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.
Monday, Feb. 17, 2020
Times-Standard : Arcata notes ‘rash’ of new graffiti incidents, but none with threatening messages
KMUD: Telegraph Ridge VFPD Measure U Signs Stolen
KMUD: Wanted Armed Suspect Still at Large in Briceland Area
KMUD: Wanted Homicide Suspect Apprehended in Crescent City
KMUD: Largest Fire in Humboldt Since January 2019 Contained Sunday, Feb 16
Washington Post: U.N. warns that runaway inequality is destabilizing the world’s democracies
Times-Standard : Is Newsom doing enough to protect the state’s waters?
NY Times: Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Socialist But he plays one on TV
NY Post: Killing of 700-pound black bear with bow and arrow sets North American record
Times-Standard : Screenshots of suspected HSU faculty soliciting sex for money prompted investigation
Times-Standard : Capitol Tracker: First new California law of 2020 allows last-minute voter registration changes
Humboldt Waterkeeper: Action Alert: Hearing on Rebuilding Fallen Billboard, Thursday, February 20
RHBB: [UPDATE 4:01 p.m.] Sailboat in Distress in Humboldt Bay
Non Sequitur: Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for Tue, 18 Feb 2020
Times-Standard : Black bears may be in Sequoia Park Zoo before the end of next year
NCJ: HSU Investigating Allegations of Faculty Member Soliciting Students
Mad River Union: HSU Investigating alleged faculty misconduct
RHBB: Two Acre Fire in the Crooked Prairie Road Area
Times-Standard : HSU investigation allegations a faculty member solicited paid sex with students
RHBB: Another Murder Trial Begins For HBO Subject With Humboldt Link
RHBB: Overturned Vehicle on Hwy 299
Wild Rivers Outpost: Broken-Down Big Rig Blocking Lanes of Highway 101 Near Last Chance Grade
RHBB: Big Rig Broke Down on 101 Near Last Chance Grade Blocking Both Lanes
USA Today: 'Historic, unprecedented' flooding swamps southern U.S.; Mississippi and Tennessee hardest hit
Reuters: Tesla ordered by German court to stop cutting down trees for Gigafactory
RHBB: Dry February Expected to Continue (We’re Just Barely Above Record Set in 1923)
The Hill: No one at the helm of America's national parks
Wild Rivers Outpost: Person of Interest in Suspected Crescent City Double Homicide Arrested, Found in Possession of a Loaded Gun, Sheriff's Office Says
NPR: Lax Regulations And Vulnerable Residents 'A Recipe For Problems' In Eldercare Homes
NY Daily News: Trump moves to cut bomb-sniffing dogs at NYC’s airports, train hubs
Connecticut Post: Lost man, blind, found with police drones after staying out overnight
NY Times: She Didn’t Want a Pelvic Exam. She Received One Anyway.
Medium: Does Blue Light From Screens Really Ruin Sleep?
NY Times: The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
NY Times: NPR, under attack by Trump, is taking threat seriously
Washington Post: Rats will devour your car. Really!
Washington Post: States look at banning, restricting bottling firms from tapping local groundwater
Washington Post: The EPA is about to change a rule cutting mercury pollution. The industry doesn’t want it.
Huffington Post: Human Trafficking Awareness Campaigns Are Feeding A Dangerous Myth
LA Times: California to apologize officially for historical mistreatment of Japanese Americans
Seattle Times: Miles of highway aren’t patrolled by state troopers amid a crime wave on Yakama Reservation
The Oregonian: Oregon Insight: Inbound migration rate is among the nation’s fastest
RHBB: Leggett Fire Saves Puppy and Extinguishes Car on Fire
The Oregonian: Colorado restricts marijuana advertising, so cannabis companies are adopting highways
The Oregonian: Police investigate burglary ring that targeted Oregon, SW Washington cannabis businesses
The Guardian: Costa Rica indigenous leader shot amid tensions over land rights
The Guardian: Dark Towers review: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump and a must-read mystery
The Guardian: 211m gallons of sewage spilled into Fort Lauderdale waterways, officials say