Skip to contentSTL: Thursday, August 25, 2022
Events 📆
BuySTL 👜
- After Years of Darkness, Stag Finally Brings Back Its Classic Logo – RFT
- Trolley Stop Bakery in Chesterfield offers aspiring bakers a place to grow their business – St. Louis Magazine
- WeWork closes downtown St. Louis coworking location – KSDK
- Schlafly beer expands with 2 new distribution deals – KSDK
- A Chick-fil-A owner offered St. Louis area franchisees a sweet deal. They say it was fraud. – stltoday.com
Restaurants 🍲
- Shabu Day is now open in University City, featuring all-you-can-eat hot pot – feastmagazine.com
- Press by acclaimed chef Logan Ely debuts its ‘smash pizza’ in Fox Park – stltoday.com
STLfood ⚜️
- IMOS Pizza labeled will now be in Dierbergs – r/StLouis
Neighborhoods 🏡
STL100 💯
- $1M worth of free school supplies to be given to St. Louis teachers – KSDK
STL99 😱
- ‘It’s definitely a health crisis’: Communities working to fight diaper insecurity – KSDK
- FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Perdue Frozen Ready-To-Eat Chicken Tender Products Due to Foreign Material Contamination – RiverBender
99MO 😱
- Missouri school district brings back punishment by paddle – FOX 2
WW99 😱
- Why Outlawing Ghost Guns Didn’t Stop America’s Largest Maker of Ghost Gun Parts – ProPublica
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- Here’s how you can keep track of monkeypox cases in St. Louis County – KSDK
Police 🚓
- St. Louis comptroller unveils plan to increase police officers’ pay, curb crime – KSDK
- St. Louis comptroller calls for pay raises, new incentives for police to fight crime – stltoday.com
CityGov 🏛
- St. Louis City Flirts with Violations of Sunshine Law, Critics Say – RFT
- St. Louis warrant reset, job fair set for Friday, plus relief on utility bills – FOX 2
LocalGov 🏛
- Homeless advocates voice concerns over changes to St. Louis County panhandling laws – FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
- Gov. Parson plans to lower state income taxes, some state Democrats say it’s not sustainable – KSDK
- Advocates sue to block Missouri voter photo ID law – stltoday.com
- Parson defends decision not to allow to-go option for summer meals program in Missouri – r/StLouis
FedGov 🏛
- Over $33 million paid out to address St. Louis-area flood damage so far – stltoday.com
- Here’s how much federal agencies paid out so far in recovery from July flooding – St. Louis Business Journal
- How do I know if I have a Pell Grant? – FOX 2
- Student loan forgiveness could help more than 40 million – FOX 2
Jobs 📄
History 🦕
Sustainability ♻️
- Raw data: Core inflation vs. food inflation – Kevin Drum
- Concrete made with shredded PPE gear offers up to 22% higher strength – New Atlas
Infrastructure 🚽
Ecology 🦤
- Learn to Monitor Streams With Illinois RiverWatch – RiverBender
- Up to 135 U.S. tree species face extinction—and just eight enjoy federal protection – Science Magazine
- Dugongs, Beloved Vegetarian ‘Mermaids,’ Declared Extinct Near China – Gizmodo
WWwx 🌦
- Shocking Photos Show China’s Historic Drought – Gizmodo
- Yangtze River Dries Up, Revealing 600-Year-Old Buddhist Statues – VICE US
- Scientists exposed plants to a yearlong drought. The result is worrying for climate change – Science Magazine
Twitter 🐦
- Ex-Twitter Security Chief Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko Files Blockbuster Whistleblower Report Over the Platform’s Security – Daring Fireball
- Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter’s Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk’s – Techdirt
Space 🚀
- SpaceX Says Falcon 9 Can Launch Future Starlink Satellites—a Sign Starship Is Far From Ready – Gizmodo
- Scientists Debunk Myth That Noise From NASA’s Powerful Saturn V Rocket Melted Concrete – Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
- Use Schlafly tartar sauce recipe for more than just fried fish – feastmagazine.com
- Easy Corn Dogs and Homemade Mustard Recipe – VICE US
- Using CSS Cascade Layers to Manage Custom Styles in a Tailwind Project – CSS-Tricks
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV – The Register
- GitLab ‘strongly recommends’ patching critical RCE vulnerability – BleepingComputer
- Plex forces password resets after database access incident – BleepingComputer
- Plex tells users to reset their passwords after potential data breach – Engadget
- Plex Asks Users to Reset Passwords Following Data Breach – MacRumors
- On Faith – ongoing by Tim Bray
- New Crosscamp Flex MPV becomes latest ultra-versatile electric RV – New Atlas
- Erik Prince’s new "secure" smartphone is an even bigger joke than it sounds – Boing Boing
- Jack Dorsey’s Other Company Hit With Lawsuit Over Alleged Negligent Data Security Practices – Gizmodo
