Anywhere But Humboldt
Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019
The Oregonian: Oregon tire empire Les Schwab considers putting itself up for sale
NY Times: A Trump Policy ‘Clarification’ All but Ends Punishment for Bird Deaths
LA Times: California’s legal marijuana industry is stuck. Should voters step in?
Press Democrat: A gift for beer lovers: Pliny the Younger to be sold in bottles
Monday, Dec. 23, 2019
NY Times: The Ganges Brims With Dangerous Bacteria
The Guardian: ‘I never understood wind’: Trump goes on bizarre tirade against wind turbines
The Guardian: Argentina: thousands protest in Mendoza wine region over axed water protections from mining
BBC: Australia fires: The thousands of volunteers fighting the flames
WRCBTV: Local Veterans Affairs employee fired after bringing up agency issues
CNN: 600 gallons of oil spilled in waters off Galapagos Islands
Press Democrat: County OKs $2 million for sanctioned homeless camps, $9 million for housing and services
Redding Searchlight: Cars left dangling, occupants escape after hit-and-run in Redding garage on Sunday
LA Times: Newsom paroles immigrant, who is immediately detained by ICE
LA Times: Army officer returns home to San Diego to say goodbye to mother before her deportation
Digg: Trump Goes On A Bizarre Rant Against Windmills: 'Gases Are Spewing Into The Atmosphere'
Washington Post: Darkly poetic photos show what life is like in the Brazilian Amazon
Washington Post: How tourists take their lives into their own hands
Washington Post: How a Putin ally is aiding Giuliani in Ukraine
NY Times: Tackling Inflammation to Fight Age-Related Ailments
Business Insider: Google and Apple have booted messaging app ToTok which was downloaded millions of times and reportedly a UAE spy tool
NY Times: The Unforeseen Dangers of a Device That Curbs Drunken Driving
Vox: Senate Republicans were laser-focused on confirming judges in 2019 — even the unqualified ones
Vox: We have a solution for the opioid epidemic. It’s dramatically underused.
Huffington Post: Something Trump Doesn’t Know: Wind. But He Has Studied Windmills ‘Better Than Anybody.’
Huffington Post: When Native Americans Are Told To ‘Go Back’ To Where They Came From
The Oregonian: Huge, invasive bee-killing hornet turns up in Washington state
NY Times: Baba Ram Dass, Proponent of LSD and New Age Enlightenment, Dies at 88
NY Times: Japan Wants to Dump Nuclear Plant’s Tainted Water. Fishermen Fear the Worst.
NY Times: How Your Phone Betrays Democracy
NY Daily News: California church wipes out $5.3 million in medical debt for 5,555 families living in poverty
NY Daily News: Schumer wants fed probe of TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods stores over sales of deadly products
LA Times: Tijuana River’s toxic sewer sludge dangerous for migrants and border agents
LA Times: A struggling Crescent City hopes for a comeback by embracing its boogeyman: tsunamis
Press Democrat: Explosion sparks fire, chemical spill at Sonoma County geothermal plant
Press Democrat: ‘We better do our job’: County supervisors set to take action on long-simmering homeless encampment
The Guardian: Saudi Arabia sentences five to death for murder of Jamal Khashoggi
The Guardian: Bureaucracy as a weapon: how the Trump administration is slowing asylum cases
Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019
Redding Searchlight: Redding police officer shoots and kills man during traffic stop
Medford Mail Tribune: Medford police issue Red Alert heroin warning
NY Post: President Trump approves raising legal smoking age to 21
Seattle Times: Collaboration key to assembling Native American photo trove
Politico: Cannabis, corruption and cryptocurrency: All the weird stuff in the budget deal
The Guardian: Delta smelt: the tiny fish caught in California's war with Trump
Washington Post: Spending bill includes funding for controversial wild horse proposal
LA Times: Trump might have his revenge on California as he remakes once-liberal 9th Circuit court
NBC News: Las Vegas apartment complex fire kills 6, injures 13
Forbes: Trump Says He Can Ignore Medical Marijuana Protections Passed By Congress
Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019
Washington Post: A desperate search for health care forces a husband and wife apart after 63 years
Nation of Change: Trump’s proposed social security change could slash disability benefits for thousands
The Atlantic: Underwater: History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin