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STL: Monday, May 9, 2022
Events 📆
- Thousands walk Cherokee Street for return of Cinco De Mayo festival - KSDK
BuySTL 👜
- NGA Accelerator invests in 8 startups, including a St. Louis company - St. Louis Business Journal
- Post-Dispatch to End Arts Reviews as the RFT Restarts Them - RFT
- Schnucks Recognized as a US Best Managed Company - RiverBender
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Lafayette Square House Tours - Lafayette Square - Pinboard (electroponix)
- Annual Loop East CID Meeting – 5/11/22 - Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis
- The Tiffany neighborhood - r/StLouis
STL99 😱
- Steer clear of Bonhomme and Caulks creeks for a few days, MSD warns - stltoday.com
- Severe hepatitis cases among children discovered in Missouri and Illinois - FOX 2
- Record-breaking heat possible through Thursday in St. Louis area - FOX 2
- Record warmth expected this week in St. Louis - KSDK
- Violent Mother's Day weekend in St. Louis - FOX 2
- Demo Alert: 5207 Loughborough - NextSTL - r/StLouis
- Someone in my neighborhood became tired of waiting for the city to fix this giant pothole, so did so themselves — and left a message. - r/StLouis
STL100 💯
- Total Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse Visible In St. Louis Sunday - RFT
- Give STL Day raises $4.2 million for hundreds of local nonprofits - FOX 2
- The Bosnian Islamic Center Plans a New Youth Center - RFT
- St. Louis Zoo welcomes Astrid, critically endangered Somali wild ass born April 8 - stltoday.com
- Saint Louis Zoo welcomes new Somali wild ass - KSDK
- Free produce baskets for area families available May 31 - stlamerican.com
- 10 places in St. Louis where kids can ride bikes, scooters, and skateboards - St. Louis Magazine
- CBS and Harper’s Bazaar Praise St. Louis Area Abortion Access Center - RFT
WW99 😱
- China Just Installed a Former Cop as Hong Kong’s Leader - VICE US
- Hackers deface Russian platforms and smart TVs to display anti-war messages - Engadget
- India's ongoing outrage over Pegasus malware tells a bigger story about privacy law problems - The Register
Police 🚓
- St. Louis police used spike strips before fatal crash, but won't say if they were pursuing stolen Jeep - stltoday.com
DotGov 🏛
- Staten Island District Attorney Used Forfeiture Funds To Secretly Purchase Clearview AI Access - Techdirt
- Property Search by Owner - r/StLouis
- Pandora’s Box: Overturning Roe is only the beginning of the threats to women | Opinion - Missouri Independent
- Face-scanner Clearview agrees to limits in court settlement - stltoday.com
- Campaign Cash Is Buying New Corporate Tax Breaks - The Lever
- Practically everyone approves of contraception - Kevin Drum
CityGov 🏛
- Request for Proposals for Recreation Programming - City of St. Louis Procurement Opportunities
MoGov 🏛
- Voter ID requirement, absentee ballot changes clear Missouri Senate - Missouri Independent
- GOP eyes bill forcing Kansas City to put more money toward police as session nears end - Missouri Independent
- ‘Crescendo of craziness’: Missouri legislature enters final week with long to-do list - Missouri Independent
- 5 bills to watch as Missouri lawmakers finish their work this week - stltoday.com
- Missouri ballot measures on marijuana, ranked voting advance - stltoday.com
- Legal marijuana, ranked-choice voting initiatives submitted for Missouri ballot - Missouri Independent
- Ballot measure to allow Missouri voters to decide future of recreational cannabis - KSDK
- Campaign collects 385K signatures in push for recreational marijuana on Missouri ballot - FOX 2
- Missouri Abortion Ban Would Hit Marginalized Communities the Hardest - RFT
- Missouri House votes down constitutional change for parent control - KSDK
- Missouri Senate OK's photo ID requirement for voting - KSDK
FedGov 🏛
- FBI announces new St. Louis field office leader - stltoday.com
- Bush brings millions in federal earmarks to St. Louis, while some Republicans take a pass - stltoday.com
Jobs 📄
- Career Central: Job fairs, free ride to Annie Malone parade Sunday - KSDK
History 🦕
- Today is the birthday of abolitionist John Brown - Boing Boing
- What was the Battle of St. Louis? - St. Louis Magazine
DIY 🪓
- This Clever Design Trick Could Cut Your 3D Printing Time In Half - Make
Sustainability ♻️
- Using satellite imagery, a new tool can detect plastic waste dumps, some of which are dangerously close to waterways and people. - The Morning News
- Temporary Closure of Maple Island and Low Water Access Area - RiverBender
Infrastructure 🚽
- New Water Tower Being Built on Airport Road - RiverBender
- Wall Street’s losses worsen as markets tumble worldwide - The Big 550 KTRS
Ecology 🦤
- Blackburn College Earns Fourth Bee Campus Distinction For Dedication To Protecting Pollinators - RiverBender
- Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary to Host Walk for Wildlife 5K Benefitting Local Wildlife - RiverBender
- The largest mammals have always been at the greatest risk of extinction – this is still the case today - Our World in Data
Twitter 🐦
- Judge Is Not At All Impressed By Trump’s Lawsuit Against Twitter; Dismisses It Easily - Techdirt
Captain's Blog 🏴☠️
- Kottke takes a break - Waxy.org
- Announcement: I’m Going to Miss You, But I Am Taking a Sabbatical - kottke.org
- Scientists Discover Unexplained Abundance of Rare Nuclear Fusion Fuel on Earth - VICE US
- Scientists blow up their lab after creating strongest magnet ever - Freethink
- NFTs are coming to Instagram this week - Engadget
- David Walden, Computer Scientist at Dawn of Internet, Dies at 79 - ACM
- Six Month Sentence For Operator of Copyright-Infringing Lyric & Radio Portals - TorrentFreak
- Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Went Silent, Leaving Anxious NASA Team in the Dark - Gizmodo
- NASA Releases Ridiculously Sharp Webb Space Telescope Images - Gizmodo
- Mars Ingenuity helicopter and Perseverance are talking again - The Register
- First of its kind “black widow” pulsar discovered - Freethink
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