Skip to contentSTL: Monday, September 26, 2022
Events 📆
- 10 St. Louis pumpkin patches to visit this fall – St. Louis Magazine
- Fall maze made from hemp opens in Godfrey – FOX 2
- Taste of St. Louis drives economy during major festival weekend – KSDK
BuySTL 👜
- City Greens Market’s Liz Essman is dedicated to providing fresh produce in the food desert surrounding The Grove – feastmagazine.com
- Schnucks to acquire 2 Fricks Market locations in Franklin County – KSDK
- Schnucks makes deal to acquire stores from another family-owned grocer – St. Louis Business Journal
- Fricks grocery stores to become part of Schnucks chain – stltoday.com
- Busch Stadium customers’ credit cards were charged multiple times at one game – stltoday.com
- Popular bakery in the Metro East goes up in flames – FOX 2
- Schnucks buying remaining Fricks Market stores – FOX 2
- Boeing pays $200 million to settle SEC charges over 737 Max – FOX 2
Restaurants 🍲
- Havana’s Cuban Sandwich – r/StLouis
- Wood River’s 1929 Pizza And Wine Perimeter Wall Has Come Down – Set To Open In November – RiverBender
STLfood ⚜️
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Project 5: STL ArtWorks adds color to the Delmar Loop – KSDK
- Herculaneum residents’ petition against proposed Love’s truck stop surpasses goal – KSDK
- Meetup At Aya Sofia – Lindenwood Park
- LinFest is Back! Saturday, October 1, 2022 – Lindenwood Park
STL100 💯
- St. Louis trucking firms gain drivers despite national shortage. Here’s how one did it. – KSDK
- St. Louis area trucking firms gain drivers in 2021, bucking national trends – St. Louis Regional Freightway
- The Biggest Tech Talent Hubs in the U.S. and Canada. – Maps on the Web
STL99 😱
- If you use gas to heat your home, expect to pay 34% more this winter – KSDK
- Body shop says cars are totaled ‘quite frequently’ from deer damage – KSDK
99MO 😱
- Where Missouri and Illinois place on the ‘happiness ranking’ – FOX 2
WW99 😱
- Putin bestows Russian citizenship upon Edward Snowden – Boing Boing
- Iran’s Internet Shutdown Hides a Deadly Crackdown – Hacker News
- You don’t understand how bad it could get in Europe this year – Hacker News
- Europe is in danger of rolling electricity shortages – Hacker News
- After Getting Blocked in Iran, Signal Wants You to Help Bypass Nation’s Restrictions – Gizmodo
- NSA super-leaker Edward Snowden granted Russian citizenship – The Register
- Brazil’s Far-Right Embraced the NRA and Gun Sales Are Soaring – VICE US
- Russian recruitment officer in intensive care after draftee shoots him – Boing Boing
- Germany’s Government Continues To Lock People Up For Being Extremely Online – Techdirt
- 13 Regions of Russia where Russians are a Minority – Maps on the Web
- Are Russians allowed to enter your country? by @Atlasova_world – Maps on the Web
- Anti-government protests have been documented in 30 of… – Maps on the Web
- The G7 consumes the same amount of Carbon as China with half as… – Maps on the Web
- China emits more CO2 than the entire Western hemisphere – Maps on the Web
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- COVID pandemic isn’t over, says Missouri Democrat Valentine in break with Biden – stltoday.com
- What to know about this year’s flu season and getting your free flu shot – St. Louis Magazine
- Japan pledges $2 billion in funding for pandemic vaccine research initiative – Engadget
Police 🚓
- St. Louis Police Union Axes Jeff Roorda – RFT
- Jeff Roorda out as manager of St. Louis police union – stltoday.com
- Jeff Roorda out as manager of St. Louis police union – r/StLouis
- Legal fight over civilian oversight of St. Louis police could have statewide implications – FOX 2
- Lawsuit: Breckenridge Hills police have a pattern of abuse – stltoday.com
- Private policing problems pinpointed – stlamerican.com
- San Francisco Legislators Approve Bill Giving Cops Live, On Demand Access To Private Security Cameras – Techdirt
- Fifth Circuit Grants Immunity To Cop Who Decided To Violently Arrest Family That Called To Report A Crime – Techdirt
DotGov 🏛
CityGov 🏛
LocalGov 🏛
- Suburban school districts in St. Louis area more likely to ban books under new law – stltoday.com
- University City seeks federal funds to buy out flood-damaged homes – FOX 2
- University City seeks to buy out just 24 houses, way fewer than expected – r/StLouis
MoGov 🏛
- Top Missouri lawmaker urges federal prosecutors to intervene in Agape abuse case – Missouri Independent
- Missouri failed to extend Medicaid for new moms. Lawmakers vow to try again. – stltoday.com
- Missouri House speaker urges federal investigators to shut down Agape school – KSDK
- Missouri House Speaker urges feds to shut down Agape school – FOX 2
- Missouri’s foster care system in ‘desperate need,’ director says – stltoday.com
- Fixing Missouri child welfare: Darrell Missey has it backwards – Missouri Independent
- A conspiracy-fueled push to count ballots by hand gains traction – Missouri Independent
- Missouri House leaders scramble to save the governor’s agriculture incentives bill – Missouri Independent
