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Election 2020 - Hemet City Council - District One Q + A with DeniAntoinette Mazingo

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f she wins her district, she will be the first woman of color to serve on the City Council in memory, if ever.

Deni is a live wire. Ambitious, quick with a quip and running full speed.

Q. A lot of elementary and high school students have the same problem. How about them?

A. “That is a disgrace for a community to ignore children struggling to get an education while at the same time trying to eat and sleep in the richest country in the world in a state with the fifth-largest economy in the world. It is against everything America stands for. I believe I can make a difference in correcting some of the major problems we have.”

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Q. What’s wrong with the current city council?

A. “I’m not going to say what’s wrong with individual council members but I know things can

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ith the help of grant funds from the Northern California Indian Development Council (NCIDC), the Soboba Public Works Department was able to implement a program to take care of much-needed cleanup and repair from federally declared disasters at the Soboba Indian Reservation.

Kenneth McLaughlin, Director of the Soboba Public Works Department, was the initial point of contact with NCIDC for disaster assessments within Soboba.

“This resulted in including Soboba as a potential worksite for the cleanup and repair of declared disaster damage in two different NDWG (National Dislocated Worker Grant) proposals, one for response to the storm disaster and the second for the response to COVID-19,” McLaughlin said. “Both these proposals were funded.”

The NCIDC also operates the

American Indian Rapid Response network for the State of California. The NCIDC Rapid Response program responds to economic and natural disaster events within Indian communities in the state, and if indicated will assist in applying for NDWG funding to address a specific disaster.

“The NCIDC has a long history of working with Soboba on a variety of projects that goes back many, many years,” McLaughlin said.

Gregory Gehr, who has worked at the NCIDC for more than 15

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DEMOCRAT: DeniAntionette Mazingo is currently running for District One. | Photo by Rusty Strait be changed for the betterment of the city by addressing the issues of our people and doing something positive to make those changes.

Q. As you know, the homeless situation is out of control in Hemet. How will you address that?

A. Glad you asked. People keep harping about the homeless. Our problem is the housing industry.

If we bring affordable housing to the city, we will see many of these people disappear from the streets and show up in housing they can afford. When I ran for the 42nd Assembly District, a part of my campaign had to do with those small houses like the ones they brought to Banning.

They now have 20 of them near

the Freeway housing 40 formerly homeless citizens. As a start, the city has plenty of land where they could be located. They would be a big step to transition the homeless back into a working society.

These are not lazy people; they are homeless and in most instances as a result of the declining economy. I saw a little girl sleeping on a slide. I went over to her and discovered her parents were sleeping under the slide with the other children. Don’t tell me we can’t correct that kind of situation if we put a little elbow grease to work. The psychological harm is horrible. One can lose all selfworth and self-confidence. Imagine a mother and young children suffering from heat, cold and

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Moreno Valley man arrested on suspicion of robbery RIVERSIDE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT | CONTRIBUTED

During the months of July and August 2020, members of the Moreno Valley Station Robbery Burglary Suppression Team (RBST) began investigating a series of armed robberies that occurred in the city of Moreno Valley. During each of these robberies, the suspect would enter the business dressed in dark clothing, select an item for purchase and when the clerk would open the cash register, the suspect would brandish a firearm and demand money. After committing the robbery, the suspect would flee the area on foot in an unknown direction. Through the extensive and diligent work of members of RBST, as well as assistance from the community and the Moreno

SUSPECT: Citywide Camera System shot. | Riverside County Sheriff's Department

Valley Citywide Camera System, a White Dodge Challenger, was

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Local Service Clubs support local businesses STACEY BAILEY | CONTRIBUTED

On Friday Aug 7, the Hemet Rotary and San Jacinto Lions teamed up to CA$H MOB local restaurant, El Patron.

Thirty members of the two clubs met for dinner. They plan to CA$H MOB local businesses through out the coming months.

Rotary president Dan Cortese said, “The service clubs in this valley are passionate about our local small businesses, and anything we can do to help during

MOMENTS IN TIME

Q. Why do you feel qualified to run for the council?

A. “I have lived in Hemet for 8 years and my parents resided in Hemet for many years before that. The demographics have changed here in the last 20 years, but Hemet has not kept pace.

This city was once a retirement community with an average age in the 60s. Today it is closer to 38. Young people moved out here from the Los Angeles area and they are raising their children here. We have no representation for our single mothers living on the streets or for veterans out there who need assistance. Twenty percent of our Mt. San Jacinto Community college students are sleeping in cars or on the streets.

They need a voice and I am that voice.”

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this crisis, we are willing to do it! We will make every effort to keep our businesses alive and help our community thrive".

They want to support local businesses with a CA$H MOB, which means on a given day and time everyone comes to that business to buy something.

Hemet Rotary will post their next event on Facebook @HemetRotary and everyone is welcome to become part of the CA$H MOB. If you can’t make the event, go on your own and support the business.

On Aug. 13, 1899

Alfred Hitchcock is born in London. His innovative mastery of suspense made him one of the most popular and influential filmmakers of the 20th century. In 1925, he directed his first movie, "The Pleasure Garden," a silent film.

On Aug. 14, 1971

St. Louis Cardinals ace Bob Gibson throws his first career no-hitter in an 11-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 1964 Gibson won his first World Series Most Valuable Player Award.

On Aug. 15, 1969

The Woodstock music festival opens on Max Yasgur's 600-acre farm in upstate New York,

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with folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens kicking off the event. Approximately 400,000 people attended, most of whom did not pay for the $24 tickets.

On Aug. 16, 1948

Baseball legend George Herman "Babe" Ruth dies in New York City. For two days following, his body lay in state at the main entrance to Yankee Stadium, and tens of thousands of people stood in line to pay their respects.

On Aug. 17, 1978

The Double Eagle II, with three pilots, completes the first trans-Atlantic balloon flight when it lands near Paris after lifting off from Presque Isle, Maine. The helium-filled balloon had flown 3,233

miles in the nearly six-day odyssey.

On Aug. 18, 1958

Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel "Lolita" is published in the U.S. The novel, about a man's obsession with a 12-year-old girl, had been rejected by four publishers before G.P. Putnam's Sons accepted it.

On Aug. 19, 1960

In the USSR, captured American U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for his confessed espionage. Only 18 months into his sentence, the Soviets released him in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught and convicted in the U.S. five years earlier.

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Joseph Morgan Jr. October 23, 1953 - August 5, 2020 Joseph Morgan Jr, age 66, passed away Wednesday, August 5, 2020 in Hemet, CA. He was born October 23, 1953, in Santa Monica, California, to his belated parents Joseph and Margaret Morgan.

