Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Monday, Oct. 19, 2020
NY Times: A 30-Mile Canoe Trip Through Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
NY Times: With Covid-19 Under Control, China’s Economy Surges Ahead
Seattle Times: The Elwha dams are gone and chinook are surging back, but why are so few reaching the upper river?
The Guardian: Taiwan official in hospital after alleged 'violent attack' by Chinese diplomats in Fiji
The Guardian: Big Oil's answer to melting Arctic: cooling the ground so it can keep drilling
CNN: At least 26 homes destroyed in Colorado's CalWood Fire as historic wildfire season continues
Ukiah Daily Journal: Mendocino County processing ballots at record pace; 8,000 received in one week
Marin Independent Journal: California seeing payoff for virus vigilance
San Jose Mercury: California hiker missing for two weeks found alive in Zion National Park, family says
San Jose Mercury: Sausalito beach confrontation between Black man and property owner prompts racial demonstration
KRCR: Laboratory tags record number of sharks off California coast
Press Democrat: National Weather Service issues fire weather watch for North Bay starting Monday night
Press Democrat: Sonoma County farmers in middle of battle over Proposition 15 property tax referendum
Press Democrat: ’Reinforcing the cycle of poverty’: Home evictions resume in Sonoma County
LA Times: Hydrogen fuel could revolutionize airlines. Here’s how that could look
LA Times: These 3 propositions could have a big impact on California’s criminal justice system
LA Times: Residents fight plan to fence coastal railroad tracks in San Diego County
SF Chronicle: Belgium fears virus "tsunami" as virus cases keep soaring
SF Chronicle: AP Exclusive: PG&E lacked basic training before blackouts
Market Watch: The ‘darkest’ period of the coronavirus pandemic is still to come, warns top infectious-disease doctor
SF Chronicle: As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place
Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020
SF Chronicle: Dianne Feinstein faces calls to step aside after Amy Coney Barrett hearing
SF Chronicle: Rampant shoplifting leads to another Walgreens closing in S.F.
CNN: Shipping containers in Los Angeles becoming homes for the homeless
Variety: Brian Wilson Disavows Trump’s Beach Boys Benefit in California
NY Times: New York Post Published Hunter Biden Report Amid Newsroom Doubts
Audubon Magazine: The Future of Birds in Our National Parks
Tampa Bay Times: Big banks entrusted money to GardaWorld. It secretly lost track of millions.
Politico: 'It needs to stop': Whitmer blasts Trump over Michigan rally rhetoric
NY Times: As the Coronavirus Surges, a New Culprit Emerges: Pandemic Fatigue
Washington Post: How a motorcycle rally may have spread virus across Upper Midwest
Washington Post: A rap sheet for a former president
The Guardian: White noise as sleep aid may do more harm than good, say scientists
The Guardian: Alaska's new climate threat: tsunamis linked to melting permafrost
The Guardian: Huge cat found etched into desert among Nazca Lines in Peru
The Guardian: Dying birds and the fires: scientists work to unravel a great mystery
KRCR: Friday night stabbing has Chico questioning their safety and defunding the police
Modesto Bee: Hundreds gather for pro-Trump rolling rally through Turlock
LA Times: 800 Compton residents to get guaranteed income in two-year pilot program
LA Times: Crisis in the Galapagos: Chinese fishing fleets and COVID-19 threaten a natural wonder
Press Democrat: ’There is no work’: Undocumented Sonoma County farmworkers left in despair
Sacramento Bee: Pro-choice NARAL breaks with Feinstein, calls for her to step down after Supreme Court hearings
Sacramento Bee: Sacramento ties Saturday’s heat record from 1988, breaks Friday’s 59-year-old record
San Jose Mercury: Seven young condors set to be released in Big Sur
San Jose Mercury: Reward offered in killing of eight Monterey County pets
San Jose Mercury: Three police officers injured as protesters clash with Trump supporters in San Francisco
San Jose Mercury: Three dead in separate shooting, stabbing overnight in San Jose
Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020
LA Times: San Diego County sounds alarm that COVID-19 case rate is headed toward purple tier
LA Times: 14-year-old arrested on hate crime charges in alleged assault on San Diego rabbi
LA Times: About 110,000 Californians have bought a gun since the coronavirus arrived, study says