stLouISTSTL: Thursday, April 21, 2022
Events 📆
- Celebrate Record Store Day with these events and specials - St. Louis Magazine
- 5 ways to celebrate Earth Day in St. Louis - St. Louis Magazine
- Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds Hosts Spring Planting Festival May 8 and 9 - The Healthy Planet
- 27th Annual Bark In The Park May 21 In Forest Park - The Healthy Planet
- St. Louis Water Garden Society Hosts Pond-O-Rama June 25 & 26 - The Healthy Planet
- St. Louis' First Plant-Based Restaurant Week Happens Next Month - RFT
- Enterprise Center will turn into Jurassic World this December - KSDK
BuySTL 👜
- Automaker to invest $109M in St. Louis-area plant - KSDK
- Former Blues captain David Backes becomes franchisee for new plant-based burger chain - KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
- Menya Rui opens April 21 in Lindenwood Park - St. Louis Magazine
- First Look: Menya Rui in Lindenwood Park - r/StLouis
- Chicken Out rolls out weekday ‘Flappy Hour,’ featuring discounted combo meals and ‘flappetizers’ - St. Louis Magazine
- Gioia's Deli to open third location on April 25 - FOX 2
STLfood ⚜️
- 10 St. Louis Area Edibles That Will Blow Your Mind - RFT
- A food-lover's guide to Grand Center - feastmagazine.com
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Central West End Neighborhood Security Initiative - stLouIST
- Kitchen inspiration from 7 St. Louis neighborhoods - St. Louis Magazine
DIY 🪓
- Gardening Benefits More Than Your Taste Buds - RiverBender
- Adding Tailwind CSS to New and Existing WordPress Themes - CSS-Tricks
- 8 New Compute Module 4 boards for Spring 2022 - Jeff Geerling's Blog
- The Arduino IDE 2.0 now speaks your language - Arduino Blog
Sustainability ♻️
- Foreign investment in U.S. cropland nearly tripled in past decade, USDA data shows - Missouri Independent
- SLU sees growing interest in cannabis education - KSDK
- New Study: Low-Producing Oil and Gas Wells Drive Roughly Half of Well Site Methane Pollution Nationwide - Main Feed - Environmental Defense
- There Aren’t Enough Batteries in the World to Power Our Huge Cars - VICE US
- FEMA’s new flood insurance system is sinking waterfront homeowners. That might be the point. - Grist
- Renewable Energy Has Been Kicking Ass in the U.S. This Spring - Gizmodo
Infrastructure 🚽
- St. Louis City recycling pickup to resume in May - KSDK
- Budweiser launches plan to connect bars, stadiums and venues to renewable energy - stltoday.com
Ecology 🦤
- Edwardsville Proud to Again Receive Tree City USA Growth Award - RiverBender
- The Country's Most Endangered River Is Hitting New Lows - Gizmodo
STL99 😱
- Digital divide damaging region, acute in low-income areas - stlamerican.com
- A staggering number of St. Louisans are affected by the digital divide. This group wants to do something about it - St. Louis Magazine
- New photos detail conditions of closed downtown club (Reign), owner now being sued for nearly $400k - r/StLouis
- Soaring crime, gunfire shuts down iconic section of St. Louis roadway - FOX 2
- Booms shake parts of St. Louis area from Ameren power project - FOX 2
- Man arrested in Sunday's fatal MetroLink shooting - FOX 2
- St. Louis man charged in killing on MetroLink train - stltoday.com
STL100 💯
- Saint Louis Zoo announces new resident - KSDK
- Welcome, Ficus! St. Louis Zoo welcomes first monkey born since opening of outdoor primate habitat - stltoday.com
- Urban League to open new entrepreneurship center in north St. Louis - KSDK
- Urban League plans to open business center in north St. Louis - FOX 2
- St. Louis Bread Co. expands unlimited coffee program - stltoday.com
99MO 😱
- 500 pounds of marijuana spill onto I-70 after crash on 4/20 - FOX 2
- Workers could sue over vaccine mandates under Missouri bill - FOX 2
WW99 😱
- The West Is Worried About China’s Security Pact with the Solomon Islands - VICE US
