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3 days ago | 
hcn.org | Jesús Jank Curbelo |Gretchen King
Hace un mes, en Los Ángeles, vi a dos mujeres peleándose en la fila de una gasolinera. Ambas parecían de unos 30 años y pesaban más o menos lo mismo: una estadounidense contra una latina. La estadounidense dijo que merecía ir primero, antes que todos esos latinos de mierda.
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3 days ago | 
hcn.org | Jesús Jank Curbelo |Gretchen King
A month ago in Los Angeles, I watched two women get into a fight in a line at a gas station. They both looked about 30 and roughly the same weight — American vs. Latina. The American said she deserved to go first, before all those shitty Latinos.
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6 days ago | 
hcn.org | Gretchen King
This story was originally published by The Colorado Sun and is republished here by permission. The Trump administration Wednesday proposed a rollback of Endangered Species Act protections that left Western wildlife advocates sounding gutted but vowing to fight in court, arguing the erasure of decades of habitat defense threatens species from the lynx to black-footed ferrets to cutthroat trout.
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2 weeks ago | 
hcn.org | Ruxandra Guidi |Gretchen King
Note: This story is intended to be listened to. Text associated below is simply a transcript of the audio. This is our kid, around her first birthday. It was a long time ago. If she finds out I’m sharing the sounds of her whining and crying, she’ll tell me I’m embarrassing her.
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3 weeks ago | 
hcn.org | Josephine Woolington |Gretchen King
The U.S. Forest Service announced Monday that it will temporarily prohibit commercial picking of huckleberries this summer in Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southwestern Washington. Commercially picked berries have fueled an entire huckleberry industry, flavoring ice cream, sodas, pies, jams, vodkas and wines – at the expense of Yakama Nation tribal members, as detailed in High Country News’ March feature.
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3 weeks ago | 
hcn.org | Adam Mahoney |Gretchen King
Adonis Jones’ house was gone, but the keys were still in his hand. For weeks after the fire, he carried them out of habit. They jingled in his pocket, and sometimes he twirled them between his fingers. And then, sitting in his car one evening after making the two-hour drive from Los Angeles to Fontana, where he was crashing at his ex-brother-in-law’s home, reality hit. “I don’t even got no locks,” the 67-year-old remembers saying out loud to himself.
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3 weeks ago | 
hcn.org | Taylar Stagner |Gretchen King
This story was produced by Grist and co-published here by permission. Jill Falcon Ramaker couldn’t believe what she was hearing on the video call. All $5 million dollars of her and her colleagues’ food sovereignty grants were frozen. She watched the faces of her colleagues drop.
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4 weeks ago | 
hcn.org | Bob Berwyn |Gretchen King
This article was originally published by Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here.
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1 month ago | 
hcn.org | McKenzie Funk |Gretchen King
This story was originally published by ProPublica and is republished here by permission. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The for-profit prison company GEO Group has surged in value under President Donald Trump. Investors are betting big on immigration detention. Its stock price doubled after Election Day.
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1 month ago | 
hcn.org | Matt Morris |Gretchen King
In a holding pen on open prairie, a buffalo herd waited. One by one, the animals were led through a series of progressively smaller pens and chutes. At the other end was a team of veterinarians. To avoid overstimulating the bison, workers spoke in whispers and communicated with hand signals. Their voices were drowned out by the sound of hooves on hard dirt. Pedro Calderon-Dominguez supervised from a catwalk above the smallest pen, holding a large gray flag.
