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Environment, NewsJuly 12, 2019

Ripple plastic: The unintended life of plastic at sea

By Amy Cruz

UK artist and conservationist Mandy Barker has spent years gathering plastic items from beaches all around the world, arranging and photographing them in evocative ways. With colorful items popping against a dark background, many of her collections give a feel of outer space — a galaxy of garbage. Barker’s work is featured in Our Plastic Ocean, a touring exhibition through Impressions Gallery in the UK. The exhibition includes a virtual reality experience of Barker’s photographs produced by Stanford University students that is viewable through rippleplastic.com.

Housing + Development, News, PoliticsJune 28, 2019

Housing crisis, fear complicates census efforts in the Bay Area

By Isabella Jibilian

Bay Area counties and non-profit organizations are preparing for the 2020 Census by canvassing neighborhoods to make address lists more complete and recruiting “trusted messengers” like priests and community organizers to encourage hard-to-count populations to respond to the census.

News, SportsJune 24, 2019

Behind the plate: The life of a Bay Area umpire

By Ashlyn Rollins

Wayne Yoshitomi knew only English and his grandfather mostly spoke Japanese, but they didn’t need to talk on summer nights in the mid-1960s when the San Francisco Giants were playing. At the kitchen table or in the backyard of their family’s Richmond neighborhood flat, 6-year-old Yoshitomi and his grandpa would tune in a Zenith transistor radio. Shigeo Ogawa would play solitaire as Russ Hodges narrated the game, yelling “Bye Bye Baby!” to call a home run.Their shared love of baseball is the only strong memory Yoshitomi has of his grandfather, who passed away in the 1980s. Baseball has since taken Yoshitomi around the country, meeting others who share his love…

Environment, NewsJune 11, 2019

Californians grapple with the loss of red abalone

By Madison Pobis

The loss of the red abalone is not just a blow to the kelp forest ecosystem, but also to the sense of California’s coastal identity. Scientists, fishermen, divers and long-time residents recognize the abalone’s cultural significance and are working to ensure their survival.

NewsMay 21, 2019

Egg farmers, animal welfare groups clash in Sonoma County

By Connor Richards

Protests began on a spring day in 2018. Around 500 demonstrators led by DxE protested outside Weber Family farms in Petaluma, Calif. Dozens of activists removed chickens they described as sick or dying. Weber Family Farms says the group’s allegations of animal cruelty are untrue.

Data Hub, Health, News, ScienceMay 16, 2019

A drug 50 times deadlier than heroin finds its way to California

By Gillian Brassil

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin. Now, it is the most commonly used drug in overdoses: about 30 percent of overdoses in 2016 involved fentanyl. In 2016, the rate of overdoses involving fentanyl was 12 times larger than it was in 2013.

Education, News, TechnologyMay 15, 2019

Design-thinking trickling into elementary school classrooms

By Lily Barnett

At Phillips Brooks Elementary School in Menlo Park, students arrange spaghetti, string and marshmallows to concoct freestanding towers, following the same design-thinking process as Stanford University undergraduates.

News, SportsMay 3, 2019

Sailors fight for a competitive edge in SailGP San Francisco

By Isabella Jibilian

The new SailGP racing series, taking place in San Francisco Bay this weekend, is on a mission to make races more competitive — by ensuring that all participating boats are identical and teams have to share performance data.

Culture, NewsMarch 28, 2019

‘Shall I Proceed? Yes Indeed’: Continuing the legacy of black femmes in hip-hop

By Paula McCloud

“Femcees” are major forces within the rap industry. The term femcee to refers to black feminine-identified rappers. These rappers are no longer an “exception” to a male dominated industry, but rather the exceptional standard to Hip-Hop, and have been since its inception.

News, Politics, UncategorizedMarch 27, 2019

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s plan for presidency

By Eugene Ko

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced that he is considering running for President in the 2020 race as an independent, centrist candidate.

Business, NewsMarch 25, 2019

A 360 experience: One urban beekeper’s quest to go beyond the honey

By Andrea Chung

As an urban beekeeper, Terry Oxford has always grounded her beekeeping practices in what is best for the bees and our environment. While her primary intention of beekeeping has never been to harvest and sell honey from her hives, she gradually realized that bringing honeybees into the city is not the best way to protect our environment and save the pollinators.

News, SPECIAL REPORT: Camp Fire AftermathMarch 22, 2019

Remembering and rebuilding the Honey Run Covered Bridge after the Camp Fire

By Melanie Hogue

Honey Run Road and its historic covered bridge connected the two municipalities of Chico and Paradise. The bridge was a place where residents from both areas learned to swim, spent lazy summer afternoons with their families, attended pancake breakfasts or got married.Last year’s Camp Fire took the lives of more than 80 people, decimated the town of Paradise, and claimed the beloved Honey Run Covered Bridge. But it didn’t take long for residents to start rebuilding the bridge — using salvaged materials from the original structure. At the end of November, Chico resident Karin Willhoit sold heart ornaments crafted from the metal of the original covered bridge. The ornaments were…