By JW | Wed, 08/10/2022 - 01:53

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 🦕

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