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hen the coronavirus pandemic began to take hold and folks were told to shelter in place and be careful when going out only for essential services, it became clear that precautions needed to be taken to ensure the well-being of Soboba Reservation residents.

The idea for the store was approved by Tribal Council after a Sysco representative approached council when the COVID-19 crisis first arose and said it might be a good alternative to shopping for food and toilet paper at local supermarkets. Sysco is a longtime vendor for the Soboba Tribal Preschool, Noli Indian School, Soboba Springs Golf Course and the Soboba Casino Resort.

“They understand the situation and what we are trying to do and will notify us with items we might like to offer,” said Steve Lopez, Parks and Recreation De-

partment Sports Coordinator.

“They have since started to serve Morongo and some other reservations that are doing something similar to what we have here.

They share what is working at other places; it’s been great.”

Elders and other vulnerable populations were especially hesitant to leave the reservation to get much-needed supplies.

Thankfully, the Sports Complex had the space and staff to accommodate the popular plan. Organization was smooth and rapid as many departments worked together to transition the sports complex’s gymnasium into the Soboba Marketplace at the end of March.

“Not only does this makeshift market allow our members to access food and supplies that are scarce, it also allows them to limit their possible exposure to the virus by not having to search for these things out in the Val-

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MARKETPLACE: Ulises Pedraza from Soboba’s Accounting Department uses a pre-printed checklist to ring up a customer on May 13

at the Soboba Marketplace, a pop-up store for tribal members and employees. | Photo Courtesy of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians.

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More business for restaurants that join new meal program

Two new walk-up coronavirus testing sites opened in Riverside County

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PICK-UP & GO: If you or someone you know is in immediate need of pre-prepared meals, please click here for an updated list of "Pick-up & Go" meal sites throughout the county. The Office on Aging team is available to assist you via telephone at 1-800510-2020 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. | Courtesy Photo.

iverside County health officials are adding two walk-in testing sites – one in Moreno Valley and the other in Cathedral City -- for those interested in being screened for coronavirus.

Testing at Crossword Christian Church in Moreno Valley and the Cathedral City Public Library started Monday and will continue Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. The church is located at 21401 Box Springs Road, while the library is located at 33520 Date Palm Drive.

These are the first walk-in sites operated by the county; the four others are drive up sites located in Indio, Lake Elsinore, Perris and

Riverside.

“As we continue our response to this epidemic, we have refocused our efforts to test as many Riverside County residents as possible,” said Kim Saruwatari, director of Riverside County public health.

“These two sites and others that are in the planning process will help reach that goal.”

So far, more than 80,000 Riverside County residents have been tested at the county’s four sites, along with screenings at clinics, hospitals, private labs and other locations. There are also eight state-run, walk-in testing sites located throughout Riverside County.

Testing at the county-run sites is open to anyone, whether they have symptoms or not, and there

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iverside County has notified Gov. Gavin Newsom that it is ready to cautiously and safely open for business based on public health data. The county has sent a letter and attestation to state officials requesting the county be allowed to take the next step in

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iverside County health officials are looking for restaurants in San Jacinto, Hemet, Perris, Banning, Beaumont and surrounding areas to take part in the “Great Plates Delivered” program aimed at providing meals for at-risk seniors staying home to avoid exposure to coronavirus.

Participating restaurants will provide three meals per day, seven days a week for those 65 and older, including delivery. In turn, the restaurants will receive up to $66

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that direction.

In a May 14 letter to Newsom, Riverside County supervisors said the county has the ability to “meet, exceed or plan to achieve” six of the seven criteria described by the governor to accelerate through the current Stage 2 of the economic expansion plan into the next level.

Among the criteria, the county has a plan to protect Stage 1 essential workers; created ample

On May 21, 1901

Connecticut becomes the first state to limit the speed of motor vehicles to 12 mph in cities and 15 mph on country roads. As late as 1930, a dozen states had no speed limit, while 28 states did not even require a driver's license.

On May 22, 1969

Actor Paul Newman makes his onscreen racing debut in the film "Winning." Newman played a struggling race car driver who must turn around his fortunes by winning the Indianapolis 500.

On May 23, 1701 At London's Execution Dock, British privateer William Kidd, known as Captain Kidd, is hanged

testing capacity; demonstrated the ability to protect vulnerable populations; developed a plan to expand contact tracing capabilities; and exceeded a minimum of 35 percent surge capacity in the county’s health system.

The county is currently at stage two of the governor’s reopening plan, which allows for curbside delivery and pick up

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for piracy and murder. In 1695, Kidd was commissioned to defend English ships from pirates in the Red Sea. When arrested with a shipload of treasure, Kidd's Whig sponsors failed to back his claims of legitimacy.

On May 24, 1844

Before members of Congress, American inventor Samuel F.B. Morse dispatches a telegraph message from the U.S. Capitol to a railroad station in Baltimore. The message -- "What Hath God Wrought?" -was telegraphed back to the Capitol a moment later.

On May 25, 1977 Memorial Day weekend opens with an intergalactic bang as the first of George Lucas' blockbuster "Star Wars" movies hits American theaters.

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On May 26, 1927

Henry Ford and his son Edsel drive the 15 millionth Model T Ford out of their factory, marking the famous automobile's official last day of production. The "Tin Lizzie" averaged about 17 mpg and could travel up to 45 mph.

On May 27, 1939 A ship carrying 937 Jewish refugees is turned away from Cuba. The ship sailed close to Florida, hoping to disembark there, but a State Department telegram stated that the asylum-seekers must first "await their turns on the waiting list and qualify for and obtain immigration visas." After appeals to Canada also were denied, the ship was forced to sail back to Europe.

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Man dies in possible DUI crash on West Side of Hemet A 27-year-old man was killed and another man was seriously injured in a possible DUI crash on the west end of Hemet, authorities said last Wednesday.

David Jones of Hemet was pronounced dead at the scene of the single-vehicle wreck, which occurred shortly after 8 Tuesday night on North Kirby Street, just south of Fruitvale Avenue, according to the Riverside County Coroner’s Office.

Hemet police Sgt. Dan Reinbolt said Jones was a passenger in the 2019 Acura driven by 26-year-old Ernie Alaniz of San Jacinto, who was hospitalized with major injuries.

