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This weekend marked the 60th trip for the Franklin County group, which has transported 3,000 American war veterans to our nation's capital.

We’ve noted several times how telecom and media giants are running a sleazy smear campaign against Biden FCC nominee Gigi Sohn, in the hopes of keeping the agency in perpetual consumer protection gridlock. The attacks have been carefully seeded across the US press, and accuse the highly popular and qualified candidate of everything from hating […]

After nearly a century of waiting, an independent study by Boston Chemical Data Corp. found Jana Elementary School is contaminated with high levels of radioactive lead. The study said, "The test results indicate high levels of radioactive lead, Pb 210 found in the following areas: Inside the Jana Elementary school building (specifically on the cafeteria fan, in the boiler room, and in the school library). Jana Elementary school playground areas’ soil (specifically the kindergarten play area and…

STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:291-AM JW Tue, 10/18/2022 - 12:24 STL: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 Events 📆

• Diwali: What to know about the 5-day festival – KSDK
• Where to see fall foliage in the St. Louis area – KSDK

BuySTL 👜

• Tesla to open massive warehouse in Metro East – stltoday.com
• Luxury Sweets & Treats Makes the Confections of Your Dreams – RFT

Restaurants 🍲

• St. Louis CITY SC shows off local food options at Centene Stadium – St. Louis Magazine

STLfood ⚜️

• Chili Drive-Thru Events Coming Up at Resurrection Lutheran Church – RiverBender

Neighborhoods 🏡

• I’m Now More Optimistic (Less Pessimistic?) About The Next NGA West Campus – UrbanReview

STL100 💯

• Low Mississippi River levels has many walking to the Tower Rock – FOX 2

STL99 😱

• Radioactive waste found at Missouri elementary school – The Big 550 KTRS
• Parents demand action after report of radioactive contamination at Florissant school – stltoday.com
• An Elementary School Near a Nuclear Dump Site Is Teeming With Radioactivity – Gizmodo
• St. Louis-area teacher shortage means more online classes in school – stltoday.com
• St. Louis Catalytic Converter Thieves Charged with Conspiracy Against US – RFT
• 9 Bronze River Des Peres Greenway trail markers stolen – FOX 2
• Burglar on parole accused of more than a dozen new break-ins – FOX 2
• Central West End restaurant broken into overnight – FOX 2

99MO 😱

• Report: Missouri faces highest turnover, vacancy of nurses in history – FOX 2
• Proposal to close 10 schools in Kansas City, improve academics hinges on community support – Missouri Independent
• Drought Pattern Continues In Missouri Basin – The Waterways Journal
• Severe drought triggers assistance in nearly all of Kansas, half of Missouri – Missouri Independent

WW99 😱

• China’s economy must be worse than we thought – Kevin Drum
• The Morning After: SpaceX will keep paying for Ukraine’s access to Starlink – Engadget

Police 🚓

• Survey Says… More Than Half Of Households With LAPD Officers Support Dismantling The LAPD – Techdirt

DotGov 🏛

• Data Governance Webinar Notes – JW

CityGov 🏛

• St. Louis Mayor Vows to Create Reparations Commission – RFT
• Mayor Jones proposes safety improvements on Grand Boulevard – FOX 2
• City of St. Louis holds North Grand corridor meeting to talk traffic concerns – KSDK
• St. Louis mayor’s plan to make city streets safer – KSDK
• Notice of meeting for PSA committee for Mainframe Support Services – Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO

LocalGov 🏛

• Court fight over St. Charles Convention Center delays new projects – stltoday.com
• Abandoned properties are piling up in St. Louis County. Lawmaker says it’s time for a land bank. – stltoday.com
• University City threatens to take homeowner to court, saying she got weeds – FOX 2
• 5 license plate reading cameras installed in Brentwood to make community safer – KSDK

MoGov 🏛

• Jay Ashcroft, potential Missouri governor candidate, floats library book ban proposal – stltoday.com
• Cost of Missouri’s recent special session on taxes tops $164,000 – stltoday.com
• Pro-union ruling reversed by Missouri Supreme Court – The Labor Tribune
• Overdoses Rise in Missouri Prisons Despite Strict New Mail Policy – RFT

FedGov 🏛

• Flood aid deadline is almost here. FEMA has paid $100 million in St. Louis so far. – stltoday.com
• You Can Now Apply For Federal Student Loan Relief — Here’s How – RFT
• Student loan forgiveness application is now open: Here’s how to apply – FOX 2
• Federal Judge Says FBI Misled Magistrate When Seeking Safe Deposit Warrants, OKs Searches Anyway – Techdirt

