A no-fly zone to protect Ukraine from Putin’s bombs would involve complex ground operations and risk U.S.-Russian conflict and wider war in Europe.
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Morning Lookout: From COVID testing to IV therapy; meet the hunger fighter of the year
Good morning, Santa Cruz County! Today is Tuesday, March 8, and we’ve got another sunny day ahead, with highs around 70. COVID-19 numbers in our area remain on a downward trend — which you can see in Lookout’s new dashboard — and CruzMedMo, a local company that did brisk business in same-day testing during the […]
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Biden blocks Russian oil imports in latest round of sanctions on Kremlin
President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that the U.S. will ban Russian oil imports, the latest sanction against the Kremlin over its unprovoked war in Ukraine.
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‘I want to donate to the Ukrainian military.’ Crowdfunding becomes part of Ukraine’s arsenal
Americans and other outsiders are helping Ukraine mount a crowdfunding war online. As the U.S. government and other NATO powers send weapons to Ukraine and impose economic sanctions on Russia, many private citizens, companies and others sympathetic to Ukraine have been waging a parallel effort online to directly and indirectly contribute to the country’s resistance and humanitarian efforts.
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Morning Lookout: Local Ukrainians fear for family; deadly turkey-mail carrier feud
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak unprecedented impacts on the housing market, there are several indications…
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New Russian cease-fire offer greeted with scorn as shelling of Ukraine cities continues
Two previous cease-fires went nowhere, trapping hundreds of thousands of people trying to flee Ukrainian cities under heavy assault by Russian forces.
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Biden’s EPA proposes new rule to reduce smog from trucks and other heavy vehicles
The Environmental Protection Agency proposes new cuts to heavy vehicle emissions, targeting those chemicals that produce lung-damaging smog.
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How badly will Russia’s war torpedo hopes for global climate cooperation?
Russia was an international foot dragger on climate solutions before it invaded Ukraine, but it was cooperating on Arctic issues. Are those days over?
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Sunday Reads: Media and our mental health; agonizing times for local Ukrainians
Managing the media maelstrom for the sake of mental health No one of conscience can afford to turn off the news of the world, Wallace Baine writes, but for our own good, we must step away from of the fire hose of the doomscroll in favor of the books, movies or whatever represents our emotional […]
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Scattered corpses. A rain of rockets. A week inside Russia’s war against Ukraine
Swathes of Ukraine have fallen into Russian hands. Corpses scattered in the snow. Rockets rain daily on civilians. The capital, Kyiv, waits in cruel limbo for advancing Russian forces.