Skip to contentSTL: Thursday, September 8, 2022
Events 📆
- Look for the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile in the Metro East this weekend – FOX 2
- A guide to navigating Music at the Intersection – St. Louis Magazine
- The Chase celebrates 100 years with old-school glitzy dinner – St. Louis Magazine
- More than a flea market, Vintage Market Days is a three-day shopping experience – St. Louis Magazine
- Bike MS’s 2022 Gateway Getaway Ride Takes Off Sept. 10-11 – RiverBender
BuySTL 👜
- Bye bye, Bread Co. | St. Louis-based café chain announces Panera rebrand for some locations – KSDK
- St. Louis Bread Co. sign replaced in O’Fallon, more could be changed – FOX 2
- UPDATED: Bread Co. Betrays Us, Changes Name to Panera in Some Metro St. Louis Locations – RFT
- Developer pitches 67-acre entertainment destination along Mississippi riverfront, with marina, water park and themed hotels – St. Louis Business Journal
- Former North Shore Golf site near Interstate 270 eyed for marina, hotels – stltoday.com
- Procter & Gamble plans $180 million investment in north St. Louis factory – stltoday.com
- Peabody Energy to stay in downtown St. Louis – stltoday.com
- What Medical Marijuana dispensary in St. Louis has the best prices? – r/StLouis
Restaurants 🍲
- Layla, a Beloved Grove Mainstay, Has Closed – RFT
- Chess-themed local diner opens smaller concept – KSDK
- The Piccadilly at Manhattan crafts a show-stopping seafood pot pie – feastmagazine.com
- What’s your best middle eastern restaraunt? – r/StLouis
STLfood ⚜️
- What’s fresh at St. Louis-area farmers markets this week – feastmagazine.com
- Volpi Foods celebrates its 120th anniversary – FOX 2
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Inside the North St. Louis Rec Center That Built Jayson Tatum – RFT
STL100 💯
STL99 😱
- 5 hour long standoff between police and suspect turns fatal – FOX 2
- Catalytic converter thief sentenced to prison and $46,000 in restitution – FOX 2
- Denny’s worker shoots manager during tardiness meeting – FOX 2
- Man shot in south St. Louis after checking on car alarm – FOX 2
- Hanley Hills man accused of animal abuse has been dog fighting for 30 years, charges say – stltoday.com
- Does anyone actually like living in St. Louis? – r/StLouis
99MO 😱
- Elected officials, police chiefs on leaked Oath Keepers list – stltoday.com
WW99 😱
- By the end of 2022, China will have stashed away 65% of the world’s corn and 53% of its wheat, for fear of a food crisis. – The Morning News
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- SSM health expert talks about new COVID-19 booster – FOX 2
- Scientists discovered two antibodies that beat all known COVID-19 strains with more than 90% efficacy – Boing Boing
DotGov 🏛
- Virginia Court Rejects Prior Restraint, Says Old Law Used In Attempt To Ban Books Is Unconstitutional – Techdirt
CityGov 🏛
- St. Louis leaders say top spending categories for $500 stimulus were food, utilities and gas – KSDK
- Mayor Tishaura O. Jones, Treasurer Adam Layne, Joined by DCA Participants, Highlight Program’s Positive Impact on More than 9,000 St. Louis Working Families – City of St. Louis – News
- RFB Janitorial Supplies – City of St. Louis
- RFB Paper, Bond, Data Processing – City of St. Louis
LocalGov 🏛
- St. Louis County Executive announces $5.4 million Airport Road improvement project Wednesday – KSDK
- $5.4 million invested for Airport Road upgrades in north St. Louis County – FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri Senate hopefuls spar over debates, with press association forum set for next week – Missouri Independent
- Missouri secretary of state throws support behind controversial election theory – stltoday.com
- Missouri Secretary of State Supports Controversial Election Theory – RFT
- Democrats mine Missouri attorney general’s office for information on Hawley – stltoday.com
FedGov 🏛
- ATF offers reward after group steals 50 guns from local stores – stltoday.com
- Taking CHIPS Act cash? You’re banned from planting advanced fabs on Chinese soil – The Register
- Steve Bannon Says Authorities ‘Will Have to Kill Me,’ But He’s About to Turn Himself In – VICE US
- WaPo: Documents about foreign nation’s nuclear defenses among those seized from Donald Trump’s Florida compound – Boing Boing
- DEA Continues To Be The QAnon Of Drug Enforcement, Pretends Colorful Fentanyl Is Dealers Trying To Kill Children – Techdirt
Sustainability ♻️
- Talking trash: We don’t have to treat our farms like landfills – Missouri Independent
- Carbon capture has a long history. Of failure. – Global Energy
- What’s the true cost of an induction stove? – Grist
- Scientists pull hydrogen from thin air in promising clean energy move – The Register
- Hydrogen battery startup says it has $700M order backlog – Hacker News
Infrastructure 🚽
- America’s electric utilities spent decades spreading climate misinformation – Grist
Ecology 🦤
- Bugged by bugs: Insects swarming in late Summer wet and warmth – FOX 2
- You’ve Been Thinking of Australian Mammals All Wrong – Gizmodo
WWW99 🕸
- Ukraine dismantles more bot farms spreading Russian disinformation – BleepingComputer
- Nextdoor is trying to prevent neighbors from arguing about the midterms – Engadget
- Facebook engineers: we have no idea where we keep all your personal data – Hacker News
- Can We Save A Truly Global Internet? – Techdirt
- Reddit Is Changing the Way You Navigate Your Feeds – Gizmodo
- Google’s CEO Continues Hinting at Company Cuts – Gizmodo
Twitter 🐦
- Elon Musk can use whistleblower claims to try to get out of Twitter deal, judge rules – Engadget
- Elon Musk Denied Trial Delay in Delaware Court – Gizmodo
- Twitter is making Birdwatch, its crowd-sourced fact checks, much more prominent – Engadget
- Twitter will let you edit your tweets up to five times in 30 minutes – Engadget
Space 🚀
- SpaceX Rival Loses Hundreds of Millions Over Cancelled Russian Launches – Gizmodo
- NASA Opts to Fix Megarocket Hydrogen Leak at the Launch Pad – Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Corn Kid named South Dakota’s cornbassador – Boing Boing
- Apple debuts iPhone 14, Watch 8, other sparkly things – The Register
- Toilet Paper Company Sues Rival for Selling Very Long Roll – VICE US
- The Chess World Is Absolutely Losing It Over Cheating Allegations After Massive Upset – VICE US
- A look at how the German propaganda machine spun D-Day – Boing Boing
- Further Thoughts On Cloudflare And Infrastructure Moderation – Techdirt
- Examining Black flight: why Black families have been absconding from cities for decades. – The Morning News
