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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

East Bay Times: Oakland’s mayor has found a counter-narrative to quiet critics on crime. Is it true?

East Bay Times: About 300 people at Northern California hospital possibly exposed to measles after child goes for treatment

East Bay Times: Hidden COVID virus found more than a year after infection

Press Democrat: Former Napa County school employee sentenced to life in prison in child sex abuse case

SF Chronicle: California AG Bonta backs bill to bar medical debt from credit reports

SF Chronicle: Taco Bell closes dining rooms in Oakland over safety concerns

SF Chronicle: Sting to play Bay Area with a trio — no, not that one

SF Chronicle: El Dorado County child with measles may have exposed 300 people

Sunday, March 10, 2024

NY Times: The Addiction Recovery Story We Don’t Hear Enough

NY Times: These May Be the Oldest Olive Trees in the World

NPR: A leading mindfulness teacher shares insights to counter tech addiction and isolation

Yale E-360: In Mongolia, a Killer Winter Is Ravaging Herds and a Way of Life

BBC: Video: Into the wild: 'Everyman's right' to forage in Finland

BBC: US military ship heading to Gaza to build port

The Atlantic: Five Teachings of the Dalai Lama I Try to Live By

NY Times: Just How Healthy Is Salmon?

NY Times: Elon Musk Has a Giant Charity. Its Money Stays Close to Home.

Washington Post: Opinion: How Oct. 7 is forcing Jews to reckon with Israel

The Atlantic: The Fairy-Tale Promises of Montessori Parenting

The Guardian: ‘This factory kills everything’: the red dust of death in Italy’s under-developed south

KRCR: 1 pound of fentanyl and 14 illegal guns found at Redding residence; suspect not found

KTLA: U.S. says these mistakes could get spring breakers hurt or killed in Mexico

The Guardian: Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’

The Guardian: Colorado could bring back wolverines in an unprecedented rewilding effort

The Guardian: Why disturbing leaks from US gender group WPATH ring alarm bells in the NHS

Washington Post: A youthquake is propelling a far-right surge across Europe

The Hill: Why being on the ‘Do Not Call’ list doesn’t actually stop spam calls, texts

The Hill: US Embassy in Haiti begins evacuations amid heightened gang violence

The Guardian: Zyn nicotine pouches are the latest US culture-war front – but are they any good?

Politico: How Raw Milk Went from a Whole Foods Staple to a Conservative Signal

The Guardian: ‘You cannot look away’: Amsterdam Holocaust museum opens amid protests

The Guardian: Eight children and an adult die in Zanzibar after eating sea turtle meat

The Guardian: Bald eagles seen nesting in Toronto for first time in city’s recorded history

The Oregonian: The country’s best science museum is in Portland, Newsweek readers say

LA Times: Soldiers and civilians are dying as Mexican cartels embrace a terrifying new weapon: Land mines

AP News: Stratolaunch conducts first powered flight of new hypersonic vehicle off California coast

Courthouse News Service: Pointing to human trafficking, some California lawmakers hope to reinstate prostitution loitering law

Courthouse News Service: Beloved Monterey racetrack sees noise lawsuit from frustrated neighbors

Scientific American: Microplastics Linked to Heart Attack, Stroke and Death

Courthouse News Service: Party-line split in public opinion of US Supreme Court seen for first time

Oregon Public Broadcasting: First gathering of Native Weavers of Oregon keeps tradition alive

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon governor will sign bill to recriminalize drugs, expand treatment

SFGate: Thousands of college athletes sell their face to Bay Area’s EA for $600 and a video game

Sacramento Bee: Child measles case at Sacramento hospital may have exposed 300 people, health officials say

LA Times: At least 19 dead and 7 missing as landslide and flash floods hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island

AP News: The US is springing forward to daylight saving. For Navajo and Hopi tribes, it’s a time of confusion

AP News: Never too old for love — 100-year-old US World War II vet to wed his 96-year-old fiancee in France

AP News: A surge of illegal homemade machine guns has helped fuel gun violence in the U.S.

SFGate: Sonoma County sewage spill leaks into Russian River

SF Chronicle: Tulip Day blooms in S.F. as thousands wait hours for pick of free flowers