Joseph was married to the love of his life Michele for 32 years. He was a loving, honest, faithful, and dedicated man. He loved his classic cars including his 1940 Deep Ruby Metallic Ford Sedan. Joseph loved fishing and camping with his wife Michele that will truly miss him.

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Knox E. McCloy September 9, 1927 - July 27, 2020 The youngest son of R. Cameron & Lois E. McCloy, Knox was born and raised in the farming community of Hemet, California. After graduating from Hemet High, Knox worked on the family’s ranch until he moved to Long Beach and began his career with McDonnell Douglas in the aerospace industry. Knox’s leisure time was usually spent outdoors, fishing, hunting and discovering rocks and minerals as he pursued his interest in lapidary. After his retirement, Knox relocated to Mohave Valley, an ideal area for him to pursue his hobbies. Knox remained very active up until the last few months of his life. A devoted member of the Mohave Valley United Methodist Church and the Promise Keepers, Knox was a student of the Bible who shared his faith by the life he led. A “salt-ofthe-earth�, generous man, Knox was also a great storyteller who entertained with recounts of family history and humorous recaps of his numerous life adventures. Knox is survived by his sister, Jean Triplett, of Hemet, and fondly remembered by his Colorado and Texas relatives as well as his many nieces, nephews and cousins. A graveside service in early September will be held in Hemet, the resting place of Knox’s wives, Abby and Mary Ellen who preceded him. A Celebration of Life Memorial will be held at the United Methodist Church of Mohave Valley when COVID19 restrictions have been lifted.

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rain. It is un-American and it needs to be ended.�

Q. You have mentioned education. What would you do to improve student skills?

A. “We need to bring back trade schools and the City Council can play a big part in that better if the School District to the lead, but apparently they haven’t done much about it. That’s where the council comes in. Trade schools are a business and business attracts business. If we have students graduating with trade school training it will make the area more desirable for a business that uses those kinds of employees. Between the city and business entities, I believe we can create a

situation that includes the trades and trade schools; it will be another step in getting the homeless back into normal society. Not all workers want a college education. They work with their hands and love it. As they say, ‘one size does not fit all.’�

Q. So, in summation, where do you start if elected?

A. “With the help of others, I believe we have a number of issues we can all get together on: housing, education, health care and a future for our youth.

Young folks go away to college and don’t come back because they don’t want to work at a hamburger stand, or a shoe store or mall shop. We need some manufacturing and high tech business here that we are not currently getting. I propose that we put forth

all our energies to solicit such business. We have nothing. We have no industry. We will decay and fade away if we keep our current pace.

Q. Do you think you can get others to go along with your program?

A. “We have to work together for the common cause. I can’t believe any council member wants the city to fail. We must remember one thing. Nobody gets the whole pie at one sitting. Just keep compromising until you get the whole thing. Only through compromise do you make progress. We can have the best city council in the state, we forget self-interest and work together to do what’s best for the city and its citizens. That’s my hope and desire as a candidate. rustystrait@gmail.com

Census Takers start following up with nonresponding households in Southern California PATRICIA RAMOS | CONTRIBUTED

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ensus takers throughout Southern California have started following up with households that have not yet responded to the 2020 Census.

The current self-response rates in each of the five counties within the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area are:

• Los Angeles County 59.9% • Orange County 71.9% • San Bernardino County 61.1% • Riverside County 62.0% • Ventura County 72.3% The Census Bureau is visiting the remaining non-responsive addresses in its database to collect responses in person.

Households can still respond now by completing and mailing back the paper questionnaire they received, by responding online at 2020census.gov, or by phone at 844-330-2020.

Households can also respond online or by phone in one of 13 languages and find assistance in many more. Those that respond will not need to be visited to obtain their census response.

sure that everyone who was living in their household as of April 1, 2020, is counted.

WHAT HOUSEHOLDS CAN EXPECT The Census Bureau is providing face masks to census takers and requires that census takers wear a mask while conducting their work. They are following CDC and local public health guidelines when they visit. Census takers must complete a virtual COVID-19 training on social distancing protocols and other health and safety guidance before beginning their work in neighborhoods.

Census takers are hired from local communities. All census takers speak English and many are bilingual. If a census taker does not speak the householder’s language, the household may request a return visit from a census taker who does. Census takers also have materials on hand to help identify the household’s language.

If no one is home when the census taker visits, the census taker will leave a notice of their visit with information about how to respond online, by phone or by mail. People are encouraged to cooperate with census takers and en-

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identified as being connected with each robbery. A variety of investigative tools were utilized and a suspect, David Anthony Battle (49) from the city of Moreno Valley, was identified as the suspect in each of these robberies.

On August 10, 2020 at 8:03 PM, Battle approached the Walgreens Pharmacy, located in the 16000 block of Perris Blvd.

Battle was dressed in the exact clothing worn in all previous robberies and was seen holding an item inside his waistband. To prevent any further vic-

DAVID ANTHONY BATTLE: Suspect of robberies in Moreno Valley. | Riverside County Sheriff's Department. timization of the public, RBST contacted Battle just prior to him entering the store. Battle immediately fled on foot and was taken into custody after a brief foot pursuit. During the

HOW TO IDENTIFY CENSUS TAKERS Census takers can be easily identified by a valid government ID badge with their photograph, a U.S. Department of Commerce watermark, and an expiration date on the badge. To confirm a census taker’s identity, the public may contact their regional census center to speak with a Census Bureau representative.

ABOUT THE 2020 CENSUS The U.S. Constitution mandates a census of the population every 10 years.

The goal of the 2020 Census is to count everyone who lives in the United States on April 1, 2020 (Census Day).

Census statistics are used to determine the number of seats each state holds in the U.S. House of Representatives and informs how billions of dollars in federal funds will be allocated by state, local and federal lawmakers annually for the next 10 years.

For more information, visit 2020census.gov. Direct: https://2020census.gov/en/ census-takers.html foot pursuit, Battle was seen throwing a black firearm from his waistband.

The firearm was recovered by members of the Riverside County Sheriff ’s Department K-9 team.

Battle is also responsible for at least one additional robbery in the city of Colton (20-03678). Battle was booked at the Robert Presley Detention Center.

Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Moreno Valley Station Deputy Scott Anderson at 951-486-6700.

For media inquiries regarding this incident please contact the Media Information Bureau.

