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Sunday, May 19, 2024

Kaiser Health News: The Psychedelics-As-Medicine Movement Spreads to California

Kaiser Health News: After a Child’s Death, California Weighs Rules for Phys Ed During Extreme Weather

LA Times: Namaste away: Rangers bar yoga classes at cliffside San Diego park

LA Times: California’s first Black land trust fights climate change, makes the outdoors more inclusive

Sacramento Bee: Mobs of tuna crabs descend on Southern California waters. What’s going on?

KTLA: 3 hospitalized after gunman opens fire at Los Angeles County supermarket

KCRA: Giant Dipper celebrates a century at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

KCRA: 4 die in 24 hours from fentanyl poisoning in Stanislaus County, officials say

Sacramento Bee: Amazon delivery driver falls down 12-foot hole after stepping out of van in California

AP News: Botanists are scouring the US-Mexico border to document a forgotten ecosystem split by a giant wall

San Jose Mercury News: Capitola Wharf, wrecked in huge winter storms, set to reopen after $10 million upgrade

Press Democrat: Avelo passenger numbers soar at Sonoma County airport

Press Democrat: Student protesters silently face off with police at Sonoma State graduation

KRON: DUI driver crashes into narrow sidewalk off Highway 101 in Marin

KRON: California Forever releases list of potential employers, claiming to provide over 15K ‘well-paid jobs’

SFGate: Pro-Palestinian group said it vandalized and released 500 cockroaches in UC office

East Bay Times: Trees, not asphalt: The $1 billion effort to build ‘cooler’ California school playgrounds

East Bay Times: Educators call Gov. Gavin Newsom’s slash to school funding ‘unconstitutional’

East Bay Times: Berkeley man charged with sexually assaulting 11-year-old girl during metal show at 924 Gilman

SF Chronicle: Nearly all staff suddenly resign at Bay Area environmental group

SFGate: First San Francisco mayoral debate canceled after three candidates pull out

Thursday, May 16, 2024

BBC: US woman accused of stealing identities to give North Koreans US jobs

AP News: A Palestinian converted to Judaism. An Israeli soldier saw him as a threat and opened fire

AP News: The first Mexican taco stand to get a Michelin star is a tiny business where the heat makes the meat

AP News: Severe storms kill at least 4 in Houston, knock out power to 850,000 homes and businesses

The Hill: Kristi Noem doubles down on cartels being in SD reservations

The Hill: Port of San Diego declares emergency over invasive seaweed in southern bay

The Guardian: Alleged ‘deal’ offer from Trump to big oil could save industry $110bn, study finds

NY Times: 2014 Boston Marathon winner finally receives prize money, from a stranger: ‘We cried’

Washington Post: A mountainous country loses its last glacier

Washington Post: Senior-care referral site ‘A Place for Mom’ stays mum on neglect

Yahoo News: Serbia Approves Contract With Jared Kushner for $500 Million Hotel Complex

NY Times: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-69012221

BBC: Baobab: Scientists solve mystery of ancient 'tree of life'

BBC: Algerian man found alive in cellar after 26 years

BBC: US airman killed after ejection seat misfires from grounded plane

Politico: Don’t talk about gender identity, UK government tells schools

Politico: US military says Gaza Strip pier project is completed, aid to soon flow as Israel-Hamas war rages on

Smithsonian Magazine: Seven of the Most Beautiful Roads in the United States

The Guardian: I swapped my south LA lawn for a verdant microfarm – now I feed the neighborhood

The Guardian: Tiny US fire department using 1980s gear surprised by $500,000 donation

LA Times: Migrants from around the world have made this stretch of California the top place to enter the U.S. illegally

LA Times: Sonoma State president on leave for ‘insubordination’ after supporting anti-Israel boycott, divestment

KTLA: Bear brings traffic to a halt on busy Southern California freeway

LA Times: Police arrest 50 at UC Irvine after sweeping protest camp, clearing barricaded building

KCRA: Documents: Man accused of causing Florida bus crash that killed 8 has been convicted 20 times since 2003

KCRA: Yuba City police says at least 100 cars were keyed in one night by one man

Oregon Public Broadcasting: ‘The Evergreen’: Remembering the Mount St. Helens eruption and people who died on the mountain

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in historic shift

The Oregonian: Hoka expands Portland operations, leases space near Providence Park