⏳ STLduJour(nal) - MMXXII:25-PM

Events 📆

• Weekly Events Thread 1/24/21 - 1/30/22 - r/StLouis

BuySTL 👜

• Where to find fresh produce in St. Louis during the winter - St. Louis Magazine
• For 2 vegan businesses, St. Louis proved the perfect launch pad - St. Louis on the Air
• A Red Circle aims to open a grocery store owned and operated by north county residents - [St. Louis on the Air](missing value)
• Iconic South City Bug Store is closing its doors after 30 years - r/StLouis

Restaurants 🍲

• Remembering St. Louis restaurateur Michael Malliotakis - St. Louis Magazine
• Hot salami from Gioia's on list of 'The 15 Absolute Best Italian Subs In The US' - FOX 2
• No Backup, Rude Customers — Restaurant Workers Face Pandemic Burnout - RFT
• Mac's Purchases Rights To Mini Corral To Bring It Downtown In March or Early April - RiverBender
• 4 Hens Creole Kitchen is now serving up serious Southern eats in City Foundry STL - feastmagazine.com
• 4 Hens Creole Kitchen opens at City Foundry STL today - St. Louis Magazine

Neighborhoods 🏡

• Gravois Park neighborhood initiative sells homes to low-to-moderate income creatives - KSDK

DIY 🪓

• Garden Catalog Season Gives Gardeners Chance To Explore, Shop For Next Year's Seeds - RiverBender
• Farm machinery giant John Deere plows into two right-to-repair lawsuits - The Register

Sustainability ♻️

• Supreme Court takes EPA case that could narrow Clean Water Act - Politics
• Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Not Right For St. Louis - UrbanReview

STL99 😱

• $22 million at stake: St. Louis gets more time for Loop Trolley plan - FOX 2
• St. Louis faces Feb. 1 deadline for Trolley restart plan or could be on hook for millions - FOX 2
• DEA St. Louis division seized record amount of fentanyl in 2021 - FOX 2
• 2 officers struck while responding to crash on I-64 in St. Louis - FOX 2
• Suspect wanted for assault arrested again after release from St. Louis jail - FOX 2
• Am I going crazy? Have you EVER heard people in the area (or ANYWHERE) refer to Sloppy Joes as "Yip Yips"? - r/StLouis

STL100 💯

• Mostly vacant downtown St. Louis building attracts a buyer - KSDK
• St. Louis-area school districts defy attorney general and keep mask mandates - stltoday.com
• AT&T Bringing $180/Month 5-Gigabit Internet to 70 Cities - MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories
• AT&T's New Fiber Plans Promise Some of the Fastest Home Internet Speeds Ever - Gizmodo
• AT&T is rolling out multi-gig fiber internet to more than 70 cities - Engadget
• AT&T Claims It Has the Fastest Internet and Can Hit Speeds of Up to 5Gbps - VICE US

99MO 😱

• Controversial book removed from libraries in Wentzville School District - FOX 2
• Wentzville School Board bans acclaimed novel from high school libraries over obscenity complaints - stltoday.com

DotGov 🏛

CityGov 🏛

• St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner loses appeal on sunshine law violations - FOX 2
• Appeals court upholds ruling that St. Louis circuit attorney violated Sunshine Law - stltoday.com
• St. Louis aldermen put capital improvement bonds on April ballot - stltoday.com

LocalGov 🏛

• St. Louis County appoints first Black police chief - stlamerican.com
• St. Louis County names new police chief - KSDK
• St. Louis County names new police chief after predecessor steps down - FOX 2
• Kenneth Gregory Is New St. Louis County Police Chief - RiverBender
• Kenneth Gregory Becomes First Black St. Louis County Police Chief - News Blog, Riverfront Times -

MoGov 🏛

• Missouri AG sues more St. Louis school districts over mask rules - FOX 2
• Gov. Parson wants to create new flood response agency - FOX 2
• Bill aims to help Missouri school districts with fees in mask lawsuits - FOX 2
• Missouri senators want to forgive overpaid unemployment benefits - FOX 2
• Money for Missouri entertainment industry could be in budget pipeline - stltoday.com
• Missouri attorney general sues 9 more school districts over masks, most targeting St. Louis area - stltoday.com
• Parson’s decision to end emergency declaration puts squeeze on Missouri pharmacies - stltoday.com
• Senate committee advances ‘6-2’ Missouri Congressional map - Missouri Independent
• Missouri GOP again pushes for Medicaid work rules despite setbacks elsewhere - stltoday.com
• Parson pay raise plan in limbo as $5.4 billion spending bill awaits vote - Missouri Independent
• Dry ground and unmet promises: Platte County wetlands project is dead in the water - Missouri Independent
• As Missouri looks to legalize recreational marijuana, expungement gets renewed attention - Missouri Independent

FedGov 🏛

• Backlogged IRS starts accepting tax returns Monday - FOX 2
• US puts 8,500 troops on heightened alert amid Russia tension - FOX 2
• Feds launch website for claiming part 2 of child tax credit - FOX 2
• FBI: We want your old military explosives - FOX 2
• U.S. Department of Defense makes St. Louis a 'hub' in its focus on innovation - St. Louis Business News St. Louis News | The St. Louis Business Journal
• Biometric Tech Company ID.Me Continues To Swallow Gov't Agencies, Cause Problems For People Trying To Access Their Gov't Benefits - Techdirt.
• Behold! The first line of defence for 25% of the US nuclear stockpile: Dolphins - The Register

Covid19 Info 🦠

• U.S. Navy medical team headed to St. Louis area to help hospital staff deal with COVID-19 response - r/StLouis
• Military medical team heads to St. Louis to support COVID care at Christian Hospital - Missouri Independent
• FBI raids controversial Illinois COVID test center; Missouri locations shut down - FOX 2
• Festus Fire Chief dies from COVID complications - FOX 2
• 'A wonderful husband, father, and friend': Festus fire chief dies of COVID complications - KSDK
• Already closed in St. Louis, COVID testing company raided by FBI - KSDK
• Surge in COVID cases prompts health department to ask more St. Louis workers to stay home - KSDK
• COVID cases drop dramatically at St. Louis County jail - KSDK
• Collapsing omicron hospitalizations spell relief in St. Louis region - FOX 2
• COVID test shortage impacting some St. Louis-area pediatricians - FOX 2
• Free COVID testing kits at 2 St. Louis County Library branches - FOX 2
• Local doctors' discovery about Long COVID could lead to more effective treatment - FOX 2
• 35% of PCR COVID tests coming back positive, Missouri health officials say - FOX 2
• In omicron surge, St. Louis-area ambulances field record COVID-19 calls - stltoday.com
• Area COVID hospitalizations drop but remain close to all-time highs - stltoday.com

STLhelp ☎️

• How to get help paying utility bills through Ameren programs - KSDK
• Ameren Missouri and state government expand utility assistance programs - FOX 2

Jobs 📄

• Gateway Arch and Riverboats looking to hire 250 people - KSDK

History 🦕

• It Sure Looks Like Sidney Powell Wrote the Order to Seize Voting Machines - VICE US

Captain's Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Webb Space Telescope Completes Its Million-Mile Journey Today - Gizmodo
• James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its new home – an orbit almost a million miles from Earth - The Register
• The James Webb Space Telescope arrives at its final orbit - Engadget
• The Space Telescope That Will Look for Alien Life Is Reaching Its Final Destination - VICE US
• Crypto is just a collectible - Kevin Drum
• The Celebrities We've Lost to NFTs - Gizmodo
• Twitter Announces NFT Profile Pictures - Daring Fireball
• Our chip problem is not a supply chain crisis - Kevin Drum
• Corpus Christi Port Handles Record Tonnage In 2021 - The Waterways Journal
• American Cruise Lines Announces Plan For New 12-Vessel Fleet - The Waterways Journal
• Did We Miss Our Best Chance At Regulating The Internet? - Techdirt.
• Correcting Error 402: Rethinking The Web And Monetization - Techdirt.
• The Internet Infrastructure's SOPA/PIPA Silver Lining - Techdirt.
• Yet Another Telecom-Backed Think Tank Insists U.S. Broadband Is Great, Actually - Techdirt.
• Six things Wordle's creator got right - Boing Boing
• The 5G airline controversy ↦ - Six Colors
• India Planning Homegrown Operating System to Rival iOS and Android - MacRumors
• Google Deceived Consumers about How it Profits from their Location Data, Attorneys General Allege - ACM
• Washington DC's AG sues Google for 'deceiving users and invading their privacy' - Engadget
• The Presence Prison - Jason Fried
• Teen Hacker Explains How He Gained Remote Access to Teslas Around the World - Gizmodo
• Toxic Air Has Descended on Beijing, Just in Time for the Winter Olympics - Gizmodo
• Twitter's top security staff out after incoming CEO shakes things up - The Register
• Hosting my static sites with nginx - Julia Evans
• US warns global chip shortage will likely last through 2022 - Engadget
• Panasonic's higher-capacity Tesla battery could enter production in 2023 - Engadget
• The Butterfly Mapo - Maps on the Web
• 24 Hours of Amtrak Trains - Maps on the Web