Our picksBoosting Calif.’s earthquake safety; refugee detectives; sea-level rise measures, and more

Published 16 March 2018

· California needs new laws to boost earthquake safety, assemblyman says

· Judge says Corps of Engineers is responsible for damaging floods along Missouri River

· The refugee detectives

· Simulated movie theater shooting trains students in emergency care

· Inching toward sea level rise measures

· Mass. governor takes aim at making state, its infrastructure more resilient to future storms

· The unlearned lesson of My Lai

California needs new laws to boost earthquake safety, assemblyman says (Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times)
California’s construction requirements are so minimal that even a new building can be legally built to a weakness that would leave it severely damaged in an earthquake — so much that it would have to be torn down, he said.

Judge says Corps of Engineers is responsible for damaging floods along Missouri River (Matt Campbell, The Kansas City Star)
In a ruling unsealed Tuesday, a Federal Claims Court judge agreed with plaintiffs who sued the federal government, claiming that the Corps’ policies favored wildlife protection over their economic interests.

The refugee detectives (Graeme Wood, The Atlantic)
Inside Germany’s high-stakes operation to sort people fleeing death from opportunists and pretenders

Simulated movie theater shooting trains students in emergency care (JoAnne Viviano, The Columbus Dispatch)
The chaos, simulating the aftermath of a movie-theater shooting, was created for the benefit of about three dozen Ohio State University medical students.

Inching toward sea level rise measures (Anna Schuessler, Daily Journal)
Report takes county one step closer to mitigating shrinking shores

Mass. governor takes aim at making state, its infrastructure more resilient to future storms (Union of Concerned Scientists)
In the wake of a record four Nor’easters along the East Coast in a few short months, Governor Baker of Massachusetts today announced a plan aimed at better preparing the state and its needed infrastructure for future storms.

The unlearned lesson of My Lai (Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic)
A half-century after a brutal massacre in Vietnam, the United States still struggles to hold itself accountable for atrocities.