Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016
LA Times: Editorial: It's time to legalize and regulate marijuana in California. Yes on Proposition 64.
The Oregonian: FBI Director James Comey urges Americans to cover up their laptop webcam 'for their own safety'
Press Democrat: Gualala River logging project suspended by Sonoma County judge
Friday, Sept. 16, 2016
The Atlantic: Undercover: Pity the Substitute Teacher
Vox: Why Bayer's massive deal to buy Monsanto is so worrisome
The Guardian: Colombia's clandestine cannabis growers keen to come out of the shadows
The Guardian: Baclofen: the controversial pill that could 'cure' alcoholism
Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016
NY Times: What I Learned From Executing Two Men
Huffington Post: FDA Finds Monsanto’s Weed Killer In U.S. Honey
NY Times: $100 Million Awarded in Contest to Rethink U.S. High Schools
San Jose Mercury: California Coastal Cleanup set for Saturday as governor considers smoking ban on state beaches
Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016
Washington Post: What the ‘sixth extinction’ will look like in the oceans: The largest species die off first
Washington Post: How tens of thousands of patients who weren’t actually dying wound up on hospice care
Press Democrat: Oyster racks pulled in cleanup of Drakes Estero
NY Daily News: Suicide claims more lives in New York City than murders or car crashes, data shows
Huffington Post: Monsanto Is Selling Itself For $66 Billion In Pesticide Mega-Merger
Ukiah Daily Journal: The rapidly changing landscape of marijuana legalization: will community’s youth be overlooked?
The Oregonian: You can rent a 165-square-foot 'micro-studio' in Portland for $1,135 a month
The Oregonian: Warm water 'blob' off northwest coast returns
The Guardian: 'We need human interaction': meet the LA man who walks people for a living
Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016
Washington Post: How Donald Trump retooled his charity to spend other people’s money
US News: Pot Breathalyzer Hits the Street
NY Times: Aarboreal Archaeology: Italian Grows Forgotten Fruit. What She Preserves Is a Culture.
The Guardian: Marianas: the tropical paradise the US wants to turn into a war zone
San Jose Mercury: San Jose’s Brew Bike is a sip-cycle affair
San Jose Mercury: Stanford engineers develop ‘potalyzer’ test
LA Times: Editorial Prop 67: A vote to stop profiteering from polluting the Golden State
LA Times: California voters support initiative to legalize recreational use of marijuana, poll finds
SF Chronicle: Marin hospital could be first in state to allow medical marijuana
Press Democrat: Man dies, teen survives after kayak tips over in Clear Lake
Monday, Sept. 12, 2016
Seattle Times: Study details sugar industry attempt to shape science
Huffington Post: Dam: This 12,000-Year-Old Town Could Soon Be Underwater
The Guardian: North Dakota arrest warrant for Amy Goodman raises fears for press freedom
NY Times: One Way to Avoid Regret In Old Age: Write a ‘Last Letter’
West Valley News: Firm that sells opiate spray top contributor in effort to stop legalized marijuana
Your Story: How Women Grow is cultivating cannabis leaders in North America
The Guardian: Standing Rock protests: this is only the beginning
Washington Post: Thieves stole taxpayer data from IRS ‘Get Transcript’ service
San Jose Mercury: Albino redwoods: Mystery of ‘ghosts of the forest’ may be solved
Marin Independent Journal: Reddit Pinterest 24 COMMENTS … Home Arrests Novato pot bust: 45 pounds bound for Las Vegas confiscated in Highway 101 traffic stop
LA Times: Meet the small gray songbird that has restricted so much California coastal development
LA Times: Why Gov. Brown's plan to stem the housing crisis failed
Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016
NY Times: Mining Pollution: In Siberia, a ‘Blood River’ in a Dead Zone Twice the Size of Rhode Island
Huffington Post: Maker Of Dangerous Opioid Is Spending Big To Stop Legal Pot In Arizona
Del Norte Triplicate: Symposium on redwood management next week in Eureka
The Guardian: Why is the US banning kratom, the virtually harmless herb?
Press Democrat: Do you really get more for your money in Mendocino vs. Sonoma?
Press Democrat: Thirst for IPAs driving growth of California’s craft beer industry
Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016
Washington Post: ‘Modern-day civil rights fight’: Md. lawmakers plan bills for medical pot diversity
Friday, Sept. 9, 2016
Bloomberg: Apocalypse Tourism? Cruising the Melting Arctic Ocean