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⏳ STLduJour(nal) - 2023-230-PM Edition JW Fri, 08/18/2023 - 17:27

2023-230-PM

A lunchtime update. Hope everyone has a good weekend.

STL: Friday, August 18, 2023

Events 📆

• Enjoy a free concert from the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, fireworks at Forest Park next month - KSDK
• The Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend, August 17 to 20 - RFT
• This weekend’s best food and drink events in St. Louis: August 18-20 - feastmagazine.com

BuySTL 👜

• A-B heir Billy Busch open to buying back Bud Light brand - FOX 2
• Fields Foods Employees Say They Knew Nothing of ‘Employee Group’ Plans - RFT
• In St. Charles, Erbe Farms is growing and selling some of your favorite fungi - feastmagazine.com
• Lufthansa hopes to expand Frankfurt flight as passengers pack seats, leaders declare success - stltoday.com
• Metro East Dispensary Sees ‘Drastic Decrease’ After Missouri Legalizes Weed Sales - RFT
• Missouri Drew 1,600 Applicants for 48 Micro Cannabis Licenses - RFT
• US Steel says union cannot block company’s sale - stltoday.com

Restaurants 🍲

• 5 St. Louis spots making killer fried chicken sandwiches - feastmagazine.com
• Divas Dine at Casa de Tres Reyes, The Main House & Hendel’s - flovalleynews.com
• New bar planned for Midtown this fall - KSDK
• Six restaurant kitchens now open at The Hill Food Co. - St. Louis Magazine
• St. Louis barbecue chain to open new restaurant location in Florissant - St. Louis Business Journal
• The Key Bistro opens in the Missouri History Museum - St. Louis Magazine
• The Wood Shack Is Now Bigger — With an Expanded Menu - RFT
• This St. Louis deli stop named Yelp’s best in the Midwest - FOX 2

Neighborhoods 🏡 DIY 🪓

• Soundproofing my studio: what’s in a wall? - Jeff Geerling’s Blog

Recipes 📇

Sustainability ♻️

• Missouri River Basin Has Average Month In July - The Waterways Journal

Nature 🦝

• An Invasive Hornet That Murders Honeybees Has Arrived in the United States - Gizmodo

STL99 😱

• A food oasis suddenly dry as Pagedale grocer closes - stlamerican.com
• Byers’ Beat: ‘We were just kind of thrown to the wind’ | Retired dispatcher says St. Louis 911 crisis was a long time coming - KSDK
• Deal dead for sale of AT&T tower in downtown St. Louis - stltoday.com
• Chess.com cuts ties with ‘St. Louis Chess Club’ over sexual assault allegations - FOX 2
• Chess.com ends relationship with Saint Louis Chess Club ‘for foreseeable future’ over sexual assault allegations - KSDK
• Fox 2 cameraman breaks leg, needs surgery after he’s hit by Hillsdale village vehicle - stltoday.com
• St. Louis homeless shelter needs a new home. But no one wants it near them. - stltoday.com

STL100 💯

• St. Louis CITY SC has plans to install 11 mini-pitches around the region - St. Louis Magazine
• St. Louis Parking Dispute Resolved By Justice Toilet - RFT

99MO 😱

• Study: Missouri among ‘most dangerous states’ for motorcycling - FOX 2

100MO 💯

• The world’s largest spool of thread is in Missouri - Boing Boing

Crime 🗯

• SLMPD Daily Crime Report SLMPD

DotGov 🏛

• Kansas newspaper publishes in defiance of police raid — and gets seized property back - Missouri Independent

CityGov 🏛

• City of St. Louis partners with longtime local nonprofit to replace Cure Violence program - KSDK
• CDA Housing Awards 2023 - City of St. Louis - News
• St. Louis OKs $1.9M more for violent crime ‘interruption’ programs - stltoday.com

LocalGov 🏛

• Emergency meeting called in Jennings after mass resignations - FOX 2
• Emergency meeting called in Jennings after several resignations by employees - KSDK
• Flood, levee issues dominate public hearing on Mississippi River policy - stltoday.com

MoGov 🏛

• Cannabis trade group pushes back on Missouri regulators after encouraging investigation - stltoday.com

FedGov 🏛

• Feds raise concerns about long call center wait times as millions dropped from Medicaid - stltoday.com

Covid19 Info 🦠

• Is it too soon to get your flu shot? Here’s the answer - KSDK

STLhelp ☎️ Jobs 📄 History 🦕 Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Clear and cool Friday, Excessive Heat Watch issued from Sunday afternoon through Wednesday - FOX 2
• Honey, can you shrink the plugin? Mozilla allows desktop extensions on Firefox for Android - The Register
• Internet Archive’s Copyright Battle with Publishers Leads to Lending Restrictions - TorrentFreak
• NASA’s spectacular view of St. Louis from space - FOX 2
• Record labels hit Internet Archive with new $400M lawsuit for preserving 78 rpm records - Waxy.org
• SUSE to flip back into private ownership after just two-and-a-bit years - The Register

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Formerly known as Six Flags of Mid-America, this amusement park has long been a cherished destination for nuclear families, who convene annually to indulge in ice cream, relish exhilarating rides, and soak up the sun's warmth. St. Flags of Mid-America made its debut on June 5, 1971.