MORENO VALLEY CITYWIDE CAMERA SYSTEM: A White Dodge Challenger was identified as being connected with each robbery. | Riverside County Sheriff's Department.

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St. Jude Mission School offers unique education DIANE A. RHODES | CONTRIBUTED

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t. Jude Mission School is a nonprofit Catholic elementary school serving the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians and adjacent communities since 2002. Sharing its grounds with the St. Joseph Mission Church, which has been serving its congregation for more than 100 years, the school offers more than the traditional 3Rs of education.

Expanding to include one grade each year since it opened, St. Jude now offers classes from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.

Small class sizes offer students a chance to receive individualized assistance when and where needed.

Administrator Donna Ferry has been a Catholic school teacher for more than 20 years. She said St. Jude offers students small group instruction and oneon-one tutoring. The primary grades also do learning centers. Students are taught religion every day and go to Mass as a school community every week.

“Our students participate in the school Mass as readers and altar servers,” Ferry said.

Maleta Lolesio has taught at the school for seven years and teaches first through

SCHOOL: The St. Jude Mission School is currently in enrollment season. | Photo courtesy of Diane A. Rhodes third grades. She said she chose to teach at a Catholic school rather than a charter or public school because of her background in the church.

“I love being able to educate children as well as teach them the word of God,” Lolesio said. “I love St. Jude for many reasons, including the family environment we have built as a staff and with the students, the culture, and because our curriculum is very academic-based and challenging.”

The school’s goal is to provide quality education in a loving and caring atmosphere, which will help students reach their full potential. This includes a strong general education with a true sense of God and an appreciation for the

Our students participate in the school Mass as readers and altar servers”

children’s Indian heritage and culture.

Deacon Andrew Orosco has served the Native American Ministry of the Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino, which includes the counties of Riverside and San Bernardino and consists of six Mission Churches within the diocese. St. Joseph Church is located on the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians Reservation and adjacent to the St. Jude Mission School. Orosco is a four-year member of the St. Jude School Board and Chairperson of the Board for three years.

“I am involved because I requested, and Bishop Gerald Barnes granted my request, to serve in the Native American Ministry which encompasses all six Native Mission Churches and Institutions which includes St. Jude Mission School,” he said. “The School Board is responsible for the adherence and promotion of the Mission School, which is

ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ST. JUDE MISSION SCHOOL

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SKETCHES: The Mt. San Jacinto College Art Gallery is pleased to present "Sketches From the ICU" by Oh YoungJun. The exhibit will launch Monday, Aug. 17, at www.msjc.edu/artgallery. The Art Gallery will host a special Zoom conversation about the exhibition from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27. | Photo courtesy of Mt. San Jacinto College

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he Mt. San Jacinto College Art Gallery is pleased to present "Sketches From the ICU" by Oh Young-Jun. The exhibit will launch online Monday, Aug. 17, at www.msjc.edu/ artgallery.

The Art Gallery will host a special Zoom conversation about the exhibition from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27.

Oh Young-Jun is a trained

artist-turned-nurse who volunteered to work in the ICU as COVID-19 peaked in his home city of Daegu, South Korea. During his time in the ICU treating COVID-19 patients, Oh used his talents as an artist to capture scenes from the hospital. Through his goggled eyes and gloved hands, we are compelled to recognize the care and humanity of the medical workers who are the heroes of the pandemic. His drawings depict the actions of the nurses

and doctors with incredible intimacy and care.

While attending art school, Oh studied Korean painting, with a focus on landscape. His shift to capturing the life of his ICU challenged him to draw the figures and the medical equipment with its tubes, wires and screens.

Oh’s style reveals the quickness of a courtroom reporter documenting the drama as it unfolds. In one

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I love being able to educate children as well as teach them the word of God. I love St. Jude for many reasons, including the family environment we have built as a staff and with the students, the culture, and because our curriculum is very academic-based and challenging.”

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to provide a quality Catholic education to Native students with an emphasis on local Native culture, language and tradition.”

The school’s educational values that it strives to pass onto the children are knowledge and a personal love of God, love of learning, awareness of those less fortunate, building relationships based on respect and concern for others, personal development of each child, a strong sense of family and community, reverence for all of Creation and respect and love for Indian culture.

“As the only Catholic Mission school located on an Indian Reservation in the Diocese, we of the School Board and administrators serve the Native community in many ways,” Orosco explained. “Educationally, by teaching the importance of the basics: reading, writing and arith-

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years, with the past two years as Executive Director, said his organization exists to assist Tribes and be a resource to them.

“The Soboba Tribal Council, Administrator and staff, including specifically Director Kenneth McLaughlin and the Soboba Public Works Department, have been truly wonderful partners to work with over these many years,” he said.

“The decades of projects that we have worked on together in adverse situations with limited resources have always resulted in positive outcomes that have improved the lives of individual Tribal Members and the community as a whole. We consider our ongoing relationship with Soboba to be an example of best practice in disaster response in Indian Country.”

The current NDWG Sudden Storms Project will initially involve 10 temporary workers, who will work for

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MALETA LOLESIO

TEACHER OF THE ST. JUDE MISSION SCHOOL

metic; spiritually, by recognizing our connectedness to all Creation through a relationship with our Creator and most of all appreciation of the beauty of our local Native culture, history and contributions.”

He said the school is self-supporting but that its tuition costs are on the low side based on what other parochial schools in the local area charge. Also, due to the low number of students through the years, the small school has been mostly subsidized by very

generous donors and grants awarded by the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions.

“Without these gracious stakeholders, the school would not exist,” Orosco said. “We would like to gratefully thank the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians Tribal Council who continually allows us the opportunity to operate this school on their sovereign lands together with the Diocese of San Bernardino who award our students with scholarship grants and provides our students with iPads for

their use at the school.”

During the recent COVID-19 closures, the personal computers have been very beneficial. The School Board’s nine members support the school through hosting of various fundraisers that allow everyone to invest in the future of its students by providing important opportunities that promote the values that are important to our society today.

For more information about St. Jude Mission School at 23600 Soboba Road in San Jacinto, please call 951-654-7899 or 951487-8822 or send an email to st.judeschoolsoboba@ gmail.com.

approximately 12 weeks each.

“We are also working on creating one position as a Sanitization Technician for Tribal facilities in response to the declared COVID-19 disaster,” McLaughlin said.

Ideally, the program will try to recruit and start all temporary job participants in a cohort, but there is flexibility to have them work in stages if that becomes necessary. Open to those age 18 and older, eligibility criteria are for those that were displaced as a result of the declared disaster. Long-term unemployed individuals are also eligible. However, the specific eligibility for the long-term unemployed designation varies by disaster. In general, it requires that the individual be unemployed for more than 15 weeks.

