By JW | Wed, 08/24/2022 - 02:39

STL: Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Events 📆

BuySTL 👜

Restaurants 🍲

STLfood ⚜️

  • 10 places to eat and drink near Busch Stadium – feastmagazine.com
  • St. Louis’ best sandwiches from the STL 100 – stltoday.com
  • Clueless Website Disses St. Louis Barbecue Scene – RFT
  • “Don’t Put Me in the Refrigerator!” – Good Food St. Louis

Neighborhoods 🏡

  • 2020 St. Louis Neighborhood Census Review: A dynamic population – NextSTL – r/StLouis

STL100 💯

  • Some more shots from the other day with my drone. – r/StLouis
  • Man wins $2M from scratchers game in St. Louis – FOX 2

STL99 😱

  • Has recycling fully resumed? – r/StLouis
  • Rising homicide rates in St. Louis trigger rising concerns – KSDK
  • St. Louis man threatened with jail time for calling 911 – FOX 2
  • Two earthquakes shake Missouri on Monday – FOX 2

99MO 😱

  • Record Number of Missouri School Districts Switched to 4-Day Week – RFT

WW99 😱

  • Microsoft and Amazon reportedly halt plans to build data centers in Ireland – Engadget

Pox Populi™ 🦠

  • St. Louis pandemic task force ends weekly data updates – stltoday.com

Police 🚓

  • New oversight plan means closer scrutiny of St. Louis police – FOX 2
  • New oversight plan means closer scrutiny of St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department – KSDK
  • Bridgeton police plan to close jail at night, house inmates in St. Charles – stltoday.com

DotGov 🏛

CityGov 🏛

  • Voters from former Alderman Jeffrey Boyd’s ward elect his replacement – stltoday.com
  • John Collins-Muhammad pleads guilty to bribery charges – stlamerican.com
  • Former Alderman John Collins-Muhammad pleads guilty to bribery charges – KSDK
  • Ex-St. Louis Alderman John Collins-Muhammad pleads guilty in bribery scheme – FOX 2
  • Guilty pleas start for former aldermen charged in pay-to-play bribery case – FOX 2
  • Ex-St. Louis Alderman John Collins-Muhammad admits federal corruption charges – stltoday.com
  • Former St. Louis alderman to plead guilty today following corruption charges – stltoday.com
  • John Collins-Muhammad Pleads Guilty in Bribery Scheme – RFT

LocalGov 🏛

  • Cities in St. Louis County change panhandling laws after uptick – FOX 2

MoGov 🏛

  • ‘I think that thing’s a disaster’: Parson slams recreational weed question on Missouri ballot – stltoday.com
  • Citing Greitens defeat, John Wood abandons independent run for U.S. Senate in Missouri – Missouri Independent
  • Parson tours Missouri discussing income tax cut proposal – FOX 2

Jobs 📄

  • EXECUTIVE SECRETARY-ST. LOUIS BOARD OF ALDERMEN – Jobs
  • Behavior and Enrichment Coordinator – APA Adoption Center
  • Career Central: Second Chance Job Fair set for Friday – KSDK
  • St. Louis Streets Dept. Job Fair – FOX 2

History 🦕

  • Fisherman finds 90-million-year-old fossil in Missouri River – FOX 2
  • A Look Back • Ulysses Grant’s marriage here was a quiet affair – stltoday.com

Sustainability ♻️

  • Predatory landlords are buying up trailer parks en masse – Boing Boing

Infrastructure 🚽

  • China’s emergence as an EV powerhouse has been a long time coming – Engadget
  • Rare Earths Processor Buys Rights to Mine in Greenland – ACM

Ecology 🦤

  • Hot Weather May Have Caused Elephant to Stab Its Trainer to Death, Police Say – VICE US

WWwx 🌦

  • Most of the U.S. is Being Pummeled by Drought – Gizmodo
  • As drought dries up the Yangtze river, China loses hydropower – Grist

Twitter 🐦

  • Twitter merges misinformation and spam teams following whistleblower claims – Engadget
  • Twitter whistleblower claims company’s practices pose national security risk – Engadget
  • Twitter Whistleblower Says Twitter Is Lying to Elon Musk About Bots – VICE US
  • Congress is looking into Twitter whistleblower’s claims of lax security – Engadget
  • Twitter’s Former Security Boss Drops Stunning Whistleblower Report – Techdirt
  • Elon Subpoenas Twitter Whistleblower to Testify About Counting Bots – Gizmodo

Space 🚀

  • NASA: ‘We Are Go for Launch’ of SLS Megarocket – Gizmodo

DIY 🪓

  • Universal Unix tool AWK gets Unicode support – The Register

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

  • “Sabotage”-themed Beastie Boys action figures announced – 105.7 The Point
  • Removing jQuery from GOV.UK – CSS-Tricks
  • Recommended Twitter follow: Abandoned Places – Boing Boing
  • 25 Years Ago Today… Techdirt Got Started! – Techdirt
  • Streaming Tops Traditional Cable TV Viewership For First Time Ever – Techdirt