Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Washington Post: The hidden costs of your electric vehicle
Nature: Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges
AP News: Feds: Man tried to firebomb Ohio church to stop drag show
MSN News: Father dies, 3 kids rescued after 200-foot fall at increasingly deadly Oregon hiking area
MSN News: CEO of CVS warns there’s a Medicare ‘tsunami’ heading for the US
AP News: Immigrants waiting 10 years in US just to get a court date
AP News: Punishment or prevention: California debates fentanyl crisis
Politico: Rural America dips into its wallet as airlines drop service
Politico: Yoon woos White House with ‘American Pie’ rendition
Politico: Biden admin to set up migrant processing centers in Latin America to reduce border strain
The Guardian: Bali influencer backlash intensifies as island cracks down on problem tourists
BBC: Could California storms cause another gold rush?
The Guardian: Yes, the climate crisis is raising your grocery bills
The Guardian: The patients who regret laser eye surgery: ‘My life’s stood still since then’
The Guardian: Oregon grocery store worker, 91, retires after raising more than $80,000 online
AP News: Stories told in stitchery at Folk Art Museum's quilt exhibit
BBC: Furious Microsoft boss says confidence in UK 'severely shaken'
AP News: First pill for fecal transplants wins FDA approval
The Oregonian: Portland Community College nursing program at risk of closure
AP News: Brazil’s school violence mirrors US. Its reaction doesn’t
The Oregonian: Does the leak off Oregon’s coast mean The Big One is imminent?
Yahoo News: Melatonin gummies are often mislabeled, study finds.
MSN News: Popular keto and paleo diets aren’t helping your heart, report says
The Hill: Powerful new obesity drug poised to upend weight loss care
KRCR: Shasta supervisors take first steps toward creating system for hand-counting votes
The Guardian: How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking
ABC News: Witnesses praise vice principal who they say subdued Walnut Creek school stabbing suspect
ABC News: Here's what CHP says is behind most deadly wrong-way driver crashes in the state
ABC News: Whale spends record 10 weeks in SF Bay. Here's why it's concerning scientists
The Hill: How Texas is trying to rig the US judicial system to control immigration policy
The Hill: Senators unveil bipartisan proposal to require Supreme Court to adopt code of conduct
The Hill: Meet the cheapest US states to buy a house
The Hill: "Congressional Pig Book" shows earmarks approaching new record
Courthouse News Service: Grandma who lost her house to debt finds high court sympathy
Courthouse News Service: Nanotech can peek inside viruses and detect imperfections in tiny computer chips
LA Times: Trial starts in $1.6-billion class action lawsuit over deadly 2020 Oregon fires
KTLA: Santa Monica pays $122M to victims of city employee accused of sexually assaulting children
KTLA: Man arrested in alleged kidnapping that was caught on camera in Commerce; victim found
LA Times: A proposed 50-story skyscraper in this San Francisco neighborhood would stick out
LA Times: To live and die in downtown L.A.: Drug addicts, homelessness and hawks
CBS News : Nob Fire: 200 acre forest fire burns in the San Bernardino National Forest
LA Times: A Santa Monica police employee molested more than 200 kids. Warnings of abuse were ignored
KTVU: Photographer captures rare, spectacular Northern Lights show in Bay Area
KTVU: Former SF fire commissioner attacked with pipe accused of using bear spray on homeless people
Marin Independent Journal: West Marin’s Marconi center begins long renovation project
San Jose Mercury News: More California oil and gas workers make the jump to clean energy
East Bay Times: Rainbow flag at California Buddhist Temple burned
East Bay Times: California man accused of treating thousands of people without a medical license for years, DA says
SFGate: This Safeway in a rich Bay Area enclave feels ‘hostile.’ It’s intentional.
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