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Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023

KRCR: 'Night and day difference.' Redding deli owner starts own security company to combat transient crime

KRCR: Assemblymember Jim Wood grants over $1.4 million to build a senior community in McKinleyville

Santa Cruz Sentinel: Joint UC Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College housing project receives grant funding

Press Democrat: Healdsburg police arrest trio accused of trying to sell fake jewelry, Apple products

SFGate: 'Pretty clever': How to build a DIY air purifier as smoke hangs over SF Bay Area

SFGate: UC Berkeley may rebrand, update school’s longtime nickname

San Jose Mercury News: Santa Clara County to search for alternatives to using tear gas, pepper spray in jails on mentally ill inmates

San Jose Mercury News: Public health officials dispel claims that San Jose woman caught a flesh-eating bacterial infection leading to quadruple amputation

KCRA: 10-year-old girl shot in Stockton, police say

East Bay Times: $10,000 Depression-era bill sells for $480,000

SF Chronicle: San Francisco street horror only grows as drug overdose numbers spike

SF Chronicle: More smoky winds are headed to the Bay Area. Here's a timeline of air quality impacts

SF Chronicle: S.F. frantically prepares to host its biggest international event since 1945. Is the city ready?

SFGate: Two California schools tie for best public college in the nation

East Bay Times: Wildfire smoke is reversing years of air pollution progress in California and the West, new study finds

Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023

NY Times: The New Status Symbol Is a Full-Body M.R.I.

NY Times: Injuries in Brazilian Jujitsu Prompt Introspection in Growing Martial Art

The Atlantic: Americans Are Sleepwalking Through a National Emergency

The Atlantic: What Do Dogs Know About Us?

SFGate: Why San Francisco smells like campfire smoke right now

SFGate: SF store owner gave away his 40-year-old shop for free

SFGate: ‘Rare and valuable’: The oldest fish in any aquarium in the world is in San Francisco

Washington Post: What Las Vegas tourists need to know about casino hacks

AP News: Instacart’s IPO surges as the grocery delivery company goes from the supermarket to the stock market

AP News: Lots of indoor farms are shutting down as their businesses struggle. So why are more being built?

Smithsonian Magazine: Humans Have Exceeded Six of the Nine Boundaries Keeping Earth Habitable

Smithsonian Magazine: MDMA Moves Closer to Approval for PTSD Treatment After New Clinical Trial

NY Times : Opinion A Skeptical Look at ‘Self-Care’

CNN: Proper treatment for hypertension could avert 76 million deaths globally by 2050, WHO says

The Hill: Florida man, 78, fatally shoots neighbor who was trimming trees over property line

NY Times : 8 Books to Help You Drink Less, or Quit Altogether

NY Times : How California Universities Fared in Revamped Rankings

NY Times : Creatine Won’t Magically Give You Abs. Here’s What It Might Do.

NY Times : Borneo: A Vanishing Nomadic Clan, With a Songlike Language All Their Own

Washington Post: Sober homes promised help and shelter. Some delivered fraud, officials say.

Washington Post: Inside a spat over funding for firefighter raises

Washington Post: Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco

The Oregonian: Trial challenging gun control Measure 114 starts in southeastern Oregon

Washington Post: Haunting Holocaust movie ‘The Zone of Interest’ keeps gaining momentum

CNN: California Gov. Gavin Newsom mocks Republican impeachment effort as ‘student government’

ABC News: Video shows carjackers punching driver before stealing his Aston Martin from his own garage

Washington Post: Obesity as a factor in cardiac deaths tripled over 20 years

Washington Post: At Japan’s dementia cafes, forgotten orders are all part of the service

Washington Post: Inside the gold rush to sell cheaper, imitation Ozempic

Pro Publica: Wall Street Bet Big on Used-Car Loans for Years. Now a Crisis May Be Looming.

Chicago Sun-Times: Illinois becomes first state in nation to eliminate cash bail: Here’s how it will work

KTLA: Man arrested in slaying of L.A. County deputy schizophrenic, family says

Pro Publica: United Nations Seems to Boost Plastics Industry Interests, Critics Say

Yahoo News: Hackers who breached casino giants MGM, Caesars also hit 3 other firms, Okta says

Yahoo News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be built in Ohio, governor announces