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☆ A San Francisco neighborhood threw a mini-festival to celebrate a public toilet that cost $200,000 instead of $1.7 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

San Francisco celebrated a new public loo with a mini-carnival complete with games, lemonade, and a live band. The public toilet initially cost $1.7 million with a multi-year deadline but had its price slashed to $200,000. AdvertisementThe scandal over a public toilet in San Francisco that cost $1.7 million has ended in celebration after the new loo opened on Monday with a much-discounted price tag of $200,000. That's according to The New York Times, CBS News, and The San Francisco Chronicle, who sent reporters down to the toilet's launch in the Noe Valley Town Square. AdvertisementCity officials said they were weighed down by high construction costs in San Francisco, as well as the need for environmental reviews and checks from multiple commissions.

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☆ Biden needles Trump in hopes of pushing him off message
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | Alayna Treene | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Biden is “not doing it just for the sake of making Donald Trump mad or for the satisfaction of punching him in the nose. “Loser” is at the top of the Biden campaign lists of attacks. “It is Donald Trump who continues to deny the truth about the 2020 election. He lost that one,” said senior Biden campaign adviser T.J. Ducklo. “The joke’s on Donald Trump.

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☆ Los Angeles I-10 Freeway Closure Expected to Snarl Traffic
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Jennifer Calfas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A fire under Interstate 10 severely damaged the freeway connecting to downtown Los Angeles. Photo: Richard Vogel/Associated PressLos Angeles drivers girded for significant disruptions to their commutes beginning Monday after a fire shut down part of Interstate 10, a major artery in the city’s freeway system. A section of the busy interstate that connects to downtown Los Angeles will remain closed in both directions “until further notice,” the California Department of Transportation, or CalTrans, said Sunday. California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County over the weekend, mobilizing state resources to assist with repairing the damage.

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Gavin Newsom is the latest to find out that plans for a confident jump shot can turn into a torrent of online potshots. On a trip to China, the two-term Democrat took a detour from his official meetings on climate change to join a group of Beijing schoolkids for a game of basketball. Video circulating online shows Newsom wearing slacks, an open-collared shirt and dress shoes while towering over schoolchildren on the court. The governor playfully twirls a basketball on a fingertip, then executes a spin move as he heads toward the basket. “Newsom destroys kid during basketball game in China,” celebrity website TMZ tweeted.

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☆ Climate Week can make me feel cynical but there are signs that change might be underway
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Yet global emissions have continued to climb since 2015 when countries agreed to curb warming. Yet global emissions have kept growing since 2015, when nearly 200 countries struck the Paris Agreement aimed at averting the most catastrophic effects of a warming planet. There's also more willingness to name the main driver of climate change: fossil fuels. President Joe Biden didn't attend the Climate Ambition Summit and instead sent the nation's climate envoy, John Kerry. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante, and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo have headlined events.

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☆ Hilary weakens to Category 1 hurricane as storm moves within striking distance of Mexican peninsula
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The maximum sustained wind speed remained unchanged at 85 mph while spreading "heavy rains" northward over the peninsula. Jamie Rhome Director, U.S. National Hurricane CenterIt was not immediately clear whether officials considered the fatality related to the hurricane, but video posted by local officials showed torrents of water coursing through the town's streets. Forecasters said the storm was still expected to enter the history books as the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, bringing flash floods, mudslides, isolated tornadoes, high winds and power outages. Hilary brought heavy rain and flooding to Mexico and the southwestern U.S. on Saturday, ahead of the storm's expected Sunday border crossing. Forecasters warned it could dump up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) — a year's worth of rain for some areas — in southern California and southern Nevada.

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☆ California, truck manufacturers strike deal on emissions rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Tesla's new electric semi truck is unveiled during a presentation in Hawthorne, California, U.S., November 16, 2017. REUTERS/Alexandria Sage/File PhotoWASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) - California state air regulators and truck and engine manufacturers said on Thursday they had reached an agreement on state emissions rules that will give companies more flexibility to meet requirements. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) said the "Clean Truck Partnership" with the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association (EMA) includes new flexibility for manufacturers to meet emissions requirements while reaching state goals for reducing emissions. Newsom said "today truck manufacturers join our urgent efforts to slash air pollution, showing the rest of the country that we can both cut dangerous pollution and build the economy of the future." California said Thursday it agreed to modify elements of the 2024 NOx emission regulations for which manufacturers will provide offsets to maintain California emission targets.

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☆ Someone should face criminal charges over DeSantis' flights that dumped migrants on Martha's Vineyard: Texas sheriff
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Paul Squire | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Texas sheriff filed charges over a migrant flight to Martha's Vineyard that DeSantis arranged. The Texas sheriff said someone should face felony and misdemeanor charges but didn't say who. Ron DeSantis that dumped nearly 50 undocumented immigrants on Martha's Vineyard last year, a Texas sheriff says. The migrants said they had no idea where they were when the chartered plane dropped them off in Martha's Vineyard, NPR reported. Though the migrant flights stopped after the Martha's Vineyard incident, migrants continued to be bused from Texas to other states.

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☆ Biden declares emergency in California as more winter storms advance
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Emma Newburger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House January 5, 2023 in Washington, DC. President Joe Biden on Monday declared an emergency in California after a barrage of deadly winter storms have prompted widespread power outages and flooding since last week. National Weather Service forecasters have warned of a "relentless parade of cyclones" over the coming days that will exacerbate the risk of floods in central and Northern California. The president approved the emergency declaration for California during a visit in Mexico City for the North American Leaders' Summit. Gavin Newsom on Sunday evening said he's in close contact with the White House to ensure the state has adequate aid.

☆ This former tech worker is helping change laws for people who get laid off
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Faith Karimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Ifeoma Ozoma’s path as an advocate for tech workers started with a series of tweets one morning in June 2020. She emerged as a passionate advocate for tech workers by seeking legal protections for whistleblowers. “So many people reached out when I told my story, and most of them were tech workers or workers within the tech industry,” she said. The 30-year-old mentors activists and other people fighting all over the world against workplace discrimination. After leaving Pinterest, Ozoma moved to a farm near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she grows her own vegetables and raises a flock of chickens nicknamed the Golden Girls.

☆ Ifeoma Ozoma is a passionate advocate for tech whistleblowers. It all started with tweets
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Faith Karimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

☆ Biden's stimulus may have helped pay for Ron DeSantis' political stunt flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Joseph Zeballos-Roig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Biden's stimulus may have helped pay for DeSantis' political stunt to fly migrants to Massachusetts. Ron DeSantis finance a political stunt to fly migrants to a wealthy, liberal-leaning slice of Massachusetts. The stunt from DeSantis sparked outrage from immigration advocates and Democrats who called it a cruel political stunt that amounted to human trafficking. The Florida governor has devoted much time trying to troll Democrats, such as by threatening to send migrants to Biden's home state of Delaware. States and cities were eligible for $350 billion in federal relief under Biden's stimulus law.

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