Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Sunday, March 27, 2022
NPR: New Colorado wildfire forces evacuation orders for 19,000 people
Washington Post: Biden sparks global uproar with nine ad-libbed words about Putin
Courthouse News Service: Jury hands Stone Brewing $56 million in trademark war with MillerCoors
The Oregonian: Crew member found ‘unresponsive’ after fishing boat sinks off Oregon coast; search for ship’s captain ongoing
The Guardian: Iditarod sledders punished for sheltering dogs during winter storm
The Guardian: ‘A massive spiritual shift’: how the mindful movement of qigong can treat addiction
The Guardian: Questions abound as Trump raises – and hoards – huge sums of 2024 cash
The Guardian: Pioneer or squatter? YouTuber’s cabin sparks fight over Canada’s wilderness
East Bay Times: These Bay Area trees existed nowhere else on the planet. Did they survive a devastating wildfire?
LA Times: Affordable housing, long overlooked, getting federal boost
LA Times: Commentary: L.A.’s asphalt-covered schoolyards are an environmental injustice
NY Times : Hotelier’s Post Barring Native Americans Prompts Outrage in South Dakota
NY Times : Investors Are Buying Mobile Home Parks. Residents Are Paying a Price.
Saturday, March 26, 2022
Huffington Post: 6 Of The Cheapest Proteins You Can Buy Right Now
BBC: 1,000-year-old oaks used to create 'super forest'
The Hill: Biden is planning a new digital currency. Here's why you should be very worried
AP News: Oscars diary: A yak in the classroom, a family in Hollywood
The Hill: Trump D.C. hotel gets OK to sell to Miami investment fund
The Guardian: PHOTO: Oxford house with shark sculpture on roof made heritage site despite owner’s objection
The Guardian: Chile’s archaeologists fight to save the world’s oldest mummies from climate change
The Guardian: Energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins: ‘It’s the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest way to address the crisis’
The Guardian: Taylor Hawkins: Foo Fighters drummer dies aged 50, band announces
The Guardian: Missing Montana hiker killed in suspected grizzly bear attack, police say
San Diego Union Tribune: ‘It’s absolutely worse.’ Sen. Atkins reacts to downtown homeless population
SLO Tribune: Cal Poly SLO is California’s most expensive public university. Here’s a guide to financial aid
LA Times: Wellness center opens on L.A.'s skid row, will provide mental health care services
LA Times: A tiny home village comes to Eagle Rock. It’s better than tents, despite the critics
LA Times: These prominent Russian officials quit their jobs and refused to support the war
SF Chronicle: Cupertino $7 billion megaproject will include world’s largest green roof and 2,400 housing units
SF Chronicle: California Dungeness crab commercial fishing season ends in effort to protect whales
SF Chronicle: A coming storm could drop the most rain the Bay Area has seen this year
SF Chronicle: Should we preserve Bay Area hillsides or watch ‘people move to Texas’?
SFGate: 800-year-old Pioneer Tree destroyed in fire at California's Marin's Samuel P. Taylor State Park
SFGate: Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins dead at 50
Friday, March 25, 2022
Columbia University: New Type of Ultraviolet Light Makes Indoor Air as Safe as Outdoors
the Diplomat: China Continues ‘Severe and Complex’ Fight Against COVID-19
Reason: Biden Is Poised To Make Freight Trains Less Safe. You Can Thank Special Interests.
Washington Post: Colorado mountain project offers vision of green housing’s future
Klamath Herald and News: Bentz: Illegal marijuana grows linked to Russian, Chinese mobs, forced immigrant labor
Washington Post: U.S. asylum officers will have larger role in border screenings under new Biden policy
The Oregonian: Can you pass the Army fitness test with its new lower standards for women, ‘older’ soldiers?
The Hill: Jackson faces growing GOP opposition on Supreme Court
The Oregonian: Oregon’s many rock, gem and mineral shops see booming interest
The Guardian: The poor help the desperate: Moldova struggles to aid its fleeing neighbors
The Guardian: Many bird species nesting and laying eggs nearly a month early, study says
The Guardian: ‘A barbaric federal program’: US killed 1.75m animals last year – or 200 per hour
The Guardian: Justice Clarence Thomas' wife urged Trump’s chief of staff to overturn election results
The Drive: Inside the Tow Truck Mafia: How Organized Crime Took Over Canada’s Towing Industry
The Guardian: The queen of crime-solving