stLouISTSTL: Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Events 📆
- Area Fourth Of July Celebrations Schedule - RiverBender
- Where to see Fourth of July fireworks in St. Louis - St. Louis Magazine
- It's Time For Fireworks In Southwest Illinois - RiverBender
- Scattered storms in the 4th of July weekend forecast - FOX 2
BuySTL 👜
- The Blessed Bee Co. offers a variety of local honeys and all-natural beauty products in Waterloo, Illinois - feastmagazine.com
- Companion Baking to close a cafe location - KSDK
- $200M project backed by civic booster group in Downtown West nets incentives - stltoday.com
- Bayer loses again as U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to Roundup lawsuits - KSDK
- Board grants preliminary OK to incentives for $200M Downtown West redevelopment - KSDK
- Outdoor retailer REI sets opening date for 2nd St. Louis-area store - KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
- Melo's Pizzeria in Benton Park shifts to a daytime-only model - St. Louis Magazine
- Mission Taco Joint – Salt + Smoke – Ranoush Are Open in The Delmar Loop! - Visit The Loop
STLfood ⚜️
- New vegan pop-up Wandering Yeti & Co. is changing up the St. Louis ice cream scene - feastmagazine.com
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Hill 2000 Neighborhood Board Minutes May 11, 2022 - The Hill Saint Louis
- N. Kingshighway Traffic Study Materials – Input till 7/31/22 - West Pine Laclede Neighborhood Association
- No Public Meeting in July - Soulard Community Improvement District
STL99 😱
- Couple carjacked in Soulard, four teens possibly involved - FOX 2
- Couple carjacked while on first date in St. Louis - KSDK
- Source: 13-year-old driver in triple fatal crash took car from relatives without their knowledge - KSDK
- Rise of syphilis cases causes St. Louis City and County to urge testing - KSDK
- Syphilis cases spike in St. Louis and Missouri, testing urged - FOX 2
STL100 💯
- Adorable Saint Louis Zoo leopard cubs 'growing stronger every day' - FOX 2
- Wood River Township Residents Protected From Rising Energy Costs - RiverBender
99MO 😱
- Second case of monkeypox reported in Missouri - FOX 2
Police 🚓
- Grafton Passes Tax To Support Police By 71 Percent Vote - RiverBender
- Problem of 911 callers hearing screeching noise in St. Louis region is fixed, Verizon says - stltoday.com
- Wentzville police release body camera footage from April shooting - stltoday.com
- Cops are harassing the Uvalde mom who pulled her kids out of school during massacre, says her lawyer - Boing Boing
DotGov 🏛
- California Legislators Seek To Burn Down The Internet — For The Children - Techdirt
- California's attempt to protect kids online could end adults' internet anonymity - The Register
- EU Officials Finally Coming To Terms With The Fact That The GDPR Failed; But Now They Want To Make It Worse - Techdirt
Abortion
- CVS, Walmart limiting morning-after pill purchases - FOX 2
- We can fight the Supreme Court with abortion pills - Kevin Drum
- Amazon to limit purchases of Plan B and other emergency contraceptive pills - Engadget
- 'I will not prosecute abortion cases' St. Louis County Prosecutor says - KSDK
- Aldermanic panel OKs $1 million plan to help St. Louis women get out-of-state abortions - stltoday.com
- Messenger: Women in Missouri could be prosecuted for seeking abortions, lawyers warn - stltoday.com
- Page backs $1 million St. Louis County plan to help residents get out-of-state abortions - stltoday.com
- Post-Roe, St. Louis' LGBTQ Community Fears Losing Rights - RFT
- Roe v. Wade reaction: St. Louis doulas worry about maternal mortality rates increasing in minority communities - KSDK
- St. Louis city, county propose using federal COVID funds for people seeking reproductive health care - KSDK
- St. Louis County designates $1M in ARPA funds to abortion access - FOX 2
- St. Louis County Proposes Fund for Childcare, Abortion Travel - RFT
- St. Louis County Prosecutor Will Not Enforce Missouri Abortion Ban - RFT
- Facebook and Instagram are blocking posts about mailing abortion pills - Engadget
- Facebook Bans People For Simply Saying Abortion Pills Exist - Techdirt
- Here’s What Period Tracking Apps Say They Do With Your Data - VICE US
- U.S. Companies Don’t Much Want To Talk About Abortion Data Collection And Protection - Techdirt
CityGov 🏛
- BB 67 - Great Rivers Greenway District Lease - Board Bills
- BB 68 - Roadway Improvements to Route 367 - Board Bills
- City board supports AT&T tower's nomination for federal historic status - KSDK
- Despite opposition from alderman, incentives back on track for Green Street apartment project - stltoday.com
- Jones to sign new $1.2B city budget today - FOX 2
- Messenger: Former St. Louis aldermanic president takes the Fifth in Twitter-blocking case - stltoday.com
- St. Louis alderman backs tax break for low-income housing rehab that his predecessor blocked - stltoday.com
- St. Louis board greenlights plan to call AT&T tower ‘historic’ - r/StLouis
- St. Louis board OKs incentives for apartment redevelopment in Central West End - stltoday.com
- St. Louis land bank won’t sell property in certain wards until ‘aldermanic leadership’ returns - stltoday.com
- St. Louis mayor signs first Board of Aldermen-approved budget since 2019 - stltoday.com
- SLDC Security Services Request for Proposal - City of St. Louis Procurement Opportunities
- Trash Overflows from St. Louis Dumpsters, and People Are Pissed - RFT
LocalGov 🏛
- Jane Dueker putting $10,000 behind Sam Page debate challenge - stltoday.com
