STL: Sunday, October 9, 2022
Events 📆
- Halloween 🎃 - stLouIST - a Better Bubble™
BuySTL 👜
- Huge barge backup eases on Mississippi River, freeing tons of cargo - stltoday.com
- Manufacturers report too much inventory, retailers too little - stltoday.com
- Lighthouse St. Louis TDD - stLouIST - a Better Bubble™
- Developer walks away from rehab of St. Louis' second-largest office building - r/StLouis
- United Airlines cuts nonstop route from St. Louis to San Francisco - r/StLouis
Restaurants 🍲
- Unsung Restos ✅ | stLouIST - Pinboard (electroponix)
- Sugaree Bakery in Dogtown closing at end of year - St. Louis Magazine
- Slim Chickens owners sue former St. Louis-area employee for poaching staff at Wingstop - stltoday.com
STLfood ⚜️
- St. Louis Standards: The Wine & Cheese Place Has Been Spreading Joy for 40 Years - RFT
- Is it just me or have Red Hot Riplets gotten way worse? - r/StLouis
Neighborhoods 🏡
- 17th Ward Meeting 10-12-2022 - West Pine Laclede Neighborhood Association
- WPLNA MEETING ON TUES. 10/11/22 AT 7:00 - West Pine Laclede Neighborhood Association
STL100 💯
- Busch Stadium packs largest crowd in its postseason history - FOX 2
- Budweiser Clydesdales welcome new members to the herd - KSDK
STL99 😱
- Grover the river otter dies at the Saint Louis Zoo - FOX 2
- STL County woman sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison after reaping fraud pandemic funds - FOX 2
- Gas leak prompts evacuations in Dutchtown neighborhood - stltoday.com
- Residents in south St. Louis rush out of their homes after a construction crew hit gas line - FOX 2
- Homes evacuated after south St. Louis natural gas leak - FOX 2
- Residents in south St. Louis evacuated after gas main hit - KSDK
99MO 😱
- Potential $30 Million International Arms Deal Plays Out in Eureka, Missouri - RFT
WW99 😱
- Frontline Ukraine troops are reportedly enduring Starlink outages - Engadget
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- As Omicron mutates wildly the virus shows first signs of convergent evolution - New Atlas
Police 🚓
- Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department looking to hire officers - KSDK
DotGov 🏛
- California to discontinue plastic grocery bags - Hacker News
CityGov 🏛
- Messenger: More problems with open records in St. Louis, this time from Kim Gardner - stltoday.com
- St. Louis mayor hires new personnel director - stltoday.com
- St. Louis hires new personnel director - FOX 2
- Mayor Tishaura O. Jones Proposes at Least $40 Million in American Rescue Plan Funding to Make Streets Safer Following Extensive Community Input - RiverBender
- BB 101 - Community Development Agency (CDA) HUD 2023 Action Plan - Board Bills
- BB 100 - Speed Humps Various Location 27th Ward - Board Bills
LocalGov 🏛
- St. Louis County now expects $3.86M tax gain due to higher used-vehicle values - stltoday.com
- Auditor grilled at 3-hour meeting, but St. Louis County Council won't reveal details - stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
- Eric Schmitt says children are exposed to ‘radical ideology’ in schools - stltoday.com
- Missouri state government has more than 7,500 vacancies. Parson pledges to keep raising pay. - stltoday.com
- Some Missouri lawmakers concerned foreign farms could benefit from agriculture tax credits - FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
- Declassified US nuclear targets – interactive map - Hacker News
Jobs 📄
- Meet the 'Flexforce': Schnucks, in push to keep and attract workers, debuts new staffing strategy - St. Louis Business Journal
- Job openings fall sharply in Midwest - St. Louis Business Journal
History 🦕
- A St. Louis-bred mobster had his flashy last ride home in 1933 - stltoday.com
- The day they fired Harry Caray: a shock to Cardinal fans - stltoday.com
- Southtown - c.1970 - r/StLouis
Sustainability ♻️
- Pluralistic: 09 Oct 2022 $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck - Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Infrastructure 🚽
- Spire gas bills in St. Louis to go up slightly. Bigger proposed rate hikes loom. - stltoday.com
- Satellite power grid would beam energy around the globe just like data - New Atlas
- Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers - Hacker News
- Interactive Submarine Cable Map - Hacker News
Ecology 🦤
- The Rainbow Eucalyptus is the world's most colorful tree - Boing Boing
WWW99 🕸
- That thing to help protect internet traffic from hijacking? It's broken - The Register
- Amazon Scraps Scout Home Delivery Robot Tests - Gizmodo
Twitter 🐦
- Kanye West Locked Out of Twitter for Antisemitic Tweet One Day After Being Restricted From Instagram - Gizmodo
- Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge - Hacker News
- Twitter's edit button finally debuts in the United States, but you'll have to pay for it - Engadget
Space 🚀
- How NASA plans to stop killer asteroids - Freethink
- SpaceX gives another four astronauts a lift to International Space Station - The Register
- SpaceX to Attempt Rare Launch of Falcon Heavy Later This Month - Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
- Building an FM radio from $3 radio chip and an 84MHz ARM Arduino - Hacker News
- PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools - Hacker News
- Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog - Hacker News
- Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit - Hacker News
- TypeScript is now officially 10 years old - Hacker News
- Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac - Hacker News
- Adding Fluid Typography Support to WordPress Block Themes - CSS-Tricks
Captain's Blog 🏴☠️
- Sad - Scripting News
- Virgina Air Hyperloop's pod on display at Kirkwood museum - FOX 2
- A look back at children's TV show pioneer, Captain Kangaroo - Boing Boing
- These McDonaldLand brand guidelines are like the handbook for a horror RPG - Boing Boing
- Ask HN: Why do people come to HN for Stripe resolutions? - Hacker News
- Stripe is PayPal circa 2010 - Hacker News