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By spotlighting disabled performers, Bay Area company AXIS Dance challenges conventional thinking about movement

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By Katie Lauer 
| East Bay Times
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The dance world has often based its plaudits on how spectacularly performers can defy gravity with leaps, kicks and twirls. But a handful of wheelchairs, some roller skates and a trapeze helped a Berkeley-based troupe flip antiquated and ableist conceptions of athletic ability and athleticism on their head.
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Suspension of disbelief: The newest Bay Bridge span is an architectural marvel Original

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By Katie Lauer 
| The Mercury News
There’s a surreal serenity atop the world’s longest self-anchored, single-tower suspension bridge, crowned by a thick blanket of fog more than 500 feet above the rippling tides off Yerba Buena Island’s eastern shore. From here, the nearly 300,000 daily commuters below who cross the newest, asymmetrical side of the Bay Bridge look like a frenetic ant highway, as 15 mph winds blow towards the perennial stack of vibrant shipping containers that frame the Port of Oakland.
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Officials reveal mistakes that impacted Martinez refinery fire response Original

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By Katie Lauer 
| The Mercury News
New details emerged this week about the massive February fire that erupted at the Martinez Refinery Company and released more than 7,000 gallons of hydrocarbon materials into the air, as officials revealed that oil crews had been using incompatible radio systems that prevented immediate contact with local public safety agencies.
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