Skip to contentSTL: Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Events 📆
BuySTL 👜
Restaurants 🍲
STLfood ⚜️
Neighborhoods 🏡
- 2020 St. Louis Neighborhood Census Review: A dynamic population – NextSTL – r/StLouis
STL100 💯
- Some more shots from the other day with my drone. – r/StLouis
- Man wins $2M from scratchers game in St. Louis – FOX 2
STL99 😱
- Has recycling fully resumed? – r/StLouis
- Rising homicide rates in St. Louis trigger rising concerns – KSDK
- St. Louis man threatened with jail time for calling 911 – FOX 2
- Two earthquakes shake Missouri on Monday – FOX 2
99MO 😱
- Record Number of Missouri School Districts Switched to 4-Day Week – RFT
WW99 😱
- Microsoft and Amazon reportedly halt plans to build data centers in Ireland – Engadget
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- St. Louis pandemic task force ends weekly data updates – stltoday.com
Police 🚓
- New oversight plan means closer scrutiny of St. Louis police – FOX 2
- New oversight plan means closer scrutiny of St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department – KSDK
- Bridgeton police plan to close jail at night, house inmates in St. Charles – stltoday.com
DotGov 🏛
CityGov 🏛
- Voters from former Alderman Jeffrey Boyd’s ward elect his replacement – stltoday.com
- John Collins-Muhammad pleads guilty to bribery charges – stlamerican.com
- Former Alderman John Collins-Muhammad pleads guilty to bribery charges – KSDK
- Ex-St. Louis Alderman John Collins-Muhammad pleads guilty in bribery scheme – FOX 2
- Guilty pleas start for former aldermen charged in pay-to-play bribery case – FOX 2
- Ex-St. Louis Alderman John Collins-Muhammad admits federal corruption charges – stltoday.com
- Former St. Louis alderman to plead guilty today following corruption charges – stltoday.com
- John Collins-Muhammad Pleads Guilty in Bribery Scheme – RFT
LocalGov 🏛
- Cities in St. Louis County change panhandling laws after uptick – FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
- ‘I think that thing’s a disaster’: Parson slams recreational weed question on Missouri ballot – stltoday.com
- Citing Greitens defeat, John Wood abandons independent run for U.S. Senate in Missouri – Missouri Independent
- Parson tours Missouri discussing income tax cut proposal – FOX 2
Jobs 📄
- EXECUTIVE SECRETARY-ST. LOUIS BOARD OF ALDERMEN – Jobs
- Behavior and Enrichment Coordinator – APA Adoption Center
- Career Central: Second Chance Job Fair set for Friday – KSDK
- St. Louis Streets Dept. Job Fair – FOX 2
History 🦕
- Fisherman finds 90-million-year-old fossil in Missouri River – FOX 2
- A Look Back • Ulysses Grant’s marriage here was a quiet affair – stltoday.com
Sustainability ♻️
- Predatory landlords are buying up trailer parks en masse – Boing Boing
Infrastructure 🚽
- China’s emergence as an EV powerhouse has been a long time coming – Engadget
- Rare Earths Processor Buys Rights to Mine in Greenland – ACM
Ecology 🦤
- Hot Weather May Have Caused Elephant to Stab Its Trainer to Death, Police Say – VICE US
WWwx 🌦
- Most of the U.S. is Being Pummeled by Drought – Gizmodo
- As drought dries up the Yangtze river, China loses hydropower – Grist
Twitter 🐦
- Twitter merges misinformation and spam teams following whistleblower claims – Engadget
- Twitter whistleblower claims company’s practices pose national security risk – Engadget
- Twitter Whistleblower Says Twitter Is Lying to Elon Musk About Bots – VICE US
- Congress is looking into Twitter whistleblower’s claims of lax security – Engadget
- Twitter’s Former Security Boss Drops Stunning Whistleblower Report – Techdirt
- Elon Subpoenas Twitter Whistleblower to Testify About Counting Bots – Gizmodo
Space 🚀
- NASA: ‘We Are Go for Launch’ of SLS Megarocket – Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- “Sabotage”-themed Beastie Boys action figures announced – 105.7 The Point
- Removing jQuery from GOV.UK – CSS-Tricks
- Recommended Twitter follow: Abandoned Places – Boing Boing
- 25 Years Ago Today… Techdirt Got Started! – Techdirt
- Streaming Tops Traditional Cable TV Viewership For First Time Ever – Techdirt
