stLouISTSTL: Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Events 📆
- 5 family-friendly activities in St. Louis: April 25–May 8 - St. Louis Magazine
- St. Louis Microfest returns to Forest Park on May 6 and 7 - St. Louis Magazine
- Vietnamese Culture Day @ TGP - May 1 - Food, Games, Crafts, & More - r/StLouis
BuySTL 👜
- 4 Hands Brewing Celebrates Free Comic Book Day With Limited Edition Label - RFT
- Plan for indoor mini golf, arcade facility on Delmar Loop moves ahead - KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
- Golden Hoosier's vegan chili is a clear winner - feastmagazine.com
- New ramen restaurant coming to this St. Louis neighborhood - KSDK
STLfood ⚜️
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Our Very Incomplete Guide to St. Louis County's Municipalities - RFT
STL99 😱
- Centene earnings and revenue jump; CEO says 'significant downsizing' of office space on horizon - stltoday.com
STL100 💯
- Alpine Coaster Comes to Grafton, Illinois - Terrain Magazine
99MO 😱
- U.S. teacher salaries dropped to lowest in decade during pandemic — and Missouri is at the very bottom - stltoday.com
WW99 😱
- Elon Musk’s Starlink fights off Russian attacks in Ukraine - Freethink
- BCS: Ukraine's IT industry is open for business - The Register
- DDoS attacks at an all-time-high in Q1 2022, says Kaspersky - The Register
Police 🚓
DotGov 🏛
- 14 Former Government Regulators Who Are Now Shilling Crypto - Gizmodo
- NSO Is Everywhere And Still Lying About What It Can And Can’t Do To Control Misuse Of Its Exploits - Techdirt
CityGov 🏛
- Sewer district wants police to relocate homeless camp in south St. Louis - FOX 2
- South St. Louis neighbors look to city leaders as homeless community grows - KSDK
LocalGov 🏛
- $6M Jamestown Mall demolition approved by St. Louis County Council - KSDK
- Citizens sue fire district accused of wasting tax dollars in St. Louis County - FOX 2
- County Council Approves Funding to Demolish Blighted Jamestown Mall - RFT
- Metro Transit’s interim executive director appointed to post permanently - stltoday.com
- St. Louis County approves $6 million to demolish Jamestown Mall - FOX 2
- St. Louis County Council approves $6 million to demolish Jamestown Mall - stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
- Attorney calls Eric Greitens subpoenas ‘a fishing expedition’ during Boone County hearing - Missouri Independent
- Missouri Senate advances $46B state budget that includes teacher pay raises - KSDK
- Missouri Senate approves record budget, adds $1.2B to House spending - Missouri Independent
- Missouri Supreme Court lets St. Louis, Jackson County challenge controversial gun law - r/StLouis
FedGov 🏛
- OSHA report says workers killed in Amazon warehouse collapse took shelter in wrong bathroom - KSDK
- OSHA says Amazon workers were confused during Edwardsville tornado, but issues no fines - stltoday.com
Covid19 Info 🦠
Jobs 📄
- Administrative Assistant - APA Adoption Center
- Unemployment Rates Down, Jobs Up In Area In March 2022, Compared To March 2021 - RiverBender
History 🦕
- Cabin fever: Recently revealed log cabin is moved, will be rebuilt in Carondelet Park - stltoday.com
- A look back • A Post-Dispatch reporter takes the hostage home in one of the most bizarre kidnapping cases St. Louis has ever seen - stltoday.com
DIY 🪓
- You Can Finally Buy This $390 Rotary Cell Phone DIY Kit - Gizmodo
- Now You Can Check How an Android App is Using Your Information - Gizmodo
Sustainability ♻️
- Local Metal Recycling Company Resilient Amid Pandemic, Supported by Illinois SBDC for the Metro East at SIUE - RiverBender
- Batteries are getting cheap. So why aren’t electric vehicles? - Grist
- Say Goodbye to Incandescent Light Bulbs - Gizmodo
- Subaru's first EV, the Solterra SUV, starts at $44,995 - Engadget
Infrastructure 🚽
- Documents show Spire scrambling for survival of St. Louis pipeline after court ruling - Missouri Independent
- New lot aims to improve parking at Lambert Airport - FOX 2
- German Wind Turbine Firm Hit by 'Targeted, Professional Cyberattack' - SecurityWeek RSS Feed
Ecology 🦤
- India Swelters Under Heatwave, With Temperatures Set to Hit 118 Degrees - Gizmodo
- Ohio Bans Bradford Pear Trees. Should Missouri Follow Suit? - RFT
- It’s raining harder than ever. New research says climate change is to blame. - Grist
- Record avian flu outbreak is threatening North America’s birds. Is the virus here to stay? - Science Magazine
- Group Sues White House Over Oil & Gas Report That Didn't Mention Climate Change - Gizmodo
Twitter 🐦
- 30,000 New Users Signed Up for Mastodon After Elon Musk Bought Twitter - VICE US
- After Musk's Twitter takeover, an open-source alternative is 'exploding' - Engadget
- EU warns Elon Musk that Twitter must follow local content rules to avoid ban - Engadget
- It's the Billionaires' Internet, and We're Just Posting On It - VICE US
- QAnon Thinks Elon Musk Is Going to Let Them Back on Twitter - VICE US
- Should You Worry About Elon Musk Reading Your Twitter DMs? - VICE US
- Some Thoughts On Twitter - AVC
- The Morning After: Elon Musk is buying Twitter - Engadget
- The Morning After: Mastodon, an open-source Twitter alternative, is having a moment - Engadget
- Twitter Admits It Hid Tweets About HBO's QAnon Docuseries - Gizmodo
- Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey (from STL) Thinks It's Great Elon Musk Is Buying the Company - r/StLouis
- Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Thinks It's Great Elon Musk Is Buying the Company - Gizmodo
- Twitter’s Legal Team Has Been An Aggressive Defender Of Free Speech; Will That Continue Under Musk? - Techdirt
Captain's Blog 🏴☠️
- There's always Micro.blog - Manton Reece
- Apple Begins Selling iPhone Repair Parts to Customers (Finally!) - VICE US
- Apple launches self-repair service - Boing Boing
- Changes to WordPress.com Authentication - Red Sweater Blog
- Chrome 101 Patches 30 Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek RSS Feed
- Elon: The King of Influence - The Gapingvoid Email Archive Feed
- Ford starts production of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup - Engadget
- Get more information about your apps in Google Play - Google
- Google begins the rollout of Play Store safety listings - Engadget
- Leaked document indicates Facebook has little insight into how user data is handled - Engadget
- Netflix Is A Victim of its Own Success - VICE US
- Reddit Launches $1 Million Program to Bring Subreddits' Ideas to Life - Gizmodo
- There are nearly half a billion active users of Start news feed, says Microsoft - The Register
- Verizon Loses Wireless Subscribers Despite Three Years Of 5G Hype - Techdirt
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