https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/21/oregon-drug-law-measure-110-backlash
A police officer writes a ticket for smoking drugs in public in downtown Portland, Oregon, on 25 January 2024. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images
Oregon
How Oregon turned on its own trailblazing...
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/18/reno-commissioner-who-insisted-on-religious-invocations-at-county-meetings-walks-out-when-satanist-gives-opening-prayer-video.html
Reno commissioner who insisted on religious invocations at county meetings walks out when Satanist gives opening prayer (video)...
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/18/san-francisco-bets-big-on-surveillance-blankets-city-with-400-automatic-license-plate-readers/
San Francisco Bets Big On Surveillance, Blankets City With 400 Automatic License Plate Readers
(Mis)Uses of Technology
from the New-London,-California dept
Thu, Jan...
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/03/republicans-trying-to-kill-program-that-brings-affordable-broadband-to-the-poor/
Republicans Trying To Kill Program That Brings Affordable Broadband To The Poor
Broadband
from the dysfunction-junction dept
Wed, Jan 3rd 2024 05:32am - Karl Bode
Last month...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-15/culdesac-tempe-s-car-free-development-model-is-hitting-the-road
Culdesac Tempe’s first residents have moved in, and the company is eyeing expansion in other cities.
Photographer: Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg
Citylab
Housing
Can This Car-Free...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/01/sports-betting-regulation-gambling-addiction
‘We’re killing the youth of America’: calls grow for crackdown on US gambling
Worries that gambling addiction has spiked in the US as legal sports betting booms have led to calls for increased...
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2023-11-17/massachusetts-becomes-fifth-state-in-nation-to-make-prison-calls-free
Massachusetts becomes fifth state in nation to make prison calls free
A prison inmate makes a phone call at the York Community Reintegration Center on May 24, 2016 in Niantic...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3kdw/tenants-and-economists-are-pushing-to-regulate-rent-for-a-vast-amount-of-us-housing
Tenants and Economists Are Pushing to Regulate Rent for a Vast Amount of U.S. Housing
A growing movement is pressuring the government to regulate rents on buildings where...
https://www.fastcompany.com/90985257/you-shouldnt-be-driving-over-100-mph-and-your-car-shouldnt-let-you
11-18-23
You shouldn’t be driving over 100 mph—and your car shouldn’t let you
The NTSB recommended that automakers be required to install technology to prevent reckless speeding...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxj7wq/getting-rid-of-gas-stoves-could-lead-to-mass-renovictions-advocates-say
Getting Rid of Gas Stoves Could Lead to Mass Renovictions, Advocates Say
Decarbonizing California's housing stock could have some serious unintended consequences for renters.
RA
By...
https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/nikki-haley-vows-to-abolish-anonymous-social-media-accounts-its-a-national-security-threat-tik-tok-twitter-x-facebook-instagram-republican-presidential-candidate-hawley-hochul
Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: 'It's a national...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64973186
China's matchmaking mums have a powerful ally: The Party
Published
1 day ago
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Image caption,
Young Chinese are turning away from traditional choices like marriage and children
By Fan Wang
BBC News, Singapore
Chen...
https://www.aol.com/china-removes-anonymity-bloggers-accounts-105017632.html
China removes anonymity of bloggers' accounts with more than 500,000 followers
October 31, 2023 at 8:22 AM
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's most popular social media platforms on Tuesday announced that "self-media"...
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/30/biden-unveils-us-governments-first-ever-ai-executive-order.html
TECH
Biden issues U.S.′ first AI executive order, requiring safety assessments, civil rights guidance, research on labor market impact
PUBLISHED MON, OCT 30 20235:17 AM EDTUPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Hayden...
https://undark.org/2023/10/13/book-review-crossings/
BOOKS
PRINT
Book Review: How Our Roads Have Become an Invasive Species
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In “Crossings,” Ben Goldfarb explores the science of road ecology, or how roadways affect plants and animal life.
Visual: John Duarte/Tetra images via Getty...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/08/24/healey-massachusetts-massreconnect-higher-education-cost-free-students
Community college is now free for Mass. residents 25 and older. Millions qualify
August 24, 2023
Max Larkin
Gov. Maura Healey wants to get the word out: Attending community college is...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/rural-montana-housing-crisis-supply/674950/
The Anti-California
How Montana performed a housing miracle
By Annie Lowrey
Justin Sullivan / Getty
AUGUST 9, 2023, 11:02 AM ET
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/rural-montana-housing-crisis-supply/674950/
The Anti-California
How Montana performed a housing miracle
By Annie Lowrey
Justin Sullivan / Getty
AUGUST 9, 2023, 11:02 AM ET
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in...
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