By JW | Thu, 02/22/2024 - 06:07

STL: Thursday, February 22, 2024

Events 📆

  • The Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend: February 22 to 25 - RFT
  • Your guide to parish fish fries in St. Louis this Lenten season - FEAST
  • Ways to celebrate Black History Month in St. Louis - St. Louis Magazine
  • SLAM’s Matisse and the Sea Exhibit Explores a French Master's Ocean Obsession - RFT

BuySTL 👜

  • Where to support Black-owned bakeries in St. Louis - St. Louis Magazine
  • Everything is free at this St. Louis store - KSDK
  • New attraction planned at St. Louis Union Station - stltoday.com
  • New amusement ride planned at Union Station - KSDK
  • Arcade games, Skee-Ball no longer free at 4 Hands Brewing Co. - KSDK
  • St. Louis-based retailer to close all remaining stores amid bankruptcy - KSDK
  • 'It's Heartbreaking': MO Art Supply Will Close for Good on Sunday - RFT
  • Blue Violet closes in Edwardsville - St. Louis Magazine
  • American Queen Voyages shuts down, cancels all trips - stltoday.com
  • Jobe Responds To American Queen Voyages Announcement It Has Discontinued Operations For 2024 - RiverBender
  • Liberal billionaire George Soros will be largest shareholder of KMOX parent - St. Louis Business Journal

Restaurants 🍲

  • 1818 Offshore Offers Fresh Seafood Specials for Lent - RiverBender

Neighborhoods 🏡

STL99 😱

  • The Gateway Geyser Is Shutting Down - RFT
  • Gateway Geyser to close, make way for potential National Park acquisition and Illinois Route 3 construction - KSDK
  • Cement dust billows from south St. Louis plant - FOX 2
  • Fight leads to shooting at bus company offices - FOX 2
  • Argument leads to rolling gunfire along I-270 in Bridgeton, one shot - FOX 2
  • Fourth pedestrian killed this month in St. Louis County - stltoday.com
  • Pedestrian fatalities rising across St. Louis - FOX 2

Police 🚓

  • Officer crashes police vehicle near St. Louis fire station, police say - KSDK

DotGov 🏛

  • KOSA Isn’t Just Wrong About The Internet, It’s Wrong About Child Safety - Techdirt
  • 8 states move to ban utilities from using customer money for lobbying - Grist

CityGov 🏛

  • BB 218 - Zoning Change for 5956 Columbia Avenue - Board Bills
  • BB 219 - Zoning Change 6110 Berthold Avenue - Board Bills
  • BB 221 - Recklessly Driving - Board Bills
  • BB 220 - Appropriating $15,300,000 of Interest Funds Earned on the City’s Funds Received Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 - Board Bills
  • Business Insider touts success behind St. Louis' Guaranteed Basic Income program - FOX 2
  • Alderwoman files bill giving $15.3M more for convention center project - St. Louis Business Journal

LocalGov 🏛

  • Plans to build a shelter for pregnant women in St. Louis County will advance - stltoday.com
  • How tax breaks siphoned millions from Missouri public schools that serve poor students - Missouri Independent
  • Godfrey Tables Public Camping Ban - RiverBender

MoGov 🏛

  • Downtown West Is Getting a New DMV Office - RFT
  • University of Missouri opposes bill that would end its monopoly over certain graduate degrees - stltoday.com
  • Push for legal betting backed by Cardinals, Chiefs, other Missouri teams may cause gambling addiction spike - KSDK
  • Missouri Senate committee discusses requiring five-day school weeks for some districts - FOX 2
  • Missouri Treasurer faces scrutiny over state advertising on unregulated slot machines - Missouri Independent

FedGov 🏛

  • Cori Bush presses Postmaster General for answers to St. Louis-area mail woes - FOX 2

History 🦕

  • Black History Moment: Remembering Maya Angelou's contributions to history - FOX 2

Sustainability ♻️

  • The Rising Cost of the Oil Industry’s Slow Death - ProPublica
  • The growing popularity of degrowth - Grist
  • Hydrogen Could Have Much Bigger Climate Impact Than Most Estimates, Study Shows - News
  • Trillions of tons of buried hydrogen: Clean energy gold rush begins - New Atlas

Infrastructure 🚽

  • Widespread AT&T service outage reported Thursday morning - KSDK
  • Street collapse closes south St. Louis road - stltoday.com
  • South St. Louis street collapses into massive sinkhole - KSDK
  • Sinkhole in south St. Louis: reported problems since 2011 - FOX 2
  • Crews working to determine solution to south city sinkhole - FOX 2
  • 5G is ‘ now’ eating cable’s lunch - On my Om

WWW99 🕸

  • New SSH-Snake malware steals SSH keys to spread across the network - BleepingComputer
  • New Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities Expose Android and Linux Devices to Hackers - The Hacker News

DIY 🪓

Captain's Blog 🏴‍☠️

  • Robin Rendle’s new homepage is a Hypercard-inspired mini-manifesto - Waxy.org
  • Replacement PCB Replicates Early 80s Modem - Hackaday
  • Reported $60M Reddit deal signed to train AI models with user data - The Register
  • MariaDB receives offer to go private more than year after disastrous IPO - The Register
  • Simplified pricing in Micro.blog - Manton Reece
  • Meta is testing cross-posts from Facebook to Threads - Engadget
  • McDonald’s creates 'WcDonald’s': the anime-inspired fast food experience - FOX 2