DISCLAIMER: None of the stuff below is written or endorsed by the Outpost, and we’d be willing to bet that at least some of it is crazy and/or wrong. Use critical thinking.
Thursday, March 16, 2023
The Oregonian: ‘Unprecedented:’ Legislature expected to OK $200 million for emergency housing, homelessness
AP News: Honda recalling 500,000 vehicles to fix seat belt problem
The Guardian: US banks are sacrificing poor communities to the climate crisis
The Guardian: Opinion: Conservatives hate wokeness. Don’t trigger them by asking what it means
The Guardian: Cocaine smuggling and production at record high since pandemic retreat
The Guardian: Florida man serving 400-year sentence freed after being exonerated for robbery
The Guardian: ‘We’re on our own’: the rural Calif town where police refuse calls
The Guardian: ‘We deserve to know’: autopsy of ‘Cop City’ activist shot by police incomplete two months on
AP News: Newsom to start California tour with homelessness proposal
KRCR: NAACP wants investments, not cash payments to descendants of slavery
AP News: Scientists create mice with cells from 2 males for 1st time
AP News: In low-wage Portugal, Europe’s housing crisis bites deep
AP News: Beloved and debated, French bulldog becomes top US dog breed
AP News: US tribes get bison as they seek to restore bond with animal
AP News: What’s the next step for Black reparations in San Francisco?
KRCR: Family of 5, including 3 children, rescued from floodwaters in Utah state park
KRCR: Suspected Antifa members accused of vandalizing UC Davis in protest of conservative speaker
KRCR: Cottonwood mother narrowly escapes waist-deep flooding while carrying her children
LA Times: Mayor Karen Bass says the city will house 4,000 homeless people during her first 100 days
LA Times: Inside the ‘Stop Cop City’ forest camp, the latest epicenter of activism on policing
KTLA: Another atmospheric river heading for California next week, likely to impact metro Los Angeles
KTLA: USC to open a new campus in Washington, D.C.
LA Times: Shasta County offers top job to secessionist leader
KTLA: Orange County beach closed after massive sewage spill
LA Times: No, my Japanese American parents were not ‘interned’ during WWII. They were incarcerated
LA Times: Column: ‘Ending San Quentin as we know it’ — California rethinks prison
LA Times: Is Baja safe? Should you drive? Things to know before you go
LA Times: After homes flood in Tulare County, decision to pave over creek for new houses draws blame
CBS News Sacramento: 2 teens in critical condition after drive-by shooting in Galt
Marin Independent Journal: Salmon fishing banned along California coast as population plummets
East Bay Times: Retrial ordered: Bay Area pair accused of killing Italian cop as teens
KPIX: 17 escape injury after tree falls on historic church in Pleasanton
East Bay Times: U.S. says video shows Russian jet dumping fuel on its drone
East Bay Times: Plans to build a massive, floating pool on the San Francisco Bay get legislative boost
KPIX: Man charged in armed robberies of day laborers in San Rafael, Richmond
KPIX: 7th grader in custody after allegedly stabbing teen classmate at San Jose middle school
KPIX: 13 inmates overdose on fentanyl in 1 week at Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas
Press Democrat: Water restrictions lifted for 7 million in Southern California, but region still urged to conserve
Press Democrat: Judge wants plan to protect humpback whales from fishery
Yahoo News: This is the nation’s most popular dog breed — for the first time ever, report finds
SF Chronicle: S.F. police detain two Denman Middle School students after finding gun
SF Chronicle: Stanford staffer who said she was raped twice charged with lying about attacks
SF Chronicle: Bay Area will end sales of gas furnaces and water heaters. Here’s what it means for you
SF Chronicle: Why California taxpayers could get an unpleasant surprise if they file for this deduction
SF Chronicle: Stunning viral video shows California farmers launching truck into levee to stop flooding
SF Chronicle: Bay Area weather: Thousands in Monterey, Santa Cruz county evacuated — possibly for days
SF Chronicle: Increased minimum wages may benefit small businesses, study co-authored at UC Berkeley finds
SFGate: Man shot and killed in Gilroy while confronting car thief, officials say
SFGate: Yet another atmospheric river forecast to hit Bay Area next week