New York State has adopted a ban on most single-use plastic bags.

This tackles only a small fraction of plastic consumption, but I think it could do a great deal to educate the public about the harm that plastic does.

(satire) … Purdue Pharma officials reported Monday that deaths from opioids had fallen well short of their quarterly goals.

Protester Terry Maher stood on the roof of St Pancras Station waving a flag, and is said to have "caused" the cancellation of various trains.

Given the facts, is that claim valid? It may be true that officials cancelled the trains as a reaction to the protest, but was that necessary, or was it an overreaction? He could hardly harm anyone or anything in the station from up on the roof, not even with a flag or a knife. And he never showed an inclination to try.

If the officials overreacted, they are the ones to blame for the resulting gratuitous inconvenience. The court must not hold a protester responsible for excessive response. A policy of punishing people for the worst case fantasies they inspire is unjust and threatens all protesters.

A flood hit North Dakota, augmented by global heating effects, and destroyed 2000 houses. Republican planet-roasters are working even harder to keep the blindfold on.

These fossil fools should go back to their own planet and leave ours alone.

A company that runs prisons for immigrants also runs charter schools, and they are not much better than prisons.

The food was so crappy that students held a hunger strike.

We should make it easy for the parents of students to convert a charter school into a public school.