Skip to contentSTL: Thursday, October 13, 2022
Events 📆
- Cleanup is underway at Dome lot downtown – FOX 2
- Where to celebrate Halloween with your teen in St. Louis – St. Louis Magazine
- Schlafly’s Full Moon Festival to Return in November – RFT
BuySTL 👜
- Spire gas company holds first public rate hike hearing in St. Louis – KSDK
- Report: Peabody in talks with Australian coal mining company – stltoday.com
- St. Louis entrepreneur to appear on ‘Shark Tank’ – St. Louis Magazine
- Former St. Louis TV journalist is now creating a drone that fits in a backpack – St. Louis Business Journal
- City Foundry STL’s delayed movie theater, Alamo Drafthouse, to open in November – stltoday.com
- Alamo Drafthouse scheduled to open at City Foundry STL in November – St. Louis Magazine
- Alamo Drafthouse Coming to St. Louis Next Month – RFT
- Austin-based cinema-eatery opening at City Foundry STL this November – KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
STLfood ⚜️
- Sugaree closing retail business – r/StLouis
- Meal prep service to take over former Copper Pig restaurant on Macklind – KSDK
STL100 💯
- New report reveals strengths, shortfalls in St. Louis tech employment – stltoday.com
- Great Rivers Greenways looks at the Meramec, Dardenne, and Deer Creek Greenways – FOX 2
- Two SLPS schools named ‘all-stars’ – FOX 2
- Transit Center transformation at North Hanley stop – FOX 2
- Rescuing architecture: a visit to the National Building Arts Center just across the river – r/StLouis
STL99 😱
- St. Louis says Shell station is nuisance, but doesn’t produce records to prove it – stltoday.com
- Holleman: St. Louis again ranks as least-safe city. The mayor blames state lawmakers. – stltoday.com
- “Trash everywhere, it’s a never ending cycle” concerns grow over road safety after driver is killed by piece of metal – FOX 2
- St. Louis finishes last in ‘safest US cities’ study – FOX 2
- St. Louis finishes last in ‘safest US cities’ study – r/StLouis
- River City HBCU Classic canceled 4 days before the event – KSDK
- Haine Seeks Forfeiture Of 287 Catalytic Converters Seized From Premises Of Business – RiverBender
WW99 😱
- Ukrainian City Removes Elon Musk’s Face from Celebratory Billboard – VICE US
- Taiwan Official Explains With Extreme Calm Why the U.S. Doesn’t Need to Blow Up TSMC if China Invades – Gizmodo
- French Parliament Wants To Make People Pay A License Fee To Use Public Domain Works – Techdirt
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds – Hacker News
- China’s ‘Zero COVID’ Policy Is Going to Last a Whole Lot Longer – VICE US
Police 🚓
- St. Louis-area police say Missouri’s juvenile crime point system needs update – FOX 2
CityGov 🏛
- What the mayor says about St. Louis being labeled the ‘least safe’ city in the country – KSDK
- New 14-member health bureau to address St. Louis’ overdose deaths – stltoday.com
- City of St. Louis announce new bureau to tackle drug abuse and mental health – FOX 2
- City of St. Louis Department of Health Announced Launch of New Behavioral Health Bureau – City of St. Louis – News
- BB 103 – Four-Way Stop Site at the Intersection of St. Louis Avenue and Bishop PL Scott Avenue – Board Bills
- BB 102 – Airport Revenue Bonds – Board Bills
LocalGov 🏛
- A St. Louis County Mayor Went Big for Bitcoin, Now He’s Fighting to Stay in Office – RFT
- APA Adoption Center to Operate Pet Adoption Services for St. Louis County – APA Adoption Center
- Animal Protective Adoption Center slated to operate pet adoption services for St. Louis County – KSDK
- St. Louis County Failed to Fully Sedate Dogs Before Euthanasia, Staffer Says – RFT
MoGov 🏛
