A California bill that would ban local governments from requiring voter identification in their elections passed the state assembly, and now awaits the governor's approval or veto.
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| WORDS OF WISDOM | | "Where no gods are, specters rule." | | NOVALIS | | Good morning! Today we're covering the passage of California's voter ID ban in the legislature, how knee osteoarthritis can be successfully managed without surgery, the dire need for more linemen, and trials for new vaccine that could help slow the deadly fentanyl crisis.
Reading for the first time? Sign up here. | | TOP NEWS |  | | California Voter ID Ban Passes Legislature | | A California bill that would ban local governments from requiring voter identification in their elections passed the state assembly, and now awaits the governor's approval or veto. | | | | |
20,000 Linemen Wanted With electricity demand expected to increase by about a third in the coming decade, at least 20,000 more linemen are needed to build out the grid and upgrade outdated power lines in virtually every town and neighborhood across the United States. It's hard work, requires extensive training, but pays well. The median 2023 annual salary for linemen was $80,000, about $41.50 an hour, not including overtime and emergency responses. "The baby boomers are retiring," said Bill Bosch, Northwest Lineman College vice president of apprenticeships and client solutions. "On any given day, there are 7,000 to 10,000 unfilled jobs in the electrical trade, from linemen, to substation technicians, to metering." Read the full story here› | |
Vaccine Blocks Fentanyl High More than 81,000 people died in 2023 due to synthetic opioid overdose. Almost 75,000 of those deaths were due to illicit fentanyl. To help address the opioid crisis, doctors such as Dr. Colin Haile of the University of Houston's Drug Discovery Institute are hoping to block fentanyl's ability to enter the brain, eliminating the drug's euphoric effect, or "high." Early results suggest that their method, a vaccine, not only accomplishes that goal but also eliminates fentanyl's lethality in the vaccinated. Read the full story here› | |
How China Could Slowly Devour Taiwan Residents of Taiwan's Kinmen Islands can see the towers of China's Xiamen even on a cloudy day. It was in Kinmen, just 4 miles from mainland China, that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) failed to wipe out its opposition before it fled to Taiwan during the closing phases of a brutal civil war 75 years ago. It was in Kinmen, on Aug. 23, that Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said the people of Taiwan will not submit to the CCP today. Though 75 years have passed since CCP leader Mao Zedong tried and failed to exterminate his opposition here, the embers of that conflict remain and are threatening to flicker to life once again. Read the full story here› How do you like our new sections? Tell us what you think here. | | MORE TOP NEWS | | | | | | | | | | | | HEALTH | | | | INSPIRING | | | | EPOCH TV | | | | | | OPINION | | | | | | EPOCH FUN | | | |
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