Saturday, July 18, 2020
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Newsom closes California schools
CG: Governor Newsom Announces School Reopening Rules For This Fall
- PE: Schools will reopen without in-person classes in most of California, Newsom says
- PE: Inland Empire educators prepare to shift all classes online after Newsom’s order
- SDUT: San Diego County schools barred from reopening until COVID-19 numbers improve
- FresBee: Here’s how Fresno schools will work now that Newsom has closed local campuses
- VCStar $: All county schools to stay remote in the fall
- CG: Governor Newsom Announces School Reopening Rules For This Fall
- Governor’s order will likely keep Stanislaus County schools closed longer than most
- SLTrib: SLO County districts turn their focus to a back-to-school that begins remotely
- BakCal: As local school districts turn to distance learning for fall, stakeholders share mixed feelings
- SDUT: California classrooms closed for fall as virus cases surge
- SacBee: How Sacramento schools will try to improve online learning in 2020-21
- SFC: Bay Area districts scramble to improve distance learning after spring’s chaotic rollout
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2020 House Races - Cash Stashes
SDUT: Big money flows into San Diego congressional contests despite pandemic
- OCReg: Katie Porter, Young Kim lead in campaign fundraising for Orange County House races
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COVID-19
LAT $: Newsom reopened California without meeting his own coronavirus testing, tracing benchmarks
- SacBee: Sacramento’s entry into Major League Soccer delayed one year due to coronavirus
- SacBee: Coronavirus updates: 366,000 Californians infected, shutdowns ravage local businesses
- SJMN: Another round of UC Berkeley COVID-19 infections linked to frat parties
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Fire Season
FresBee: Crews work to contain wildfire near Kerckhoff Lake in Madera County
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Prisons continue to be COVID hotspots
SFC: 101 inmates infected in Santa Rita Jail’s largest coronavirus outbreak
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Public Works Board
CG: California State Public Works Board -
Jury Pool to include anyone who pays taxes
CG: Jury Rolls Expanded To Include Taxpayers Under Renewed Bill -
College with COIVD
SJMN: UC, CSU and community college leaders weigh in on online learning, police reform and how the coronavirus is changing higher education - LAT $: Cal State Trustee Jeffrey Krinsk resigns after angering colleagues
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Homeschooling Gains New Traction
SacBee: As parents of students look for alternatives, homeschooling sees ‘explosive’ interest -
Cap and Trade wins in court
SacBee: Trump can’t weaken California’s climate change carbon market, federal judge rules
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The Golden Pen
Kevin D. Williamson
NR: American Capitalism: High Risk, High Reward
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Kerry Jackson
California Near Rock-Bottom Again on Yet Another National Ranking -
SCNG Editorial Board
PE: As pensions sink, CalPERS gets risky -
Sacramento Area
SacBee: Longtime Sacramento councilwoman running for state Senate in 2022. See who else might run - SacBee: Investigators seek tips after fireworks ignite fires in Sacramento and Placer County
- SacBee: 7 USPS workers at West Sacramento processing plant test positive for COVID-19
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San Francisco Bay Area
SFC: Compromise on Caltrain tax would allow 3 counties to control money - SJMN: Strongest month ever for Bay Area jobs amid coronavirus
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San Francisco
LAT $: San Francisco’s coronavirus surge worsens, now on state watchlist - SJMN: San Francisco added to state’s coronavirus watchlist amid hospitalization spike
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East Bay Area
SFC: Killings in Bay Area up 14% in first half of 2020 as Vallejo homicides spike - SJMN: City of Vallejo ‘discovers’ windshield evidence in police shooting destroyed
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South Bay Area
SFC: Need the gym or a haircut? San Mateo County is last Bay Area holdout - SJMN: Big housing tower moves ahead in downtown San Jose
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Central Valley
FresBee: Assemblyman confronts supervisors about emergency COVID meeting - BakCal: Court employees rally for answers amid proposed budget cuts
- FresBee: Fresno hospitals, busy with other patients, pushed to near-overflow by COVID-19
- Coronavirus update, July 18: Stanislaus deaths reach 63, 300 new cases reported
- FresBee: National Guard reserves helping staff Fresno nursing home with COVID-19 outbreak
- Stanislaus County unemployment continues to fall, a trend that’s unlikely to continue
- BakCal: Kern County reports 159 new COVID-19 cases Friday
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Central Coast
SLTrib: SLO County adds 55 coronavirus cases — including 23 in North County - SLTrib: ‘Worst time I’ve ever been through’: SLO County businesses react to closing once again
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Ventura County
VCStar $: New details emerge in Woolsey Fire criminal probe - LAT $: Former director of L.A. charter schools admits to embezzling $3.1 million in funds
- VCStar $: Oxnard voters to consider 4 Aaron Starr measures
- VCStar $: Breweries, bars, wineries can reopen in Ventura County
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Orange County
OCReg: OC courts add online portal for easier access to traffic and criminal cases - OCReg: Coronavirus: 405 new cases, more than 340,000 tests given in Orange County as of July 17
- OCReg: All Orange County schools expect to start year with online classes
- OCReg: Irvine council votes to take old anti-gay rights law off the books
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Inland Empire
PE: San Bernardino Justice Center offering live audio streaming of criminal hearings - PE: Riverside County reports 2 coronavirus deaths as hospitalizations grow
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San Diego County
LAT $: San Diego County businesses defy second shutdown order; county strike force mobilizes - SDUT: Sailors test positive for COVID-19 after sharing firefighting gear at San Diego ship fire
- SDUT: County hits single-day record for COVID-19 cases, adds seven new deaths
- SDUT: San Diego County’s unemployment rate dropped in June but COVID surge could reverse gains
- SDUT: Union protests against San Diego County idea to outsource health care at jails