Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Thursday, May 2, 2024
East Bay Times: Swimmers disqualified from NCS Finals due to coach's error
SF Chronicle: Thousands of homeowners in wealthy Orinda are set to lose insurance: ‘No good options’
SFGate: Cheese competition gets ugly when Berkeley vegan company is disqualified
SFGate: Drunken tourist kicked bison in Yellowstone National Park, officials say
SFGate: 'Winter is not over yet': Late-season storm poised to slam California this weekend
KRON: State Farm to cancel policies as thousands of homeowners struggle to find insurance
KRON: Bay Area protest updates: Protesters expected to shut down Port of Oakland
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
KRCR: Cleanup and recovery at Cal Poly Humboldt after Pro-Palestine protest; 32 arrests
The Hill: Supreme Court refuses to block Texas age-verification law for pornographic content
SFGate: Biden sends massive cash windfall to Calif. pot industry
The Hill: White House moving to reschedule marijuana
NBC News: Biden administration plans to reclassify marijuana, easing restrictions nationwide
LA Times: U.S. drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift
San Jose Mercury News: The CZU fire burned 911 homes. A huge new project aims to reduce the risk of the next one.
San Jose Mercury News: Can millionaires save nature? Stanford gift tells tale of Tompkins conservation fight
KQED: SFSU Pro-Palestinian Encampment Established as Students Rally for Divestment
Yahoo News: Stagecoach: The wildest moments from Guy Fieri's cooking demo with Paul Cauthen, Jelly Roll
Yahoo News: Stagecoach and Coachella fans leave behind tons of camping gear, clothes, food. Here's what happens to it
Reuters: Walmart to shut all health clinics in US over lack of profitability
Smithsonian Magazine: Original ‘Star Trek’ Enterprise Model Resurfaces Decades After It Went Missing
The Guardian: I spent 22 years as a problem drinker. Here are 10 things I’ve learned since I quit
the Atlantic: Will Americans Ever Get Sick of Cheap Junk?
Washington Post: The problem with food pouches for toddlers
NPR: Transgender health care must be paid for by state insurance, says an appeals court
Politico: Donald Trump held in contempt for violating gag order in New York trial
NY Times : Physical Fitness Linked to Better Mental Health in Young People
The Guardian: ‘Beautiful prize’: Oregon man with cancer wins $1.3bn lottery jackpot
BBC: Tensions grow as China ramps up global mining for green tech
Washington Post: Opinion: The surprising reason few Americans are getting chips jobs now
Washington Post: UnitedHealth grew very big. Now some see its size as an economic and national security concern.
BBC: Philippines: Drought dries up dam to reveal centuries-old town
BBC: Charlotte shooting: Four officers shot dead, four wounded, in North Carolina home siege
BBC: A little girl said monsters were in her N.C. bedroom. It was 60,000 bees
The Guardian: Activist wins Goldman prize for effort to clean up California trucking and railway sectors
The Guardian: A new generation at UC Berkeley pitches its tents
The Guardian: Could Vienna’s approach to affordable housing work in California?
Courthouse News Service: Ninth Circuit clears way for Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant license extension
AP News: A Yellowstone trip that ended with a man being arrested for kicking a bison
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Climate change is fueling a rise in heartworms among dogs, cats in the Pacific Northwest
The Oregonian: ‘Extremely rare’ bird spotted on Oregon coast
AP News: California’s population grew in 2023, halting 3 years of decline
The Guardian: ‘A lot of collective trauma’: Sweden’s Indigenous Sami people speak to truth commission
The Guardian: Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes
The Guardian: Blinken urges Hamas to accept ‘extraordinarily generous’ Israeli ceasefire deal
The Guardian: ‘Incredible’ news for bears and wild horses as US shifts preservation plans
AP News: Police arrest pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of Texas
AP News: Protesting college students want ‘amnesty.’ Will arrests, suspensions follow them for years?
KOMO: North Bend neighbors corral runaway zebras; 1 still missing
KOMO: 'Died as heroes': 3 Charlotte officers killed in shootout identified
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