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Has THE BOSTON GLOBE Given Jon Huntsman the Kiss of Death?
The news was big enough to flash all over the CNN screen at the pizza place that my wife and I chose to visit for an early supper last night: The Boston Globe decided to provide an endorsement to Jon Huntsman for the coming Republican primary in New...
California Passes 1 Gigawatt Rooftop Solar Milestone
The Environment California Research & Policy Center has released a new report documenting that California has installed more than 1 gigawatt of rooftop solar power.
Evidence Emerges of Ancient Lake in California’s Eel River
A catastrophic landslide 22,500 years ago dammed the upper reaches of northern California’s Eel River, forming a 30-mile-long lake which has since disappeared. It left a living legacy found today in the genes of the region’s steelhead trout. Using...
Removing Hybrids From Carpool Lanes Backfires, Slowing Traffic for All
The end of a California program granting free access to carpool lanes by solo drivers of hybrid cars has unintentionally slowed traffic in all lanes, according to transportation engineers at the University of California, Berkeley.
U.S. Marshals Announce the Extradition of Lionel Scott Harris
Don O’Keefe, the United States Marshal for the District of Northern California announced the extradition of Lionel Scott Harris from Venezuela. U.S. State Department Agents in San Francisco, working with Deputy United States Marshals, located and arrested...
California’s English Proficiency Test for Kindergarteners Fundamentally Flawed
Most of the thousands of four- and five-year-olds who take California’s official test for English language proficiency before they start kindergarten are bound to fail that exam, according to a new University of California, Berkeley, study. It found...
Justice Department Opens Investigation Into the Antelope Valley Stations of the LA County Sheriff’s Department
The Justice Department has opened a civil investigation into allegations of discriminatory policing by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) members based in the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, Calif. How People Arrived Here: DOJ Antilope...
Clarity of Lake Tahoe Continues to Drop But At a Decreasing Rate
Lake Tahoe clarity dropped in 2010, but the rate of decline in clarity over the past decade remains slower compared with previous decades, according to UC Davis scientists who have monitored the lake for more than 40 years.
