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Friday, January 17, 2014
Here Today, Not Gone Tomorrow
California Governor Jerry Brown declares drought emergency. A thorough and scary article by Sarah McBride for Reuters. However our North Coast isn't included technically, since we're under some other kind of drought emergency thing, says the Times Standard.
U.N. draft report says technological fixes for limiting the climate crisis in the future will be vastly more expensive than the cost of limiting carbon emissions now--and they don't yet exist and might not work anyway.
State Court Judge strikes down Pennsylvania voter ID law. The opinion goes at the heart of the case against such laws (they unfairly limit the right to vote) and against the supposed justification for the law (no voter fraud shown.)
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