Yesterday’s News 📰 - Today’s Events 📆 - Tomorrow’s Topics 🗣

Events 📆

• Full Board of Aldermen Meeting- Fri, 01/22/2021 - 10:00
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BuySTL 👜

• Find Your Farmer | Latest Additions
• How Emerson’s Commercial and Residential Solution unit approaches technology - St. Louis Business Journal
• How UniGroup, Enterprise and Caleres have embraced in-house software development - St. Louis Business Journal
• Emerson’s CEO on the company’s software-focused future - St. Louis Business Journal
• Emerson’s ‘best kept secret’: How a manufacturing behemoth became St. Louis’ most unlikely software giant - St. Louis Business Journal

When Shayn Prapaisilp’s parents emigrated to St. Louis in the 70s they wanted to bring a taste of home. They opened Jay’s International Market and soon after, King &I, the city’s first Thai restaurant. Hear his family’s story on the #MeetStLouis podcast: https://t.co/0Ae2P8tKc3 pic.twitter.com/1gdmpfoGup

— Alexis Zotos (@alexiszotos) January 21, 2021

Restaurants 🍲

• What to eat now: Love at First Bite is a takeout restaurant that’s built to last - Off the Menu
• New cafe opens in downtown St. Louis - KSDK
• The Queen of Macaron bakes colorful French macarons to order in St. Louis - feastmagazine.com
• Panera won’t pump the brakes on delivery, curbside even when pandemic eases - stltoday.com

Gentle reminder that we are back open for service this week after taking a bit of a Winter Break to test drive our #ThePattyWagon, which was a total success...Pics and more info on that a bit later.

— Mac's Local Eats (@MacsLocalEats) January 21, 2021

Looks like we are open tomorrow and guess who gets to be a jerk pic.twitter.com/kWF72U5MQ6

— Andy Karandzieff (@kzieff) January 21, 2021

#BuyLocal and support a great cafe. https://t.co/7lbCVJdVXG

— travis (he/him/his) (@TravisSheridan) January 21, 2021

Neighborhoods 🏡

• SRG News - Blaster January 20

Updated Benton Park Neighborhood post, ten years after my first post. Lots of new photos herein. This place has seen a lot of rehabbing & new construction in the last ten years. One of my favorites. https://t.co/sPQ5GLeLEn

— St. Louis City Talk (@STLCityTalk) January 22, 2021

Jobs 📄

• Amazon to open another facility in north St. Louis County - The Freightway
• Instacart Will Lay Off All of Its Unionized Workers - VICE US
• New Study Finds Chicago Uber and Lyft Drivers Are Paid Below Minimum Wage - VICE US

DIY 🪓

• Welcome Raspberry Pi to the world of microcontrollers - Arduino Blog
• Raspberry Pi Announces $4 “Pico” Microcontroller with Custom Chip, Collaborations with Arduino, Adafruit, and Others - Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers
• Raspberry Pi Pico is a $4 Arduino alternative - Engadget
• Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip - TechCrunch
• Open Source Hardware Certifications For December 2020 - Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers
• The Raspberry Pi Pico is a new $4 microcontroller - Jeff Geerling’s Blog

Introducing our first microcontroller-class product: Raspberry Pi Pico. Priced at just $4 and built on RP2040, a new chip developed here at Raspberry Pi, Pico is for experienced users and beginners alike, and it's on the cover of @HackSpaceMag today! https://t.co/S2ZQ3X2NLa pic.twitter.com/gGrsIvBG31

— Raspberry Pi (@Raspberry_Pi) January 21, 2021

FTR 🗂

• SLDC Reorganization Presentation 2021

Check out @AuditorGalloway report on financial taxing filings. 87 of the 377 political subdivisions (23%) failed to file a report by the deadline.
16 #TaxingDistrictsSTL located in the City of STL did not file by 12/31.
cc @LydaKrewson @SLDCmo @StLRegister & #LawyersOfTIF https://t.co/19l9Yi6plm

— Sounds the Alarm in Silver Bullet City of St Louis (@GConnolly314) January 21, 2021

STL99 😱

• St. Louis City closes Wheelhouse and Start Bar for up to one year - FOX 2
• Wheelhouse, Start Bar Ordered to Close Until 2022 for COVID-19 Violations - Riverfront Times
• ‘It’s mind-blowing’ | Witnesses describe crowds at 2 downtown bars ordered to close until 2022 - KSDK
• Unsafe conditions hold Missouri down among best-driving states - stltoday.com
• Man gets 10 years for dealing fatal dose of fentanyl in St. Louis - stltoday.com
• New pathogen carrying tick takes up residence in Illinois - FOX 2

Surveillance 👀

• Rep. Aldridge: Pump the Brakes on Spy Plane Program - Riverfront Times

We already have laws on the books.

