Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Thursday, May 2, 2024
San Jose Mercury News: At East Bay federal prison tainted by sex-abuse scandal, all of the prisoners have been cleared out
San Jose Mercury News: Wife of Southern California radiologist accused of driving family off Devil’s Slide cliff speaks in court for first time
SF Chronicle: California electricity prices now second-highest in U.S.: ‘Everyone is getting squeezed’
the Atlantic: Authentic or Out of Control? Why a Bit of Restraint Can Do You a Lot of Good
NY Times: After a Long Stretch of Darkness, the Bay Bridge Lights Are Returning
NY Times: Can Forests Be More Profitable Than Beef?
NPR: Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.
KQED: What Does Marijuana Reclassification Mean for the United States?
KCRA: California Capitol goes red to commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous people
Washington Post: The children who remember their past lives
Yahoo News: ‘Detestable’: Guard busted inside Central California prison. Officials found him with fentanyl
KCRA: How many people in encampments accepted mental health help in Sacramento County?
Sacramento Bee: Huge Blue Whale stuns California onlookers in early sighting
Washington Post: Biden to expand two California national monuments crucial to tribes
Washington Post: The ‘shed hunt’ is on. Towering prongs of elk antlers are the prize.
Washington Post: In Oregon, Medicaid is buying people air conditioners
Washington Post: Police at UCLA push through barricades, use stun grenades and detain protesters
The Guardian: Wisconsin police kill student who came to middle school with a gun
NY Times: Before the Violence, U.C.L.A. Thought a Tolerant Approach Would Work
BBC: Apple working to fix iPhone alarm issue
The Guardian: Australian red meat industry has recorded 78% reduction in emissions since 2005, report shows
The Guardian: Humboldt: Gaza protesters occupying building at rural California university arrested in police crackdown
The Guardian: Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame?
The Hill: Manchin vows to introduce resolution to overturn Biden permitting rule
AP News: Trump says he’ll use National Guard to deport migrants, doubling down on anti-immigration rhetoric
The Guardian: Review: A Man in Full – skin-crawling Trump satire is a worthy Succession replacement
The Guardian: Universal signs TikTok deal allowing artists back on platform
The Guardian: ‘I was lying on the ground beside a wall of cops’: student photographers’ best images of the campus protests
BBC: Arrests at Columbia of Gaza protesters after NYPD raid
BBC: Police rip down barricades as they break down Gaza protest in LA
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Here’s this year’s list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.
BBC: Arizona Senate votes to repeal 1864 abortion ban
AP News: Death toll jumps to at least 48 as a search continues in southern China highway collapse
Press Democrat: Avelo Airlines celebrates new milestone at Sonoma County airport
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Federal agency announces next steps for Southern Oregon offshore wind energy
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Federal cannabis reclassification could bring pharmaceutical companies to Oregon’s marijuana industry
KPTV: Portland police say they are working to de-escalate occupation of PSU library
The Oregonian: Indigenous teens emulate ancestors’ Arctic survival skills in Native Youth Olympics
MSN News: Crowdfunding and suitcases full of cash: How Gazans are paying to escape war
Marin Independent Journal: Marin dam expansion proposals rile ranchers
KPIX: Bay Area scientists use game-changing technology to help birds amid climate change
KPIX: New California law will ban restaurant surcharges on customer bills
LA Times: Four UCLA student journalists attacked by pro-Israel counterprotesters on campus
San Jose Mercury News: Cal Poly Humboldt closure still enforced after crackdown on protesters
MSN News: California begins demolition of 173-foot Iron Gate dam as part of nation’s largest removal project
LA Times: San Gabriel Mountains National Monument expanding by more than 100,000 acres
LA Times: As court overturns a lot-splitting law, SB 9, one early adopter asks why
LA Times: Massive police operation breaches UCLA pro-Palestinian encampment, makes arrests
Denver Post: “A big deal”: What the feds’ move to reclassify marijuana means for Colorado cannabis
SFGate: MLB star Shohei Ohtani building massive mansion on Hawaii's Big Island