STL: Sunday, September 11, 2022
Events 📆
- The Best Things To Do in St. Louis During the Week, September 8 to September 14 – RFT
- Haunted houses opening for the 2022 season near St. Louis – FOX 2
- Alton Halloween Parade Date For 2022 Confirmed Back To October 31 – RiverBender
BuySTL 👜
- St. Louis-based appliance parts distributor hires execs for new unit – St. Louis Business Journal
- St. Louis small business owner gets results after waiting for city lifeline – FOX 2
- Bluff City Outdoors Opens State-of-the-Art Archery Center – RiverBender
- Investment firm to Build-A-Bear board: Buy back stock or resign – stltoday.com
- Coffeestamp opens a second location at Washington University in St. Louis – feastmagazine.com
- Webster Groves coffee shop named among Yelp’s Top 100 in US – FOX 2
- Lion’s Choice launches new “Educational Bonus Program” for employees – FOX 2
Restaurants 🍲
- Blueberry Hill celebrates 50 years of business in Delmar Loop – FOX 2
- Delmar Loop landmark Blueberry Hill celebrates 50th anniversary – stltoday.com
- St. Louis Restaurant Openings and Closings: August 2022 – RFT
- Review: Salve Osteria Dazzles With Mediterranean-Inspired Dishes – RFT
- Winnie’s Wine Bar opens in Lafayette Square – St. Louis Magazine
- Father-and-son duo serves up brunch fare at Hatch’d STL in south St. Louis – feastmagazine.com
- Taco Buddha: Fusion at Its Best – Good Food St. Louis
- Tabitha Craig-Robinson and Tab’s Cafe In Alton Prepare For "A Dream Come True Moment" – RiverBender
- Landlords pursue restaurant Layla at Grove, Webster Groves locations – KSDK
STLfood ⚜️
- St. Louis Standards: LeGrand’s Market & Catering Has What the People Love – RFT
- Joe Luckey of Fordo’s Killer Pizza dishes on dough and creative pizza toppings – feastmagazine.com
- Frozen Imo’s Pizza coming to area grocery stores – FOX 2
- Imo’s will sell frozen pizzas at area grocery stores – stltoday.com
- Imo’s to offer frozen pizza in St. Louis retail stores and 13 other states – KSDK
- Food prices going up? Don’t blame the grocery stores, says expert – stltoday.com
Neighborhoods 🏡
- WPLNA MEETING on Tuesday 9/13/22 at 7:00pm – West Pine Laclede Neighborhood Association
STL100 💯
- For St. Louis Foxes, a Happy Ending Thanks to Wildlife Rescue Center – RFT
- St. Louis native premiered featured film in south county – FOX 2
- City Hope St. Louis helps to combat the rise in homelessness across region – FOX 2
- Awarding $10,000 To Artists: Alton Main Street/Jacoby Arts Center Announce Mural Grant Program – RiverBender
- Grab your kayak! Dardenne Blueway is expanding, linking parks in the St. Charles area – KSDK
STL99 😱
- Drivers in this city do not care about safety. This is only what happened today. – r/StLouis
- Recently arrested St. Louis, Missouri, dogfighter Brian Maclin told police he’s been fighting dogs for 30 years. – r/StLouis
99MO 😱
- Agape Boarding School should be closed. New Missouri AG filing says abuse is systemic – stltoday.com
- Hearing to determine if Missouri boarding school will close – stltoday.com
- Court order would close Agape Boarding School after years of abuse allegations – Missouri Independent
WW99 😱
- Christian Missionaries Are Turning to the Gospel of Bitcoin in Latin America – Gizmodo
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- Percent of adult population currently experiencing long COVID.by… – Maps on the Web
- Self-assembling molecules suffocate cancer cells within hours – New Atlas
Police 🚓
- A Private Policing Company in St. Louis Is Staffed With Top Police Department Officers – ProPublica
- St. Louis’ Private Police Forces Make Security a Luxury of the Rich – ProPublica
- St. Louis’ private police forces make security a luxury of the rich – stltoday.com
- A private policing company in St. Louis is staffed with top police department officers – stltoday.com
- St. Louis County officers to move to 12-hour shifts starting Christmas day to combat officer shortage – KSDK
- Yet Another Data Broker Found To Give Massive Amounts Of Location Info To Law Enforcement – Techdirt
- What Is ‘Fog Reveal,’ the Police App Tracking Your Phone? – Gizmodo
DotGov 🏛
- Congress.gov API – Hacker News
- Age of Democracy by country in uninterrupted number of years.by… – Maps on the Web
CityGov 🏛
- City of St. Louis ends Fiscal Year 2022 with $49 million surplus – City of St. Louis – News
- St. Louis says it’s recycling despite viewer video – FOX 2
- RFQs related to North St. Louis City Commercial Corridors Program – Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
- Lighthouse Point on the Mississippi River may add to the Zoo’s plans – FOX 2
- Decision to create entertainment destination in North City is in Port Authority’s hands – r/StLouis
- Developer sees ‘huge opportunity’ in North City riverfront plans – KSDK
LocalGov 🏛
- First charter school in St. Louis County opens in the Normandy district – stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
- Jay Ashcroft clarifies position in high-profile U.S. Supreme Court election case – Missouri Independent
- MoDOT says safety training was ignored before fatal work zone crash – FOX 2
- Recreational pot petition will stay on Missouri ballot; judge rules – FOX 2
- Lawsuit on recreational pot in Missouri nears end – FOX 2
- Lawsuit on recreational pot in Missouri nears end – stltoday.com
- Lawsuit on Missouri recreational pot ballot measure nears end – KSDK
- Judge tosses lawsuit targeting Missouri recreational marijuana question – stltoday.com
- Judge dismisses lawsuit that sought to block Missouri marijuana legalization from ballot – Missouri Independent
