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Community organizer Pete Woiwode was walking to meet a friend at a street festival near downtown Oakland in November when a signature gatherer approached and asked if he wanted to sign a petition to lower gas prices. Woiwode said that in reading the petition he realized it actually was for a referendum to overturn SB [...]
In addition to a new Ohio Department of Agriculture program in which regional farmers sell their products to participating food banks, the state Department of Natural Resources offers grants to these organizations to offset costs associated with the processing of venison harvested by Ohio hunters. Ohio CAN, which stands for Community, Agriculture and Nutrition, allows [...]
This past year has seen a horrific flood that submerged one-third of Pakistan, one of the three costliest United States hurricanes on record, devastating droughts in Europe and China, a drought-triggered famine in Africa and widespread deadly heat waves. Yet this wasn’t climate change at its worst. With all that death and destruction in 2022, [...]
As the COVID-19 pandemic endured from 2020 well into this year, mothers tended to drink an additional alcoholic beverage or two, a new study by researchers at The Ohio State University found. Study co-author Bridget Freisthler, an Ohio State professor of social work, said although mothers were drinking less frequently as the pandemic progressed, the [...]
DENVER (AP) — When Kevin Erickson fires up his 1972 Plymouth Satellite, a faint hum replaces what is normally the sound of pistons pumping, gas coursing through the carburetor and the low thrum of the exhaust. Even though it's nearly silent, the classic American muscle car isn't broken. It's electric. Erickson is among a small [...]
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities in El Paso, Texas, described a humanitarian crisis Thursday as they grapple with the daily release of roughly 1,600 migrants to local shelters and the streets of the border city amid preparations for even larger flows if Trump-era asylum restrictions end next week as scheduled. El Paso Mayor Oscar [...]
RENO, Nev. — A Nevada wildflower was declared endangered at the only place it's known to exist — on a high-desert ridge where a lithium mine is planned to help meet growing demand for electric car batteries, U.S. wildlife officials announced last week. The Fish and Wildlife Service's formal listing of Tiehm's buckwheat and its [...]
More than half of adults say it's harder to afford the holiday gifts they want to give this year. Sixty-nine percent of them say they have seen higher prices for holiday gifts in recent months, up from 58 percent last year, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Whitebark pine trees can live for more than 1,000 years, but in just two decades more than a quarter of the trees that are a key food source for some grizzly bears have been killed by disease, wildfires and voracious beetles, government officials said as they planned to announce federal protections [...]
DETROIT — In a bustling metro area of 4.3 million people, Yale University wildlife biologist Nyeema Harris ventures into isolated thickets to study Detroit's most elusive residents — coyotes, foxes, raccoons and skunks among them. Harris and colleagues have placed trail cameras in woodsy sections of 25 city parks for the past five years. They've [...]