By JW | Tue, 10/11/2022 - 03:48

STL: Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Events 📆

  • Jane Goodall visits new exhibit at Saint Louis Science Center, speaks to students - KSDK
  • Mark your calendar for an evening of family-friendly spooky stories at the St. Louis Storytelling Festival - St. Louis Magazine
  • Pickin’ in the Pumpkin Patch - Good Food St. Louis
  • Artica 2022 - r/StLouis
  • Keg Tapping, German Food, Music, Mass In Grass, Play Big Part Of Oktoberfest Saturday/Sunday - RiverBender
  • Granite City Is Loaded With Halloween Activities Through October - RiverBender
  • Granite City's Month Of Magic & Mayhem Kicks Off With Impressive Parade/Monster Dance Party - RiverBender

BuySTL 👜

  • St. Louis startup developing self-driving railcar expands to new HQ - St. Louis Regional Freightway
  • St. Louis-based global packaging business to expand European reach with acquisition - KSDK

Restaurants 🍲

  • New brunch spot to open in Eat-Rite building - r/StLouis
  • Chuck’s Hot Chicken opening Rock Hill location on October 13 - St. Louis Magazine
  • Kingside Diner arriving soon at St. Louis Lambert International Airport’s Terminal 1 - St. Louis Magazine
  • At Gokul Indian Restaurant, Jitendra Sandhe is serving up a wide range of exclusively vegetarian and kosher fare - feastmagazine.com
  • Arzola’s Fajitas & Margaritas cooks up Tex-Mex in Benton Park inspired by three generations - feastmagazine.com

STLfood ⚜️

  • St. Louis Taco Week Is Here: $5 Taco Specials at Area Restaurants - RFT
  • St. Louis Taco Week starts Monday, Oct. 10 - FOX 2
  • St Louis themed cookbooks - r/StLouis

STL100 💯

  • Tina Farmer Is Now the RFT's Theatre Critic - RFT
  • Coast Guard: Mississippi River reopens to barge traffic after low water closures - stltoday.com
  • Washington University professor shares economics Nobel Prize for crisis research - stltoday.com
  • Washington University Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Economics - RFT
  • WashU professor among economic scientists awarded Nobel Prize - KSDK
  • St. Louisan wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences - FOX 2
  • The Nobel Prize Goes to Bernanke and Diamond and Dybvig - Marginal REVOLUTION

STL99 😱

  • Airport websites in St. Louis, other cities go offline; cause being investigated - stltoday.com
  • Lambert Airport website restored after apparent cyberattack, flights not affected - KSDK
  • St. Louis Lambert International Airport website targeted by Russian hackers - FOX 2
  • Woman killed by hit-and-run driver in Tower Grove South neighborhood - stltoday.com
  • Hit-and-run crash on Gravois Avenue leaves pedestrian dead - KSDK
  • Another Pedestrian Killed by Driver in St. Louis' South City - RFT
  • Car slams into building early Monday at Gravois, Nebraska avenues - KSDK

99MO 😱

  • Missouri participation in public benefits program WIC fell sharply during pandemic - Missouri Independent

WW99 😱

  • Making Workers Keep Their Webcams on Is a Human Rights Violation, According to Dutch Judge - Gizmodo
  • Elon Musk Praised by China for Suggesting Communists Exert Control in Taiwan - Gizmodo
  • Leaked Emails Show Mexico’s Military Sold Grenades to the Cartels - VICE US
  • German Cybersecurity Chief to be Sacked Over Alleged Russia Ties: Sources - SecurityWeek
  • Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv - Hacker News

CityGov 🏛

LocalGov 🏛

  • Saint Louis Public Schools picks interim superintendent, launches national search for permanent job - KSDK

MoGov 🏛

  • Mike Parson Won't Offer Mass Pardons for Marijuana Offenses - RFT

FedGov 🏛

  • Biden’s Weed Pardon Won’t Get Anyone Out of Prison—But It’s Still a Huge Deal - VICE US
  • U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace - Hacker News

Jobs 📄

  • Schnucks, union try out new flexible option for grocery workers - stltoday.com
  • Client Service Coordinator II (Department of Human Services) - Jobs
  • Program Manager I (Homeless Services) - Jobs
  • Public Information Officer I - Jobs

Sustainability ♻️

  • To stay or to go: Increased flooding forces towns to make hard choices - stltoday.com
  • Making room for the river: Communities look at nature-based solutions - stltoday.com
  • This California City Is Rapidly Running Out of Water - Gizmodo

Infrastructure 🚽

  • Rivian recalls nearly every vehicle it has sold - The Register

Ecology 🦤

  • Assessing Air Quality Conditions in the St. Louis Region as the 2022 Forecasting Season Wraps Up - Clean Air Partnership
  • The Southwest's Famous Cacti Are in Trouble - Gizmodo

WWW99 🕸

  • Hackers forced more than a dozen US public airport websites offline - Engadget
  • US airports' sites taken down in DDoS attacks by pro-Russian hackers - BleepingComputer
  • PayPal Still fining $2500 for Promoting anything “Discriminatory”, “Intolerance” - Hacker News
  • PayPal decides fining people $2,500 for 'misinformation' wasn't a great idea - The Register
  • Telegram Piracy: Police Target 545 Channels & Eight Suspected Admins - TorrentFreak
  • An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets - Hacker News

Space 🚀

  • William Shatner writes about going to space - Waxy.org
  • Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient Mars - The Big 550 KTRS
  • NASA’s InSight Lander Hunkers Down as Martian Storm Moves In - Gizmodo

DIY 🪓

  • Command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving application - Hacker News
  • Big improvements to ActivityPub on Micro.blog - Manton Reece