Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Friday, March 25, 2022
LA Times: Oxnard man caught with dozens of lizards in his clothes is charged with smuggling 1,700 reptiles
LA Times: Big population drops in L.A., San Francisco are transforming urban California
Sacramento Bee: How California’s last remaining nuclear power plant transformed marine life off the coast
Courthouse News Service: California audit calls for tougher oversight of utility fire safety
Courthouse News Service: Denver detectives ask 10th Circuit to revive qualified immunity over 14-year-old’s coerced murder confession
Courthouse News Service: New research explores the emotional mystery of octopuses
KTVU: Multi-day cannabis culture celebration tied to 4/20 coming to San Francisco
KTVU: Long lines in Santa Rosa for 2-week release of Pliny the Younger beer
KRCR: Four major abatements performed in Humboldt County
Press Democrat: Editorial: Put affordable housing on the state’s surplus land
Press Democrat: ‘Red-Bearded Burglar’ sentenced to 25 years to life in prison
San Jose Mercury News: Editorial: We tried year-round daylight saving time in 1974. People hated it.
SFGate: 4 men found dead at Mexican beach resort of Playa del Carmen
SFGate: CHP shares cause of 11-car pileup in San Francisco
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Washington Post: Major restaurant chains commit to eliminating ‘forever chemicals’ in food packaging
The Guardian: Revealed: the dangerous chemicals in your food wrappers
Politico: How 'magic mushrooms' could follow in the footsteps of cannabis
The Hill: 15,000 civilians illegally deported from Mariupol to Moscow, officials say
The Guardian: US to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing war, sources say
KRCR: Body of missing Siskiyou County man found by family in Klamath River
KRCR: Over 77 tons of garbage removed from Honda Hills area in Red Bluff
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
NY Times : On Cannabis in Oakland: The ‘Most Important Kind of Story That We Do’
Courthouse News Service: New Mexico official in Capitol riot mob found guilty
Courthouse News Service: Politicization of the Supreme Court starts in the Senate
NPR: Pfizer launches a recall of blood pressure drugs due to a potential carcinogen
NY Times : The Pandemic Wrecked Millions of Careers. These 6 People Built New Ones.
NY Times : Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates
Washington Post: Tree rings from centuries past may help reveal a warming planet’s future
Washington Post: A disease more lethal than covid-19 has nearly wiped out northern long-eared bats
Washington Post: Debra Meadows appears to have filed three false voter forms
Washington Post: Historic synagogue in Kyiv has spent $2 million evacuating Ukrainians from war’s hot spots
AP News: Taliban cancels girls’ higher education despite pledges
Vice: He Was an Ex-FBI Serial Killer Profiler. Then His Lies Caught Up With Him.
Kaiser Health News: As a Nurse Faces Prison for a Deadly Error, Her Colleagues Worry: Could I Be Next?
The Guardian: Where does your info go? US lawsuit gives peek into shadowy world of data brokers
The Guardian: 100,000 civilians trapped in Mariupol amid Russia’s ‘constant bombing’, says Zelenskiy
East Bay Times: Opinion: East Bay refineries’ biofuel plans are dangerous diversions
East Bay Times: Test strips for fentanyl, supervised injection sites, might come to Bay Area
KRCR: Deputies search for suspects connected to an armed home invasion in McKinleyville
KRCR: Judge confirmed as 1st Latina on California Supreme Court
KRCR: City of Redding secures more funding to bring fiber internet to city
Press Democrat: Santa Rosa blows past 96-year-old record high temperature
LA Times: What Californians should do now to prepare for a possible spring Omicron BA.2 surge
LA Times: L.A. County’s push to hand out 100,000 doses of Narcan to fight surge of opioid overdoses
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
The Guardian: Tornado hits New Orleans causing damage, power outages and reports of one death
The Guardian: Forest fires erupt around Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine
Press Democrat: How the Pacific Crest Trail has changed in the pandemic
Press Democrat: Sonoma County cities, partners awarded millions in California drought-relief grants
East Bay Times: Multi-car pileup in Santa Cruz county claims two lives
East Bay Times: Oakland: Fire in tiny homes for homeless residents raises safety concerns