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Council Member Bonnie Wright Retires from Hemet City Council

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n Tuesday, Jul 28th, during the Hemet City Council meeting Councilwoman Bonnie Wright, who was elected to represent District 4, handed in her resignation.

With just three months short from the Nov. 3rd general election and not leaving time for the seat to be placed on the ballot, the city is left to appoint a registered voter from the 4th District to fill her position.

Some of the responsibilities of City Council are being responsible for the enactment of local laws/ordinances, the adoption of the annual City budget and capital improvement program, and the review and adoption of proposed policies, agreements, contracts, and other City business items.

Bonnie Wright has served on the Hemet City Council since 2012.

Bonnie was re-elected to Council in 2016 when serving as Mayor and again since 2018. She held key positions on several non-profit boards that included Chairman of the Hemet San Jacinto Valley

CLEANUP: Volunteers helped members of the Soboba Tribal Environmental Department sort through and dispose of items that were collected during the department’s annual Community Cleanup Day at the Soboba Indian Reservation on July 16. | Photo courtesy of the Soboba Tribal Environmental Department.

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A Community Cleanup at Soboba Indian Reservation MIKE HILES | CONTRIBUTED

BONNIE WRIGHT | Photo source: Facebook Chamber of Commerce, President of the Hemet Kiwanis, Valley Economic Development Corp and several other local service organizations. Her past recognitions include, Hemet San Jacinto Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year and Kiwanis International Distin-

guished Presidents Award.

According to the City of Hemet, she ends her tenure on the Hemet City Council due to health issues and her retirement from Eastern Municipal Water District, where she managed the District’s grants and loans over ten years.

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Update: SJUSD Will Open Full Distance Learning and Change to First Day of School SJUSD | CONTRIBUTED

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In order to provide a quality instructional program for our students and staff families, we will be postponing our students’ start of the school year. The first day for students will be August 17, 2020, and the last day of school for students will be June 10, 2021. You can expect your child’s school to forward more detailed information in the near future about what this learning at home will look like.

Our school site offices are open for our families during our regular school business hours and our staff are working hard to answer questions about the

distribution of supplies and distance learning equipment that is needed to launch our new school year.

We encourage you to continue to check your email and our district website and/or the school websites for the latest information and updates as we approach the first day of school on August 17.

Thank you for your patience and support of our students and staff, Superintendent Dr. Pyle

MOMENTS IN TIME On July 30, 1999 "The Blair Witch Project," a low-budget, independent horror film that will become a cult hit, is released in theaters. Shot with shaky, handheld cameras, the documentary-style movie told the story of three student filmmakers who disappeared into the woods and were never heard from again. The story was entirely fake.

On July 31, 1916

Future racing legend Louise Smith, the first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, is born in Barnesville, Georgia. In her first race, unaware that a checkered flag meant the finish line, Smith kept going until someone threw out a red flag.

On Aug. 1, 1961 Six Flags Over Texas opens. The park was the first to feature log flume, 360-degree looping roller coaster and modern parachute drop. The park also pioneered the concept of an all-inclusive admission price.

On Aug. 2, 1876 "Wild Bill" Hickok, one of the great-

est gunfighters of the American West, is murdered in Deadwood, South Dakota. Hickok was playing cards with his back to the saloon door when a young gunslinger named Jack McCall shot him in the back of the head.

On Aug. 3, 1958 The U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus accomplishes the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole.

The world's first nuclear submarine traveled nearly 1,000 miles under the Arctic ice cap to reach the pole.

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n an effort to keep the wideopen spaces of the Soboba Indian Reservation as pristine as possible, the Soboba Tribal Environmental Department implemented an annual Community Cleanup Day more than 10 years ago. This year’s event produced the best results so far as residents have used the state’s sheltering-in-place guidelines as an opportunity to clean out garages, sheds and yards.

Steven Estrada, Environmental Manager for the Soboba Tribal Environmental Department, oversees the project each year and said he has seen a decline in open dumping since the cleanups have been initiated.

In addition to community outreach and education efforts such as participating in community events, the department also hosts an annual Tribal Earth Day event as well as its Community Cleanup Day. Staff also conduct surface water quality testing on streams running through the reservation, collect and manage geographical data, and create programs to address environmental concerns.

The department is preparing to start its new grant cycle in October and is currently working on an air emissions inventory for the reservation. Its annual Earth Day event had to be cancelled due to the pandemic, which really impacted the department’s educa-

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Mysterious seed packets from China have been showing up nationwide And now they are in Southern California STAFF WRITER | HSJC

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ysterious, unsolicited packets of seeds possibly from China are arriving in some Southern California mailboxes, prompting state officials to urge recipients to refrain from planting them.

The California Department of Agriculture is aware of the packets and has been in contact with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine what action, if any, is necessary for shipments arriving in California, spokesman Steve Lyle said Monday.

Some officials have said the misleading labels were possibly meant to entice the recipients to open them, and Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles on Tuesday said, “At this point in time, we don’t have enough infor-

SEEDS: Thousands of US residents living in more than 30 states nationwide have reported receiving the “mysterious and unsolicited” seed packages from China, according to officials now investigating the source and reason for the unwanted deliveries. | Courtesy Photos. mation to know if this is a hoax, a prank, an internet scam or an act of agricultural bio-terrorism.”

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On Aug. 4, 1944

Acting on a tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse.

The Franks had taken shelter there in 1942 out of fear of deportation to a Nazi concentration camp.

On Aug. 5, 1962 Movie actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles of an apparent suicide. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were littered around her bedroom.

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Riverside County health officials ask residents to call 9-1-1 when they have urgent health needs Riverside County health officials are reminding residents to seek emergency care when they have potentially serious symptoms such as chest pains, shortness of breath or signs of a stroke, and not wait to call 9-1-1 out of fear of catching coronavirus.

Officials are concerned that residents are waiting too long to call 9-1-1 when they begin to have symptoms because they are afraid of contracting COVID-19 at the hospital or during transport to a medical facility. By waiting, the patients may come into the hospital in more serious condition then they would have otherwise. “Our Emergency Management System and hospital providers have taken numerous measures to prevent exposure and spread of coronavirus,� said Bruce Barton, director of the Emergency Management Department. “It is important that patients call 9-1-1 when serious symptoms first develop, so they can begin to receive the care that will help them recover more quickly. In some cases, these delays can be a matter of life and death.�

Hospitals have implemented individual surge plans to cope with the influx of COVID-19 patients in addition to handling patients who have other critical problems. These surge plans include increasing the number of ICU beds within the facility and techniques on how to prevent exposure and spread of coronavirus. “With health emergencies, every second is critical,� said Riverside County Board Chair and Fourth District Supervisor V. Manuel Perez. “The sooner people experiencing strokes, heart attacks, appendicitis or any type of urgent medical need can get to the hospital and get treated, the greater the chance for survival and successful recovery. I commend our health care workers who, in addition to being on the frontlines of the pandemic, provide life-saving quality care when it is immediately needed.�

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Antibody study shows coronavirus spread wider in Riverside County Wearing a face covering will slow the spread from asymptomatic carriers.

Results of a COVID-19 antibody testing study indicate the virus may have infected more than 100,000 Riverside County residents. This finding underscores the need to wear face coverings as people may have the virus without any symptoms, then easily spread it to others when not wearing a mask or keeping six feet of distance.

The randomized study, the results of which are still being analyzed, was conducted over two weekends this month. Riverside County health officials originally planned to test 3,500 randomly selected residents to determine whether they had been exposed to coronavirus and developed COVID-19 antibodies.

Here are some preliminary results from the study: • 1,726 individuals were tested and 101 showed they had developed antibodies for COVID-19, this is a positivity rate of 5.9 percent. • 1,621 tested negative; Four had unclear results.

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Tyler’s beautiful amber eyes reflect an intelligent dog that is ready and willing to learn. He loves going on long walks and playing fetch in the dog park. He is affectionate and charming towards people that he knows. However, he can be shy, which makes him a little wary of strangers.

He has been with other dogs but likes to be the one in charge. Overall, Tyler just wants to be your pal – whether it’s going on a hike or hanging out in the home. Tyler will be a kindhearted, loyal addition to your home. He would prefer an experienced dog owner that is firm, but calm and a consistent pack leader that will give him confidence.

It is recommended that Tyler go to an adult only home.

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he San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority has adopted a series of changes to its Thruway Bus Network that will take effect on August 1, 2020.

The COVID-19 crisis has severely impacted public transportation ridership throughout California. Although San Joaquins ridership is beginning to rise, it will take time for California to fully recover from the impacts of this pandemic and for transportation demand to return to previous levels. The San Joaquins rail service operations have been reduced from 7 daily round-trips to 4 daily round-trips, and thruway bus service has been reduced on several routes. “We are proud to continue to provide transportation service to our communities for essential travel during this crisis, but there is no doubt that additional cuts and cost-savings measures are needed at this time to align our service levels to current and near-term ridership demand,� said Stacey Mortensen, Executive Director of the San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority. “We see these route changes as a necessary step due to constraints on state budgets and severely reduced ridership and revenue. Additionally, these service changes offer an opportunity to refine our network so that it is best aligned with ridership needs and will position us as a stable transportation service in the long-term.�

The San Joaquins Thruway Bus Network is extensive throughout California and includes 14 routes that extend as far north as McKinleyville and Redding, and as far south as San Diego, southeast to Las Vegas and Indio, and southwest to Santa Barbara. The Thruway Bus Network has operated largely unchanged for decades. But now many of the San Joaquins Thruway Bus routes, which were once cost-effective, are now costing considerably more to operate than the total revenue that they generate.

The SJJPA is taking steps based on data and analysis to better align the Thruway Bus service with current and projected ridership needs. Some routes are being truncated with stops being moved or eliminated, while other routes will be suspended indefinitely. These changes are being made carefully to protect the most highly utilized routes and markets so that there is the least potential impact on San Joaquins riders.

New partnerships with public transportation operators and minor route improvements (such as new or relocated stops) may also help increase ridership and improve long-term cost effectiveness.

The San Joaquins Thruway Bus Network will remain a vital part of the San Joaquins operations and will become even more important in the future when providing feeder service to the Merced-Bakersfield HSR Interim Operating Segment.

A summary of the route changes is below:

• Route 7 (Martinez-Napa-Santa Rosa-Eureka-McKinleyville): Service is being truncated at Arcata. Stops are being eliminated at McKinleyville and Rio Dell-Scotia.

One additional round-trip is being added to serve Martinez-Vallejo-Petaluma-Rohnert Park-Santa Rosa. Humboldt Transit will provide a free connection for Amtrak San Joaquins riders to utilize their transit system to McKinleyville (from Arcata) or Rio Dell-Scotia (from Fortuna). • Route 12 (Bakersfield-Victorville): This route has been suspended indefinitely. • Route 18b (Hanford- Visalia): Service between Hanford and Visalia is being terminated on Route 18b. Riders can still travel on Route 18a between Hanford and San Luis Obispo/Santa Maria. • Route 19 (Bakersfield-Riverside-Hemet/ Bakersfield-Riverside-Palm Springs-Indio): Service is being truncated at San Bernardino.

Three daily round trips will stop at La Cresenta, Pasadena, Claremont, Ontario, Riverside, and San Bernardino. Stops are being eliminated at Cabazon, Palm Springs (Airport), Palm Springs (Downtown), Palm Desert, La Quinta, Indio, Moreno Valley, Perris, Sun City/Menifee, Hemet, Hemet (Simpson Center). Passengers will instead be able to utilize Pacific Surfliner buses from San Bernardino to Palm Springs and can book their tickets at the AmtrakSanJoaquins.com, Amtrak.com, and the Amtrak App. The most current schedules and station information can be found at www.AmtrakSanJoaquins.com.

