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St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones holds a town hall meeting to discuss ways to improve traffic and pedestrian safety on Grand Boulevard in north St. Louis after deadly crashes in the past few months.

A controversial mural from 1969 over the way it depicted slavery will be destroyed.

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The Brentwood Police Department installed five Flock Safety license plate reader cameras to crack down on stolen cars.

Missouri hospitals are seeing the highest vacancy rate of nurses ever, up more than 12% from 2018, according to the Missouri Hospital Association.

A Democratic candidate in northwest Missouri is turning a lot of heads, using social media to raise huge sums for a state representative race. But while she's state Democrats' "biggest celeb," she won't even win her own contest.

Cooking up food suitable for a stadium experience brings a unique set of challenges: It needs to feed the masses, be easily handled and it should go great with a beer, Gerard Craft, St. Louis City SC’s “flavor officer,” said.

Electric carmaker Tesla has signed on for warehouse space in the Metro East in advance of opening a new dealership in St. Louis, one of the most notable industrial deals of the quarter.

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Police said the Belleville, Illinois, woman was rushed to the hospital, where she died a short time later.

Data Governance Webinar Notes JW Mon, 10/17/2022 - 23:31

• Beyond the Web
  • Doc Searls
  • Nathan Schneider
• Garden Club
  • Going for over 70 yrs
  • Elections, bylaws, processes...
• Online Governance
• Feudal System
  • Amazon, Meta, etc
  • Tech and Legal Stack
    • Implicit Feudalism
  • Online is more feudal because of the hardware/legalities
    • Easy to say "I'm for democracy"
• Cooperative Alternatives
  • Rideshare, Social Media
  • Building against the grain
  • Financing and Policy
  • How do you make it democratic
• Self governance
  • We don't have the ability to be democratic
  • Crypto does have some demo principles
• OSS
  • many types of governance interact
    • Linus (dictator)
    • Corp (RedHat/Ubuntu)
• Section 230
  • Policy Constraints
  • We wanted to provoke companies to make changes to moderation
    • Git
      • GitHub Space (github rules)
      • "The New Governors"
      • "Governable Spaces"
      • Facebook/Twitter externalizing moderation
• Evolution of Journalism
  • eric mack
  • https://journalists.org/resources/even-if-web3-is-full-of-scams-the-part-that-isnt-might-just-change-everything-midway/
  • The Colorado Sun
• Working with DAOs to come up with standards
  • shared data model
  • modular politics
    • Modularity
    • Composabilty
    • Portability
    • Interopability
  • immutability
    • libertarian fantasy. lol
• Federated Social Media
  • Polycentric not Federated actually
• Decentralized things
  • expect forms of centralization to develop within
    • Accountable Centralization
      • eg. Gmail
        • email is a standard, but because of all the bad players...
• Collective Ownership is necessary for Collective Governance
• Hopper? (throw the bums out > voting)
  • comment by Johannes Ernst
• World after Capital
  • attention is going to become the scarcest commodity
• Reputation systems
  • allow people to do things without jumping through as many hoops.
• Further Reading
  • Metagovernance Project: https://metagov.org/
  • social.coop: https://wiki.social.coop/home.html
  • JournoDAO: https://journodao.xyz/
  • Zebras Unite: https://www.zebrasunite.org/
  • Common Stack: https://commonsstack.org/
  • Sustaining the Knowlege Commons: https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/tag/common-pool-resource/
  • Datasphere Initiative: https://www.thedatasphere.org/
  • Hello Co-op: https://www.hello.coop/
  • Ostrom Knowledge Commons: http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons
  • Rough Consensus: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8789/

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ST. LOUIS - The victim in a homicide that occurred in the 9400 block of Bagley Drive has been identified as Wade Lee, 46 years of age, of the 9400 block of Bagley Drive in St. Louis, Missouri 63136. St. Louis County Police Crimes Against Persons detectives are investigating a homicide that occurred in the 9400 block of Bagley Drive which resulted in the death of an adult male. On October 16, 2022, at 6:44 PM, St. Louis County police officers from the City of Jennings Precinct responded to a call for service for an assault in the 9400 block of Bagley Drive. Responding officers located an unresponsive adult male suffering from injuries inside the residence. The male was pronounced deceased on the scene. The injuries were incurred as a result of an altercation. St. Louis County Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons detectives are conducting the investigation. The investigation is very active at this time. Additional information will be disseminated as it becomes available.

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CHICAGO – Employees at a grocery store in River Grove are buzzing with excitement after selling a $4.85 million winning Lotto ® ticket over the weekend. The winning ticket was sold at Rich’s Fresh Market, located at 3141 N. Thatcher Ave. in River Grove, and matched all six Lotto numbers in Saturday evening’s drawing, 8-12-14-22-27-36, to win the jackpot. “We know who bought the winning ticket – he is one of our regular customers,” exclaimed Lucas Bujak, General Manager of Rich’s Fresh Market. “The gentleman came into the store on Sunday morning and began inserting his tickets into the Lottery machine. One of my employees jokingly asked him if he won, but before he could answer, the customer almost fainted,” said Bujak. And then according to his employee, a few minutes later, the customer began shouting, “I can’t believe it, I actually won the Lotto jackpot – I guess I can now quit my job.” This

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Chicago will return to Las Vegas' Venetian Theatre for an eight-show residency in February and March 2023. Marking the sixth consecutive year the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees…

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