July Headlines I Can't Recycle Yet

I'm once again in the process of recycling the print newspaper that takes about two hours of my morning every day.

I just can't put the pages in the recycling bin before recording what's in the news:

"22 die in ethnic clashes in southern towns in Algeria."  I'm now in touch with two of my former students, and one of them made reference to awful things going on.  Every time I see a crisis worded in terms of religion, I wonder whether it's really political, but the powers that be want us to think of political clashes as religious ones so we'll be more dismissive of legitimate political complaints and fear "them" and be willing to kill them because they hate us for our freedom.  But that's just the way my mind works.

"Mountain lion spotted roaming in parts of S.F."  A puma was seen in Sea Cliff!  I need to contact our friend, the host of our View and Chew group of Francophones/Francophiles, who lives there, where we go once a month.  (This month we--if not that puma--will go twice a month because in addition to our usual Sunday morning with amuses-gueules and Village francais, we're viewing Manon des sources.)  The puma has also been seen near Lincoln and Washington blvd. in the Presidio, on the 1000 block of Gough Street, and near Lake Merced.

"4 East Bay community colleges hit by sanctions" reports Nanette Asimov on July 9.

There's a "Bayview land battle."

"El Nino forecast raises hopes for a wet winter"--warming sea surface and emerging equatorial winds.

Today there was an editorial against the cap on reserves in the school district, saying that it benefits only teacher unions.  I see an article from yesterday, July 10, by Jill tucker reporting "School trustees oppose cap on reserves."

On South Carolina "Confederate flag will be set to the 'relic room.'"

Toxins from algae contaminated the drinking water for 400,000 people in northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan.

"beloved camp in peril" is about Camp Mather,which is of grave concern to those who make a tradition of going there because  the state says San Francisco has to stop drawing water at four spots in the Sierra, and one of them is the sole source of water for Camp Mather.  (I sympathize with those families, but I also think it would be good to educate the kids going to that camp on the preciousness of water, and I hope that opportunity won't be lost in favor of their feeling of entitlement.)

"Remembering the 'Forgotten War'" is an editoral about the Korean War Memorial that has been designed and maybe soon be there to "remember the suffering of the Korean people when invaders poured across the 38th parallel."  (My father would have considered the US on another anti-communist crusade, to be the invaders.)

"S.f. police didn't probe gun theft until pier killing" reports on the fact that the murder weapon in the hands of the undocumented immigrant was left in the car of a federal agent.

I'll be back with more headlines after I add these pages to the recycling bin!