About the San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority (SJJPA) Since July 2015, SJJPA has been responsible for the management and administration of Amtrak San Joaquins. SJJPA is governed by Board Members representing each of the ten (10) Member Agencies along the 365-mile San Joaquins Corridor. For more information on SJJPA see www.sjjpa.com.

Amtrak San Joaquins is Amtrak’s 6th busiest route with 1.1 million annual riders and 18 stations providing a safe, comfortable and reliable way to travel throughout California. Prior to service modifications due to the COVID-19 crisis, Amtrak San Joaquins ran 7 daily train round-trips and its Thruway buses provided connecting service to 135 destinations in California and Nevada including Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Napa Valley, Las Vegas and Reno. To book your next trip, visit www.AmtrakSanJoaquins.com or call 1-800-USA-RAIL.

JELLYBEAN

Male DSH Orange/ White Tabby DOB: 1/1/17

Meet Jellybean! He is as sweet as can be! Jellybean is a very social and curious boy! While at the Cattery, you can find him playing with toys, climbing cat trees, and soaking up the sun! He loves attention and is always looking for something new and fun to do! Jellybean loves to be the center of attention so he would do well in a home without other cats or dogs.

All of our cats are spayed or neutered, microchipped, and up to date on vaccinations. Cats must be indoors only. Declawing is not allowed.

Ramona Humane Society, 690 Humane Way, San Jacinto, CA 92582.

Tel: (951) 654-8002 Press 4 for the operator. E-mail: ramonahumanesociety@yahoo.com

TRAIN: As the State and Counties along the Amtrak San Joaquins Service corridor have implemented severe restrictions on non-essential travel, all transit agencies have been asked to reduce service to deal with the drop in ridership and revenue, while also trying to maintain the desired social spacing to prevent the potential spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) onboard. Amtrak San Joaquins staff are monitoring Coronavirus developments on a daily basis and participating in frequent updates from local, state, and federal public health agencies and local jurisdictions. | Photo courtesy of San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority.

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he upcoming school year will be like nothing teachers, students, and families have ever experienced, as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic steers school systems to embrace online learning and incorporate it in new ways.

However, school systems across the country are rising to the challenge and staying connected to their students with dynamic digital resources, such as those from Discovery Education.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, school systems across the country have invested in digital services like Discovery Education Experience because they support students' education at

home, in the classroom or wherever learning is taking place.

Experience - Discovery Education's flexible K-12 learning platform - connects educators to a vast collection of compelling high-quality, standards-aligned content, ready-to-use digital lessons, and professional learning resources. Together, these resources give educators everything they need to facilitate instruction in any learning environment and create lasting educational impact.

"Discovery Education is committed to keeping students and teachers connected to learning at home or in school," says Scott Kinney, Discovery Education's president of K-12 Education.

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ner with school systems to provide students and teachers the digital resources - such as Discovery Education Experience they need for success during this school year and beyond."

In addition, to providing school systems digital resources Discovery Education provides teachers the professional development they need to use new technologies and maximize their school district's technology investment.

Discovery Education has a long history as a global leader in digital curricula that align with the current standards for K-12 education, and their products include digital textbooks, multimedia resources, and professional learning for educators.

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Faith in protest as young people This Land is OUR Land! find fervor on the street SUSAN BECKETT | COLUMNIST

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“I can’t breathe!’” the crowd chanted, invoking the dying words spoken by George Floyd as a white police officer pressed a knee into his neck.

Kianna Ruff yelled it over and over along with hundreds of fellow protesters as they marched for hours through New York City, a kind of collective mantra that touched someplace deep inside those present.

“I just started choking and I broke down,” the 28-yearold activist and minister said.

“And I do feel like that that was also a spiritual experience that I’ve never experienced before.”

The demonstrations against police brutality and systemic racism that have raged in the wake of Floyd’s killing are often led by young people who find a sense of purpose, ritual and community on the streets. Many involved say the protests deepen spiritual connections and embody familiar elements of traditional faith.

The demonstrators kneel.

They observe mournful moments of silence. They break into call-and-response: “What do we want?” and “Justice!” From Los Angeles to New York, Milwaukee to Minneapolis, they stand shoulder-to-shoulder and find common cause in their shared fervor.

“I can say this is liturgy in the street,” said the Rev. Jacqueline Lewis, pastor of the Middle Collegiate Church in New York’s East Village. “This is church in the street, it is song in the street, it is lament in the street. The tears are in the street.”

“When the kids say, ‘Black Lives Matter!’” Lewis continued, “that’s a prayer.”

Americans are becoming less religious in the formal, traditional sense, and the trend is more marked among young adults, according to Pew Research Center surveys from recent years. Young people, who make up a core part of the protesters, are less likely to pray daily, attend religious services or believe in God. Still, surveys show younger Americans are just as spiritual as their older counterparts, and many have found other expressions of faith outside formal religion.

In its “How We Gather” study, Harvard Divinity School researchers documented wide-ranging spiritual communities for the young ranging from Afro Flow Yoga and dinner churches to public meditation groups.

Fears about the future have also led many to activism.

Tens of thousands walked out of schools in 2018 to demand action on gun violence

PROTEST: Kianna Ruff, left, and Erin Hancock, right, two activists who met in seminary, protest against racial injustice and police brutality July 26, 2020, in Manhattan, New York. | AP Photo/Emily Leshner. in one of the biggest student protests since the Vietnam era. Inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, hundreds of thousands marched worldwide in 2019 demanding urgent action on climate change.

This year that has manifested in the struggle against police brutality and racism.

“All of these issues intersect because they all disproportionately impact Black people,” said 19-year-old Aalayah Eastmond, who survived the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, became a gun-control activist and is now organizing protests against racial injustice with the group Concerned Citizens of D.C. Her group begins demonstrations with a collective prayer that’s inclusive of nonbelievers, she said - the point is closeness and togetherness.

“We stand in a circle and one person just prays for us to one, be safe in the middle of these protests, because they can get very violent. ... And for folks to really feel empowered and moved while they’re protesting,” Eastmond said.

Nationwide, the demonstrations have tended to be diverse in terms of markers like generation, ethnicity and gender, but Ruff, a graduate of the divinity school at Union Theological Seminary in New York, said community thrives despite such differences.

It’s about “being in those groups and feeling that energy, you know, that God wants you there,” Ruff said.

“And there’s so many people,” she added. “Whether they believe what you believe or not, that’s not what’s important. What’s important is the common goal.”

During a recent “Buddhists For Black Lives Matter” march in Los Angeles, Tahil Sharma walked with others in a slow, wordless procession whose silence had a similarly powerful effect as the ritual chanting of other demonstrations.

“That march was so different. ... The emotional swelling that we felt of every second passing as we were breathing and praying was a remind-

er of the seconds of air that George Floyd was gasping for,” said Sharma, a 28-yearold interfaith activist born to a Hindu father and a Sikh mother.

Many demonstrations have seen protesters honoring the dead by reciting their names in what resembles a litany.

Another common element is the creation of spaces explicitly or implicitly spiritual in nature and symbolism: In Minneapolis, protesters set up a floral altar memorial at the site where Floyd died, while in Houston, a newly painted mural depicts him with an angelic halo and wings.

“People bring in pictures, flowers, they’re burning candles, incense, making music and really kind of creating a physical space where they’re holding the spirit of a loved one,” said Casper ter Kuile, author of “The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities Into Soulful Practices.”

“There’s a really interesting kind of lived religion, as sociologists would call it, on the streets within these protests,” ter Kuile said.

In Milwaukee, a Muslims artists’ collective recently spent hours painting a mural depicting a family on a sofa under the words: “Our Kids Will Not Be Next,” as passing drivers honked horns in solidarity.

“Art is a perfect middle ground for people to unite,” said Amal Azzam, the 27-year-old co-founder of Fanana Banana, which organized the event. “Milwaukee is a very segregated city. ...

These are the things that help connect the communities.”

That’s a sentiment shared

by Sharma, in Los Angeles, who became involved in interfaith literacy and social justice following the 2012 deadly shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

“When I see that entire world marching with me to fight for the rights of others, I feel I am in prayer,” he said.

“When we shut down systems of oppression together, acknowledging our differences for a common cause, that’s when I know my prayers are being answered.”

ur world seems pretty messed up right now and that’s probably an extreme understatement! China is still behaving badly, Hong Kong is under siege, the middle class in Venezuela is suffering under socialism, and North Korea is still under a ruthless dictatorship! And unfortunately, to that nation-challenged list I would sadly now add our own America. We are definitely not China, Hong Kong, Venezuela or North Korea, but we are creating our own unique set of problems.

You’d have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to be aware of the good, the bad and the ugly that’s currently happening in our own nation. For me, as a Christ-follower, watching all the lawlessness and anarchy forces me to ask a simple but frank question: Does the Bible tell us to obey bad laws?

And this is not a question about who’s right but what’s right! Our own state governor has again mandated that churches not meet; just before this new decree we were finally ”allowed” to reopen but with minimum people and were ordered not to sing! Protest sure sing no! So what gives here?

Many believe the Bible tells us to obey bad laws, no matter what. But is that what it really says? We are told that the Roman government Paul wrote about was even more repressive than ours - they even martyred people. They say Paul never demanded his rights from the Roman government or called them into account. That in the face of a brutal government just obey - the political arena is not for Christians, that

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This study describes the prevalence of COVID-19, which will be used to inform planning efforts. This study is unique in that it included both children (5 years and older) and adults. Antibodies are part of the body’s defense against infections.

Antibodies develop and stay in the blood even after the infection is over.

Public Health is not creating a list of participants and will not collect the individual information from the study.

“The data gleaned from the study provides im-

never in the history of the church has God used government to bring about change. But is any of this true?

No! Not a word is Biblically or historically accurate. The reason people were martyred was because they didn’t obey many of the Roman laws; and Paul actually did call the Roman government into account for their actions and for centuries Christians have worked with governments to enact positive change everything from abolishing slavery to enacting child labor laws and health regulations. It’s safe to say that Christians are responsible for bringing about reform and standing up for justice more than any other group in history!

Reading through Romans 13:1-7 you will find that we are first told to “be subject to the governing authorities” but then in the following verses Paul gives a description of what a good government looks like. They are not a terror to good works, in fact they actually praise good works and those who perform them. They are appointed to protect the guiltless and punish evildoers. It’s worth your time to take a read through those verses.

There’s an amazing little verse found in Ps 94:20 which gives us an incredible Biblical truth: “It’s obvious to all; you will have nothing to do with corrupt rulers who pass laws that empower evil and defeat what is right.” Whoa - where did that come from and what Biblical individual ever followed it? Lots actually, but by far the best example has to be Daniel. He served under several Babylonian kings, the most memorable being King Darius.

portant information that will help guide our efforts and direction as we move forward,” said Dr. Errin Rider, laboratory director for Riverside University Health System-Public Health. “We appreciate those who agreed to take part in the study; they have contributed to the fight against the pandemic.”

Residents could not volunteer for the study, in part, because health officials wanted a more representative sampling of the community.

