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Two hard-right members of the Missouri House — Reps. Mary Elizabeth Coleman and Nick Schroer — are expected to win open Senate seats.

Taco lovers will have an embarrassment of riches this week. St. Louis Taco Week starts today and goes through Sunday, October 16. More than 30 area restaurants will be offering $5 taco specials.

Shot in the back, the boy was so badly hurt he couldn't talk to officers, but a witness said the boy was hit while walking on Elmbank Avenue.

Last month, Julian Lennon released his first new studio album in 11 years, an 11-track collection titled Jude. Julian, the older of late Beatle John Lennon's two sons, tells ABC…

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1972 Fischer/Spassky: The Match, its Origin, and Influence celebrates the 50th anniversary of the American Robert “Bobby” Fischer’s historic win over the Russian Boris Spassky

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Police said the boy was conscious and breathing when he was taken from the scene for treatment.

Last night, a pedestrian was struck and killed by a car near an area of St. Louis' south city which has recently seen increased calls by residents to make streets safer. This morning, KMOV reported that around 6:45 p.m. Sunday a woman was hit by a car at Gravois and Spring avenues in Tower Grove South.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. Jane Goodall, who braved the unknown to provide a remarkable window into humankind’s closest living relatives – chimpanzees.

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On Sept. 16, Everything Is Golden, a solo exhibition by St. Louis-based artist Lizzy Martinez, opens as the first exhibition of the 2022-2023 Millstone Gallery

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Fall Is Upon Us It’s time to rake leaves, pick apples, admire the fall foliage, pull out those sweaters and sweats, and commence to carve Jack-O-Lanterns. Pumpkins are popping up all over town. I was at the Kirkwood Farmers’ Market last week. The place looked like a pumpkin museum. I’ve never seen so many colors... 

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Monday is Columbus Day, and while some businesses and services are paused for the day, it's business as usual for others.

This story originally appeared in the Missouri Independent. While announcing a plan to pardon those with prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, President Joe Biden urged governor’s to follow suit for those convicted of state offenses. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, who has granted clemency to more people than any Missouri governor in the past four decades, doesn’t appear ready to heed the president’s call.

STLduJour(nal) ⏳ - MMXXII:283-AM JW Mon, 10/10/2022 - 13:08 STL: Sunday, October 9, 2022 Events 📆

• Halloween 🎃 - stLouIST - a Better Bubble™

BuySTL 👜

• Huge barge backup eases on Mississippi River, freeing tons of cargo - stltoday.com
• Manufacturers report too much inventory, retailers too little - stltoday.com
• Lighthouse St. Louis TDD - stLouIST - a Better Bubble™
• Developer walks away from rehab of St. Louis' second-largest office building - r/StLouis
• United Airlines cuts nonstop route from St. Louis to San Francisco - r/StLouis

Restaurants 🍲

• Unsung Restos ✅ | stLouIST - Pinboard (electroponix)
• Sugaree Bakery in Dogtown closing at end of year - St. Louis Magazine
• Slim Chickens owners sue former St. Louis-area employee for poaching staff at Wingstop - stltoday.com

STLfood ⚜️

• St. Louis Standards: The Wine & Cheese Place Has Been Spreading Joy for 40 Years - RFT
• Is it just me or have Red Hot Riplets gotten way worse? - r/StLouis

Neighborhoods 🏡

• 17th Ward Meeting 10-12-2022 - West Pine Laclede Neighborhood Association
• WPLNA MEETING ON TUES. 10/11/22 AT 7:00 - West Pine Laclede Neighborhood Association

STL100 💯

• Busch Stadium packs largest crowd in its postseason history - FOX 2
• Budweiser Clydesdales welcome new members to the herd - KSDK

STL99 😱

• Grover the river otter dies at the Saint Louis Zoo - FOX 2
• STL County woman sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison after reaping fraud pandemic funds - FOX 2
• Gas leak prompts evacuations in Dutchtown neighborhood - stltoday.com
• Residents in south St. Louis rush out of their homes after a construction crew hit gas line - FOX 2
• Homes evacuated after south St. Louis natural gas leak - FOX 2
• Residents in south St. Louis evacuated after gas main hit - KSDK

99MO 😱

• Potential $30 Million International Arms Deal Plays Out in Eureka, Missouri - RFT

WW99 😱

• Frontline Ukraine troops are reportedly enduring Starlink outages - Engadget

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• As Omicron mutates wildly the virus shows first signs of convergent evolution - New Atlas

