.S. Senate Seat – RFT
- Cori Bush cruises to victory in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District Democratic primary – Missouri Independent
- Missouri AG Eric Schmitt beats Hartzler, Greitens to claim GOP Senate nomination – Missouri Independent
- Eric Schmitt and Trudy Busch Valentine win Missouri’s Senate primary contests – stltoday.com
- Cori Bush trounces Steve Roberts in 1st District U.S. House race – stltoday.com
- Cori Bush wins Democratic nomination for Missouri Congressional District 1 – FOX 2
- Eric Schmitt wins Republican primary for Missouri US Senate – FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
- Without The Votes To Pass, Antitrust Bill Gets Delayed – Techdirt
- A Right-Wing Think Tank Claimed to Be a Church. Now, Members of Congress Want to Investigate. – ProPublica
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- Cases of monkeypox in St. Louis remain low. Here’s what you need to know about the virus – St. Louis Magazine
- Polio detected in wastewater from New York county with only 60% vax rate – New Atlas – New Technology & Science News
History 🦕
- The Many Eyes of the St. Louis Argus – MoHistory
Sustainability ♻️
- Can You Recycle Aluminum Foil? – Gizmodo
Infrastructure 🚽
- 911 outage in Monroe County, Illinois – FOX 2
- AT&T Gets Yet Another Pathetic Wrist Slap After Making Millions From Shitty Fees – Techdirt
Ecology 🦤
WWwx 🌦
- Hail the size of baseballs smash through car window in Canada with passengers inside (video) – Boing Boing
Twitter 🐦
- Twitter continues testing the edit button, allowing multimedia tweets – Search Engine Land
- Here’s what embedded tweets could look like after they’re edited – Engadget
- Bot army risk as 3,000+ apps found spilling Twitter API keys – The Register
Space 🚀
- Earth Just Mysteriously Spun Faster, Causing Shortest Day Ever Recorded – VICE US
- Newly Fallen Space Junk in Australia Likely Belongs to SpaceX – Gizmodo
- Webb Space Telescope Turns Its Eye on the Chaotic Cartwheel Galaxy – Gizmodo
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Base camp trailer generates H2O & power for off-grid RV & cabin life – New Atlas – New Technology & Science News
- Mercedes EQV electro camper MPV seats 8 people, camps 4 or hauls cargo – New Atlas – New Technology & Science News
- 1,200 km/h TransPod FluxJet: Canadian hyperloop reels in half a billion – New Atlas – New Technology & Science News
- Uber receipts are crashing Microsoft Outlook – Engadget
- Sheryl Sandberg officially steps down as COO of Meta – Engadget
- Go-Based Apps Vulnerable to Attacks Due to URL Parsing Issue – SecurityWeek RSS Feed
- Google Patches Critical Android Flaw Allowing Remote Code Execution via Bluetooth – SecurityWeek RSS Feed
- Post-quantum crypto cracked in an hour with one core of an ancient Xeon – The Register
- Oracle staff share news of sizable layoffs – The Register