“We believe the number and variety of participants shows the study successfully recruited an excellent representation of the community and accurately reflects the prevalence of the antibody in Riverside County,” said Dr. Tait Stevens, with Riverside Uni-

SUSAN BECKETT | Courtesy Photo The corrupt leadership under Darius sought to bring down Daniel but apparently the laws of Darius weren’t all that bad and Daniel followed them. No problem! So this bad boys gang got together and wrote up a new law they knew Daniel would oppose - one that decreed he couldn’t pray to God. I personally think Darius signed the bad law having been up way too late the night before partying! Anyway - as soon as the shady law was passed Daniel openly prayed to God and — you know the rest — he got himself thrown into lion jail. (Read the story for yourself in Daniel 6 - he came out totally unscathed.)

But It’s clear laws can be bad. In fact, the worst laws are those that provide legitimacy to lawlessness and evil. That’s why over five hundred years after Daniel, Peter delivered this wellknown declaration: “We ought to obey God rather than men,” and now almost two thousand years later we face the same dilemma.

Albert Einstein, over 70 years ago said this: “Never do anything against your conscience even if the state demands it.” My advice today? Just do the right thing!

Bob and Susan Beckett pastor The Dwelling Place City Church at 27100 Girard Street in Hemet. For more information you can visit them at DPCityChurch.com. versity Health System and co-author of the study.

As a reminder, the medical community does not yet know the extent of the benefits of testing positive for coronavirus antibodies. For example, it is not yet known if someone can contract the virus again after testing positive for antibodies.

“We continue to learn new information about coronavirus, and this survey adds important research to the growing knowledge of COVID-19,” said Riverside County Board Chair and Fourth District Supervisor V. Manuel Perez. “We still must protect everybody out there who is susceptible to getting sick, and we should do so by wearing face coverings, physical distancing, washing our hands and avoiding gatherings.”

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As crime surges on his watch, Trump warns of Biden’s America AAMER MADHANI | AP NEWS

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resident Donald Trump is painting a dystopian portrait of what Joe Biden’s America might look like, asserting crime and chaos would ravage communities should the former vice president win the White House in November.

Left unsaid: A recent surge in violent crime in several American cities has happened on his watch.

“Irony is way down the list of things that President Trump worries about,” said Robert Spitzer, a political scientist at the State University of New York College at Cortland whose research focuses on gun politics and the American presidency. “He’s turning to the old playbook — appeal to the fears of Americans and then associate those fears with the Democratic Party, specifically Joe Biden.”

Trump’s attempt to cast Biden in that light follows a pattern seen throughout his presidency, where he attempts to shift responsibility, often to President Barack Obama, even more than three years after taking office.

With echoes of Richard Nixon’s law-and-order campaign in 1968, Trump is trying to energize his conservative base while also making an appeal to a small patch of undecided voters by posing the question: Which man will keep you safer?

By leaning hard on select scenes of violence, Trump is banking on that unrest continuing. But the protests could wane. Violent crime around the U.S. has been on a downward trajectory for the better part of the last three decades.

Lanae Erickson, a senior vice president for social policy and politics at the center-left think tank Third Way, said Trump’s attempt

to use the Nixon playbook and tap into anxieties about crime is odd given that, unlike Nixon in 1968, Trump is already in the White House.

“Trump is the incumbent, so if bad things are happening right now, they get blamed on him,” Erickson said. “I don’t know how he can persuade voters that it’s Joe Biden’s fault.”

Trump has tried to paint Biden as captive of his party’s most liberal elements who have called to dramatically reshape policing in America.

His campaign has aired advertising in battleground states that shows a woman calling police for help as an intruder breaks into her home and getting a voice recording informing her that, because the police have been defunded, no one is available to take her call.

The president recently tweeted a warning to “Suburban Housewives of America” that “Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American dream.”

“No one will be SAFE in Joe Biden’s America!” Trump declared.

Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York have seen spikes in violent crime and homicides this year. And Trump has dispatched federal agents or announced plans to send agents to Albuquerque, New Mexico, Chicago, and Kansas City, Missouri, to try to stop the unrest. He’s also sent federal agents to Portland, Oregon, to try to forcibly quell protests around the federal courthouse.

Trump has tried to argue that Biden, at least implicitly, would condone unchecked violence.

Last week, Trump said he’d like to flood Chicago, which has seen a 51% increase in homicides and a 47% increase in shootings compared to the same time last year,

with “50,000 or 75,000 people” and “solve it like you wouldn’t believe.”

But Trump said he wouldn’t do it because of a lack of cooperation from the city’s leadership.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said that Trump, despite his tough talk, has shown little interest in addressing a central issue driving the violence in the city: About 60% of firearms recovered in crimes committed in Chicago were originally purchased outside Illinois.

“We need you, as President, to take a leadership role in enacting meaningful and common-sense gun legislation, which you so far have refused to do,” Lightfoot, a Democrat, wrote in a letter to Trump last week.

At the center of Trump’s attempts to cast Biden as weak on crime is pushing the unfounded notion that Biden wants to defund the police.

In an interview with “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, Trump incorrectly cited a charter between Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that was signed as part of the Unity Task Force, an effort to find common ground between the more moderate Biden backers and Sanders’ liberal supporters.

But the task force’s recommendations for the Democratic platform does not mention defunding police. Trump was unable to show Wallace language in the task force document that said as much.

Still, Trump campaign spokesperson Hogan Gidley hammered on the point during a Monday call to update grassroots activists on strategy.

“He has consistently been silent in the midst of communities devolving into lawlessness,” Gidley said of the former vice president.

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WHITE HOUSE: In this July 24, 2020, file photo White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany stands as a video from Portland, Ore., is shown during a press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. Trump is painting a dystopian portrait of what Joe Biden’s America might look like, asserting crime and chaos would ravage communities should the former vice president win the White House in November. Left unmentioned by Trump is that a recent surge in violent crime recently endured in several big American cities has come under his watch. | Photo by AP News.

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The blaze exploded in size after breaking out around 2 p.m. near the tiny community of California Valley in eastern San Luis Obispo County, according to the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

By 8:30 p.m. flames had burned at least one structure and consumed nearly 3000 acres (1,214 hectares) of brush, officials said.

An unknown number of rural homes were evacuated and a section of State Route 58 was closed.

The Branch Fire was 30% contained. The cause was under investigation.

Meanwhile firefighters gained ground on a large wildfire in rural northeastern California. The 34-square-mile (88-square-kilometer) Gold Fire in northern Lassen County was 65% contained Tuesday afternoon, Cal Fire said.

The fire has been burning since July 20 in an area of private homes, ranches and commercial operations near the community of Adin.

Three areas remain under evacuation orders and evacuation warnings are in effect for a wider area.

In southern Lassen County, the nearly 15-square-mile (38.5-square-kilometer) Hog Fire west of Susanville was 64% contained.

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THE POLITICAL NOTEBOOK From the Democrats of Hemet-San Jacinto

TESTING TESTING 1 – 2 – 3 TESTING Testing for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been in the news for several months now. The first reports of cases of what would become COVID-19 came on December 31, 2019.

There are now over 15 million diagnosed cases worldwide, and the number of confirmed cases in the United States has surpassed 4 million. Recent anti-body testing suggests that the number of cases in the U.S. has been underreported by a factor of 4 to 24 which translates into 16 to 96 million cases. The reason for such underreporting is that many people have not gotten sick enough to be tested or had no symptoms at all. This is a frightening statistic because we know that those with little or no symptoms could still spread the virus. While my body is successfully fighting off the virus, I could still be passing it on to someone else. The only way to combat the spread of such a virus is to test almost everyone and quarantine everyone who test positive. And this process can only be successful if test results are available almost immediately after being tested. A delay of several days means I could be spreading the virus while waiting for test results. And even if I don’t have the virus today doesn’t mean I won’t catch it tomorrow.

Preventative measures are absolutely necessary to slow the spread.

That means wearing a mask, washing hands very frequently using disinfectants, minimizing social contacts, and keeping socially distanced when I need to have human interaction. Little things like buying two weeks’ worth of groceries instead of one have the effect of reducing my contacts. Acting in a manner that anyone you come close to could have the virus would help keep you and others safe. Despite all of us taking all the precautions that we can, this will not stop the spread of the virus, only slow it down.

We have already reached the place where this virus will be with us for decades, if not forever just like most of other Coronaviruses that cause the common flu or colds. Only a vaccine will bring the numbers down to manageable numbers.

In the meantime, the best thing we as a society can do is to ramp up testing so that all of us can get tested multiple times.

Unfortunately, the Trump administration has failed miserably to get testing where it needs to be. Trump disbanded the federal agency two years ago that was responsible for planning a response to such events. Thus, when the news came that China had a problem no immediate action was taken. And while Trump likes to brag about his stopping flights from Wuhan China, the ban was not managed effectively, leaked like a sieve, and was nowhere near enough to protect us. One strand of the virus came to us from Europe, not China. Trump took no immediate action to ramp up testing, to ensure enough swabs and protective gear like gowns and facemasks would be available, that the chemical agents used in the testing process would be available. Trump was much more effective at preventing a timely response by disbanding the pandemic planning agency than he was at keeping the virus from reaching America. In fact, Trump has never understood and still doesn’t understand the importance of testing. The first available adequate test was available from WHO by the time we became aware of the need but the Trump administration chose to reinvent the wheel and tried to design a test in America. I suspect there was a profit motive in doing this. Unfortunately, the first couple of attempts to design and manufacture our own test were not successful, costing us very valuable time in responding effectively. By the time our own tests were available and working, we were far behind the curve and many needless deaths and suffering would occur. As soon as Trump realized that increased testing would expose just how ineffective our response was and of his total failure to provide adequate leadership in our time of need, he deliberately slowed the testing down. He has admitted this in his public statements. The testing was slowed down by his administration interfering with the distribution process by seizing orders of testing materials destined for States that had ordered them and moving very slowly to distribute them in a timely manner. He failed to provide adequate funding to ramp up testing. Virtually every other industrialized nation has outperformed us in the testing process. While we have approximately 4% of the world’s population, we have over 25% of the Covid-19 cases. Who would have thought that with all of the medical and industrial resources that the United States possesses, we would be among the worst at responding to this pandemic?

Ron Klain, who served a President Obama’s Ebola czar said, “We had ample notice to get our country ready.” He goes on to list the rolling out of testing, securing protective equipment, and building up hospital capacity as necessary preventative measures.

“We spent all of January and February doing none of those things, and as a result, when this disease really exploded in March, we weren’t prepared.”

Sometime in the next four years, there will be another crisis, perhaps military or a major recession or climate change issues.

We must have a real leader in the White House when it happens.

Trump’s history of failures tells us he is not the one capable to lead us in troubled times. Trump has not passed the test.

Dick Gale, President of Democrats of Hemet-San Jacinto

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“The only time he does pop up out of his hidy-hole, he says we’re going to defund the police.”

Peter Scharf, a criminologist at Louisiana State University School of Public Health who has advised the New Orleans Police Department’s reform efforts, said Biden’s stance on policing is complicated and one that Trump will look to further muddy.

Biden, as a senator, played a key role in writing the 1994 crime bill — tough-on-crime legislation that critics say fueled mass incarceration.

During the primary, fellow Democrats repeatedly criticized Biden over the bill. His criminal justice proposal reverses some key provisions of the crime bill. He has also apologized for supporting some policies in the 1990s that he now recognizes were harmful, such

as sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine.

While Biden does not support defunding police departments, the push in some left-leaning big cities to drastically overhaul police budgets could put him in a difficult position, Scharf said. The majority of Seattle’s nonpartisan City Council, for example, has publicly embraced calls to cut the city’s 2021 police budget by half.

