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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

East Bay Times: Green energy company plans mega growth at historic Richmond site

East Bay Times: Four East Bay hotels will be given to lenders in brutal lodging market

East Bay Times: Gov. Newsom signs budget with bills to streamline environmental approval for clean energy

East Bay Times: After Southern California landslide, at least 10 homes will slip into canyon, officials say

KRON: FDA to import more Chinese cancer drugs amid shortage

SFGate: Endangered SF garter snake among species impacted by emerging disease in California

SFGate: Giant Calif. redwood tree consumes tourist car on the Avenue of the Giants

SFGate: Affluent SoCal city accused of tearing down public beach access signs

SF Chronicle: S.F. Mayor Breed defiant as city fights lawsuit over homeless encampments

SF Chronicle: This is the Honduran hometown of San Francisco’s drug dealers

SF Chronicle: Jack White slams ‘disgusting’ Guy Fieri for fraternizing with Trump

SF Chronicle: How San Francisco’s open-air drug dealers work

Marin Independent Journal: San Rafael plane crash kills 1 flyer, injures another

Marin Independent Journal: Marin files detail misconduct allegations against senior prosecutor

Press Democrat: Driver crashes into Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy who was pulling over car in Petaluma

Sunday, July 9, 2023

NY Times: Is Aretha Franklin’s True Will the One Found in the Couch or a Cabinet?

BBC: One dead in New York flood: Video shows submerged streets

AP News: The FDA is being asked to look into Logan Paul’s energy drink, which has the caffeine of 6 Coke cans

NY Times: Number of Migrants at the Border Plunges as Mexico Helps U.S. to Stem Flow

Washington Post: Some of the worst soot spewing from your car isn’t from the tailpipe

NY Times: Alone in an Empty House, Female Real Estate Agents Face Danger

NY Times: It’s Toxic Slime Time on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee

NY Times: Ketamine: This Drug Holds Promise for Cult Survivors

Washington Post: Amid a reckoning, some Native Americans call for reparations

Washington Post: Climate change could swamp this island. Home sales are surging.

The Atlantic: Hovering Parents: The Gravitational Pull of Supervising Kids All the Time

The Atlantic: Is There Such a Thing as an Eco-Friendly Hike?

Courthouse News Service: Seattle can pursue Monsanto on river contamination

Courthouse News Service: Rhode Island beach house owners challenge expansion of public land above ‘seaweed line’

Courthouse News Service: Judge rejects ACLU involvement in Phoenix homeless camp lawsuit

LA Times: The Californians whose scam PACs tricked Trump and Clinton supporters out of millions

The Guardian: ‘I’m not just faster, but taller’: how I learned to walk properly – and changed my pace, posture and perspective

The Guardian: Does the microbiome hold the key to chronic fatigue?

The Guardian: White nationalist publisher’s data exposed in Amazon cloud leak

AP News: Some cities are digging up water mains and leaving lead pipe in the ground

The Oregonian: Popular weight loss drugs get new warning from anesthesiologists

Oregon Public Broadcasting: A German county elected a far-right candidate for the first time since the Nazi era, raising concern

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Portland’s daytime homeless camping ban faces first legal challenge

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Study shows Oregon Coast gray whales consume millions of harmful bits of plastic, clothing

AP News: Hope and uncertainty linger as California turns the page on state-run youth prisons

AP News: US Forest Service and historically Black colleges unite to boost diversity in wildland firefighting

AP News: Climate change ratchets up the stress on farmworkers on the front lines of a warming Earth

AP News: A solar storm next week is expected to make Northern Lights visible in 17 states

KCRA: Oklahoma judge dismisses Tulsa race massacre reparations case filed by last known survivors

KCRA: Known Mexican mafia member stabbed, killed in California State Prison, Sacramento

KTLA: 14-year-old Native American girl found in barracks at Camp Pendleton in alleged sex trafficking case

KTLA: Massive landslide forces dozens of evacuations in Rolling Hills Estates

Press Democrat: Local radio group recovering from cyberattack that brought down 4 stations

Marin Independent Journal: San Rafael doubles down on Downtown Streets Team

East Bay Times: Opinion: Looking for the next California tech boom. You’ll find it in farmlands