Skip to contentSTL: Friday, August 26, 2022
Events 📆
- Gin Festival St. Louis is Back in September — Better Than Ever – RFT
- Festival of Nations returns this weekend – KSDK
- Grand opening for the expanded visitor center at the Missouri Botanical Garden – FOX 2
- The best food and drink events in St. Louis this weekend: August 26-28 – feastmagazine.com
- The Best Things To Do In St. Louis During the Week, August 25 to August 31 – RFT
BuySTL 👜
- D.F. Stauffer Biscuit Co. Inc. Voluntarily Recalls 44-Ounce Market Pantry White Fudge Animal Cookies – RiverBender
- Health care giant Centene agrees to $33.3M settlement in Washington state fraud lawsuit – St. Louis Business Journal
- Business group applauds proposal that would increase St. Louis city police pay – St. Louis Business Journal
- Local dog food? – r/StLouis
Restaurants 🍲
- Hill Staple Mama Toscano’s Closes After More Than 100 Years – RFT
- Pi Pizzeria + ¡Rico! Mexican closes in Kirkwood – St. Louis Magazine
- Big Mama’s in East St. Louis Thrives on Word of Mouth – RFT
STLfood ⚜️
- Serendipity’s new location in The Grove is open for ice cream, coffee and more – feastmagazine.com
- Star Bakery & Cafe Offers Afghan Sweets and More in Holly Hills – RFT
- Civil Life Brewing Company is expanding its offerings – St. Louis Magazine
- Modern Brewery opens new taproom south of Forest Park – St. Louis Magazine
- Imo’s Pizza Is Coming to a Frozen Food Aisle Near You – RFT
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Green, white, and red crosswalks adorn The Hill neighborhood – FOX 2
- Bevo Mill: From Anti-Prohibition Propaganda to a Neighborhood Landmark – History Happens Here
STL100 💯
- St. Louis organizations help Missourians sign up for photo IDs needed to vote – KSDK
- Mobot – new visitor center – r/StLouis
STL99 😱
- Thieves slam car into medical marijuana dispensary near Forest Park – KSDK
- Thieves targeting St. Louis marijuana dispensaries – FOX 2
- Recent uptick in marijuana dispensary burglaries in St. Louis – FOX 2
- Man charged in crash involving golf cart, stolen car in downtown St. Louis – KSDK
- Homeless advocates concerned over new panhandling laws – FOX 2
- Town and Country doctor, wife sentenced for healthcare fraud – FOX 2
- St. Louis Doctor Scammed Patients With Cheap Drugs, Bought Ugly Mansion – RFT
- Rockwood School Board member condemned for political hate speech – stltoday.com
WW99 😱
Police 🚓
- St. Louis expects to name new police chief by end of the year – stltoday.com
- Former Maryland Heights police officer sentenced to 4 years in prison for child pornography charge – KSDK
- Los Angeles Police Department seizes 40 cars in a crackdown on street takeovers but will return cars in 30 days – Boing Boing
CityGov 🏛
- ‘We want to feel safe and be heard’: Residents question St. Louis aldermanic president candidates at forum – KSDK
- City of St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones tours Small Business Administration disaster assistance center – KSDK
- City gives tax abatement to 400 acres in north St. Louis, hoping for future development – KSDK
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri Dems expect boost from marijuana campaign, but split on whether it’s good policy – Missouri Independent
FedGov 🏛
- USDA plans ‘historic’ funding to help struggling farmers, develop new ag leaders – Missouri Independent
- FEMA disaster recovery center to open in University City Friday – KSDK
- FEMA: No Money for Cars With Expired Tags – RFT
- U.S. Counties with More People than the State of Wyoming,… – Maps on the Web
- The U.S. Just Changed the Definition of Firearms to Account for Untraceable Ghost Guns – Gizmodo
Jobs 📄
- Better Family Life hosts career expo on Friday – FOX 2
History 🦕
- The day a St. Louis newspaper editor and a federal prosecutor shot it out in a duel – stltoday.com
Sustainability ♻️
- California to phase out internal combustion vehicles by 2035 – The Register
- California’s Gas Car Ban Is Going to Make Electric Cars Better – VICE US
- Google Changed Emission Calculations in Google Flights, Making Air Travel Look Cleaner – Gizmodo
Infrastructure 🚽
- Hydrogen-powered trains enter passenger service in Germany – New Atlas
- Impressively green timber office building is built to last – New Atlas
Ecology 🦤
- More hummingbirds are expected in Missouri before fall migration – FOX 2
- Britain spewing so much sewage into waterways that European neighbors worried it will wash up on continent – Boing Boing
Twitter 🐦
- Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is Twitter became a company – stltoday.com
- Twitter whistleblower summoned to Senate Judiciary Committee – The Register
- Twitter Ordered to Give Musk Additional Bot Account Data – SecurityWeek
- Creator Of Botometer Goes On Media Tour To Explain Why Elon Musk’s Claims About Bots (Using Botometer) Are Meaningless – Techdirt
Space 🚀
- ‘Fireball’ flashes over St. Louis, seen from multiple states – stltoday.com
- James Webb detects carbon dioxide in exoplanet atmosphere for first time – New Atlas
- Webb Telescope Just Detected Carbon Dioxide in a Distant World – Gizmodo
- Zoom in on Webb Telescope’s Biggest Image Yet – Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
- This hacker built a TSA-proof gun to show why “security” fails us – Freethink
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Enjoy these vintage Jim Henson commercials – Boing Boing
- Google says there’s no Waze forward, carpool app axed – The Register
- Waze Is Shutting Down Its Carpool Service, Even as Bosses Push for a Return to the Office – Gizmodo
- Google Maps, search results to point women to actual abortion providers – The Register
- Twilio, Cloudflare just two of 135 orgs targeted by Oktapus phishing campaign – The Register
- DuckDuckGo opens up its free email privacy service to everyone – Engadget
- Twilio, Cloudflare Attacked in Campaign That Hit Over 130 Organizations – SecurityWeek
- Mozilla Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Firefox, Thunderbird – SecurityWeek
- Not Sure How to WordPress Anymore? – CSS-Tricks
- T-Mobile and SpaceX’s Satellite Connectivity Likely Won’t Require an iPhone 14 – MacRumors