Sorry, but you are just gonna have to learn to apply them equally. https://t.co/jE78gtmFUj

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 21, 2021

Police 🚓

• Dispatcher leaves St. Louis County police after investigation over racial slur - stltoday.com
• St. Louis County dispatcher who used racial slur on open police mic leaves department - KSDK
• St. Louis County police dispatcher accused of slur is out - The Big 550 KTRS
• St. Louis County police dispatcher using racial slur no longer on force - FOX 2

This is who @QuikTrip has working as armed security in St. Louis, a 45% Black city. You've gotta be kidding me. A boogaloo boi whose front plate is a fake European plate that says "das wagen" pic.twitter.com/JbKRfll7lG

— Cooper (@TweetsofCooper) January 22, 2021

Covid19 Info 🦠

• Missouri leaves out antigen test results, skewing the number of coronavirus cases reported - stltoday.com
• Missouri’s 7-day COVID case average has dropped 42.6% in a month - FOX 2
• COVID-19 hospitalizations continue downward trend in St. Louis area - KSDK
• St. Louis orders crackdown on COVID-19 health violations - stltoday.com
• CDC recommends against getting other vaccines close to when you get the COVID vaccine - FOX 2
• Enterprise Center could become COVID vaccine distribution site - FOX 2
• Flu rate drops dramatically due to COVID-19 precautions - FOX 2
• LIVE: Dr. Fauci speaks about coronavirus at White House press briefing - FOX 2
• Metro East could see loosened COVID restrictions soon - FOX 2
• Thousands of COVID Vaccine Appointments Are Being Canceled Because of Supply Problems - VICE US
• You Might End Up Getting Your COVID Vaccine From a Dentist or Veterinarian - VICE US
• Beware COVID-19 scams: Here’s what to look for - FOX 2
• Scam of the Week: Exploiting the Coronavirus - BSD

This is my #Missouri #COVID19 evening update 🧵 for Thursday, 1/21. My website has been fully updated - https://t.co/hLtVxFPKNo.

The declines we had been seeing have largely abated - just small changes statewide over the past few days in the 7-day average. 1/15 pic.twitter.com/lDY6Uy574W

— Chris Prener (@chrisprener) January 22, 2021

STLhelp ☎️

• Through nonprofit We Care STL, these young St. Louisans help aid Missouri’s uninsured population - St. Louis Magazine

Please spread the word about this Black History Month Essay Contest for 12th graders residing and attending school in #Ward26 #STL #Neighbor https://t.co/1TOMdUpXAQ

— Wellston Loop STL (@WellstonLoopCDC) January 21, 2021

LocalGov 🏛

• Comptroller Green statement on Board Bill 221 - City of St. Louis
• Comptroller Green joins Payne to warn against fire pension plan change - stltoday.com
• *BB 221 - Firemen’s Retirement System
• Local Government Briefings for January 21st - EW Gateway

@STLCityGov Budget Director Paul Payne warns #BB221 would be “significant step back” from gains achieved in 2012 when the city partially reformed firefighters’ pension plans. @OldenburgSTL is sponsoring the bill. It has 19 co-sponsors.

Screenshots of Jan. 15 Payne memo: pic.twitter.com/pjEaZWR5X5

— McPherson (@McPherSTL) January 22, 2021

MoGov 🏛

• Missouri lawmakers inch closer to getting pay raises - stltoday.com
• Lawmakers renew effort to crack down on illegal gaming machines in Missouri - Missouri Independent
• Missouri Senate renews effort to unplug thousands of illegal slot machines - stltoday.com
• Missouri governor activates National Guard to help with Covid-19 vaccines - St. Louis Business Journal
• Parson: Mass Vaccination Sites Planned across Missouri - The Big 550 KTRS

#STL #COVID updates: Missouri is vaccinating residents at one of the slowest paces in the nation https://t.co/byeR55NyF6 pic.twitter.com/Au3RtZHqKf

— St. Louis Public Radio (@stlpublicradio) January 21, 2021

FedGov 🏛

• Keep track of who’s who in the Biden administration - stltoday.com
• Seven U.S. Senate Democrats call for ethics probe of Josh Hawley - Missouri Independent
• Democrats ask ethics panel to investigate Sens. Cruz, Hawley - stltoday.com
• Democrats request Senate ethics probe of Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz - FOX 2

Wow - 438 Republican state legislators signed letters or resolutions calling to overturn the results of the presidential election. https://t.co/CBpkkEcHEj

— Ian Koski (@iankoski) January 21, 2021