Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022
Washington Post: Mountain glaciers may have less ice than estimated, straining freshwater supply
NY Times : A First: New York Deer Infected With Omicron, Study Finds
NY Times : Supreme Court Restores Alabama Voting Map That a Court Said Hurt Black Voters
Slate: SCOTUS Just Blew Up the Voting Rights Act’s Ban on Racial Gerrymandering
Digg: Here's Why Single Family Zoning Laws Are Ruining America
The New Yorker: Amy Coney Barrett’s Long Game
Seattle Times: Tsunami could kill thousands on WA coast. Can an escape be built?
Seattle Times: Amazon is raising base salary cap to $350,000 from $160,000
Seattle Times: Bellevue home sells for nearly $1M over list price
KTLA: ‘The rape club’: Women’s prison in NorCal fostered culture of abuse among employees, inmates say
KTLA: UCLA settles latest gynecologist abuse suit for more than $100M
KTLA: California to lift indoor mask mandate for vaccinated people next week
KRCR: 11 pounds of cocaine found during Siskiyou County traffic stop
KRCR: Republican State Senator Brian Dahle to announce bid for CA governor
San Jose Mercury News: Two rescued, one missing after hiker near Muir Beach is swept into water
Press Democrat: Feds approve $7 million for improvements at North Bay dams, recreation sites
ABC News: Group falls through ice while skating at Tahoe area reservoir; 1 dead
SFGate: Nun sentenced to year in prison for stealing $835,000 from California elementary school
SFGate: The 1918 flu didn't end in 1918. Here's what its third year can teach us.
SFGate: Wealthy Bay Area town says it was very wrong about mountain lions blocking new housing
SFGate: Missing hiker who took different route from brother on popular Sierra trail found dead
Monday, Feb. 7, 2022
LA Times: ‘Exhausted’: In rural California, the unvaccinated and ill overwhelm hospital staff
LA Times: Federal women’s prison in Bay Area fostered culture of abuse, inmates say
NYT: The Tsunami Could Kill Thousands. Can They Build An Escape?
Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022
NY Daily News: Home Depot employee stole almost $400K by swapping fake money for real money: feds
NPR: A rural hospital in Bangladesh is named the world's best new building
Gizmodo: Texas Trees Are Exploding Due to Cold Weather
Politico: The risky financial deals that shook up one of America's most promising weed companies
NY Times: Who Is Responsible for the 27-Mile Oil Spill in Peru?
Press Democrat: Sebastopol’s Peter Coyote explores Zen wisdom and self-criticism in new book
KRCR: Prisoner-painted skateboards to be auctioned off for underprivileged youth
KRCR: Speeding semi causes crash, road closure on I-5 near Orland for 5 hours on Friday
San Jose Mercury News: Pending deal would prevent coal terminal from going up at Oakland Army Base
San Jose Mercury News: Bubble watch: California homes could be 9% overvalued
Friday, Feb. 4, 2022
Jalopnik: Here's The $450 Million Boat That Won't Bring Jeff Bezos's Hair, Or Wife, Back
BBC: Mount Everest: Mountain's highest glacier melting rapidly, new study shows
The Guardian: ‘We have to adapt’: US Pacific north-west weighs plans to cope with extreme weather
The Guardian: US anti-vaccine mandate campaigners aim to mimic Canadian convoy tactic
The Guardian: Shock in France after giant trawler sheds 100,000 dead fish off coast
KTLA: Drug cartels use improvised explosive devices, bomb-dropping drones in Mexico
KTLA: Amazon raising Prime membership fee – here’s when the new price kicks in
KTLA: California announces $45M for new housing in L.A. and Sacramento to help combat homelessness crisis
LA Times: U.S. moves to protect rare Nevada wildflower from planned lithium mine
LA Times: L.A.’s minimum wage to rise to $16.04 in July
East Bay Times: Trekking California’s mysterious Bigfoot trail
Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022
The Guardian: Woman killed and four others injured after man opens fire on bus in California
Politico: Next big health crisis: 15M people could lose Medicaid when pandemic ends
The Oregonian: Oregon Health Authority adopts rules indefinitely requiring masks in school settings
The Oregonian: Portland traffic crashes report: 70% of pedestrians killed were homeless