STL: Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Events 📆
- SLSO cancels weekend performances due to COVID quarantining, close contact - KSDK
- St. Louis Red Cross center reschedules donors during critical blood collection period - KSDK
BuySTL 👜
Restaurants 🍲
- Jack Nolen's Survives to Deliver Perfect Burgers - RFT
- Pizza Head's New Owners Promise Great Pizza Served with Integrity - RFT
- Vegetarian pizzeria Pizza Head announces new owners - stltoday.com
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Dissident property owners file another lawsuit against downtown taxing district, plan more in bid to shake up CID governance - stltoday.com
DIY 🪓
- Autofocus on a Pi - ArduCam's new 16MP camera - Jeff Geerling's Blog
Sustainability ♻️
- 2021 was another year of near-record warmth in St. Louis and across the US - stltoday.com
- Save the nukes? - Grist
- Flood survivors urge Congress to change inadequate insurance - Grist
Nature 🦝
- How to Read a Seed Packet - Gateway Greening
STL99 😱
- St. Louis gets cheated on best bagel city list - stltoday.com
- Crash, car fire closes both directions of I-44 near Jamieson in south St. Louis - KSDK
STL100 💯
- MLB star pinch hits for local elementary school hurt by staff shortages - r/StLouis
- St. Louis soccer prospects should dominate 2022 MLS SuperDraft - FOX 2
- U.S. Chess Federation plans headquarters move to St. Louis - KSDK
99MO 😱
- Missouri health departments lack authority, readjust fight against COVID - FOX 2
100MO 💯
- University of Missouri hall named after graduate Sheryl Crow - FOX 2
Police 🚓
- St. Louis police chief postpones retirement - KSDK
- Amid search for police chief, John Hayden postpones his retirement - stlamerican.com - RSS Results in news/local_news of type article
- St. Louis Police Chief Delays Retirement as Search for Replacement Grinds On - News Blog, Riverfront Times -
DotGov 🏛
- Chicago’s “Race-Neutral” Traffic Cameras Ticket Black and Latino Drivers the Most - Articles and Investigations - ProPublica
- Cannabis sales double in Illinois - FOX 2
- Inflation soared to highest rate in 40 years as prices rose 7% in past year - FOX 2
CityGov 🏛
- SLEHCRA and Woodstock Institute Reach Community Benefits Agreement with First Mid, Clear Way for Merger with Jefferson Bank - St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance
- St. Louis postpones more jury trials because of COVID-19 infections - stltoday.com
LocalGov 🏛
- Amid mask fight, St. Louis County Council considers online-only meetings - stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
- Police chiefs statewide support suit against new Missouri gun law - stltoday.com
- Missouri education committee puts early focus on parental rights, critical race theory - Missouri Independent
- GOP leaders, Democrats agree to make it harder to stop a filibuster in Missouri Senate - Missouri Independent
- Timing unclear for $5.3B bill to support Missouri Medicaid expansion, state pay raises - Missouri Independent
- Missouri governor pushes 5.5% pay raise for state workers - KSDK
- Missouri House begins working on increasing state employee pay - FOX 2
- After governor changes sick leave policy, surge hits Missouri state workers - stltoday.com
- Day 3 in the Missouri Senate marked by more GOP infighting - stltoday.com
- Hearing on bills to ban critical race theory, adopt parents’ bill of rights draws record response - stltoday.com
FedGov 🏛
- Biden issues disaster declaration for Missouri after storms - stltoday.com
- Biden approves Missouri's disaster declaration from Dec. 10 tornado - FOX 2
- Tax refunds could be delayed in 2022. Here's why - FOX 2
Covid 🦠
- U.S. Ranks 59th Globally for Covid-19 Vaccinations, Just Behind Iran - Gizmodo
- This Hospital System Asked Its Employees to Volunteer… at Their Jobs - VICE US
- Open-Source Vaccines Got More Funding From Tito’s Vodka Than the Government - VICE US
- How to get a free at-home COVID test in Missouri - KSDK
- St. Louis urgent care opening up 'Swab Centers' for those who are asymptomatic - KSDK
- UM board rejects mask mandates for start of spring semester - KSDK
- Researchers detect near-record levels of COVID in Missouri wastewater - KSDK
- 'People are using us as a primary care': St. Louis Fire Dept. sees surge in 911 COVID calls - KSDK
- Former NFL player returns to St. Louis to open coronavirus testing lab - KSDK
- Rockwood school board votes to extend mask requirement - FOX 2
- Missouri hospitals report more than 3,100 COVID patients for 3rd straight day - FOX 2
- St. Louis COVID task force says virus deaths mounting in the region - FOX 2
- Home COVID tests to be covered by insurers starting Saturday - FOX 2
- Rockwood School District reconsiders its plan to drop mask mandate - FOX 2
- St. Louis County councilwoman gets COVID-19, changes stance on mask mandate - FOX 2
- Health officials urge St. Louis-area residents to stay home as COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to break records - stltoday.com
- Cardinal Glennon doctor advises risk management for parents who want to protect their kids from virus - FOX 2
Captain's Blog 🏴☠️
- Countries whereby China has territorial claims on their lands - Maps on the Web
- European Space Agency: Come on, hack our satellite if you think you're hard enough - The Register
- Four million outdated Log4j downloads were served from Apache Maven Central alone despite vuln publicity blitz - The Register
- Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike resigns, leaves WhatsApp co-founder to run things until a successor is named - The Register
- Firefox Focus for Android will offer another way to prevent cross-site tracking - Engadget
- US greenhouse emissions increased by 6.2 percent last year - Engadget
- Mozilla Is Going to Track Facebook Tracking You - Gizmodo
- Google Exec Urges Apple to Adopt a Universal Messaging Standard - Gizmodo
- How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers - Julia Evans
- Gamers Don't Want NFTs - VICE US
- Big Tech 'Antitrust Reform' Agenda Sags, Revealing Mostly Empty Rhetoric - Techdirt.