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The annual corn maze at Eckert's Farm in Millstadt, Ill., will honor the St. Louis City SC Major League Soccer team.

Missouri’s wild turkeys remain imperiled, with the numbers of young birds — or poults — seen with adult hens plummeting toward historic lows in recent years.

September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

The school has worked to ensure every student matters through sports, inclusive youth leadership and campus-wide engagement.

The Pedal the Cause kids challenge returns in person today for the first time since 20-19.

The St. Louis County prosecuting attorney's office is accusing 22-year-old Marvin Bailey Jr. of burglarizing a cannabis dispensary store.

North County investigators say someone shot two men in their 20s.

Stacker compiled a list of the countries Missouri exports the most goods to using data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

MISO projects temperatures on Tuesday will rise to 98 degrees Fahrenheit or higher in Missouri and Arkansas/

New from St. Louis Public Radio: For years, Black parents have talked about how traditional schools have failed their kids in the classroom. Now, a growing number of Black families are leaving those schools behind to take a chance on themselves. Doin’ It Our Way explores why some St. Louis area families chose to homeschool, how they are able to do it, and what that experience has been like for their kids. Hosted by Marissanne Lewis-Thompson.

Industrial plants in Birmingham, Alabama, have polluted the air and land in its historic Black communities for over a century. In an epicenter of environmental injustice, officials continue to fail to right the wrongs plaguing the city’s north side.

STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:260-AM JW Sat, 09/17/2022 - 09:02 STL: Saturday, September 17, 2022 Events 📆

• The Best Concerts in St. Louis This Week: September 15 to 21 – RFT
• Great Forest Park Balloon Race festivities start today – FOX 2
• Grant’s Farm Oktoberfest kicks off today – FOX 2
• Fall festivals? We’ve got a list for that. – KSDK

BuySTL 👜

• 4 companies ink deals as demand grows for St. Louis-area warehouses – stltoday.com
• St. Louis-area store among 56 Bed Bath & Beyond locations slated to close – KSDK

Restaurants 🍲

• St. Louis Standards: Robust Bistro and Wine Bar Is the Toast of St. Louis – RFT
• ‘We’ll always be a roast beef place’: Inside Lion’s Choice’s counterintuitive new menu item – KSDK
• A signature move – stlamerican.com

STLfood ⚜️

• Plant Craft Kitchen’s Rachel Carr dishes on healthy recipes, restaurants, and more – St. Louis Magazine
• Mushrooms Naturally is growing high-quality mushrooms for St. Louis chefs and home cooks – feastmagazine.com
• Good morning donut lovers! Here’s the latest episode of the STL Donut Tour highlighting Glazed Cinnamon Twists! – r/StLouis

Neighborhoods 🏡

• Hundreds of St. Louis-area homeowners in limbo months after flood: Rebuild? Or not? – stltoday.com
• A New Mural Walk Will Beautify Midtown St. Louis – RFT

STL100 💯

• Over 100 area immigrants to become U.S. citizens today – FOX 2
• XFL to Keep St Louis Battlehawks name – r/StLouis

STL99 😱

• Carjackers ‘bump-and-rob’ man on I-64 in Illinois – FOX 2
• St. Louis Botched the Ballon Glow – r/StLouis
• Car wash considered for development at deadly Chippewa and Landowne Intersection – r/StLouis
• Stores install barriers after robberies at gun shops, dispensaries – r/StLouis
• ‘Sweetie Pie’s’ star Tim Norman guilty on all charges in murder-for-hire trial – stltoday.com
• Death decending – r/StLouis

99MO 😱 WW99 😱

• Thousands of Migrants Are Arriving in El Paso. They Have Nowhere to Sleep. – VICE US

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• Appointments available for monkeypox vaccine clinic in St. Louis Saturday – KSDK
• Illinois drops COVID-19 testing requirement for unvaccinated school, child care employees – FOX 2
• Illinois governor ends COVID-19 test mandate for unvaccinated school and day care workers – stltoday.com

