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Road Trip! A 29-Acre “Cannabis Super Center” is Being Built
California’s first “Cannabis Super Center” will potentially be opening in a city I personally blast by on my way to Vegas from LA, Barstow. Just before Christmas, Barstow city council voted to approve a 29-acre green zone space which will house cannabis manufacturers, pot farms, distributors, retail dispensaries, cannabis “consumption
Our 10 Most Read Articles of 2022
2022 is coming to a close, so let’s take a look back at a year of journalism with our most-read articles in each category on brokeassstuart.com
What I Learned at an Active Shooter Workshop
“No guarantees,” said Deputy Chief Ken Craig throughout the evening. “You won’t know how you’re going to respond until it happens.” The ominous disclaimer hushed the room as one by one, we placed ourselves at the center of a worst-case scenario. What would you do if, on a night out
Douglas Jordan Krah Arrested After Racist Tirade At East Bay In-N-Out
America is a stupid nation and racism is a societal symptom of this stupidity. Even on Christmas Eve, certain people seem to lack the common decency needed to shut the fuck up. Douglas Jordan Krah, a Colorado man with Bay Area connections, decided he needed to wash down his In-N-Out
Savage US Blizzard Kills Dozens, Causes Power Outages
The death toll from a pre-Christmas blizzard that paralyzed the Buffalo area and much of the country has risen to 27 in western New York authorities said Monday as the region dug out from one of the worst weather-related disasters in its history. The dead have been found in their
2022 is the Year the Conmen Fell
There is nothing new about the confidence game, but there are always new players. In recent years we’ve seen Fyre Festival come and go, we saw Martin Shkreli rise and fall, The Epstein nightmare, and we even witnessed a reality TV star and infomercial steak knife salesmen become President of
Why Did(n’t) MyShake Warn Me?
The noise woke my partner first. I heard it distantly, still ascending from the depths of a REM cycle. Its robotic voice, preceded by a red-alert siren, warned of impending shaking. Knowing that it’s safest to stay in bed if an earthquake strikes at night, we looked at each other
Elon Musk Might Be Stepping Down as Twitter’s CEO
It’s been an absolutely demented circus at Twitter ever since Elon Musk took over a few months back. During that time, Musk has reinstated accounts that had been banned for hate speech, fired thousands of workers, lost a huge chunk of Twitter’s advertisers, neglected to pay rent, and forced workers