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Last year, I bought a cannabis vape pen in San Francisco that sent me down a rabbit hole with a startling conclusion: Banned pesticides keep showing up in California’s legal weed products, the state government appears to be unable to do much about it, and, most startling, the DCC is currently unable to test for pesticide contamination in some pot products, leaving questions about how, exactly, they’re investigating allegations of contamination.

Thank you SFGATE for the thoughtful feature. We're excited to bring a fresh take on meaningful travel experiences to Lake Tahoe.

Climate destruction is overwhelming, but donating hair is rather easy. In my first for SFGATE, I wrote about Matter of Trust, which uses hair mats to clean up bodies of water...and starting to use hair as mulch to help plants grow.

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Have you heard what the awesome team at Restoring the Lake Depths Foundation is up to? Check out this piece in SFGATE about the latest in innovative litter cleanup technology in Lake Tahoe, powered by Tahoe Fund donors!

🚨 BIG HIRING NEWS 🚨 Since 2020, we've hired 5 contributing editors to help us cover places in CA people care deeply about (Tahoe, Yosemite, Disneyland, Central Coast, Hawaii) and we're expanding even more this year with SIX new positions at SFGATE. Over the last three years we've hired incredible local journalists up and down California to help tell important stories in a lot of media deserts that would otherwise go untold. Of the million visits to our site every day, we have as many readers in the Bay Area as we do outside of the Bay Area in Calif. So this year, we're making our largest expansion to date, adding four journalists in Los Angeles to allow us to cover the state top to bottom. We're also hiring a social video producer to be the face of SFGATE on TikTok, YouTube, etc., plus a part-time LA staff photog. While we won't be covering LA politics or the Dodgers/Lakers, we will be covering things people in the Bay Area have emotional connections to either because they grew up in SoCal, went to school in LA or have friends and family they still visit every year. We want to dig into things like the elevated wooden bike tollway that used to go from Downtown LA to Pasadena, or the In-N-Out museum. We want stories that help you better understand CA's largest city, and interesting things to explore when you're there. We'll still have 43 incredibly talented journalists providing best in class coverage of the Bay Area, but now 9 others covering the rest of CA + Hawaii. New SFGATE jobs opening today: 🌴 SoCal Bureau Chief 📱 Social Video Producer 📸 Part-time Staff Photographer Plus we'll be opening three more in the coming month: 🍔 LA Contributing Food Editor 🏕 LA Contributing Outdoors Editor 💃 LA Contributing Culture Editor We've created 31 new jobs since 2019, expanded the size of our newsroom from 21 to 52 and won 29 SF Press Club Awards over the last 2yrs (including 1st place for overall excellence). If that sounds like something you'd like to be part, apply here: