A new Indigenous-led student movement in Northern California is protecting sacred waters lookout.co - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lookout.co Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Readers, I got a late start
again. I will add more shortly. –lambert
Bird Song of the Day
The Changeable Hawk-Eagle. (I confess I’ve been choosing these eagles because of their names, but their songs have been really various.)
#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. All the charts are becoming dull approaching nominal, if you accept the “new normal” of cases, for example.
Still upward movement.
“Pentagon push has more US servicemembers getting vaccinated” [FOX News]. “Now 71% of troops surveyed say they have gotten the vaccine or plan to do so. Only 39% of active-duty spouses say they plan to get vaccinated – which could be a problem as hundreds of thousands of troops and their families plan to move to new bases this summer. If the 600,000 troops and their families don’t get vaccinated before their
California governor declares drought emergency in 41 counties yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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12 May, 2021, 1:01 am
FILE PHOTO: Dried mud is seen on the path in the burn zone of Chino Hills State Park, as California faces a drought, in Chino Hills, California, U.S., April 21, 2021. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday issued an expanded “drought emergency proclamation” for 41 of the state’s 58 counties, citing above-average temperatures and dry conditions for April and May.
Newsom, a first-term Democrat facing a recall election over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, directed the state’s water board to consider modifying requirements for reservoir releases and take other conservation measures.