Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024
Washington Post: Here’s what you’re really swallowing when you drink bottled water
Washington Post: ‘It was eerily calm’: How passengers coped during harrowing Alaska Airlines flight
Financial Times: Global economy on track for worst half-decade of growth in 30 years, says World Bank
Courthouse News Service: Incarcerated North Carolina children put in solitary confinement for weeks, parents say
Courthouse News Service: Judge orders new legislative district for North Dakota tribes
The Atlantic: The NRA Under Siege
BBC: Inuvik festival: After 30 days of darkness, celebrating the sun's return
BBC: Spain pollution: Millions of plastic pellets wash up on coast
BBC: Norway to approve controversial deep-sea mining
BBC: 2023 confirmed as world's hottest year on record
The Guardian: Flowers everywhere? England’s ambitious scheme to restore wildlife hangs in the balance
The Guardian: Power companies paid civil rights leaders in the US south. They became loyal industry advocates
AP News: Arrest warrant issued for Montana man accused of killing thousands of birds, including eagles
AP News: Park Service retracts decision to take down William Penn statue at Philadelphia historical site
The Guardian: Martin Scorsese says new Jesus film aims to ‘take away the negatives’ of organised religion
The Guardian: Why do middle-aged people love birds so much?
The Guardian: ‘Farming is a dirty word now’: the woman helping farmers navigate a grim, uncertain future
The Oregonian: Endangered green sea turtle rescued at Oregon’s Manzanita Beach
The Oregonian: Local governments across Oregon weigh increased liability on public trails
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Families hit with high costs, waitlists for youth rehab in Oregon and nationwide
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Portland teacher recounts finding Boeing door plug in his yard
AP News: GE business to fill massive order for turbines to power Western Hemisphere’s largest wind project
AP News: Donald Trump returning to court as judges hear arguments on whether he’s immune from prosecution
AP News: North Carolina insurance industry proposes average 42% homeowner premium increase
Sacramento Bee: Scientists find about a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water
Sacramento Bee: Man pleads guilty to stealing $5M in canola crop in California. He bought homes, feds say
LA Times: Learning cursive in school, long scorned as obsolete, is now the law in California
The Guardian: Life, death and zombie mushrooms: in search of the Amazon’s rarest fungi
LA Times: Researchers discover thousands of nanoplastic bits in bottles of drinking water
LA Times: Chaos on the borders, but immigration is driving California’s population and labor force growth
SF Chronicle: Bay Area wastewater data reveals alarming COVID spike, as hospitalizations rise
KTLA: Suspect escapes with thousands of dollars worth of items from Ventura antique shop
KTLA: Bitter cold brings freeze warnings to Southern California
KRCR: 2 dead, 9 injured in 35-vehicle pile-up on I-5
KRCR: Is your car Hollywood ready? Local film commission on hunt for specific vehicles
KRON: San Francisco asks China’s president for a panda
KRON: SF-based software company to lay off 1,800 workers
KRON: Can employers test for weed in California in 2024?
SFGate: Salt built this California ghost town. Now salt is destroying it.
SFGate: Owner of Bay Area radio stations 102.1 Jams and 95.7 The Game files for bankruptcy
East Bay Times: Plan to electrify California’s school buses gets big boost from the Biden administration
East Bay Times: Even at $112,000 starting pay, fewer people want to be San Francisco cops
East Bay Times: PG&E average monthly bills are set to top $300 for the first time
East Bay Times: Opinion: California’s mental health Prop. 1 may help fix homeless problem
East Bay Times: Bay Area’s biggest corporate landlord to pay $3.7 million over rent-gouging case
SF Chronicle: Guns are allowed in most public places after 9th Circuit puts concealed carry law on hold
SF Chronicle: Whistleblower claims UC Santa Cruz cheated donors, then fired her for exposing it
SF Chronicle: Bay Area will soon see some of the highest king tides of the year
SF Chronicle: Dungeness crab is here — sort of. Here’s what’s happening at Bay Area restaurants
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