Homepage > Elsewhere

Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023

Press Democrat: Entangled leatherback sea turtle adds to commercial Dungeness crabbing fleet’s woes and delays season

San Jose Mercury News: The new Bay Area suburban starter home comes with an elevator, shared walls

Marin Independent Journal: Marin students devise humanitarian phone apps

East Bay Times: Barricaded police detective arrested after second Pleasant Hill standoff in three days

East Bay Times: California police shoot, kill woman pointing gun at 3-year-old boy

SF Chronicle: California poised to allow ‘toilet to tap’ projects, in landmark water rule

SF Chronicle: A fortune was unearthed at this California gold mine. Now it may reopen

SFGate: New practice eliminates 100,000 pizza boxes from Yosemite waste each year

SF Chronicle: The plan for a massive floating pool on S.F. piers is moving forward, despite big funding gap

SF Chronicle: Armed pair used child to shoplift at Marin County mall, police say

SFGate: Meteorologists warn of 'above-average rainfall' during busy travel period in California

SFGate: Test missile spotted in SF Bay Area sky early Monday

SFGate: TSA finds anti-aircraft ammo in bag, evacuates Hawaiian airport

Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023

NY Times : We Can’t Stop Writing Paper Checks. Thieves Love That.

NY Times : The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn.

SFGate: This group of SF teens spent 3 years building a boat. Then it got stolen.

SFGate: Man got into Currys' Atherton house while kids were inside, police say

Washington Post: In the mystery of postpartum depression, the immune system offers clues

Washington Post: Tesla drivers run Autopilot where it’s not intended — with deadly consequences

BBC: Video: Australian swimmers approach whale 'dangerously close' to shore

BBC: Tennessee: At least six dead as tornadoes rip through state

BBC: Al-Mawasi: Gaza humanitarian zone not humane, evacuees say

East Bay Times: The new Bay Area suburban starter home comes with an elevator, shared walls

SF Chronicle: California hiker rescued after legs were trapped under huge boulder for 7 hours

East Bay Times: Is an $800M boost from California’s Homekey program helping solve homelessness in the Bay Area?

The Guardian: Evictions can kill: how US communities are trying to break the cycle of violence

The Guardian: ‘A scam all around’: Navajo Nation groups oppose hydropower projects

The Guardian: Paris Ritz finds missing €750,000 ring in vacuum cleaner bag

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Japanese anime movie ’The Boy and the Heron’ is No. 1 at North American box office

Press Democrat: ‘You’re killing your dog!’: Women pursue, then confront driver seen dragging dog behind his SUV in Sebastopol

SF Chronicle: ‘No questions asked’: Here’s how many guns were collected during S.F. buyback

SF Chronicle: Permit nightmare: One S.F. homeowner’s ‘absurd’ journey to build small balcony

The Oregonian: Editorial: Oregon’s addiction crisis calls for recriminalizing drug possession

The Oregonian: 52 pounds of fentanyl powder, 8,000 pills seized in largest fentanyl bust by Multnomah County deputies

The Oregonian: Wildfires, drought caused $11.2 billion in losses to private timberlands on West Coast, OSU study finds

Marin Independent Journal: Novato man killed in Highway 101 crash

SF Chronicle: Driver who sped 120 mph over Bay Bridge arrested after 3-county chase, CHP says

SF Chronicle: New California climate law is sparking an epic battle in one deep-red county

LA Times: Their stolen land in Orange County was given back. Now they’re ready to heal

Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023

The Guardian: ‘It’s kind of gross but we can do it’: How a community learned to go zero waste

The Guardian: BBC presenter apologises after giving middle finger at start of live broadcast

NBC News: MTA board approves NYC congestion pricing plan: What to know about tolls, exemptions and more

NY Times : Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2024 Is Peach Fuzz

BBC: Ukraine aid from US in doubt after failed Senate vote

SF Chronicle: Tahoe to get more snow than expected. Here's latest forecast

BBC: Russia hacking: 'FSB in years-long cyber attacks on UK', says government

NPR: Trump allies craft plans to give him unprecedented power if he wins the White House

NPR: A Black Texas student has been suspended once again for his natural hairstyle

The Hill: Experts thought they knew how the economy worked. After the pandemic, they’re not so sure.

The Hill: ‘Other than day one’: Trump supercharges concerns of dictatorship in second term