By JW | Tue, 12/07/2021 - 17:04

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 👜

  • McArthur's Bakery smiley face cookies now at Schnucks - KSDK
  • St. Louis Gift Ideas - EQ

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 🪓

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 🏛

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