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Print This is the June 3, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. It feels like just yesterday that California was roiled by rolling blackouts during an epic summer heat wave. But that was nearly a year ago, and now summer is dawning once again. Across the West, power grid managers and utilities are preparing for heat waves, and for the dry, windy conditions that have toppled electrical infrastructure and ignited wildfires. Temperatures are already spiking, which is...

Print This is the May 27, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. The offshore wind industry has struggled to get a toehold on the West Coast, even as projects begin to take off on the Atlantic Seaboard. Ocean breezes could play a big role in transitioning the Western electric grid off fossil fuels, especially because the region’s offshore gusts blow strong after sundown, as Anna M. Phillips, Rosanna Xia and I wrote for The Times. Still, here was a major hitch on m...

Great British Menu 2021 finalists: Who will win GBM champion of champions? Updated: 21 May 2021, 8:48 FOUR fabulous chefs will battle each other to become Great British Menu’s champion of champions in the series finale TONIGHT. But who will take home the prize? Here’s what we know. 9 From eight regional winners, four chefs are now desperate to become Great British Menu's 2021 championCredit: BBC Who are the finalists on the Great British Menu 2021? There are four chefs vying to become GBM champion. Eight cooks originally entered Finals Week - Stuart Collins, Roberta Hall-McCarron, Oli Mar...

Direct Payment, Rent Relief, Homelessness Funding in Expanded 'California Comeback Plan' Nearly 6 million Californians will receive $600 in economic stimulus checks as the state makes a plan to spend its surprise, massive budget surplus. $2.6 million for rent relief and $2 billion to pay utility bills are also planned. May 11, 2021, 12pm PDT | James Brasuell |

* * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Biden Administration “Vaccine Waiver Pledge Tests Biden-World’s Pharma Ties” [David Sirota, Walker Bragman, and Andrew Perez, Daily Poster]. “The granular details of the waiver will be negotiated by a Biden administration populated by individuals with significant pharmace...