McLaughlin said the grant-funded workers may only work on the cleanup and repair of the disaster damage. In the case of the NDWG Sudden Storms Project disaster crews, this

would involve cleanup and repair of storm-affected flood control systems such as the damaged levee and impacted culverts, ditches and dikes. In the case of the NDWG COVID-19 pandemic project, this would involve training a Sanitization Technician who would then provide cleaning and sterilization of Tribal public facilities to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to staff, clients and members of the public.

Although some of the duties may sound similar to what permanent employees of the Public Works Department do on a regular basis, they actually are specifically targeted as “cleanup and repair” of declared disaster damage only. They are not displacing any regular workers of the Tribe and are specifically targeting backlogged work directly caused by the disaster.

Soboba’s Tribal Administrator Michael Castello said more than 20 applications were submitted and the Tribe is currently conduct-

ing interviews for a possible start date by the end of this month. He said these types of projects benefit the Tribe in several ways.

“It provides jobs to the Tribal Members, provides an opportunity for Members to undergo training for potential long-term jobs and allows us to provide much-needed cleanup and repairs caused by the February 14, 2019 (storm) disaster,” Castello said.

“Unfortunately, we have undertaken these types of projects due to previous disasters in the past several years. But programs like this one from NCIDC are one benefit that comes from these situations.”

Soboba’s Public Works Department proudly serves the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians through facilities operations, infrastructure improvements, transportation, grounds maintenance, water services and emergency preparedness.

Its mission is to provide and maintain the most desirable environment for the

MISSION: The school’s goal is to provide quality education in a loving and caring atmosphere, which will help students reach their full potential. | Photo courtesy of Diane A. Rhodes

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EDUCATION: The school’s educational values that it strives to pass onto the children are knowledge and a personal love of God, love of learning, awareness of those less fortunate, building relationships based on respect and concern for others, personal development of each child, a strong sense of family and community, reverence for all of Creation and respect and love for Indian culture. | Photo courtesy of Diane A. Rhodes. community by ensuring that all Tribal property is maintained to the highest standards possible.

The Northern California Indian Development Council Inc. (NCIDC) is a private nonprofit corporation that annually provides services to 14,000-15,000 clients statewide. It was established in 1976 to research, develop and administer social and economic development programs designed to meet the needs of Indian and Native American communities, to provide support and technical assistance for the development of such programs, and the conservation and preservation of historic and archeological sites and resources.

Gehr explained that the NCIDC operates a statewide Low-Income Housing Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) serving 48 Tribes located within California, as well as a statewide disaster assistance program serving all Indian communities throughout the state.

The NCIDC is also the

statewide Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) American Indian Program provider for California, providing services to Indian people in 57 counties as well as 104 Tribal reservations and rancherias within the state. In addition, the NCIDC operates Native employment and training services, youth and education services, and community and economic development programs for Northwestern California.

“Native people and most importantly Native youth are sacred and deserve to be proud of their culture, heritage, traditions, languages, and ancestors,” Gehr said. “The NCIDC wants Native people to succeed in all aspects of an integrated life, work, family, spirituality, social relations, physical well-being, and cultural pride. The NCIDC, working with a statewide network of Tribal and nonprofit partners, provides resources and services to assist American Indians to meet these goals.”

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Biden, Harris to make unusual campaign debut in virus era BILL BARROW AND WILL WEISSERT | AP NEWS

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oe Biden made his first appearance with newly chosen running mate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, betting that the California senator’s historic profile and confrontational style against President Donald Trump will boost Democrats’ efforts to oust the Republican president amid cascading national crises.

The former primary rivals will appear at a high school in Biden’s Delaware hometown to discuss their shared vision for how to defeat Trump and then lead the country through a pandemic, its economic fallout and a long-simmering reckoning with racism. Harris and Biden then will sit down together for an online fundraiser designed to let small donors get a fresh glimpse of what the Democratic presidential ticket will look like together.

In a reflection of coronavirus guidelines, there will be no adoring throngs that would greet a new running mate in a routine campaign and certainly one with Harris’ historical significance. The daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, she is the first Black woman and first person of Asian descent to join a major party presidential ticket.

But the 55-year-old former prosecutor will have to put her animated public style – often a contrast to

the folksier 77-year-old Biden – to use in television and online streaming formats without voter interaction or feedback.

The Biden campaign has said it plans a rollout that blends the historic nature of Harris’ selection with the realities of the 2020 campaign and the gravity of the nation’s circumstances.

“I need someone working alongside me who is smart, tough and ready to lead. Kamala is that person,” Biden told his supporters in an email explaining his running mate choice.

“I need someone who understands the pain that so many people in our nation are suffering.

Whether they’ve lost their job, their business, a loved one to this virus,” Biden continued. “This president says he doesn’t want to be distracted by it. He doesn’t understand that taking care of the people of this nation – all the people – isn’t a distraction; it’s the job. Kamala understands that.”

Harris was considered a favorite throughout Biden’s search, and she’s been a regular surrogate campaigner and fundraiser for him since he became the presumptive nominee.

They’ll nonetheless have to paper over differences exposed during the primary campaign, from Harris’ initial support for a single-payer health insurance system and the Green New Deal to her deeply

personal debate-stage broadside against Biden over his opposition to federally mandated busing to integrate public schools in the 1970s.

Trump seized on those dynamics, tagging Harris as “Phony Kamala” and casting her as the latest evidence that Biden, a five-decade veteran of the Democratic establishment, is captive to his party’s left flank.

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday insisted Harris is “very much part of the radical left” and suggested the senator will have a hard time not outshining Biden, whose age and fitness for office Conway frequently mocks. “He’s overshadowed basically by almost everyone he comes in contact with,” she said.

Biden’s campaign seemed prepared for the counteroffensive, noting that just weeks ago, Trump said Harris would be a “fine choice.”

And campaign finance records show that Trump contributed as a private citizen to Harris’ attorney general campaigns in California.

Harris was elected to the Senate in 2016.

Further muddying the GOP message, national operatives on Wednesday highlighted progressives’ criticism of Harris’ record as a prosecutor and California attorney general, essentially criticizing her as part of the Democratic establishment.

| Courtesy of AP News.

Indeed, Harris no longer supports a single-payer health insurance system, aligning instead with Biden’s proposal to add a public insurance option to compete alongside private plans. Still, Harris memorably raised her hand

during one Democratic primary debate when candidates were asked whether they could back a system that scrapped private health insurance altogether.