- St. Louis County executive's chief of staff abruptly resigns - FOX 2
- Top aide to Sam Page quits after video of sex act surfaces - KSDK
- Page’s chief of staff resigns after councilman asks for probe of leaked sex video - stltoday.com
- Revenue collector in rural Missouri charged with stealing, forgery - FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
- In St. Louis, Parson touts business-backed crime reduction plan for state - stltoday.com
- Gov. Parson to sign sweeping elections bill enacting new voter ID rule in Missouri - Missouri Independent
- Missouri charter schools poised to see funding boost under new law - stltoday.com
- Missouri charter schools will receive millions in state funds with governor’s signature - Missouri Independent
- Missouri enacts photo voter ID law before November elections - KSDK
- Missouri governor signs law aimed at cracking down on homeless camps - stltoday.com
- Missouri’s parole revocation defense team among first in country - Missouri Independent
- Parson: Crime negatively affecting Missouri businesses - FOX 2
- Politics, policy merge as Senate panel focuses on immigration in Missouri - stltoday.com
- Rural Missouri watches as Parson considers veto of tax credit plan - stltoday.com
FedGov 🏛
- GOP opponent of U.S. Rep Ann Wagner raffling off AR-15s - stltoday.com
- Trump had to be physically restrained from joining Jan. 6 mob, House panel told - Missouri Independent
- Clarence Thomas REALLY Wants To Make It Easier For The Powerful To Sue People For Criticizing Them - Techdirt
- F.C.C. Commissioner Brendan Carr Ask Apple and Google to Remove TikTok From App Stores - Daring Fireball
- FCC Commissioner urges Google and Apple to ban TikTok - Engadget
- Feds Start Selling New Drilling Leases After Biden Pledged to Stop Them - Gizmodo
- Wherein The Copia Institute Tells The Supreme Court Not To Let Copyright Law Destroy Free Expression, A Rare Right We Ostensibly Have Left - Techdirt
Jobs 📄
- Updated St Louis Unemployment Figures | released June 29, 2022 - r/StLouis
- Data Processing Manager (SCADA) - Jobs
- Photographer I - Jobs
- Commissioner of Health - Jobs
- Public Information Officer to the Comptroller - Jobs
- Safety Officer II - Jobs
- FRED Expands Job Postings on Indeed - St. Louis Fed Economic Research
- 'Let your light shine': City program widens youth job opportunity - KSDK
- Offered a job in St. Louis but now I’m scared… advice? - r/StLouis
- Granite City steel workers, businesses react to potential mill shutdown - KSDK
- U.S. Steel Announces Plan To Repurpose Mill, Could Spark Significant Loss Of Jobs - RiverBender
- Union slams plan that could mean 1,000 jobs lost at Granite City steel mill - FOX 2
- Union, officials vow to fight job losses at Granite City steel plant - stltoday.com
- United Steelworkers blasts U.S. Steel's plan at Granite City Works - KSDK
History 🦕
- Village Of Prairie Du Rocher Celebrates Rare Milestone - RiverBender
- Please Take A Moment To Celebrate How A Very Different Supreme Court Saved The Internet 25 Years Ago - Techdirt
Sustainability ♻️
- With ‘real zero,’ NextEra pushes back against deceptive carbon offsets - Grist
Infrastructure 🚽
- ‘What scouts do’: Boy Scouts jumped into action in harrowing moments after Amtrak crash - stltoday.com
- 4 dead, 150 injured in Monday's Amtrak train derailment in Missouri - FOX 2
- A look at recent Amtrak derailments and other crashes - KSDK
- Missouri farmer worried for years about steep crossing at site of Amtrak train derailment - FOX 2
- NTSB investigators look into fatal Missouri Amtrak crash - KSDK
- Residents, leaders have pushed for upgrades at Amtrak crash site, but no action - KSDK
- Safety upgrades urged for site of Amtrak wreck that killed 4 - stltoday.com
- Ameren's Missouri unit to buy its largest-ever solar facility - KSDK
- Bill environmentalists say could keep Missouri coal plants open signed by governor - Missouri Independent
- MoDOT's I-270 North Project features changes at Route 367 - KSDK
Ecology 🦤
- Find a baby deer alone? They really don't need help - FOX 2
Captain's Blog 🏴☠️
- 'Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration' brings together more than 90 games this fall - Engadget
- A dozen subscribers to a celebrity-backed meal kit company have had organ removal surgery after eating "French Lentil + Leek Crumbles" - Boing Boing
- A New Firefox Update Can Stop Certain URLs from Tracking You Around the Web - Gizmodo
- Airbnb is banning party houses permanently - Engadget
- An Amusing Series That Reimagines Obi-Wan Kenobi as a Free Wheeling Drug Addict Named Larry - Laughing Squid
- China is trolling rare-earth miners online and the Pentagon isn't happy - The Register
- Chinese Threat Actor Targets Rare Earth Mining Companies in North America, Australia - SecurityWeek RSS Feed
- City-killing asteroid won't hit Earth in 2052 after all - The Register
- Enjoy Digital Ownership And Public Libraries While You Still Can - Techdirt
- Infor to stop developing on-prem software for IBM iSeries - The Register
- June heat waves smash records across the globe - Grist
- Notes on running containers with bubblewrap - Julia Evans
- NSO Lawyer Tells Lawmakers Company Can Count To Five, Will Need More Time To Count Higher Than That - Techdirt
- The Amtrak’s response to the Biden infrastructure plan.... - Maps on the Web
- Three Arrows Capital Ordered to Liquidate All Assets After Defaulting on $675M Bitcoin Loans - Gizmodo
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