stLouISTSTL: Saturday, June 11, 2022
Events 📆
- The best food and drink events in St. Louis this weekend: June 10-12 - feastmagazine.com
- As Juneteenth nears, St. Louis organizations call for reparations - Missouri Independent
- A Guide to St. Louis' 2022 Juneteenth Celebrations - RFT
- Blue Angels return to Chesterfield for this weekend's Spirit of St. Louis Air Show - KSDK
- Tower Grove Park takes heart with Sunday 'love' festival - stltoday.com
- Expect heavy traffic for the Spirit of St. Louis Air Show this weekend - FOX 2
- Alton's 25th Annual All-Wheels Drive-In Car Show Is Sunday, June 12 - RiverBender
- Best lawn/picnic concert series? - r/StLouis
BuySTL 👜
- Eckert's new attractions opening Friday prompted by shift in customers - KSDK
- Dierbergs workers vote to approve new union contract - KSDK
- Panera Bread opens first of 3 test stores serving only to-go orders - St. Louis Business Journal
- St. Louis Bread Co. moving headquarters to Maritz' campus in Fenton - stltoday.com
- Dierbergs workers pass new union contract - stltoday.com
- Robots help serve meals, bus tables for Mexican food chain in St. Louis County - FOX 2
Restaurants 🍲
- St. Louis Standards: After 33 Years, Pho Grand Says Farewell - RFT
- Creve Coeur TGI Fridays Closure - r/StLouis
- Boardwalk Waffles & Ice Cream expanding to Tower Grove Creamery space on South Grand - St. Louis Magazine
- Review: Sabroso Is a St. Louis Chef's Love Song to Mexican Cuisine - RFT
STLwx 🌦
- Dangerous heat and humidity returns to the St. Louis region next week - KSDK
- Dangerous heat expected in St. Louis area next week - KSDK
- St. Louis Weather Is Going To Be Hot AF Next Week - RFT
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Groth Guide Update to North Hampton - NextSTL - r/StLouis
- TGSNA General Meeting 6/15/2022 - WE ARE BACK IN PERSON! - Tower Grove South Neighborhood Association--Active Members Archive Feed
- WPLNA Meeting Tues. 6/14/22 – 41 LINDELL DEVELOPMENT UPDATE - West Pine Laclede Neighborhood Association
STL99 😱
- Hapless Deer Attempts St. Louis Bank Heist, Fails Miserably - RFT
- Video: Frantic deer crashes through windows of St. Louis bank - FOX 2
- Deer smashes through UMB Bank window in downtown St. Louis - stltoday.com
- St Louis police seeing spike in Kia, Hyundai thefts - KSDK
- Something has to change. Crime is out of control. I've never felt this unsafe in St. Louis City. The wheels are starting to come off. - r/StLouis
- St. Louis rappers and others indicted in '55 Boys' fentanyl distribution ring - FOX 2
- Robbers demand mailbox keys from postal workers in St. Louis County - FOX 2
- Suspect in St. Louis McDonald's Shooting Pleads Not Guilty - RFT
STL100 💯
- Yadier Molina pitches shutout inning in blowout loss to Rays - KSDK
WW99 😱
- Russia's Yandex Is Removing Borders From Its Maps App - VICE US
Police 🚓
- St. Louis police investigating homicide the day officers begin weekend 12-hour shifts - KSDK
- The Police Are Not Here to Save You - VICE US
- Cop Fired After Getting ‘Pure Evil’ Tattooed on His Knuckles - VICE US
DotGov 🏛
- Top Court In Massachusetts Says Cell Tower Dumps Are Constitutional (But Only With A Solid Warrant) - Techdirt
- Texas’ Long Indicted Attorney General Launches Investigation Into Whether Or Not He’s The Biggest Elon Musk Sycophant Yet - Techdirt
- Websites Now Have One Hour To Remove “Terrorist Content” Online Or Face Massive Fines. What Could Go Wrong? - Techdirt
CityGov 🏛
- Grove CID - stLouIST
- In small-claims case, judge rules city erred in denying man an earnings tax refund - KSDK
- BB 51 - Circuit Attorney Office Pay Bill - Board Bills
- BB 49 - St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners Pay Bill - Board Bills
- BB 50 - License Collector Pay Bill - Board Bills
- BB 46 - Parking Division Annual Ficscal Year Budget - Board Bills
- BB 48 - Employer and Employee Working Relationships Between the City of St. Louis (City Pay Bill 2022) - Board Bills
- BB 47 - Civilian Oversight Board - Board Bills
- RFQ Construction Manager for the Housing Access and Neighborhood Stabilization Revolving Loan Fund - City of St. Louis Procurement Opportunities
- Concrete and Brick Removal/Replacement and Complete Sidewalk Installation, Project No. SP-115, St. Louis, Missouri - City of St. Louis Procurement Opportunities
- Forest Park Round Lake Renovation - City of St. Louis Procurement Opportunities
- At least four are eyeing campaigns for St. Louis aldermanic president - stltoday.com
- Vollmer calls Board of Aldermen ‘mortally wounded,’ wants help restoring public trust - stltoday.com
- Angry St. Louis aldermen renew complaints about trash pickup, blame recycling - stltoday.com
- Vollmer takes over powerful St. Louis job with task of restoring public trust - stltoday.com
- Reporter Jacob Barker unpacks the details of St. Louis federal indictments: Inside the Post-Dispatch - stltoday.com
- St. Louis Board of Aldermen to meet Friday for first time since 3 members resigned - FOX 2
- St. Louis ward reduction plan questioned amid aldermanic bribery scandal - FOX 2
LocalGov 🏛
- Former Justice Center corrections officer sentenced for allowing detainees to attack victim - KSDK
- Trailnet Hires New Policy Catalyst Charles Bryson - Trailnet
