⏳ STLduJour - Dec 218 2020 AM Edition

⏳ STLduJour - Dec 18 2020 AM Edition

Act Locally.

Events 📆

• Rise and Flow Yoga with Ciara Brewer
• Storm of Progress: German Art After 1800 from the Saint Louis Art Museum
• Buzz Spector: Alterations
• SOFI TUKKER
• Discogs’ “Homespun” Livestream Series
• Sean Geil’s Kids Jam
• City of St. Louis Selection Committee for Bidding for Fitness Equipment Maintenance and Repair Services Meeting - 12/21/2020 - 10:00
• Finding Your Fit
• Common Ground
• Nightly Met Opera Streams
• Improv Fun and Games Online Mondays at 7pm
• Singer-Songwriter Night
• Learn How You Can Help Your Community by Volunteering with the Red Cross During COVID-19
• Employees Retirement System Board of Trustees Meeting - 12/21/2020 - 13:30
• Resume Do’s and Don’ts
• Show Cause Hearing - 12/21/2020 - 16:00
• Parking Commission of the City of St. Louis - 12/21/2020 - 16:00
• Sassy Slide

Happy holidays ✨ pic.twitter.com/ZiNXjNbEaP

— City Museum PR (@CityMuseumPR) December 20, 2020

BuySTL 👜

• Last-minute shoppers enjoying smaller crowds and shorter lines - FOX 2
• Woman pulled from burning house by police deputy, Imo’s delivery driver - stltoday.com

We are honored to have some extraordinary employees who go above and beyond. Imo's Pizza Farmington delivery driver Robert Maguire helped a deputy rescue a woman from a burning house Thursday night.https://t.co/Vifxatm6aU

— Imo's Pizza (@imospizza) December 19, 2020

Restaurants 🍲

• Peacemaker Lobster & Crab Co. launches at-home seafood boils in St. Louis - feastmagazine.com - RSS Results
• Songbird, from acclaimed Kounter Kulture team, opens in Forest Park Southeast - stltoday.com
• St. Louis native warns of even more restaurant closings without more aid - KSDK
• Federal COVID relief funds coming too late for some local eateries as restaurants struggle to hang-on - FOX 2

What’s up with Eat-Rite? pic.twitter.com/08WvjySSSx

— /🏴\ stLouIST (@stlouist) December 18, 2020

Eat-Rite 🏪

• Eat-Rite Diner, Bloom Café, Mango, and Mangia Italiano among this week’s restaurant closings - St. Louis Magazine
• Eat-Rite Diner, iconic St. Louis restaurant, has permanently closed - stltoday.com
• Iconic Eat-Rite Diner permanently closes - FOX 2
• St. Louis’ Historic Eat-Rite Diner Has Permanently Closed - St. Louis News and Events | Riverfront Times, Riverfront Times
• Iconic St. Louis diner closes - KSDK

Eat-Rite Diner, iconic St. Louis restaurant, has permanently closed https://t.co/yEStTQ1AiG via @GoSTL

— Ian Froeb (@ianfroeb) December 19, 2020

FlySTL ✈️

• More international service returns to Lambert airport this weekend - KSDK
• MidAmerica-bound passenger assaults flight attendant over face mask; FAA seeks $15K fine - stltoday.com

2020: A year to remember in photos by David Carson https://t.co/mBRdbNkVb5 via @stltoday

— David Carson (@PDPJ) December 21, 2020

STL99 😱

• Christmas star: Jupiter, Saturn merging in night sky, closest in centuries - FOX 2
• Postal workers face uphill climb with record delivery traffic during COVID pandemic - FOX 2
• New twist in porch pirate crimes captured in St. Charles County - FOX 2
• STL’s Busch, Taylor families among nation’s richest - stltoday.com
• St. Louis most ‘crime-costly’ city in U.S., study shows - stltoday.com
• The Saint Louis Fashion Fund to move to Grand Center - St. Louis Magazine

Some zip codes were devastated by the pandemic Apr-Jun. Sales taxes are a cruel mistress.
Yr-o-Yr Q2
63102-89% DT
63145-76% Airport
63103-75% DTW-MT
63105-47% Clayton
63117-46% RH
63131-42% T&C
63108-34% CWE
63112-34% SD-DP-WE
63141-32% CC
63110-31% FPSE-Hill-Shaw-Ikea

— NEXTSTL.com (@NEXTSTL) December 20, 2020

Covid19 Info 🦠

• Beginning of the end of COVID – St. Louis hospital groups now vaccinating employees - FOX 2
• Restrictions stay put as first vaccine begins shipping across country - stlamerican.com - RSS Results in news/local_news of type article
• In Missouri mental health facilities, COVID surged. Staff say policies are patchwork - Missouri Independent
• St. Louis area hospitals still near the peak of COVID-19 patients - stltoday.com
• CDC awards $9M to Illinois for COVID-19 vaccine rollout - KSDK
• St. Louis pandemic task force warns of holiday gatherings as COVID-19 numbers plateau at ‘dangerously high’ level - KSDK
• St. Louis-area hospitals struggle as COVID cases remain dangerously high - stltoday.com
• Hospitalization numbers remain high in St. Louis area as COVID-19 pandemic continues - KSDK
• Millions of coronavirus vaccines are sitting in a warehouse, waiting on government instructions, Pfizer says - FOX 2
• Vaccinations are relief, but virus still spreading at dangerous rate: ‘Unlike anything I have ever seen’ - stltoday.com
• Missouri’s next Pfizer vaccine shipment to be short thousands of doses - FOX 2

And it is live! https://t.co/7L6ALWPaBA

— Chris Prener (@chrisprener) December 21, 2020

STLhelp ☎️

• Congress seals deal for $900 billion in COVID relief - MetroSTL.com
• Second stimulus checks: Breakthrough clears way for deal with $600 payments - FOX 2
• Urban League Holiday Drive-Thru lends helping hand - FOX 2
• Dutchtown group helps families struggling during pandemic - KSDK

LocalGov 🏛

• Consultants’ reports on St. Louis city and county police likely to bolster calls to restructure local law enforcement - stltoday.com

MoGov 🏛

• City recorder of deeds takes reins of Missouri Democratic Party - MetroSTL.com
• Vets commission chair questions spending state pot money on tiny home project - stltoday.com

We coulda had Elad... https://t.co/Gz3JDn5Wlg

— /🏴\ stLouIST (@stlouist) December 19, 2020

FedGov 🏛

• Bush to join House Judiciary Committee - stlamerican.com - RSS Results
• Rep.-elect Cori Bush nominated for House Judiciary Committee - stltoday.com

Some people in my mentions are saying I need a law degree to serve on the Judiciary Committee.

No degree can teach you what it feels like to experience an officer's boot stomping your head.

The expertise of my community’s lived experiences will drive my work.

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) December 19, 2020