STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:236-AM

STL: Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Events 📆

• St. Louis VegFest returns to Forest Park this Sunday – St. Louis Magazine
• South Grand businesses, residents invited to National Night Out – KSDK
• Blessing Of The Fleet Continues To Be Sacred Event For Boaters – RiverBender
• 7 fall festivals a short drive away in Missouri – St. Louis Magazine
• Ginworld Gin Week St. Louis returns September 12–18 – St. Louis Magazine
• Taste of St. Louis 2022 – City of St. Louis, MO

BuySTL 👜

• More Midwest banks see opportunity to finance solar, energy efficiency projects – Missouri Independent
• WeWork closes downtown St. Louis coworking location – St. Louis Business Journal
• St. Louis craft brewer expands distribution – St. Louis Business Journal

Restaurants 🍲

• Press opens in Fox Park on Thursday – St. Louis Magazine
• Restaurants keep trying to use robots, with mixed results – Boing Boing

STLfood ⚜️

• 10 places to eat and drink near Busch Stadium – feastmagazine.com
• St. Louis’ best sandwiches from the STL 100 – stltoday.com
• Clueless Website Disses St. Louis Barbecue Scene – RFT
• “Don’t Put Me in the Refrigerator!” – Good Food St. Louis

Neighborhoods 🏡

• 2020 St. Louis Neighborhood Census Review: A dynamic population – NextSTL – r/StLouis

STL100 💯

• Some more shots from the other day with my drone. – r/StLouis
• Man wins $2M from scratchers game in St. Louis – FOX 2

STL99 😱

• Has recycling fully resumed? – r/StLouis
• Rising homicide rates in St. Louis trigger rising concerns – KSDK
• St. Louis man threatened with jail time for calling 911 – FOX 2
• Two earthquakes shake Missouri on Monday – FOX 2

99MO 😱

• Record Number of Missouri School Districts Switched to 4-Day Week – RFT

WW99 😱

• Microsoft and Amazon reportedly halt plans to build data centers in Ireland – Engadget

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• St. Louis pandemic task force ends weekly data updates – stltoday.com

Police 🚓

• New oversight plan means closer scrutiny of St. Louis police – FOX 2
• New oversight plan means closer scrutiny of St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department – KSDK
• Bridgeton police plan to close jail at night, house inmates in St. Charles – stltoday.com

DotGov 🏛

CityGov 🏛

• Voters from former Alderman Jeffrey Boyd’s ward elect his replacement – stltoday.com
• John Collins-Muhammad pleads guilty to bribery charges – stlamerican.com
• Former Alderman John Collins-Muhammad pleads guilty to bribery charges – KSDK
• Ex-St. Louis Alderman John Collins-Muhammad pleads guilty in bribery scheme – FOX 2
• Guilty pleas start for former aldermen charged in pay-to-play bribery case – FOX 2
• Ex-St. Louis Alderman John Collins-Muhammad admits federal corruption charges – stltoday.com
• Former St. Louis alderman to plead guilty today following corruption charges – stltoday.com
• John Collins-Muhammad Pleads Guilty in Bribery Scheme – RFT

LocalGov 🏛

• Cities in St. Louis County change panhandling laws after uptick – FOX 2

MoGov 🏛

• ‘I think that thing’s a disaster’: Parson slams recreational weed question on Missouri ballot – stltoday.com
• Citing Greitens defeat, John Wood abandons independent run for U.S. Senate in Missouri – Missouri Independent
• Parson tours Missouri discussing income tax cut proposal – FOX 2

Jobs 📄

• EXECUTIVE SECRETARY-ST. LOUIS BOARD OF ALDERMEN – Jobs
• Behavior and Enrichment Coordinator – APA Adoption Center
• Career Central: Second Chance Job Fair set for Friday – KSDK
• St. Louis Streets Dept. Job Fair – FOX 2

History 🦕

• Fisherman finds 90-million-year-old fossil in Missouri River – FOX 2
• A Look Back • Ulysses Grant’s marriage here was a quiet affair – stltoday.com

Sustainability ♻️

• Predatory landlords are buying up trailer parks en masse – Boing Boing

Infrastructure 🚽

• China’s emergence as an EV powerhouse has been a long time coming – Engadget
• Rare Earths Processor Buys Rights to Mine in Greenland – ACM

Ecology 🦤

• Hot Weather May Have Caused Elephant to Stab Its Trainer to Death, Police Say – VICE US

WWwx 🌦

• Most of the U.S. is Being Pummeled by Drought – Gizmodo
• As drought dries up the Yangtze river, China loses hydropower – Grist

Twitter 🐦

• Twitter merges misinformation and spam teams following whistleblower claims – Engadget
• Twitter whistleblower claims company’s practices pose national security risk – Engadget
• Twitter Whistleblower Says Twitter Is Lying to Elon Musk About Bots – VICE US
• Congress is looking into Twitter whistleblower’s claims of lax security – Engadget
• Twitter’s Former Security Boss Drops Stunning Whistleblower Report – Techdirt
• Elon Subpoenas Twitter Whistleblower to Testify About Counting Bots – Gizmodo

Space 🚀

• NASA: ‘We Are Go for Launch’ of SLS Megarocket – Gizmodo

DIY 🪓

• Universal Unix tool AWK gets Unicode support – The Register

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• “Sabotage”-themed Beastie Boys action figures announced – 105.7 The Point
• Removing jQuery from GOV.UK – CSS-Tricks
• Recommended Twitter follow: Abandoned Places – Boing Boing
• 25 Years Ago Today… Techdirt Got Started! – Techdirt
• Streaming Tops Traditional Cable TV Viewership For First Time Ever – Techdirt