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Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023

SF Chronicle: Oakland merchants plan to strike over crime after city messes up grant funding

East Bay Times: Allowing speed cameras in six California cities, including San Jose and Oakland, is up to Newsom

East Bay Times: Bay Area weather forecasts: El Niño conditions through winter

Courthouse News Service: Remote work may cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than half

East Bay Times: California sues oil companies over climate change, seeking billions and claiming decades of deception

Press Democrat: Windsor chase ends with 2 arrests, 50 bottles of liquor recovered

Marin Independent Journal: San Rafael group challenges ‘builder’s remedy’ housing plan

Marin Independent Journal: Marin appoints official to accelerate building permits

KRON: Capitola Wharf to reopen in summer of 2024

KRON: Bay Area police officer saves 1-week-old infant

KRON: San Rafael police respond to violent incidents after Guatemalan Independence Day

SF Chronicle: Buying a San Francisco home took 3 years of income in 1970. Here’s today’s number

SF Chronicle: Another stillborn baby found in S.F. toilet points to desperate conditions: ‘It’s hell out here’

SFGate: California Skechers store draws crowds with knockoff Costco food court

East Bay Times: These South Bay teens are competing in a global science competition — and you can vote until Sept. 20

East Bay Times: Magnitude 4.5 quake hits in Diablo Range, is felt in Bay Area

Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023

Smithsonian Magazine: Archaeologists Discover More Than 100 Ancient Drawings in a Spanish Cave

Scientific American: Some Patients Who ‘Died’ but Survived Report Lucid ‘Near-Death Experiences,’ a New Study Shows

Chicago Tribune: At 1st Midwest Beaver Summit, role of the hefty rodents praised in wetland restoration, climate change fight

Insider: Colorado wildlife officials had to euthanize a 400-pound black bear because its intestines were blocked with human garbage

NY Times : Windows Installed in Skulls Help Doctors Study Damaged Brains

KTLA: $250K reward to be offered in ambush shooting death of L.A. County Sheriff’s deputy

East Bay Times: Review: Ed Sheeran smashes amazing attendance record at Levi’s Stadium

SFGate: California mom, 45, charged after teen son allegedly causes fatal crash

SF Chronicle: 'It was a fight for his life:' Napa County man fends off attacker after pulling knife out of his own back, police say

NY Times : World’s Largest ‘Baby Exporter’ Confronts Its Painful Past

Washington Post: The quest to make the outdoors more diverse and inclusive

NY Times : What Happens When Wall Street Buys Most of the Homes on Your Block?

Washington Post: France bans iPhone 12 sales over radiation levels: Here’s what to know

Washington Post: A couple was sick of mowing. Now their wildflowers are a local attraction.

Yahoo News: Consistent body weight tied to longevity in women

NY Times : The One Million Tibetan Children in China’s Boarding Schools

NY Times : The Explosive Rise of Single-Parent Families Is Not a Good Thing

The Guardian: ‘I couldn’t believe the data’: how thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making

NY Times : New York City Cracked Down on Airbnb. What Happens Next?

Reuters: China police detain some Evergrande wealth management staff

Reuters: Letter shows Pope Pius XII probably knew about Holocaust early on

The Guardian: US launches $1bn tree-planting scheme to mitigate effects of climate crisis

KCRA: Judge: Sexual harassment lawsuit against California treasurer by employee she fired can go to trial

The Atlantic: How Siblings Shape Who We Are

The Guardian: Working harder than ever: the last remaining Japanese American farmers

The Guardian: Colorado mountain honoring governor who led Indigenous massacre renamed

The Atlantic: The Real Issue in the UAW Strike

AP News: Low Mississippi River limits barges just as farmers want to move their crops downriver

The Guardian: Rainforest carbon credit schemes misleading and ineffective, finds report

The Guardian: Values we teach our kids change – but good manners are timeless

The Guardian: Russell Brand: In Plain Sight review – so many red flags ignored for so long

The Guardian: ‘I couldn’t stop myself’: inside the 12-step program for internet addiction

NPR: Four years into the Yukon salmon collapse, an Interior Alaska village wonders if it will ever fish again

NPR: Mexico extradites son of former Sinaloa cartel leader 'El Chapo' to the U.S.