On March 29, Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz admitted to
Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he was facing federal charges for underage-dating aka, trafficking a child. But as squeamish as the revelations are, Gaetz critics may be overreaching in their condemnation. While the age of consent in Florida is 18, a 17-year-old is not a child. (Florida actually has a Romeo and Juliette Law that allows 16-year-olds to have sex with someone no older than 23 years. That won t help Gaetz: he s 38.)
The legal age of consent is 16 in most of the US (including Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia.) In the Golden State it’s 18.
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Leafy streets are one of the attractions of Berkeley’s Northbrae neighborhood. Photo: Nancy Rubin
Which neighborhoods in Berkeley are graced with the lushest tree canopy? And which neighborhoods suffer from relatively paltry tree coverings and all the attendant woes – aesthetically lacking streets, harsher air pollution and an unpleasant heat-island effect?
The answers are revealed in a series of maps produced by the national nonprofit American Forests, which assign neighborhoods “tree-equity scores” based on existing canopy cover, population density and socioeconomic factors like race and income. As one would expect, in Berkeley the richer areas in the hills and north enjoy high tree scores, while more diverse and lower-income communities to the west and south are still playing catch-up.