A retired dispatcher shares how the dispatcher shortage has been brewing through three mayoral administrations.

Seven teachers from the St. Louis region have advanced to the semifinalist stage as nominees for the 2024 Missouri Teacher of the Year award. This program highlights the crucial role that outstanding teachers play in their students' lives.

SPRINGFIELD – A new law championed by State Senator Christopher Belt will tackle the increasing number of food deserts in Illinois. “Everyone should be close to fresh and affordable food ,” said Belt (D-Swansea). “This new Grocery Initiative Act will provide crucial support to grocery stores in areas where they are needed most.” Under the new law, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity will be required to provide grants and other forms of financial assistance to grocery stores located in or to be located in a food desert. This aims to help mitigate the issue of food deserts across the state. An area is considered a food desert when urban residents have to travel more than a half-mile and rural residents more than 10 miles to get to the nearest grocery store. “When communities lack grocery stores, it can have a significant impact on the health and well-being of residents,” said Belt. “With this new initiative, we are heading

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EAST ALTON – Visitors to the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center’s Jerry F. Costello Confluence Field Station will notice a new addition atop its iconic green roof. A weather station, specifically called a Mesonet station, from the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Saint Louis University, was recently installed by NGRREC sm Post-Doctoral Research Associate Teresa Baraza, PhD, and Doctoral Student Ryan Kelly. "We are excited to be able to bring this collaboration to fruition,” Baraza said. “The NGRREC field station is a great location for a Mesonet station that can yield useful and reliable weather data, so this is a great opportunity for both institutions". The goal of this weather station is to continuously collect real-time data on temperature, pressure, moisture, rain fall, solar radiation and wind speed. The station will record each of these metrics every minute, giving researchers a more complete picture of weather fluctuations

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- A U.S. District Judge sentenced a Worden man to serve seven years in federal prison for the possession of illicit child pornography.

CHICAGO - Attorney General Kwame Raoul today commemorated August as Child Support Awareness Month by highlighting Illinois’ new law to improve the collection of child support payments and ensure families across the state receive the support they need to raise their children. Raoul initiated House Bill 3301, which was signed into law by Gov. JB Pritzker and sponsored by Sen. Mike Halpin and Rep. Terra Costa Howard, to amend the Unemployment Insurance Act to require employers to report independent contractors as new hires starting Jan. 1. The new reporting requirement will ensure that the Attorney General’s office is able to better ensure that non-custodial parents employed as independent contractors are meeting their child support obligations. “August is Child Support Awareness Month, and I am proud to highlight the latest efforts my office is undertaking to ensure children in Illinois get the support they need. This law will help our child support attorneys in thei

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Built in 1960, the residence was designed by architect Isadore Shank.

Let’s start from the basics here: if you tax something, you will get less of it. That’s how taxes work. If you want less of something, you add a tax to it. In Canada, some very, very clueless politicians (pushed by the news media) passed a tax on Facebook and Google linking to news. Both […]

Steve Miller is sharing another taste of his upcoming box set celebrating the 50th anniversary of his classic album The Joker.  The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is giving fans some insight…

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The last three Missouri teachers of the year came from the Ritenour, Ferguson-Florissant and Lindbergh school districts.

Last week, the top official of a north St. Louis County municipality was allegedly in a vehicle that ran over a photojournalist hoping to interview her, leaving him with a broken leg that required emergency surgery. The incident, first reported by the Post-Dispatch yesterday, occurred last Friday outside city hall  for the Village of Hillsdale, where Mitch McCoy, a reporter with Fox 2 (KTVI) showed up with cameraman Wade Smith to speak with Hillsdale Chairwoman Dorothy Moore. 

Musical theatre is filled with great love ballads, going all the way back to "Tea for Two" (yes, "Picture you / upon my knee / just tea for two / and two for tea" counted as clever lyrics back in 1925). But in our book, the best show tunes are the acid ones, from "The Gentleman Is a Dope" in the otherwise forgotten Allegro to "Could I Leave You" from Stephen Sondheim's genius Follies (sample lyric: "Could I bury my rage / With a boy half your age in the grass?

The annual Delmar Black Business Expo in St. Louis, which returned on August 26, is one of the numerous efforts Mastercard is supporting to help close the racial wealth and opportunity gap for Black communities across America.

One Kansas City mother still grieves her son’s unsolved murder while she pleads to the public for information that could lead to an arrest.