⏳ STLduJour(nal) - 2021-280-AM Edition

Thursday, Oct 7: Baseball season is over.

Events 📆

• St. Louis is hosting the nation’s largest geospatial conference for the first time - STLPR
• The best food and drink events in St. Louis this weekend: Oct. 8-10 - feastmagazine.com
• Spooky season is here! The Halloween events happening in St. Louis this year - KSDK
• What’s Happening This Weekend: Oct. 8-10 - RiverBender

BuySTL 👜

Restaurants 🍲

• The Fountain on Locust is under new ownership - KSDK
• St. Louis Standards: At North St. Louis County Staple Doughnut Cupboard, Customers Are Family - Riverfront Times
• First Look: Commonwealth Brings Globally-Inspired European Cuisine to Grand Center - Riverfront Times

Neighborhoods 🏡

• ‘Ghost government?’: Downtown district’s future thrown into limbo - stltoday.com

DIY 🪓

• Distressed Sign Using Salt & Spray Paint - Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers
• Hamilton House cheesecake - Orange Crate Art
• Considerations for Using Markdown Writing Apps on Static Sites - CSS-Tricks
• Bareboat Necessities OS Documentation - Github
• Bowing to investors, Microsoft will make its devices easier to fix - Grist

Sustainability ♻️

• Pig-Poop Lagoons Are Huge Polluters. A ‘Green’ Solution Might Make Them Dirtier. - VICE US
• The Colorado River is drying up. Here’s how that affects Indigenous water rights - Grist

Nature 🦝

• Salute 480 Otis, Our Four-Time Fat Bear King - Gizmodo
• Climate change: More than two feet of rain fell in Italy in half a day, something not seen in Europe before - CNN

STL99 😱

• Driver hits MoDOT contractor truck on SB 270 near Manchester - FOX 2
• Pedestrian fatally struck by train in south St. Louis neighborhood - stltoday.com
• Man struck, killed by train in south St. Louis Wednesday night - FOX 2
• Teen boy injured in St. Louis shooting Wednesday - KSDK
• Sudden ending: Dodgers drop curtain on Cardinals’ dramatic late-season push with walk-off homer - stltoday.com

STL100 💯

99MO 😱

• 6 billionaires from Missouri land on Forbes 400 list of richest Americans - FOX 2
• Jefferson County 7th grader brought gun to school twice, superintendent says - KSDK

100MO 💯

Crime 🗯

• Woman who witnessed man’s shooting is found shot to death in her car in St. Louis - stltoday.com
• Police identify man killed in shooting in Dutchtown neighborhood - stltoday.com
• Pedestrian killed by hit-and-run driver in St. Louis - stltoday.com
• Man shot and killed Thursday morning in Walnut Park West neighborhood - FOX 2

Police 🚓

• SLMPD Daily Crime Report (https://stlouist.com/article/slmpd-daily-crime-report-10072021)
• St. Charles County police shoot and kill man who pointed gun at officer - stltoday.com
• St. Charles County officer shoots and kills man during armed confrontation - FOX 2
• Boston Cop Who Bragged About Running Down Protesters Back On Full Duty - The Flashpoint

DotGov 🏛

• For-profit federal prison an understaffed ‘hell hole’ of violence, death and drugs - Missouri Independent
• Massachusetts Police Can Easily Seize Your Money. The DA of One County Makes It Nearly Impossible to Get It Back. — ProPublica
• Idaho’s MAGA Lt. Governor Just Tried to Seize Power, Again - VICE US

CityGov 🏛

• BB 111 - Redevelopment Plan for the 1717 Olive St. Redevelopment Area - City of Saint Louis : Board Bills
• BB 112 - Taxable Industrial Revenue Bonds for Deli Star Corporation - City of Saint Louis : Board Bills

LocalGov 🏛

• St. Louis County seeks nonprofit to run pet shelter - stltoday.com

MoGov 🏛

• Lawmakers blast Missouri’s child welfare office after report on missing foster kids - stltoday.com
• Bill to speed Evergy, Ameren’s move to clean energy wins Missouri legislative approval • Missouri Independent

FedGov 🏛

• Judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions - stltoday.com
• Federal judge orders Texas to suspend new abortion law, state quickly appeals ruling - FOX 2

Covid19 Info 🦠

STLhelp ☎️

• How to help Afghanistan Immigrants -IISTL

Jobs 📄

• Percent of people employed by government across the US and the… - Maps on the Web

History 🦕

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Gannett and the Death of Local Newspapers - The Atlantic
• Wayforward Machine • Visit the future of the internet - Wayforward
• Ernst Haeckel’s Bats (1904) – The Public Domain Review
• Ideas for progress - Stripe Press
• How do you know what people have been working on? - David Heinemeier Hansson
• What the War in Afghanistan Could Never Do - The Atlantic
• Mark Zuckerberg’s Latest Defense of Facebook Doesn’t Make Any Sense - Gizmodo
• Zuckerberg Hits Back at Facebook Whistleblower Claims - ACM
• Cloudflare Defeats “Repeat Infringer” Copyright Lawsuit in US Court - TorrentFreak
• Bitcoin Miner Facing $5.6M Fine for Starting Rogue Power Plant - VICE US
• Thousands in China Are Using a Special Remote to Repel ‘Dancing Grannies’ - VICE US
• Far-Right Network One America News Was Almost Entirely Funded by AT&T, According to Court Records - Gizmodo
• Creepy New Drone That Walks and Flies Is a Robopocalypse Nightmare Come True - Gizmodo
• Google Maps Rolls Out ‘Eco-Friendly’ Routes - Gizmodo
• Google Maps adds a dedicated ‘lite’ navigation mode for cyclists - Engadget
• Google to Pay Developers to Make Open Source Projects More Secure - ACM
• Find flights with lower carbon emissions - The Official Google Blog
• 3 new ways to navigate more sustainably with Maps - The Official Google Blog
• Giving you more sustainable choices with Google - The Official Google Blog
• A ‘potentially disastrous’ data breach hits Twitch, the livestreaming site. - ACM
• Entirety of Twitch leaks to 4chan - Waxy.org
• Twitch Hack of 135 GB of Data Includes How Much Its Biggest Streamers Make - VICE US
• Twitch says ‘server configuration change’ led to massive data leak - Engadget
• Twitch’s source code and streamer payment figures have been leaked following hack - Engadget

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