That makes it crucial that Biden become more proactive in laying out his vision for reinvention of the modern police force to prevent Trump’s anti-police jabs from sticking, Scharf added.

“You don’t want this to turn into your Willie Horton moment,” said Scharf, referring to George H.W. Bush’s 1988 campaign’s effort to tie Democratic Gov. Michael Dukakis to a convict who raped a woman during a weekend furlough. “If he’s not proactive, Trump could turn this into Biden’s Achilles’ heel.”

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Advertising is a problem-solving business JOHN FOUST | COLUMNIST

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hen I heard the doorbell ring that Saturday afternoon, I did something I had never done before. I bought something from a doorto-door salesperson.

It was a pest control representative who was canvassing the neighborhood for new business. The logo on his bright green golf shirt matched his truck in the driveway.

He introduced himself and said, “I see you have a vole problem. Have you tried anything?”

“How do you know there’s a vole problem?” I asked.

“When I got out of the truck, I noticed the spongy ground next to the driveway. That’s an obvious sign.”

In just a few seconds, he had identified a problem. Obviously, he knew what he was doing. “You’re right,” I said. “We’ve had voles in our yard for several years. A company has been working on the problem, but that doesn’t seem to be helping.”

Voles are small mole-like rodents that burrow underground and feast on the bulbs and roots of plants.

The ground in an infested area is spongy, because their tunnels are close to the surface. A mating pair

can produce up to 100 voles in a year. In other words, if voles settle in your yard, you’ll have a lot of them in a short period of time.

That salesperson caught me at the right time to make a sale, because he was observant. He knew without a doubt that there was a problem that needed to be solved.

He said his company had a special treatment which was proven to have impressive results. I agreed to let them give it a try. Within a few weeks after their first treatment, we could tell a difference. Although the treatments haven’t eliminated the problem completely (can anything do that?), it has dramatically reduced the infestation.

His approach illustrated the importance of being observant. His company’s customer database probably revealed information about neighborhoods with vole problems.

And he looked for symptoms when he pulled into the driveway.

Although selling advertising is not quite like selling pest control services, there are a number of things to observe before approaching an advertising prospect. Here are a few examples: 1. History. What promotions has your prospect run in past years?

What were the results? What les-

sons can be learned?

2. Time of year. Is there a prime buying season for the widgets your prospect sells? People usually don’t buy lawnmowers in the winter or snowblowers in the summer.

3. News stories. Have they announced the addition of a new product line? Is there going to be a grand opening of a new location? Has there been an ownership change?

4. Ads in other media. Are they running ads in other advertising outlets? That’s a clear sign that they have a marketing budget and may be open to other ideas.

5. Competitors. What products and services are currently being promoted by their competitors?

They’re running those ads now for a reason. Maybe you could follow their example.

Who knows? One of these ideas might ring a bell.

John Foust has conducted training programs for thousands of newspaper advertising professionals. Many ad departments are using his training videos to save time and get quick results from in-house training. E-mail for information: john@johnfoust.com

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Joe Biden’s Shockingly Adequate Campaign RICH LOWRY | COLUMNIST

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he Biden campaign has been lucky most of all, but it’s also been smart, at least smart enough.

To go, as Joe Biden did, from left for dead to sweeping to the Democratic nomination and quickly thereafter emerging as the favorite in November is a run of success that would be the envy of any national politician.

It’s easy to consider this a mere accident given the weakness of Biden’s opponents, first a socialist in the Democratic primaries who had a ceiling on his support and now an incumbent president whose ratings have sagged.

The Biden team certainly isn’t going to rewrite any campaign playbooks or dazzle anyone with its brilliance, but it has avoided serious mistakes and demonstrated an understanding of the basic political terrain and its candidate’s strengths. It hasn’t asked Biden to do anything out of his comfort zone or beyond his capabilities and has been content for President Donald Trump to dominate all the attention, so long as Trump is not advancing his cause, and often setting it back, with all the airtime and headlines.

Above all, the campaign has avoided the most politically peril-

ous ideological excesses throughout. This has required some discipline, given how influential woke Twitter is on the left.

Biden’s theory of the Democratic Party, even if it seemed doubtful at the outset, proved correct -- that the center of gravity of the party was still with, as he put it, ObamaBiden Democrats rather than with the avowed socialists and social justice warriors.

Biden hewed to this line when other candidates went the other way. It might seem obvious that endorsing “Medicare for All,” which involves yanking away the private health insurance of more than a 100 million Americans, is foolish and politically indefensible, but several candidates in the Democrat race did it anyway.

He’s steered clear of other pitfalls since locking up the nomination.

He’s said he wouldn’t ban fracking.

He didn’t endorse defunding the police. He defended the statues of America’s founders.

He’s indisputably slid left. This has been his MO his entire career -- to stay smack in the middle of whatever is the consensus position of the Democratic Party at any given time.

His campaign knows that it benefits if the election is a referendum on Trump -- and is acting accordWhy should Biden try ingly.

RICH LOWRY | Courtesy photo. to take the mic from Trump if the president is using it to feud with Bubba Wallace and Dr. Anthony Fauci? Not only do these diversions do nothing to dent Biden, they serve to validate the former vice president’s case that the county needs a return to normalcy.

Still, nothing is decided in July.

Biden’s record and agenda give Trump targets to shoot at, and he should obviously take every opportunity to make the election, to the extent he can, about the radicalism of the Democratic Party.

Finally, there’s the fact that Biden is an unsteady performer at best.

The strictures around COVID-19 have relieved him of the rigors of the typical presidential campaign, but he’s going to have to emerge to participate in a debate or debates in the fall, and no one can rule out some catastrophic failure.

So, Trump can’t be counted out.

But the Biden campaign is canny enough that it isn’t going to make it easy for him.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

THE FRANKEN COLUMN

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et’s suppose Donald Trump and his family, the Trumpettes, really go down in flames on Election Day, and let’s suppose their last-minute desperate efforts to hold onto power fail.

What are they going to do when they’re not facing legal action for all their crimes? That’s easy: The big guy, former President Donald Trump can go back to his life as a successful huckster.

He’s displayed a real talent for pitching products on TV once again with that picture of him in the White House surrounded with Goya products. This, after Goya CEO Bob Unanue stood in the Rose Garden and gushed, “We’re all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump.”

As one can imagine, that caused an uproar in the Latino community, where Trump is not all that popular. How’s that for under-

statement? At any rate, it set off a major boycott of Goya products.

And that’s what inspired President Trump to make his pitch.

Not only that, but daughter and senior White House adviser Ivanka modeled her own promo for Goya, posing flashing her pearly whites while holding a can of Goya beans.

Both of those might be violations of the Hatch Act, which prohibits a federal employee from endorsing commercial products, but since when do the Trumpsters pay attention to laws? Just add that to the list of legal reckonings. But setting all that aside, it reveals what we can expect out of Donald Trump if he fails in his effort to be U.S. ruler-for-life. He can copyright an 800 number, like 1-800-HAS-BEEN, or in the case of Goya, 1-800-HAS-BEAN, and sell his alleged heart out. For that matter, Ivanka could become his Vanna White. Melania shouldn’t be a problem. Once she leaves the

BOB FRANKEN | Courtesy photo.

White House, she’ll just ignore Trump.

There’s no end to the products he can sell. Certainly, there would be Dr. Trump’s Magic Coronavirus Elixir. He’s had a lot of experience with that one. As part of that TV commercial, Dr. Trump would take a dose, just like he maintains he did with hydroxychloroquine, which can literally make you crazy. By the way, I don’t need to tell you where he got his doctorate, do I? From Trump University.

He will certainly sell Confed-

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tion objective. Estrada said the April event has always drawn the most tribal member participation.

He noted that the biggest difference in this year’s clean-up effort was not having as many youth participants. In the past, many would volunteer as part of their youth program’s community service component, but some of those programs were put on hold due to COVID-19 restrictions. All those that did work, including TANF staff members and TANF youth volunteers, wore masks and gloves during the four-hour collection period on July 16.

“We had a lot of participation from tribal residents like we do every year, but this year there were multiple trips by individual households,” Estrada said. “The drop-offs were continuous and some even came in shortly after our 2 p.m. ending time.”

Dondi Silvas said her family

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“This program gave me an opportunity to get rid of big items that were cluttering my house,” she said. “I got rid of an old broken-down bedroom set I was waiting to throw out (queen-size mattress, box spring, two dressers and a nightstand) and other

miscellaneous items.”

Her son, professional basketball player Joseph Burton, was home to help and she said they kept finding more things to get rid of, so it was a very productive day. While she is on furlough as a Human Resources Representative at Soboba Tribal Administration, Silvas said she’s using

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In the meantime, California Department of Agriculture recipients not to open, plant, or dispose of any unsolicited seed packets received, but to contact the SCDA immediately. Seed packets should not be opened, shipped or disposed of by residents to prevent potential dispersal of invasive species and/or quarantine pests.

Unopened seed packets should be held by the resident or county official until further instructions are provided.

According to officials, invasive species can devastate the environment, displace or destroy native plants and insects, severely damage crops, and poison livestock. Taking steps to prevent their introduction is the most effective method of reducing both the risk of invasive species infestations and the cost to control and mitigate those infestations.

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In a statement Tuesday, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) said, “The USDA is aware that people across the country have received suspicious, unsolicited packages of seed that appear to be coming from China”, and reported that APHIS is working closely with federal and state partners, including Customs and Border Protection, to investigate.

Also revealed Tuesday was that at that time, thousands of residents in nearly 30 states nationwide had received the unwanted packages and public notices about unsolicited shipments of seeds from China have been issued by agriculture officials in Washington State, Virginia,

Kentucky, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Florida, and Alabama.

That number has since risen to include California, Utah and Arizona, as well as other states.

Regarding the shipments being received by residents nationwide, Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles has said, “We don’t know what they are, and we cannot risk any harm whatsoever to agricultural production in the United States. We have the safest, most abundant food supply in the

the time and the fact her son is at home to dispose of a lot of unwanted items.

“I’m grateful to the Tribe for offering this to us,” she said.

Estrada said another important aspect of the annual event is to reduce the solid and bulk waste on the reservation.

“It provides residents with the world and we need to keep it that way.”

Seed packets or suspicious and unsolicited packages of any kind received from China should not be opened or tampered with, according to County officials; who said recipients should not handle or plant the seeds and should immediately contact the SCDA office for pick up.

Officials have also said that anyone who receives a packet of seeds “should store them safely in a place children and pets cannot access,” and then email the USDA immediately at erich.l.glasgow@usda.gov.

Callers will need to provide their full names and phone numbers, pictures of the packaging, “and any other relevant information.”

Suspected packets received in Riverside County can also be dropped off at the County of Riverside Agricultural Commissioner's Office ( office at 3403 10th Street, Suite 701).

Also, if you or someone you know did plant any of the unsolicited seeds, contact the Department of Agriculture for additional information and further instructions.

The County of Riverside Agricultural Commissioner's Office can be contacted at (951) 9553045.

opportunity to do some spring cleaning and get rid of items that they can’t normally place in regular trash bins,” he said.

During the event, Estrada and his crew were able to fill four 40yard trash bins and collect about 10 cans of paint and oil, which is disposed of separately. He said Environmental Specialist Jennifer Salazar did a great job coordinating things between residents and the Public Works Department that assisted in transporting items to the site from their homes, such as Tribal Elders.

With a mission statement that states “the Soboba Tribal Environmental Department is committed to protecting, restoring and enhancing natural resources on the Soboba Reservation for all tribal members past, present and future” the department works hard to raise awareness of all aspects of the environment. For those who want to learn more about their environment, please visit the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s website at enviro.epa.gov.

