Skip to contentSTL: Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Events 📆
- Diwali: What to know about the 5-day festival – KSDK
- Where to see fall foliage in the St. Louis area – KSDK
BuySTL 👜
- Tesla to open massive warehouse in Metro East – stltoday.com
- Luxury Sweets & Treats Makes the Confections of Your Dreams – RFT
Restaurants 🍲
STLfood ⚜️
- Chili Drive-Thru Events Coming Up at Resurrection Lutheran Church – RiverBender
Neighborhoods 🏡
- I’m Now More Optimistic (Less Pessimistic?) About The Next NGA West Campus – UrbanReview
STL100 💯
- Low Mississippi River levels has many walking to the Tower Rock – FOX 2
STL99 😱
- Radioactive waste found at Missouri elementary school – The Big 550 KTRS
- Parents demand action after report of radioactive contamination at Florissant school – stltoday.com
- An Elementary School Near a Nuclear Dump Site Is Teeming With Radioactivity – Gizmodo
- St. Louis-area teacher shortage means more online classes in school – stltoday.com
- St. Louis Catalytic Converter Thieves Charged with Conspiracy Against US – RFT
- 9 Bronze River Des Peres Greenway trail markers stolen – FOX 2
- Burglar on parole accused of more than a dozen new break-ins – FOX 2
- Central West End restaurant broken into overnight – FOX 2
99MO 😱
- Report: Missouri faces highest turnover, vacancy of nurses in history – FOX 2
- Proposal to close 10 schools in Kansas City, improve academics hinges on community support – Missouri Independent
- Drought Pattern Continues In Missouri Basin – The Waterways Journal
- Severe drought triggers assistance in nearly all of Kansas, half of Missouri – Missouri Independent
WW99 😱
- China’s economy must be worse than we thought – Kevin Drum
- The Morning After: SpaceX will keep paying for Ukraine’s access to Starlink – Engadget
Police 🚓
- Survey Says… More Than Half Of Households With LAPD Officers Support Dismantling The LAPD – Techdirt
DotGov 🏛
- Data Governance Webinar Notes – JW
CityGov 🏛
- St. Louis Mayor Vows to Create Reparations Commission – RFT
- Mayor Jones proposes safety improvements on Grand Boulevard – FOX 2
- City of St. Louis holds North Grand corridor meeting to talk traffic concerns – KSDK
- St. Louis mayor’s plan to make city streets safer – KSDK
- Notice of meeting for PSA committee for Mainframe Support Services – Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
LocalGov 🏛
- Court fight over St. Charles Convention Center delays new projects – stltoday.com
- Abandoned properties are piling up in St. Louis County. Lawmaker says it’s time for a land bank. – stltoday.com
- University City threatens to take homeowner to court, saying she got weeds – FOX 2
- 5 license plate reading cameras installed in Brentwood to make community safer – KSDK
MoGov 🏛
- Jay Ashcroft, potential Missouri governor candidate, floats library book ban proposal – stltoday.com
- Cost of Missouri’s recent special session on taxes tops $164,000 – stltoday.com
- Pro-union ruling reversed by Missouri Supreme Court – The Labor Tribune
- Overdoses Rise in Missouri Prisons Despite Strict New Mail Policy – RFT
FedGov 🏛
- Flood aid deadline is almost here. FEMA has paid $100 million in St. Louis so far. – stltoday.com
- You Can Now Apply For Federal Student Loan Relief — Here’s How – RFT
- Student loan forgiveness application is now open: Here’s how to apply – FOX 2
- Federal Judge Says FBI Misled Magistrate When Seeking Safe Deposit Warrants, OKs Searches Anyway – Techdirt
Jobs 📄
- AmeriCorps St. Louis is looking for new team members – KSDK
- Microsoft reportedly lays off hundreds of employees – Engadget
History 🦕
Sustainability ♻️
- Low water disrupts industry along lower Mississippi River – FOX 2
- The West’s biggest source of renewable energy depends on water. Will it survive the drought? – Grist
Infrastructure 🚽
- ‘Water Batteries’ Could Power 135,000 Homes in San Diego – Gizmodo
- Giant, megawatt-scale wave energy generator to be tested in Scotland – New Atlas
- Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants – Hacker News
- Engineered duckweed could be a more sustainable source of biofuel – New Atlas
Ecology 🦤
- Cities want more trees. Drought is complicating their efforts. – Grist
- All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too – Grist
- Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped – Hacker News
WWW99 🕸
- TikTok is Introducing an Adults-Only Content Option – Gizmodo
- Mark Zuckerberg: WhatsApp Is ‘Far More Private and Secure’ Than iMessage – MacRumors
- Artist formerly known as Kanye reveals Parler trick: Buying the far-right haven – The Register
- Starlink, shot by both sides in Ukrainian fracas, lives to fight on – The Register
- Elon Musk Tweets Then Deletes Dragon Ball Z Meme With His Pal Kanye West – Gizmodo
- ‘Elon Musk’s X App for “Everything” Might Be a Non-Starter in the U.S.’ – Daring Fireball
- Kanye West is buying controversial ‘free speech’ app Parler – Engadget
- Kanye West, Recently Suspended by Twitter and Instagram Over Unhinged Antisemitic Posts, to Acquire Parler – Daring Fireball
Space 🚀
- Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school – The Register
- Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5B yrs – Hacker News
DIY 🪓
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