STL: Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Events 📆
- St. Louis VegFest returns to Forest Park this Sunday – St. Louis Magazine
- South Grand businesses, residents invited to National Night Out – KSDK
- Blessing Of The Fleet Continues To Be Sacred Event For Boaters – RiverBender
- 7 fall festivals a short drive away in Missouri – St. Louis Magazine
- Ginworld Gin Week St. Louis returns September 12–18 – St. Louis Magazine
- Taste of St. Louis 2022 – City of St. Louis, MO
BuySTL 👜
- More Midwest banks see opportunity to finance solar, energy efficiency projects – Missouri Independent
- WeWork closes downtown St. Louis coworking location – St. Louis Business Journal
- St. Louis craft brewer expands distribution – St. Louis Business Journal
Restaurants 🍲
- Press opens in Fox Park on Thursday – St. Louis Magazine
- Restaurants keep trying to use robots, with mixed results – Boing Boing
STLfood ⚜️
- 10 places to eat and drink near Busch Stadium – feastmagazine.com
- St. Louis’ best sandwiches from the STL 100 – stltoday.com
- Clueless Website Disses St. Louis Barbecue Scene – RFT
- “Don’t Put Me in the Refrigerator!” – Good Food St. Louis
Neighborhoods 🏡
- 2020 St. Louis Neighborhood Census Review: A dynamic population – NextSTL – r/StLouis
STL100 💯
- Some more shots from the other day with my drone. – r/StLouis
- Man wins $2M from scratchers game in St. Louis – FOX 2
STL99 😱
- Has recycling fully resumed? – r/StLouis
- Rising homicide rates in St. Louis trigger rising concerns – KSDK
- St. Louis man threatened with jail time for calling 911 – FOX 2
- Two earthquakes shake Missouri on Monday – FOX 2
99MO 😱
- Record Number of Missouri School Districts Switched to 4-Day Week – RFT
WW99 😱
- Microsoft and Amazon reportedly halt plans to build data centers in Ireland – Engadget
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- St. Louis pandemic task force ends weekly data updates – stltoday.com
Police 🚓
- New oversight plan means closer scrutiny of St. Louis police – FOX 2
- New oversight plan means closer scrutiny of St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department – KSDK
- Bridgeton police plan to close jail at night, house inmates in St. Charles – stltoday.com
DotGov 🏛
CityGov 🏛
- Voters from former Alderman Jeffrey Boyd’s ward elect his replacement – stltoday.com
- John Collins-Muhammad pleads guilty to bribery charges – stlamerican.com
- Former Alderman John Collins-Muhammad pleads guilty to bribery charges – KSDK
- Ex-St. Louis Alderman John Collins-Muhammad pleads guilty in bribery scheme – FOX 2
- Guilty pleas start for former aldermen charged in pay-to-play bribery case – FOX 2
- Ex-St. Louis Alderman John Collins-Muhammad admits federal corruption charges – stltoday.com
- Former St. Louis alderman to plead guilty today following corruption charges – stltoday.com
- John Collins-Muhammad Pleads Guilty in Bribery Scheme – RFT
LocalGov 🏛
- Cities in St. Louis County change panhandling laws after uptick – FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
- ‘I think that thing’s a disaster’: Parson slams recreational weed question on Missouri ballot – stltoday.com
- Citing Greitens defeat, John Wood abandons independent run for U.S. Senate in Missouri – Missouri Independent
- Parson tours Missouri discussing income tax cut proposal – FOX 2
Jobs 📄
- EXECUTIVE SECRETARY-ST. LOUIS BOARD OF ALDERMEN – Jobs
- Behavior and Enrichment Coordinator – APA Adoption Center
- Career Central: Second Chance Job Fair set for Friday – KSDK
- St. Louis Streets Dept. Job Fair – FOX 2
History 🦕
- Fisherman finds 90-million-year-old fossil in Missouri River – FOX 2
- A Look Back • Ulysses Grant’s marriage here was a quiet affair – stltoday.com
Sustainability ♻️
- Predatory landlords are buying up trailer parks en masse – Boing Boing
Infrastructure 🚽
- China’s emergence as an EV powerhouse has been a long time coming – Engadget
- Rare Earths Processor Buys Rights to Mine in Greenland – ACM
Ecology 🦤
- Hot Weather May Have Caused Elephant to Stab Its Trainer to Death, Police Say – VICE US
WWwx 🌦
- Most of the U.S. is Being Pummeled by Drought – Gizmodo
- As drought dries up the Yangtze river, China loses hydropower – Grist
Twitter 🐦
- Twitter merges misinformation and spam teams following whistleblower claims – Engadget
- Twitter whistleblower claims company’s practices pose national security risk – Engadget
- Twitter Whistleblower Says Twitter Is Lying to Elon Musk About Bots – VICE US
- Congress is looking into Twitter whistleblower’s claims of lax security – Engadget
- Twitter’s Former Security Boss Drops Stunning Whistleblower Report – Techdirt
- Elon Subpoenas Twitter Whistleblower to Testify About Counting Bots – Gizmodo
Space 🚀
- NASA: ‘We Are Go for Launch’ of SLS Megarocket – Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
- Universal Unix tool AWK gets Unicode support – The Register
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- “Sabotage”-themed Beastie Boys action figures announced – 105.7 The Point
- Removing jQuery from GOV.UK – CSS-Tricks
- Recommended Twitter follow: Abandoned Places – Boing Boing
- 25 Years Ago Today… Techdirt Got Started! – Techdirt
- Streaming Tops Traditional Cable TV Viewership For First Time Ever – Techdirt