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California’s public health director abruptly resigns amid questions about state’s virus testing data SOPHIE MANN | CONTRIBUTED

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r. Sonia Angell, California’s director of the Department of Public Health, abruptly resigned on Sunday. Angell, who had been in the position for less than a year, reportedly resigned via an email sent to the California Health and Human Services Agency.

Angell has, among others, been leading the state’s battle against the novel coronavirus.

More than 10,000 Californians have died of the illness, and most of the state remains on shutdown following a brief reopening period in early summer.

“Our department has been front and center in what has become an all-of-government response of unprecedented proportions to COVID-19. In the final calculation, all of our work, in aggregate, makes the difference,” Angell reportedly wrote in her resignation letter.

“I want to thank Dr. Angell for her service to the state and her work to help steer our public health system during this global pandemic, while never losing sight of the importance of health

GRAPHIC PROFILES: Sen. Kamala Harris, Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s running mate.

CPH: Former California Public Health Director Dr. Sonia Angell. | Photo source: Youtube equity,” wrote Governor Newsom in a Sunday night statement.

During her time in office, Angell held the dual role of director of the state Department of Public Health and California’s public health officer. Those roles will now be divided between Sandra Shewdry, a vice president at the nonprofit California Health Care Foundation, and Dr. Erica Pan, who served as public health officer in Alameda County.

Angell’s departure comes as the state government reckons with a data glitch that failed to log nearly 300,000 infectious disease testing records, resulting in hindered decision-mak-

ing at the highest levels of the California government.

The secretary of California Health and Human Services, Mark Ghaly, recently apologized to state residents for the error. “Bottom line, our data system failed,” said Ghaly. With more than half a million reported cases of the virus, California tops the nation for positive diagnoses. The data blunder, however, has impeded state authorities’ ability to determine policies moving forward, specifically the decision on whether to reopen schools for in-person learning as the new school year is set to begin.

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OPINION

Thursday | August 13 - 19, 2020

THE POLITICAL NOTEBOOK From the Democrats of Hemet-San Jacinto

EVERYONE IS A STRANGER SOMEWHERE I must admit that I am not the most outgoing kind of person. I have gone through most of my life trying to leave as little trace of my presence as possible. I drive my car with the intent of not causing other drivers to have to change lanes or brake. I am the same way in most public settings. I seek to draw as little attention as possible. I don’t speak to strangers.

I rarely make eye contact with them. I even dress not to draw attention. I have been content with my circle of friends. I read an article a few years ago from the UNCHR, The UN Refugee Agency that talked about welcoming the stranger. I liked the article and even put it n my personal website but until this week it didn’t register with me. I failed to connect the point of the article with my personal behavior. This week the light came on. What appears below is not verbatim. I modified it mostly for length. I think I kept its message. I hope I am able to step out of my comfort zone and be the kind of person this encourages me to be.

Compassion, mercy, love, and hospitality are for everyone: the native born and the foreigner, the members of the community and the newcomer. We are all considered “strangers” somewhere but let us commit to not permit that place be in our presence. When strangers cross your path, welcome them, give them your smile. Treat the stranger to your community as you would like to be treated when you are new to a community.

No one leaves their homeland without a reason. Some flee because of persecution or violence or exploitation. Some leave their homeland because of natural disaster. Some come to our community out of love to provide a better life for their family.

Some may just be visiting. Regardless of why they are among us, welcome them with open arms and an open heart.

Acknowledge that while welcoming the stranger can be is risky and takes courage but remember the joys and the hopes of doing so outweigh the challenges. Recognize that all persons are entitled to dignity and respect as human beings.

All those in our community and our country, including the stranger, while subject to our laws, none should be subject to hostility or discrimination.

Respect and honor the reality that the stranger may be of a different faith or hold beliefs different than yours or your community. Respect the right of the stranger to practice their own faith freely. Build bridges between the stranger and yourself.

Through example, encourage others to do the same. Make an effort to not only welcome the stranger but also to listen to them, to understand them. Let differences between you and strangers be enlightening to you, enrichening your life and experiences.

Speak out for social justice for the stranger as you would for those already within your life. Stand up against hostility toward the stranger through your words and deeds. Do not keep silent when seeing others, even leaders in society when they speak ill of strangers or when pre-judging them. Don’t let the stranger be excluded or wronged or oppressed. Encourage those around you to welcome the stranger.

Understand that when a stranger enters your sphere, there are two strangers, you are a stranger too. You have a choice.

Don’t remain a stranger. Don’t allow others to remain strangers. Both of your lives will be enriched if you make the right choice, if you take positive action. It will be difficult during this pandemic but you can find a way. It will be worth your effort.

Strangers are friends just waiting to happen.

Dick Gale, President of Democrats of Hemet-San Jacinto

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GUEST COLUMN

Bonnie Wright’s Untimely Departure ANN SMITH | GUEST COLUMNIST

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got to thinking about the way former councilmember Bonnie Wright resigned from the city council. Here are the facts: 1. Bonnie Wright listed her house for sale 5/28/2020 2. She sold her house 6/12/2020 3. Escrow closed 7/10/2020 4. There is no evidence of where Ms. Wright was living at the time she voted for the (3-2) to pass the budget, violating the Measure U ordinance.

5. She should have resigned 7/10/2020 and did not 6. She waited until 7/28/2020 to resign (19 days after her house closed escrow) Is that vote even valid? Eric Vail (city attorney), are you listening?

There would have been enough time for a special election if she had paid attention to the city code (city ordinance 2104), which she violated, by not resigning on 7/10/2020.

The city was in a position where they had 60 days to appoint someone to the vacant seat (it was 60 days from 7/28/20). As of this writing, there are four city councilmembers. An appointment of a councilmember would require a 3-4 vote and that wasn’t likely. After speaking with several sources, there does not appear to be a way to break any tie that takes place.

We would have to wait until the November election to fill the seat vacated by Wright. The council voted to let the general election of November resolve the issue. In other words, there will be no special election and no appointment.

That’s all legal and will likely eliminate chaos and confusion.

Back to Ms. Wright. According to the electronic communication read at the council meeting, Wright violated the trust of the citizens of Hemet, who elected her. It’s difficult to believe that someone in the city council wasn’t aware of what she was planning.

All the above facts are public knowledge. Talk to any realtor and they will confirm the listings. The “fluff ” pieces put out by various sources state Ms. Wright stepped down for health reasons.

This paper incorrectly stated she “retired.” This will set the record straight. She resigned and her timing is highly suspect.

