Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
The Hill: Are mental health apps helpful or harmful?
The Hill: FDIC calls for major deposit insurance reforms
Politico: Supreme Court move could spell doom for power of federal regulators
Politico: Leonard Leo used Federalist Society contact to obtain $1.6 billion donation
Yahoo News: This is now the biggest problem in the housing market
Washington Post: Why free street parking is actually costing you
Fox News: Illinois interstate crash involving 72 vehicles leaves six dead, more than 30 injured
Action News Shasta: City crews clear out 2 more homeless camps in Chico
BBC: Watch: Hiding bear leaps from dumpster at US school
BBC: Hollywood strike: Late night comedy shows to go dark as writers' walkout begins
The Guardian: El Paso braces for end of pandemic-era rules restricting migration from Mexico
The Guardian: Huge growth and ethical concerns make Airbnb users think again
The Guardian: ‘Not just a problem of science’: how the environmental crisis is also cultural
The Guardian: Plastic is already in blood, breast milk, and placentas. Now it may be in our brains
The Oregonian: What we know about the seafloor leak near the Cascadia fault
The Oregonian: Oregon should loosen marijuana rules to help industry, new state audit urges
The Oregonian: Oregon boy, 9, discovers remarkable ancient find in grandma’s yard
The Oregonian: Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan cites low pay as factor in cannabis side job scandal
The Guardian: Broken by the bends: the deadly toll on Honduras’s Indigenous lobster divers
The Guardian: ‘Toxic trail of pollution’: states step up to curb the use of ‘forever chemicals’
LA Times: SpaceX used wildlife preserve as ‘dumping ground for space waste,’ lawsuit alleges
LA Times: Epic snowpack upends rhythms of life for many species in Sierra Nevada range
LA Times: Low wages, short hours drive many fast-food workers into homelessness
LA Times: California to receive $500,000 from alleged Medi-Cal defraudment scheme
LA Times: Hollywood writers strike over streaming pay after talks fail
KTLA: 2 teens stabbed near Los Angeles High School in Mid-Wilshire
KTLA: Fired California Big Lots manager says she was just trying to get shopping cart back from shoplifter
KTLA: Orange County teen develops early wildfire detection device
KRCR: Woman in critical condition after 3rd Davis stabbing in less than a week; search for suspect
AP News: Loneliness poses risks as deadly as smoking, surgeon general warns
AP News: ‘Waste of time’: Community college transfers derail students
AP News: 4 fatally shot in California in latest US mass killing
KPIX: Researchers raising salmon in rice fields to save dwindling population
KPIX: California redwoods suffering from effects of climate change-fueled weather whiplash
East Bay Times: Opinon: Lack of environmental law reform threatens California’s future
KRON: Suspected Milpitas arsonist arrested
KRON: California state patrols begin to fight fentanyl crisis in San Francisco
East Bay Times: At least 6 dead in Illinois crash during dust storm
East Bay Times: Mortgage fees to rise for buyers with high credit scores, fall for those with lower scores
East Bay Times: California flooding: 80% of Sierra Nevada snowpack hasn’t melted yet
SF Chronicle: Oakland teachers set to strike starting Thursday. Here are their demands
SF Chronicle: State reparations task force’s first estimate of damages: up to $1.2M per Black resident
SFGate: Bay Area preschool teacher suspected of killing man found dead on highway
KRCR: Shasta County Employees begin two-week strike outside Shasta County Courthouse
SFGate: Driver falls 500 feet from road on Mount Tamalpais
SFGate: Humboldt Redwoods State Park officials block locals from guiding tours
AP News: Environmental groups sue FAA over SpaceX Texas rocket launch
AP News: At least 6 dead after dust storm causes crashes on Interstate 55 in Illinois
Financial Times: Martin Wong at Berlin’s KW Institute review — Californian psychedelia meets Asian mysticism
SFGATE: Humboldt Redwoods State Park officials block locals from guiding tours