Skip to contentSTL: Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Events 📆
- Wienermobile headed to St. Louis October 13 to 16 – KSDK
- The Gateway Arch Gets Spooky for Halloween This Weekend – RFT
- DEA: No connection between rainbow fentanyl and Halloween – FOX 2
- Aerie’s Winery Holds Ribbon Cutting For Brand New Alpine Coaster – Ride Is Now Open – RiverBender
- Head to Steelville to mark major anniversaries with The Ozark Mountain Daredevils and Wildwood Springs Lodge – St. Louis Magazine
BuySTL 👜
- Mixed Results One Year in for Carondelet Co-Op Grocer – RFT
- BNSF lifts embargo on St. Louis cargo after 5 weeks – FOX 2
- City Foundry’s mini-golf venue opens this winter after raising $150M – FOX 2
- Costco opening in University City in two weeks – FOX 2
- St. Louis’ Railway Exchange ‘held hostage’ by past attempts, preservationist says – stltoday.com
- Construction starts on Topgolf in St. Louis City’s Midtown – FOX 2
- Residents concerned new Topgolf could bring unwanted traffic to Midtown St. Louis – KSDK
- Topgolf is coming to Midtown – St. Louis Magazine
- Topgolf begins construction on new venue in Midtown, 2nd St. Louis area location – KSDK
- Topgolf to open near St. Louis University in late 2023 – stltoday.com
- Peabody Energy decided to stay in St. Louis after debating leaving due to increase in crime – FOX 2
- Peabody Recommits to Downtown St. Louis – City of St. Louis – News
Restaurants 🍲
- This St. Louis diner is opening a location at Lambert Airport this spring – KSDK
- Shift into soup mode at one of these 11 St. Louis restaurants – feastmagazine.com
- Best restaurant in STL where you can walk in with 20 bucks (or less) and be happy? – r/StLouis
STLfood ⚜️
- Aldi announces recall of frozen falafels amid E. coli outbreak – FOX 2
Neighborhoods 🏡
STL100 💯
- Nobel Prize-winning professor slept in, missed important call – FOX 2
- (FOX2) St. Louis Name #1 City where minority-owned startups thrive – 39 North
- Colorful Fall Foliage Hikes in Missouri and Illinois – Terrain Magazine
STL99 😱
- Driver Shortage Forces MCT To Consider Service Reductions – RiverBender
- Catholics make sure to go your parish listening session. I went to one. – r/StLouis
- Rosati-Kain alumnae proposing plan to keep school open – KSDK
- Missouri Man Gets Prison Time for $7.5M Health Care Fraud – RFT
- Hit-and-run driver kills pedestrian on St. Charles Rock Road – stltoday.com
- Second Fatal Hit and Run in St. Louis Metro This Week – RFT
- Residents disgusted by eyesore weeds, trash at Dome downtown – FOX 2
- Police correction: Woman still alive after being hit by vehicle – FOX 2
- Woman hit by car, injured Monday night in Jennings – KSDK
- 5-vehicle crash kills pedestrian Monday in Overland – KSDK
- Pedestrian Fatally Struck at Jennings Station Road and Florence Place – RiverBender
- 4 Pedestrians Fatally Hit by Cars in St. Louis in Less than 48 Hours – RFT
99MO 😱
- What to do if you hit a deer with your vehicle in Missouri – FOX 2
- 7 dogs rescued in raid on notorious breeder in rural Missouri – FOX 2
- Missouri Humane Society saves 7 terriers from one of worst dog breeders in the country Tuesday – KSDK
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- Rapid Rise in Monkeypox Cases in St. Louis – RFT
Police 🚓
- Three St. Louis police officers didn’t cause fatal crash, appeals court rules – stltoday.com
- Police look for solutions to juvenile crime explosion – FOX 2
- I-Team: St. Louis County police precinct costs soar following five years of delays – KSDK
- VIDEO: Woman Steals and Crashes Cop Car in Front of 2 Cops – RFT
- Police Are Using DNA to Generate 3D Images of Suspects They’ve Never Seen – VICE US
DotGov 🏛
- As electric vehicles shrink gas tax revenue, more states may tax mileage – Missouri Independent
- California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles – The Register
CityGov 🏛
LocalGov 🏛
- St. Louis County considers service cuts, tax hikes to fill $41 million budget hole – stltoday.com
