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.
Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021
The Guardian: Protein dream: can eating collagen improve your skin?
The Guardian: Australia reports over 1,000 new cases; England’s Covid infections are 26 times up on a year ago
Vox: The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America’s elderly
CNN: Donald Trump's recounting of his 2020 conversation with a Taliban leader is something else
The Guardian: Is deep-sea mining a cure for the climate crisis or a curse?
The Guardian: New Book: Battle for the Alamo was about slavery, not freedom
The Guardian: Chinese university appears to ask for lists of LGBTQ+ students for ‘investigation’
The Guardian: Sirhan Sirhan: six Kennedy children condemn decision to grant killer parole
The Guardian: Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power
The Guardian: SoCal: mother fights off mountain lion with bare hands to save 5-year-old son
LA Times: Wildfire in Riverside County community grows to 1,200 acres, prompting evacuations
LA Times: Mountain lion killed after mauling 5-year-old in Santa Monica Mountains
Press Democrat: In heyday of LSD, secret Windsor lab produced millions of Orange Sunshine pills
Press Democrat: Big wholesale price drop weighs down small North Coast cannabis farmers
USA Today: 'Egregiously mishandled' or inevitably 'messy'? What went wrong in US withdrawal from Afghanistan
AP News: Brazil water survey heightens alarm over extreme drought
AP News: Packed with virus patients, Louisiana hospitals await Ida
AP News: Intensifying Cat 4 Hurricane Ida to hit Louisiana today
LA Times: Hurricane Ida rapidly intensifies into dangerous Category 4 storm
LA Times: Del Norte: Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination rates
Anderson Valley Advertiser: Lawsuit Alleges Mendo Officials Conspired to Rob Pot Dealers
Anderson Valley Advertiser: Fire, Water & Broken Pot Rules
Redding Record Searchlight: Update: Fire in south Redding prompts evacuations in neighborhoods west of Highway 273
Redding Record Searchlight: Fire updates: Army sending reinforcements; 'elevated fire weather' in forecast
Tahoe Daily Tribune: Nevada casinos set all-time record in July, raking in $1.36 billion
Tahoe Daily Tribune: Oxygen bar offers relief to Tahoe’s smoke filled skies
SF Chronicle: Caldor Fire now 12 miles from Tahoe Basin, more than 34,000 people evacuated
SF Chronicle: South Lake Tahoe prepares to evacuate if Caldor Fire makes a run toward city
Mad River Union: County Planco OKs new McK housing subdivision
Mad River Union: Dogtown: Sully’s looking to land in the right situation
Mad River Union: Letters to the Editor, August 25, 2021
RHBB: Nancy Arroyo, Current Eureka City Councilmember, Announces Run for County Supervisor
RHBB: Natalie Arroyo, Current Eureka City Councilmember, Announces Run for County Supervisor
Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021
FIRE UPDATE: Monument: Monument Fire North Zone evening update August 28 (Monument Fire Wildfire)
RHBB: Missing 12-Year-Old Girl in the Miranda Area
Mad River Union: Arcata Police Log: Camouflage for stealth, bandanna for aerodynamics, statistically inevitable and performatively irate
Non Sequitur: Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for Sun, 29 Aug 2021
RHBB: Hot and Dry Weather Could Be Challenging for Firefighters on the Monument Fire
NCJ: Fire Updates: Crews Facing Hot, Dry Conditions Today as Smoke Impacts Extend to the Coast
Governor's Office: Governor Newsom Statement on U.S. Service Members Killed in Kabul Airport Attack
SoHum Parlance: Is Newsom really in danger of recall?
FIRE UPDATE: McCash: McCash Fire Update - August 28, 2021 (McCash Fire Wildfire)
FIRE UPDATE: Monument: Monument Fire North Zone Update, August 28, 2021 (Monument Fire Wildfire)
FIRE UPDATE: McFarland: McFarland Fire Morning Update August 28 (McFarland Fire Wildfire)
Seattle Times: Tension over visible homelessness has risen in Seattle — and the country
NY Times: The Morally Troubling ‘Dirty Work’ We Pay Others to Do in Our Place
NY Times: Corona Virus: Show Me the Data!
NY Times: Don’t Let the Fossil Fuel Industry Pivot to Toxic Plastics and Chemicals
NY Times: 40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast.
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