Police 🚓

• Tonight’s Guns ‘n Hoses Red and Blue Gala supports BackStoppers – FOX 2
• FBI investigates swatting calls at several Missouri schools – FOX 2
• Swatting incidents reported at multiple Kansas, Missouri high schools – FOX 2
• Friends say man was in crisis before St. Louis police shot him. But mental health team didn’t respond. – stltoday.com
• Video of fatal St. Louis police shooting shows teen reached for black object he dropped – stltoday.com
• Police allow reporters to view security video of deadly police shooting of 16-year-old – KSDK
• St. Louis Police Show Surveillance Video of Officers Shooting Teen – RFT
• Ferguson Activist Darren Seals Was Surveilled by FBI, File Shows – RFT
• Cop Who Shot and Killed 911 Caller Christian Glass Is Still on Duty – VICE US
• Cops Want Everyone to Chill on Questions About Mass Killer’s Death in Custody: ‘This Is Not a TV Drama’ – VICE US
• Only Black Cop in Florida K-9 Unit Says Colleagues Used the N-Word All the Time – VICE US

DotGov 🏛

• ‘Goliath is wobbling’: Louisiana court strikes blow to Formosa’s giant plastics plant – Grist

CityGov 🏛

• Testing Procedures for the Job Classification of Police Lieutenant RFP – City of St. Louis

LocalGov 🏛

• St. Louis County Council considering $300,000 study on building new morgue to solve space problems – FOX 2
• Department of Labor awards $5.8 million grant to be a part of the Apprenticeship Building America program – St. Louis Regional Freightway

MoGov 🏛

• Missouri law loomed over Kansas City’s work to design a climate plan – Missouri Independent
• Missouri lawmaker introduces new sports gambling bill – FOX 2
• GOP candidate Schmitt a no-show at Senate debate in Missouri – FOX 2
• Three US Senate candidates face questions at forum. Schmitt skips event. – stltoday.com
• GOP candidate Eric Schmitt a no-show at Senate candidate forum in Missouri – KSDK
• Schmitt no-shows Missouri Senate debate, Valentine slams Chinese ownership of farmland – Missouri Independent

FedGov 🏛

• CISA orders agencies to patch vulnerability used in Stuxnet attacks – BleepingComputer
• New federal guidance aims to strengthen Indigenous land management – Grist
• 5th Circuit Rewrites A Century Of 1st Amendment Law To Argue Internet Companies Have No Right To Moderate – Techdirt
• Congresswoman Urges FTC to Investigate Newly Revealed Police Software Surveilling Americans’ Movements – Gizmodo
• Trump’s Cronies Are Getting Slammed With Subpoenas – VICE US
• Stand back, the FTC is here to police gig work – The Register
• U.S. Safety Agency Warns People to Stop Buying Male-to-Male Extension Cords on Amazon – Gizmodo
• CPSC warns consumers to stop using male-to-male extension cords sold on Amazon – Hacker News
• Exclusive: Big Tech Spent Over $30 Billion Acquiring Companies While Regulators Tried to Reel Them In – Gizmodo

Jobs 📄

• Volunteer Manager – APA Adoption Center

History 🦕 Sustainability ♻️

• ACBL To Operate Forthcoming Mv. Hydrogen One – The Waterways Journal
• Reasons to be cheerful: ‘GPU mining is dead less than 24 hours after the merge’ – Hacker News
• GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge – Hacker News

Infrastructure 🚽

• Water Tank Management System Used Worldwide Has Unpatched Security Hole – SecurityWeek
• The Effort to Build the 700-Mile Trans Ozark Trail – Terrain Magazine
• Downtown’s Merchants Bridge reopens following decade-long, $222M replacement project – KSDK

Ecology 🦤

• Man catches giant 90-pound catfish near St. Louis – FOX 2

WWwx 🌦

• Massachusetts’ Cranberry Harvest Is in Peril Due to Northeast Drought – Gizmodo
• Is climate change to blame for the Pakistan floods? Here’s what we know. – Grist
• Scientists Have Already Attributed Pakistan’s Extreme 2022 Monsoon to Climate Change – Gizmodo
• Pakistan Lost $30 Billion in Floods. Should Rich Polluting Countries Pay Up? – VICE US

