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Events 📆
- Paint Louis Commemorates 25 Years – RFT
- Pop-up fundraiser to help save Sk8 Liborius Skatepark – FOX 2
- Festival of Nations returns to Tower Grove Park – KSDK
- Festival of Nations returns to Tower Grove Park in St. Louis, draws big crowd – stltoday.com
BuySTL 👜
- St. Louis-based cannabidiol retailer CBD Kratom grows local footprint – KSDK
- Boeing puts $5M into new AMICSTL manufacturing facility – KSDK
- Boeing to partner with Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Center of St. Louis – FOX 2
- Viking cruise ship postpones sail in St. Louis – FOX 2
- Amazon warehouse where 6 died in tornado is being rebuilt without storm shelter, city says – r/StLouis
Restaurants 🍲
- Sammy Hagar Fuels Up on Zia’s – RFT
- Little Fox: A Feast in the City – Good Food St. Louis
- Snō is now open in Tower Grove South, featuring modern Asian dim sum, sustainable seafood, lava stone steaks and more – feastmagazine.com
- Platypus is building a better bar in The Grove – feastmagazine.com
- Highest-rated brunch restaurants in St. Louis, according to Tripadvisor – FOX 2
- Longtime staple of The Hill closes – KSDK
- Pizza restaurant closes Kirkwood location – KSDK
- Shady Jack’s Saloon closes near downtown St. Louis | ksdk.com – r/StLouis
- Shady Jack’s Saloon closes in St. Louis – KSDK
STLfood ⚜️
Neighborhoods 🏡
STL100 💯
- ‘It’s a thrilling time’: Missouri Botanical Garden opens new visitor center – KSDK
- Grand opening for visitors center at Mo. Botanical Garden – FOX 2
- Forest Park’s Steinberg Rink and Pavilion Getting a Redesign – RFT
- Pinky the boxer lasts 30 days alone in St. Louis County. Then, a sighting. – stltoday.com
- a friend took this great photo, Sunset at the stadium earlier, – r/StLouis
STL99 😱
- Theory: People with expired plates just want an excuse to not hang out – r/StLouis
99MO 😱
- Missouri school district reinstates corporal punishment – stltoday.com
- Missouri school district reinstates corporal punishment – The Big 550 KTRS
WWW99 🕸
- Atlassian Ships Urgent Patch for Critical Bitbucket Vulnerability – SecurityWeek
- A Massive Hacking Campaign Stole 10,000 Login Credentials From 130 Different Organizations – Gizmodo
- In true Trump fashion, Truth Social is not paying its bills – Boing Boing
Pox Populi™ 🦠
Police 🚓
- St. Louis County police lieutenant charged with double-dipping – KSDK
- St. Louis Co. lieutenant accused of double-dipping – FOX 2
- Business group applauds proposal that would increase St. Louis city police pay – KSDK
- Racist Torrance cops texted about killing black children, used slurs to mock black man they killed and his family – Boing Boing
- LAPD Adopts Some (Weak) Surveillance Tech Reforms That Will Finally Allow Public Input – Techdirt
CityGov 🏛
- Former BOA President Lewis Reed Admits to Bribery Charges – RFT
- Former St. Louis aldermen Reed, Boyd plead guilty to federal bribery charges – KSDK
- Candidate forum held for Board of Alderman President in St. Louis – FOX 2
- Reed, Boyd plead guilty to federal bribery charges – FOX 2
- Two more ex-St. Louis aldermen plead guilty in federal bribery case – stltoday.com
- Former St. Louis Alderman Jeffrey Boyd Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges – RFT
LocalGov 🏛
- FAQs Regarding An Animal Services Contract Between The APA & St. Louis County – APA Adoption Center
- St. Louis County Executive candidate could be bowing out – FOX 2
- Republican St. Louis County Executive candidate expected to drop out of race – FOX 2
- GOP candidate Katherine Pinner drops out of St. Louis County executive race – KSDK
- Katherine Pinner to drop out of St. Louis County executive race – stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri governor calls tax cut plan a defense against ‘pet project’ spending by lawmakers – Missouri Independent
- Missouri to ban sexual images in school library books – FOX 2
- Missouri Medicaid wait list averages 90 days. The state has a month to cut it in half – FOX 2
- EXPLAINER: Five new Missouri laws to know that take effect Sunday – FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
- Huge News: Biden Administration Announces All Publicly Funded Research Should Be Available For Free To The Public – Techdirt
