STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:234-AM

STL: Monday, August 22, 2022

Events 📆

• Paint Louis 25th Anniversary Kickoff at Artists First Aug. 27 – Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis
• Escape To Elsah For End Of Summer Festival – RiverBender

BuySTL 👜

• In Downtown West, Anchor Room aspires to be more than just coffee – St. Louis Magazine
• The London Tea Room Is Leaving Tower Grove South – RFT
• Earthbound Beer and EarthDance Farm announce collaboration of unique brews you have to try – feastmagazine.com
  

  Restaurants 🍲

• El Maguey Closes Florissant Location – RFT
• El Maguey Florissant closes unexpectedly – KSDK
• Mexican restaurant in Florissant closes after four months in operation – St. Louis Business Journal
• The Tenderloin Room will celebrate 60 years with a big bash on August 27 – St. Louis Magazine
• Dog-On-It Hot Dogs – stlamerican.com
• CC’s Vegan Spot will expand to North County with a grab-and-go location – feastmagazine.com
• Maaji’s Street Kitchen Offers Indian Food With a Healthful Twist – RFT

STLfood ⚜️

• Good morning Donut Lovers! Here’s the latest episode of the STL Donut Tour highlighting some of my favorite specialty donuts! Check out these Destination Donuts! – r/StLouis
• A Tour of Regional Pizza Styles in the United States – Laughing Squid

Neighborhoods 🏡

• Meetup At JJ Twig’s – Lindenwood Park

STL100 💯

• After school meals available at 8 SLCL branches – stlamerican.com

99MO 😱

• Missouri student test scores still lag behind pre-pandemic levels – FOX 2

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• CDC confirms Nebraska child died of brain-eating amoeba – stltoday.com
• Missouri health officials raise threat level of monkeypox, frustrated with limited vaccine supply – stltoday.com
• A ‘Fast-Moving’ E. Coli Outbreak Is Hospitalizing People in the Midwest, CDC Warns – Gizmodo

Police 🚓

• Kansas City mayor sues Missouri over police funding law – FOX 2
• St. Louis police offer car clubs to Kia, Hyundai drivers – FOX 2
• SLMPD ran out of car clubs within an hour at free giveaway – KSDK

DotGov 🏛

CityGov 🏛

• St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones’ policy chief moved to new position – St. Louis Business Journal
• Former Alderman Jeffery Boyd expected to plead guilty – FOX 2
• St. Louis economic development agency taps more consultants – stltoday.com
  

  LocalGov 🏛

• East Alton Fire Duo Recognized For Obtaining Three Grants That Topped $75,000 In Year – RiverBender
  

  MoGov 🏛

• Missouri voters to weigh forgiveness for past weed crimes – The Big 550 KTRS
  

  FedGov 🏛

• New Pentagon Budget Could Force the Military to Disclose When it Buys Americans’ Location Data – Gizmodo
• FTC Right To Repair Push Continues With Weber Grill Settlement – Techdirt
• After FEMA overhaul, hundreds of thousands of Americans are forgoing federal flood insurance – Grist
• Newsmax points out that Trump can run for president from prison – Boing Boing

Jobs 📄

• Granite City hosts Steel Worker Rally – FOX 2
• St. Louis County wants to bet big on this job training center – St. Louis Magazine
• SLATE/City of St. Louis Streets Department Job Fair – Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
• GM investing $1.5B in new trucks built at Wentzville plant – FOX 2
• Job of the day: Waste Management drivers and technicians – FOX 2

History 🦕

• The day the city’s worst driver – ‘Hot Rod’ Moore – gave up his license – stltoday.com

Sustainability ♻️

• Talking Trash – St. Louis City Talk Articles – St. Louis City Talk
• How Coca-Cola, Unilever, and Others Delay Action on Plastic – Gizmodo

Infrastructure 🚽

• MetroLink Blue Line returns Monday, Aug. 22 – FOX 2
• MetroLink to resume full service, but cost for flood repairs could double – stltoday.com
• Metro Transit gets federal funding for electric buses – FOX 2
• Congresswoman Bush, Mayor Jones announce $19 million grant to Lambert Airport – stlamerican.com

Utilities 📈

• Ameren may turn to natural gas to make up for shuttering Rush Island coal plant – Missouri Independent

Ecology 🦤

• Pilot Project To Study Upper Mississippi River Flooding, Climate Resilience – The Waterways Journal
• These Arctic Fish Are Full of Antifreeze – Gizmodo
• ‘Gross negligence’: popular Michigan river hit with second chemical spill in four years – Grist

Space 🚀

• NASA’s moon rocket moved to launch pad for 1st test flight – The Big 550 KTRS
• Scientists Try To Out Maneuver Elon Musk’s Satellite Light Pollution – Techdirt
• NASA Will Now Go ‘Full Force’ Investigating UFOs, Agency Says – VICE US
• NASA builds for keeps: Voyager mission still going after 45 years – The Register
• A Private Space Company Is Launching a Probe to Look for Alien Life on Venus – VICE US

DIY 🪓

• Make Your Own Taco Seasoning – Good Food St. Louis
• Who says hospital food is bad? Try St. Luke’s Pasta. – feastmagazine.com
• Here’s a couple resources for any of the people that like making fantasy transit maps (interactive map link in comments) – r/StLouis
• Video: Man builds beautiful machine to throw knives with incredible laser-guided accuracy – Boing Boing

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Malicious PyPi packages turn Discord into password-stealing malware – BleepingComputer
• Apple releases patches for major iOS and macOS security vulnerabilities – Engadget
• DigitalOcean Discloses Impact From Recent Mailchimp Cyberattack – SecurityWeek
• TikTok Says, No, It Isn’t Stealing Your Passwords – VICE US
• Who was the real Chef Boyardee? – Boing Boing
• Internet users as percentage of population in 2015 vs 2021.by… – Maps on the Web
• TikTok’s In-App Browser Reportedly Capable of Monitoring Anything You Type – MacRumors
• NSO Group CEO steps down, 100 employees let go too – The Register
• NSO Wins Phone Exploit Of The Year Award, No-Shows Award Ceremony – Techdirt
• World’s first commercial electric plane completes point-to-point flight – New Atlas
• In-app browsers that act as keyloggers ↦ – Six Colors
• ‘LaserWriter II’: Life amid the broken Macs (and printers) of Tekserve – Six Colors