Thursday, August 11, 2022
Floods 🌊
- East St. Louis city leaders face obstacles with getting FEMA aid for flood victims – KSDK
- ‘People are really hurting’: FEMA searches for flood victims needing assistance – KSDK
- FEMA goes door to door in University City to help flood victims – FOX 2
- Gas, taxes, unemployment: New relief available to STL flood victims – FOX 2
Events 📆
- Butter Cow revealed for 2022 Illinois State Fair – FOX 2
BuySTL 👜
- $1.2B mixed-use project proposed downtown along Mississippi River – KSDK
- Large redevelopment proposed in Brentwood, and more: in the news – 40 South News
- $1.2B redevelopment could come to STL riverfront south of the Arch – FOX 2
- 1820s Bissell Mansion, longtime dinner theater venue, is for sale for $250,000 – stltoday.com
Restaurants 🍲
- Taco Buddha Is Coming to Kirkwood – RFT
- City Diner in St. Louis Has Closed – RFT
- How Taqueria Morita in the Central West End is taking tacos and more for a spin – St. Louis Magazine
STLfood ⚜️
- At Bijoux, the chocolates, not the décor, are the draw – St. Louis Magazine
- Butcher shops or markets in St. Louis area. – r/StLouis
STL100 💯
- In St. Louis, like a lot of midwestern cities, if you grew up in the region, you’re very likely still there when you’re 26. – The Morning News
STL99 😱
- One person taken to hospital after large Metro East warehouse fire – stltoday.com
- 5-alarm fire at recycling factory near Granite City contained, 1 injured – KSDK
- Destructive Interco Fire In Madison Update, Plus Drone Photos – RiverBender
- Multiple Units Battle Massive Blaze At Interco In Madison – RiverBender
- PHOTOS: Heavy flames from Metro East warehouse – FOX 2
- Radar shows heavy smoke in Metro East, up to 5,000 feet high – FOX 2
99MO 😱
- Missouri waterpark issues apology and video from racial incident – FOX 2
Police 🚓
- St. Charles police aim to help drivers through Lights On! program – FOX 2
DotGov 🏛
CityGov 🏛
- Detainee at St. Louis City Justice Center dies after being found unresponsive – KSDK
FedGov 🏛
- Trump Is Peddling a Conspiracy the FBI Planted Evidence at Mar-a-Lago – VICE US
- Surprise: U.S. Quest To Purge Chinese Gear From Domestic Networks Was A Sloppy Mess – Techdirt
- Countries that have been bombed by the United States since 1945 – Maps on the Web
Sustainability ♻️
Ecology 🦤
- Missouri River Conditions Improving, But Drought Persists – The Waterways Journal
WWwx 🌦
- "There is no more water in the pipes" — Facing extreme drought, over 100 municipalities in France have no drinking water – Boing Boing
- Rainwater Everywhere Now Considered Too Toxic for Safe Consumption, Study Finds – VICE US
Twitter 🐦
- Former Twitter worker convicted of helping Saudi Arabia spy on dissidents – Engadget
- West African Court Says Nigerian Government’s Seven-Month Twitter Ban Was Unlawful – Techdirt
- Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth $6.9b as Twitter lawsuit looms – The Register
Space 🚀
- Russian anti-satellite test added to a ‘pressing threat to security’ in space – The Register
- SpaceX successfully completes static fire test of Starship’s Super Heavy booster – Engadget
- SpaceX Launches 3,000th Starlink Satellite as Elon’s Internet Constellation Continues to Grow – Gizmodo
- FCC rejects Starlink request for nearly $900 million in broadband subsidies – Engadget
- Researcher Hacks Starlink Terminal to Warn SpaceX of Dangerous Flaws – Gizmodo
- SpaceX Performs Limited Static Fire Test of Starship Booster, Avoids Explosion – Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
- RECIPE: Chicken Salad from Nadine’s Hash House – feastmagazine.com
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- A rural guy who built his own ISP just to have decent service gets government funding to add more customers – Boing Boing
- Raw data: Inflationary episodes over the past 70 years – Kevin Drum
- Cloudflare Also Targeted by Hackers Who Breached Twilio – SecurityWeek
- NIST Post-Quantum Algorithm Finalist Cracked Using a Classical PC – SecurityWeek