STL: Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Events 📆
- Weekly Events Thread 12/6/21 - r/stlouis
- 14th Annual Gateway Blues Festival Returns To Stifel Theatre In March - RiverBender
BuySTL 👜
Restaurants 🍲
- Restaurant updates: VP Square and ReVoaked Sandwiches have closed - stltoday.com
- Best Chinese in STL…. - r/StLouis
- Bakeries in St. Louis that offer the perfect holiday cookies - St. Louis Magazine
DIY 🪓
- Downloads for free 3D models for 3D printers - Cults
- Homemade Ooey Gooey Butter Cake - Just A Pinch Recipes
Sustainability ♻️
- Missouri cement plants scramble to cut greenhouse gases. ‘These are the steps that we need to take now.’ - stltoday.com
- Striking NASA Animation Shows Dirty Truth About Ocean Plastic - Gizmodo
STL99 😱
- Bi-State implements new security measures following the shooting of Metro bus driver - FOX 2
- Our Commitment to MetroBus Safety & Security - BSD
- Kindergartener and second-grader brought guns to St. Louis schools last week - stltoday.com
- 1,000 Ring cameras donated to St. Louis organization to empower domestic violence survivors - KSDK
99MO 😱
- A second-grader showed off a loaded gun at recess, police say. Then classmates told a teacher. - National
- 42 dogs rescued from 'Horrible 100' puppy breeder in southern Missouri - KSDK
100MO 💯
- Missouri's Long Wait for Adult Use Cannabis Could End in 2022 - Riverfront Times
Crime 🗯
- Eureka just made 'handle flipping' illegal to curb car break-ins - FOX 2
- Person of interest in custody after shooting of Metro bus driver - FOX 2
- Person of interest in shooting of MetroBus driver taken into custody, Major Case Squad says - KSDK
- St. Louis Police searching for a van that may be connected to a homicide - FOX 2
Police 🚓
- Former St. Louis police officer admits to lying about private security hours worked - KSDK
- Former St. Louis officer made $50K for unworked security hours - FOX 2
DotGov 🏛
CityGov 🏛
- St. Louis city counselor OKs ward redistricting plan - stltoday.com
- Commission taps longtime employee as interim director of St. Louis personnel department - stltoday.com
- RFQ for Marketing and Branding - City of St. Louis Procurement Opportunities
- Liquor License Application Hearings - Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
LocalGov 🏛
- St. Louis County Council considers measure to make cost of political appointees transparent - stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri Attorney General tells schools, health departments to end COVID orders - Missouri Independent
- Missouri attorney general demands local governments, school districts end health orders after court ruling - stltoday.com
- Missouri AG threatens to sue school districts, health departments for enforcing mask mandates - FOX 2
- Missouri governor proposes $15 minimum pay for state workers - stltoday.com
- Missouri lawmaker wants to merge St. Louis prosecutor offices, return city police to state control - stltoday.com
FedGov 🏛
- White House Mocks Idea of Mailing Every American Free Covid-19 Tests - Gizmodo
- U.S. judge blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors - stltoday.com
Covid19 Info 🦠
- St. Louis task force holds COVID-19 briefing as hospitalizations continue to trend up - KSDK
Captain's Blog 🏴☠️
- Amazon Web Services are down, taking huge parts of internet offline - FOX 2
- AWS Outage Grinds Amazon Warehouses and Deliveries to a Halt - VICE US
- MyCryptoWallet Collapses and Leaves Bitcoin Traders Stranded: Report - Gizmodo
- Parade of planets visible in the night sky this week - FOX 2
- Musician Impressively Plays His Bass Like a Banjo - Laughing Squid
- Do we live in a “post-outrage” world? - Marginal REVOLUTION
- Watch: Unaired pilot of The Big Money, a 1966 game show hosted by Monty Hall - Boing Boing
- Watch Dolly Parton's classy responses to Barbara Walters' subtly insulting questions (1977) - Boing Boing
- Bing Local Store Search For Inventory & More - Search Engine Roundtable
- The curious history of American Chinese food - Boing Boing