Anywhere But Humboldt
Thursday, March 9, 2023
East Bay Times: Nordstrom store at Pleasanton mall is bought, may become housing site
East Bay Times: Bay Area university faces default on loan for its huge property
East Bay Times: Bay Area storm: Atmospheric river arrives; flood risk high in Santa Cruz Mountains
PBS News: La Nina, which worsens hurricanes and drought, is gone after 3 years
PBS: House GOP votes to overturn Biden administration water protections
The Guardian: Two leading Ohio Republicans found guilty in $60m bribery scheme
The Guardian: At least seven killed and others wounded in Hamburg shooting
CBS News Sacramento: Student-led drag show at an Elk Grove high school assembly angers some parents
NY Times : Philippines: A tanker sank and spilled oil. Then came reports of nausea, headaches.
NY Times : Why Poverty Persists in America
Washington Post: Report: Buying drugs on social media nearly as easy as calling an Uber
Washington Post: 1 in 3 people in U.S. will develop shingles, a painful condition that can last for weeks or months
Washington Post: Opinion: Details in a lawsuit against Texas’s abortion ban shock the conscience
BBC: How light pollution disrupts plants' senses and drives "insect apocalypse"
AP News: Slap fighting: The next big thing, or unsporting stupidity?
BBC: Mitch McConnell: US Senate Republican leader in hospital after fall
BBC: US six-year-old who shot teacher won't be charged - prosecutor
Grid: Baby boomers want to age in place. U.S. houses aren’t designed for them to do that
Grid: What raising the retirement age to 70 would mean for older Americans and Social Security
The Atlantic: You Should Build a Frog Pond
The Atlantic: We’re Underfunding the Police
The Atlantic: How American Schools Manufacture Anxious Teens
GQ Magazine: The Saga of the World’s Greatest Dogsledder—and the Fight Over the Future of the Iditarod
Vox: Why Israel’s new far-right government has triggered massive protests
Vox: Is Medicare actually going bankrupt?
Vox: Why daylight saving is so hard on the body — and what to do about it
The Guardian: Revealed: the 10 worst places to live in US for air pollution
The Guardian: Scientists create mice with two fathers after making eggs from male cells
The Guardian: Growing numbers of Chinese citizens set their sights on the US – via the deadly Darién Gap
The Guardian: Video: The Texas town swallowed by Big Oil’s ‘chemical soup’
The Guardian: Chaim Topol, Fiddler on the Roof actor, dies aged 87
The Guardian: Cocaine cat: Cincinnati zoo takes in exotic feline found with drug in system
The Guardian: Sensitive personal data of US House and Senate members hacked, offered for sale
The Guardian: New Utah oil railroad by river is health and climate risk, campaigners say
The Hill: US sees white supremacist propaganda jump to all-time high: ADL
BBC: Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise
BBC: Urgent UN warning after power interrupted to Ukraine nuclear plant
The Hill: House GOP organizing trip to see jailed Jan. 6 defendants, led by Marjorie Taylor Greene
AP News: Daughter unravels decades-old mystery of disabled mom’s rape
AP News: Judge orders halt to fast releases at US border with Mexico
AP News: Swarm of quakes at Alaska volcano could mean eruption coming
The Hill: Artificial intelligence will destroy ‘laptop class’ workers
AP News: US probes Tesla Autopilot, steering wheels that can come off
The Hill: La Niña is officially over, NOAA announces: What does that mean?
AP News: Ex-Navajo President Zah, guided by love for people, dies
AP News: 3 Los Angeles K-9 officers wounded; suspect dead in standoff
AP News: Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college
AP News: Tucker Carlson’s scorn for Trump revealed in court papers
CBS News Sacramento: Senior survives nearly 1 week stuck in California snowbank on croissants and candy