Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024
The Guardian: Eating to save nature? Embrace potatoes, ditch meat and track your beans
The Guardian: ‘A visual testament to Palestinian society’: inside a powerful new photography book
The Guardian: A chemical linked to fertility problems in animals has been found in oats in the US. Should we be worried?
Herald Palladium: How an endangered hawk could topple plans for WA's largest wind farm
MSN News: ‘A giant litter box’: Our favorite 1-star reviews for national parks
The Oregonian: UPS to close Portland facility, laying off more than 300 workers
The Oregonian: Multnomah County chair rejects ambulance staffing changes; ‘AMR is failing our community,’ she says
LA Times: California bill proposes new standards for court-ordered parenting classes after Times investigation
LA Times: 13 pit bulls euthanized, including 8 puppies, after owner is mauled to death
The Guardian: Large-scale cellular phone outage hits users across the US
The Guardian: Revealed: more than 2,000 unhoused people died in LA in 2023 amid housing and fentanyl crises
AP News: Trial to determine if Texas school’s punishment of a Black student over his hair violates new law
Oregon Public Broadcasting: To keep whales safe, Coast Guard launches boat alert system in Seattle
LA Times: These viral L.A. ‘head spas’ will show you what’s been hiding in your scalp (Ew!)
LA Times: ‘Snow drought’ eases as storms bring California near-average water supplies
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon Democrats agree to stronger criminal penalties for drug possession
KRCR: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon customers hit by cellular outage, Downdetector shows
Mt. Shasta News: How psychedelic drug therapy became a rare bipartisan issue in California
Action News Now: Civil complaint filed against Shasta County Board of Supervisors over Win-River Casino move
KRCR: Four people injured after truck crashes down embankment near Whiskeytown Lake
KRCR: Hoopa Valley Tribal Police adds less-lethal beanbag shotguns to arsenal
KRON: $40K worth of tools stolen from UC Berkeley campus construction site: police
KRON: San Francisco store gets creative to deter shoplifting
KTLA: If you see these on the ATM, don’t use it
KTLA: Self-driving taxi expansion paused in L.A., Northern California
Western Producer: Canadian farmers blamed for ag chemical in U.S. oat foods
AP News: The White House is weighing executive actions on the border — with immigration powers used by Trump
AP News: China plans to send San Diego Zoo more pandas this year, reintroducing panda diplomacy
East Bay Times: California retail crime ringleader, members charged after estimated $8 million worth of beauty products confiscated
East Bay Times: ‘He didn’t do it’: Son of former East Bay police chief acquitted of murder, attempted robbery
East Bay Times: California lawmakers seek to short-circuit new income-based utility charges
SF Chronicle: As massive Klamath dam-removal project nears completion, who gets the once submerged land?
SFGate: You must make more than $500K to afford an average home in this Bay Area county
Press Democrat: Avelo Airlines to double number of destinations it services out of Sonoma County airport
Press Democrat: DOJ targeted info about Napa County Farm Bureau’s PAC in investigation; others subpoenaed were donors
SFGate: 'Broken system': Banned pesticides keep showing up in California's legal pot
Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024
Washington Post: Utah senior center tackles loneliness with a 60,000-piece puzzle
Washington Post: Medical examiners, coroners are increasingly blaming deaths on kratom, review finds
Shack News: Video Games: Pacific Drive review: Not your average road trip
NY Times: How Bob Moore, of Bob’s Red Mill, Got Grocery-Store Famous
AP News: U.S. casinos won $66.5B in 2023, their best year ever as gamblers showed no economic fear
AP News: Welcome to the ‘Hotel California’ case: The trial over handwritten lyrics to an Eagles classic
CNBC: Amazon to replace Walgreens in Dow Industrial Average next week
NPR: Cougar attacks five mountain bikers on a trail in Washington state
NPR: Tribal courts can't prosecute non-Native drug suspects. Tribes say it's a problem
NPR: Ex-FBI source charged with Biden lies is tied to Russian intelligence, prosecutors say
US News: Tribes in Washington Are Battling a Devastating Opioid Crisis. Will a Multimillion-Dollar Bill Help?
Smithsonian Magazine: Egypt Halts Controversial Plans to Renovate Ancient Pyramid
BBC: Multi-billion dollar development threatens indigenous tribe of hunter-gatherers off India
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