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2025.01.03
Jan. 3rd, 2025 09:13 amPOLITICS
Minnesota House Co-Speaker Designate Lisa Demuth shares priorities for the 2025 legislative session
A special election will be held on January 28 after a judge ruled that a Democratic candidate did not live in the House district he ran to represent.
https://sahanjournal.com/democracy-politics/minnesota-house-of-representatives-lisa-demuth-legislature/
‘A look into the future’: TV drama about Danish climate refugees divides opinion
Families Like Ours has become national talking point but some scientists say events depicted could not happen
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/03/families-like-ours-tv-drama-about-danish-climate-refugees-divides-opinion
Trinidad and Tobago’s streets are a bloodbath. Yet all our politicians offer are platitudes
Kenneth Mohammed
A state of emergency has been declared amid unprecedented gun violence, but no one in our stagnating government is taking responsibility
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/03/trinidad-tobago-politicians-state-of-emergency-gun-violence
Massive cleanup under way in Ghana after fire destroys one of world’s biggest secondhand markets
Thousands of traders face ruin after blaze razes two-thirds of Accra’s Kantamanto, which receives an estimated 15m used clothes from global north each week
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/03/massive-cleanup-under-way-after-fire-destroys-one-of-worlds-biggest-secondhand-markets-ghana
‘They’ve heard so much wrong information’: Selling heat pumps across Germany’s political divide
Green heating has an image problem, especially where climate-sceptic parties hold sway. Now energy groups are promoting them on grounds of cost, status and energy security
Ajit Niranjan in Bautzen
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/03/theyve-heard-so-much-wrong-information-selling-heat-pumps-across-germanys-political-divide
Loneliness linked to ill health through effect on protein levels, research suggests
Study finds higher levels of certain proteins in people who reported social isolation or loneliness
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/03/loneliness-ill-health-protein-levels-research
Is pistachio the new pumpkin spice? Why production of the nut is booming in California
The trendy green nut is drought-resistant and sustainable – making it appealing to farmers and consumers alike
Marina Dunbar
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/03/pistachio-california
Minnesota House Co-Speaker Designate Lisa Demuth shares priorities for the 2025 legislative session
A special election will be held on January 28 after a judge ruled that a Democratic candidate did not live in the House district he ran to represent.
https://sahanjournal.com/democracy-politics/minnesota-house-of-representatives-lisa-demuth-legislature/
‘A look into the future’: TV drama about Danish climate refugees divides opinion
Families Like Ours has become national talking point but some scientists say events depicted could not happen
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/03/families-like-ours-tv-drama-about-danish-climate-refugees-divides-opinion
Trinidad and Tobago’s streets are a bloodbath. Yet all our politicians offer are platitudes
Kenneth Mohammed
A state of emergency has been declared amid unprecedented gun violence, but no one in our stagnating government is taking responsibility
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/03/trinidad-tobago-politicians-state-of-emergency-gun-violence
Massive cleanup under way in Ghana after fire destroys one of world’s biggest secondhand markets
Thousands of traders face ruin after blaze razes two-thirds of Accra’s Kantamanto, which receives an estimated 15m used clothes from global north each week
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/03/massive-cleanup-under-way-after-fire-destroys-one-of-worlds-biggest-secondhand-markets-ghana
‘They’ve heard so much wrong information’: Selling heat pumps across Germany’s political divide
Green heating has an image problem, especially where climate-sceptic parties hold sway. Now energy groups are promoting them on grounds of cost, status and energy security
Ajit Niranjan in Bautzen
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/03/theyve-heard-so-much-wrong-information-selling-heat-pumps-across-germanys-political-divide
Loneliness linked to ill health through effect on protein levels, research suggests
Study finds higher levels of certain proteins in people who reported social isolation or loneliness
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/03/loneliness-ill-health-protein-levels-research
Is pistachio the new pumpkin spice? Why production of the nut is booming in California
The trendy green nut is drought-resistant and sustainable – making it appealing to farmers and consumers alike
Marina Dunbar
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/03/pistachio-california
