Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Events 📆
- Festival of Nations returns to Tower Grove Park this August – feastmagazine.com
- BSD Board of Commissioners to Meet Virtually on August 11 – BSD
BuySTL 👜
Restaurants 🍲
- Dogtown Pizza relocates to new production facility – KSDK
- Lion’s Choice’s New Plant-Based Sub Is Ridiculously Good – RFT
- Z’s Variety Snack Shop opens in Benton Park – St. Louis Magazine
STLfood ⚜️
- Ice Cream for Bears crafts “farm-to-cone” ice cream sweetened with raw, unfiltered honey in St. Louis – feastmagazine.com
- These St. Louis ice cream pop-ups are keeping the Choco Taco alive – feastmagazine.com
STL100 💯
- How Missouri flood victims can apply for federal disaster aid – FOX 2
- Humane Society of Missouri hosts pit bull adoption promotion – KSDK
- Contact 2 helps save Ferguson woman from foreclosure – FOX 2
STL99 😱
- Suspected driver in deadly hit-and-run that killed CBC student released from jail – KSDK
- Many in disbelief after suspect in fatal hit and run near Ted Drewes released – FOX 2
- Suspect in fatal hit and run near Ted Drewes released – FOX 2
- Police say juveniles may be responsible for car break-ins in St. Louis County – FOX 2
- Why some students would not get bus service for school – FOX 2
99MO 😱
- Recent efforts to combat teacher shortages don’t address the real problems – Missouri Independent
WW99 😱
- Russia Helps Iran Launch Satellite, Promises It’s Not Meant for Military Surveillance – Gizmodo
- Iran Plans to Use Crypto to Pay for Imports to Help Get Around Sanctions – Gizmodo
Police 🚓
- St. Louis police associations sue city to block the new civilian oversight law – Missouri Independent
- St. Louis police associations sue to block Mayor Tishaura Jones’ oversight plan – stltoday.com
DotGov 🏛
CityGov 🏛
- Date set for former St. Louis alderman to plead guilty in corruption case – stltoday.com
- Plea hearing set for former St. Louis alderman accused of bribery – KSDK
- Kelvin Adams to retire after leading St. Louis Public Schools for 14 years – stltoday.com
- SLPS superintendent retiring at end of the year – KSDK
LocalGov 🏛
- Wildwood considers ban on residents feeding deer – stltoday.com
- County councilwoman pushed for pot code limits while working for marijuana industry – stltoday.com
- Parents and educators plead for help as flood damage still has autism center closed – KSDK
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri voters will decide whether to legalize marijuana this November election – Missouri Independent
- Missouri voters to decide whether to legalize marijuana in November – stltoday.com
- Legalize it? Voters in Missouri to consider recreational marijuana – KSDK
- Recreational marijuana amendment will be on Missouri’s November ballot – FOX 2
- Missouri spent millions on pay raises for government workers. But 7,500 vacancies remain. – stltoday.com
- Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley slams FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago – FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
- Republicans in Congress line up behind Trump after he says FBI searched Mar-a-Lago – Missouri Independent
- Federal government steps in to help pull Missouri out of Medicaid backlog – Missouri Independent
- Congress could beef up meatpacking oversight this fall. But obstacles to enforcement remain – Missouri Independent
- White House Grants St. Louis Area Federal Disaster Declaration Following Late July Flooding And Storms – RiverBender
- FEMA to start inspecting St. Louis area homes on Wednesday – FOX 2
- President Biden signs CHIPS Act to boost semiconductor production – Engadget
- President Biden signs CHIPS and Science Act into law – The Register
Jobs 📄
- MoDOT hiring workers for maintenance crews – FOX 2
History 🦕
- How Forest Park Got Its Start – History Happens Here
Sustainability ♻️
Infrastructure 🚽
- St. Louis utilities, businesses eye development of hydrogen power facility – KSDK
- ‘Underutilized’ Missouri River barge services poised for federal investment – St. Louis Regional Freightway
Space 🚀
- NASA’s six-mile-wide orbital telescope is 1/6th built – The Register
DIY 🪓
- Affordable CAT scan machine built with an Arduino – Arduino Blog
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Watch: Self-driving Teslas run over child-sized dummies "over and over again," according to safety advocacy ad – Boing Boing
- ‘It’s Time for Apple to Fix Texting’ Says New Android Website Pushing RCS Messaging Technology – MacRumors
- Google Keeps Beating the RCS Dead Horse – Daring Fireball
- Bowlus electric RV stockpiles power & connectivity to torch grid ties – New Atlas
- It Takes A Village Of Third Party Surveillance Tech Providers To Raise A Child – Techdirt
- Electrical explosion at Google datacenter injures three – The Register
- Digital Ocean customers back away from blockchains – The Register
- An Introductory Guide On How To Do Web Scraping: Extracting Data From Your Website – noupe
- Wikipedia has mounds and mounds of breast-shaped hills – Boing Boing