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The Garden Gate Gazette
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Dispatches from a wandering naturalist with a library card and a loyal dog
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Recent Briefings
Today's briefing updates the fragile U.S.-Iran peace framework, a state budget agreement in Sacramento that moves past recent gridlock, and emergency federal water releases along the Colorado River. P…
Today's briefing leads with a major diplomatic development as the U.S. and Iran advance their preliminary peace deal, though significant hurdles remain. We're also looking at the growing housing affor…
Today's briefing follows the complex diplomatic efforts for a US-Iran peace accord, where official statements conflict and the path forward remains uncertain. We also look at positive environmental ne…
Today's briefing explores a fragile peace deal taking shape in the Middle East, a constitutional crisis unfolding in a small Central Valley town, and the latest from the worlds of science, gardening, …
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: a potential end to the US-Iran war is taking shape on paper, California's legislature is closing its budget with a standoff over climate funding, and scientists have …
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: a super El Niño arrives on schedule, the West's water math gets harder, a Middle East ceasefire trades fire again, and a few dispatches worth savoring — monarchs rebo…
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: Washington passed a $70 billion immigration bill and the Middle East exchanged fire again, while California quietly reshaped its water, housing, and wildfire policies…
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: the American West is running hot and dry in every sense — from triple-digit Fresno forecasts to a historic federal intervention on the Colorado River — while the natu…
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: a week that asks big questions about water, democracy, and what endures — alongside the kind of small, astonishing stories that remind you the world is stranger and r…
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: a conflict at its hundred-day mark, a black hole exhaling for the first time in human observation, and a canyon reborn from receding water — plus what to plant before…