Top of the morning’s news:
- Bay Area home remodeling is picking up in part because homeowners who can’t sell are deciding to fix up instead. Mercury News
- More outrage over state Fish and Game Commission president Daniel Richards’ killing an Idaho mountain lion (and his trophy photo with it) after he writes a defiant letter to the Legislature. Chronicle
- All Nippon Airways postpones until early next year its launch of a San Jose to Tokyo route while it waits for delivery of more Boeing 787 Dreamliners. Mercury News
- Audio tapes show dispatchers never alerted officers over the radio that Berkeley hills murder victim Peter Cukor needed help in the 15 minutes from when he called police about an intruder on a nonemergency number and his wife’s 911 call. Chronicle
- Marin County has the dubious distinction of leading the Bay Area in complaints about wood smoke on “Spare the Air” days. Marin IJ
