STLduJour(nal) ⏳ - MMXXII:283-AM

STL: Sunday, October 9, 2022

Events 📆

• Halloween 🎃 - stLouIST - a Better Bubble™

BuySTL 👜

• Huge barge backup eases on Mississippi River, freeing tons of cargo - stltoday.com
• Manufacturers report too much inventory, retailers too little - stltoday.com
• Lighthouse St. Louis TDD - stLouIST - a Better Bubble™
• Developer walks away from rehab of St. Louis' second-largest office building - r/StLouis
• United Airlines cuts nonstop route from St. Louis to San Francisco - r/StLouis

Restaurants 🍲

• Unsung Restos ✅ | stLouIST - Pinboard (electroponix)
• Sugaree Bakery in Dogtown closing at end of year - St. Louis Magazine
• Slim Chickens owners sue former St. Louis-area employee for poaching staff at Wingstop - stltoday.com

STLfood ⚜️

• St. Louis Standards: The Wine & Cheese Place Has Been Spreading Joy for 40 Years - RFT
• Is it just me or have Red Hot Riplets gotten way worse? - r/StLouis

Neighborhoods 🏡

• 17th Ward Meeting 10-12-2022 - West Pine Laclede Neighborhood Association
• WPLNA MEETING ON TUES. 10/11/22 AT 7:00 - West Pine Laclede Neighborhood Association

STL100 💯

• Busch Stadium packs largest crowd in its postseason history - FOX 2
• Budweiser Clydesdales welcome new members to the herd - KSDK

STL99 😱

• Grover the river otter dies at the Saint Louis Zoo - FOX 2
• STL County woman sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison after reaping fraud pandemic funds - FOX 2
• Gas leak prompts evacuations in Dutchtown neighborhood - stltoday.com
• Residents in south St. Louis rush out of their homes after a construction crew hit gas line - FOX 2
• Homes evacuated after south St. Louis natural gas leak - FOX 2
• Residents in south St. Louis evacuated after gas main hit - KSDK

99MO 😱

• Potential $30 Million International Arms Deal Plays Out in Eureka, Missouri - RFT

WW99 😱

• Frontline Ukraine troops are reportedly enduring Starlink outages - Engadget

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• As Omicron mutates wildly the virus shows first signs of convergent evolution - New Atlas

Police 🚓

• Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department looking to hire officers - KSDK

DotGov 🏛

• California to discontinue plastic grocery bags - Hacker News

CityGov 🏛

• Messenger: More problems with open records in St. Louis, this time from Kim Gardner - stltoday.com
• St. Louis mayor hires new personnel director - stltoday.com
• St. Louis hires new personnel director - FOX 2
• Mayor Tishaura O. Jones Proposes at Least $40 Million in American Rescue Plan Funding to Make Streets Safer Following Extensive Community Input - RiverBender
• BB 101 - Community Development Agency (CDA) HUD 2023 Action Plan - Board Bills
• BB 100 - Speed Humps Various Location 27th Ward - Board Bills

LocalGov 🏛

• St. Louis County now expects $3.86M tax gain due to higher used-vehicle values - stltoday.com
• Auditor grilled at 3-hour meeting, but St. Louis County Council won't reveal details - stltoday.com

MoGov 🏛

• Eric Schmitt says children are exposed to ‘radical ideology’ in schools - stltoday.com
• Missouri state government has more than 7,500 vacancies. Parson pledges to keep raising pay. - stltoday.com
• Some Missouri lawmakers concerned foreign farms could benefit from agriculture tax credits - FOX 2

FedGov 🏛

• Declassified US nuclear targets – interactive map - Hacker News

Jobs 📄

• Meet the 'Flexforce': Schnucks, in push to keep and attract workers, debuts new staffing strategy - St. Louis Business Journal
• Job openings fall sharply in Midwest - St. Louis Business Journal

History 🦕

• A St. Louis-bred mobster had his flashy last ride home in 1933 - stltoday.com
• The day they fired Harry Caray: a shock to Cardinal fans - stltoday.com
• Southtown - c.1970 - r/StLouis

Sustainability ♻️

• Pluralistic: 09 Oct 2022 $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck - Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Infrastructure 🚽

• Spire gas bills in St. Louis to go up slightly. Bigger proposed rate hikes loom. - stltoday.com
• Satellite power grid would beam energy around the globe just like data - New Atlas
• Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers - Hacker News
• Interactive Submarine Cable Map - Hacker News

Ecology 🦤

• The Rainbow Eucalyptus is the world's most colorful tree - Boing Boing

WWW99 🕸

• That thing to help protect internet traffic from hijacking? It's broken - The Register
• Amazon Scraps Scout Home Delivery Robot Tests - Gizmodo

Twitter 🐦

• Kanye West Locked Out of Twitter for Antisemitic Tweet One Day After Being Restricted From Instagram - Gizmodo
• Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge - Hacker News
• Twitter's edit button finally debuts in the United States, but you'll have to pay for it - Engadget

Space 🚀

• How NASA plans to stop killer asteroids - Freethink
• SpaceX gives another four astronauts a lift to International Space Station - The Register
• SpaceX to Attempt Rare Launch of Falcon Heavy Later This Month - Gizmodo

DIY 🪓

• Building an FM radio from $3 radio chip and an 84MHz ARM Arduino - Hacker News
• PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools - Hacker News
• Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog - Hacker News
• Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit - Hacker News
• TypeScript is now officially 10 years old - Hacker News
• Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac - Hacker News
• Adding Fluid Typography Support to WordPress Block Themes - CSS-Tricks

Captain's Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Sad - Scripting News
• Virgina Air Hyperloop's pod on display at Kirkwood museum - FOX 2
• A look back at children's TV show pioneer, Captain Kangaroo - Boing Boing
• These McDonaldLand brand guidelines are like the handbook for a horror RPG - Boing Boing
• Ask HN: Why do people come to HN for Stripe resolutions? - Hacker News
• Stripe is PayPal circa 2010 - Hacker News