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erate flags. They will come as a combo deal in sets that include a MAGA hat. For a premium, you can buy one personally autographed by Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee or Donald Trump.

Next, he will write his memoir where he describes all the personal wealth he made as president. The working title will be “The Art of the Steal.” Consistent with his intelligence briefings, it will contain few words and lots of pictures. It will be a bestseller. And if it isn’t, Trump will just claim it is. Of course it will be closely vetted by his lawyers; not for classified material, but for disclosures that might hurt him in all the litigation.

It should be made clear that all of this speculation is based on the premise that he doesn’t get re-elected, that the Democrats and Joe Biden somehow manage to not blow their overwhelming lead, which is all too often what they do. In that case, President Trump’s second term will be even worse than the first, where he will complete the job of running this country into the ground.

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EMMY NOMINATIONS: This image released by HBO shows Regina King in a scene from "Watchmen." The series was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding limited series on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. King was also nominated for outstanding lead actress in a limited series or movie. | Mark Hill/HBO via AP cluded a record number of Black nominees, 35, among the 102 contenders for lead, supporting and guest performances in drama, comedy and limited series or TV movie. At slightly more than 34 percent of nominees, that bettered the 2018 record of just under 28 percent of Black actors in those categories.

In sharp contrast, few other people of color were recognized. Among them: Sandra Oh, repeating as a best actress nominee for “Killing Eve,” and Dev Patel, who received a comedy guest actor nod for “Modern Love.”

Kerry Washington’s four nominations covered a wide range, including lead actress for “Little Fires Everywhere” and for her production company’s work on the limited series and other programs.

Washington said she was most emotional about the posthumous nomination for “Little Fires Everywhere” director Lynn Shelton, who died from a blood disorder in May. “For the academy to acknowledge her in her passing, deservedly so, it’s really moving. We’re at a moment where we so desperately need the voices of storytellers from marginalized communities: women directors, people of color,” Washington said.

Billy Porter, who last year became the first openly gay man to win the top drama series acting prize, was nominated again this year for “Pose.”

Diversity was especially notable in the comedy categories after being nearly absent last year.

“Ramy,” which finds nuanced humor in a young Muslim American’s crisis of identity and faith, earned a best actor bid for its star

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1. John Wick (2014) An ex-hit-man comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that killed his dog and took everything from him.

2. Jack Reacher (2012) A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.

3. Taken (2008) A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.

4. The Transporter (2002) Frank Martin, who "transports" packages for unknown clients, is asked to move a package that soon begins moving, and complications arise.

5. Law Abiding Citizen (2009) A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free.

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and co-creator, Ramy Youssef. Issa Rae returned to the best comedy actress category for her series “Insecure,” which earned a best comedy bid.

“Schitt’s Creek,” the quirky little show that went without Emmy recognition until last year, received 15 nominations for its final season, including for best comedy series and lead acting nods for Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara.

“You just don’t expect it.

You cant expect it, so what a great surprise,” said O’Hara, who spoke from Canada, where she and her family are living lakeside. She credited TV for its role during the pandemic.

“I think all the streaming and broadcasting that we have watched in these last months has brought a lot of much needed laughter, a chance to cry — about something other than the reality — and a distraction,” she said. “Also, it’s given some optimism to people and some hope.”

“The Good Place,” which also came to an end, earned a best comedy bid and, for Ted Danson, a best comedy actor nomination. Danson was a two-time Emmy winner in the 1990s for “Cheers.”

The farewell was less fond for other shows that wrapped last season, with no major bids for “Modern Family,” “Homeland” or “Silicon Valley.”

But the late Fred Willard received a nomination for his “Modern Family” guest appearance, his fifth primetime Emmy nod during his long and admired career.

The eight nods for “Unorthodox,” a limited series about a dissatisfied Orthodox Jewish woman, may reflect the virus-quarantine downtime that drew Emmy

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“Watchmen,” cloaked in superhero mythology and grounded in real-world racism, received a leading 26 nominations Tuesday for the prime-time Emmy Awards.

The HBO series, which captured America’s deep unease as it faces racial and political discord amid a pandemic, was nominated as best limited series and received bids for cast members including Regina King and Jeremy Irons.

King was part of a vanguard of actors of color indicating that TV academy voters took heed of the social climate.

“Zendaya!” exclaimed Emmy announcement host Leslie Jones, her gleeful reaction to the “Euphoria” star’s nomination as best actress in a drama. “This is a great day,” Jones said.

She was part of a socially distanced, virtual release of nominees that was online, not on television as is usual.

But nothing is usual during a coronavirus era that has brought Hollywood production to a virtual standstill and is making the Emmys and other awards grasp for alternatives.

The strong showing by Netflix’s “Ozark” helped the streaming service achieve a record-setting 160 nominations that bested onetime perennial leader HBO, which earned 107 nods. Netflix, although the Emmy veteran among streamers, has yet to win a best comedy or drama series trophy.

Streaming newcomer Apple TV+ earned attention in its first season with Jennifer Aniston’s best drama actress bid for “The Morning Show.”

Another streaming newbie, Disney+, saw its Star Wars franchise spinoff, “The Mandalorian,” claim a best drama nomination among its hefty 15 total nods.

The Amazon comedy “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is the second most-nominated series with 20, followed by Netflix’s “Ozark” with 18.

“This year, we are also bearing witness to one of the greatest fights for social justice in history. And it is our duty to use this medium for change,” Frank Scherma, chairman and CEO of the Television Academy said at the outset of the presentation.

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voters to shows they might otherwise overlooked, said Daniel Fienberg, chief TV critic for The Hollywood Reporter.

A far different pop-culture phenomenon also was a likely beneficiary.

“A show like ‘Tiger King,’ for example, which got a handful of nominations, It’s not really all that great, but it absolutely was the junk food that people were craving at the beginning of this quarantine period,” Fienberg said.

Joining Jones on Tuesday were presenters Laverne Cox (“Orange is the New Black”), Josh Gad (“Frozen”) and Tatiana Maslany (“Orphan Black”). Cox, Gad and Maslany appeared on by video feeds.

Among the honorees whose nomination collided with current events: Brad Pitt earned a nod for a guest appearance playing Dr. Anthony Fauci on “Saturday Night Live.”

Other shows competing for best comedy series are: “Curb Your Enthusiasm”; Dead to Me”; “The Good Place”; “Insecure”; “The Kominsky Method” and “What We Do in the Shadows.”

The nominees for best drama series are: “Better Call Saul”; “The Crown”; “Killing Eve”; “The Handmaid’s Tale”; “The Mandalorian”; “Ozark”; “Stranger Things”; “Succession.”

In addition to “Watchmen,” the nominees for best limited series are: “Little Fires Everywhere”; “Mrs. America”; “Unbelievable”; ”Unorthodox.”

A high energy Jones kicked off Tuesday’s announcement by appearing on a virtual set and joking that she was told there would be many others on set to announce the nominees, but instead she was locked in a studio with only a cameraman.

The Emmy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will be presented Sept. 20 on ABC.

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proved, you can find the right property, sign your sales agreement, and fill out your lender’s full application. In addition to your COE, you’ll need to provide various financial documents (bank statements, W-2s, paystubs, etc.), as well as submit to a check of your credit score.

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omeownership has long been an integral part of the American Dream for many people. That includes military members and veterans who have sacrificed so much to protect that dream.

But buying a new home is no simple feat—whether you’re a first-time homebuyer or experienced when it comes to homeownership. Fortunately, service members have access to a few unique programs that can alleviate that burden and make achieving the American Dream easier.

This VA home loan guide will explain it all.

PROS & CONS OF HOMEOWNERSHIP Homeownership certainly comes with some key opportunities, but it’s not without difficulties. Make sure to consider both sides carefully before making any moves.

PROS You can build equity: No more throwing rent into the proverbial black hole.

With each mortgage payment you make, you gain a larger stake in your property—and its sales profits later on.

You can alter your home as you wish: Forget landlord rules about paint colors, nail holes, and other alterations. As part of

MORTGAGES: Website: https://lendedu.com/blog/home-buying-for-veterans/#pc to see how it lays out. | Freepik.com homeownership, you can make any changes to your property you see fit.

You’re eligible for certain tax deductions: Homeowners get to leverage tax deductions for their mortgage interest, property taxes, home office costs, and other expenses, in certain cases. Some of these write-offs aren’t available for renters.

CONS You’re responsible for all maintenance: One of the biggest perks of renting is that the bulk of your repair and maintenance tasks fall on the landlord. When you own a home, these tasks (and their costs) are up to

you.

You’ll have additional expenses: A home comes with a number of expenses that just aren’t there with a rental—things like property taxes, HOA dues, maintenance costs, closing costs, and more. You may also have to pay for private mortgage insurance (PMI), depending upon the terms of your home loan.

It’s often a long and daunting process to buy a home: It can take a significant amount of time and energy to buy a house. You have to get your finances in order, apply for a mortgage, find the right property, get it inspected, and complete

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a number of other to-dos before the home is yours.

VETERAN HOME BUYING ASSISTANCE: TIPS & TOOLS TO KNOW ABOUT If you’re set on buying a home, there are a number of veteran assistance programs you can leverage along the way. See below to learn more about each one.

VA LOANS VA loans are mortgages just for veterans, military members, and their spouses. To qualify, you need to meet certain military service requirements set by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Some Reservists and members of the National Guard may also be eligible for VA loans.

If you’re considering using the VA loan program, check out current VA

mortgage rates or look to our guide on the best VA lenders to get you started.

VA LOAN PROCESS To get a VA loan, you’re going to need a Certificate of Eligibility from the VA, which essentially proves you meet the service requirements to qualify for the loan. To get your COE, you need to head to your eBenefits account and apply there. It can often take more than a month to receive this document, so apply well ahead of your planned home purchase.

Once you have a COE in hand, you’ll need to get pre-approved for your VA loan with a mortgage lender.

Be careful here: Not all lenders offer VA loans, so make sure the one you’re considering offers them before submitting an application.

After you’ve been pre-ap-

HOW TO BUY A HOUSE WITH A VA LOAN The exact underwriting and approval process for your VA loan will depend on your mortgage lender, but you can generally expect it to take anywhere from four to six weeks.

You’ll need to submit your application, provide all the requested financial documentation, and work with your VA loan officer to address any concerns that might crop up along the way. Your home will also need to be appraised by a VA-approved appraiser to make sure it meets certain safety requirements.

Finally, at closing, you will need to pay your VA funding fee, a one-time payment on the VA loan designed to offset the cost of the loan program to U.S. taxpayers. You can also choose to roll this into your loan balance. VA loans are the only type of mortgage product that requires a funding fee (most others require mortgage insurance).

VA RENOVATION LOANS VA renovation loans allow you to purchase a home and fund its rehabilitation and renovation all at once. You can also use a VA

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renovation loan if you want to refinance your existing mortgage to help fund any upgrades or repairs your property may need.

Though VA renovation loans are fairly flexible, they can only be used to tackle certain approved renovation projects, so make sure yours are on the list before choosing one of these loans for your property. Our guide to VA renovation loans can help.

GI BILL The GI Bill is designed to provide service members returning home from active duty with much-need-

ed education and training as they restart civilian life.

It affords vets money for tuition and educational fees, as well as a monthly housing allowance while they attend school.

