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Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023

SF Chronicle: California prison system unveils new solitary confinement rules with short window for public input

SF Chronicle: Charts show extremely detailed look into California’s changing population

SF Chronicle: I spent a week in a Japanese ‘America Town.’ Here’s what it taught me about myself

SFGate: Everything to know about hiking, biking the Bay Area Ridge Trail

SFGate: 'Gaslit the entire time’: Esalen Institute faces more claims of racism, discrimination

Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023

NY Times: Move Over, Machu Picchu: There’s More to See in Peru

NY Times: Millions of Candies Are Recalled After Child Chokes to Death

BBC: Ukraine war: ‘Every family’ in Hroza village affected by missile attack

The Guardian: Italy plans for mass evacuation as quakes continue around supervolcano

KOMO: Biden memo directs US agencies to restore 'healthy and abundant' salmon runs in the Northwest

KPTV: ‘It’s gotten worse’: People react to Monday’s mass overdose incident in Portland

NY Times : Some Key Facts About Fentanyl

NY Times : Hmong in Fresno: The Taste of Home in a Grain of Rice

NY Times : How a Chain-Snatching and a Vegas Beatdown Led to Tupac’s Murder

NY Times : OPINION: Teachers Can’t Hold Students Accountable. It’s Making the Job Miserable.

The Guardian: World’s dogs going vegan ‘would save more emissions than UK produces’

Washington Post: Opinion: ‘Trump’s generals’ need to warn voters that he is unfit to serve

Politico: Credit Unions Are Making Money Off People Living Paycheck to Paycheck

Politico: Why health care experts are so concerned about fishing boats

The Guardian: Hundreds of potentially toxic road runoff outfalls polluting England’s rivers

NY Times : A ‘Shadow’ Lending Market in the U.S., Funded by Insurance Premiums

Seattle Times: How insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists

Seattle Times: Deadly bird flu jumps to harbor seals in Salish Sea, first for West Coast

Washington Post: A coordinated ‘swatting’ effort may be behind school shooting hoaxes terrorizing kids across U.S.

Washington Post: How red-state politics are shaving years off American lives

Reuters: Record chicken prices squeeze US shoppers, benefit Tyson Foods

The Guardian: Taiwan records world’s third most powerful wind gust ever as Typhoon Koinu hits

The Guardian: US announces sanctions against 14 foreign companies for importing fentanyl

The Hill: GOP aims fire at Gaetz after McCarthy ouster

The Hill: Democrats up pressure on White House over migrants and the border

AP News: Environmentalists suffer another setback in fight to shutter California’s last nuclear power plant

AP News: A $19,000 lectern for Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders sparks call for legislative audit

The Hill: Trump rips Kelly after confirmation of ‘suckers’ remark about war dead

The Hill: Biden dog Commander no longer at White House after multiple biting incidents

AP News: New York to allow ‘X’ gender option for public assistance applicants

The Guardian: Biden cancels additional $9bn in student loan debt

The Oregonian: Boyfriend of Navajo woman convicted of fatally shooting her in emblematic case

The Guardian: ‘There won’t be anything left’: Florida teens battle city over plan to loosen wetland protections

Oregon Public Broadcasting: All water well owners in the Lower Umatilla Basin offered nitrate testing, Oregon officials say

AP News: California workers will get five sick days instead of three under law signed by Gov. Newsom

AP News: Elite pilots prepare for ‘camping out in the sky’ as they compete in prestigious gas balloon race

AP News: Swiss LGBTQ+ rights groups hail 60-day sentence for polemicist who called journalist a ‘fat lesbian’

The Guardian: Gun-related deaths of US children are rising at ‘alarming’ rate, study reveals

The Guardian: Biden waives 26 federal laws in south Texas to allow border wall construction

Press Democrat: Save the Redwoods League secures purchase of 2,000-year-old Clar Tree, nearly 400 acres of Russian River Redwoods

LA Times: After decades of legal battles, John Fogerty is finally free. Is it too late to find happiness?

KRCR: Eight-year-old survives overdose at school: Redding parents arrested for fentanyl use and child neglect

KRCR: Train collides with stuck semi-truck in Redding, causing major damage and road closure

KRCR: Chico Public Works remove 11 tons of waste from Big Chico Creek, Lindo Channel

KTLA: Armed dog walker for hire in Orange County