Skip to contentSTL: Saturday, September 3, 2022
Events 📆
- Greek festival in the Central West End this weekend – FOX 2
- Today in St. Louis’ favorite events for Labor Day weekend – KSDK
- Many events in St. Louis kick off for the Labor Day weekend – FOX 2
- Mississippi Earthtones Festival Just Days Away – RiverBender
- Alton Amphitheater Announces Entertainment Lineup and Other Alton Expo Info – RiverBender
BuySTL 👜
- Controversial Developer Linked to New Apartment Proposal in the Loop – RFT
- Joe Edwards reflects on 50 years at Blueberry Hill and more – St. Louis Magazine
- Ruler Foods Grocery Giveaway: Comment-to-Win Sweepstakes – KSDK
- St. Louis company wants to expand Missouri energy projects that use pig waste – stltoday.com
Restaurants 🍲
- St. Louis Standards: Ruiz Is a North-County Tradition – RFT
- Sedara Sweets & Ice Cream to open second location in Manchester – feastmagazine.com
- Mac’s Tests New Breakfast Menu With Party Bus Visit, Will Soon Have It Available – RiverBender
STLfood ⚜️
- St. Louis breweries showed signs of recovery last year. Here’s what’s driving it. – KSDK
- Enjoy Missouri’s best cheeseburger in Brentwood, Yelp says – FOX 2
- Good morning Donut Lovers! Here’s the latest episode of the STL Donut Tour! – r/StLouis
Neighborhoods 🏡
STL100 💯
- Jaw-Dropping Playground Coming to St. Louis Area – RFT
- St. Louis County family takes in children after their parents died – FOX 2
STL99 😱
- If you’re in St. Louis County, don’t put your mail in the blue post boxes – KSDK
- Byers’ Beat: How a 1990s car theft problem has come back to haunt the St. Louis area – KSDK
- Gas leak prompts evacuation in a south St. Louis neighborhood – FOX 2
- Free lunches threatened at St. Louis Catholic schools after memo – FOX 2
99MO 😱
- Man caught with 10 undocumented immigrants on I-70 in St. Peters – FOX 2
WW99 😱
- ‘I Am a Victim’ Cries Ex-First Lady, Famous for Luxury Bags, as She’s Convicted of Corruption – VICE US
- Undeclared pools in France uncovered by AI technology – Hacker News
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- COVID tests end today at North Central Community Health Center – FOX 2
- Monkeypox cases climbing in Missouri as local health officials scramble to get vaccine to those at risk – stltoday.com
- Pharma Startup President Convicted in $77 Million Fake Covid Testing Scheme – Gizmodo
Police 🚓
- Officers help woman give birth in Glen Carbon, Illinois – FOX 2
- Fog Revealed: A guided tour of how cops can browse your location data – Hacker News
- US police agencies have been using a low-cost surveillance tool to track people’s phones – Engadget
- Exposé on local police’s use of Fog Reveal, a platform for mass-surveillance of small-town America – Boing Boing
- Appeals Court: No Immunity For School Cop Who Assaulted A Student Over Perceived Disrespect – Techdirt
DotGov 🏛
- Authorities are quite interested in a voting machine that showed up at Goodwill and later was sold on eBay – Boing Boing
CityGov 🏛
LocalGov 🏛
- St. Louis County Exec Nominee Does Hokey Pokey and Drops Out (Again) – RFT
- Pinner drops out as GOP candidate for St. Louis County Executive – KSDK
- St. Louis County Republican Party chair responds to candidate officially dropping out of the executive race – FOX 2
- Whiplash: Katherine Pinner flip-flops back out of St. Louis County executive race – stltoday.com
- South County lawmaker sues newspaper over ‘slanderous statements’ – KSDK
- Garbage trucks sit abandoned while University City residents’ flooded trash remains untouched – FOX 2
- Rockwood removes director from committee for ‘hateful comments’ – FOX 2
- Rockwood School District BOE Member Jessica Laurent Clark’s "Sugarbaby Boot Camp" video – r/StLouis
MoGov 🏛
- Federal report shows Missouri Medicaid application wait times among worst in nation – Missouri Independent
- Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt seeks journalism school records – FOX 2
- Missouri attorney general seeks journalism school records – stltoday.com
FedGov 🏛
- Biden: Trump’s influence on Republicans ‘a threat to this country’ – FOX 2
- The FBI found an awful lot of empty folders marked “Classified” at Mar-a-Lago – Kevin Drum
- White House Bans Paywalls on Taxpayer-Funded Research – Hacker News
- Biden Finally Understands the MAGA Threat. Why Can’t the Media? – VICE US
- Although it is the first world economic power, the US is one of… – Maps on the Web
Jobs 📄
- Zoning Specialist (Lead) – Jobs
- MoDOT, IDOT hiring for winter – FOX 2
- Chart of the day: Net new jobs in August – Kevin Drum
- California Passes Law Requiring Companies to Post Salary Ranges on Job Listings – Hacker News
History 🦕
- Sept. 2, 1945: Surrender on the battleship Missouri, the end to World War II, and a prayer for peace – stltoday.com
Sustainability ♻️
- Clean coal and carbon capture and storage is a non-solution – Global Energy
- Solar panel recommendations – r/StLouis
- A deeper dive into World Wide Wind’s colossal, contra-rotating turbines – New Atlas
- Making Batteries Out of Crab Shells May Be a Great Idea – Gizmodo
Infrastructure 🚽
- As heat wave grips Western states, officials warn of blackouts – Grist
WWwx 🌦
- Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year? – Hacker News
WWW99 🕸
- 1 in 4 Gen Z-ers plan to become social media influencers – Hacker News
- Cloud-Based Smart Home Gadgets Keep Getting Bricked Because You No Longer Own What You Buy – Techdirt
Twitter 🐦
- The Morning After: Twitter’s edit button is real – Engadget
- Mastodon still can’t replace Twitter – Hacker News
Space 🚀
- Artemis I Will Attempt Second Moon Launch on Saturday – HowStuffWorks
DIY 🪓
- I make engraved wooden maps of cities all over the world as art and I recently finished YOUR city St. Louis! Here’s how I did it. – r/StLouis
- Using a Raspberry Pi as a Bluetooth Speaker with PipeWire – Hacker News
- OpenStreetMap Shortest Route Finder – Hacker News
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Raw data: Where our memes come from – Kevin Drum
- Samsung discloses data breach after July hack – BleepingComputer
- Samsung says hackers obtained some customer data in newly disclosed breach – Engadget
- Amazon fails to overturn New York City union election – The Register
- Google Blocks Truth Social from the Play Store – Will Apple Be Next? – Hacker News
- Claris Is Renaming FileMaker – Daring Fireball