HOW TO USE THE GI BILL TO BUY A HOUSE Naturally, many veterans wonder if they can use their GI Bill housing allowance to buy a home of their own. Unfortunately, for the most part, lenders won’t consider your GI income when qualifying you for your home loan— largely because it’s shortterm. To prove you have the capability to repay your home loan, lenders generally want to see consistent,

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You could find a rental property for less than your monthly housing allowance, though, saving the leftovers to put toward a down payment, closing costs, or other fees associated with your home purchase. This could help you buy a home sooner or achieve a lower monthly mortgage payment.

DREAM MAKERS PROGRAM The Dream Makers program is a grant program that veterans and military members can use to lower the costs of buying a house. It offers up to $5,000 in matching grants to be used toward closing costs or a down payment.

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The total amount for which you can qualify depends on the earnest money and down payment you put up. The program will match your contribution at a 2-to-1 rate. Your down payment has to total at least $500, and applications can be submitted through the PenFed Foundation.

have one of the following service-related injuries:

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ECONOMICS’ COLUMN THE CULT OF SELFISHNESS IS KILLING AMERICA America’s response to the coronavirus has been a lose-lose proposition.

The Trump administration and governors like Florida’s Ron DeSantis insisted that there was no trade-off between economic growth and controlling the disease, and they were right — but not in the way they expected.

Premature reopening led to a surge in infections: Adjusted for population, Americans are currently dying from Covid-19 at around 15 times the rate in the European Union or Canada. Yet the “rocket ship” recovery Donald Trump promised has crashed and burned: Job growth appears to have stalled or reversed, especially in states that were most aggressive about lifting social distancing mandates, and early indications are that the U.S. economy is lagging behind the economies of major European nations.

So we’re failing dismally on both the epidemiological and the economic fronts. But why?

On the face of it, the answer is that Trump and allies were so eager to see big jobs numbers that they ignored both infection risks and the way a resurgent pandemic would undermine the economy.

As I and others have said, they failed the marshmallow test, sacrificing the future because they weren’t willing to show a little patience.

And there’s surely a lot to that explanation. But it isn’t the whole story.

For one thing, people truly focused on restarting the economy should have been big supporters of measures to limit infections without hurting business — above all, getting Americans to wear face masks. Instead, Trump ridiculed those in masks as “politically correct,” while Republican governors not only refused to mandate mask-wearing, but they prevented mayors from imposing local mask rules.

Also, politicians eager to see the economy bounce back should have wanted to sustain consumer purchasing power until wages recovered.

Instead, Senate Republicans ignored the looming July 31 expiration of special unemployment benefits, which means that tens of millions of workers are about to see a huge hit to their incomes, damaging the economy as a whole.

So what was going on? Were our leaders just stupid? Well, maybe. But there’s a deeper explanation of the profoundly self-destructive behavior of Trump and his allies: They were all members of America’s cult of selfishness.

You see, the modern U.S. right is committed to the proposition that greed is good, that we’re all better off when individuals engage in the untrammeled pursuit of self-interest. In their vision, unrestricted profit maximization by businesses and unregulated consumer choice is the recipe for a good society.

Support for this proposition is, if anything, more emotional than intellectual. I’ve long been struck by the intensity of right-wing anger against relatively trivial regulations, like bans on phosphates in detergent and efficiency standards for light bulbs.

It’s the principle of the thing: Many on the right are enraged at any suggestion that their actions should take other people’s welfare into account.

This rage is sometimes portrayed as love of freedom. But people who insist on the right to pollute are notably unbothered by, say, federal agents tear-gassing peaceful protesters. What they call “freedom” is actually absence of responsibility.

Rational policy in a pandemic, however, is all about taking responsibility. The main reason you shouldn’t go to a bar and should wear a mask isn’t self-protection, although that’s part of it; the point is that congregating in noisy, crowded spaces or exhaling droplets into shared air puts others at risk. And that’s the kind of thing America’s right just hates, hates to hear.

Indeed, it sometimes seems as if right-wingers actually make a point of behaving irresponsibly.

Remember how Senator Rand Paul, who was worried that he might have Covid-19 (he did), wandered around the Senate and even used the gym while waiting for his test results?

Anger at any suggestion of social responsibility also helps explain the looming fiscal catastrophe.

It’s striking how emotional many Republicans get in their opposition to the temporary rise in unemployment benefits; for example, Senator Lindsey Graham declared that these benefits would be extended “over our dead bodies.” Why such hatred?

It’s not because the benefits are making workers unwilling to take jobs. There’s no evidence that this is happening — it’s just something Republicans want to believe. And in any case, economic arguments can’t explain the rage.

Again, it’s the principle. Aiding the unemployed, even if their joblessness isn’t their own fault, is a tacit admission that lucky Americans should help their less-fortunate fellow citizens. And that’s an admission the right doesn’t want to make.

Just to be clear, I’m not saying that Republicans are selfish. We’d be doing much better if that were all there were to it. The point, instead, is that they’ve sacralized selfishness, hurting their own political prospects by insisting on the right to act selfishly even when it hurts others.

What the coronavirus has revealed is the power of America’s cult of selfishness. And this cult is killing us.

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The four command corporations with gold-plated brands, millions or even billions of customers, and a combined value greater than the entire German economy.

One of them is the world’s richest individual (Bezos); another is the fourth-ranked billionaire (Zuckerberg).

Their industry has transformed society, linked people around the globe, mined and commercialized users’ personal data, and infuriated critics on both the left and right over speech.

Critics question whether the companies, grown increasingly powerful after gobbling up scores of rivals, stifle competition and innovation, raise prices for consumers and pose a danger to society.

The four CEOs are testifying remotely for a hearing Wednesday by the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust.

In its bipartisan investigation, the panel collected testimony from mid-level executives of the four firms, competitors and legal experts, and pored over more than a million internal documents from the companies.

A key question: Whether existing competition policies and century-old antitrust laws are adequate for overseeing the tech giants, or if new legislation and enforcement funding is needed.

Subcommittee chairman Rep. David Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat, has called the four companies monopolies, although he says breaking them up should be a last resort. While forced breakups may appear unlikely, the wide scrutiny of Big Tech points toward possible new restrictions on its power.

The companies face legal and political offensives on multiplying fronts, from Congress, the Trump administration, federal and state regulators and European watchdogs. The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have been investigating the four companies’ practices.

Each company has a distinct profile and sets its widening footprint in specific markets, and each tech titan has his own approach and story to tell.

For Bezos, who presides over an e-commerce empire and ventures in cloud computing, personal “smart” tech and beyond, it will be his first-ever appearance before Congress.

Bezos is introducing himself, in a way, in his hearing testimony, unusual for the occasion. He lays out his challenging life story growing up in New Mexico as the son of a single mother in high school, and later with an adoptive father who emigrated from Cuba at 16.

Previewing his written testimony in a blog post Tuesday, Bezos traces his origins as a “garage inventor” who came up with the concept of an online bookstore in 1994.

He addresses the issue of Amazon’s power in what he describes as a huge and competitive global retail market.

The company accounts for less than 4% of retail in the

U.S., Bezos maintains. He affirms his rebuff to critics who call for the company to be broken up: Walmart is more than twice Amazon’s size, he says.

Bezos initially declined to testify unless he could appear with the other CEOs. He’ll likely face questioning over a Wall Street Journal report that found Amazon employees used confidential data collected from sellers on its online marketplace to develop competing products. At a previous hearing, an Amazon executive denied such accusation In the wake of George Floyd’s death and protests against racial injustice, Facebook’s handling of hate speech has recently drawn more fire than issues of competition and privacy, especially after Facebook’s refusal to take action on inflammatory Trump posts that spread misinformation about voting by mail and, critics said, encouraged violence against protesters.

Zuckerberg has said the company aims to allow as much free expression as possible unless it causes imminent risk of specific harms or damage. “We believe in values —democracy, competition, inclusion and free expression — that the American economy was built on,” he says in his testimony prepared for the hearing.

“I understand that people have concerns about the size and perceived power that tech companies have,” Zuckerberg’s statement says. “Ultimately, I believe companies shouldn’t be making so many judgments about important issues like harmful content, privacy and election integrity on their own. That’s why I’ve called for a more active role for governments and regu-

lators, and updated rules for the internet.”

European regulators have concluded that Google manipulated its search engine to gain an unfair advantage over other online shopping sites in the e-commerce market, and fined Google, whose parent is Alphabet Inc., a record $2.7 billion. Google has disputed the findings and is appealing.

Attorneys general from both parties in 50 states and territories, led by Texas, launched an antitrust investigation of Google in September, focused on its online advertising business.

“Google operates in highly competitive and dynamic global markets, in which prices are free or falling, and products are constantly improving,” Pichai says in his written testimony. “Competition in ads — from Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Comcast and others — has helped lower online advertising costs by 40% over the last 10 years, with these savings passed down to consumers through lower prices.”

Apple, whose iPhone is the third-largest seller in the world, faces EU investigations over the fees charged by its App Store and technical limitations that allegedly shut out competitors to Apple Pay. “Apple does not have a dominant market share in any market where we do business,” Cook says.

He is making the case that the fees Apple charges apps to sell services and other goods are reasonable, especially compared with what other tech companies collect. In over a decade since the App Store launched, “we have never raised the commission or added a single fee,” Cook says in his testimony.

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t a press conference before a speech to the Medical Committee for Human Rights in 1966, two years before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. noted, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane because it often results in physical death.”

King’s words come back to haunt us as the death statistics from COVID-19 roll in from every corner of the United States bearing the bad news.

According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, analyzed by The New York Times, African Americans and Latinos are three times more likely to become infected with the virus than white people. They are nearly twice as likely to die.

Those statistics are grim markers of a disease that has hit America’s populations of color particularly hard.

What do those dismal numbers and the gaping health disparities they lay bare say about the refusal to expand Medicaid in some states, and the imposition of barriers that make expansion almost meaningless in others? Why are states continuing to turn down federal dollars to expand health care access during this time of historic need? Answers to those questions can help frame journalistic coverage as states prepare for new legislative sessions, where expansion will surely be on the agenda.

Recall that the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, expanded Medicaid to Americans with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level of $17,240 for a two-person family. But a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision made

expansion optional. Legislatures in states that have not expanded, mostly in the South and Midwest, have refused to extend coverage to some of their poorest residents. Some 4.8 million people are in the so-called coverage gap: Their incomes are below the poverty level, and they are left out of the ACA because the law envisioned they’d be covered under the Medicaid expansion.

They are too poor to buy commercial coverage and in many cases have too much money to qualify for regular Medicaid programs in their states because eligibility limits are so low.

I rang up Camara Phyllis Jones, a physician, epidemiologist, past president of the American Public Health Association, and recently a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Where does the health care that King worried about so long ago fit into America’s new reckoning with its racist past?

Before she even began to discuss health insurance, Jones noted that many people of color are working in jobs that have exposed them more to the coronavirus and left them less protected.

Think: workers in meatpacking plants or bus drivers, not program analysts or accountants who can work from home. When people of color do become infected, Jones said, they are more likely to die because they are more burdened by chronic diseases often brought on by poor diets, less access to healthy foods, and polluted environments. Compounding those burdens are stringent Medicaid rules, including work and reporting requirements, even in states that have expanded the program. These rules make access to medical care difficult to obtain.

“All these factors have the root cause of racism,”

Jones explained. She doesn’t think the infection rate or the death rate are primarily health issues. “They are based in racism and how different populations are valued, and perhaps a wrong idea of what populations use Medicaid,” she said.

