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California Joins Growing National Effort to Ban Smartphone Use in Schools

Gov. Gavin Newsom called on Tuesday for a statewide ban on smartphone use in California schools, joining a growing national effort to curb cyberbullying and classroom distraction by limiting access to the devices.

It’s one of California’s worst freeway bottlenecks. Will fixing it ruin the planet?

Underneath the Yolo Causeway near Sacramento, where a nearly half-billion-dollar effort is underway to add toll lanes to Interstate 80 and ease congestion, swollen rivers fill wetlands in the winter season and bat colonies roost in the bridge’s grooves in warm months.

Climate change is making more California homes dangerously hot. It’s time state laws caught up

Whether you rent or own in California, your home is required to have a functional heating system capable of keeping temperatures at least 70 degrees.

The Pinch Hitter  

What could be better than having your own personal pinch hitter - someone who would stand in for you at a moments notice?!

Exit from Afghanistan: The Fallout

The aforementioned article "Facing Afghan Chaos, Biden Defends Exit" and the letters to the editor shown below were first published in The New York Times on August 17th.

GOP hits Biden despite divides over Afghanistan withdrawal

When President Joe Biden announced he would stick to his predecessor's plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Republican reaction was mixed and largely muted. Foreign policy had become so contentious that the party's own leaders had no single position on the end of the nation's longest war.

Biden to address nation on deadly chaos in Afghanistan

President Joe Biden will address the nation on Monday about the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan, after the planned withdrawal of American forces turned deadly at Kabul’s airport as thousands tried to flee the country after the Taliban’s takeover.

Pentagon to cut troop levels to 2,500 in Iraq, Afghanistan

Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said Tuesday the U.S. will reduce troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan by mid-January, asserting that the decision fulfills President Donald Trump’s pledge to bring forces home from America's long wars even as Republicans and U.S. allies warn of the dangers of withdrawing before conditions are right.

On 9/11, Trump consoles victims, has tough words for Taliban

Like his two most immediate predecessors, President Donald Trump marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in a speech at the Pentagon and, like them, still unable to end America’s longest war, in Afghanistan.

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It’s one of California’s worst freeway bottlenecks. Will fixing it ruin the planet?

Underneath the Yolo Causeway near Sacramento, where a nearly half-billion-dollar effort is underway to add toll lanes to Interstate 80 and ease congestion, swollen rivers fill wetlands in the winter season and bat colonies roost in the bridge’s grooves in warm months.

Climate change is making more California homes dangerously hot. It’s time state laws caught up

Whether you rent or own in California, your home is required to have a functional heating system capable of keeping temperatures at least 70 degrees.

The Pinch Hitter  

What could be better than having your own personal pinch hitter - someone who would stand in for you at a moments notice?!

State board approves protections for hot workplaces

Relief is on the horizon for California fast-food workers operating hot kitchen appliances, logistics workers in vast inland warehouses that lack cooling equipment and others laboring in hot indoor settings as a state agency Thursday approved new workplace protections against excessive heat.
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