Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Monday, April 26, 2021
LA Times: Wells dry up, crops imperiled, workers in limbo as California drought grips San Joaquin Valley
Washington Post: French vineyards devastated by April frost that followed unusually warm March
Washington Post: First batch of data from 2020 Census to be released today
Washington Post: Study finds Lyme-carrying ticks next to beaches and ‘pretty much wherever we looked’
Washington Post: Opinion: The Supreme Court calls a halt to its progress on juvenile sentencing
Washington Post: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy defends Trump’s response to Jan. 6 insurrection
NY Times: The Biology of Grief
NY Times: E.U. Set to Let Vaccinated U.S. Tourists Visit This Summer
Free Think: Farming Robot Kills 100,000 Weeds per Hour With Lasers
Market Watch: How Wyoming became the promised land for bitcoin investors
CNBC: Apple will spend $1 billion to open 3,000-employee campus in North Carolina
Wall St Journal: Insurance Costs Threaten Florida Real-Estate Boom
KTLA: Biden expanding summer food program for 34M school children using funds from COVID relief package
NBC News: Over $4 million worth of meth found in 'funky pickles' by border agents
NBC News: Alaska Airlines bans state senator for 'continued refusal' to follow mask rules
NY Times: Half a Year After Trump’s Defeat, Arizona Republicans Are Recounting the Vote
NPR: U.S. Pledges Medical Aid To India, Where COVID-19 Is Overwhelming Hospitals
The Hill: Almost half of Republicans say Chauvin jury reached wrong verdict: poll
NPR: Supreme Court Eyes Rich Activists, Their Anonymous Donations And Tax Breaks
Salon: Major media is taking millions from Facebook — and keeping the details secret
Digg: Video: The Largest Fish Market In Tokyo Sells 600-Pounds Tuna That Buyers Bid Millions For
Vice: Bugs Allowed Hackers to Dox John Deere Tractor Owners
The Oregonian: Nostalgia abounds in Bend as the Wienermobile visits the last Blockbuster on Earth
LA Times: ‘We’re coming for you’: Public health officials endure a year of extremist threats
The Oregonian: Pandemic decimated Oregon's low-wage jobs, while high-wage work expanded
San Jose Mercury News: Betty Van Dyke: Bay Area surfing and organic farming pioneer dies
Press Democrat: Mendocino County deputy hospitalized after fentanyl exposure
Press Democrat: Photos: See the impact of drought on Sonoma and Mendocino counties
Press Democrat: Sonoma and Mendocino counties brace for renewed restrictions as drought deepens
SF Chronicle: Controversial plan to airdrop poison onto the Farallon Islands to eradicate mice gets green light
SF Chronicle: Series of earthquakes rattle Tahoe on Sunday morning
SF Chronicle: Study finds Lyme-carrying ticks next to beaches and 'pretty much wherever we looked'
Cal Matters: Battered, burned but alive: Time will heal park’s wounds, but it needs big money, too
SF Chronicle: Dozens camp overnight for chance to buy $1.2 million Bay Area townhouses
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Alaska News Source: Anchorage International Airport is world’s fourth busiest for cargo
Alaska News Source: Cost of lumber is on the rise; some say they’ve never seen anything like it before
SF Chronicle: Hulu's Oscar-nominated doc 'The Mole Agent' follows an 83-year-old spy sent into a nursing home
BBC: Indonesian navy submarine found split into three on sea bed
BBC: Video: Brazil: Environment police battle for Amazon rainforest
Reuters Trust: Indian hospitals turn away patients in COVID-19 'tsunami'
MSN News: Harley Unleashes the Silent E-Hogs
Reuters Trust: Costa Rica hits new daily record of COVID-19 infections
The Hill: Majority disapproves of Biden's handling of immigration at border: poll
NY Times: Halting the Vast Release of Methane Is Critical for Climate, U.N. Says
The Hill: Time to reinstate our strongest tool against climate change
NY Times: The Slander Industry
NY Times: C.E.O. Pay Remains Stratospheric, Even at Companies Battered by Pandemic
NY Times: Millions Are Skipping Their Second Doses of Covid Vaccines
The Guardian: Mourne Mountains fire fighting operation to continue into third day
The Guardian: ‘Insanely cheap energy’: how solar power continues to shock the world