STL: Monday, August 22, 2022
Events 📆
- Paint Louis 25th Anniversary Kickoff at Artists First Aug. 27 – Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis
- Escape To Elsah For End Of Summer Festival – RiverBender
BuySTL 👜
- In Downtown West, Anchor Room aspires to be more than just coffee – St. Louis Magazine
- The London Tea Room Is Leaving Tower Grove South – RFT
- Earthbound Beer and EarthDance Farm announce collaboration of unique brews you have to try – feastmagazine.com
Restaurants 🍲
- El Maguey Closes Florissant Location – RFT
- El Maguey Florissant closes unexpectedly – KSDK
- Mexican restaurant in Florissant closes after four months in operation – St. Louis Business Journal
- The Tenderloin Room will celebrate 60 years with a big bash on August 27 – St. Louis Magazine
- Dog-On-It Hot Dogs – stlamerican.com
- CC’s Vegan Spot will expand to North County with a grab-and-go location – feastmagazine.com
- Maaji’s Street Kitchen Offers Indian Food With a Healthful Twist – RFT
STLfood ⚜️
- Good morning Donut Lovers! Here’s the latest episode of the STL Donut Tour highlighting some of my favorite specialty donuts! Check out these Destination Donuts! – r/StLouis
- A Tour of Regional Pizza Styles in the United States – Laughing Squid
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Meetup At JJ Twig’s – Lindenwood Park
STL100 💯
- After school meals available at 8 SLCL branches – stlamerican.com
99MO 😱
- Missouri student test scores still lag behind pre-pandemic levels – FOX 2
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- CDC confirms Nebraska child died of brain-eating amoeba – stltoday.com
- Missouri health officials raise threat level of monkeypox, frustrated with limited vaccine supply – stltoday.com
- A ‘Fast-Moving’ E. Coli Outbreak Is Hospitalizing People in the Midwest, CDC Warns – Gizmodo
Police 🚓
- Kansas City mayor sues Missouri over police funding law – FOX 2
- St. Louis police offer car clubs to Kia, Hyundai drivers – FOX 2
- SLMPD ran out of car clubs within an hour at free giveaway – KSDK
DotGov 🏛
CityGov 🏛
- St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones’ policy chief moved to new position – St. Louis Business Journal
- Former Alderman Jeffery Boyd expected to plead guilty – FOX 2
- St. Louis economic development agency taps more consultants – stltoday.com
LocalGov 🏛
- East Alton Fire Duo Recognized For Obtaining Three Grants That Topped $75,000 In Year – RiverBender
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri voters to weigh forgiveness for past weed crimes – The Big 550 KTRS
FedGov 🏛
- New Pentagon Budget Could Force the Military to Disclose When it Buys Americans’ Location Data – Gizmodo
- FTC Right To Repair Push Continues With Weber Grill Settlement – Techdirt
- After FEMA overhaul, hundreds of thousands of Americans are forgoing federal flood insurance – Grist
- Newsmax points out that Trump can run for president from prison – Boing Boing
Jobs 📄
- Granite City hosts Steel Worker Rally – FOX 2
- St. Louis County wants to bet big on this job training center – St. Louis Magazine
- SLATE/City of St. Louis Streets Department Job Fair – Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
- GM investing $1.5B in new trucks built at Wentzville plant – FOX 2
- Job of the day: Waste Management drivers and technicians – FOX 2
History 🦕
- The day the city’s worst driver – ‘Hot Rod’ Moore – gave up his license – stltoday.com
Sustainability ♻️
- Talking Trash – St. Louis City Talk Articles – St. Louis City Talk
- How Coca-Cola, Unilever, and Others Delay Action on Plastic – Gizmodo
Infrastructure 🚽
- MetroLink Blue Line returns Monday, Aug. 22 – FOX 2
- MetroLink to resume full service, but cost for flood repairs could double – stltoday.com
- Metro Transit gets federal funding for electric buses – FOX 2
- Congresswoman Bush, Mayor Jones announce $19 million grant to Lambert Airport – stlamerican.com
Utilities 📈
- Ameren may turn to natural gas to make up for shuttering Rush Island coal plant – Missouri Independent
Ecology 🦤
- Pilot Project To Study Upper Mississippi River Flooding, Climate Resilience – The Waterways Journal
- These Arctic Fish Are Full of Antifreeze – Gizmodo
- ‘Gross negligence’: popular Michigan river hit with second chemical spill in four years – Grist
Space 🚀
- NASA’s moon rocket moved to launch pad for 1st test flight – The Big 550 KTRS
- Scientists Try To Out Maneuver Elon Musk’s Satellite Light Pollution – Techdirt
- NASA Will Now Go ‘Full Force’ Investigating UFOs, Agency Says – VICE US
- NASA builds for keeps: Voyager mission still going after 45 years – The Register
- A Private Space Company Is Launching a Probe to Look for Alien Life on Venus – VICE US
DIY 🪓
- Make Your Own Taco Seasoning – Good Food St. Louis
- Who says hospital food is bad? Try St. Luke’s Pasta. – feastmagazine.com
- Here’s a couple resources for any of the people that like making fantasy transit maps (interactive map link in comments) – r/StLouis
- Video: Man builds beautiful machine to throw knives with incredible laser-guided accuracy – Boing Boing
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Malicious PyPi packages turn Discord into password-stealing malware – BleepingComputer
- Apple releases patches for major iOS and macOS security vulnerabilities – Engadget
- DigitalOcean Discloses Impact From Recent Mailchimp Cyberattack – SecurityWeek
- TikTok Says, No, It Isn’t Stealing Your Passwords – VICE US
- Who was the real Chef Boyardee? – Boing Boing
- Internet users as percentage of population in 2015 vs 2021.by… – Maps on the Web
- TikTok’s In-App Browser Reportedly Capable of Monitoring Anything You Type – MacRumors
- NSO Group CEO steps down, 100 employees let go too – The Register
- NSO Wins Phone Exploit Of The Year Award, No-Shows Award Ceremony – Techdirt
- World’s first commercial electric plane completes point-to-point flight – New Atlas
- In-app browsers that act as keyloggers ↦ – Six Colors
- ‘LaserWriter II’: Life amid the broken Macs (and printers) of Tekserve – Six Colors