- Russian-linked Shuckworm crew ramps up Ukraine attacks - The Register
- Under pressure, SAP shuts down Russian operations - The Register
- UK court orders US extradition of Julian Assange on espionage charges - Engadget
Police 🚓
- The City's Finest - Businesses
DotGov 🏛
- $1.8B back to IL taxpayers: Gov. Pritzker signs 2023 state budget - FOX 2
- Pritzker ends Illinois mask mandate for public transit - KSDK
- The Courts Make It Clear: Scraping Websites Is Still Legal - Gizmodo
CityGov 🏛
- Alderman proposes designated 'cruising area' for large crowds of drivers - KSDK
- Democrat Michael Gras wins election to replace 28th Ward alderwoman who resigned in January - KSDK
- St. Louis Mayor's State of the City Address Calls for More Work to Be Done - RFT
- St. Louis Mayor Jones proposes $150M to north city in first State of the City address - KSDK
- Mayor Jones vows to use $500M in ARPA funds to improve St. Louis - FOX 2
- North St. Louis would see $150M infusion in federal funds under Jones' proposal - stltoday.com
- Mayor Tishaura O. Jones Makes Historic $150 Million Commitment to North St. Louis, Proposes City Employee Raises and Paid Family Leave in First State - RiverBender
- RFP Ticket Paper and Envelopes - City of St. Louis Procurement Opportunities
LocalGov 🏛
- County OKs bonds for convention center expansion, rec center as costs rise - KSDK
- St. Louis County approves millions for convention and rec centers - FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri House passes bill on race, parents' roles in school - KSDK
- Missouri Senate committee cuts attorney general’s budget over COVID lawsuits - Missouri Independent
- Missouri offering $49.5M to settle overtime claims for corrections officers - Missouri Independent
- Marijuana legalization advances in Missouri House - stltoday.com
- Rebate checks for Missourians on shaky ground in Senate - stltoday.com
- Recreational marijuana petition passes signature requirement - The Big 550 KTRS
- Missouri farmers can once again grow industrial hemp. Meet the local farmers betting on the historic crop - feastmagazine.com
FedGov 🏛
- Student literacy bill winning bipartisan support among Missouri lawmakers - Missouri Independent
Covid19 Info 🦠
- Mask mandate no longer enforced for travelers, workers at Lambert airport - KSDK
- Lambert to no longer enforce mask mandate - FOX 2
Jobs 📄
- Intake Coordinator - APA Adoption Center
- Deputy Marshal - City of Saint Louis : Jobs
- Photographer II - City of Saint Louis : Jobs
- As salary offers soar, here's how much wages are rising in St. Louis - KSDK
- St. Louis woman born without arms creates site to help people with disabilities find jobs - KSDK
History 🦕
- Historic images show busy shoppers at Crestwood Plaza before groundbreaking - FOX 2
Captain's Blog 🏴☠️
- Taco Bell Announces Return of Mexican Pizza - RiverBender
- This chocolate bunny screams when it’s eaten - Arduino Blog
- AWS's Log4j patches blew holes in its own security - The Register
- IoT biz Insteon goes silent, smart home gear plays dumb - The Register
- Alex Jones paid himself $18 million before declaring bankruptcy, say Sandy Hook plaintiffs - Boing Boing
- Stop to appreciate the brilliant engineering of the 3½-inch floppy disk - Boing Boing
- Uranus should be NASA’s top planetary target, influential report finds - Science Magazine
- Dutch pledge nearly $1 billion to support underground gravitational wave detector - Science Magazine
- Zoom's desktop apps now respond to raised hands and thumbs-up gestures - Engadget
- Ancient Namibian Gemstone Holds Key to Future Quantum Computers - ACM
- Find great extensions with new Chrome Web Store badges - Google
- Superpredators were real. But they aren’t anymore. - Kevin Drum
- Some notes on social media - Kevin Drum
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