STL: Sunday, July 3, 2022
Events 📆
- St. Louis stays in top 20 for best Fourth of July cities – stltoday.com
- City Museum Hosts City Nights: Electric Sky Fireworks Viewing Party On July 4th – RiverBender
- The Best Things To Do In St. Louis This Week, June 30 to July 5 – RFT
- Record Travel Predicted For July 4 Weekend, Gas Prices Hover Near $5 In Area For Unleaded – RiverBender
- Missouri History Museum Hosts Green Living Festival Pop-Up Event – RFT
- The best in chess are coming to St. Louis for three U.S. National Championship tournaments this month – St. Louis Magazine
- The Best Concerts in St. Louis This Week: June 30 to July 6 – RFT
- St. Louis holiday tradition returns in new area – FOX 2
- Free showings of ‘Wrestling at the Chase’ film will be ‘first-come, first-served’ – stltoday.com
- 01 Green Living Festival “Summer of Sustainability” – The Healthy Planet
BuySTL 👜
- KMOV owners buy small STL station, looking to expand Spanish programs – stltoday.com
Restaurants 🍲
- Cecil Whitaker’s Pizza – Businesses
- Sunny’s Cantina serves up Latin American cuisine on Manchester Avenue – feastmagazine.com
- Ice cream shop focuses on boosting wholesale business with move to The Grove – KSDK
- Eater Names Juniper’s Fried Chicken Among the Best in the USA – RFT
- St. Louis Standards: 40 Years In, Hank’s Cheesecakes Still Keeps It Sweet – RFT
- Review: Maize & Wheat Brings Revelatory Colombian Cuisine to St. Louis County – RFT
- Guys With the Fries serves comfort food, Kool-Aid – stlamerican.com
- Co-owners Akia Kemp and Rory Owens are proud to say that Guys With The Fries is a family-owned restaurant with aditional help from friends. – stlamerican.com
STLfood ⚜️
- Ask George: What is the deal with pork steaks, and how did they become such a St. Louis thing? – St. Louis Magazine
- Review: New THC-Infused Red Hot Riplets Both Cause and Cure the Munchies – RFT
- Best place to buy a cheesecake? – r/StLouis
Neighborhoods 🏡
STL99 😱
- PSA for anyone looking to leave Missouri: Consider Edwardsville, IL – r/StLouis
- What does the St. Louis area have against sidewalks? I’m looking at homes for sale and the majority of them are on streets with no sidewalks. – r/StLouis
- Immigration to St. Louis has helped prevent decline. But increasing it is complicated. – KSDK
- Teens charged with robbing letter carriers of mailbox keys at gunpoint – KSDK
- Ambulance stolen, crashed in north St. Louis – KSDK
- Man steals ambulance, crashes in north St. Louis – FOX 2
- Crowded animal shelters in St. Louis area worried about holiday weekend – FOX 2
- St. Louis jail attack video leads to second guilty plea – FOX 2
- St. Louis landlords in an ‘arms race’ for tenants as companies downsize office space – stltoday.com
STL100 💯
- Laumeier Sculpture Park up for Best Sculpture Park on USA Today’s 10Best – KSDK
99MO 😱
WW99 😱
- The Future Of Policing In China Is Pervasive, Surveillance-Driven Law Enforcement Crystal Balls – Techdirt
- Philippines Orders Critical News Organization, Rappler, Shut Down; Just As Rappler’s Founder Argues Against Free Speech – Techdirt
- Debt burden of countries around the world. – Maps on the Web
Police 🚓
- Cops in Woodland, Ca., stand by as “Proud Boys” try to force their way into drag show – Boing Boing
DotGov 🏛
- Cyberattack shuts down unemployment, labor websites across the US – The Register
- St. Louis non-profits get another shot at federal funding – KSDK
- Kentucky Supreme Court Says Warrants Are Needed For Real-Time Cell Location Pings – Techdirt
- Taiwan creates new challenge for tech industry: stern content regulation laws – The Register
- California passes nation’s toughest plastic reduction bill – Grist
- The Feds Don’t Know How Often They’re Using Facial Recognition – Gizmodo
