By JW | Mon, 07/18/2022 - 01:14

STL: Monday, July 18, 2022

Events 📆

  • The Best Things To Do In St. Louis During The Week, July 14 to July 20 – RFT

BuySTL 👜

  • Startup Evolution St. Louis Falls Weeks Behind on Payroll – RFT
  • Gov. Parson signing $15M manufacturing bill in St. Louis – KSDK
  • Union recommends rejecting Boeing defense labor contract in St. Louis – stltoday.com
  • Illinois couple discovered an herbal mosquito remedy. Now they sell it. – stltoday.com
  • New owner rehabs former Stone Spiral building, plans new café – 40 South News
  • $2.2 million entertainment venue, district coming to downtown Granite City – KSDK

    Restaurants 🍲

  • St. Louis Standards: Frank Papa’s Is a Storied Local Treasure – RFT
  • Review: One Serving Is Never Enough At St. Louis’ Eat Duckbill – RFT
  • Highest-rated seafood restaurants in St. Louis, according to Tripadvisor – FOX 2

STLfood ⚜️

Neighborhoods 🏡

STL99 😱

  • Rabbit rescues, bunny wranglers overloaded with abandoned pets around St. Louis – stltoday.com
  • Dog behavior expert offers tips on how to protect yourself from dog attacks – KSDK
  • Business owners say reckless driving is a major issue on South Grand – KSDK
  • Man says he’s out hundreds of dollars after rodents damage his car, and he’s not alone – KSDK
  • Pedestrian struck, killed in south St. Louis hit-and-run – FOX 2
  • Syphilis rates soar in city, STL County – stlamerican.com
  • McKee faces federal lawsuit for use of Homer G. Phillips’ name – stlamerican.com

STL100 💯

  • International Institute supports Afghan refugees with free phones and tablets – KSDK
  • Nonprofit Executive Director excited about future supermarket coming to north St. Louis County – KSDK
  • Jeopardy! 3-day champ is this St. Louis area assistant band director – KSDK
  • Habitat for Humanity of St. Charles County overcomes housing market woes to help families – KSDK
  • St. Louis’ Jason Spencer Takes Top Prize at Illustrated World Series – RFT
  • Mehlville band teacher becomes Jeopardy Champion – FOX 2

99MO 😱

  • "I know I did the right thing": A customer shot and killed an armed robber at a St. Charles QuikTrip – KSDK
  • Oh, Missouri, you continue to be such an embarrassment. – r/StLouis
  • Can pregnant women get divorced in Missouri? – FOX 2

WW99 😱

  • Raw data: Inflation around the world – Kevin Drum

Police 🚓

  • New agency on St. Louis police misconduct OK’d despite officer groups’ opposition – stltoday.com
  • Ex-FBI agent tapped to head new St. Louis agency to probe police misconduct – stltoday.com
  • ‘Hammered’ Police Chief Gets Hug, Ride, No Drunk Driving Charges – RFT
  • Police, officials remain mum on video of ‘hammered drunk’ Hazelwood police chief – stltoday.com
  • Arizona Makes It Illegal To Record Cops From Less Than Eight Feet Away – Techdirt
  • Court Denies Immunity To Child Protection Workers Who Allowed An NYPD Officer To Abuse His Son To Death – Techdirt
  • Vallejo PD Takes So Long To Investigate Officers, They Often Kill Again Before Their First Investigations Are Closed – Techdirt
  • Boston’s New Police Boss Was Once Mistaken for a Suspect and Beaten by Officers – VICE US
  • Prosecutors Can’t Stop Police From Investigating Abortions, Even if They Want To – VICE US
  • Police Inquiry Hears Officers Said Victims Were ‘Too Ugly to Be Raped’ – VICE US
  • Amazon admits police get Ring camera footage without owners’ consent or a warrant – Boing Boing

DotGov 🏛

  • Indiana Now Investigating Doctor Who Gave 10-Year-Old Rape Victim an Abortion – VICE US

    CityGov 🏛

  • In St. Louis’ booming Grove area, aldermanic courtesy has become a hurdle to development – r/StLouis
  • Jones signals support for Cortex as St. Louis tech district faces uncertainty over incentives – stltoday.com
  • St. Louis Board of Alderman pass bill to use federal funds for reproductive health care – KSDK
  • New legislation passed gives St. Louis Circuit Attorney more power to investigate police – FOX 2
  • ‘A huge disaster’: St. Louis trash complaints on pace to set a record this year – stltoday.com
  • St. Louis City: Your Weird-Tasting Tap Water Is Funky but Fine – RFT
  • St. Louis Water Division aims to solve smelly water problem – FOX 2

    LocalGov 🏛

  • Manchester Mayor responds to the annexation flyer – FOX 2
  • St. Charles County Prosecutor fights to keep his driver’s license – FOX 2
  • Missing jail death report has family fearing a cover-up – FOX 2
  • New suicide hotline number, 988, sees increase in Missouri callers – KSDK
  • New 3-digit suicide prevention hotline number to launch Saturday – FOX 2

    MoGov 🏛

  • Thousands file gas tax refund claims with Missouri Department of Revenue – KSDK
  • Parson says doctors, not ‘bureaucrats and attorneys’, should decide what’s life-threatening during pregnancy – KSDK
  • Nicole Galloway reflects on tenure as Missouri Auditor – FOX 2
  • Missouri governor rejects special session on birth control, ectopic pregnancies – stltoday.com
  • Fines for Missouri polluters to be hidden from public under law backed by Parson – stltoday.com
  • Missouri charter school funding fix should pave path forward – Missouri Independent