According to the sergeant, Alaniz was going southbound on Kirby “when he accelerated and lost control of the vehicle.� “Alaniz drove onto the sidewalk on the west side of Kirby, where he collided into a tree,� Reinbolt said. “Witnesses report Alaniz displayed erratic driving behavior prior to the collision.�

Alaniz was in serious but stable condition, according to Reinbolt. “DUI is suspected, and the investigation is ongoing,� he said.

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Man arrested for allegedly pistol-whipping, shooting man Felony charges were filed Friday against a 37-year-old man suspected of pistol-whipping and shooting a San Jacinto resident during an argument.

Fernando Garcia of San Jacinto was arrested last Wednesday on suspicion of attempted murder for the alleged attack a day earlier in the 800 block of Minor Street.

Garcia was booked into the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta, where he’s being held on $1 million bail.

According to Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. James Burton, on Tuesday night, Garcia was involved in a dispute with the victim, and during a confrontation, he allegedly struck the man on the head with a handgun, then shot him in the back.

The victim’s identity was not released.

Deputies were alerted to the alleged shooting minutes later and went to the location, along with county fire department paramedics, who found the man seriously wounded, Burton said.

The victim was taken to Riverside University Medical Center in Moreno Valley, where he remains in critical condition.

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1 Killed, 1 Airlifted in Off-Road Crash on Bee Canyon Truck Trail Near Highway 74 One person died and another was airlifted in an off-road crash Sunday afternoon in Hemet.

The crash happened around 3:45 p.m. along the Bee Canyon Truck Trail near Highway 74.

CHP officials said two people had been off-roading in a vehicle that went off a remote trail. The impact left one of its occupants dead.

Paramedics airlifted the other occupant to a hospital in an unknown condition.

Authorities did not immediately disclose the identity of the deceased pending next of kin notification.

A helicopter was used to locate and reach the crash site, which was located amidst rugged terrain in the San Jacinto Mountains northwest of Mountain Center.

No other information is available at this time. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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California Institution for Men has 6th virus-related death A sixth prisoner at the California Institution for Men in San Bernardino County has died from apparent complications related to COVID-19, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Tuesday.

The inmate, whose name was not immediately released, died Monday at an outside hospital, a department statement said.

Determination of the exact cause of death was pending.

The facility in Chino has 446 inmates who are actively positive for COVID-19, it said. It is the only state prison with coronavirus-related deaths.

Chino is about 35 miles (56.3 kilometers) east of Los Angeles.

The status of COVID-19 in the state prisons can be seen in the CDCR’s online Patient Tracker.

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embers of the Jurupa Valley Station’s Special Enforcement Teams (SET), representing the cities of Jurupa Valley and Eastvale, have been aggressively targeting illegal indoor marijuana grows throughout the cities of Eastvale and Jurupa Valley.

Deputies assigned to SET received complaints from residents of the city of Eastvale regarding possible illegal indoor marijuana cultivations. SET Deputies investigated and determined that properties located on the 6200 block of Arcadia St., 12200 block of Meadowvale St., and 7700 block of Stonegate Dr. in the city of Eastvale, had been converted to support illegal indoor marijuana cultivation and there was evidence that marijuana plants were harvested on the properties.

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ROOM: Jurupa Station recovered a total of 4,256 marijuana plants. | Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. bers from the Jurupa Valley station’s SET, at the direction of Sheriff Chad Bianco, served three residential search warrants within the city of Eastvale. They recovered a total of 4,256 marijuana plants. Its esti-

mated that $58,000 worth of combined electrical theft occurred.

Eastvale Code Enforcement and Southern California Edison, were summoned to conduct their own separate investigation

into various building and electrical code violations.

Anyone with further information about this incident is encouraged to call the Special Enforcement Team at the Jurupa Valley Station, 951-955-2600.

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California tribal casinos start to reopen, masks required ELLIOT SPAGAT | AP NEWS

One of California’s largest tribal casinos reopened Monday to a large crowd as customers had their temperatures taken at the door and were ordered to wear facial coverings.

The Viejas Casino & Resort was the first of several popular casinos in the San Diego area to open this week. Last week, Win-River Resort & Casino in Redding was the first tribal casino to reopen in California after the coronavirus outbreak.

Tribes are sovereign authorities and not subject to state and local restrictions on operations during the pandemic. San Diego’s top public health official was critical last week but acknowledged tribes were within their rights.

Every other slot machine was turned off but the strong turnout meant many customers were still playing less than six feet (1.8 meters) apart. Card dealers worked with up to three players at a table and there were no barriers separating them — also far less than six feet apart.

Customers were required to have their foreheads scanned for temperatures.

Electronic signs across the casino floor told them — “Let’s Play Again!� — while also instructing them to stay six feet apart, wash hands for 20 seconds, avoid touching eyes, noses and mouths and come back another day

LINE: People wait in line at the entrance to the Viejas Casino and Resort as it reopens Monday, May 18, 2020, in Alpine, Calif. The casino is one of several on tribal lands in Southern California set to reopen this week. | AP Photo/Gregory Bull if they were feeling sick.

Within an hour of opening at 8 a.m., the first three floors of four-story parking garage were full at the casino, which has 2,500 slot machines in Alpine, east of San Diego. By late morning, there were about 150 waiting in line at the front entrance and cars were lined up on the rural road that leads to the parking lots.

For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks.

But for some — especially older adults and people with existing health problems — it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and death.

Ronda McLauchlan, 49, of Alpine lined up at 7:30 a.m. before going to work as a painting contractor because “it’s all about freedom.� She is highly critical of Gov.

Gavin Newsom’s orders to keep businesses closed. “They’re opening up because they don’t have to listen to him,� she said.

Dedra Bloxton, 51, took the day off from working at a port in Long Beach to drive two hours from Los Angeles with a friend and play the slot machines. “There’s nothing to do at home,� she said. “It feels good just to take a drive. It feels good just to be outside.�

Dr. Wilma Wooten, San Diego County’s top public health officer, last week backed off from her earlier criticism of reopening plans.

Wooten, who met with tribal leaders to discuss their plans, noted that casinos were in the third stage of California’s reopening plans and the state is only in the second stage, but she refused to say if the casinos were making a mistake.

“Tribal nations are sovereign entities,� she told reporters.

