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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:251-AM JW Thu, 09/08/2022 - 08:24 STL: Thursday, September 8, 2022 Events 📆

• Look for the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile in the Metro East this weekend – FOX 2
• A guide to navigating Music at the Intersection – St. Louis Magazine
• The Chase celebrates 100 years with old-school glitzy dinner – St. Louis Magazine
• More than a flea market, Vintage Market Days is a three-day shopping experience – St. Louis Magazine
• Bike MS’s 2022 Gateway Getaway Ride Takes Off Sept. 10-11 – RiverBender

BuySTL 👜

• Bye bye, Bread Co. | St. Louis-based café chain announces Panera rebrand for some locations – KSDK
• St. Louis Bread Co. sign replaced in O’Fallon, more could be changed – FOX 2
• UPDATED: Bread Co. Betrays Us, Changes Name to Panera in Some Metro St. Louis Locations – RFT
• Developer pitches 67-acre entertainment destination along Mississippi riverfront, with marina, water park and themed hotels – St. Louis Business Journal
• Former North Shore Golf site near Interstate 270 eyed for marina, hotels – stltoday.com
• Procter & Gamble plans $180 million investment in north St. Louis factory – stltoday.com
• Peabody Energy to stay in downtown St. Louis – stltoday.com
• What Medical Marijuana dispensary in St. Louis has the best prices? – r/StLouis

Restaurants 🍲

• Layla, a Beloved Grove Mainstay, Has Closed – RFT
• Chess-themed local diner opens smaller concept – KSDK
• The Piccadilly at Manhattan crafts a show-stopping seafood pot pie – feastmagazine.com
• What’s your best middle eastern restaraunt? – r/StLouis

STLfood ⚜️

• What’s fresh at St. Louis-area farmers markets this week – feastmagazine.com
• Volpi Foods celebrates its 120th anniversary – FOX 2

Neighborhoods 🏡

• Inside the North St. Louis Rec Center That Built Jayson Tatum – RFT

STL100 💯

• St. Louis City County Fair – r/StLouis

STL99 😱

• 5 hour long standoff between police and suspect turns fatal – FOX 2
• Catalytic converter thief sentenced to prison and $46,000 in restitution – FOX 2
• Denny’s worker shoots manager during tardiness meeting – FOX 2
• Man shot in south St. Louis after checking on car alarm – FOX 2
• Hanley Hills man accused of animal abuse has been dog fighting for 30 years, charges say – stltoday.com
• Does anyone actually like living in St. Louis? – r/StLouis

99MO 😱

• Elected officials, police chiefs on leaked Oath Keepers list – stltoday.com

WW99 😱

• By the end of 2022, China will have stashed away 65% of the world’s corn and 53% of its wheat, for fear of a food crisis. – The Morning News

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• SSM health expert talks about new COVID-19 booster – FOX 2
• Scientists discovered two antibodies that beat all known COVID-19 strains with more than 90% efficacy – Boing Boing

DotGov 🏛

• Virginia Court Rejects Prior Restraint, Says Old Law Used In Attempt To Ban Books Is Unconstitutional – Techdirt

CityGov 🏛

• St. Louis leaders say top spending categories for $500 stimulus were food, utilities and gas – KSDK
• Mayor Tishaura O. Jones, Treasurer Adam Layne, Joined by DCA Participants, Highlight Program’s Positive Impact on More than 9,000 St. Louis Working Families – City of St. Louis – News
• RFB Janitorial Supplies – City of St. Louis
• RFB Paper, Bond, Data Processing – City of St. Louis

LocalGov 🏛

• St. Louis County Executive announces $5.4 million Airport Road improvement project Wednesday – KSDK
• $5.4 million invested for Airport Road upgrades in north St. Louis County – FOX 2

MoGov 🏛

• Missouri Senate hopefuls spar over debates, with press association forum set for next week – Missouri Independent
• Missouri secretary of state throws support behind controversial election theory – stltoday.com
• Missouri Secretary of State Supports Controversial Election Theory – RFT
• Democrats mine Missouri attorney general’s office for information on Hawley – stltoday.com

FedGov 🏛

• ATF offers reward after group steals 50 guns from local stores – stltoday.com
• Taking CHIPS Act cash? You’re banned from planting advanced fabs on Chinese soil – The Register
• Steve Bannon Says Authorities ‘Will Have to Kill Me,’ But He’s About to Turn Himself In – VICE US
• WaPo: Documents about foreign nation’s nuclear defenses among those seized from Donald Trump’s Florida compound – Boing Boing
• DEA Continues To Be The QAnon Of Drug Enforcement, Pretends Colorful Fentanyl Is Dealers Trying To Kill Children – Techdirt

Sustainability ♻️

• Talking trash: We don’t have to treat our farms like landfills – Missouri Independent
• Carbon capture has a long history. Of failure. – Global Energy
• What’s the true cost of an induction stove? – Grist
• Scientists pull hydrogen from thin air in promising clean energy move – The Register
• Hydrogen battery startup says it has $700M order backlog – Hacker News

Infrastructure 🚽

• America’s electric utilities spent decades spreading climate misinformation – Grist

Ecology 🦤

• Bugged by bugs: Insects swarming in late Summer wet and warmth – FOX 2
• You’ve Been Thinking of Australian Mammals All Wrong – Gizmodo

WWW99 🕸

• Ukraine dismantles more bot farms spreading Russian disinformation – BleepingComputer
• Nextdoor is trying to prevent neighbors from arguing about the midterms – Engadget
• Facebook engineers: we have no idea where we keep all your personal data – Hacker News
• Can We Save A Truly Global Internet? – Techdirt
• Reddit Is Changing the Way You Navigate Your Feeds – Gizmodo
• Google’s CEO Continues Hinting at Company Cuts – Gizmodo

Twitter 🐦

• Elon Musk can use whistleblower claims to try to get out of Twitter deal, judge rules – Engadget
• Elon Musk Denied Trial Delay in Delaware Court – Gizmodo
• Twitter is making Birdwatch, its crowd-sourced fact checks, much more prominent – Engadget
• Twitter will let you edit your tweets up to five times in 30 minutes – Engadget

Space 🚀

• SpaceX Rival Loses Hundreds of Millions Over Cancelled Russian Launches – Gizmodo
• NASA Opts to Fix Megarocket Hydrogen Leak at the Launch Pad – Gizmodo

DIY 🪓

• A YouTuber built a tool that beat Snap-On – Jeff Geerling’s Blog
• What raising the grain means – The Silicon Underground
• OVHcloud opens up Bring Your Own IP service for IPv4 failover – The Register
• Here’s how to write the alphabet in Egyptian hieroglyphs – Boing Boing

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Corn Kid named South Dakota’s cornbassador – Boing Boing
• Apple debuts iPhone 14, Watch 8, other sparkly things – The Register
• Toilet Paper Company Sues Rival for Selling Very Long Roll – VICE US
• The Chess World Is Absolutely Losing It Over Cheating Allegations After Massive Upset – VICE US
• A look at how the German propaganda machine spun D-Day – Boing Boing
• Further Thoughts On Cloudflare And Infrastructure Moderation – Techdirt
• Examining Black flight: why Black families have been absconding from cities for decades. – The Morning News

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