Like Rodney Dangerfield, sea otters get no respect. Since their reintroduction to the Pacific coast in the 1970s, the sea otters’ rapid recovery and voracious appetite for tasty shellfish such as sea urchins, clams and crabs has brought them into conflict with coastal communities and fishers, who rely on the same valuable fisheries for food and income. But the long-term benefits of sea otter recovery—such…
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Orvie Nix, a retiree in Amarillo, Texas, had expected his family would receive its $2,400 in stimulus funds with a lettersigned by President Trump, or by direct deposit in his bank account, as he had seen on the news. Instead, Nix got an envelope in the mail from “Money Network Cardholder Services”, containing a prepaid debit card. The plain envelope seemed typical of the unwanted…
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About Us Something different this way comes… You are visiting a state-of-the-art media site covering Chico and Butte County, California and the world. Posted directly by experienced journalists, and community supporters, and directed by Dan Weisman, editor, The Escondido Grapevine combines the best practices of old school journalism with the cutting edge design of what technology has wrought. As you can see, what you get…
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The full weight of U.S. policing has descended upon protesters across the country as people take to the streets to denounce the police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless others who have been subjected to police violence. Along with riot shields, tear gas, and other crowd control measures also comes the digital arm of modern policing: prolific surveillance technology on the street and…
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Would anyone call for notorious Joe McCarthy advisor, and corrupt lawyer, Roy Cohn to be given any kind of award or recognition as a distinguished graduate of their school? How about Bill Barr? Like Cohn, Barr went to Horace Mann School. Unlike Cohn, Barr was 2011 “distinguished” Horace Mann alumnus. Considering Barr’s immoral and unethical conduct in support of Donald Trump and circumvention of accepted…
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Most affordable, most transformative and best bang for the buck. Statewide, regional and national. Public, private and online. The range of “best of” college and university rankings can vary as widely as the educations the institutions offer. Enter College Consensus, a college review aggregator, which has compiled a ranking of higher education institutions based on a wide range of regional and national lists. Based on…
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About Us Something different this way comes… You are visiting a state-of-the-art media site covering Chico and Butte County, California and the world. Posted directly by experienced journalists, and community supporters, and directed by Dan Weisman, editor, The Escondido Grapevine combines the best practices of old school journalism with the cutting edge design of what technology has wrought. As you can see, what you get…
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Like Rodney Dangerfield, sea otters get no respect. Since their reintroduction to the Pacific coast in the 1970s, the sea otters’ rapid recovery and voracious appetite for tasty shellfish such as sea urchins, clams and crabs has brought them into conflict with coastal communities and fishers, who rely on the same valuable fisheries for food and income. But the long-term benefits of sea otter recovery—such…
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The full weight of U.S. policing has descended upon protesters across the country as people take to the streets to denounce the police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless others who have been subjected to police violence. Along with riot shields, tear gas, and other crowd control measures also comes the digital arm of modern policing: prolific surveillance technology on the street and…
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Would anyone call for notorious Joe McCarthy advisor, and corrupt lawyer, Roy Cohn to be given any kind of award or recognition as a distinguished graduate of their school? How about Bill Barr? Like Cohn, Barr went to Horace Mann School. Unlike Cohn, Barr was 2011 “distinguished” Horace Mann alumnus. Considering Barr’s immoral and unethical conduct in support of Donald Trump and circumvention of accepted…
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