Health equity in a state, she said, means valuing all individuals equally, recognizing and redefining historical injustices, and prioritizing resources according to need. That framework, or lack of it, helps explain why so many states have yet to expand Medicaid. It illuminates why three states – Idaho, Utah and Nebraska — whose voters approved expansion through ballot initiatives, and other states that have expanded, have imposed punitive or harsh requirements, such as compelling recipients to report periodically on efforts to find work or do hours of community service as a condition for retaining health insurance.

These are restrictions that Americans insured through their jobs or through the Affordable Care Act do not have to meet. The country has created a two-tired health insurance system based on racism.

Put another way, opposition to Medicaid expansion “is an ideological opposition, not a fact-based opposition to the ACA,” says Joan Alker who heads the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University’s School of Public Policy. “It’s tied up with a hatred of the ACA, which was President Obama’s signature achievement.” Alker points out that some 400 studies show Medicaid expansion reduces deaths. “I’m not sure what more evidence anyone can provide.”

To see how this opposition leaves people in poorer health and more vulnerable

The plurality of poor groups are white folks, but the idea politicians hold is that programs benefit people of color, and that’s why there’s not widespread support for them.”

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to the effects of the current pandemic and future calamities, I looked at two states, Mississippi and Nebraska.

In Mississippi, which has not expanded its Medicaid program, 13% of uninsured residents are white, 16% are African American, and 30% are Hispanic.

In Nebraska, where 90,000 residents have been uninsured, the legislature has refused six times to expand Medicaid. Residents are awaiting implementation of an expansion voters approved two years ago, but state bureaucrats have been slow to begin the program, now scheduled to start in October.

In Mississippi, health department statistics show that as of July 21, African Americans accounted for about 52% of deaths from COVID-19, though they make up about 38% of the population.

“A poor food environment and lack of health care make the South a really vulnerable place,” says Dr. Anne Cafer, an assistant professor or sociology at the University of Mississippi.

“COVID has brought this out in a way we haven’t seen before. It has highlighted the fact that if we don’t improve access, we’ll have a higher percentage of the population that gets it.”

Cafer argues the nutritional deficits of COVID patients represent a drawnout process that reveals the link between poor diets and diseases such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

“COVID makes this process more immediate and brings it into sharper delineation.”

The solutions pose familiar challenges. How do you get more food in the food deserts of Mississippi communities, and how do you pay for the services such as dietitians and food counselors when so much of the population in need is uninsured? Poor diets lead to poor health, and poor health without medical treatment is disastrous. That linkage needs more exploration.

Roy Mitchell, who directs the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program, told me, “Nobody has really talked about the underlying conditions of African Americans. To date there has not been an appreciable focus on health disparities and social determinants of health in Mississippi by policymakers.”

In Nebraska there hasn’t been much talk about that either, but there has been plenty of conversation about delaying implementation of Medicaid expansion the voters approved two years ago. Yet, says Sen. Mach-

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aela Cavanaugh, who represents a part of Omaha in the state legislature, “Everything about this plan is obstructionist. I’m not able to find good intentions in the plan. I have a small amount of confidence it will start in October, and it goes against the will and intent of the voters.” She called the delay an “abuse of power” that has been happening since April 2019, when the state began to craft its program.

About 70% of the state population eligible for expansion coverage is working but gets no insurance from their employers, says Molly McCleery, a health attorney at Nebraska Appleseed. Yet the state’s expansion calls for onerous work requirements in the second year of the program. If they are not met, recipients receive lesser coverage “Some policymakers get it,” McCleery says. “They understand that if you want workers to be in good health, taking away their health care doesn’t lead to those results. Other policymakers believe they need increased responsibility for this population.” And that ties in with the racism, the unspoken barrier to expansion. In 2018, 41% of Medicaid participants in Nebraska were white, 20% were black, and 30% were Hispanic.

Nebraska has designated two levels of coverage with different benefit packages.

Under the basic plan, Nebraskans will receive basic Medicaid benefits, excluding such important coverage as dental and vision services and over-the-counter drugs.

As prime members, recipient gets the full benefit package if they satisfy seven requirements that would be unthinkable to most Americans with employer or Affordable Care Act health insurance. These include not missing three or more doctor appointments in a six-month period, selecting a primary care doctor, notifying the state within 10 days if there’s a change in status, and maintaining commercial health insurance, if available.

The state is also imposing work requirements under the waiver in the second year of the expansion, which present barriers that other insured Nebraskans do not have to hurdle. Medicaid recipients must work or volunteer for a public charity for at least 80 hours a month; enroll at least half time in an educational program; be a qualified caregiver or a foster parent; participate in certain government programs; or engage in certain job search activities for at least 20 hours per week.

These requirements can be

TRUDY LIEBERMAN | Courtesy photo. considered onerous in the extreme, given that most of the eligible population is already employed.

“Our approach better achieves the purpose of the Medicaid program by incentivizing positive activities that will improve health outcomes and encourage life successes for participants,” the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services said in a news release.

Other states that have expanded have imposed similar work requirements, giving them an easy way to kick people off the rolls if someone fails to comply. The waiver in Utah, for example, requires those covered under the state’s expansion to conduct 48 job searches within the first three months of enrollment — an impossibility for all but the most dogged researcher. That requirement has been suspended because of the pandemic.

Work requirements in other states that have expanded Medicaid are tied up in the courts.

Nebraska estimates onethird of the people enrolled in the Medicaid expansion would not receive the full prime coverage and with it, coverage for dental, vision and over-the-counter drugs, which Medicaid policymakers seem to regard as inconsequential health care services. Amy Behnke, chief executive officer of the Health Center Association of Nebraska, told me that the seven federally qualified health centers in her association say dental care is a huge need. At one center in Gering, Nebraska, which serves 17 western and less populated counties, doctors see more patients for dental problems than for medical issues.

Jones argues that the way Medicaid expansion plays out in predominantly white states like Nebraska is also a function of racism. “The plurality of poor groups are white folks, but the idea politicians hold is that programs benefit people of color, and that’s why there’s not widespread support for them.”

Veteran health care journalist Trudy Lieberman is a contributing editor at the Center for Health Journalism Digital and a regular contributor to the Remaking Health Care column.

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l presidente Donald Trump hizo el martes una firme defensa del uso desaprobado de un medicamento contra malaria para tratar el coronavirus, horas después de que las empresas de las redes sociales retiraran videos que alentaban su consumo por considerarlos información equivocada posiblemente perjudicial.

El presidente, en un marcado cambio de la postura más mesurada que ha adoptado frente al virus en los últimos días, recurrió a Twitter para promover la hidroxicloroquina como tratamiento contra el COVID-19, la enfermedad causada por el virus, y para intensificar sus críticas al doctor Anthony Fauci, el principal experto en enfermedades infecciosas de la nación.

En una sesión informativa en la Casa Blanca, Trump defendió su decisión de darle proyección a un video viral de un grupo de doctores que promovían el lunes el uso del medicamento, aun cuando su propio gobierno canceló la autorización de emergencia para utilizarlo contra el coronavirus.

“Creo que son doctores muy respetados”, dijo Trump, agregando que ellos creían en el medicamento. “Había una mujer que fue espectacular en sus declaraciones al respecto”. Los médicos integrantes de un grupo llamado

America’s Frontline Doctors, participó en un evento organizado por el grupo Tea Party Patriots Action, que ha aportado recursos a un comité de acción política pro-Trump.

Estudios científicos han mostrado que la hidroxicloroquina puede causar más daño que bien cuando se le utiliza para tratar los síntomas de COVID-19.

Trump, su hijo Donald Trump Jr., y otros compartieron el video del evento en Facebook y Twitter, obligando a ambas plataformas a intervenir y retirar el contenido como parte de una enérgica campaña para mantener las redes sociales libres de información posiblemente perjudicial sobre el virus, aunque no antes de que más de 17 millones de personas hubieran visto una versión del video que circuló en redes.

La decisión de retirar los videos suscitó reclamos de “censura” de parte de los conservadores y Simone Gold, una de los doctores, tuiteó que “siempre hay puntos de vista opuestos en medicina”.

“Las opciones de tratamiento para el COVID-19 deben ser debatidas y conversadas entre nuestros colegas en el campo médico”, escribió. “Sin embargo, ellos nunca deben ser censurados ni callados”.

Otros subrayaron las diferencias entre la

opinión médica y los estudios científicos revisados por pares.

En muchos estudios de alta calidad no se encontró evidencia de que la hidroxicloroquina, cuando se le utiliza con o sin el antibiótico azitromicina, como Trump lo ha dicho muchas veces, ayuda a tratar la infección de coronavirus o impedir una enfermedad grave después del contagio.

Entre los estudiso figuran algunos encargados por los Institutos Nacionales de Salud de Estados Unidos, la Organización Mundial de la Salud y universidades en Estados Unidos y el mundo.

Debido a la falta de beneficio y los riesgos de efectos secundarios graves como arritmias cardiacas, la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de Estados Unidos (FDA por sus siglas en inglés) revocó en fecha reciente su breve autorización para el uso de emergencia del medicamento a fin de atender casos de COVID-19. Las directrices de tratamiento emitidas por los INS también recomiendan específicamente no utilizar la hidroxicloroquina, salvo en estudios formales.

Además de compartir el video, Trump retuiteó varios mensajes que atacaban la credibilidad de Fauci, uno de los miembros prominentes del equipo especial de la Casa Blanca contra el coronavirus.

a temporada de béisbol se sumió en una crisis más profunda el martes, mientras que estados como Mississippi y Carolina del Sur buscaban más camas de hospital, y los gobernadores de las regiones más afectadas se resistían a las peticiones de ordenar el uso de mascarillas, pese al aumento de casos de coronavirus.

Las Grandes Ligas suspendieron los juegos programados de los Marlins de Miami hasta el domingo debido a un brote que se ha propagado a por lo menos 15 de los jugadores y miembros del personal del equipo, y una serie de juegos esta semana entre los Yanquis de Nueva York y los Filis de Filadelfia también fue suspendida como medida de precaución.

Mientras estados como Florida, Arizona y Texas se encuentran en una situación grave, el virus se ha propagado más hacia los estados del norte de Estados Unidos en los últimos días, causando alarma entre las autoridades de salud pública que temen que tales entidades no están haciendo lo suficiente para evitar brotes catastróficos como los registrados en el llamado Cinturón del Sol, que comprende la franja sur del país.

El repunte en la región centro norte ha sido impulsado en gran medida por un aumento de casos entre adultos jóvenes, que han regresado a los bares, restaurantes y gimnasios.

Florida reportó 191 muertes nuevas, otro máxi-

mo para un día en el estado, mientras que Arizona registró 104 y Arkansas impuso un récord de un día con 20 decesos.

Estados Unidos ha registrado aproximadamente 4,3 millones de casos de coronavirus y alrededor de 150.000 muertes, de acuerdo con el conteo de la Universidad Johns Hopkins. A nivel internacional, más de 16,5 millones de personas se han contagiado y más de 655.000 han fallecido.

Los gobernadores republicanos de Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri y Carolina del Sur se han negado a las peticiones de cerrar los bares y gimnasios, así como a emitir una orden de uso de mascarillas a nivel estatal, aunque funcionarios locales han impuesto algunas restricciones por cuenta propia.

En Mississippi, nueve de los hospitales más grandes del estado no tenían camas disponibles en sus unidades de terapia intensiva el lunes, y las autoridades consideraban abrir instalaciones temporales para brindar más espacio. Más del 24% de las pruebas de coronavirus han arrojado resultados positivos en Mississippi en la última semana, lo que representa la tasa más alta del país y el triple del promedio nacional.

