Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Monday, Jan. 24, 2022
NY Times : Eco-Leftists and the Far Right: Vaccine Mandate Forges Unlikely Coalition of Protesters in Germany
Washington Post: Do you wishcycle? If so, you’re actually not helping to recycle.
Washington Post: A 73-year-old knew she was being scammed. So she lured the scammer to her home and had him arrested, police say.
The Guardian: Leading the charge: wildlife experts plan for future of Nepal’s rhinos
The Guardian: White nationalists are flocking to the US anti-abortion movement
The Guardian: US conservatives linked to rich donors wage campaign to ban books from schools
Courthouse News Service: Supreme Court picks up challenge to tribal authority in Oklahoma child-neglect case
Courthouse News Service: Major questions from the Supreme Court could upend the administrative state
Courthouse News Service: Environmentalists grow impatient with Biden as federal oil development outpaces Trump
CNN: Kohl's, target of activist investors, gets a buyout offer
CBS News : "Horrific": Six found dead in Milwaukee home and police suspect all were homicides
San Jose Mercury News: Winds expected to ease as containment of Big Sur wildfire increases to 35%
LA Times: All California schoolchildren must be vaccinated against COVID-19 under new bill
Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022
CBS News : Carhartt CEO says he's still mandating staff vaccinations. Now he's facing a boycott.
You Tube: The California Poppies - 'Song of the Butterfly' video filed in Humboldt
Huffington Post: RFK Jr. Likens Anti-Vaxxer Struggle To Holocaust Victims, Including Anne Frank
Huffington Post: Leonard Peltier Pleads For Help Amid Constant COVID Lockdowns In Prison
NY Times : Sports Betting’s Next Big Election Battles Are in California
People's World: The LandBack movement is decolonizing Indigenous land across the Americas
Washington Post: Superstores can meet half their electricity needs with rooftop solar, says a new report
Washington Post: After decades, Biden plans to make mobile homes greener, sparking a fierce debate.
Washington Post: French adventurer, 75, disappears attempting to row across the Atlantic solo
NY Times : Sometimes, Life Stinks. So He Invented the Nasal Ranger.
NY Times : Ann Coulter Is Rooting for a Trump-DeSantis Throw-Down. She’s Not Alone.
NY Times : These Mothers Were Exhausted, So They Met on a Field to Scream
Fresno Bee: Rescuers find Appalachian Trail hiker stuck in waist-deep snow inside Smoky Mountains
Fresno Bee: Review: decision to defend fire station nearly cost lives
Press Democrat: Montgomery grad sets American record for women’s half marathon
Press Democrat: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/business/cannabis-industry-provides-possible-lift-for-lake-county-economy/
Las Vegas Sun: ‘Horrific’: 5 homicide victims discovered at Milwaukee home
Las Vegas Sun: Authorities: 17 dead in nightclub fire in Cameroon’s capital
KTLA: Omicron surge pushes local hospitals, clinics to their limits
Seattle Times: Where you’re most likely to catch COVID: New study highlights high-risk locations
Seattle Times: Old-fashioned, inefficient light bulbs live on at the nation’s dollar stores
Seattle Times: Legislation proposed to legalize psychedelic mushrooms in Washington
Medford Mail Tribune: Medford approves new $75 million sports complex, two community swimming pools
Medford Mail Tribune: Pot busts in Southern Oregon exceed $2.7 billion
Politico: Former Attorney General William Barr has spoken to Jan. 6 panel, chair says
Politico: How a toxic chemical ended up in the drinking water supply for 13 million people
Vox: Biden promised a harder line on Saudi Arabia. Why can’t he deliver?
New Republic: Why We’ve Succumbed to Pandemic Apathy
The Guardian: Chinese officials arrested for concealing true scale of flood death toll
The Guardian: Fox News host Tucker Carlson compares vaccine mandates to ‘Nazi experiments’
The Guardian: Hedonism is overrated – to make the best of life there must be pain, says this Yale professor
NY Times : In Sewage, Clues to Omicron’s Surge
The Guardian: ‘Bob wouldn’t be Bob without Rita’: Ziggy Marley on his mother and father
The Guardian: ‘The deadliest drug we’ve ever known’: author Sam Quinones on how fentanyl saturated the US
The Guardian: Russian ships, tanks and troops on the move to Ukraine as peace talks stall
San Jose Mercury News: Judge allows earlier potential releases for repeat offenders, some violent, from California prisons