Skip to contentSTL: Friday, October 21, 2022
Events 📆
BuySTL 👜
- 3 major manufacturing plants coming to the St. Louis area – KSDK
- $430M factory in south St. Louis will produce component of lithium batteries – FOX 2
- International company plans $400M electric battery factory in St. Louis – KSDK
- New $400M plant to support EV battery production slated for St. Louis’ Carondelet area – stltoday.com
- St. Louis-based manufacturing plant receives grant to build battery components – FOX 2
- Reports Say Tesla Leases Huge Nearly 700,000-Square-Foot Warehouse In Pontoon Beach For Future – RiverBender
- St. Louis company Build-A-Bear expands to cruises and online sales – stltoday.com
- Century-old St. Louis business to be sold to public company – KSDK
- Grant’s Farm, under family control, looks to boost attendance, be ‘self-sustaining’ – KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
- Lalo’s Grill & Pizza opens in Maryland Heights – St. Louis Magazine
- Taqueria Morita Will Move Into Winslow’s Table This Winter – RFT
- This St. Louis-area restaurant just won one of the nation’s biggest barbeque competitions. Here’s what comes next – KSDK
- Hi-Pointe Drive-In spinoff concept to open Sunday in Ballwin – FOX 2
- Hi-Pointe Drive-In spinoff opening this weekend in Ballwin – St. Louis Magazine
- Hi-Pointe’s spin-off concept, A Little Hi, will open Oct. 23 in Ballwin – feastmagazine.com
- Sweetie Pie’s auctioning off assets weeks after St. Louis restaurant closes doors – FOX 2
- Restaurants like The Fatted Calf? – r/StLouis
STLfood ⚜️
- Nestlé USA Announces Voluntary Recall of NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® STUFFED Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough with Fudge Filling Products – RiverBender
- What’s fresh at St. Louis-area farmers markets this week – feastmagazine.com
- The Chili Time of the Year – Good Food St. Louis
- Sugarwitch now open in Carondelet, featuring ice cream sandwiches and novelties, coffee and more – feastmagazine.com
- ‘Global Munchies’ Subscription Lets You Get Your Snack On – RFT
- Foodscaping is the new landscaping in St. Louis – KSDK
Neighborhoods 🏡
STL100 💯
- Stan Kroenke Loses a Chunk of The Money He Married Into – RFT
- Kroenke ordered to pay $571 million of Rams settlement – r/StLouis
- Two years after launching The Missouri Independent, we’re still detectives for the people – Missouri Independent
- 5 Missouri destinations make TripSavvy’s 2022 Editors’ Choice list – FOX 2
- JB Marine Receives AEU Safety Award – The Waterways Journal
- Missouri’s Elephant Rocks voted America’s 3rd favorite natural landmark – FOX 2
STL99 😱
- Corps to conduct further testing at contaminated school – FOX 2
- Hazelwood to close Jana Elementary School – stlamerican.com
- Jana Elementary parent describes years of stonewalling by the government – FOX 2
- US Army Corps to test Jana Elementary for radiation starting Monday – KSDK
- Gun safety education begins next week for some St. Louis schools – FOX 2
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- Here’s who is eligible and where to get the monkeypox vaccine in St. Louis region – KSDK
Police 🚓
- Alton Police Department Receives More Than $500,000 In Grant Funding – RiverBender
- Calverton Park Police Department partnering with car dealership to stop car thefts – FOX 2
- Illinois State Police Trooper Struck And Two Fatalities In Two Separate Scott’s Law Related Crashes Less Than An Hour Apart – RiverBender
- Local police chief facing drug charges after man overdoses, dies inside apartment – KSDK
- Missouri police chief, girlfriend face drug dealing charges – KSDK
- Small-town Missouri police chief, his girlfriend charged after overdose death at home – FOX 2
- St. Louis residents dig up remains after failed police search; department apologizes – stltoday.com
CityGov 🏛
LocalGov 🏛
- $30K COVID-19 mortgage relief reopened in Illinois – FOX 2
- Animal rescue advocate sues St. Louis County alleging illegal destruction of records – stltoday.com
- Kampsville Mayor Gibson, Village Clerk, Treasurer, Board Member, All Resign On October 17 – RiverBender
- St. Louis Public Schools, Confluence Academies to add gun safety lessons to curriculums – KSDK
MoGov 🏛
- What IDs are now accepted at Missouri polling places? – FOX 2
- Missouri district defends response to slavery petition – FOX 2
- Missouri Highway Patrol says it didn’t OK marijuana legalization ad featuring agency – stltoday.com
- Missouri knew of contamination in Springfield’s groundwater decades before anyone told residents – Missouri Independent
- Missouri officials look to shine light on tax issues affecting solar farms – stltoday.com
- Task force discusses how to resolve tax issues on Missouri solar farms – FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
- Federal judge dismisses Missouri’s challenge to Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan – stltoday.com
- Judge dismisses effort to halt student loan forgiveness plan – FOX 2
Jobs 📄
- Employment and Training Specialist I – Jobs
- MoDOT and IDOT facing staff shortages ahead of winter season – KSDK
- Who needs college? St. Louis-area students learn about construction trades at expo – stltoday.com
History 🦕
- New views of St. Louis from the International Space Station – FOX 2
- Origins of waste: St. Louis’ role in The Manhattan Project – FOX 2
- What St. Louis looked like at the turn of the 20th Century – r/StLouis
Sustainability ♻️
- Who can pay for flood buyouts in the St. Louis region? Not us, says MSD – stltoday.com
- How the Mississippi River is impacting the economy – KSDK
- Low water level in Mississippi is dream for some, nightmare for others – FOX 2
Infrastructure 🚽
- Constellation NewEnergy Announced as New Electricity Program Supplier – RiverBender
- City of Wood River Renews Municipal Electricity Aggregation Program With New Supplier, Constellation NewEnergy – RiverBender
- Godfrey Mayor Mike McCormick Urges Residents To Stay With Electricity Aggregation Program – RiverBender
Ecology 🦤
- Lesser-known Missouri fruit is thought to predict winter weather severity – FOX 2
- The Invasive Joro Spider Is Getting Cozy in the U.S. – HowStuffWorks
- Is the Spotted Lanternfly Takeover Inevitable? – Gizmodo
- Why do mosquitos attack some folks and ignore others? Science has an answer – Boing Boing
WWwx 🌦
- Meanwhile, Antarctica’s snow is turning green – Freethink