Jobs 📄

• AmeriCorps St. Louis is looking for new team members – KSDK
• Microsoft reportedly lays off hundreds of employees – Engadget

History 🦕

• Paducah Citizens Were Levied For Loss Of Sam Orr – The Waterways Journal

Sustainability ♻️

• Low water disrupts industry along lower Mississippi River – FOX 2
• The West’s biggest source of renewable energy depends on water. Will it survive the drought? – Grist

Infrastructure 🚽

• ‘Water Batteries’ Could Power 135,000 Homes in San Diego – Gizmodo
• Giant, megawatt-scale wave energy generator to be tested in Scotland – New Atlas
• Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants – Hacker News
• Engineered duckweed could be a more sustainable source of biofuel – New Atlas

Ecology 🦤

• Cities want more trees. Drought is complicating their efforts. – Grist
• All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too – Grist
• Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped – Hacker News

WWW99 🕸

• TikTok is Introducing an Adults-Only Content Option – Gizmodo
• Mark Zuckerberg: WhatsApp Is ‘Far More Private and Secure’ Than iMessage – MacRumors
• Artist formerly known as Kanye reveals Parler trick: Buying the far-right haven – The Register
• Starlink, shot by both sides in Ukrainian fracas, lives to fight on – The Register
• Elon Musk Tweets Then Deletes Dragon Ball Z Meme With His Pal Kanye West – Gizmodo
• ‘Elon Musk’s X App for “Everything” Might Be a Non-Starter in the U.S.’ – Daring Fireball
• Kanye West is buying controversial ‘free speech’ app Parler – Engadget
• Kanye West, Recently Suspended by Twitter and Instagram Over Unhinged Antisemitic Posts, to Acquire Parler – Daring Fireball

Space 🚀

• Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school – The Register
• Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5B yrs – Hacker News

DIY 🪓

• Barilla’s Open Source Tool for Perfect Pasta – Hackaday
• Shoot an Email to Get a Shot – Hackaday
• Pure CSS Bezier Curve Motion Paths – CSS-Tricks
• Google: Leave Alt Text Empty For Decorative Images & So Does W3C – Search Engine Roundtable
• How to become a pirate archivist – Hacker News
• Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe – Hacker News

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Nothing Says over 40 Like Two Spaces After a Period – Hacker News
• Check Out 7 of the Most Beautiful Libraries in the World – HowStuffWorks
• Playdate Handheld Turned Typewriter – Hackaday
• Pluralistic: 17 Oct 2022 A giant grocery merger will send "inflation" through the roof – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• FeedLand screen shot – Scripting News
• NetNewsWire – Orange Crate Art
• Former FBI director said blockchain is easier to trace than paper money – Hacker News

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Four cars were broken into near Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Lights on landmarks throughout the city will go purple Wednesday and Thursday to bring awareness to the issue of domestic violence.

Abortion providers in the Metro East say the Supreme Court's June ruling that overturned the landmark Roe Vs. Wade decision has forced many patients from out-of-state to visit their clinics.

If you've always wanted to travel, and enjoy helping others, AmeriCorps St. Louis wants you.

All eyes will turn towards Waterloo Tuesday night.

The EPA is hosting four free sessions in St. Louis focusing on lead exposure and awareness.

The Hazelwood School District Board of Education meets Tuesday.

Police found human remains buried in a yard outside a vacant home in north St. Louis on Monday following calls from residents — and some digging by the area's alderman.

But Army Corps stands by its finding that the low-level radioactive residues in nearby soil do not pose an immediate risk to human health.

Another restaurant was vandalized in the Central West End Monday night.

St. Louis City Police were busy overnight after a Central West End business was broken into.

I did not grow up in a serious hunting family, but I married into one. Early on, I learned that for hardcore hunters, the time between October and December is sacrosanct. And for true devotees, the rituals of the season start much earlier: getting licenses in order, target practice, and shopping for gear – all […]

The post It’s camo season in the Midwest appeared first on Missouri Independent.

The attorney general took at least four hams and $3,000 in campaign contributions from a Smithfield Foods lobbyist when he was in the Legislature, records show.

These spots promise to provide comfort and reprieve.

A decade ago the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), located near Anheuser-Busch brewery, announced it intended to build a new campus. If you’re not familiar with the NGA here’s how they describe themselves: The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) delivers world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, military service members, ...