The San Diego Union-Tribune — in an editorial titled, “San Diego casinos are about to gamble with patrons’ lives� — said opening is a “high-risk public health experiment�

San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher refused to question the tribes last week. “This is a decision that is for them to make, and there is a very long and very dark history of the country of white people, in particular, telling our Native Americans what they should and shouldn’t do,� he said. “I’m not going to be a part of continuing that into the future. I respect their sovereignty.�

Lucy Gavin, who works with the developmentally disabled and is collecting unemployment benefits because her client doesn’t want her too close, came to play slots. “Everything is getting ready to open,� she said. “I think it’s a bit too soon ...

We were getting tired of sitting around.�

The Sycuan Casino Resort in El Cajon opens Wednesday and the Valley View Casino & Hotel in Valley Center resumes operations Friday. The Jamul Casino reopened Monday for club members and will open its doors to the general public on Thursday. All three are in San Diego County.

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Nellena Barnett Giese July 18, 1929 - March 5, 2020

SOBOBA MARKETPLACE popped up at the Soboba Sports Complex out of concern for the well-being of tribal members who were reluctant to go out shopping for essential items. | Photo Courtesy of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians.

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ley,” Lopez said. “It is a collaborative effort from our staff here at Parks and Recreation, along with the help of IT, accounting and staff from the preschool.”

The Information Technology department provides support on the point-of-sale system by uploading all products and pricing and the accounting department keeps track of inventory and provides staff to help with the check-out process. Some preschool employees also provide support in helping customers check out. Parks and Recreation staff fulfill customer orders and load their vehicles and are also responsible for keeping items well stocked.

Lopez said the point-ofsale system that has been used at Soboba’s annual Charity Golf Tournament was able to be easily modified to accommodate the more than 120 items that can be purchased at the market. Several platform hand trucks were borrowed from Soboba Casino Resort’s shipping and receiving department to be used as shopping carts.

Staff walks around the tables with the shopper(s), using a checklist of what gets placed on the hand truck. After the checklist has been used to ring up the shopper’s purchases, the platform truck is wheeled to their vehicle for items to be loaded. Lopez said all staff has been 100% on board with making this work even though it’s not what any of them normally do.

“I’m proud of all the staff for being able to do what the Tribe needed them to do,” he said. “All shoppers are one-on-one with a staff member to limit exposure and limit the amount of hands touching products. We keep our staff in gloves and masks to be safe and hopefully that makes everyone feel a little bit safer.”

Lopez and his co-workers, Jennifer Garcia (activities director) and Vanessa San Vicente (administrative assistant), compile the weekly order.

“Once we have the list together, I place the order with Sysco, who have

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of some retail businesses.

The county is requesting to move to the governor’s accelerated stage two, which would open additional businesses.

In the letter, the county is asking a variance on the epidemiological benchmarks outlined by the state, particularly a requirement that there be no COVID-19

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are no out-of-pocket costs to individuals. Participants will be asked to provide information about their health insurance, but they

ALFRED ARVISO: Dons a unique face covering while working at the Soboba Marketplace, a pop-up store that is open each Wednesday for tribal members and employees. | Photo Courtesy of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians.

Nellena Barnett Giese, of Hemet, CA, passed away on Thursday, March 5, 2020 at the Christmas Cottage Home in Hemet.

Born on July 18, 1929 in Los Angeles, CA, Nellena spent many days at the beach and sailing In Long Beach, CA which was her hometown. She graduated from Poly HS and attended LB City College. She married and had 3 active children. She remarried in 1977 to Rolf Giese. They liked hiking, camping, traveling all over the US and abroad and making wine. They moved from Irvine to Mt. Shastina where they built a beautiful home on Lake Shastina.

They skied, swam, and hiked with friends.

Nellena was quite an artist and loved painting with all mediums. She painted local scenes, pictures of her grandkids and won many awards at local art fairs. They relocated to Hemet, CA in the late 90’s and became involved with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall. There they met many good friends and enjoyed the potlucks and seminars. Nellena loved to swim at the local recreation pool and enjoyed swim classes with her instructor, Christine. She hiked in the local hills with Rolf and their sweet dogs. Nellena was always happy to be included in her son, Chris’s, family events with his lovely wife Olga. Nellena has a daughter, Rebecca, 2 granddaughters and her 3 great-grand boys, whom she adored. Her eldest son, Edward, whom she loved dearly, passed away in 2007.

She was very fond of Rolf’s granddaughters. Nellena had wonderful nieces, Lou Ann, Norma, Johnnie Rae and Glenda and her caring nephews Jackie and Denny. She loved spending time with her brother Ed, and her sister Alice. Nellena had many good friends and family and lived a very blessed and full life. A private celebration of her life is planned with family.

Martha Ann Offutt Neglay December 6, 1943 - May 9, 2020

JENNIFER GARCIA, LEFT: Assists shopper Doris Placencia, center, with her purchases at the Soboba Marketplace while Vanessa San Vicente, far right, helps other Placencia family members with their lists on May 13. | Photo Courtesy of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians.

been great to work with,” he said. “We stock a wide range of items including meats (beef, pork, chicken), cereals, pastas, bread, eggs, milk, fruit, rice, beans, a small selection of frozen items like pizzas and tamales, as well as toilet paper, gloves and household cleaning items.”

Lopez said the frozen items have been helpful to have on hand with all kids home from school right now, making it easier on parents to not to have to cook three meals for them every day.

Sysco’s truck delivers the order each Monday and it is inventoried, sorted and put out for purchasing before the market opens on Wednesday morning.

Most items are sold in bulk such as 20-pound cans of beans, 25-pound bags of flour and a flat of 30 eggs allowing shoppers to make less frequent trips. The bulk discounts are passed on to the shoppers, who can purchase items at cost.

“I came the first time it was open and stocked up,” said Katherine Duro, whose brother, William Meza Jr. was also shopping on the morning of May 13.

“This is great because it keeps me from having to go out into town for what

I need.”

Garcia assisted Doris Placencia during her visit while San Vicente helped other family members.

“I like it here – it keeps me from having to go elsewhere and they have good quality items at bulk prices,” Placencia said. “Plus, they do everything for us, which is pretty cool.”

Garcia said visitors are steady at about 60 per week, throughout the day, with many repeat customers. The market started stocking only essentials at first but as multiple requests for additional items came in, such as sweets, those were included for sale.

Lopez said most items are shelf stable but eggs, milk, produce and other more perishable items are so popular they are constantly replenished, ensuring that all items are fresh.