- Wellston mayor wants to shut down market after shootout, other crimes - FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri poised to remove unenforceable discriminatory housing restrictions in deeds - Missouri Independent
- Missouri governor to sign compromise legislation after efforts to stymie Grain Belt Express - Missouri Independent
- Missouri attorney general subpoenas school districts over student surveys - Missouri Independent
- Eric Schmitt and Jan. 6 - r/StLouis
- ‘A joke.’ ‘Show trial.’ ‘Sham.’ Missouri’s leading GOP Senate candidates denounce Jan. 6 hearing. - stltoday.com
- Changes to Missouri voting await Parson’s signature - FOX 2
- Schmitt subpoenas Missouri school districts for student surveys, 'objectionable curriculum' - FOX 2
- Doctors prescribing ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine protected by new Missouri law - FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
- 5 things we learned about Jan. 6 and Trump from the first hearing - Missouri Independent
- Jan. 6 panel says Trump, far-right groups responsible for insurrection - Missouri Independent
- Key takeaways from first public hearing on Jan. 6 Capitol attack - FOX 2
- Cheney: Trump 'summoned mob, lit the flame' of Jan. 6 - FOX 2
- Telecom Lobbyists Are About To Scuttle The Nomination Of A Popular Reformer To The FCC And Nobody Much Seems To Care - Techdirt
- Democrats Need To Get Their Head Out Of The Sand: The Only Reason GOP Is Supporting Their Antitrust Bills Is To Force Companies To Host Disinfo - Techdirt
Covid19 Info 🦠
- Parkway to require masks for summer school programs - FOX 2
Jobs 📄
- Customer Service Representative I (Per Performance) - Jobs
- Busch Stadium hosts job fair to fill dozens of positions - FOX 2
History 🦕
- June 10, 1903: A flood swamps East St. Louis, inspiring its levee system - stltoday.com
DIY 🪓
- Benchmarking DNS on my Mac with Pi-Hole - Jeff Geerling's Blog
Sustainability ♻️
- EPA to give $60M to 12 states including Missouri to help curb water pollution - The Big 550 KTRS
- What Does It Mean to Help Build a ‘Water-Positive Future’— and Why Does It Matter? - VICE US
- Southern Company Knew About Climate Change for Decades While Funding Climate Denial, Report Finds - Gizmodo
- Google's 'Dynamic World' Offers a Real-Time Sense of Humanity's Devastation of Earth - Gizmodo
Infrastructure 🚽
- Crews fill 40-foot-deep sinkhole after north St. Louis intersection collapses - KSDK
- Rain causes St. Louis street to collapse, creating 40-foot crater - stltoday.com
- Rain causes massive street collapse in north St. Louis - FOX 2
- Manchester just west of Hanley Road to remain closed for next three months: MODOT update - 40 South News
- In push for north-south MetroLink line, the route gets some tweaks - KSDK
- Northside-Southside MetroLink Corridor Study Agreement Approved - BSD
- Revised route for MetroLink expansion is backed by Bi-State, Jones, Page - stltoday.com
- Old Coal Plant Neared Retirement, but Now It’s Needed to Keep the Lights On - r/StLouis
- Electric grid operator worried Ameren can’t yet close Rush Island power plant - stltoday.com
- St. Louis housing market overvalued by 21%, study says - FOX 2
Ecology 🦤
- Native Plants Will Save St. Louis, Then the World - RFT
Twitter 🐦
- Why Elon Musk will never succeed with Twitter - Boing Boing
- Twitter offers Musk the data he wants, thinks it won't help him wriggle out of the deal - Boing Boing
- Twitter will reportedly give its full data stream to Elon Musk - Engadget
- Twitter announces Product Drops for merchants - Search Engine Land
- Twitter Succumbs to Musk's Fuss Over Bot Data - Gizmodo
- Reports: Twitter to Provide Musk With Raw Daily Tweet Data - SecurityWeek RSS Feed
Captain's Blog 🏴☠️
- Jack Dorsey: Fuck It, We're Doing Web5 - VICE US
- Apple’s M2 chip isn’t a slam dunk, but it does point to the future - The Register
- Intel freezes hiring for PC chip team, cites 'macroeconomic uncertainty' - The Register
- Vivaldi email client released 7 years after first announcement - The Register
- Singapore's Grab enters maps-as-a-service market - The Register
- GitHub drops Atom bomb: Open-source text editor mothballed by end of year - The Register
- Google has more reasons why it doesn't like antitrust law that affects Google - The Register
- Thousands of voters changed party affiliation in Lauren Boebert's district, some just to vote against her - Boing Boing
- Are you smart? - Seth's Blog
- Impressive data analysis and infographics released today by... - Maps on the Web
- Vanderbilt study says Americans are hopelessly at each other’s throats - Kevin Drum
- NASA plans to study unidentified objects in the sky - Engadget
- Facebook's algorithm change in 2018 benefitted Republican groups, researchers say - Engadget
- Perseverance’s Pet Rock - One Foot Tsunami
- Newly Discovered Apple M1 Security Flaw is Unpatchable - Gizmodo
- Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey Launch Bitcoin Academy for New Generation of Crypto Bros - Gizmodo
- Elon Musk May Wait Until 2026 to Make SpaceX's Starlink Public - Gizmodo
- Liquid mirror telescope opens in India - Science Magazine
- Restaurant Customers Cheer Whenever a Baby Facing Them Raises His Arms - Laughing Squid
- Trump’s ‘Free Speech’ Social Network, Truth Social, Is Banning People For Truthing The Truth About January 6 Hearings - Techdirt
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