- Missouri House barely passes agriculture tax credits legislation – FOX 2
- Eric Schmitt absent – stlamerican.com
- Missouri judge weighing lawsuits over photo ID law – FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
- FEMA approves over $35M in flood assistance. Here’s how you can apply – KSDK
- FEMA officials offer free repair and rebuild advice at 3 different Home Depot locations – KSDK
- The Fed plans to sharply boost unemployment – Hacker News
- FBI misled judge who signed warrant for seizure of $86M in cash – Hacker News
- The CIA’s New Podcast Is Propaganda That Aims to ‘Whitewash’ the Agency’s Dark History – Gizmodo
- The Oath Keepers’ Jan. 6 Trial Is Here. And It’s Going to Be Weird. – VICE US
- Conservatives Loved Expanding The 1st Amendment To Corporations… Until Last Year. Wonder Why? – Techdirt
- ‘Securing Open Source Software Act’ introduced to US Senate – Hacker News
Jobs 📄
History 🦕
- Incredible vintage film footage of STL! – r/StLouis
- Interactive Map of White Flight in STL by Decade – r/StLouis
- Irv’s Good Eats – St. Louis, MO – r/StLouis
- 150 years ago St. Louis started its brief experiment with legalized prostitution – stltoday.com
- HISTORY! Albert Pujols slugs 700th home run one at-bat after 699th – FOX 2
- The Ancient Maya Were Regularly Exposed to Toxic Mercury, Scientists Say – Gizmodo
Sustainability ♻️
- The Racism, and Resilience, Behind Today’s Salmon Crisis – ProPublica
- Jeff Bezos is buying up single-family homes to rent-trap humanity forever – Hacker News
- Offshore Wind 125 Times Better for Taxpayers Compared to Oil and Gas – Gizmodo
- California to phase out gas furnaces, water heaters by 2030 – The Register
Infrastructure 🚽
- A new mode of shipping aims to ease supply-chain pains and breathe new life into our rivers – St. Louis Magazine
- USDA to spend $500 million extending high-speed internet to rural America – FOX 2
- Learning from Cows: Community Owned WiFi-Mesh – Hacker News
- The robot solving America’s trash crisis – Freethink
- US Rail Network Map by Line Owner/Operator 2022 by u/Entroma – Maps on the Web
- How Netflix keeps its data infrastructure cost-effective – Hacker News
Ecology 🦤
- Rainscaping provides beauty and function when heavy rains fall – FOX 2
- Axolotls can regenerate their brains – Freethink
- The World’s Largest Organism Is ‘Breaking Up,’ Study Warns – VICE US
- Ultra-Rare Diamond Reveals Secrets of Oceans of Water Deep Inside the Earth, Scientists Say – VICE US
- World’s first cloned arctic wolf is now 100 days old – Freethink
WWwx 🌦
- This summer’s drought and floods may impact 2022’s fall foliage – FOX 2
- Summer 2022: A season of extreme St. Louis weather – FOX 2
- Studying how climate change shapes floods and river landscapes – FOX 2
WWW99 🕸
- Why Browsers Are Essential to the Internet and How OS Are Holding Them Back – Hacker News
- Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers – Hacker News
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai Tells Employees They Don’t Need Money to Have Fun Amid Cost Cuts – Gizmodo
- Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos – Hacker News
- When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” – Hacker News
- Whois: Fragile, Unparseable, Obsolete – Hacker News
- 3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror – Hacker News
- Google Is Showing Ads to Sell Your Kidney for $1M in India – Hacker News
- Hackers use PowerPoint files for ‘mouseover’ malware delivery – BleepingComputer
- Microsoft SQL servers hacked in TargetCompany ransomware attacks – BleepingComputer
- Number of users by country subreddits.by u/Dabatman565 – Maps on the Web
Space 🚀
- Don’t Miss Jupiter Shine Its Brightest in Almost 60 Years – HowStuffWorks
- The FCC Finally Starts Taking Space Junk Seriously – Techdirt
- Impact! NASA’s DART Spacecraft Crashes Head-On Into Asteroid – Gizmodo
- Why DART Is the Most Important Mission Ever Launched to Space – Gizmodo
- Watch Live: NASA’s DART Spacecraft Will Crash Into an Asteroid – Gizmodo
- Tropical Storm Ian Forces NASA to Postpone Upcoming Launch of Megarocket – Gizmodo
- This hero probe will smash into an asteroid to see if we can deflect future killer rocks – The Register
- NASA’s DART spacecraft is about to smash into an asteroid – Freethink
- Watch the First Asteroid Defense Test in History Happen Live in Space Tonight – VICE US
- NASA probe smashes into an asteroid in historic test for planetary defense – New Atlas
- The unpredictabilities of NASA’s wild plan to ram an asteroid off course – New Atlas
- NASA will roll Artemis 1 back to shelter it from Hurricane Ian – Engadget
- NASA battens down another Artemis launch window as hurricane approaches – The Register
- NASA’s Megarocket Heads for Shelter as Hurricane Ian Approaches – Gizmodo
- Elon Musk Says He’s Activating Starlink in Iran After U.S. Eases Restrictions on Tech Companies – Gizmodo
- Starlink now over 1M user terminals manufactured – Hacker News
DIY 🪓
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