Skip to contentSTL: Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Events 📆
- Jane Goodall visits new exhibit at Saint Louis Science Center, speaks to students – KSDK
- Mark your calendar for an evening of family-friendly spooky stories at the St. Louis Storytelling Festival – St. Louis Magazine
- Pickin’ in the Pumpkin Patch – Good Food St. Louis
- Artica 2022 – r/StLouis
- Keg Tapping, German Food, Music, Mass In Grass, Play Big Part Of Oktoberfest Saturday/Sunday – RiverBender
- Granite City Is Loaded With Halloween Activities Through October – RiverBender
- Granite City’s Month Of Magic & Mayhem Kicks Off With Impressive Parade/Monster Dance Party – RiverBender
BuySTL 👜
- St. Louis startup developing self-driving railcar expands to new HQ – St. Louis Regional Freightway
- St. Louis-based global packaging business to expand European reach with acquisition – KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
- New brunch spot to open in Eat-Rite building – r/StLouis
- Chuck’s Hot Chicken opening Rock Hill location on October 13 – St. Louis Magazine
- Kingside Diner arriving soon at St. Louis Lambert International Airport’s Terminal 1 – St. Louis Magazine
- At Gokul Indian Restaurant, Jitendra Sandhe is serving up a wide range of exclusively vegetarian and kosher fare – feastmagazine.com
- Arzola’s Fajitas & Margaritas cooks up Tex-Mex in Benton Park inspired by three generations – feastmagazine.com
STLfood ⚜️
- St. Louis Taco Week Is Here: $5 Taco Specials at Area Restaurants – RFT
- St. Louis Taco Week starts Monday, Oct. 10 – FOX 2
- St Louis themed cookbooks – r/StLouis
STL100 💯
- Tina Farmer Is Now the RFT’s Theatre Critic – RFT
- Coast Guard: Mississippi River reopens to barge traffic after low water closures – stltoday.com
- Washington University professor shares economics Nobel Prize for crisis research – stltoday.com
- Washington University Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Economics – RFT
- WashU professor among economic scientists awarded Nobel Prize – KSDK
- St. Louisan wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences – FOX 2
- The Nobel Prize Goes to Bernanke and Diamond and Dybvig – Marginal REVOLUTION
STL99 😱
- Airport websites in St. Louis, other cities go offline; cause being investigated – stltoday.com
- Lambert Airport website restored after apparent cyberattack, flights not affected – KSDK
- St. Louis Lambert International Airport website targeted by Russian hackers – FOX 2
- Woman killed by hit-and-run driver in Tower Grove South neighborhood – stltoday.com
- Hit-and-run crash on Gravois Avenue leaves pedestrian dead – KSDK
- Another Pedestrian Killed by Driver in St. Louis’ South City – RFT
- Car slams into building early Monday at Gravois, Nebraska avenues – KSDK
99MO 😱
- Missouri participation in public benefits program WIC fell sharply during pandemic – Missouri Independent
WW99 😱
- Making Workers Keep Their Webcams on Is a Human Rights Violation, According to Dutch Judge – Gizmodo
- Elon Musk Praised by China for Suggesting Communists Exert Control in Taiwan – Gizmodo
- Leaked Emails Show Mexico’s Military Sold Grenades to the Cartels – VICE US
- German Cybersecurity Chief to be Sacked Over Alleged Russia Ties: Sources – SecurityWeek
- Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv – Hacker News
CityGov 🏛
LocalGov 🏛
- Saint Louis Public Schools picks interim superintendent, launches national search for permanent job – KSDK
MoGov 🏛
- Mike Parson Won’t Offer Mass Pardons for Marijuana Offenses – RFT
FedGov 🏛
- Biden’s Weed Pardon Won’t Get Anyone Out of Prison—But It’s Still a Huge Deal – VICE US
- U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace – Hacker News
Jobs 📄
- Schnucks, union try out new flexible option for grocery workers – stltoday.com
- Client Service Coordinator II (Department of Human Services) – Jobs
- Program Manager I (Homeless Services) – Jobs
- Public Information Officer I – Jobs
Sustainability ♻️
- To stay or to go: Increased flooding forces towns to make hard choices – stltoday.com
- Making room for the river: Communities look at nature-based solutions – stltoday.com
- This California City Is Rapidly Running Out of Water – Gizmodo
Infrastructure 🚽
- Rivian recalls nearly every vehicle it has sold – The Register
Ecology 🦤
- Assessing Air Quality Conditions in the St. Louis Region as the 2022 Forecasting Season Wraps Up – Clean Air Partnership
- The Southwest’s Famous Cacti Are in Trouble – Gizmodo
WWW99 🕸
- Hackers forced more than a dozen US public airport websites offline – Engadget
- US airports’ sites taken down in DDoS attacks by pro-Russian hackers – BleepingComputer
- PayPal Still fining $2500 for Promoting anything “Discriminatory”, “Intolerance” – Hacker News
- PayPal decides fining people $2,500 for ‘misinformation’ wasn’t a great idea – The Register
- Telegram Piracy: Police Target 545 Channels & Eight Suspected Admins – TorrentFreak
- An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets – Hacker News
Space 🚀
- William Shatner writes about going to space – Waxy.org
- Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient Mars – The Big 550 KTRS
- NASA’s InSight Lander Hunkers Down as Martian Storm Moves In – Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
- Command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving application – Hacker News
- Big improvements to ActivityPub on Micro.blog – Manton Reece