Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Monday, April 24, 2017
Seattle Times: ‘What’s Upstream?’ ad campaign funded by EPA did not break federal lobbying rules, investigation finds
Seattle Times: Trump to sign orders on oil drilling, national monuments
Huffington Post: Dan Savage Raises $100,000 With ‘Impeach The Mother F*cker Already’ Swag
SF Chronicle: 40 to 60 teens swarm BART train, hold up riders
Washington Post: Trump to issue new order calling into question two decades of national monument designations
The Oregonian: Its location a mystery for centuries, huge Native American city is found in Kansas
Sunday, April 23, 2017
PBS: Cherokee Nation files lawsuit targeting CVS and other pharmacies in opioid crisis
Nautilus: Why Poverty Is Like a Disease
LA Times: This lawsuit to force lead paint makers to clean up California homes has been in court for 17 years
LA Times: Cannabis workers, once facing legal peril, get the California seal of approval
The Guardian: Hillbillies who code: the former miners out to put Kentucky on the tech map
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Hakai Magazine: California’s Surf Spots Are Heading for a Wipeout
Vice: This Little Pest Is Going to Kill 8 Billion Trees in a Decade
Friday, April 21, 2017
Washington Post: Opiinion: Can the police retaliate against a citizen for refusing to answer police questions?
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Press Democrat: Santa Rosa named 'microbrew capital of the U.S.'
The Atlantic: Google's Plan: Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
Washington Post: Cherokee Nation Sues Drug Firms, Retailers For Flooding Communities With Opioids
Motherboard: Weed Strains Are Mostly Bullshit
NBC News: Study shows that cycling to work could cut risk of cancer by 45 percent
The Oregonian: 40 trail cam photos that reveal Oregon's hidden wildlife
The Oregonian: Marijuana farm next door to Yamhill County's prized vineyards sparks legal fight
Washington Post: The country’s first drive-through marijuana shop is opening in Colorado
AP: Dow: Pesticide maker tries to kill risk study
Daily Beast: The Rise of the Stoner Mommies
SF Chronicle: The cost of airlifting 1,100 tortoises in California? $50 million
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Business Insider: Baltimore's solar-powered water wheel has now removed 1.1 million lbs of rubbish from the river
EastBay Times: How Californians will pay $5 billion a year for new roads
Washington Post: 11 charts that show marijuana has truly gone mainstream
Ukiah Daily Journal: Small growers will soon have industry scale processing in Redwood Valley
Ukiah Daily Journal: Mendocino County supervisors approve recreational cannabis regs
Press Democrat: Petaluma boy pulls 2,215 pounds of garbage from river
Press Democrat: Graton casino neighbors voice concerns over proposed hotel expansion
The Guardian: Psychedelic drugs induce 'heightened state of consciousness', brain scans show
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Digg: Kidney Failure: This Is How Climate Change Might Kill Us
NY Times: Trump Advisers Are Split on Pulling Out of Climate Accord
San Jose Mercury: ‘Calexit’ campaign dropped as leader bolts for Russia
The Guardian: 'Like a slow death': families fear pesticide poisoning after Trump reverses ban
Monday, April 17, 2017
NY Times: How Is Public Money Spent? Steve Ballmer Has the Data
LA Times: San Mateo: Apparent mountain lion enters bedroom and snatches barking dog
LA Times: Serious design, construction and maintenance defects doomed Oroville Dam, report says
Seattle Times: High on a ridge over the Columbia, Wild Horses Monument tells a story
Seattle Times: Boeing plans hundreds of layoff notices for engineers this week
National Geographic: Here’s Where the Ocean’s Trash Comes From
NY Times: To These Pastors, Saving the Colorado River Is a Divine Command
The Guardian: Receding glacier causes immense Canadian river to vanish in four days
Washington Post: On marijuana, homeland security chief and the attorney general could hardly be further apart
Sunday, April 16, 2017
NY Times: Wine Industry Finds a Companion in a Competitor: Marijuana
Washington Post: If Jeff Sessions wants to crack down on medical marijuana, he’ll have to battle more than half the country
Saturday, April 15, 2017
NY Times: Marijuana Goes Industrial in California