- White House requires immediate public access to all U.S.-funded research papers by 2025 – Science Magazine
- FBI: Trump mixed top secret docs with magazines, other items – FOX 2
- Read the [Redacted] Affidavit Justifying the FBI’s Search of Mar-a-Lago – Gizmodo
- Meet The White House’s new social media star – Boing Boing
- U.S. Department of Justice in ‘Early Stages’ of Drafting Possible Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple – MacRumors
History 🦕
- Last natural mineral spa in Illinois to be auctioned off – FOX 2
- You’re fired. The day the Zoo gave pink slips to a couple unruly chimps – stltoday.com
Sustainability ♻️
- Raw data: Retail profits in a post-pandemic world – Kevin Drum
- Ford will open Mustang Mach-E orders for the 2023 model year next week – Engadget
- Mercedes-Benz starts production of its first electric SUV in the US – Engadget
- Wind energy production in Europe. by nerdy.maps – Maps on the Web
Infrastructure 🚽
- The Merchants Bridge is undergoing reconstruction – FOX 2
- Final truss going up on new Merchants Bridge – KSDK
- Installation of Final Truss Marks One of the Last Major Milestones for Merchants Bridge Reconstruction Project – St. Louis Regional Freightway
- Silt Blocks Gates, Closes Costello Lock On Kaskaskia River – The Waterways Journal
- St. Louis schools combat teacher shortage with bonuses, pay raises – KSDK
- Bus service cuts due to lack of drivers affecting riders in St. Louis area – FOX 2
- New study says American students are improving. Are they? – Kevin Drum
- Merchants in San Francisco neighborhood threaten to stop paying taxes and fees if homelessness is not addressed – Boing Boing
Ecology 🦤
- Clean Air Partnership and CMT Release 2022 Air Quality Forecasting and "Don’t Pollute. Switch Up Your Commute." – RiverBender
- How volunteers are helping Missouri test lakes for toxic algae – stltoday.com
- Freshwater Jellyfish: Perseus vs. Medusa – The Healthy Planet
- Illinois planning to plug hundreds of abandoned oil, gas wells – FOX 2
- Russian Energy Plant Is Reportedly Burning Away $10 Million of Natural Gas Daily – Gizmodo
- AI-enabled fish gate filters invasive salmon out of Norwegian waterways – New Atlas
Twitter 🐦
- Twitter, Meta Remove Accounts Linked to US Influence Operations: Report – SecurityWeek
- Court grants Elon Musk access to a small but important set of Twitter data – Engadget
- Delaware Chancery Court Keeps Pushing Back On Elon Musk’s Legal Arguments As He (Mostly) Loses His Discovery Battles – Techdirt
Space 🚀
- A deeper look at the Artemis 1 rocket – Boing Boing
- NASA: ‘We Are Go for Launch’ of SLS Megarocket – Gizmodo
- James Webb Space Telescope finds first evidence of CO2 in exoplanet atmosphere – The Register
- James Webb Space Telescope detects carbon dioxide in a distant planet’s atmosphere – Engadget
- T-Mobile US and SpaceX hope to deliver phone service from space – The Register
- SpaceX teams up with T-Mobile to fill cellular dead spots with Starlink – New Atlas
DIY 🪓
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Filtering my RSS reading – And now it’s all this
- Fowl play: "gang" of turkeys leave man with broken hips and multiple lacerations – Boing Boing
- DuckDuckGo opens its privacy-focused email service to everyone – BleepingComputer
- Bürstner creates the first electric camper van atop a Ford E-Transit – New Atlas
- Hymer reinvents RV life by bringing disruptive Vision camper to market – New Atlas
- New Orleans’ Historic Perseverance Hall collapsed this week after heavy rains – Boing Boing
- E. Bryant Crutchfield, inventor of the Trapper Keeper, RIP – Boing Boing
- "He found the name during a martini-fueled lunch." The inventor of the the Trapper Keeper, E. Bryant Crutchfield, dies at 85. – The Morning News
- Paul Newman’s daughters suing "Newman’s Own", saying it doesn’t give enough to charity – Boing Boing
- Soccer clubs from MLS to the third levels of US soccer pyramid…. – Maps on the Web
- Super Mario style map of the US. by u/TheGeographyPin – Maps on the Web
- U.S States with the highest homicide rates – Maps on the Web
- Moderna Is Suing Pfizer Over the mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines – Gizmodo
