The way people just expect those not on the east coast to translate all scheduled times from ET, without specifying, even for virtual events, really says a lot.

A new trend is emerging in book banning: School officials are pulling works about sexual violence from library shelves, often by labeling them “obscene.” Nadra Nittle covers the latest censorship target + what it could mean for survivors.
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Repeal of Arizona's abortion bill will dominate Legislature for weeks. What's the holdup?

via Mary Jo Pitzl, Ray Stern and Stacey Barchenger
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Impact alert: this week we updated this recent grist investigation because the former University of Arizona student in our story had her debt cleared, thanks to a private donor who paid off her FAFSA and the university's financial aid office. grist.org/project/indige…

INVESTIGATION: Death blows and Snapchat confessions — a minute by minute account of what happened the night Preston Lord crossed paths with the Gilbert Goons. Read our narrative azcentral. With Elena
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A Louisiana Senate bill backed by Gov. Landry would deny public access to nearly every public record at all levels of government. lailluminator.com/2024/04/16/lou…

Dark money groups spent heavily in impoverished Imperial County's March primary races, in amounts experts say are 'suspicious' for a remote corner of California that also had the state's lowest voter turnout. desertsun.com/story/news/nat… via @mydesert

I spent 6 months reporting on a small Montana coal town that’s supplied power to the Portland and Seattle areas for decades.

Republicans won’t love what I wrote. Neither will many Democrats.

Read my Los Angeles Times deep dive and let me know what you think: latimes.com/environment/st…

TL;DR: Students who embody scientific dispositions familiar to faculty are easily recognized and rewarded with more opportunity to develop cultural capital in science.

Faculty, do you recognize students who differ from your internal model of a scientist?
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Federal officials have discovered damage inside Glen Canyon Dam that could force limits on how much Colorado River water is released at low reservoir levels, raising risks the Southwest could face shortages that were previously unforeseen. latimes.com/environment/st…

'...we model this and we model that, and we get so far away from reality that we actually can’t tell if something is positive or negative in the end.'
I spoke w/ stephanie arcusa about the issues with carbon accounting, and her pitch for an alternative heatmap.news/climate/life-c…

ICYMI: Mohave County, Arizona, banned new renewable energy projects last October, then approved zoning for a gas power plant weeks later. Residents have been fighting back ever since. (More updates soon.)

Longread: azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

Short story: azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

Congratulations to everyone who ran the Boston Marathon yesterday!

Resharing my story about my journey to and through my own race last year, because it meant a lot to me, as this inimitable event does to so many people.
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Sauron had a lot of problems, but he knew how to manage a wetland. The Dead Marshes were one of the environmental gems of Mordor, and an impressive nature-based solution to help remediate the environmental damage caused by the corpse issue after the Battle of Dagorlad

“Sanchez said she believes her firing (by 3H & 3H) was retaliation. She had been working to unionize her colleagues since 2022 and had been warned by her supervisor to stop, she said.”

First Texas, now Florida have passed laws to prevent communities from protecting workers from outdoor heat. All this, as the planet gets hotter. By NPR climate and health reporter alejandra borunda npr.org/2024/04/12/124…

Supporter of Gilbert mayoral candidate Shane Krauser threatened to destroy my reputation today over coverage of his son’s role in a Gilbert Goons confrontation video.

Yesterday, Science Magazine released a paper about what needs to be done to support tribally run green energy projects. My latest from grist
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This is ... not good!

Google announced Friday that it is removing links to CA news websites for some Californians in response to a state bill that would force the search engine to pay news companies for their content. By Sophia Bollag in San Francisco Chronicle

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I’m no math whiz, but 549 hours of OT in a 30 day period means he worked 24 hours a day for nearly 23 days — and that’s not counting regular hours. Dave Biscobing is right: Someone’s got some explaining to do. Looking forward to answers.