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Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023

KRCR: Siskiyou County Opportunity Center steps in: All 130 people from closed Redding center employed!

SF Chronicle: His friend died near S.F.’s de Young Museum. They had a life-saving device — but refused to help

SF Chronicle: S.F. money services teller accused of helping to launder money for Tenderloin drug trafficker

SF Chronicle: These are California’s mega-landowners and maps of what they control

SFGate: Yosemite squatter who took over vacation home gets 5 years in prison

SFGate: 'People are so rude': Feud erupts over Lake Tahoe beach fence

SFGate: Officials warn influencers from getting close to Bay Area's pink ponds

SFGate: 'The tide is turning': Calif. cannabis farmers are feeling optimistic

SFGate: San Francisco demands Amazon, Walmart remove illegal license plate covers from their stores

KRON: Will my PG&E bill go up? Public Utilities Commission to vote on price hike

SF Chronicle: Multiple people rescued after boats erupt in flames in South San Francisco marina

KRON: FBI releases more details on bizarre San Jose bombing case

SF Chronicle: Turbulent weather is headed for California. Here's a timeline of impacts

SF Chronicle: PG&E utility bills are about to soar in California. Here are the details

SF Chronicle: Survivors group urges S.F. Archdiocese to sell off real estate to pay abuse victims

Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023

Politico: Politico Pro Free FROM The future of warfare: A $400 drone killing a $2M tank

Courthouse News Service: First Circuit grants rights to land trust to Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

Politico: Offshore wind company pulls out of New Jersey projects, a setback to Biden’s green agenda

Politico: Florida joins conservative states severing ties with national library group

KTLA: Southern California man allegedly stole $4 million worth of computers

KTLA: Riverside County wildfire continues to burn out of control

San Jose Mercury News: Bay Area masking up again as mandates go into effect Nov. 1 in health care settings

East Bay Times: Tech moguls used ‘strong-armed’ tactics to buy Bay Area land for secret city, farmers say

East Bay Times: Livermore man gets 5 days in jail for killing woman in 2022 DUI crash

East Bay Times: CSU faculty authorizes strike — a move that eventually could affect more than 400,000 students

The Guardian: Seeds of doubt: mystery remains over how sunflowers track light

NY Post: Pro-pot pols who backed NY weed law now fume at illegal shops opening everywhere

Fox News: Visitors trying to hold young bear prompts NPS to close part of Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina

CNN: She lost her mother to gun violence. 5 years later, this vibrant fourth grader was killed while getting ice cream

Washington Post: D.C. youth fatally shot in carjacking attempt had 9 prior charges 12 hours ago

NPR: Worldwide, women cook twice as much as men: One country bucks the trend

NPR: What to know about trunk-or-treating, a trick-or-treating alternative

NPR: We're spending $700 million on pet costumes in the costliest Halloween ever

Washington Post: Police officers recall Jan. 6 at Colorado hearing to kick Trump off ballot

Cal Matters: Unemployment insurance: California’s ‘urgent’ $20 billion problem

NY Times: The Joy of Picking Up Other People’s Trash

NY Times: Does Salvation for California’s Redwoods Lie Out of State?

NY Times: How a Lucrative Surgery Took Off Online and Disfigured Patients

NY Times: This Florida School District Banned Cellphones. Here’s What Happened.

The Hill: Opinion: Here come the gender-detransitioner lawsuits

The Hill: Kinzinger says family disowned him over loss of Hannity’s trust

The Guardian: Dekotora: the decorated trucks of Japan – a photo essay

AP News: Kansas can’t enforce new law on abortion pills or make patients wait 24 hours, judge rules

The Guardian: ‘Hamas has created additional demand’: Wall Street eyes big profits from war

Yahoo News: She was told her grandfather had saved a Black man. Then she dug up the ugly truth

AP News: Last operating US prison ship, a grim vestige of mass incarceration, set to close in NYC

The Guardian: China’s billionaires looking to move their cash, and themselves, out

Washington Post: House GOP demands IRS budget cuts along with Israel aid

Washington Post: An apocalyptic dust plume killed off the dinosaurs, study says

Washington Post: Opinion: The closer you look, the more Netanyahu resembles Trump