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

Events 📆

• Soulard CID Board of Directors Meeting - stLouIST
• more 📆

BuySTL 👜

• Added STL Filipino Bread | stLouIST
• How St. Louis artists, restaurants and institutions braved a year of tragedy and transformation - stltoday.com

Another great local business! However don’t be fooled the coaster puzzle isn’t that simple. pic.twitter.com/YdkSA4mtqD

— Donna Baringer (@STLDonnaB) January 3, 2021

STLfood 🍲

• The Stellar Hog goes into hibernation - stLouIST
• Tower Grove South restaurant Crispy Edge targets nationwide product roll out, expansion with $1M building purchase - St. Louis Business Journal
• Pay-what-you-can farm stand to open in summer - stltoday.com

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Neighborhood News 🏘

• Added Soulard CID Page - stLouIST
• 2020 LPNA Year End Wrap Up - Lindenwood Park
• After a bad luck year, Soulard nonprofit shifts gears - stltoday.com

History 🦖

• Bob’s Cola - St. Louis’ Bottling Past - St. Louis City Talk
• Dec. 30, 1964: The killing that spelled the beginning of the end for Gaslight Square - stltoday.com
• How loud was the old Arena? The day one opposing coach tried earmuffs. - stltoday.com
• Jan. 3, 1844 • Steamboat wreck kills as many as 70 on the Mississippi at St. Louis - stltoday.com
• Maplewood History: The Barry and Johnston Cave – Part One - 40 South News

I took mine from a warehouse liquidation demo in North City. Snagged it off the wall in one of the offices. pic.twitter.com/ddwMZWN53t

— Patrick (@pattimagee) January 4, 2021

Surveillance 👁‍🗨

• A Tale of Two Body Camera Videos - ACLU
• Man sues police over a facial recognition-related wrongful arrest - Engadget
• NSO used real people’s location data to pitch its contact-tracing tech, researchers say - TechCrunch

Body camera footage can't promote accountability when police themselves get to decide which footage is released. https://t.co/WTHjiGFksw

— ACLU (@ACLU) January 3, 2021

Covid19 Info 🦠

• As Missouri continues vaccine distribution, nationwide rollout falling well short of projections - FOX 2
• COVID-19 hospitalizations in St. Louis area increase as Missouri surpasses 400,000 cases - KSDK
• Missouri eclipses 400,000 reported COVID cases - FOX 2
• Missouri reports 2,761 new cases, 58 additional COVID deaths - FOX 2
• Missouri to receive over 70,000 vaccines in the upcoming week - FOX 2
• Missouri tops 400,000 coronavirus cases, ranks 23rd in cases per capita - stltoday.com
• A New COVID-19 Variant Has Hit the US. Here’s What You Need to Know. - VICE US

Health policy experts warned way back in April 2020 that the problem with the #CovidVaccine would be distribution, not supply or effectiveness. They called for billions of dollars to create community-based mass #vaccine clinics. That didn’t happen. So here we are. #WarpSpeed https://t.co/4cVckUIYis

— Mark Abraham (@urbandata) December 24, 2020

STLhelp ☎️

• City to add two ‘overflow’ shelters, mobile shower trailers for homeless - stltoday.com
• New program in St. Louis will direct mental health 911 calls to therapists - KSDK

Education 📓

• Several St. Louis County school districts are among the best in the U.S., according to Niche - FOX 2

I saw this on FB and it's the best food pantry donation list I've ever seen. Usually posts like this either end up shaming the donor for what they do or don't give, or shaming the receiver for what they do or don't choose to eat.

As a former pantry employee, I endorse! pic.twitter.com/GdvAkLHUDY

— Spooky Mantilla 👻 (@PunkyMantilla) January 3, 2021

STL99 😱

• St. Louis City’s 2020 homicide rate is highest in 50 years - FOX 2
• You Paid For It: St. Louis police chief discusses city’s homicide rate - FOX 2
• America’s Big Cities Aren’t Defunding the Police - Bloomberg
• Trash complaints grow in St. Louis. ‘You have to make people know it’s not OK.’ - stltoday.com
• St. Louis police investigate shooting in Downtown West - FOX 2
• Pet food recalled after at least 28 dogs die, 8 sick in US - FOX 2

The rallying cry to defund the police hasn't translated into reality.

While some major cities made high profile cuts, over half of the 34 major U.S. cities we analyzed actually increased or left police budgets intact for 2021. Our piece from September: https://t.co/ZWQgtNYIxV

— Bloomberg CityLab (@CityLab) January 3, 2021

LocalGov 🏛

• Things were looking up, for a change… - #STL is a racket
• A third St. Louis mayoral candidate falls short on petition signatures - stltoday.com
• St. Louis recorder agrees to settlement with four employees he fired - stltoday.com
• St. Louis County restaurants and bars will be allowed to reopen for limited indoor dining on Jan. 4 - feastmagazine.com
• St. Louis County restaurants may resume indoor dining on January 4, with restrictions - St. Louis Magazine
• St. Louis County restaurants prepare to reopen their doors as second lockdown comes to an end - FOX 2
• St. Louis County to resume indoor dining as COVID cases decline. But virus still overwhelming hospitals - stltoday.com
• The 5 changes for St. Louis County bars and restaurants to reopen in 2021 - FOX 2

MoGov 🏛

• Cori Bush sworn in, becomes first Black woman to represent Missouri in Congress - FOX 2
• Hawley to contest Biden’s Electoral College win - MetroSTL.com
• Josh Hawley vows to contest certification of Joe Biden’s victory - Missouri Independent
• GOP Senator Josh Hawley Will Challenge the Election for Trump on January 6 - VICE US

Josh Hawley announces he’s planned
An anti-democracy stand.
Fomenting sedition,
This man of ambition
Is keen to develop his brand.

— Limericking (@Limericking) December 31, 2020

FedGov 🏛

• All 10 living former secretaries of defense deliver rebuke of Trump’s claims of election fraud - FOX 2
• State Department approves potential sale of 3,000 Boeing-made smart bombs to Saudi Arabia - stltoday.com

At the end of the call, the President of the United States repeatedly asks for access to voter data that he knows is barred to him by law. He wants access to the data through a quiet, back door agreement.

That's a big deal in and of itself.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) January 4, 2021