- Judge rules recreational marijuana stay on Missouri ballot – FOX 2
- Hearing on Missouri marijuana initiative scrutinizes unprecedented signature process – Missouri Independent
FedGov 🏛
- New disaster recovery center in south St. Louis opens to help flood victims – FOX 2
- FEMA to open in St. Louis in response to flooding – FOX 2
- FEMA adds south St. Louis disaster recovery center – stltoday.com
- St. Louis-area flood victims can apply for FEMA relief funds until Oct. 7 – stltoday.com
- St. Louis Residents Can Apply for FEMA Assistance through Oct. 7 – RFT
- The Navy Is Withholding Court Records in a High-Profile Ship Fire Case – ProPublica
- GOP balks at White House request for billions for public health, natural disasters, Ukraine – Missouri Independent
- Bill codifying same-sex marriage nears critical vote in U.S. Senate – Missouri Independent
- The TSA Is Hot Garbage. And We Will Never Be Rid Of It. – Techdirt
- Trump special master ruling ‘troubling,’ legal experts say – FOX 2
- Trump may have more classified documents in his possession, say prosecutors – Boing Boing
- Steve Bannon’s Criminal Nightmare Just Got Very Real – VICE US
- US seeks standards dominance, lets Huawei access previously forbidden crypto tech – The Register
Jobs 📄
- Intake Specialist – APA Adoption Center
History 🦕
- Maplewood house historically known as Woodside is for sale – 40 South News
- The ‘Piasa Bird’ still sits on Mississippi bluffs after centuries – FOX 2
- Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II dies at 96 – FOX 2
Sustainability ♻️
- What Will California’s 2035 Ban of Internal Combustion Engine Cars Mean to the St. Louis Region, If Anything? – UrbanReview | ST LOUIS
- Companies are buying large numbers of carbon offsets that don’t cut emissions – Hacker News
- ‘We don’t have enough’ lithium globally to meet EV targets, mining CEO says – Hacker News
- How does the land use of different electricity sources compare? – Hacker News
- South Korea takes massive step toward sustainable nuclear fusion reactions – The Register
Infrastructure 🚽
- St. Peters calls on MoDOT and Army Corps to look for flooding solution – FOX 2
- States wasting billions on new highways, rather than fixing old ones: report – FOX 2
- Ameren adding solar generation sites in north St. Louis, Jefferson County – FOX 2
- Where you can’t drink tap water in the US. – Maps on the Web
Ecology 🦤
- Oil Companies Want You to Buy Their New ‘Green’ Image – Gizmodo
WWwx 🌦
- The world may have already crossed 5 climate tipping points – Grist
- Major Climate ‘Tipping Points’ Are Just on the Horizon – Gizmodo
- Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points – Hacker News
- There Are Storms Off Both U.S. Coasts After an Unusually Quiet Summer – Gizmodo
WWW99 🕸
- Politico’s New Owner Heads To The Fainting Couch Over TikTok – Techdirt
- Patreon Cuts Its Security Team – Gizmodo
- Tim Cook’s response to improving Android texting compatibility: ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ – Engadget
- Tim Cook Shoots Down Idea of iOS Adopting RCS Messages: ‘Buy Your Mom an iPhone’ – MacRumors
- Elon Musk claims SpaceX was in talks with Apple on iPhone 14 satellite services – The Register
- Apple’s Emergency SOS link puts it into the satellite fight with SpaceX and more – Hacker News
- Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team – Hacker News
- Meta disbands team responsible for ensuring Facebook products are ethical – Hacker News
- Meta dissolves team responsible for discovering ‘potential harms to society’ – Hacker News
- Patreon laid off their security team – Hacker News
- Twitter Experiences Intermittent Outages Following Death of Queen Elizabeth II – VICE US
- Elon Musk, Once Again, Fails To Get His Big Asks From Delaware Chancery Court – Techdirt
Space 🚀
- SpaceX Starship Prototype Belches Superhot Debris, Causes Literal Dumpster Fire – Gizmodo
- NASA Needs Space Force’s Blessing for Late September Launch of Megarocket – Gizmodo
- The Pentagon Is Paying Private Rocket Firms for Ultra-Fast Cargo Deliveries Around the Globe – Gizmodo
- The FCC Wants a 5-Year Deadline to Deorbit Defunct Satellites – Gizmodo
- Scientists Find Bizarre ‘Water-Rich’ Worlds Around Red Dwarf Stars – VICE US
- Scientists found genetic mutations in every astronaut blood sample they studied – Hacker News
DIY 🪓
- Lionel semi flat black – The Silicon Underground
- Short is good – Jeff Geerling’s Blog
- Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor? – Hacker News
- Movim – A decentralized social platform built on XMPP – Hacker News
- Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions – Hacker News
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- If You Hate PHP – Hacker News
- Stop measuring community engagement – Hacker News
- The self-fulfilling prophecy of React – Hacker News
- Merriam-Webster just yeeted a bunch of internet slang into the dictionary – Engadget
- When Every Ketchup but One Went Extinct – Hacker News
- The North Korean Military Performs ‘Killing in the Name’ by Rage Against The Machine Through Clever Editing – Laughing Squid
- Rivian and Mercedes team up to accelerate production of electric vans – New Atlas
- VW adventure RV rides like panel van, lives like off-grid micro-lodge – New Atlas
- Startup fuses camper van & UTV into new breed of off-road electro RV – New Atlas
- Jeep announces plans to bring four new EV models to market by 2025 – Engadget
- Rivian and Mercedes are teaming up to build electric vans more quickly – Engadget
- Why UML “Really” Died – Hacker News
- Motorola goes camera crazy with 200-megapixel Edge 30 Ultra smartphone – New Atlas