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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:286-AM JW Thu, 10/13/2022 - 07:31 STL: Thursday, October 13, 2022 Events 📆

• Cleanup is underway at Dome lot downtown – FOX 2
• Where to celebrate Halloween with your teen in St. Louis – St. Louis Magazine
• Schlafly’s Full Moon Festival to Return in November – RFT

BuySTL 👜

• Spire gas company holds first public rate hike hearing in St. Louis – KSDK
• Report: Peabody in talks with Australian coal mining company – stltoday.com
• St. Louis entrepreneur to appear on ‘Shark Tank’ – St. Louis Magazine
• Former St. Louis TV journalist is now creating a drone that fits in a backpack – St. Louis Business Journal
• City Foundry STL’s delayed movie theater, Alamo Drafthouse, to open in November – stltoday.com
• Alamo Drafthouse scheduled to open at City Foundry STL in November – St. Louis Magazine
• Alamo Drafthouse Coming to St. Louis Next Month – RFT
• Austin-based cinema-eatery opening at City Foundry STL this November – KSDK

Restaurants 🍲

• From Baton Rouge To Alton – Family Owned Gumbo 2 Geaux Now Open For Business – RiverBender
• Venice Café – feastmagazine.com

STLfood ⚜️

• Sugaree closing retail business – r/StLouis
• Meal prep service to take over former Copper Pig restaurant on Macklind – KSDK

STL100 💯

• New report reveals strengths, shortfalls in St. Louis tech employment – stltoday.com
• Great Rivers Greenways looks at the Meramec, Dardenne, and Deer Creek Greenways – FOX 2
• Two SLPS schools named ‘all-stars’ – FOX 2
• Transit Center transformation at North Hanley stop – FOX 2
• Rescuing architecture: a visit to the National Building Arts Center just across the river – r/StLouis

STL99 😱

• St. Louis says Shell station is nuisance, but doesn’t produce records to prove it – stltoday.com
• Holleman: St. Louis again ranks as least-safe city. The mayor blames state lawmakers. – stltoday.com
• “Trash everywhere, it’s a never ending cycle” concerns grow over road safety after driver is killed by piece of metal – FOX 2
• St. Louis finishes last in ‘safest US cities’ study – FOX 2
• St. Louis finishes last in ‘safest US cities’ study – r/StLouis
• River City HBCU Classic canceled 4 days before the event – KSDK
• Haine Seeks Forfeiture Of 287 Catalytic Converters Seized From Premises Of Business – RiverBender

WW99 😱

• Ukrainian City Removes Elon Musk’s Face from Celebratory Billboard – VICE US
• Taiwan Official Explains With Extreme Calm Why the U.S. Doesn’t Need to Blow Up TSMC if China Invades – Gizmodo
• French Parliament Wants To Make People Pay A License Fee To Use Public Domain Works – Techdirt

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds – Hacker News
• China’s ‘Zero COVID’ Policy Is Going to Last a Whole Lot Longer – VICE US

Police 🚓

• St. Louis-area police say Missouri’s juvenile crime point system needs update – FOX 2

CityGov 🏛

• What the mayor says about St. Louis being labeled the ‘least safe’ city in the country – KSDK
• New 14-member health bureau to address St. Louis’ overdose deaths – stltoday.com
• City of St. Louis announce new bureau to tackle drug abuse and mental health – FOX 2
• City of St. Louis Department of Health Announced Launch of New Behavioral Health Bureau – City of St. Louis – News
• BB 103 – Four-Way Stop Site at the Intersection of St. Louis Avenue and Bishop PL Scott Avenue – Board Bills
• BB 102 – Airport Revenue Bonds – Board Bills

LocalGov 🏛

• A St. Louis County Mayor Went Big for Bitcoin, Now He’s Fighting to Stay in Office – RFT
• APA Adoption Center to Operate Pet Adoption Services for St. Louis County – APA Adoption Center
• Animal Protective Adoption Center slated to operate pet adoption services for St. Louis County – KSDK
• St. Louis County Failed to Fully Sedate Dogs Before Euthanasia, Staffer Says – RFT