Police 🚓

• Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department looking to hire officers - KSDK

DotGov 🏛

• California to discontinue plastic grocery bags - Hacker News

CityGov 🏛

• Messenger: More problems with open records in St. Louis, this time from Kim Gardner - stltoday.com
• St. Louis mayor hires new personnel director - stltoday.com
• St. Louis hires new personnel director - FOX 2
• Mayor Tishaura O. Jones Proposes at Least $40 Million in American Rescue Plan Funding to Make Streets Safer Following Extensive Community Input - RiverBender
• BB 101 - Community Development Agency (CDA) HUD 2023 Action Plan - Board Bills
• BB 100 - Speed Humps Various Location 27th Ward - Board Bills

LocalGov 🏛

• St. Louis County now expects $3.86M tax gain due to higher used-vehicle values - stltoday.com
• Auditor grilled at 3-hour meeting, but St. Louis County Council won't reveal details - stltoday.com

MoGov 🏛

• Eric Schmitt says children are exposed to ‘radical ideology’ in schools - stltoday.com
• Missouri state government has more than 7,500 vacancies. Parson pledges to keep raising pay. - stltoday.com
• Some Missouri lawmakers concerned foreign farms could benefit from agriculture tax credits - FOX 2

FedGov 🏛

• Declassified US nuclear targets – interactive map - Hacker News

Jobs 📄

• Meet the 'Flexforce': Schnucks, in push to keep and attract workers, debuts new staffing strategy - St. Louis Business Journal
• Job openings fall sharply in Midwest - St. Louis Business Journal

History 🦕

• A St. Louis-bred mobster had his flashy last ride home in 1933 - stltoday.com
• The day they fired Harry Caray: a shock to Cardinal fans - stltoday.com
• Southtown - c.1970 - r/StLouis

Sustainability ♻️

• Pluralistic: 09 Oct 2022 $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck - Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Infrastructure 🚽

• Spire gas bills in St. Louis to go up slightly. Bigger proposed rate hikes loom. - stltoday.com
• Satellite power grid would beam energy around the globe just like data - New Atlas
• Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers - Hacker News
• Interactive Submarine Cable Map - Hacker News

Ecology 🦤

• The Rainbow Eucalyptus is the world's most colorful tree - Boing Boing

WWW99 🕸

• That thing to help protect internet traffic from hijacking? It's broken - The Register
• Amazon Scraps Scout Home Delivery Robot Tests - Gizmodo

Twitter 🐦

• Kanye West Locked Out of Twitter for Antisemitic Tweet One Day After Being Restricted From Instagram - Gizmodo
• Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge - Hacker News
• Twitter's edit button finally debuts in the United States, but you'll have to pay for it - Engadget

Space 🚀

• How NASA plans to stop killer asteroids - Freethink
• SpaceX gives another four astronauts a lift to International Space Station - The Register
• SpaceX to Attempt Rare Launch of Falcon Heavy Later This Month - Gizmodo

DIY 🪓

• Building an FM radio from $3 radio chip and an 84MHz ARM Arduino - Hacker News
• PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools - Hacker News
• Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog - Hacker News
• Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit - Hacker News
• TypeScript is now officially 10 years old - Hacker News
• Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac - Hacker News
• Adding Fluid Typography Support to WordPress Block Themes - CSS-Tricks

Captain's Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Sad - Scripting News
• Virgina Air Hyperloop's pod on display at Kirkwood museum - FOX 2
• A look back at children's TV show pioneer, Captain Kangaroo - Boing Boing
• These McDonaldLand brand guidelines are like the handbook for a horror RPG - Boing Boing
• Ask HN: Why do people come to HN for Stripe resolutions? - Hacker News
• Stripe is PayPal circa 2010 - Hacker News

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New York state-based artist Jean Shin, Laumeier’s 2022 Visiting Artist in Residence, describes her work as “giving new form to life’s leftovers.” Her sculptures and

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With the holiday season beginning earlier than ever, the carefree time of the year that is not devoted to the holidays is getting shorter and shorter.

If you’ve always wanted to be yelled at while shoving French fries in your face, your dream is about to come true. Karen’s Diner is planning to open in St. Louis by the end of the month and both masochists and foodies are thrilled. This diner is part restaurant, part performance where all of the staff hate you and are rude right to your face instead of hiding it like they do at other establishments.