STL: Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Events 📆
- Apple Picking Season Begins at Eckert’s Farms in Illinois – RFT
- St. Louis Public Schools see successful first day despite bus driver shortage – KSDK
- Buses run late, new schools open as students return to class across St. Louis – stltoday.com
Restaurants 🍲
- Locoz Tacoz to open in Maplewood – 40 South News
STL100 💯
- St. Louisans Need to Fight for Hawn State Park’s Future – RFT
STL99 😱
- ‘It’s heartbreaking’: Flooded Florissant businesses still closed, nearly a month after flood – KSDK
- St. Louis shootings leave 4 dead on Sunday – KSDK
99MO 😱
- ‘I’m Not Worth Your Gucci?’ Missouri Preacher Asks in Viral Sermon – RFT
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- More monkeypox vaccines are available in St. Louis, eligibility expands – St. Louis Magazine
Police 🚓
- The pay disparity between City and County Police Officers is set to explode. – r/StLouis
- St. Louis Police ask for Assistance Seeking 8.15.22 Homicide Suspect – The Big 550 KTRS
- Police share pic of suspected gunman in south St. Louis homicide – FOX 2
- Cops Caught on Video Pinning Man Down and Bashing His Head on Sidewalk – VICE US
DotGov 🏛
CityGov 🏛
- Lewis Reed to Plead Guilty on Friday – RFT
- Change-of-plea hearing scheduled for former board president Lewis Reed in bribery case – KSDK
- St. Louis hasn’t given a fire department test in 9 years. Some say city still required to make promotions – stltoday.com
- Fire Apparatus Fleet Maintenance and Services Request for Proposals – City Procurement
MoGov 🏛
- Gov. Mike Parson wants to lower Missourians’ income tax – FOX 2
- Missouri governor calls special session after Labor Day on $700 million income tax cut – Missouri Independent
- Civic groups sue to block new law on Missouri voter outreach – FOX 2
- Missouri marijuana campaign made ballot with tactic that surprised longtime observers – Missouri Independent
- Missouri Department of Conservation strips fish of world record status – FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
- Fauci to leave Biden administration in December – FOX 2
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, Face of the US COVID Response, Is Stepping Down – VICE US
- The IRS could be on the verge of changing the way Americans file their taxes – FOX 2
Jobs 📄
- Beyond the List: St. Louis union membership grows, bucking national trend. Here’s why. – St. Louis Business Journal
History 🦕
- Aug. 22, 1876 • How the ‘Great Divorce’ of St. Louis City and St. Louis County started – stltoday.com
Ecology 🦤
- Citizen scientists take on the scourge of the nurdle – Boing Boing
Twitter 🐦
- Elon Musk subpoenas Jack Dorsey amid Twitter legal fight – Engadget
Space 🚀
- People react to NASA’s ‘haunting’ noises from a black hole – FOX 2
- New Webb Telescope Images of Jupiter Reveal the Planet’s Glimmering Auroras – Gizmodo
- SpaceX Starlink ‘train’ of satellites illuminates Northwest skies – BleepingComputer
DIY 🪓
- Lenovo Sends Legal Goons After Upstart Competitor Framework… Because Of A 3D Printed Case Power Button – Techdirt
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- It’s my 20th anniversary – Kevin Drum
- W3C’s planned transition to HTTPS stymied by legacy laggards – The Register
- Gab Users Somehow Astounded To Discover Gab Will Comply With FBI Requests For User Information – Techdirt
- Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don’t want to go there – The Register
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink will show brain implant progress at a Halloween show-and-tell – Engadget
- Novant Health Says Malformed Tracking Pixel Exposed Health Data to Meta – SecurityWeek
- Drupal: cache tags for all, regardless your backend – Blog
- Video: chaos ensues as runaway bull runs through bank – Boing Boing