Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Sunday, April 30, 2017
LA Times: Curious about using cannabis for wellness? This is for you.
Athens Banner Hearld: Georgia lawmaker deals cannabis oil in shadows of the law
NY Times: Under the Trump Tax Plan, We Might All Want to Become Corporations
NY Times: Shortage of Auto Mechanics Has Dealerships Taking Action
NY Times: China’s Appetite Pushes Fisheries to the Brink
The Oregonian: Oregon pushes for wooden skyscrapers to revive timber industry
Press Democrat: Woman drowns in Russian River tributary near Cloverdale
Saturday, April 29, 2017
ForBeautifulLife: Study Says People in the US and Canada spent over $53 billion on marijuana in 2016
Sacramento Bee: Indian tribes fear Trump will be a buzzkill for their marijuana business
NY Times: Corporations Are People: Under the Trump Tax Plan, We Might All Want to Become Corporations
NY Times: Despite the ‘Yuck Factor,’ Leeches Are Big in Russian Medicine
Washington Post: More than a million patients flock to this website. Drug companies are in hot pursuit.
San Jose Mercury: Large number of orcas seen killing gray whales in Monterey Bay
Friday, April 28, 2017
LA Times: California Today: Looking at Los Angeles’s Abandoned Sofas
The Atlantic: Are We Having Too Much Fun?
Press Democrat: Santa Rosa may ban outdoor cannabis gardens immediately
Press Democrat: Trump’s offshore oil plan promises jobs, provokes California protest
Washington Post: EPA website removes climate science site from public view
Washington Post: Half of immigrants arrested in Feb. raids had traffic convictions or no record, data shows
Jalopnik: Drug Cartels Are Using Ford Fusions To Smuggle Curiously Cheap Weed Into Minnesota
Daily Beast: Legal Weed’s No. 1 Warrior Puts Down His Pipe
Press Democrat: Critics: Trump’s executive order would open North Coast to offshore oil drilling
The Guardian: Slathering on sunscreen at the beach? It may be destroying coral reefs
LA Times: Trump stumbled on healthcare and immigration, but on the environment he's been 'a wrecking ball'
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Vice: America's Opioid Epidemic Is Destroying the Rainforest
Huffington Post: How The Oceans Became Choked With Plastic
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
SF Chronicle: Toxic algae blooms killing sea lions in Southern California
LA Times: Here are the national monuments being reconsidered under Trump
LA Times: 'Secret witness' at Durst hearing testifies that now-dead friend pretended to be his missing wife
Marin Independent Journal: Novato solar farm nearly ready to power 300 homes
NY Times: U.S. Issues Sweeping Plan to Loosen Rules for Internet Providers
Seattle Times: Billionaire Paul Allen pledges $30M toward permanent housing for Seattle’s homeless
NY Times: President Plans to Unleash a Wave of Oil and Gas Drilling
NY Times: For Road-Weary Cyclists, a Room, a Couch, Maybe Even a Meal.
NY Times: Rising Seas Are Putting Historic Sites at Risk
Press Democrat: Ca Mille: Vintage car driver dies in Mendocino County tour crash
Seattle Times: Coming out of retirement to fight Trump on monuments
Washington Post: People think juice is good for them. They’re wrong.
Washington Post: Drugged driving eclipses drunken driving in tests of motorists killed in crashes
San Jose Mercury: California drought increased electricity bills and air pollution
LA Times: 5 dead in 10 days from heroin overdoses in Sonoma County
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Press Democrat: Spike in suspected heroin overdose deaths in Santa Rosa spur warning
Washington Post: BS: Interior secretary to review large national monuments created since 1996 ‘to make sure the people have a voice’
NY Times: What Trump’s Budget Means for the Fishing Industry
NY Times: There Are More Than 2 Jobs in Solar for Every 1 in Coal
San Jose Mercury: Here are the cities Californians are moving away from – and into
Washington Post: Opinion: Jeff Sessions and the marijuana conundrum
LA Times: Another secret witness, three others to testify in Robert Durst's murder case