Skip to contentSTL: Thursday, September 22, 2022
Events 📆
- Missouri Botanical Garden celebrates drop in temps with extended hours – FOX 2
- St. Mary’s Oktoberfest Returns With Strong Lineup Of Activities October 7-9 In Alton – RiverBender
BuySTL 👜
- What’s fresh at St. Louis-area farmers markets this week – feastmagazine.com
- Cardinals fans frenzy over legends’ bobbleheads – FOX 2
- The Armory, The Largest Indoor Entertainment Venue In St. Louis, Sets Opening Day – RiverBender
Restaurants 🍲
- Lucky Inn Chop Suey – stlamerican.com
- Carl’s Drive-In owner wants to create a new burger-and-entertainment destination in Winghaven – St. Louis Magazine
- Grab a burger, ride a go-kart! Carl’s Drive-In explores expansion in O’Fallon – FOX 2
- Carl’s Drive-In has expansion plans, and more in the news – 40 South News
- Sweetie Pie’s to close last St. Louis-area location on Delmar Boulevard – stltoday.com
- Sweetie Pie’s Upper Crust announces closure – FOX 2
- Sweetie Pie’s Upper Crust to Close September 25 – RFT
- Sweetie Pie’s announces closure of Upper Crust location – KSDK
- Founder thanks customers as Sweetie Pie’s Upper Crust closes – FOX 2
- Assault Allegations Against St. Louis Chef Detail Pattern of Abuse – RFT
- Chef of popular new Tower Grove South restaurant Snō charged with domestic assault – stltoday.com
- Chef Tony Nguyen of Snō Charged with Felony Domestic Assault – RFT
STLfood ⚜️
- Why taco pizza is making a comeback in St. Louis – feastmagazine.com
- Papa John’s Pizza Bowls pose the important question "what is food?" – Boing Boing
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Latest closure brings South Grand vacancies to new high, official says – KSDK
- Neighbors push back against proposed Herculaneum truck stop – KSDK
STL100 💯
- The American Red Cross in need of volunteers for disaster response – FOX 2
- Less Visited Missouri State Parks that are Hidden Gems – Terrain Magazine
STL99 😱
- 13 pit bulls rescued from alleged dogfighting operation in north St. Louis County – KSDK
- Fox 2 anchor Vic Faust fired from TV station after tirade – stltoday.com
- Post-Dispatch Comics Page Shakeup Draws Ire — And Concern – RFT
- Construction Mishap Again Delays St. Louis Soccer Stadium Opening – RFT
- Driver fires shots during road rage over merge in north St. Louis – FOX 2
- Victim in I-64 fatality fell through sunroof, Illinois State Police says – FOX 2
- Police: Woman died after falling from sunroof of moving car on I-64 – stltoday.com
- Passenger falls out of car sunroof on I-64, dies from injuries sustained – KSDK
99MO 😱
- More states extend postpartum Medicaid since Roe’s demise – stltoday.com
- Doctor admits to fraud involving more than 2,000 Missouri patients – FOX 2
WW99 😱
- European Spyware Investigators Criticize Israel and Poland – SecurityWeek
- Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65 – Hacker News
Pox Populi™ 🦠
Police 🚓
- St. Louis family releases video clip of teen’s fatal police shooting – stltoday.com
- Killer of Officer Langsdorf sentenced to life in prison – KSDK
- Construction to start on new St. Louis County police stations at long last – stltoday.com
- San Francisco cops can use private cameras to live-monitor ‘significant events’ – The Register
- Police Tased and Hogtied a 12-Year-Old Autistic Boy – VICE US
- Ohio Supreme Court Says There’s Nothing Wrong With Cops Seizing A $31,000 Truck Over An $850 Criminal Offense – Techdirt
DotGov 🏛
- NY attorney general sues Donald Trump, 3 kids for alleged business fraud – FOX 2
- GOP Attorney General Nominee Wants to Ban Plan B, Compared It to Fentanyl – VICE US
CityGov 🏛
- Budget Analyst (Senior) – Jobs
- Administrative Hearing Officer Parking Commission RFP – City of St. Louis
