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Thursday, April 20, 2023

Denver Post: Marijuana trafficking operation in Fort Collins busted after year-long investigation

KRON: Civil rights attorney John Burris to file federal lawsuit against City of Antioch

KRON: Oakland A’s are officially leaving Oakland Bay Area

KRCR: New $25.7 million bioenergy plant breaks ground in Burney

Cal Matters: After the deluge: Floods may taint more drinking water in California

Yahoo News: ‘A disaster waiting to happen’: Do staff shortages threaten Medi-Cal plans for renewing recipients?

Lookout Santa Cruz: Striking before-and-after satellite photos show the start of the great California snowmelt

East Bay Times: Grateful Dead legend cancels South Bay concert ‘due to unforeseen circumstances’

SF Chronicle: California Supreme Court rejects challenge to Newsom’s CARE Court plan to address mental illness

East Bay Times: Man dies after being pulled from surf in Pacifica

East Bay Times: ‘Blake was a model for others’: Outpouring of grief for Home Depot guard fatally shot by shoplifter in Pleasanton​

SFGate: Army of angry residents fails to stop new San Francisco cannabis dispensary

SF Chronicle: Second COVID bivalent booster shots coming. Here's what you need to know

SF Chronicle: Oakland A’s reach land deal for stadium site in Las Vegas

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

The Oregonian: First psilocybin facilitators in Oregon receive state licenses

Oregon Public Broadcasting: An Eastern Oregon district does the math and finds way to give teachers ‘life changing’ raises

KOMO: 1,000-year-old Native American canoe pulled from North Carolina lake

KCRA: As climate change threatens US forests, scientists look to 'assisted migration' to help trees thrive

Action News Shasta: More people looking into solar batteries under new regulations

AP News: While some students skip college, trade programs are booming

AP News: FDA clears extra COVID booster for some high-risk Americans

AP News: 4 killed in Maine home; 3 wounded in linked highway shooting

NY Times : Rat Horror Stories the New N.Y.C. Rat Czar Needs to Hear

US Today: Japan has millions of empty houses. Want to buy one for $25,000?

The Atlantic: Mister Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children

BBC: Top ultrarunner Joasia Zakrzewski disqualified for using a car in race

Yahoo News: Student with 2 published books, 4.2 GPA and 1560 SAT score rejected by Harvard, MIT, Yale and Princeton

Fox News: Georgia jail transfers 600 inmates after man allegedly eaten alive by insects

KTLA: L.A. man arrested for 31 armed robberies, 2 carjackings

LA Times: The last overnight train between L.A. and S.F. ran in 1968. A startup wants to bring it back

Marin Independent Journal: Scientists fired from Marin’s Buck Institute win ruling on arbitration

Marin Independent Journal: Marin detox center hit with $9M verdict for patient’s death

The Guardian: Surveillance fears as China resumes construction on fifth Antarctic base

The Guardian: Fox and Dominion settle for US$787.5m in defamation lawsuit over election lies

NPR: Supreme Court looks at whether Medicare and Medicaid were overbilled under fraud law

NPR: Rapper E-40 says 'racial bias' is to blame for ejection from Warriors-Kings playoff

NPR: Greenland's melting ice could be changing our oceans. Just ask the whales

AP News: Report: Climate change, disease imperil North American bats

AP News: LA mayor wants $1.3B for homeless crisis, hotels for housing

Washington Post: The Yanomami are dying of malaria and malnutrition. Is it genocide?

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Columbia River spring Chinook numbers so far low, but officials say it’s early

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Roseburg Forest Products announces major investment in Southern Oregon

The Oregonian: REI to close only Portland store, citing break-ins, theft

The Oregonian: Failed $300 million biofuels project in Southern Oregon gets new owner, new business plan

KRCR: Man missing since January found in car down embankment near Trinity River

KRCR: Group of boaters without lifejackets rescued after engine failure on Whiskeytown Lake

KRCR: Trinity troubles: water management creates conflict

The Guardian: Police charge white man for shooting Black teen boy who had wrong address

Press Democrat: Court throws out Berkeley's ban on natural gas

LA Times: LA Mayor Bass seeks $250-million expansion of homelessness program in first State of the City speech