Ken McLaughlin

Retired politics and science editor/San Jose Mercury News.

[Wes Lassiter @lassiter_wes]

Here’s what we can do. Got a printer maybe go to your local office store and print out 500 of these place them everywhere. Trump’s Project 2025 is not what anyone wants look at it send it to your friends your neighbors your dog your cat. Just send it. Print it out and post it on telephone poles bathrooms where ever. Let’s do this people. MAGA needs a big kick between the legs over this. Fight back!

[. @PaulRogersSJMN]

Empty wine and liquor bottles will be worth 10 cents each in California, under new recycling law https://t.co/yqiIoBvon2

[Hannah Hagemann @hannah_hagemann]

More April showers! 🌷⛈️🍃 Santa Cruz County on its way to hitting average yearly rainfall levels with some sites hovering around 80-90% of average. Doesn't mean drought is over but helps with wildfire risk. Story soon.

[. @PaulRogersSJMN]

Breaking -- California drought: State Water Project will deliver no water next year https://t.co/55LOefrYXF #cadrought

[Dr. Nadia Drake @nadiamdrake]

Sixty years ago, my Papa D crafted a formula that estimates the number of detectable civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. Since then, the #drakeequation has become a guide for scientists searching for life beyond Earth. https://t.co/4oXGRTHlaw

[. @PaulRogersSJMN]

Lee Quarnstrom, Mercury News columnist, Merry Prankster, dies at 81 https://t.co/n99ETPlMGe

[. @PaulRogersSJMN]

Sequoia National Park fire: Flames enter at least four giant sequoia groves https://t.co/HshqCOM0tI #KNPComplex

[Ken McLaughlin @kmclaughSJMerc]

Congrats, Anne!

[Anne Beulke (she/her) @AnneBeulke]

I did it! I'm a PhD Candidate! I passed my qualifying exam today! 🎉🥳

[Carla ‘Bluechecked’ Marinucci @cmarinucci]

How to help Afghan refugees coming to the Bay Area https://t.co/frG9E6VQ0Q via @mercnews

[Ken McLaughlin @kmclaughSJMerc]

Way to go, Lisa! What a well-deserved, awesome honor!

[Lisa M. Krieger @lisamkrieger]

So thrilled to have been awarded First Place in the category of Beat Reporting in the Association of Health Care Journalists 2020 contest.
Such a huge honor from a jury of my peers, in a year with many entries about our historic pandemic. @AHCJ https://t.co/zAeJ9WUfaq

[Rodrigo Pérez Ortega @rpocisv]

Just finished a 2-hour interview on a sensitive topic in science. I’m exhausted but also so grateful to be a science journalist. It’s a job that allows you to be a science nerd with a stranger and talk like you’ve known them for years. So rewarding.

[Ken McLaughlin @kmclaughSJMerc]

@Tyska @PicoftheYear Yep! You got that right.

[Anne Hidalgo @Anne_Hidalgo]

Welcome back America! Congratulations to @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris for their election! While we are about to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, this victory symbolizes our need to act together more than ever, in view of climate emergency. 🇺🇸
#Election2020

[Robert Salonga @robertsalonga]

Among an array of hopes for change, I'm hoping today starts a trajectory where this statement is no longer necessary for journalists to make.

[Erika K. Carlson @erikakcarlson]

People are cheering and clapping and banging pots and pans out their windows where I am in Manhattan!

[Richard Engel @RichardEngel]

The world saw how Americans braved a pandemic to vote in record numbers, overcame fears of violence and stood up to a leader who tried to discredit the process to stay in power.  US institutions faced their biggest test and passed.  This is the lesson other countries will see.