- The Supreme Court Just Ruled Against the Planet – Gizmodo
- Texas state education board rejects proposal to call slavery “involuntary relocation” – Boing Boing
CityGov 🏛
- BB 69 – Cost Reimbursement Subaward Agreement – Board Bills
- Master plan for St. Louis city schools gets new third-party facilitator from Virginia – stltoday.com
- SLPS places Prop S on August 2 ballot to improve schools – stlamerican.com
- Two St. Louis jail oversight board appointees OK’d on second try – stltoday.com
- Lewis Reed, the former St. Louis aldermanic president, signs Rosenblum as defense counsel – stltoday.com
- 30-story Central West End tower passes key milestone toward final approval – KSDK
LocalGov 🏛
- ‘They didn’t seem to care’: Woman says family dog euthanized without permission at St. Louis County shelter – KSDK
- St. Charles mayor wants taxpayers to spend $7 million to help homeless – FOX 2
- 300 tickets issued in St. Charles’ crackdown on expired temporary tags – FOX 2
- St. Louis County ordered to pay Tim Fitch his police pension – FOX 2
- Alleged sex tape in St. Louis County government building under investigation – FOX 2
- Grand jury declines to charge driver in fatal MoDOT crash in St. Louis County – stltoday.com
- Messenger: Lawsuit in dog’s death alleges ‘house of horrors’ at St. Louis County shelter – stltoday.com
- County official’s sex video was recorded, shared without woman’s consent, attorney says – stltoday.com
- Old Jamestown Mall redevelopment plans under consideration – FOX 2
- Godfrey Fire Protection District To Build New $6.5 Million Fire Station/Administrative Building, Plans Released – RiverBender
- Future of Creve Coeur Ice Arena up in the air, needs $2M in repairs – KSDK
- Creve coeur ice rink saved – r/StLouis
- Hockey players, curlers, skaters rally to save Creve Coeur Ice Arena – stltoday.com
- Granite City braces for future without steel plant – stltoday.com
- Illinois’ 1-year tax relief on groceries, gas, property taxes begins Friday – KSDK
- Illinois to pause taxes on gas, groceries, school supplies starting Friday – FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri governor weakens hazardous waste rules, cuts regulation for ‘advanced recycling’ – JWblog
- Missouri Voter Registration Deadline Looms – RFT
- New app can help Missouri residents get money back from the pump – KSDK
- Gov. Parson signs $48B Missouri budget, cuts tax refund program – KSDK
- Unsurprisingly, Eric Schmitt Vows to Wage War Against Abortion Travel Funds – RFT
- Missouri Governor Signs Bill Into Law Criminalizing Homelessness – RFT
- Missouri AG threatens to sue cities funding access to abortion services – FOX 2
- Missouri’s gas tax rising Friday, refund requests now open – FOX 2
- Missouri voters will need photo ID to cast ballot later this year – FOX 2
- Missouri lawmaker resigns after guilty verdict in medical fraud scheme – stltoday.com
- Parson vetoes tax rebate checks, calls for overall tax rate cut – stltoday.com
- Schmitt will sue to block plans by St. Louis city, county to help women get Illinois abortions – stltoday.com
- Missouri schools face new lead testing mandate – stltoday.com
- Missouri’s gas tax going up again Friday as hike in Illinois suspended for 6 months – stltoday.com
- Missouri enacts photo voter ID law before November elections – stltoday.com
- Missouri governor proposes special session to cut taxes after vetoing rebate plan – Missouri Independent
- Missouri governor weakens hazardous waste rules, cuts regulation for ‘advanced recycling’ – Missouri Independent
- Missouri governor signs bill requiring schools test, filter water for lead – Missouri Independent
- Missouri governor vetoes tax rebate plan from record $49 billion state budget – Missouri Independent
- New Missouri law mandates removal of discriminatory covenants from property deeds – Missouri Independent
- Independent Missouri Senate hopeful says Trump should face criminal probe over Jan. 6 – Missouri Independent
FedGov 🏛
- GOP Effort to Subvert Democracy Heads to SCOTUS – Sludge
- Dems Hire Oil and Gas Astroturf Group Lobbyist for Environment Subcommittee – Sludge
- The Supreme Court’s climate decision came out of a decades-long campaign to kneecap regulation – Grist
- Jackson sworn in, becomes 1st Black woman on Supreme Court – FOX 2
- Supreme Court rules Biden properly ended Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ asylum policy – stltoday.com
- Neighborhoods Wrecked by Racist Freeway Construction Could Get a Boost From New Biden Fund – Gizmodo
Covid19 Info 🦠
- COVID visitor restrictions curbed under new Missouri laws ensuring access to patients – Missouri Independent
Jobs 📄
- Surgery Assistant – APA Adoption Center
- Correctional Chief of Security – Jobs
History 🦕
- The night Axl Rose tore up Riverport – stltoday.com
- 1980: The start of one of the hottest summers St. Louis has ever seen – stltoday.com
DIY 🪓
- Honey Blueberry Muffins – The Healthy Planet
- A Cool Treat For Your Hot Pups – The Healthy Planet
- Bunny Fonts – CSS-Tricks
- The Raspberry Pi Pico W brings WiFi for $6 – Jeff Geerling’s Blog
- Raspberry Pi Pico W Adds Wi-Fi, Costs Just $6 – Gizmodo
- New Raspberry Pi Pico Adds WiFi, And Possibly Bluetooth – Make
- The Raspberry Pi Pico goes wireless with the $6 W – The Register
- This large-format laser cutter was built from scratch for just $700 – Arduino Blog
- Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years’ hiatus – The Register
- Open source Office rival Collabora releases web-based CODE 22.05 – The Register
- Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same – The Register
Sustainability ♻️
- Environmental groups sue Biden administration for failing to consider climate change in oil leasing – Missouri Independent
Infrastructure 🚽
- Illinois American Water Continuing to Rehabilitate Sanitary Sewer System In Alton; Road Closures Needed for Employee Safety – RiverBender
Ecology 🦤
- Two Orcas Near South Africa Are at War With Great White Sharks – Gizmodo
- Why Do Female Cardinals See Red? – The Healthy Planet
- 03 Help Wanted: A Million (and more) Pollinator Gardens – The Healthy Planet
- Yellowstone Bison Clearly Fed Up With People After Third Goring of 2022 – Gizmodo
- Illinois officials change the name of invasive carp species in hopes that people will eat them – Boing Boing
- Fish are literally falling from the sky in San Francisco – Boing Boing
Twitter 🐦
- Elon Musk is … quiet – Kevin Drum
- Trump Doesn’t Want To Get Back On Twitter So Badly, He’s Appealing His Case To Get Back On Twitter – Techdirt
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Google Allowed a Sanctioned Russian Ad Company to Harvest User Data for Months – ProPublica
- Object streaks across the Midwestern sky Thursday night – FOX 2
- Deepening Our Commitment – The Healthy Planet
- Dog Safety: 4 Tongue Tells of Overheating – The Healthy Planet
- Raw data: Construction spending in the US – Kevin Drum
- W3C overrules objections by Google, Mozilla to decentralized identifier spec – The Register
- Firefox kills another tracking cookie workaround – The Register
- Meal kit company sued by customers who claim ‘contaminated’ lentils led to gallbladders removals – Engadget
- Working around people – Jason Fried
- BBEdit, Tail Mode, and bbtail – And now it’s all this
- Compounded luck – Seth’s Blog
- Meta Feels the Downturn Burn, Slashes Hiring by 30% – Gizmodo
- Steve Jobs to Be Posthumously Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom – MacRumors