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STL: Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Events 📆

• Cities of the Future - Events from May 15 – May 15 – Explore St. Louis
• Chinese Culture Days returns to the Missouri Botanical Garden - St. Louis Magazine
• Bark In the Park, May 18th - The Healthy Planet
• Want to taste Cicadas? Join the Bug Chef for cicada dishes at the Butterfly House - FOX 2

BuySTL 👜

• Blueprint Coffee Opens Big New Roastery in South St. Louis - RFT
• Schnucks to discontinue its Eatwell Market health-focused stores - stltoday.com
• St. Louis grocer shutters natural foods concept - KSDK

Restaurants 🍲

• BLK MKT Eats expands space and customer base in Maplewood - feastmagazine.com
• Sunday Best reopens as carryout-only ghost kitchen concept at The Hill Food Co. - feastmagazine.com
• No Ordinary Rabbit to Open in Former Nixta Space This Summer - RFT
• The Wood Shack Will Close After 6 Years in Soulard - RFT
• The Haven Shuts Its Doors After the Death of Owner John Gasperi - RFT
• Sugar Shack Cafe Serves Comfort Food in Granite City - RFT
• Dirty 20 Nerd Bar Opens Saturday, Bringing Ballwin a Dungeons & Dragons Hub - RFT
• Kim’s Bop Shop Opens Cloud Kitchen at the Hill Food Co. - RFT

STL100 💯

• Missouri's 'best bacon dish' served in St. Louis, food writers say - FOX 2

99MO 😱

• Missouri theme park ranked No. 1 in the U.S. for second year - FOX 2

Police 🚓

• Here’s All the Ways St. Louis Police Are Watching You - RFT

DotGov 🏛

• The Importance of Data Governance in the Era of Big Data - noupe

CityGov 🏛

• Lambert airport OKs $891,000 more for troubled accounting system - stltoday.com
• Aldermen Seek to Force St. Louis Jail to Give Access to Attorneys, Officials - RFT
• Traffic safety enhancements planned for 10 St. Louis corridors - FOX 2
• Here are the 10 dangerous St. Louis intersections set to get traffic enhancements starting this year - KSDK
• Neighborhood's Long Parking Permit Nightmare Is Over (They Hope) - RFT
• BB 16 - Conditionally Vacating Poepping Street - Board Bills
• BB 17 - Zoning Change 930 Sidney Street - Board Bills
• BB 18 - Speed Humps 3600-4600 Blocks of Lee Avenue - Board Bills
• BB 19 - Speed Humps 4000 Block of Concordia Avenue - Board Bills
• BB 20 - Honorary Street Naming “On Leong Way” - Board Bills
• BB 21 - TIP Projects-Construction for the Loughborough Ave. Bridge; Grand Drive Bridge and Traffic Management Enhancements Dr. Martin Luther King Dr. and 4th St. - Board Bills
• BB 22 - Two-Way Stop Sign at the Intersection of Lee Avenue and Cora Avenue and the intersection of Lee Avenue and Dryden Avenue - Board Bills

LocalGov 🏛

• Councilman pitches new government in St. Louis County - stltoday.com
• St. Louis Charter Commission's Work Marred by Infighting - RFT
• Leaders to celebrate, launch the next segment of Brickline Greenway in downtown St. Louis - KSDK

MoGov 🏛

• Group turns in signatures to put minimum wage hike, paid sick leave on Missouri ballot - Missouri Independent
• Missouri Senate committee approves bill to expand college core curriculum - Missouri Independent
• Companies tied to out-of-state firms appeal revocation of social-equity cannabis licenses - Missouri Independent
• Missouri Senate committee approves bill to expand college core curriculum - stltoday.com
• Missouri's energy assistance program deadlines approaching this month - KSDK

FedGov 🏛

• U.S. Senate Dems launch renewed push for full marijuana legalization - Missouri Independent
• Judge holds Trump in contempt, fines him $9,000 and raises threat of jail in hush money trial - FOX 2

History 🦕

• This Day in History on May 15: First McDonald's Opens - RiverBender
• 40 Years Later: Ozzy Osbourne rocks St. Louis Blues jersey in mugshot - FOX 2

Sustainability ♻️

• Locals are buying Hoffmann properties in Defiance. ‘We want to bring some positivity back.’ - stltoday.com

Infrastructure 🚽

• Man breaks into Ameren substation, leaving 2,500 without power - FOX 2

Ecology 🦤

• Where the cicada broods are emerging in the US - FOX 2
• Kill Your Lawn For The Birds - RiverBender
• Tyson meat plants dumped millions of pounds of pollution into Missouri and Illinois waterways, report finds - KSDK

STLwx 🌦

• 2024 officially has fifth-highest tornado count ever in St. Louis region - KSDK

WWW99 🕸

• Casey Newton: ‘Google’s Broken Link to the Web’ - Daring Fireball
• Imperva Report Claims That 50% of the World Wide Web is Now Bots - Hackaday
• Google is replacing their search results with AI answers. There’s a very... - kottke.org
• Apple Announces iOS 18 Accessibility Features, Including Eye Tracking - MacRumors

Space 🚀

• NASA's Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months - Gizmodo

DIY 🪓

• Starshot, recipe to cook up ambitious Drupal applications - matt glaman
• 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: The Winners Are In - Hackaday
• Printing music with CSS Grid - Waxy.org
• Baseline progressive enhancement - Adactio: Journal
• Untappd to Mastodon - Updated! - Terence Eden’s Blog
• Your Open-Source Client Options In the non-Mastodon Fediverse - Hackaday
• A completely plaintext WordPress Theme - Terence Eden’s Blog
• Stripe Organizations: A new way to power the world’s most complex businesses - Stripe Blog

Captain's Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Whales attack and sink a yacht - Boing Boing
• Pluralistic: Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good (15 May 2024) - Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow