STL: Saturday, August 6, 2022
Flood 🌊
- Resources You Can Use: Flood Damage – BSD
- East St. Louis native and McDonald’s owner helps flood victims in his community – stlamerican.com
- One Shelter Closed, One Remains Open; Multi-Agency Resource Centers Continue – RiverBender
- Flood victims say they need physical help, not paper pushing – FOX 2
- A disaster relief team in Bridgeton seeks more volunteers to help flood victims – FOX 2
Events 📆
- Serbfest this weekend – r/StLouis
- An Afro-Futuristic ‘Midsummer’ Comes to St Louis Parks – RFT
- 5 family-friendly activities in St. Louis: August 1–14 – St. Louis Magazine
BuySTL 👜
- St. Louis-based coffee roaster expands footprint with Walmart deal – KSDK
- local handmade soap? – r/StLouis
Restaurants 🍲
- St. Louis Standards: Mama Lucia’s Pizza is Frozen Gold – RFT
- St. Louis restaurant openings, closings, and coming soons – St. Louis Magazine
- St. Louis restaurant openings and closings: July 2022 – feastmagazine.com
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STLfood ⚜️
- Good morning St Louis! Here’s the latest episode of the STL Donut Tour highlighting Fried Glazed Croissants! – r/StLouis
Neighborhoods 🏡
- WPLNA MEETING ON TUES. 08/09/22 AT 7:00 – West Pine Laclede Neighborhood Association
STL100 💯
- Four dogs rescued in St. Francois County after photo of injured dog goes viral – KSDK
STL99 😱
- Commerce Bank customers report deposit, payment issues – FOX 2
- Truck located, no arrest made after teen’s death in St. Louis hit-and-run – FOX 2
Police 🚓
- St. Louis County plan will poach police from St. Louis city, union says – stltoday.com
- Application process to become St. Louis police chief extended – St. Louis Business Journal
- San Diego Citizens Wrest Control of Surveillance Tech Away From Police – Gizmodo
DotGov 🏛
CityGov 🏛
- St. Louis Municipal Courts Dismisses Backlog Of Low-Level Cases – RiverBender
- RFP Towing Services – City of St. Louis Procurement Opportunities
LocalGov 🏛
- HNTB recommended to design MetroLink fare collection gates – stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri law didn’t require environmental review before issuing silica mining permit – Missouri Independent
- Missouri eases requirement for substitutes – FOX 2
- 2022 Missouri Senate Democratic Primary Map – St. Louis City – r/StLouis
FedGov 🏛
- Did Lindsey Graham Help Trump Try to Steal Georgia? – VICE US
- FCC votes to boost manufacturing in space – Engadget
- Comcast Using Civil Rights As Cover To Scuttle Appointment Of Gigi Sohn To FCC – Techdirt
Jobs 📄
- Chart of the day: Net new jobs in July – Kevin Drum
History 🦕
- St. Louis Couple Uncovers the Secret History of Soulard Homes – RFT
- Early Federal Warrior-Tombigbee Boats – The Waterways Journal
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- As monkeypox cases rise, experts worry stigma will create more problems – St. Louis Magazine
- CDC stops reporting COVID-19 cases on cruise ships – Boing Boing
Sustainability ♻️
- Glass Half Full is Louisiana’s grassroots glass recycler – Boing Boing
- Auto vloggers test out fuel-saving myths – Boing Boing
- Economic mystery of the month – Kevin Drum
- Countries which will double their population by… – Maps on the Web
Infrastructure 🚽
- FEMA Urges Patching of Emergency Alert Systems, But Some Flaws Remain Unfixed – SecurityWeek RSS Feed
- Warning! Critical flaws found in US Emergency Alert System – The Register
- Wind turbine fitted with recyclable blades starts generating electricity – New Atlas
- How to Prep for a Power Outage – Gizmodo
- The VICE Starter Pack for Casual Doomsday Prepping – VICE US
- Number of McDonald’s outlets per 1 million inhabitants…. – Maps on the Web
Ecology 🦤
- 200 million acres of forest cover have been lost since 1960 – Grist
- We Are Not Freaking Out Enough About Climate Change – Gizmodo
- The U.S. Is Dry, Dry, Dry – Gizmodo
Animal Kingdom
- Protect Threatened Mussel Populations, Volunteer Today – RiverBender
- El Jefe, North America’s Long Lost Jaguar, Is Back – VICE US
Twitter 🐦
- Elon Musk accuses Twitter of fraud for hiding real number of fake accounts – Engadget
- Twitter Obliterates Elon Musk’s Excuses for Trying to Kill $44 Billion Deal in Blistering Court Filing – Gizmodo
Space 🚀
- NASA reportedly had contingency plans for Russia’s ISS exit last year – Engadget
- NASA develops ingenious solution to fix its troubled ‘Lucy’ asteroid explorer – Engadget
- Yesterday Was a Remarkable Day in Spaceflight – Gizmodo
- Distant Star or Smoked Sausage? Astronomer Apologizes After Joke Tweet Goes Viral – Gizmodo
- Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their View – Gizmodo
- Virgin Galactic delays commercial suborbital flights again – The Register
- South Korea’s lunar orbiter launches and phones home happily – The Register
DIY 🪓
- How to add an SLPL Catalog link to Goodreads – St. Louis Public Library
- This high-precision AC meter handles inductive loads – Arduino Blog
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- GeoCities’ founder explains the death of the old Internet – Boing Boing
- Winamp Is Back From the Dead, but These Classic MP3 Players Are Sadly Gone for Good – Gizmodo
- Alex Jones and Infowars Must Pay Sandy Hook Parents More Than $45 Million In Punitive Damages, Jury Finds – VICE US
- No, you can’t tell the difference between analog and digital – Kevin Drum
- Amazon buys Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7b – The Register
- Amazon Buys Roomba Company, Will Now Map Inside of Your House – VICE US
- Amazon Acquires iRobot—Everyone’s Favorite Robot Cleaning Company – Gizmodo
- Visa and Mastercard Cut Ties With Pornhub’s Advertising Network – VICE US