MoGov 🏛

• Messenger: Ethics complaint targets Eric Schmitt’s legal role in the Big Lie – stltoday.com
• Eric Schmitt deletes pro-Kanye West tweet amid backlash over rapper’s anti-Semitic remarks – KSDK
• Six states cite ‘harms’ over Biden’s student loan plan in St. Louis hearing – FOX 2
• Eric Schmitt Picks Unusual Time to Become a Kanye West Fan – RFT

FedGov 🏛

• Student loan lawsuit hearing at Federal Court Building today – FOX 2
• Federal judge in St. Louis weighs effort to halt student loan forgiveness – KSDK
• Missouri judge hears lawsuit challenging Biden student debt relief plan – Missouri Independent
• US Federal Courts Agree To Refund Fees They Overcharged People For Access To PACER – Techdirt
• Biden’s Executive Order On Surveillance Doesn’t Do Nearly Enough To Protect Privacy; Playing Word Games Doesn’t Actually Limit NSA Surveillance – Techdirt

Jobs 📄

• 2023 – 2024 Type 1 Ambulance/Medic – City of St. Louis
• Labor Supervisor (Forestry Division) – Jobs
• Attorney II (Transactions) – Jobs

Sustainability ♻️

• The Mississippi River is Our Greatest Force for Building Land – Environmental Defense
• Pittsburgh Airport installs an algae air purifier – Hacker News
• An Australian startup is “growing” water for drought-parched California – Hacker News

Infrastructure 🚽

• Mike Kehoe to announce high-speed internet expansion in Pike County Wednesday morning – FOX 2
• Intel fires up internal foundry model to make its own chips – The Register
• GM races after Tesla with battery pack tech and solar deal – The Register
• High-density EV battery puts 10-minute charge times on the table – New Atlas

Ecology 🦤

• America’s Birds Are in Big Trouble – Gizmodo
• Antarctic Researchers Report a ‘Dramatic Decline’ in Adélie Penguin – Gizmodo
• New Study Maps Over 50,000 Sites In the U.S. That Are Likely Contaminated With ‘Forever Chemicals’ – Gizmodo

WWwx 🌦

• Climate Change Is Causing Wetter, Heavier Rainfall, New Study Shows – Gizmodo

WWW99 🕸

• How to keep getting local news as Facebook changes – FOX 2
• TikTok’s Allegedly Pocketing Up to 70% of Donations Raised by Desperate, Begging Syrian Refugees – Gizmodo
• Employees Reveal Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Vision Is A Clunky, Boring, Ego-Driven Mess – Techdirt
• Microsoft and Meta promise facehugger PCs piping cloud desktops into VR headsets – The Register
• Microsoft’s new AI graphic design app is built on DALL-E – Engadget
• Hyundai wants all of its vehicles to support over-the-air updates by 2025 – Engadget

Space 🚀

• Bigger, Better, Cheaper: How India Is Building a Private Empire in Space – VICE US
• Astronomers can’t explain a black hole "burp" years after it ate a star – New Atlas
• Starlight interstellar probe – Hacker News
• James Webb Telescope captures unique dust rings surrounding two stars – Engadget
• NASA is now targeting November 14th for the Artemis 1 launch – Engadget

DIY 🪓

• Users Are Building Their Own AI-Powered Alternatives to Amazon’s Ring Cameras – VICE US
• How a smart home can be a safer home – Arduino Blog
• Barilla and Arduino: This is not your grandma’s pasta! – Arduino Blog

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi died while attempting to save the lives of people drowning – Boing Boing
• Animated Googly Eyes Could Make Autonomous Cars Safer For Pedestrians – Gizmodo
• Connecticut Jury Orders Alex Jones and Infowars to Pay $965 Million to Sandy Hook Families – VICE US
• Scientists got lab-grown human brain cells to play ‘Pong’ – Engadget
• Dutch hospital ZGT achieves digital sovereignty with Nextcloud – Hacker News
• Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) – Hacker News

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The St. Louis region accounts for half of overdose deaths statewide, driving a racial disparity in death rates, the data also shows. Black people are now more than three times as likely as white people to die from an overdose.

Missouri juvenile courts use a point system to determine whether a juvenile gets locked up for a crime. Many felony crimes do not reach that level.

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