- STL aldermen hold hearing on intersection safety for emergency vehicles – FOX 2
- Warrant pins new schemes on former St. Louis Alderman John Collins-Muhammad – KSDK
- BB 93 – Redevelopment Plan for the Cass Ave./N. 14th St./O’Fallon St./Hogan St. Redevelopment Area – Board Bills
- BB 89 – Green Street Armory Project TIF – Board Bills
- BB 92 – Yard Waste from Private Lawn Services – Board Bills
- BB 91 – Waste Disposal Fines – Board Bills
- BB 88 – Flora Place Community Improvement District – Board Bills
- BB 90 – Green Street Armory Project Redevelopment Agreement – Board Bills
LocalGov 🏛
- Water system failure reported by Moscow Mills – r/StLouis
- How this school district in St. Louis County is stopping phone use in class – KSDK
MoGov 🏛
- Schmitt signs onto brief backing Trump in legal battle with Justice Department over classified documents – stltoday.com
- Missouri judge again delays decision on Agape Boarding School as more abuse alleged – stltoday.com
- Missouri judge once again delays decision on closing Agape Boarding School – Missouri Independent
- Missouri’s Child Welfare Agency Is Dangerously Understaffed – RFT
- Missouri lawmakers push ahead on tax cuts, rural credits in special session – Missouri Independent
- Missouri Senate passes individual income tax cuts – FOX 2
- Scaled-Back Income Tax Cut Wins Initial Approval in Missouri Senate – RFT
- Missouri Senate passes individual income tax cuts, bill heads to House – KSDK
- Tax cut debate moves to Missouri House after Senate approves bill – stltoday.com
- Missourians Support Legal Weed By Wide Margin, New Poll Finds – RFT
FedGov 🏛
- The Senate just approved an international climate treaty, with bipartisan support – Grist
- Clash over climate change funding emerging in farm bill debate – Missouri Independent
- Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 75 basis points for the third time – Hacker News
- Fed raises rates by another 75 bps to fight inflation – Hacker News
- Whistleblower: Pentagon Purchased Mass Surveillance Tool Collecting Americans’ Web Browsing Data – Gizmodo
- US accident investigators want alcohol breathalyzers in all new vehicles – The Register
- Trump’s Business Empire Could Be Crushed With New Lawsuit – VICE US
- Majority of Republican Voters Want to Make Christianity the Official Religion – VICE US
- Republicans Want to Declare Fentanyl a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction.’ That’s a Terrible Idea. – VICE US
- Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data – VICE US
Jobs 📄
- The World’s Largest Four-Day Work Week Experiment Reveals Increase in Employee Wellbeing – Gizmodo
- There’s no labor shortage at fast food restaurants – Kevin Drum
History 🦕
- 75 years ago: How Cardinal Ritter’s firm hand led St. Louis Catholic schools to integrate – stltoday.com
- Missouri Town Was Founded as Atheist Utopia [PHOTOS] – RFT
- Segregated Schooling: Mapping St. Louis’s Colored Schools – History Happens Here
Sustainability ♻️
- Spotlight On: Midwest Recycling Center – Clean Air Partnership
- World’s largest geothermal lagoon planned for Canada – New Atlas
- Fluorescent molecule could verify recycled content of plastic products – New Atlas
Infrastructure 🚽
- Chicago’s Tap Water Contaminated With Lead, Analysis Finds – Gizmodo
- Tesla Megapack battery ignites at substation after less than 6 months – The Register
- Emissions-slashing hybrid trains to hit tracks in Europe – The Register
- How much has North American freight increased over the past year? – Kevin Drum
- There Have Been Decades Of Broadband Policy And Subsidies And We’re Only Just Now Accurately Measuring Their Impact – Techdirt