He said it’s important that they don’t have any waste.

Soboba Marketplace is currently operating on Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the first two hours reserved for Tribal Elders. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., shoppers can be other tribal members, reservation residents and Soboba employees who are actively working.

death for a 14-day period. “In our opinion, the metrics are unrealistic for urban counties, and Riverside County in particular, where our geographic size and population make it impossible that no” COVID-19 death would take place during the 14-day period. Instead, the letter states, it is appropriate to adopt the federal epidemiology benchmarks, which the county is already achiev-

ing because of a downward trend in data.

The Board of Supervisors on May 12 unanimously approved its Readiness and Reopening Framework, which officials described as a commonsense plan that meets both goals of protecting our public health and restoring the economy.

“We are ready to cautiously reopen based on public health data,” the letter states.

will not be charged any share of costs or copay, and will be allowed to get tested even if they do not provide the insurance information.

You must have an appointment to get tested.

To make an appointment

at a county-operated site, call 800-945-6171. To make an online appointment at the state-run testing site, click https://lhi.care/covidtesting or those without internet access can call 888634-1123.

Martha Ann Offutt Neglay was born in Hemet, California, on December 6, 1943, to Dorothy Nelson Offutt and John Leathers Offutt, Jr, and died at home on May 9, 2020, in Albany, Oregon. She spent her early childhood in Hemet and Nuevo, California, attending Nuevo Elementary School and graduating from Perris High School in 1962.

Martha graduated from Woodbury Business College in Los Angeles, in 1964. Following her graduation she worked as a flight attendant with Trans World Airlines and then was employed by Max Factor Cosmetics in Los Angeles, where she met her future husband, Stan. Martha and Stan married in Boise, Idaho and lived in the Boise area for several years in the early 1970s.

In 1974 the family moved to Albany. Martha leaves behind her husband of 51 years, Stanford B. Neglay, and their children Lisa Neglay Pierson, of Salem, Oregon, Christopher Neglay(Mattie) of Terrebonne, Oregon, and Wendy Neglay, of Roseburg, Oregon, grandchildren Kaitlyn and Jack Pierson, and her sister Leslie Offutt White of Poughkeepsie, New York. Her youngest sister, Monica Offutt Bybee, predeceased her in 1990.

During her years in Albany, Martha spent much of her time as a mother and home maker. She also worked for local allergist, Dr. Rapp in the 1980’s.

Martha played a very active role in the lives of her children and later her grandchildren. She volunteered in all their classrooms, attended hundreds of sporting events, and was a Girl Scout leader as well as a Job’s Daughters Advisor. When not busy supporting her family, she enjoyed collecting Madame Alexander dolls and had fond memories of traveling to doll conventions across the United States and even to Trinidad and Tobago. Over the years, Martha also took great joy in raising five Great Danes, as part of her family. She also had special memories of her time in Hawaii and numerous family vacations.

Martha was loyal and giving in nature. She spent much of her time supporting family, friends and always her grandchildren. The role of grandma added another joyful dimension to her life. The pride she felt for her family was shown in every conversation she had. She will be missed dearly but never forgotten.

Martha was laid to rest May 19, 2020 in Willamette Memorial Park Cemetery. As a result of present circumstances, a graveside service will be planned at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to JDFR for Diabetes research or the Albany Boys and Girls Club Foundation.

Condolences for the family may be posted on ine at www.fisherfuneralhome.com.

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– $16 for breakfast, $17 for lunch, $28 for dinner, and $5 for incidentals – from the county through at least June 10. The program may be extended. “This program is a win-win for everyone involved,” said Jewel Lee, director of Riverside County Office on Aging. “The seniors are able to access healthy meals while remaining safe at home, and local restaurants are able to earn money during these difficult financial times.”

Restaurants should be able to provide nutritional meals that meet cultural needs, and lunch and dinner must include a piece of fresh fruit or vegetable.

Drinks, if included, must be less than 24 calories per 8oz and made of 100 percent fruit juice.

“I am particularly proud that the Great Plates Delivered program was piloted in the Fourth District, with Norma’s Italian Kitchen in Rancho Mirage being the first restaurant in Riverside County to get signed up and deliver their amazing dishes to senior citizens,” said Riverside County Board Chair and Fourth District Supervisor V. Manuel Perez.

“The operation at Norma’s Italian Kitchen is inspiring and shows that this program is helping to save jobs and provide exceptional service to seniors in our community.”

Restaurants are encour-

aged to provide their own delivery, as that will allow the business to keep more of the funds in-house and better coordinate the delivery to customers. Delivery drivers must pass a background check at the restaurant’s expense. Restaurants may elect to use food delivery programs such as Grubhub, Postmates, DoorDash and Uber Eats.

There is a simple process to join this program: be in good standing with Environmental Health Restaurant Grade and become a vendor with the County of Riverside.

For more information, visit https://www. rcaging.org/COVID-19/ Great-PlatesDelivered-Program.

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AMERICA’S CHANGING LIFESTYLES Part IX - Bye Bye Sad Sack. Hello New World See more on page B2

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GOP fronts ‘pro-Trump’ doctors to prescribe rapid reopening MICHAEL BIESECKER AND JASON DEAREN | AP NEWS

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ecretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday adamantly denied that he recommended firing the State Department’s independent watchdog in retaliation for investigations into Pompeo’s conduct as America’s top diplomat.

But Pompeo again declined to provide specific reasons for Steve Linick’s dismissal as inspector general.

Pompeo took an unusually harsh shot at the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez. Pompeo accused the senator’s office of being behind allegations that Linick’s ouster was motivated by revenge. Pompeo said he would not take ethics lessons from Menendez, who was once prosecuted by the Justice Department on corruption charges, but his trial ended in a hung jury and prosecutors decided in early 2018 not to retry him.

“I don’t get my ethics advice from Sen. Menendez,” he said.

Menendez responded by saying Pompeo’s use of “diversion tactics by attempting to smear me is as predictable as it is shameful.”

He said in a statement that Pompeo faced an investigation “into this improper firing and into his attempt to cover up his inappropriate and possibly illegal actions,” and that it was no surprise Pompeo was lashing out against lawmakers for their congressional oversight.

