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After a Deadly Year on the Roads, States Push for Safety Over Speed
As more Americans start commuting to work and hitting the roads after a year indoors, they’ll be returning to streets that have gotten deadlier. This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. It can be republished for free. Last year, an estimated 42,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes and 4.8 million were injured. That represents an 8% increase over 2019, the largest year-over-year increase in nearly a century — even though the number of miles driven fell by 13%, according to the National Safety Council. The emptier roads led to more speeding, which led to more fatalities, said Leah Shahum, e...
Kaiser Health News
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Another Soda Tax Bill Dies. Another Win for Big Soda.
SACRAMENTO — A rogue industry. A gun to our head. Extortion. This story also ran on San Francisco Chronicle. It can be republished for free. That’s how infuriated lawmakers described soft drink companies — and what they pulled off in 2018 when they scored a legislative deal that bars California’s cities and counties from imposing taxes on sugary drinks. Yet, despite its tarnished reputation, the deep-pocketed industry continues to exert its political influence in the nation’s most populous state, spending millions of dollars on politically connected lobbyists and doling out campaign contributi...
California Healthline
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NASA pulls off first Martian liftoff of ‘Ingenuity’ helicopter
Early Monday morning, a team of NASA scientists awaited the results of its first attempt to fly a vehicle off the surface of Mars. The room was quiet as the data from over 178 million miles away was swiftly downloaded, then revealing an image of the first controlled flight of a vehicle on another planet. The NASA Jet Propulsion Lab team in southern California exploded in applause at the sight of a tiny helicopter spinning above the dusty planet, crossing off another successful milestone from the $80 million checklist. The helicopter, Ingenuity, flew up six meters and hovered off the red planet...
Orlando Sentinel
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After a Deadly Year on the Roads, States Push for Safety Over Speed
As more Americans start commuting to work and hitting the roads after a year indoors, they’ll be returning to streets that have gotten deadlier. This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. It can be republished for free. Last year, an estimated 42,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes and 4.8 million were injured. That represents an 8% increase over 2019, the largest year-over-year increase in nearly a century — even though the number of miles driven fell by 13%, according to the National Safety Council. The emptier roads led to more speeding, which led to more fatalities, said Leah Shahum, e...
California Healthline
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Pandemic Highlights Need for Urgent Care Clinics for Women
SAN JOSE — Last spring, only weeks into the pandemic, Christina Garcia was spending her days struggling to help her two young sons adjust to online schooling when she got such a heavy, painful period she could barely stand. After a few days, her vision began to blur and she found herself too weak to open a jar. This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. It can be republished for free. Garcia’s regular OB/GYN — like most medical offices at the time — was closed, and she was terrified by the prospect of spending hours waiting in an emergency room shoulder to shoulder with people who might have co...
Kaiser Health News
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Theme parks, vaccinations and basketball: California gets back to normal
Universal City (United States) (AFP) - Natalie Lucia knew her Los Angeles life was getting back to normal the moment she was confronted by a snarling, life-sized velociraptor. Thursday marked several milestones in California's emergence from the pandemic -- vaccinations became available to all over-16s, basketball fans could watch the Lakers in-person, and Universal Studios Hollywood finally re-opened to impatient theme park fans. "I have been waiting to see Blue and the dinosaurs since they closed... To be able to see her after 15 months is amazing," said Lucia, a 40-year-old piano teacher, s...
AFP
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Could downtown Oakland become the next Bay Area ‘tech capital?’
A new report on Oakland’s post-COVID economy is bullish on the city’s downtown, which analysts and at least one developer are betting will come back in a big way in 2021 and beyond. Speaking at an economic summit hosted by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Thursday, Beacon Economics founder Christopher Thornberg presented the key findings in the report and said he’s optimistic that downtown office space is going to be a key driver of the region’s economic recovery. “Downtowns are not ending as a result of the pandemic. Quite the opposite,” he said. “Downtowns are going to come back ...
The Mercury News
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Pandemic Highlights Need for Urgent Care Clinics for Women
SAN JOSE — Last spring, only weeks into the pandemic, Christina Garcia was spending her days struggling to help her two young sons adjust to online schooling when she got such a heavy, painful period she could barely stand. After a few days, her vision began to blur and she found herself too weak to open a jar. This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. It can be republished for free. Garcia’s regular OB/GYN — like most medical offices at the time — was closed, and she was terrified by the prospect of spending hours waiting in an emergency room shoulder to shoulder with people who might have co...
California Healthline
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Barton Goldsmith: Give yourself a break
Like many creative people, I sometimes get bored with my “art” and have to take a break. Stepping back can be a great way to unblock your creativity. I just did this and came back much stronger. This process has also proved helpful to my writer and musician clients. Hopefully, it will be helpful to you in overcoming your own creative blocks. Doing this can work for almost anything you want to get better at. I started my writing career as a musician, a singer-songwriter, wanting to be the next Cat Stevens or James Taylor. Needless to say, that didn’t work out, but I still love music and play a ...
Tribune News Service
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Sound Advice: Looking for recommended electric toothbrush
Q. I read your review of the TLOVII Sonic Electric Toothbrush on sale for $29.99 and went straight to Amazon to buy one. It shows, “Currently Unavailable.” Do you know if they will be available again? Can I buy it anywhere besides Amazon? — B.P., San Francisco A. I received dozens of emails like this after the column ran. I reached out to the Amazon vendor and they confirmed that the TLOVII Sonic Electric Toothbrush is only available on their Amazon store, and they would have plenty of stock available within a week or so. Given the delay between column submission and publication it may be avai...
Tribune News Service
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