    FedGov 🏛

  • Same-sex marriage and contraception at risk after abortion ruling, U.S. House panel told – Missouri Independent
  • U.S. House passes bill expanding health care, benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits – Missouri Independent
  • Why $52b chip subsidies are being held up – and what the White House is doing about it – The Register
  • Jury convicts ex-CIA engineer for leaking the agency’s hacking toolset – Engadget
  • Why The GOP Wants To Break Your Spam Filter: GOP Candidate Tricked Gullible Voters Into Funding Him With Misleading Spam Emails – Techdirt
  • Microsoft Mapped Broadband Affordability Gaps Because The U.S. Government Couldn’t Be Bothered To – Techdirt
  • Joe Manchin Is Once Again Setting Climate Hopes on Fire – Gizmodo
  • Republicans Didn’t Dismantle Roe Alone. Plenty of Democrats Helped Too. – VICE US
  • Every Single House Republican Voted Against Investigating Neo-Nazis in the Military – VICE US
  • Ex-CIA Hacker Convicted for ‘One of the Most Damaging Acts of Espionage in American History’ – VICE US
  • The Journalism Competition Preservation Act Is Lose-Lose Legislation – Techdirt

Pox Populi 🦠

  • BA.5 COVID variant spreading around St. Louis area, across the country – KSDK
  • How Often Is Long Covid Happening? The Answer Isn’t So Easy to Find – Gizmodo
  • Missouri sees steep rise in syphilis cases, especially among women and babies – stltoday.com
  • First probable case of monkeypox reported in St. Clair County – KSDK
  • St. Clair County announces probable monkeypox case – FOX 2
  • What It’s Actually Like to Have Monkeypox – VICE US

Jobs 📄

  • Dozens of companies to attend Maryland Heights job fair – KSDK

History 🦕

  • July 14, 1954: The hottest day St. Louis has ever seen – stltoday.com
  • Forgotten history: 75 years ago, two St. Louis Browns became the 3rd and 4th Black players in MLB – KSDK
  • Bicyclists, historians will honor 1897 trek of Black soldiers with Forest Park celebration – stltoday.com
  • The day the president – and the world – got a stunning view of the flood of 1993 – stltoday.com

DIY 🪓

  • A temperature-sensing Pac-Man/Ghost LED matrix for retro gamers – Arduino Blog
  • This device detects different household sounds through tinyML – Arduino Blog

Sustainability ♻️

  • LEFT WONDERING: Do Electric Vehicles Really Move The Climate Needle? – The Lever
  • Copper shortage keep green energy, tech ventures grounded – The Register
  • The Western Drought Is Getting Weird – Gizmodo
  • A Copper Shortage Is Likely Coming for the Energy Transition – Gizmodo
  • As alarm over plastic grows, Saudis ramp up production in the US – Grist

    Infrastructure 🚽

  • North Carolina Republicans Push Bill Forcing Towns To Destroy Electric Car Chargers – Techdirt
  • Watch studio lights go out on Texas weatherman as he’s reporting that the heat is impacting power usage – Boing Boing
  • Panasonic Is Building Its Next Big Tesla Battery Factory in Kansas – Gizmodo

    Ecology 🦤

  • Missouri ranchers say they need more rain soon to avoid drastic steps – KSDK
  • Weekend rain chances would benefit region amid growing drought concerns – FOX 2
  • Missouri officials ramping up response to emerging drought – stltoday.com
  • European lawmakers declared natural gas ‘green.’ Now they may face lawsuits. – Grist

Twitter 🐦

  • Good news: Twitter fell over. Bad news: It’s working again – The Register
  • Twitter and Elon Musk have their first court hearing on July 19th – Engadget
  • Twitter suffers worldwide outage – Engadget
  • SEC Letter Questions If Musk Was Actually Serious About Buying Twitter – Gizmodo
  • Here’s Why Twitter Says They Were Offline – Gizmodo

Space 🚀

  • St. Louis enjoying long-duration, evening Space Station flyovers this week – FOX 2
  • Watch Live as SpaceX Attempts Its 25th Cargo Mission to the Space Station – Gizmodo
  • Mars helicopter to take a breather, recharge batteries – The Register
  • Weirdly Slow Radio Burst in Space Is ‘Like a Heartbeat’ – Gizmodo
  • Head of Russian Space Agency Threatens to Withhold Access to New ISS Robotic Arm – Gizmodo
  • Compare images from NASA’s new space telescope with those from Hubble – Boing Boing

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

  • Torvalds: Linux kernel team has sorted Retbleed chip flaw – The Register
  • Thousands of websites run buggy WordPress plugin that allows complete takeover – The Register
  • Crypto lender Celsius in Chapter 11 deep freeze – The Register
  • Linux Mint 21 hits beta, and it’s looking fresh – The Register
  • TikTok’s global security chief is stepping down amid US user data controversy – Engadget
  • Crypto lending giant Celsius files for bankruptcy – Engadget
  • How to do a schema markup audit – Search Engine Land
  • D-Wave’s 500-Qubit Machine Hits the Cloud – ACM
  • Paperwork Suggests Donald Trump Has Left The Board Of His ‘Tech’ Company; But Truth Social Says He’s Still There – Techdirt
  • NSO Group Hacking Prompts Apple To Add A ‘Lockdown Mode’ To Its Devices – Techdirt
  • Celsius Owes $4.7 Billion to Users But Doesn’t Have Money to Pay Them – Gizmodo
  • Heinz Made French Fry Spoons So You Can Maximize Your Problematic Carb Loading – Gizmodo
  • Heinz now has spoon fries – Boing Boing
  • Big Publishers Are Putting The Internet Archive On Trial – VICE US
  • Twitch streamer’s collection of 724 Nintendo manuals uploaded to Internet Archive – Boing Boing
  • Game tool company Unity announces $4.4bn merger with former malware bundler – Boing Boing
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