Seattle’s law mandating higher pay for food delivery workers is a case study in backfire economics ~finance business Link 18 votes
US Supreme Court denies California’s plea for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin prison ~health Article 672 words 18 votes
California junk fee ban could upend restaurant industry ~food restaurants Article 1375 words 39 votes
Book ban fight in Nevada would create LGBTQ section of libraries ~books libraries Article 512 words, published Apr 23 2024 9 votes
How Sweden is failing its spacetechs – it's not about the budget, says one founder who moved his company to Finland ~space Article 1215 words 7 votes
European Commission approves creation of an environmental zone in the city centre of Stockholm, where petrol and diesel cars will be banned entirely from 2025 ~transport Article 440 words 25 votes
US state North Carolina medical marijuana sales begin at Cherokee nation store ~health medicine Article 499 words 12 votes
Maui wildfire report: Officials declined extra help before a deadly inferno engulfed Lahaina, killing more than 100 people ~enviro Article published Apr 17 2024 12 votes
California sets nation-leading limit for carcinogenic chromium-6 in drinking water ~enviro pollution.water water.drinking Article 1321 words 17 votes
Copenhagen and Paris mayors exchange lessons learned after huge fires destroy landmarks ~design architecture Article 479 words 12 votes
Networked geothermal is catching on in Minnesota ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1379 words, published Apr 5 2024 19 votes
Google blocks some California news as fight over online journalism bill escalates ~tech google Article 26 votes
Idaho libraries must move materials deemed harmful to children, or face lawsuits, under new law ~books libraries Article 868 words 24 votes
Norwegian court finds police acted unreasonably in fining activists who blocked government buildings ~enviro energy.renewable Article 451 words 15 votes
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice ~tech linux microsoft Article 592 words 56 votes
Families of people buried in pauper's field next to Hinds County Penal Farm near Jackson, MS, are calling for a federal investigation into the burials, which took place without families being notified ~news usa.ms Article 1001 words 33 votes
Phoenix passes historic ordinance giving outdoor workers protection from extreme heat ~enviro Link 28 votes
California is preparing to defend itself — and the nation — against Donald Trump 2.0 ~enviro pollution Article 31 votes
Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms ~tech social media Article 1047 words 22 votes
San Francisco city leaders look to bring back emergency sirens by end of 2024 ~enviro Article 487 words, published Sep 6 2023 8 votes
Norway unveiled plans to remove a loophole used by the Nordic nation's richest – government attempts to drag more tax revenue out of the fleeing billionaires ~finance Article 77 words 15 votes
Why ban books when you can ban book awards?: Suburban Illinois district cancels youth chosen Caudill Awards ~books Article 1126 words, published Mar 19 2024 30 votes
100,000 years and counting – how do we tell future generations about highly radioactive nuclear waste repositories? ~enviro energy Article 1381 words 20 votes
Connecticut, USA wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil-fuel projects ~enviro Article 862 words 13 votes
California, USA must triple its rate of carbon emissions reductions to reach 2030 target, report says ~enviro Link 16 votes
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t serve in its armed forces. That’s getting harder than ever to justify and threatens Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition. ~humanities religion Article 1917 words, published Mar 15 2024 39 votes
US libraries struggle to afford the demand for e-books and seek new state laws in fight with publishers ~books libraries Article 912 words, published Mar 12 2024 46 votes
Indian government to impose ban on import, sale, and cross-breeding of twenty-three ferocious dog breeds ~life.pets Article 686 words 15 votes
350,000 Californians are now on the FAIR Plan, the last resort for fire insurance. Now what? ~finance Article 1549 words, published Jan 23 2024 36 votes
Denmark has pledged to put up more statues of women, with the country's culture minister saying the capital has “more statues of mythical beasts and horses” ~life.women Article 455 words 12 votes
A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 70s ~health healthcare Article 398 words 29 votes
Would Roman elections pass a UN inspection? ~humanities.history Video 16:38, published Feb 18 2024 8 votes
Denmark's second-largest city is trialling a first-of-its-kind deposit scheme to tackle single-use coffee cups ~enviro Article 518 words, published Jan 25 2024 20 votes
US Federal Trade Commission and eight states sue to block supermarket merger between Kroger and Albertsons ~finance business Article 778 words 37 votes
Philadelphia SEPTA won a $317 million federal grant to help replace aging Market-Frankford Line cars ~transport Article 459 words, published Feb 16 2024 16 votes
One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water ~enviro water.ground climate change Article 22 votes
Leak of documents on spyware developed by vendor for Chinese government ~tech security.cyber Tweet 33 votes
Capital One to buy Discover Financial in $35.3 billion all-stock deal ~finance banking business Article 978 words 32 votes
California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum ~humanities religion Article 2388 words 22 votes