I used to think this was a quaint

and lovely little town. In many ways, it still is. The corruption in Hemet runs deep, from the inside out. One way to fix that (and it will take forever if it’s ever completely done) is to change things from the outside in. I am not alone in this conviction. There are others who are just as frustrated and angry at the way decisions are made in this city.

This is in no way a reflection on other employees of the city. There are a number of hardworking, underpaid employees that give it their all. Ask them how many raises they’ve received lately?

Take a good hard look at the latest budget (CAFR) Comprehensive Annual Financial Report dated 6/30/2021. If you know how to read a financial statement, your eyes will literally bug out of your head when you look at the numbers. We should all be paying attention to the Measure U funds.

That is another story for another time.

The council voted on several key items. They passed the June 30, 2020 budget, but not quite unanimously. Karlee Meyer unequivocally voted no while the other 3 members opted to pass the budget. You can go online to access the CAFR report, at the City of Hemet website.

In reviewing all the 2020, 2019 and many 2018 council minutes, it appears there were and are an awful lot of lawsuits against the city. Someone may want to have a conversation with the labor union regarding lawsuits. Because conversations of a legal nature are held in closed session, there is no way to get information, unless the council releases the information and or the results to the public.

As regards the current Treasurer, who will not be running for re-election, hopefully someone with extensive investing and fund accounting experience will run for this office. One of the discussions that took place at the end of the council meeting of 08/11 was doing an audit before a new treasurer takes office. That makes perfect sense. Currently, there are two candidates, Howard Feigenbaum, who has approximately 40 years of experience in the finance industry and Sue Savage. There doesn’t appear to be a current resume detailing his experience.

Sue Savage has taken steps to run for the election and has a website up. She’s rearing to go and has

contributed many comments to the council at various times over the last six years. Sue has held the council’s feet to the fire on some key issues. It’s apparent there is just a handful of Hemet residents that are willing to take the time to attend the meeting and become vested in the process. It truly is incumbent on residents of Hemet to vest themselves in the solutions by sitting in meetings; live streaming is a convenient way to do that.

One of the more interesting conversations that took place was in regards to a software application called SeeClickFix, which is due to launch by the city on August 31, 2020. This is a special application that will allow citizens to notify the city of ongoing problems or to give them a high five.

You will be able to use this app from your smartphone. It would likely shorten the time for the city to respond to problems and enable them to take quicker action.

One of the problems addressed

by Mayor Russ Brown was how to handle properties that don’t have specific addresses. There is considerable illegal dumping of trash on empty lots. There will be an ability to take a cell phone photo to send that to the city and they will be able to determine the location and address the problem.

That has exciting potential.

An overview of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (known as CAFR). was given by the City of Hemet Financial Director, Lorena Rocha. Unfortunately, there were errors in the report that Ms. Rocha explained as the result of short staffing. She assured the council that those errors would not take place again.

She felt sure that the COVID catastrophe had an impact on the way things at the city took place.

None of the councilmembers seemed to take issue with that.

Equally unfortunate was the fact that the General Fund was perilously low until Measure U funds were shifted around. There has definitely been an uptick in public safety costs to the city just prior to the utilization of Measure U funds. That made sense since the city had to prepare for the additional monies that would permit funding for the police and fire departments. The vote was taken to approve this budget but it wasn’t

See SMITH on page B3

GUEST COLUMN

Vote-by-Mail Imperiled by Postmaster General PAM SHERROD | COLUMNIST

W LETTER TO THE EDITOR Online learning isn’t for everyone. But for many students, it’s a solution that works.

Growing up, the teachers I had in my brick-and-mortar school promoted me to a new grade in the middle of the school year. While I was challenged academically, I wasn’t prepared for the difficulties of being with a new class and the bullying I experienced. I reached a point where I felt my love for school was dying. That’s when I discovered online school.

At California Virtual Academies I pushed myself academically and excelled in my classes without being bullied by my peers. I devoted more time to volunteering and helping with my church, which is a big part of my life. I completed both 7th and 8th grade in one year and graduated a semester early from high school.

Since I graduated, I’ve traveled and lived abroad for several years. Prior to COVID-19, I was living in a European country where I learned Arabic and volunteered in refugee camps.

I’m thankful online school was the solution for me. It’s not the solution for every student’s needs. But, it might be just what you’re looking for and should be an option anyone can choose.

Caitlyn Keil Homeland, CA

hile many more Californians than ever before are planning to vote by mail in this November’s election in order to avoid exposure to the coronavirus, Trump’s new Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, is sparing no effort to make voting by mail harder for all Americans (not just Californians). The recent primary elections in several states have given us a preview of how that works, with ballots being ensnared in postal delays.

DeJoy has cut hours and banned all overtime and is also having fewer trucks on the road.

He has even changed priorities in mailing. As a result, the US Postal Service now has a serious backlog of letters and packages, which are piling up at distribution centers.

He is piloting a new program that will take already-delayed firstclass mail and delay it even further, by ordering carriers to no longer sort and box newly arrived mail in the morning and then deliver it; instead, they must wait till the end of the day.

Coincidentally (NOT!), this will be a record year for voting by mail, which Trump is doing everything he can to undermine because, as he has already admitted, he thinks mail delays will help him win in this election. Right when we need more mail carriers, not fewer, DeJoy has instituted a hiring freeze and is trying to en-

courage early retirement of postal workers, two things Democrats in Congress specifically asked him NOT to do. While Trump created an uproar with his bogus suggestion that he might delay the election, his unprecedented politicization and gutting of the Postal Service is a much greater (and REAL) threat to American democracy. These changes and delays could lead to millions of ballots being thrown out because they weren’t received in time to be counted – thirty-four states require that ballots be received BY Election Day – and not one Republican has spoken out against this, despite the fact that Republican voters will be affected just as much as Democratic voters. THIS IS NOT A PARTISAN ISSUE – this affects EVERY voter!

If this prospect angers and outrages you, let your representatives know. Even if they are Democrats and are already opposed to this voting sabotage, let them know they need to be even more vocal and focused on this issue. Democrats keep allocating money for the Post Office in the stimulus bills, but Republicans keep cutting that money out. Time is running out! We need to demand more funding ASAP, along with safeguards to ensure that the funding will first of all, be used (and right away!), and secondly, that the funding will be used for the purposes for which it was intended.