- Messenger: Ethics complaint targets Eric Schmitt’s legal role in the Big Lie – stltoday.com
- Eric Schmitt deletes pro-Kanye West tweet amid backlash over rapper’s anti-Semitic remarks – KSDK
- Six states cite ‘harms’ over Biden’s student loan plan in St. Louis hearing – FOX 2
- Eric Schmitt Picks Unusual Time to Become a Kanye West Fan – RFT
FedGov 🏛
- Student loan lawsuit hearing at Federal Court Building today – FOX 2
- Federal judge in St. Louis weighs effort to halt student loan forgiveness – KSDK
- Missouri judge hears lawsuit challenging Biden student debt relief plan – Missouri Independent
- US Federal Courts Agree To Refund Fees They Overcharged People For Access To PACER – Techdirt
- Biden’s Executive Order On Surveillance Doesn’t Do Nearly Enough To Protect Privacy; Playing Word Games Doesn’t Actually Limit NSA Surveillance – Techdirt
Jobs 📄
- 2023 – 2024 Type 1 Ambulance/Medic – City of St. Louis
- Labor Supervisor (Forestry Division) – Jobs
- Attorney II (Transactions) – Jobs
Sustainability ♻️
- The Mississippi River is Our Greatest Force for Building Land – Environmental Defense
- Pittsburgh Airport installs an algae air purifier – Hacker News
- An Australian startup is “growing” water for drought-parched California – Hacker News
Infrastructure 🚽
- Mike Kehoe to announce high-speed internet expansion in Pike County Wednesday morning – FOX 2
- Intel fires up internal foundry model to make its own chips – The Register
- GM races after Tesla with battery pack tech and solar deal – The Register
- High-density EV battery puts 10-minute charge times on the table – New Atlas
Ecology 🦤
- America’s Birds Are in Big Trouble – Gizmodo
- Antarctic Researchers Report a ‘Dramatic Decline’ in Adélie Penguin – Gizmodo
- New Study Maps Over 50,000 Sites In the U.S. That Are Likely Contaminated With ‘Forever Chemicals’ – Gizmodo
WWwx 🌦
- Climate Change Is Causing Wetter, Heavier Rainfall, New Study Shows – Gizmodo
WWW99 🕸
- How to keep getting local news as Facebook changes – FOX 2
- TikTok’s Allegedly Pocketing Up to 70% of Donations Raised by Desperate, Begging Syrian Refugees – Gizmodo
- Employees Reveal Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Vision Is A Clunky, Boring, Ego-Driven Mess – Techdirt
- Microsoft and Meta promise facehugger PCs piping cloud desktops into VR headsets – The Register
- Microsoft’s new AI graphic design app is built on DALL-E – Engadget
- Hyundai wants all of its vehicles to support over-the-air updates by 2025 – Engadget
Space 🚀
- Bigger, Better, Cheaper: How India Is Building a Private Empire in Space – VICE US
- Astronomers can’t explain a black hole "burp" years after it ate a star – New Atlas
- Starlight interstellar probe – Hacker News
- James Webb Telescope captures unique dust rings surrounding two stars – Engadget
- NASA is now targeting November 14th for the Artemis 1 launch – Engadget
DIY 🪓
- Users Are Building Their Own AI-Powered Alternatives to Amazon’s Ring Cameras – VICE US
- How a smart home can be a safer home – Arduino Blog
- Barilla and Arduino: This is not your grandma’s pasta! – Arduino Blog
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi died while attempting to save the lives of people drowning – Boing Boing
- Animated Googly Eyes Could Make Autonomous Cars Safer For Pedestrians – Gizmodo
- Connecticut Jury Orders Alex Jones and Infowars to Pay $965 Million to Sandy Hook Families – VICE US
- Scientists got lab-grown human brain cells to play ‘Pong’ – Engadget
- Dutch hospital ZGT achieves digital sovereignty with Nextcloud – Hacker News
- Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) – Hacker News