Ecology 🦤
- 230 Whales Mysteriously Stranded on Beach Exactly 2 Years After Similar Event – VICE US
- Study shows plastics disrupting metabolism of lung and liver cells – New Atlas
- Tiger population in India, 2018. – Maps on the Web
WWwx 🌦
- Photos: Monster Typhoon Smashes Into Japan – Gizmodo
- Puerto Ricans Now Face Heat Wave After Days Without Power and Water – Gizmodo
- UN climate report projects path into "uncharted territory of destruction" – New Atlas
WWW99 🕸
- Danish Data Protection Agency concludes Google Analytics cannot be used lawfully – Hacker News
- Meta and Google are cutting staff – Hacker News
- Getty Images will cease to accept art created using AI generative models – Hacker News
- Getty Says ‘No’ to AI-Generated Images Because it Doesn’t Want Any (More) Copyright Headaches – Gizmodo
- TikTok will start banning political campaign fundraising – Search Engine Land
- Antivirus Used by Millions Blocked All Google Sites by Mistake, Sowing Chaos – VICE US
- Domain shadowing becoming more popular among cybercriminals – BleepingComputer
- 2K confirms its support desk was hacked to send malware to gamers – Engadget
- On Bloomberg: De-platformed Disinfo Site Sees Resurgence with Help of Alt-Right Social Platforms and Ad Networks – EQ
Twitter 🐦
- Twitter is logging out some users following password reset ‘incident’ – Engadget
Space 🚀
- NASA Declares Tanking Test of SLS Megarocket a Success – Gizmodo
- Saudi Arabia Buys Two Tickets to the ISS Aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket – Gizmodo
- With War Raging in Ukraine, NASA Astronaut Flies to ISS Aboard Russian Rocket – Gizmodo
- Watch Live as Russia Launches the Next ISS Crew—Including a U.S. Astronaut—to Space – Gizmodo
- Scientists Think They’ve Solved the Mystery of a Bizarre Repeating Radio Signal from Space – VICE US
- James Webb Space Telescope captures the best image of Neptune’s rings in decades – Engadget
- New Webb image captures clearest view of Neptune’s rings in decades – Hacker News
- Bezos’s ‘Orbital Reef’ Space Station Is Set to Be Hollywood’s Newest Star – Gizmodo
- Giant Centrifuge Startup That Wants to Hurl Things Into Space Raises $71 Mil – Gizmodo
- Mars Is Littered With Over 7 Tons of Trash From Robotic Space Exploration – HowStuffWorks
DIY 🪓
- Pork and Veggie Pan-Seared Dumplings Recipe – VICE US
- A text adventure game on TypeScript’s type system – Hacker News
- Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI – Hacker News
- The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition – Hacker News
- Framework’s Chromebook Is Bringing Modularity to ChromeOS – Gizmodo
- Framework made a modular, repairable Chromebook – Engadget
- Websdr.org – Software-Defined Radio receiver connected to the internet – Hacker News
- Entitlement in Open Source – Hacker News
- The most controversial change in Emacs history (2021) – Hacker News
- Next steps for Rust in the kernel – Hacker News
- ‘I Don’t Care About Cookies’ extension sold to Avast – The Register
- Mapping the unknown – Steps to map any industry – Hacker News
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- The Deceiving Stretch of Water with 100% Mortality Rate – Hacker News
- Domesticated Prairie Dog Travels Across the United States With His Humans – Laughing Squid
- Apple’s next victim: the SIM card (Macworld/Jason Snell) – Six Colors
- What we learned from launching a hyperlocal news brand – Google
- Ultralight carbon teardrop utility camper tows via EV or motorcycle – New Atlas
- Renault electric camper urges solo nomads to ditch office, go outdoors – New Atlas
- Mercedes tempts freight operators with eActros LongHaul electric truck – New Atlas