Meanwhile, what can each of

us do to ensure our mail-in votes get counted? First, make sure you get a ballot. This year, ALL REGISTERED California voters will automatically be sent a vote-bymail ballot for the Nov. 3 General Election. To verify whether you’re registered, go to www.sos.ca.gov/ elections and use the “My Voter Status” tool. If you are not already registered, you can register online at RegisterToVote.ca.gov. If you don’t have a computer, call (916) 657-2166 for the California Elections Division, or the Voter Hotline at (800) 345-VOTE (8683). As you register, you have the option to become a “permanent vote-by-mail voter,” if you wish. Remember, if your address has changed for this election, you must re-apply in order to receive your ballot and election guides.

The Riverside County Elections Office is at 2724 Gateway Drive, Riverside 92507-0918, phone (951) 486-7200, www.voteinfo. net, or email rovweb@co.riverside.ca.us. This is also the office to contact if you don’t receive your ballot by the time you think you should have.

There is no deadline to register to vote, but the longer you wait, the harder it will be to receive your mail-in ballot in time and to get it returned in time. (See above regarding sabotage of the Postal Service.) While you can take your mail-in ballot to a polling place on Election Day and turn

See SHERROD on page B4

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quite unanimous. The vote was 3 in favor of receiving and filing and one no by Karlee Meyers. The appearance of a new Treasurer to the city may help to clarify some of the persistent financial reporting problems this city has.

Hemet is going to receive some funding from a program known as the Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA) Agreement?

It’s a subsidy designed to help out with the housing crises Hemet faces. The county will administer the program and as often the case with new programs; this one will likely take a little time to move forward. It will primarily benefit low-income families. Look for more information on this approximate 2.4 million dollar program as it comes along. The council approved the agreement between www.HSJChronicle.com Items for sale (under $500), yard sales, non-profit, personals thank you classifieds $9.50 for 12 words / .50 per additional word

the county and Hemet unanimously. This will help Hemet.

Concluding a major portion of the meeting was a somewhat heated discussion of future agenda items. The council has this habit of “kicking the can down the road” when it comes to new items.

In a way, it can’t be helped. There are an array of operational items that must be dealt with before new items can come to the floor.

Sometimes, there is not enough time or labor to handle new items.

In an attempt to shorten a long list of future agenda items, there was some contention by one member stating that is was the council that makes the decision about agenda items, not the city manager. She was quite right in stating that.

City Manager Lopez appeared to try to mollify the situation, as well as Mayor Russ Brown. Ultimately there was a consensus.

One of the items on the agenda

was Vagrancy and Pan Handling items that must be addressed by Laws as they pertain to Hemet. the council regularly and being District 1 councilmember Kar- able to add more to the workload lee Meyers expressed concern for so that it all happens in a timely her constituents and the need to manner. do what they are all voted in to Another item long on this do, take care of the residents of agenda list concerned housing Hemet. Meyers wants to be able investment opportunities on cityto assure those that live in her owned properties. A list of propdistrict that they will be safe from erties owned by the city will be vagrants and panhandlers. There developed and the city will move are other communities that have forward in putting them on the faced this problem and some of market, allowing investors to dethem have arrived at solutions. velop the properties. The reason Further action will take place so many of the properties are curthat citizens can be assured they rently unused is determined by are being heard. Happily, all coun- state law, limiting the use of the cilmembers were in agreement land. on this vitally important issue.

Last but not least, there has to We can thank Karlee Meyers for be a discussion about having an insisting on action on this issue. in-house attorney as opposed to Many of the items on the current the astronomical costs of utilizagenda have been sitting there ing an outside law firm. That has for at least a year. It boils down been a contentious item for a long to being able to time manage the time and is ready for resolution. essential and basic operational On a happier note, several Jueves |Noviembre 7 - Noviembre 13| 2019

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The city has made it pretty easy to participate in solving some of the problems it faces by having their meetings live-streamed on YouTube. You can sit in the comfort of your own air-conditioned home, happily munching away on goodies. Honestly, there are times during the meeting when you wonder what in the world this group of elected people are doing. If you have ever participated in a board meeting for an extended period of time, you get to see some of the same antics.

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it in (and you may have to do that if you procrastinate too long), I am assuming you are trying to avoid that hassle and possible exposure to COVID-19. (Maybe you are even nice enough to worry about exposing the poll workers to the virus.)

California provides several options for returning your mail-in ballot.

If you decide to mail it in, DON’T WAIT! Because of the postal delays detailed above, get your vote in early – at least two weeks before Nov. 3, which would be Oct. 20; mark your calendar so you don’t forget. The ballot must be POSTMARKED on or before Nov. 3 and RECEIVED by your county elections office no later than 17 days after Election Day. If you are worried about being on the late side of mailing your vote, you might want to use certified, priority or express mail so there is proof of delivery and of the date your ballot was mailed.

Another option is to take your ballot to the country elections office (see above for the address) no later than the close of polls at 8:00 p.m. on Election Day.

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She has broadly endorsed the Green New Deal, progressives’ most ambitious set of proposals to combat the climate crisis, but she didn’t make that an anchor of her presidential bid. Biden has moved left on his climate proposals during the 2020 campaign but has not fully embraced the Green New Deal.

In Washington, Harris has advocated overhauling the criminal justice system, intensifying her efforts since George Floyd’s killing by a white Minneapolis officer in May. And she’s called for sweeping domestic programs to benefit the working and middle class. But she has taken heat for some of her aggressive stances as a local

Alternatively, you can take your ballot to one of your county’s ballot drop boxes by no later than the close of polls by 8:00 p.m. on Election Day. The County Elections Office (also known as the Registrar of Voters) has a 24-hour drop box east of the main entry doors (see the Gateway Drive address above).

Other locations as of the June election were the City Clerk’s Offices in Menifee, Canyon Lake, Wildomar and Riverside. Check www. voteinfo.net for their addresses, and, as the Nov. 3 election approaches, to see if any other locations have been added.

If you don’t want to mail your ballot but can’t get to a ballot drop box or the county elections office yourself, you can authorize someone to return your ballot for you, as long as they do not get paid on a per-ballot basis. Remember to fill out the authorization section found on the outside of your ballot envelope if you are going to go this route.

Riverside County participates in a system called WheresMyB a l lot.s os. ca.gov, if you want to track where your vote is at and whether there are any problems with it.

As a final note, please let me be clear that I love my postman (and the subs who deliver our mail when he is out); they all do a consummate and praiseworthy job of getting our mail to us faithfully in all kinds of weather, day in and day out.