Pompeo told reporters that he was unaware of any investigation into allegations that he may have mistreated staffers by instructing them to run personal errands for him and his wife such as walking his dog and picking up dry cleaning and takeout food. Thus, Pompeo said, it would have been impossible for retaliation to have been the motive behind his recommendation to President Donald Trump to dismiss Linick.

“It’s patently false,” he said. “I

have no sense of what investigations were taking place inside the inspector general’s office. I couldn’t possibly have retaliated for all the things. I’ve seen the various stories that like, someone was walking my dog to sell arms to my dry cleaner. I mean, it’s all just crazy. It’s all crazy stuff.”

Pompeo did acknowledge that he was aware of an investigation into his decision last year to bypass congressional objections to approve a multibillion-dollar arms sale to Saudi Arabia because he had answered written questions about it posed by Linick’s office, But Pompeo maintained he did not know the scope or scale of the investigation.

Trump fired Linick late on Friday in what congressional aides have suggested was a move to preempt investigations into Pompeo’s personal conduct or possible impropriety in the Saudi arms sale. Pompeo, who previously told The Washington Post that Linick had been “undermining” the State Department’s work, said he had recommended Linick’s removal, but refused to cite specific reasons.

Pompeo said he had been concerned about the inspector general’s work for some time and that he regretted not calling for his dismissal earlier. “I recommended to the president that Steve Linick be terminated,” he said. “I frankly should have done it some time ago.”

Linick is one of several inspectors general that Trump has removed from office, sparking outrage among Democrats who say the administration is waging war on accountability. Democrats and some Republicans have questioned the firings, saying the watchdogs can only be removed for cause and that Trump’s explanation that he has lost confidence in them is not enough.

Linick was an Obama administration appointee whose office was critical of what it saw as polit-

when the initiative would be rolled out.

“Anybody who joins one of our coalitions is vetted,” Murtaugh said Monday. “And so quite obviously, all of our coalitions espouse policies and say things that are, of course, exactly simpatico with what the president believes. ... The president has been outspoken about the fact that he wants to get the country back open as soon as possible.”

During an emergency such as the current pandemic, it’s important that the government provide consistent science-based information to the public, said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, an epidemiology professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert and a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, has been among the most visible government experts warning that lifting lockdowns too quickly could lead to a spike in deaths.

El-Sadr said having doctors relay contradictory information on behalf of the president is “quite alarming.”

“I find it totally irresponsible to have physicians who are touting some information that’s not anchored in evidence and not anchored in science,” El-Sadr said. “What often creates confusion is the many voices that are out there, and many of those voices do have a political interest, which is the hugely dangerous situation we are at now.”

Murtaugh said the campaign

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epublican political operatives are recruiting “extremely pro-Trump” doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, without waiting to meet safety benchmarks proposed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.

The plan was discussed in a May 11 conference call with a senior staffer for the Trump reelection campaign organized by CNP Action, an affiliate of the GOP-aligned Council for National Policy. A leaked recording of the hourlong call was provided to The Associated Press by the Center for Media and Democracy, a progressive watchdog group.

CNP Action is part of the Save Our Country Coalition, an alliance of conservative think tanks and political committees formed in late April to end state lockdowns implemented in response to the pandemic. Other members of the coalition include the FreedomWorks Foundation, the American Legislative Exchange Council and Tea Party Patriots.

A resurgent economy is seen as critical to boosting President Donald Trump’s reelection hopes and has become a growing focus of the White House coronavirus task force led by Vice President Mike Pence.

Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign communications director, confirmed to AP that an effort to recruit doctors to publicly support the president is underway, but declined to say

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DONALD TRUMP: 45th president of the United States. | Photo source: Wikipedia is not concerned about contradicting government experts.

“Our job at the campaign is to reflect President Trump’s point of view,” Murtaugh said. “We are his campaign. There is no difference between us and him.”

On the May 11 call, Nancy Schulze, a GOP activist who is married to former Rep. Dick Schulze, R-Pa., said she had given the campaign a list of 27 doctors prepared to defend Trump’s reopening push.

“There is a coalition of doctors who are extremely proTrump that have been preparing and coming together for the war ahead in the campaign on health care,” Schulze said on the call.

“And we have doctors that are … in the trenches, that are saying ‘It’s time to reopen.’”

The idea quickly gained support from Mercedes Schlapp, a Trump campaign senior adviser who previously served two years as the president’s director of

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THE POLITICAL NOTEBOOK From the Democrats of Hemet-San Jacinto

TEAMWORK There are thousands of quotes celebrating teamwork such as: • Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a teamwork, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

• Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.

• In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

Helen Keller said, “alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

After World War I, the United States tried to encourage the idea of cooperation, working together, and moving forward in peace. In 1919 U.S. president Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as the leading architect of the League of Nations.

The organization’s primary goals, as stated in its Covenant, included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration.

Other issues in this and related treaties included labor conditions, just treatment of native inhabitants, human and drug trafficking, the arms trade, global health, prisoners of war, and protection of minorities in Europe. President Wilson was unable to convince Congress to join the League. The harsh retributions imposed on Germany for WWI led to another world war. The lesson was learned and instead of retribution, the WW2 victors, led by the United States and the Marshall Plan, rebuilt Germany and Japan and they became democratic allies.

The League of Nations became the United Nations, NATO and SEATO were formed to defend the free world. Teamwork became the modus operandi.

Henry Ford said, “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”

Jim Stovall said, “You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.”

Unfortunately, Donald Trump has taken the opposite approach. He considers everything to have a winner and a loser. The idea of a “win-win” situation does not register in his mind. A quote from the Washington Post in September of 2019 says, “Trump’s speech before the United Nations — a group founded on the principle that multilateral cooperation can stop international conflicts — underscored that his administration sees little benefit in assuming much of the global leadership responsibility embraced by his predecessors.” Trump has removed the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, he unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the multi-national Iran treaty and we are now in a position where even our allies (perhaps I should say former allies) no longer have any trust in the United States.

Now Trump is threatening to stop cooperation and funding for the World Health Organization at a time when cooperation would save hundreds of thousands of lives.

Simon Mainwaring said, “Effectively, change is almost impossible without collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.”

We need a change in leadership from Washington.

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New York Story RICH LOWRY | COLUMNIST

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ew York is the greatest city in the world. It also is uniquely suited to the spread of the coronavirus.

As the national debate over re-opening continues and the political blame game intensifies, it’s worth considering the scale of New York’s outbreak. There is nothing like it anywhere else in the country, and almost nothing like it in the rest of the world.

