stLouISTSTL: Thursday, May 5, 2022
Events 📆
- A Cooperative Market - Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
- Explore the history of Chinese cuisine in St. Louis at this Missouri History Museum event on May 5 - feastmagazine.com
- Padrinos Mexican Restaurant is hosting South Grand’s first-ever Cinco de Mayo celebration - feastmagazine.com
- The Best Things to Do in St. Louis During the Week, May 5 to May 11 - RFT
- The St. Louis Area Sustainable Backyard Tour Returns Live & In-Person June 26 - The Healthy Planet
BuySTL 👜
- At Mockingbird Designs, style, fun, and nostalgia are woven into the décor - St. Louis Magazine
Restaurants 🍲
- Fordo's Killer Pizza opens in City Foundry Food Hall - KSDK
- Gerard Craft opens Fordo's Killer Pizza today at the Food Hall at City Foundry STL - St. Louis Magazine
STLfood ⚜️
- Schnucks Delivers And Curbside Pickup Now Available Directly Through Schnucks Rewards App - RiverBender
STL99 😱
- Cars broken into in Barnes Jewish Hospital parking garage for 2nd time in less than a week - KSDK
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch lays off 2 editors, offers buyouts, union says - St. Louis Business Journal
- St. Louis-area parents face worsening baby formula shortage - FOX 2
99MO 😱
- Mushroom hunters find body in rural Missouri water well - FOX 2
WW99 😱
- China is going to try to move an asteroid - Freethink
Police 🚓
- Surprising Absolutely No One, Kansas Law Enforcement Can’t Accurately Track Forfeitures - Techdirt
DotGov 🏛
Abortion
- Any womens’ rights marches or protests I can join this week or weekend in STL? - r/StLouis
- In a Post-Roe America, Expect More Births in a Country Where Maternal Mortality Continues to Rise - ProPublica
- Metro East clinics will be post-Roe havens for abortion seekers in the Midwest and South - r/StLouis
- St. Louisans Protest for Abortion Rights, 'Roe v. Wade' Could Be Overturned - RFT
- Why abortions wouldn't exist in Missouri if Roe v. Wade is overturned - FOX 2
- Data Brokers Selling Location Data Of Americans Who Visit Abortion Clinics - Techdirt
- Creepy Data Broker Says It Will No Longer Sell Planned Parenthood Visitors' Location History - Gizmodo
CityGov 🏛
- BB 15 - Street Closure at Maryville Avenue and Maple Avenue - Board Bills
- BB 16 - Redevelopment Plan for 4100-4134 Dr Martin Luther King Dr. Redevelopment Area - Board Bills
- BB 17 - Street Closure at Hodiamont Tracks and Goodfellow Boulevard an Hamilton Avenue - Board Bills
- BB 18 - City Youth Council - Board Bills
- BB 19 - City Public Transit Sales Tax Trust Fund – Account ONE - Board Bills
- BB 20 - City Public Transit Sales Tax Trust Fund – Account TWO - Board Bills
- BB 21 - City Transportation Trust Fund - Board Bills
- BB 22 - Amending Ordinance Number 54999 - Board Bills
- BB 23 - Redevelopment Plan for 4747 Adkins Ave. and 4009 Delor St. Redevelopment Area - Board Bills
- BB 24 - Street Humps Various Locations in the 7th Ward - Board Bills
- BB 25 - Honorary Street Naming of Don Kirby Way - Board Bills
- Digital Inclusion RFP Selection Meeting - Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
- Grand jurors call St. Louis circuit attorney's conduct 'reprehensible' - stltoday.com
- Special grand jurors slam St. Louis Circuit Attorney, Disciplinary Counsel deal following Greitens case - KSDK
- St. Louis aldermen advance measure to ban tents on public rights of way - stltoday.com
- Troubled St. Louis Justice Center receives $7M security upgrades - FOX 2
LocalGov 🏛
- BSD Board of Commissioners to Meet Virtually on May 5 - BSD
- Final autopsy report released for former Missouri Rep. Cora Faith Walker - KSDK
- Bridgeton City Councilman Charged With Felony for Not Living in Bridgeton - RFT
- Former Bridgeton city councilman accused of stealing his salary - stltoday.com
- Former Bridgeton council member charged with 'stealing by deceit' - KSDK
- Missouri lawmaker faces fines, prison after revealed to be living in Illinois - FOX 2
- Mysterious politician, exposed by FOX 2, faces felony stealing charge - FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
- 'I believe it stands a chance of passing': Missouri House panel backs new plan for congressional map - KSDK
- ‘Something for everyone’: Final votes coming for record-setting Missouri budget - Missouri Independent
- Missouri House poised to raise legal age for tobacco use to 21 - stltoday.com
- Missouri Senate advances election photo ID bill, two weeks of no-excuse absentee voting - stltoday.com
- Lawmakers on track to raise teacher pay in Missouri - stltoday.com
- Marijuana legalization fizzles in Missouri House as initiative petition heads toward ballot - stltoday.com
- Recreational marijuana could be on a Missouri ballot - FOX 2
Jobs 📄
- Building Inspection Supervisor - Jobs
- Clinic Assistant - APA Adoption Center
- Vet Tech Supervisor - APA Adoption Center
DIY 🪓
- Concerned about cloud costs? Have you tried using newer virtual machines? - The Register
- Drupal is for ambitious site builders - Dries Buytaert
- Starlink Roaming makes mobile usage possible - Jeff Geerling's Blog
Sustainability ♻️
- “Don’t Pollute. Switch Up Your Commute. $ee the Savings” This Air Quality Forecasting Season - Clean Air Partnership
- Partners Kick-Off "Don't Pollute. Switch Up Your Commute." Campaign as Daily Air Quality Forecasting Season Gets Underway - RiverBender
- Datacenters in Ireland draw more power than all rural homes put together - The Register
- The US only recycled about 5% of plastic waste last year - Grist
Infrastructure 🚽
- BSD Board of Commissioners to Meet Virtually on May 5 - BSD
- IDOT, MoDOT prepare for major I-270 projects, including new Chain of Rocks Bridge - FOX 2
- Public meeting on plan to replace Chain of Rocks Bridge - FOX 2
Twitter 🐦
- Elon Musk Tweets Groundbreaking Twitter Transformation Idea: Charge Governments - Gizmodo
- Elon Musk wants to take Twitter public again 'within 3 years' - The Register
- Musk, Twitter, Bluesky & The Future Of Content Moderation (Part II) - Techdirt
- Musk, Twitter, Why The First Amendment Can’t Resolve Content Moderation (Part I) - Techdirt
Captain's Blog 🏴☠️
- Dizzying Video Shows What It’s Like to Get Shot Out of a Centrifuge at 1,000 MPH - Gizmodo
- Google to use Customer Match lists for Smart Bidding, Optimized Targeting - Search Engine Land
- Meta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for free - ACM
- Meta releases code for massive language model to AI researchers - The Register
- Meta will limit hiring this year due to slowing revenue growth - Engadget
- Russian Motor Spontaneously Explodes in Orbit, Creating Debris Cloud - Gizmodo
- TurboTax to pay $141m to settle claims it scammed millions of people - The Register
- Volkswagen to put Qualcomm tech under the hood across all brands - The Register
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