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⏳ STLduJour(nal) - 2021-251-PM Edition

STL Daily News Snapshots

More on Hayden’s retirement, strange creatures, some recipes and GIRII!

Events 📆

  • Space Station visible in St. Louis skies over the next few days - FOX 2
  • Alton Expo Kicks Off Wednesday, Carnival Ticket Prices Announced - RiverBender
  • Tickets to Walk Through Winter Wonderland at Tilles Park in St. Louis Are On Sale Now - Riverfront Times

BuySTL 👜

Restaurants 🍲

  • Cuban restaurant looks to open in downtown St. Louis - St. Louis Business Journal
  • Former Cousin Hugo’s to reopen on Saturday: In the news - 40 South News
  • Rooster to move its downtown St. Louis restaurant location - KSDK
  • Rooster to relocate downtown restaurant to Washington Avenue - stltoday.com

DIY 🪓

Recipes 📇

Sustainability ♻️

  • ‘Simply unconscionable’: Advocates push Ameren to keep electric bills low during pandemic - Missouri Independent
  • For a livable future, 60% of oil and gas must stay in the ground - Grist
  • Heat Pumps Could Be the Money-Saving, Job-Creating Climate Solution We Need - Gizmodo
  • The world’s largest “direct air capture” machine opens today in Iceland. - The Morning News

Wildlife 🦝

  • Missouri: Beware of this bug - FOX 2
  • Strange foxes found roaming Missouri - FOX 2

STL99 😱

  • Tent Cities in America (2020) - r/StLouis
  • Man arrested in Kirkwood on suspicion of stealing from mailboxes - stltoday.com
  • Three arrested for murder of man near Gateway Arch - FOX 2

STL100 💯

History 🦕

  • The reason why Imo’s Pizza cut into squares - FOX 2

DotGov 🏛

CityGov 🏛

LocalGov 🏛

  • As hundreds quarantine in county after first week of school, Page urges shots and masks - stltoday.com
  • Ballwin Republican state Rep. Shamed Dogan launches campaign for St. Louis County executive - stltoday.com

MoGov 🏛

  • GOP opposes extra public hearings on redistricting process for Missouri Senate - stltoday.com
  • Missouri National Guard on the ground in Louisiana in wake of Hurricane Ida - stltoday.com

FedGov 🏛

  • NASA will finally launch the James Webb Space Telescope on December 18th - Engadget
  • National committee will advise the President on AI competition and ethics - Engadget
  • SEC wants to regulate Coinbase’s crypto yield product, Coinbase disagrees - TechCrunch

Covid19 Info 🦠

  • 300 plus COVID cases among students at St. Louis County school districts - FOX 2
  • 7-day COVID case average has dropped by a third in Missouri since early August - FOX 2
  • Counties with the highest COVID-19 death rate in Missouri - FOX 2
  • COVID-19 surge in the US: The summer of hope ends in gloom - 550 KTRS
  • Mu variant of COVID-19 detected in Missouri and Illinois - FOX 2
  • 1 in every 75 Tennesseans has COVID-19 - Boing Boing
  • COVID Is So Bad Some ICUs Don’t Have Room for Patients Likely to Die - VICE US

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

  • This Virus Shouldn’t Exist (But it Does) - kottke.org
  • This project shows the nightmarish state of today’s web - Boing Boing
  • A Missouri dragstrip is up for sale - FOX 2
  • Acquia to acquire Widen - Dries Buytaert
  • All US Cities Which Used to Have More Than 100,000 People But… - Maps on the Web
  • Facebook Users Liable for All Comments Under Their Posts, According to Australia High Court - Gizmodo
  • Former head of Mint raises $4.5M for Lean to give gig workers access to financial products - TechCrunch
  • Google News app will display non-AMP content and send readers to publisher pages - Search Engine Land
  • Google Photos will deliver as many prints as you like to your home - Engadget
  • Salvadorans Protest Against Government’s Bitcoin Gamble as Official Wallet Suffers Glitches - Gizmodo
  • Twitter tests a safety feature on web to remove followers without blocking them - TechCrunch
  • Twitter wants you to tweet to interest-based communities, not just followers - TechCrunch
  • Who to blame for Afghanistan? - Scripting News