stLouISTSTL: Thursday, March 17, 2022
Events 📆
- St. Patrick's Day 🍀 - stLouIST
- St. Patrick's Day festivities return to Dogtown after 2 years - KSDK
- Dogtown's Irish Festival returns this St. Patrick's Day - FOX 2
- Son Volt returns to The Pageant this Friday - St. Louis Magazine
STLfish 🐟
BuySTL 👜
- A-B testing new Budweiser in five markets - stltoday.com
Restaurants 🍲
- Family-run restaurant closing after 28 years in St. Louis County - KSDK
- St. Louis semifinalist chefs and restaurant fail to advance to finals of the 2022 James Beard Awards - St. Louis Magazine
- Tom Coghill, co-owner of Iron Barley restaurant in High Ridge, dies at 58 - KSDK
- Rest in Peace Tom Coghill, the Soul of Iron Barley - RFT
- Rich LoRusso, owner of LoRusso's Cucina, dies at 63 - KSDK
STLfood ⚜️
Neighborhoods 🏡
- AwareNet - stLouIST
- We’re Hiring! - Cherokee Street
- New Brewery in Near North Riverfront's "Produce Row" coming this Spring. Anyone know about this area? - r/StLouis
- Community Meeting re: Lindell/Kingshighway Development Proposal - West Pine Laclede Neighborhood Association
DIY 🪓
- Three DDoS attacks on my personal website - Jeff Geerling's Blog
- A Demo of Pockit, a Tiny, Powerful, Modular Computer - kottke.org
- Tired of Waiting For Airless Tires? Just Build Your Own Using Plastic Drainage Pipe - Gizmodo
- Build your own texting device and communicate freely with Chatter - Boing Boing
Sustainability ♻️
- Concerns sparking over St. Louis electric vehicle charging stations - r/StLouis
Infrastructure 🚽
- Shutting off your own water won't stop MSD from billing you - KSDK
- We’re Releasing the Data Behind Our Toxic Air Analysis - ProPublica
- Letter To The Editor: Paul Revere Moment Has Proven Prophetic - RiverBender
- Sierra Club Illinois Statement In Response To The Oil Spill In Edwardsville - RiverBender
- Treehouse Wildlife Center Issues Statement About Marathon Pipeline Leak - RiverBender
- Attorney General Raoul Issues Statement Regarding Marathon Oil Spill Near Edwardsville - RiverBender
- Wildlife experts working to save animals injured in oil spill - KSDK
- Marathon pipeline repaired in Edwardsville, cleanup continues after oil spill - KSDK
- Metro East pipeline leak repaired; Wildlife recovery continues - FOX 2
- Edwardsville locals helping collect supplies for wildlife affected by oil spill - KSDK
- Edwardsville pipeline fixed; crews still cleaning up oil spill - FOX 2
Ecology 🦤
- Bird Flu: Presumptive positive case found in St. Louis County - KSDK
- Tests: Downtown crows died of outbreak of illness that doesn't pose threat to people - KSDK
- An Emerging Virus Has Now Been Spotted in Georgia's Ticks - Gizmodo
- Mysterious Birds Dive in Sync During a Lunar Eclipse - Gizmodo
STL99 😱
- 'It's like whack-a-mole': St. Louis logs thousands of pothole complaints - stltoday.com
- Hopes fading for intentional encampment for homeless near downtown St. Louis - stltoday.com
- How to split, spend Rams settlement money? - FOX 2
- Lawyers in Rams case received $900,000 for expenses, on top of $276.5M fee, document shows - St. Louis Business Journal
- LouFest agrees to pay vendor $95,000 over canceled festival - KSDK
- Messenger: When the two St. Louis police organizations are on same side, pay attention - stltoday.com
- St. Louis man killed two men suspected of stealing his catalytic converter, charges say - stltoday.com
- Trash blows over I-55 from St. Louis County recycling center - FOX 2
STL100 💯
- Hummingbird migration: Tracking the flights north through the United States - FOX 2
- SLPS students can get free Metro passes - KSDK
- Construction begins on $130M transformation of historic Butler Brothers building - KSDK
- St. Louis Symphony Orchestra announces expansion, renovation plans for Powell Hall - KSDK
- $100M renovation to transform St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's home - FOX 2
- Non-profit aims to revamp East St. Louis with new housing - KSDK
99MO 😱
- Missouri radio station continues to air literal Russian war propaganda - DailyKos
- Petition claims Festus teacher is being ousted for refusing to discriminate against LGBTQ students - KSDK
WW99 😱
