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Last month you probably saw the story about how somebody used a (sloppy) deepfake of Joe Biden in a bid to try and trick voters into staying home during the Presidential Primary. It wasn’t particularly well done; nor was it clear it reached all that many people or had much of an actual impact. But it clearly […]

Tuesday afternoon, St. Louis residents and restaurateurs got another chance to speak with the Board of Aldermen on a highly contested bill that would change part of the city’s liquor license process. St. Louis Board Bill 60 would allow businesses applying for a "restaurant and bar" liquor license to opt out of petitioning the neighborhood that’s within a 350-foot radius of where they plan to open. The bill passed out of committee Tuesday and will now go in front of the full Board of Aldermen. Joe…

For some eligible families, the benefits will begin to expire March 7.

A developer is offering two sets of properties for sale near the Major League Soccer stadium that could allow for ground-up development.

Cigars International, an expanding cigar retailer known for its superstore selection, is looking to open its first Missouri store in the St. Louis region.

Missouri is among more than 30 states that have adopted some version of stand your ground laws over the past two decades.

Jones met with state lawmakers Tuesday, advocating to keep the city’s 1% earnings tax and to stave off state control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

Treasurer Vivek Malek began meeting with gambling company operatives in August to discuss ways to promote programs in his office.

After a string of scandals and amid rising bills, lawmakers in statehouses across the country have been pushing legislation to curb utilities spending ratepayer money on lobbying, expert testimony in rate cases, goodwill advertising, charitable giving, trade association membership and other costs. At least a dozen states have considered bills to limit how gas, water […]

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• Downtown's St. Patrick’s Day Parade Now Has a VIP 'Leprechaun Lounge' - RFT
• Record temperature recorded in St. Louis Tuesday - FOX 2

BuySTL 👜

• STL shoppers hope remaining Macy’s stores stay open - FOX 2
• Schnucks testing smart carts in select St. Louis-area stores. How do they work? - FOX 2

Restaurants 🍲

• Chicken Out in Kirkwood Has Closed Permanently - RFT

Police 🚓

• St. Louis Police Probe Possible Internal Leak of Horrifying Crash Video - RFT
• Night vision drone captures O'Fallon car break-in suspects with precision - FOX 2

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• New broadband map to help rural areas get high-speed internet - FOX 2
• Why Isn’t Taxpayer-Funded U.S. Broadband Mapping Data Owned By The Public? - Techdirt
• US Gov Says Software Measurability is ‘Hardest Problem to Solve’ - SecurityWeek

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• St. Louis mayor lobbies to keep city earnings tax and local control of police - stltoday.com
• Newfangled SUVs Too Hard for St. Louis' Dumb Cops to Drive, Mayor Says - RFT
• Proposal to change St. Louis liquor license process sees mixed reaction from residents, restaurant owners - KSDK
• Aldermen considering red light cameras - FOX 2

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• Ferguson to pay $4.5 million to settle ‘debtors prison’ suit, filed after protests, unrest - stltoday.com
• Thousands could be eligible for part of $4.5M Ferguson debtor's prison lawsuit settlement - KSDK

FedGov 🏛

• A partial government shutdown is days away. There’s no agreement on federal funding yet - Missouri Independent

Jobs 📄

• Buyer - Jobs

Infrastructure 🚽

• Residents, businesses 'left in the dark' with no working lights or answers - FOX 2
• Ameren wants you to pay to close its troubled coal plant. State watchdogs say not so fast. - stltoday.com

WWW99 🕸

• WordPress and Tumblr Plan to Sell User Content to AI Companies - Gizmodo
• WordPress Plugin Alert - Critical SQLi Vulnerability Threatens 200K+ Websites - The Hacker News
• Bluesky Begins To Make Its Decentralized Vision Real - Techdirt
• Google Will Relaunch Gemini in a 'Few Weeks,' After Its Racial Controversy - Gizmodo

DIY 🪓

• ESP32 Weather Station Looks Great With Color E-Paper Display - Hackaday
• A simple(ish) guide to verifying HTTP Message Signatures in PHP - Terence Eden’s Blog

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• Wendy's to implement Uber-style surge pricing - Boing Boing
• Wendy’s Wants to Start Uber-like Surge Pricing in 2025 - Gizmodo
• Underwater Sensor Takes Single Pair Ethernet for a Dip - Hackaday
• The DeDeterminator Uses Quantum Physics To Make Decisions So You Don’t Have To - Hackaday
• It’s happening - Marginal REVOLUTION

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High schoolers will get hands-on learning from an international safe driving program on Wednesday.

I can’t say I held out much hope that my application to be in the movie On Fire would come to much. Yes, the production had put out a wide call for St. Louisans to assist as extras in the film, which is based on the true story of John O’Leary, who battled back after being badly burned as a boy. But thousands had responded when just 600 or so people were needed.

Multiple fire crews responded to a major commercial structure fire overnight in Valley Park. The scene has been unfolding since very early Wednesday morning.

St. Louis Police are searching for a suspect Wednesday morning after the city’s latest murder leaves one man dead.

Tina Farmer, St. Louis theater reviews, drama, contemporary themes, one act plays, St. Louis premiere

A committee of St. . Louis aldermen considers street safety bills Wednesday.

86 degrees for a high on Tuesday. That is not only a record for the day, but that is now the all-time warmest temperature for February.

After months of St. Louis' police force crashing their SUVs into everything that moves — and even things that generally do not, such as buildings — city leadership has landed on a bold new explanation for the department's poor driving. No longer are imaginary dogs to blame — the problem is that the damn cars are just too difficult to drive. That's according to Mayor Tishaura Jones, who made an appearance on St. Louis Public Radio's Politically Speaking Hour on Friday afternoon.