- North vs. south: Their drought is deeper than our drought (San Jose Mercury):
As the state faces a possible fourth year of drought, Northern California is enjoying a healthy wet winter so far, with rainfall levels at 100 percent of their historic average or above in nearly every city, and reservoirs, while still not back to normal, steadily filling. But rainfall totals in the south are anemic, and falling further behind as each major storm only drenches the northern part of the state, leaving the south dry. Full story
- Couples counseling for tech co-founders? It's actually a thing (KQED News):
Startups fail for a lot of reasons: bad product, wrong timing. But sometimes, it’s just you. Relationship problems between co-founders are one of the biggest reasons companies don’t make it. Increasingly in Silicon Valley, business partners are looking for help before things go downhill -- they’re signing up for couples counseling. Full story
- Feinstein, Boxer press for settlement of West Coast port dispute (The Hill):
Sens. Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer said in a letter to port managers and leaders of the union that represents dockworkers that they need to negotiate a deal quickly because the labor strife has been contributing to congestion at several of the nation’s busiest ports. Full story
- Kensington residents want investigation of town cop robbed by Reno prostitute (Bay Area News Group):
Demanding greater oversight, residents of a small, affluent East Bay community reacted sharply Monday to a report that a local police officer had his gun stolen during an encounter with a Reno prostitute last year but wasn't suspended for nearly nine months. Full story
- Serial airline stowaway arrested again after flying without ticket (San Jose Mercury News):
A woman with a long history of attempting to sneak onto airplanes at Bay Area airports has been arrested again after she successfully flew from Minnesota to Florida without a ticket. Full story
- Death deepens mystery over San Francisco body parts case (San Francisco):
There’s no crime scene, no time of death and no cause of death. The victim — if he’s a victim at all — has not been positively identified, and parts of his body are missing. Now, the central suspect is dead. Nearly two weeks after someone abandoned body parts in the heart of San Francisco, police are in a problematic position as they try to solve a case that holds as much perplexity as horror. Full story
- Daily Show's Jon Stewart attempts rescue of Brian Williams (Washington Post):
"... I am happy finally someone is being held to account for misleading America about the Iraq war. It might not necessarily be the first person you’d want held accountable on that list, but never again will Brian Williams mislead a nation about being shot at in a war we probably wouldn’t have ended up in if we had applied this level of scrutiny to the actual [expletive] war.” Full story
- Here is the first lawsuit over concussions in Pop Warner football (Mother Jones):
Debra Pyka, the mother of Joseph Chernach, a 25-year-old Wisconsin man who committed suicide in 2012, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Pop Warner, claiming that cognitive damage from his three years in organized youth football was responsible for his death. The lawsuit claims Chernach suffered from postconcussion syndrome and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease most often associated with former NFL players, as a result of "numerous" concussions he sustained starting when he was 11. Full story
- Black History Month: How San Francisco's black community backed 1968 S.F. State student strike (KQED News):
Archive video of Bayview-Hunters Point activists declaring support for student strikers -- who fought for and won a pioneering ethnic studies program at San Francisco State. Full story
- Coming soon: PolitiFact California (PolitiFact):
Fact-checking journalism comes to California’s public radio airwaves and websites this summer with the launch of PolitiFact California, a partnership of Capital Public Radio and PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning website started by the Tampa Bay Times. Full story
9 Stories You Should Know About Today: Tuesday, Feb. 10

Ruth Williams speaking at a protest in support of a student strike at S.F.S.U on Dec. 4, 1968.
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