- Biden announces millions more in aid to Ukraine - FOX 2
- Zelenskyy reminds Congress of Pearl Harbor and 9/11 in pleading for U.S. help for Ukraine - Missouri Independent
- Germany advises citizens to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus - The Register
- Russia Faces IT Crisis with Just Two Months of Data Storage Left - ACM
- Russia Just Bombed a Theater in Ukraine Where Hundreds Were Sheltering - VICE US
- Elon Musk Is Feuding With Chechnya's Brutal Dictator - VICE US
- Slack begins suspending accounts in Russia - Engadget
- China's internet regulator squeezes famously freewheeling Reddit-alike - The Register
- Eighth Journalist Murdered In Mexico in 2022 - VICE US
Police 🚓
- Former St. Louis cop gets 1-year of probation in Luther Hall beating case - stltoday.com
- Former St. Louis officer sentenced in attack on undercover detective - FOX 2
- Former St. Louis officer sentenced to probation in Luther Hall case - KSDK
- St. Louis bill would require police officers to repay academy costs when leaving force before 2 years of duty - KSDK
DotGov 🏛
- Pritzker Administration To Propose New, Simplified Approach To Cannabis Dispensary Applications - RiverBender
CityGov 🏛
- Attorneys file for class action status alleging 'violent and systemic' abuse at CJC - stltoday.com
- Request for Proposals Pre-Bidding Conference: Community Violence Intervention - Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
- St. Louis Equal Housing chief to quit - stltoday.com
LocalGov 🏛
- St. Louis County town halls on federal pandemic aid spending resume Wednesday - stltoday.com
- Duckworth, Durbin Announce Federal Support for Improved Public Transit in Madison County - RiverBender
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri’s top lawyer sues statewide school group over records - stltoday.com
- Medicaid enrollment backlog persists as advocates say Missouri could be doing more - Missouri Independent
- Missouri could make it harder to get out-of-state abortions - FOX 2
- Missouri could make it harder to get out-of-state abortions - KSDK
- ‘Not giving up on this democracy’: Danforth, McCaskill plea for civility in politics - Missouri Independent
FedGov 🏛
- Bill to make daylight saving time permanent passes Senate - FOX 2
- Why permanent daylight saving time failed twice in the U.S. - FOX 2
- Are we springing into a Y2K-class nightmare? - The Register
- Senate Moves to Abolish Standard Time and Enter Age of the Sun - VICE US
- FBI Invites Public In On Its Forfeiture Racket, Promises Them A Cut Of The Take - Techdirt
- The census undercounted people of color. Here’s what that means for environmental justice. - Grist
- What to Know About the EPA Supreme Court Case That Could Give Polluters Free Rein - Gizmodo
- Congressional bills would ban tech mergers over $5 billion - Engadget
- 30 Years Late, The FCC Finally Tells ISPs To Deliver More Accurate Broadband Maps - Techdirt
Covid19 Info 🦠
- The Government Is Running Out of COVID Money - VICE US
Jobs 📄
- Client Service Coordinator I (Department of Human Services) - City of Saint Louis : Jobs
- Client Service Coordinator II (Department of Health) - City of Saint Louis : Jobs
- Construction Project Leader - City of Saint Louis : Jobs
History 🦕
- Chief External Architect Of Edwardsville Campus, Gyo Obata, Remembered For Visionary Designs - RiverBender
- The Namesake of O’Fallon, Missouri - History Happens Here
Captain's Blog 🏴☠️
- The XBUS Modular Electric Van ElectricBrands
- Does Nirvana and Pixies producer Steve Albini want to make Dolly Parton’s rock record? - KSHE 95
- An open-source COBOL contender emerges - The Register
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope passes key optics tests - Engadget
- LimeWire Founder “Not Thrilled” That ‘Strangers’ Exploit the Brand for NFT Marketplace - TorrentFreak
- New York Times Begins The ‘Wordle’ IP Purge, Gets ‘Wordle Archive’ Taken Down - Techdirt
- Why It’s Almost Impossible to Lose Anything in Japan - kottke.org
- CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean! - CSS-Tricks
- Mark Zuckerberg confirms NFTs are coming to Instagram - Engadget
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