WWW99 🕸

• Mudge’s Testimony Shows He Was Acting As An Activist, Not An Executive – Techdirt
• Biden Falsely Claims That Removing Section 230 And Forced Transparency Will Stop Hatred; He’s Dangerously Wrong – Techdirt
• California’s Age Appropriate Design Code Is Radical Anti-Internet Policy – Techdirt
• Adobe Really Wants To Help Netflix With Its Dumb Password Sharing Cash Grab – Techdirt
• Akamai Sees Europe’s Biggest DDoS Attack to Date – SecurityWeek
• Uber Investigating Data Breach After Hacker Claims Extensive Compromise – SecurityWeek
• Uber finds ‘no evidence’ that sensitive user data was stolen in hack – Engadget
• Uber Investigating Massive Security Breach by Alleged Teen Hacker – Gizmodo
• UHaul Data Breach – Hacker News
• LastPass was hacked, but it says no user data was compromised – Engadget
• Microsoft Teams has been storing authentication tokens in plaintext – Engadget
• Let Them Fight: Feud Breaks Out Between 8kun and Kiwi Farms Founders – Gizmodo
• QAnon Celebrity and 8kun Owner Jim Watkins Claims He Bought Kiwi Farms – VICE US
• Parler Enters the Cloud Service Business on an ‘Uncancelable’ Crusade – Gizmodo
• Social media app Parler buys cloud-services provider – Hacker News
• This Hacker Stole Data From 200M Americans. Now He’s Infiltrating Scam Gangs. – VICE US

Space 🚀

• What is in the sky right now? From Dogtown. – r/StLouis
• Congress Requests More Transparency Into Probe of Blue Origin Rocket Mishap – Gizmodo
• NASA’s DART Deploys Camera Probe Ahead of Asteroid Impact – Gizmodo
• NASA Has Found Ingredients for Life in ‘Every Target That We’ve Observed’ on Mars – VICE US
• Galileo Project now fully funded for expedition to study an interstellar meteor – Hacker News

DIY 🪓

• Elecrow CrowPi L: Chromebook Killer for Creatives? – Make
• YouTubers try to protect their catalytic converters – Boing Boing
• Figma Alternatives – Hacker News
• Email deliverability: Everything you need to know – Hacker News
• Open standards body for digital wallets announced – The Register

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years – Hacker News
• The DC Film Universe Is Resurrecting Keanu Reeves in a Constantine Sequel – Gizmodo
• Linux luminaries discuss efforts to bring Rust to the kernel – The Register
• Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive – Hacker News
• The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020) – Hacker News
• Cloudflare has replaced Nginx with in-house, Rust-written Pingora – Hacker News
• Foldscope: The Paper Microscope – Hacker News
• Airstream entry-level (ish) camper van swerves toward off-grid freedom – New Atlas

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At the start of the pandemic, Black families chose to homeschool five times more than any other racial group in the U.S. In the first of three episodes of "Doin’ It Our Way," STLPR's Marissanne Lewis-Thompson explores why more Black parents in St. Louis are ditching traditional schools and taking a chance on themselves. -- We're proud to bring you this guest podcast. To listen to all "Doin' It Our Way" episodes right now, search for the podcast on this podcast platform.

LGBTQIA+ communities have been contributing to St. Louis’s history for centuries. Now the Gateway to Pride virtual exhibit will begin to uncover the rarely-shared or

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Every year the Annenberg Center conducts a survey of civics knowledge among American adults and every year we obligingly fail it miserably. This gives older Americans a chance to complain about how modern education is a shambles compared to the rigorous standards of their day¹ and it gives Annenberg a chance to moan about how ...continue reading "Annenberg’s annual civics survey is a bunch of hocus pocus"

In the fourth week of Table Hunger food drive, O'Fallon and Edwardsville collected more than 5,900 pounds of food.

The St. Louis County Council will consider a health department proposal to spend $300,000 to do a study on building a new morgue.

One of the biggest events of the year is back. The Great Forest Park Balloon Race is going all out for its 50th anniversary.