The story of coronavirus in America is overwhelmingly the story of coronavirus in New York and its surrounding suburbs. Any account of how we got to this place, with deaths nationally headed toward 100,000, must center on New York, which was seeded with the virus early and then seeded much of the rest of the country.

Nearly 20,000 people have died in New York City. If the city were a country, it’d rank sixth in

the world in total deaths, behind France and ahead of Brazil.

In New York City, according to a New York Times report, deaths have been more than 300% above normal. In New Jersey, intimately connected to New York, deaths have been 90% above normal.

Otherwise, no other state is close. In the rest of New York state, deaths have been 9% above normal.

The epidemic started early in New York. By the time it had its first confirmed case on March 1, there may have been as many as 10,000 undetected cases.

The city was getting seeded constantly from abroad. A study published by medrxiv.org concluded that “introductions from Europe account for the majority of cases found in NYC in the first weeks of March 2020.” Then, people coming from or through New York spread the disease elsewhere in the United States.

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analysis found that the number of cases around the country correlated with how many travelers arrived from New York in early March. New York’s connection to the world, especially Europe, its density and its mass transit system all made it a potent vector.

So, the question of how we could have kept the U.S. from getting so hard hit is really how we could have kept New York from getting so hard hit. Every day counted, and better leadership at the federal, state and local levels would have made a difference, but we shouldn’t underestimate the difficulties. Trump’s early travel restrictions on China would have had to be imposed on Europe as well, when no one was contemplating that.

New York’s leaders would have had to warn people off the subways, shut the schools and torch the Big Apple’s economy before any plainly visible metrics justified it.

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This is why the simplistic shots at President Trump, who indeed should have taken the virus more seriously at the outset, don’t work.

He’s the president of New York, but also of other large, international cities like Los Angeles and Miami that have escaped New York’s fate. Has his leadership been better in those places, or do divergent conditions and local decisions account for the better outcomes?

None of this, of course, is to disparage New Yorkers. They have absorbed a gut punch over the past two months with characteristic grit and bravery.

Yet, without New York’s distinctive vulnerability, the course of the epidemic would look completely different.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

THE FRANKEN COLUMN

Wishful Thinking BOB FRANKEN | COLUMNIST

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et’s take one of those magical trips down memory lane, way back to 1939. One of the popular tunes back then was “Wishing (Will Make It So).”

“Wishing will make it so, Just keep on wishing and care will go.”

It was sung by Vera Lynn, among others, and covered by the likes of Glenn Miller, Bing Crosby and now, 80 years later, by Donald Trump and his Bootlicker Chorus. In his version, the lyrics have been revised to reflect the coronavirus era: “This is going to go away without a vaccine, It’s going to go away, and we’re not going to see it again, hopefully, after a period of time.”

He’d better hope so. The coronavirus has already breached the White House complex, infecting Secret Service agents and a few key people thus far who have been in close proximity to not only the president, but to his obsequious

vice president, Mike Pence.

If both got ill it’s feasible that the duties of the chief executive would pass down to the third in the order of succession. Who would that be? None other than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. If that ever happened, there would be chaos as the lawyers would come out of the woodwork. Of course, there is already chaos in Washington these days.

To the Trump faithful, Pelosi for even a short time as acting president would be a bigger disaster than the devastation of COVID. Donald Trump is advocating a “reopening” of America in spite of the fact that the danger is increasing, not decreasing.

Most of the governors are wilting under the political pressure, even though public health officials predict almost unanimously that they are courting a national disaster.

Meanwhile at the White House, Trump is being a role model. A role model for bad behavior. Normally when someone is

exposed to the coronavirus in the way President Trump has been, he would self-quarantine, isolate himself so he wouldn’t be contagious. Even Mike Pence decided to stay away from the White House for a couple of days. But not POTUS, who continues to refuse to wear a mask.

He is now focusing not on COVID but getting re-elected in November and all about somehow repairing the economic collapse. He and his accomplices are more than willing to accept the deaths of thousands of Americans to deflect blame for the mind-boggling joblessness.

Of course, the Trumpsters make the point that the pandemic was not caused by him. But the slow reaction by his incompetent administration was his fault, particularly when the president wasted several critical weeks belittling the danger.

Also his fault was the daily line of self-serving balderdash that he handed out at the task force brief-

BOB FRANKEN | Wikipedia. ings. He used his time not just for self-promoting but fouling the air with misinformation. Meanwhile, the problems piled up. The U.S. was and still is way behind on the tests that offer minimal advance notice of COVID. And we’re only now catching up on the tools of the trade that heroic medical providers and other first responders need. Instead, we get Trump’s wishful thinking.

By the way, “Wishing Will Make It So” was nominated for an Academy Award in 1939. But the winner was “Over the Rainbow,” sung by Judy Garland. Donald Trump’s version makes it clear he is in way over his head.

Bob Franken is an Emmy Award-winning reporter who covered Washington for more than 20 years with CNN.

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Part IX - Bye Bye Sad Sack. Hello New World RUSTY STRAIT | SENIOR WRITER

Happy birthday 2000. May the 1900’s rest in peace. That was the hope and prayer of every peace-loving being on earth and never more important than to the USA’s residents. We had endured a century of wars that seemed to happen on a ratio of every ten or twenty years since the Spanish-American War of 1898.

JUST WHEN IT WAS STARTING TO SOUND LIKE PEACE We might have known that if something could go wrong it would. For the first time in memory, if ever, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a presidential election by shutting off a state’s recount in a presidential election, but that’s precisely what happened to Florida’s recount. George W. Bush was leading vice-president Al Gore by a thin margin when the Supreme Court’s vote gave the Presidency to George W. Bush, which set us off to a new century of a split in political opinions.

Bush not only inherited a government trying to get its sights set straight but barely past the half-way point of his first year 9/11 came along. Conflict of some kind was bound to result, but with whom? Although most of the 19 assailants involved were from Saudi Arabia and walked across from Canada, not Mexico, the Canadians would never be blamed for a lax border that allowed the demolition of the Twin Towers in New York, a plane crashing into the Pentagon and the sudden death of some 3,000 American citizens.

BLAME AN EASY TARGET For eight years, the United States had been supplying munitions and financial aid to Iraq’s Sadam Hussein in his war with our hated enemy, Iran. Suddenly, ignoring the obvious culprits from Saudi Arabia, Washington’s propaganda machine built up a case against Sadam. When the Republican Party took over control of Congress in the mid-term elections, the spin machines declared that Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction,” and must be taken out. On March 20, 2003, U.S. Forces bombed Baghdad and we were off to the races again. President Bush’s May 1st statement that we had “mission accomplished,” was far from accurate.

Our war in the Middle East is now the longest we have ever been involved with. So much for accomplishments.

Just as Presidents Johnson and Nixon did during the Vietnam War, the administration’s propaganda minions poured out reams and reams of material which falsely led us to believe we were winning a war in the Middle East when it was apparent that we were bogged down in an unconventional melee with religious overtones which go back to Richard III of England and his Crusades to convert Muslims to Christianity.

IS IT DEFENSE OF FINANCIAL SUICIDE It was defense spending that brought down the Soviet Union. President Harry Truman who ranks high in presidential leadership, once said that “The only thing we don’t know is the lessons of history we failed to learn.” If that isn’t verbatim, it is precise in its meaning. By 2007 our economy jumped out of the Wall Street Plane without a chute, splattering onto the American scene like a ripe watermelon from a second-floor platform.

We would soon do the unthinkable by electing the first Black President. The American poor got poorer as the middle-class joined them in near non-existence. Domestic affairs were forgotten as we poured billions of dollars down a Middle East rathole with no daylight in the future.

It was called a recession when, in reality, it took us to the brink of a major depression. The body bags came into Fort Dix, New Jersey, by the planeloads daily. The rich, known as “the 1%,” were getting richer while the rest of us pasted signs on our rear bumpers that said, “I am part of the 99%.”

Politically those ten years were deemed to be the “lost decade.”

THE SOCIAL SITUATION Despite our dire financial condition, our diverse social life would progress as though it was the roaring twenties with an attitude of “if we can’t get rich, we can still have fun.”

Cash Mobs appeared in local communities throughout the country, to support local businesses—thousands of folks binge-spent what money they had at particular stores to help them stay afloat.

The ten years between 2000 and 2010 cupcake wars developed nation-wide. Not to be left out, the donut and croissant industry went one better. A baker in New York developed a cream-filled merger between the two and a scarcity dictating the price. He limited 2 of the sugary concoctions to a customer and within a week, they were selling for as much as $100 each in the black market industry.

Amazing. The moneyed set also had their fads.

The Hillbillies doted on a new pseudo-country-trash television show “Duck Dynasty.” It advocated a lifestyle more apropos to the 18th and 19th centuries. Still, the sale of Duck Dynasty products filled the coffers of Walmart and other big box stores catered to by a population seeking to spend less money for popular items.

Low-cost food trucks traversed up and down the avenues, offering such items as gourmet burgers, tacos, lobster rolls and much more.

Some of us had never heard of frozen yogurt, but suddenly frozen yogurt stores appeared en masse from New York City to Podunk, America. Those establishments caused a slump in ice cream sales and continue to compete with strawberry, vanilla and chocolate as favorite flavors.

And there were more fads, including: Gluten-free Diets, Honey Boo, Occupy Wall Street, Planking, Sulfas, The Hunger Games and Kardashians.

FASHION TRENDS Leggings, popular in the military during World War I, were suddenly back in style again, popularized by headline hunting starlet, Lindsay Lohan. Young girls were especially

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addicted to these leg adornments.

As anyone with two eyes recognizes, the “homeless look” came into fashion. Some jeans are so slashed and torn that one may wonder how they adhere to the body, but they do.

You probably remember when such attire ended up in the trash bin because Good Will and Salvation Army wouldn’t bother with such trashy garments. Such items of clothing often sell for a hundred dollars or better. They call it style.

Studs and gender-bending are the rage. Also, what used to be called passe and “old fashioned” is now treasured as Vintage and Chic. Sequins, Destroyed Denim and Dresses over jeans became trendy in this period of time.

The T.V. series “Mad Men,” spurred return to the 1930s in style. Our grandparents might feel right in style with the current array of polka dot dresses and overalls.

This all became “fashionable” during the first ten years of the 21st Century.

6. The Incredibles 7. Brokeback Mountain 8. The Departed 9. Mystic River 10. The Lord of the Rings

TOP TENS The Top Ten movies of the decade, according to Rolling Stone - maybe you forgot some of them: 1. There Will Be Blood 2. Children of Men 3. Mulholland Drive 4. A History of Violence 5. No Country For Old Men

Top 10 Pop Songs: 1. Poker Face -Lady Gaga 2. Lose Yourself - Eminem 3. Sexy Back - Justin Timberlake 4. Empire State of Mind - Alicia Keys 5. We Belong Together - Mariah Carey

The Top Ten TV Shows: 1. Arrested Development 2. The Wire 3. The West Wing 4. The Daily Show 5. The Office 6. The Sopranos 7. Lost 8. Battleship Galactica 9. Buffy, The Vampire Slayer 10. Mad Men

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strategic communications.

“Those are the types of guys that we should want to get out on TV and radio to help push out the message,” Schlapp said on the call.

“They’ve already been vetted.

But they need to be put on the screens,” Schulze replied.

Schlapp’s husband agreed the president is getting criticized for not appearing to follow the advice of public health experts. Matt Schlapp is chairman of the American Conservative Union, which hosts the annual Conservative Political Action Conference attended by conservative luminaries.

“The president’s going to get tagged by the fake news media as being irresponsible and not listening to doctors,” Matt Schlapp said on the call. “And so we have to gird his loins with a lot of other people. So I think what Nancy’s talking about … this is the critical juncture that

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ical bias in the State Department’s current management but had also taken issue with Democratic appointees. He also played a minor role in the Ukraine impeachment investigation into Trump.

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Ten to one says most of my readers will say, “Who????” Not if you have teenagers in your house or young friends.

You may ask, “Why relive this nonsense?” Well, it isn’t nonsense.

It is who we have been. This entire series has been to retrace our steps since the late 1920s. So much has happened that we have forgotten.

I still remember lye soap, washtubs and washboards. Outside

toilets and oil lamps. Radio crystal sets where only clear channel stations it could be picked up and usually with a lot of static. Tennis shoes with newspaper and cardboard inserts to keep our feet off the ground. Horse and wagon vegetable carriers that brought our food straight from the farm to the city streets.

Ten cent movies on Saturday morning with news, comics, se-

ries plus movies. Every time I think I’m having it hard, I remember those days. Most folks today don’t know what hard times are.

Some of us do. Perhaps if we had taught our children the work ethic the way we were brought up, we wouldn’t be complaining about them wanting to stay at home forever. They’d be stretching the leash to get out into the world and discover all the wonders that lay

ahead of them.

As far back as Aristotle folks have been saying, “Whatever are we going to do about these kids?”

I guess some things never change.

We thought we’d endured the worst in the thirties. Sunshine was about to disappear due to dark clouds of misery and sorrow. We still had a lot to learn.

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we highlight them.”

Matt Schlapp told AP on Monday that he stood behind what he said on the leaked call.

“There is a big dynamic in the national media that will not give President Trump any credit,” he said. “It’s important to get the message out there that most people recover from corona. Most people are not in mortal danger with corona and that we can safely open up the economy.”

As several Republican governors moved last week to lift their state lockdowns, the National Ensemble Forecast used by the CDC to predict COVID-19 infections and deaths saw a corresponding increase. The CDC now forecasts the U.S. will exceed 100,000 deaths by June 1, a grim milestone that previously was not predicted to occur until late in the summer.

As of Tuesday, more than 1.5 million Americans had tested positive for COVID-19, with more than 91,000 deaths reported nationwide.

Experts, including Fauci, have said that is likely an undercount, with the true number being much higher. Meanwhile, Trump has suggested, without providing evidence, that the official death toll from the virus is being inflated.

Schulze, who was working to organize the pro-Trump doctors, did not respond to messages from AP seeking comment.

But after the AP contacted the Trump campaign seeking comment for this story, a Washington public relations firm that frequently works for conservative groups distributed an open letter to Trump signed by more than 400 doctors calling the state coronavirus lockdowns a “mass casualty event” causing “millions of casualties” from alcoholism, homelessness, suicide and other causes.

“It is impossible to overstate the short, medium, and longterm harm to people’s health with a continued shutdown,” the letter said. “Losing a job

is one of life’s most stressful events, and the effect on a person’s health is not lessened because it also has happened to 30 million other people. Keeping schools and universities closed is incalculably detrimental for children, teenagers, and young adults for decades to come.”

The first signature on the letter was Dr. Simone Gold, an emergency medicine specialist in Los Angeles who is listed as a member of the Save Our Country Coalition on the group’s website. She has recently appeared on conservative talk radio and podcast programs to advocate for the use of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that Trump says he is taking because he believes it can prevent COVID-19 even though his own administration has warned it can have deadly side effects.

Gold said she has prescribed the drug to two of her patients with good results.

The Food and Drug Administration warned health pro-

fessionals last month that the drug should not be used to treat COVID-19 outside of hospital or research settings due to sometimes fatal side effects.

Gold told AP on Tuesday she started speaking out against shelter-in-place and other infection control measures because there was “no scientific basis that the average American should be concerned” about COVID-19.

Like the president, she is advocating for a fast reopening, and argues that because the majority of deaths so far have been the elderly and people with preexisting conditions, younger people should be working.

Gold denied she was coordinating her efforts with Trump’s reelection campaign.

“But put this in there: I’m honored to be considered,” she said.

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In October, Linick turned over documents to House investigators that he had received from a State Department counselor, T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, a close Pompeo associate. The material contained information from debunked conspiracy theories about Ukraine’s role in the

2016 U.S. election.

Menendez and Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, have initiated an investigation into Linick’s firing. They demanded that administration officials preserve and turn over all records related

to Linick’s dismissal and provide them to the committees by Friday.

Pompeo did not respond to a question about whether the State Department would comply with the demand, an omission that Engel lamented in a statement.

“It’s disappointing that Secretary Pompeo didn’t seize the

opportunity to clear up the questions surrounding his recommendation to fire Inspector General Linick, or to commit to fulfilling the records request I made with Senator Menendez,” Engel said. “Our investigation will go forward and we still hope for the Secretary’s cooperation.”

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April’s sales total was down 25.6 percent from the 373,070 level in March and down 30.1 percent from a year ago. It was the first time home sales dropped below the 300,000 level since March 2008, and the month-to-month drop was the largest since at least 1979, when C.A.R. began tracking this data. Additionally, the year-over-year decline was the first double-digit loss in 15 months and the largest decrease since December 2007.

“As expected, California home sales experienced the worst monthto-month sales decline in more than four decades as the coronavirus pandemic prompted stay-at-home orders, which kept both buyers and

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losed escrow sales of existing, single-family detached homes in California totaled a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 277,440 units in April, according to information collected

by C.A.R. from more than 90 local REALTOR® associations and MLSs statewide. The statewide annualized sales figure represents what would be the total number of homes sold during 2020 if sales maintained the April pace throughout the year. It is adjusted to account for seasonal factors that typically influence home sales.

sellers on the sidelines,” said 2020 C.A.R. President Jeanne Radsick, a second-generation REALTOR® from Bakersfield, Calif. “While some economic activity will resume as the state gradually reopens, the housing market is expected to remain sluggish for the next couple of months as potential market participants deal with the impact of stayin-place restrictions.”

While the statewide median price remained above the $600,000 benchmark for the second consecutive month in April, price growth showed clear signs of softening when compared to the past six months. The April statewide median price of $606,410 for existing sin-

gle-family homes in the state dipped 1.0 percent from March, and the 0.6 percent gain was essentially flat from April 2019, when the median price was $603,030. The year-over-year price gain was substantially smaller than the six-month average gain of 7.8 percent recorded between October 2019 and March 2020.

“With the recession-level decline in closed home sales, the statewide median price was just barely able to avoid going into negative territory in April, in part because highend homes saw the biggest sales declines,” said C.A.R. Senior Vice President and Chief Economist Leslie Appleton-Young. “Even with tight supply and low interest

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Reflecting the dramatic change in market conditions, a monthly Google poll conducted by C.A.R. in early April found nearly one-third (29 percent) of consumers said it is a good time to sell, up from 26 percent a month ago, but down from 45 percent a year ago. The market uncertainty has not curbed the optimism for homebuying as much; 31 percent of the consumers who responded to the poll believed that now is a good time to buy a home, sharply higher than last year, when 22 percent said it was a good time to buy a home.

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