Joe Joe the dog walks past a broken umbrella at the Berkeley Marina. Credit: Kelly Sullivan

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  • Yogananda Pittman, UCPD’s new chief of police, signed off on Jan. 6 protest permits for five organizations that served as proxies for Stop the Steal (BuzzFeed News)
  • Plan to shift Berkeley crisis calls from police to SCU nears launch (Berkeley Scanner)
  • Berkeley shop helped spur outdoor retail boom (SF Chronicle)
  • Backers set to defend new Alameda County D.A. (SF Chronicle)
  • ‘An exclamation point in history’: First Black woman, Latina take helm of Alameda County DA, sheriff’s offices (East Bay Times)
  • UC Berkeley will teach psychedelic guides how to facilitate ‘shrooms,’ hallucinogenic drugs (East Bay Times)
  • Berkeley Lab Scientists Develop a Cool New Method of Refrigeration (Berkeley Lab)

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