- Conservative political action committees inject millions into local school races – stltoday.com
- St. Peters man returns to court over too many sunflowers in yard – FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
- Court says cost of clearing pot convictions in Missouri could top $6.5 million – stltoday.com
- ‘Invading academic freedom:’ Missouri AG’s probe for university emails raises concerns – FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
- $39 Million In Marine Highway Grants Awarded – St. Louis Regional Freightway
- Wait. Biden is mad at the Saudis because they sided with Republicans? – Kevin Drum
- Justice Department Files Disgusting Attack On Journalist Jason Leopold For Being Good At His Job – Techdirt
- Immigration advocates call again for DACA renewal in Congress, as possible end looms – Missouri Independent
Jobs 📄
- Why is unemployment lasting so long these days? – Kevin Drum
- Maybe job growth isn’t as great as we think – Kevin Drum
Sustainability ♻️
- Automotive Security Threats Are More Critical Than Ever – SecurityWeek
- Coastal algae farms proposed as solution to future food crisis – New Atlas
- Record energy haul: Offshore prototype operates over capacity for 24 hrs – New Atlas
- Report: World Bank invested nearly $15 billion in fossil fuel projects despite climate commitment – Grist
- GM created a new energy business to sell batteries and solar panels – Hacker News
- GM is using its Ultium battery tech for a lot more than EVs – Engadget
- Geothermal may beat batteries for energy storage – Hacker News
- Researchers develop thermoformable ceramics, ‘a new frontier in materials’ – Hacker News
- Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste overseas? – Our World in Data
Infrastructure 🚽
- Freight Rail Union Rejects Tentative Agreement, Previewing Messy and Prolonged Labor Fight – VICE US
- Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, with connecting regional… – Maps on the Web
- Map of Every Power Plant in the United States, 2020. – Maps on the Web
- Google Fiber Shows Signs Of Life, Promises 100 Gbps Service – Techdirt
WWwx 🌦
- Climate reparations are on the agenda at COP27 — whether wealthy nations like it or not – Grist
WWW99 🕸
- LofyGang Cybercrime Group Used 200 Malicious NPM Packages for Supply Chain Attacks – SecurityWeek
- University Rolls Back Bizarre Laboratory Surveillance Tech Deployment After Students Call Bullshit – Techdirt
- Google Still Does Not Use HTML lang Attribute (2022 Edition) – Search Engine Roundtable
Twitter 🐦
- Elon Musk Claims Twitter Forced Whistleblower to Burn Evidence – Gizmodo
- If Musk Completes His Twitter Takeover, His Fans Might Want To Start Supporting Section 230 – Techdirt
Space 🚀
- NASA regains control of CAPSTONE lunar orbiter after a tumble – The Register
- NASA Successfully Punched an Asteroid Off-Course in Planetary Defense Test, Agency Announces – VICE US
- NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbit of an asteroid – Engadget
- NASA’s asteroid-deflection test surpasses expectations – Science Magazine
- NASA’s asteroid-ramming mission shortened Dimorphos’ orbit by 32 minutes – New Atlas
- Mars ‘Very Likely’ Hosted Subterranean Alien Life, And May Still, Scientists Say – VICE US
- Ancient Martian life may have died out in self-induced climate change – New Atlas
DIY 🪓
- Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid – Hacker News
- Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Front End – CSS-Tricks
- A guide to Google Analytics 4 for marketing agencies – Search Engine Land
- Pico.js – A face-detection library in 200 lines of JavaScript (2018) – Hacker News
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Intel chips in on optical modem for DARPA’s ‘internet of satellites’ – The Register
- An unexpected revival of Firefox OS – Hacker News
- World’s first VW ID. Buzz electric camper kit launches for under $3K – New Atlas
