Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017
LA Times: Just because we can light up the night sky like it's noontime, doesn't mean we should
Press Democrat: Sebastopol poised to be 1st local city open to recreational cannabis trade
Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017
AP: Judge halts clearing of rare forest targeted for Walmar
NY Times: LA Will Become Largest US City With Recreational Pot
NY Times: Hey, ‘Budtender’: Los Angeles’s Power Brokers of Pot Crank Up the Kook
NY Times: How Arctic Drilling, Stymied for Decades, Returned in Tax Bill
Ars Technica: Who Knew? Bitcoin’s insane energy consumption, explained
Newsweek: LEGAL POT: CANADA WILL SELL MARIJUANA IN LIQUOR STORES
Washington Post: The other prescription drug epidemic: Older people taking too many pills
Sonoma West: Commentary: Protect Felta Creek
Press Democrat: State approves Eureka's Ken Bareilles plans to log critical coho habitat in Sonoma
Vox: How police used a traffic stop to take $91,800 from an innocent man
Newsweek: MEET THE ‘FATHER OF MARIJUANA RESEARCH’
: Video: 17th Annual Emerald Cup Judging
Press Democrat: FBI offering $20,000 reward for capture of Northern California's ‘Khaki Bandit’
The Guardian: The end of prisons visits: US jails replace face-to-face contact with video calls
Seattle Times: Fight to save Alaska’s big-tree forests
Seattle Times: Nation’s top 1 percent now have greater wealth than the bottom 90 percent
LA Times: Join the elks club near Lagoon's classic red schoolhouse
LA Times: Paul Ryan makes it official: Republicans are coming after Medicare next
Friday, Dec. 8, 2017
Vox: How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult
NY Daily News: California opens online system to license new pot industry
LA Times: Wildfire threatens sensitive California condor population
LA Times: First death confirmed from Southern California wildfires
Washington Post: Cattle have gotten so big that restaurants and grocery stores need new ways to cut steaks
Leafly: A Cannabis Traveler’s Guide to Finding the Real Humboldt County
The Guardian: Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
NY Times: In a Warming California, a Future of Flames
Press Democrat: Big crowd expected at Emerald Cup
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017
LA Times: Here's a map showing all the major fires in Southern California
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017
Slate: Mega Costco chicken plant in Nebraska has friends, foes
Washington Post: The most accurate climate change models predict the most alarming consequences, study finds
LA Times: Sylmar Fire: 100,000 evacuated, 30 horses dead as blaze grows
Press Democrat: Was this year's North Coast abalone season the last for a while?
The Oregonian: Zinke questions legality, offers few specifics about Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument's fate
LA Times: Fast-moving wildfire closes 405 Freeway, triggers evacuations in Bel-Air
Press Democrat: Sonoma County OKs first cannabis farm
The Guardian: Why are America's farmers killing themselves in record numbers?
New Republic: The Difficult Business of Dying
Washington Post: FCC commissioner, New York attorney general call for delay of net neutrality vote over fake comments
Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017
San Jose Mercury: Over a dozen states balk at California’s egg law, sue
San Jose Mercury: What could cause California droughts? Melting sea ice
LA Times: Climate scientists see alarming new threat to California
LA Times: 150 structures destroyed, 27,000 people evacuated in raging Ventura wildfire
Monday, Dec. 4, 2017
The Guardian: 'We'll see the battle lines': Trump faced by Native American alliance over Bears Ears
Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017
LA Times: Got a criminal record? L.A. might help you get into the pot biz — or ban you
Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017
Washington Post: What the opioid epidemic looks like on the screen of a brain scan
Sundance Times: Hunting Spray Hides Marijuana Stash From K-9 But Fails To Trip Up WY Trooper
Seattle Times: Video showing infected fish waste spewing into B.C. waters roils fish-farming issue