El gobernador de Mississippi, Tate Reeves, ha argumentado que debido a que el uso de mascarillas se ha vuelto una cuestión política, una orden a nivel estatal podría desalentar a la gente para que cubra sus rostros. En su lugar, pidió que sólo se porten mascarillas en los condados más

afectados.

Terry Sullivan, director general de Fondren Fitness en Jackson, dijo que una orden a nivel estatal sería “lo correcto”.

“Sé que es un tema delicado, pero si todos podemos usar mascarillas y hacer las cosas bien por un mes, ayudaría mucho intentarlo y frenar esto en Mississippi”, comentó. “Si no lo hacemos, no parará”.

En Missouri, ciudades grandes están cada vez más inquietas por un repunte de casos luego de que el estado reanudó por completo las actividades económicas. El estado reportó otro aumento récord de casos en un sólo día, con casi 1.800. San Luis recortará los horarios de los bares y reducirá la capacidad en restaurantes a partir del viernes, y Kansas City podría seguir sus pasos.

El gobernador Mike Parson se ha negado en repetidas ocasiones a promulgar una orden para requerir el uso de mascarillas en todo el estado, con el argumento de que hay relativamente pocos casos en la mayor parte de la entidad en comparación con otros focos de infección en ciudades más grandes.

El mes pasado, Parson dijo que no creía que el gobernador tuviera una responsabilidad personal por cualquier virus y comparó la enfermedad que ha matado a casi 1.000 personas en el estado con la influenza. Dijo que nadie debería esperar que él asumiera la responsabilidad si alguien se ve involucrado en un accidente automovilístico en una carretera del estado.

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l gobierno estadounidense no liberó a 100 niños inmigrantes detenidos junto con sus padres a pesar del plazo de esta semana fijado por una jueza que advirtió sobre el peligro de esos confinamientos durante la pandemia del coronavirus.

En lugar de ello, hay más padres e hijos confinados en tres centros de detención este mes comparado con el mes pasado, según datos oficiales.

Las autoridades migratorias en julio trasladaron a esos centros a decenas de padres inmigrantes con sus hijos, de los cuales por lo menos 40 dieron positivo al virus.

Entretanto, según abogados que ayudan a las familias detenidas, había rumores de

ICE: Foto tomada en el centro de detención de migrantes de Dilley, Texas, el 23 de agosto del 2019.| Foto / Paul Sancya

que muchas o todas las familias serían puestas en libertad para el lunes. En el centro de detención en Dilley, Texas, una niña de 3 años y un niño de 11 ya van a tener un año detenidos junto con sus padres.

“Estas familias ya muchas veces han visto sus esperanzas elevadas para luego verlas caer”, indicó Shalyn Fluharty, directora de Proyecto Dilley, que representa a las familias

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l titular del Centro de Prevención y Control de Enfermedades de China, Gao Fu, dijo que le aplicaron una vacuna experimental contra el coronavirus para tratar de convencer a la gente que haga lo mismo una vez que la aprueben.

“Voy a revelar algo clandestino: me han inyectado una de las vacunas”, dijo Gao Fu el domingo en un seminario online cuyos anfitriones fueron Alibaba Salud, una subsidiaria del gigante comercial chino, y Cell Press, una editora estadounidense de revistas científicas. “Espero que funcione”.

The Associated Press informó semanas atrás que una empresa estatal china inyectó a los empleados con vacunas experimentales en marzo, anticipándose a la sanción oficial de los ensayos en seres humanos, algo que los expertos objetaron por razones éticas. Gao no dijo cuándo o cómo recibió la vacuna experimental, ni aclaró si contaba con la aprobación del gobierno. No respondió a los pedidos de declaraciones.

China compite con empresas estadounidenses y británicas para ser

ICE de la pág. E1 detenidas en ese centro.

El Servicio de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE) declaró el martes que había cumplido con las órdenes emitidas por la jueza Dolly Gee el 26 de junio, que originalmente había fijado el 17 de julio como fecha máxima para soltar a todos los menores de edad confinados por el ICE por más de 20 días. El ICE había indicado desde hace semanas que no soltaría voluntariamente a más de 300 padres con sus hijos detenidos en instalaciones en Texas y Pennsylvania.

Gee supervisa el cumplimiento del llamado Acuerdo de Flores, que fija los estándares para el tratamiento oficial de niños migrantes detenidos. La orden de la jueza no cubría a los padres de los menores. Un juez distinto separadamente se negó a ordenar la liberación de los padres.

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la primera que produce una vacuna capaz de poner fin a la pandemia, lo que constituiría un triunfo tanto científico como político.

El país asiático es uno de los contendientes fuertes. De la veintena de vacunas que se encuentran en diversas etapas de ensayo en el mundo, ocho son chinas, más que cualquier otro país. Gao se negó a revelar cuál de las vacunas había recibido porque no quería dar la impresión de “hacer algún tipo de propaganda” para una compañía en particular.

El mes pasado apareció un trabajo de varios autores, Gao entre ellos, sobre un candidato, una vacuna “desactivada” que consistía en criar el virus entero en un laboratorio y matarlo. Ese candidato es desarrollado por una filial de la empresa estatal SinoPharm.

Gao dijo reiteradamente en su conferencia que aspiraba a una mayor cooperación entre Estados Unidos y China, en una exhortación a la unidad en momentos que las relaciones entre Beijing y Washington se vuelven cada vez más tensas.

“No queremos que China y Estados Unidos estén separados científicamente”, dijo. “Tenemos que cooperar”. lunes, el sábado Gee denegó el pedido del gobierno estadounidense de otra prórroga. Pero en la orden emitida el sábado, Gee expresó que su orden de liberar a los menores podría considerarse “imposible de cumplir” si tres condiciones no se cumplían.

Uno de los focos de controversia es si el gobierno puede pedirle a los padres que dejen a sus hijos con familiares y que se queden detenidos.

Una de las condiciones en la orden de Gee era que los niños podrían ser dejados con familias allegadas con el consentimiento de los padres. Las otras eran que el ICE decida por su cuenta dejar a los padres en libertad, o que otro tribunal decida dejarlos en libertad.

Abogados de los migrantes argumentan que los padres deben quedar en libertad junto con sus hijos.

Han discrepando públicamente con Peter Schey, un abogado de oficio que ha representado a los menores en el Acuerdo de Flores y que acepta que los padres tengan la opción de quedar detenidos mientras sus hijos son puestos en libertad.

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l gobierno del presidente Donald Trump dijo el martes que rechazará las nuevas solicitudes y recortará los periodos de renovación del programa DACA que protege a los jóvenes de la deportación, tomando una postura desafiante después de que la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos se opusiera a permitir su eliminación.

La decisión, detallada en un memorando del secretario interino de Seguridad Nacional, Chad Wolf, puso fin a un mes de incertidumbre sobre cómo respondería el gobierno a su derrota en la Corte Suprema en un año electoral en el que el mandatario busca maneras para animar a sus simpatizantes.

Wolf aseguró que el gobierno podría intentar nuevamente poner fin al programa Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA) usando el argumento de que es un problema de seguridad pública que podría contribuir a la inmigración ilegal. Señaló que el gobierno necesita más tiempo para considerar los próximos pasos.

“El DACA deja claro que, para ciertas clases numerosas de individuos, el DHS como mínimo tolerará, si no es que autorizará, la violación de las leyes de inmigración que cometen”, escribió Wolf en el memo.

Unas 650.000 personas son beneficiarias del DACA, que otorga permisos de trabajo y protege de la deportación a ciertos inmigrantes jóvenes traídos de niños de manera ilegal al país. Unas 66.000 personas cumplen los requisitos de edad para solicitar su inclusión en el DACA, según la organización apartidista Migration Policy Institute.

El gobierno rechazará todas las nuevas solicitudes, reducirá los periodos de renovación de dos a un año, y denegará las peticiones de los beneficiarios del DACA de visitar sus países de origen a menos que existan “circunstancias especiales”. Los beneficiarios podrían solicitar permiso de volver a sus países para asistir a eventos familiares, como funerales o bodas, y por otros motivos, aunque el gobierno de Trump los ha denegado en general.

La Corte Suprema falló el mes pasado que Trump no respetó los procedimientos de elaboración de normas cuando intentó eliminar el programa, pero los ministros deja-

SOLICITUDES: En esta fotografía del 15 de agosto de 2012, inmigrantes llenan formularios para inscribirse en el programa DACA en el Muelle de la Armada, en Chicago. | AP Foto / Sitthixay Ditthavong, Archivo ron abierta la posibilidad de que lo intente de nuevo.

La Casa Blanca está elaborando planes para intentar otra vez poner fin al DACA, aunque se desconoce de momento si Trump adoptará esa medida antes de las elecciones de noviembre. Su contrincante demócrata Joe Biden quiere mantener el DACA sin condiciones.

Un juez federal de Maryland falló la semana pasada que el programa debía ser restituido a su forma original, pero el gobierno se había mantenido en silencio hasta el martes sobre si comenzaría a aceptar nuevas solicitudes. La Casa Blanca prevé que se presenten impugnaciones legales. El silencio de un mes del gobierno había puesto nerviosos a muchos beneficiarios del DACA y a quienes querían acceder al programa. El juez federal Paul Grimm, de Maryland, nominado por el presidente Barack Obama, ha dado al gobierno hasta el viernes para que actualice el sitio web del Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos y comience a explicar adecuadamente por qué son rechazadas las solicitudes.

Los expertos jurídicos eran escépticos de la autoridad del gobierno de Trump para cancelar partes del programa. “Esta es una decisión que desafía el fallo de la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos y el fallo de una corte federal”, dijo Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, profesor de derecho de inmigración en la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad Estatal de Pensilvania. “Estamos en un escenario de anarquía”. Grupos activistas calificaron la medida como cruel.

La Coalición para los Derechos de los Inmigrantes de Colorado acusó al gobierno de marginar aún más a los inmigrantes. La Coali-

ción de Inmigración de Negocios de Estados Unidos consideró la decisión económicamente dañina. Y la Unión Americana de Libertades Civiles se comprometió a continuar su lucha para impedir la desaparición del programa, como lo ha hecho durante años.

Laura Mendoza, gerente de programa del grupo The Resurrection Project en Chicago, se integró al DACA en 2013 y tendrá que renovar el próximo año. Señaló que muchos podrían tener dificultades para cubrir el pago de 495 dólares por la renovación anual.

“Es exasperante que continuemos siendo blanco de abusos del gobierno”, dijo Mendoza en referencia a los beneficiarios del DACA. “El gobierno está desmantelando el programa lentamente”. Wolf reconoció que la tarifa de renovación de 495 dólares será una carga para los beneficiarios del DACA que tendrían que solicitarla anualmente en lugar de cada dos años, lo que en la práctica duplica su costo. Señaló que el departamento podría considerar una rebaja a ese pago. Trump ha intentado infructuosamente trabajar con el Congreso sobre una reforma de inmigración más amplia que adosaría al DACA medidas policiales más rigurosas.

El presidente ha dicho últimamente que podría anunciar nuevas medidas radicales relacionadas con la inmigración, compromiso que reiteró el martes. “Vamos a trabajar con muchas personas sobre el DACA”, declaró Trump a la prensa. “Y también estamos trabajando en una iniciativa de inmigración, un sistema basado en el mérito, que es lo que he deseado desde hace mucho tiempo”.

Trump afirmó que él hará “felices” a los beneficiarios del DACA sin decir de qué manera.

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