I have always gotten great service at the counter when I’ve gone into the Hemet Post Office to buy stamps or mail packages, too. The sterling work and dedication of these people make me all the angrier at Louis DeJoy and his boss, Donald Trump, for trying to cripple this vital institution of the Postal Service, and the sacred institution of voting, for partisan ends. They did not begin the attack on the Post Office; that started back in 2006 when Republicans passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, giving the Post Office 10 years to fully fund retirement pension and health care benefits for the next 75 years. Trump and DeJoy are “just” capitalizing on the pandemic to try to force the Postal Service to be complicit in making it harder for citizens to vote by mail and to have their votes count. That is despicable, evil, and to my mind, criminal.

prosecutor in the San Francisco area and for not prosecuting bank executives in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse.

That mixed record could have unpredictable effects in a national campaign.

Biden bets that, on balance, Harris has broad appeal that will shore up any weaknesses with Black women, an anchor of the Democratic Party, and other voters of color, while juicing turnout among white liberals and coaxing support from independents and Republican-leaning white voters who have soured on Trump.

Karen Finney, a prominent Black strategist in the Democratic Party, pointed to immediate fundraising success as evidence that Biden’s take on Harris is better than Trump’s.

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fundraising arm, reported taking in almost $11 million in the hours after Biden’s announcement, and the Biden campaign expects a massive haul from Wednesday evening’s grass-roots fundraiser, potentially rivaling previous events with former President Barack Obama and former 2020 rival Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Those virtual events raised about $11 million and $6 million, respectively.

“We won’t get the visual,” Finney said, referring to the realities of a coronavirus-era campaign. “But you can already feel the energy and excitement.”

The ticket, she said, “makes clear that Biden is serious about having people who like the diversity of our country and our future at the highest decision-making tables. That gives people hope.”

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OPINION FROM A CITIZEN TO THE HATERS Still don’t like your President? Do you dislike that he made cruelty to animals a FELONY? Do you dislike that he signed a law ending the gag-order on pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving options on prescriptions? Do you dislike that he signed the Save Our Seas Act which funds 10 million per year to clean tons of plastic and garbage from the ocean? Do you dislike that he signed a bill for airports to provide breastfeeding stations for nursing moms? Do you dislike that he signed the biggest wilderness protection and conservation bill in a decade, designating 375,000 acres as protected land?

Do you dislike that he loves America and puts Americans first? Do you dislike that he made a gay man the ambassador of Germany and then asked him to clean up national security and unclassified as much of it as possible for transparency? Do you dislike that he’s kept almost every campaign promise (with ZERO support from Congress who work against him daily) plus 100 more promises because Washington was much more broken than he thought? Do you dislike like that he works for free, donating his salary to different charities? Do you dislike that he’s done more for the black community than every other President? Do you dislike that he listened to senator Scott and passed Invest In Opportunity Zones to help minorities? Do you dislike that he passed prison reform, which gives people a second chance and has made quite a huge difference for the black communities?

Do you dislike that he passed VA reforms to benefit the very people who served our country and defend our freedom? Do you dislike that he’s winning and signing new trade deals that benefit Americans, instead of costing us more? Do you dislike that he loves his flag and his country? Do you dislike that he calls out and has shown all of us that they ARE Fake News, and they twist the truth to control and mislead the people and he is trying to protect us from this? Do you dislike that he’s ending wars? Do you dislike that he has made a commitment to end child-trafficking and crimes against humanity and has made 1000’s of arrests already? Do you dislike he’s brought home over 40 Americans held captive, the last one from Iran? Do you dislike that he’s proven he was right about the Deep State and he was spied on? Do you dislike that he was a billionaire before he ran for President and now is worth at least 1/3 less...because he loves America THAT MUCH? Do you dislike that he’s making the world pay their fair share for the UN for protection? Do you dislike that he respects cops, veterans, ICE & First Responders? Do you dislike that he does not sell out America to other countries, like the leaders prior to him have done?

Could it be possible that the ones who SELL OUT America to line their pockets OWN THE MEDIA AND HOLLYWOOD and hate him so much for trying to expose them and hate him for putting the PEOPLE first that they manipulate our thinking and control the information we get to steer US to hate him? These people benefit when you hate the man trying to stop them... so they won’t have to give up the wealth they have gotten and continue to get thru mass taxation and control. Wouldn’t you at least want to RESEARCH this possibility? Could 65,000 Americans already know the TRUTH... that he has done more for blacks in the last 20 years than our last 5 Presidents put together and is actually NOT a racist, but you believe he is because it has been drilled into your head and yet you’ve never researched his accomplishments? You can start by watching those daily briefings he did during the lockdown (all online) and then watching the coverage on the Main Stream Media and how they twisted it. Do you actually believe the President encouraged America to inject bleach? Did you research the effects of UV LIGHT which is used to disinfect SCHOOL BUSES and medical equipment and is also being used as a treatment for bacteria and respiratory infections by injecting it into humans (search ‘Healight’ but don’t use Google... they are part of the Deep State and manipulate what we see! And they sell our info, which is why you see merchandise pop up the day after you searched for something! Use Duckduckgo)!!! They want you to believe he is stupid because if you figure out that he isn’t, they will lose billions of dollars and all their control. I know... it is hard to let go of what you believed to be true for most of your life. You are not alone. But your blind hatred of this man who is literally trying to save us from the far Left, radical Socialists is going to be detrimental to our country if you continue to support their hatred. They are teaching hatred and separation...even in families! You are not allowed to agree with “part” of their agenda and think for yourself; you must repeat their FULL belief system or name-calling and insults ensue... this is the definition of a cult! All or nothing!

They despise LAW AND ORDER. Just look around you. He supports it, so we are safe and can live in a civilized society. He stands for unity and America first.

You will be amazed at how much more peace comes into your life when you turn off the fake news and turn on the true America, where we focus on what unites us, not what divides us.

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‘America’s Got Talent’ tops ratings, loses Cowell for now LYNN ELBER | AP NEWS

“America’s Got Talent” topped the ratings last week, but it faces the absence of Simon Cowell, seriously injured in an electric bicycle accident.

Cowell, the NBC talent contest’s creator and linchpin of its judging panel, underwent surgery for a broken back last Saturday, just before the show kicked off its live episodes this week.

Kelly Clarkson, who came to fame as the first “American Idol” winner when Cowell judged the singing contest, was to step in as his temporary replacement.

Fox News Channel continued its summer ratings romp, with Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity’s shows combining to hold nine of the top 20 prime-time slots among all viewers.

Broadcast networks, mostly relying on scripted reruns with a sprinkling of reality and game shows, were in their usual seasonal slump.

In prime-time last week, CBS topped broadcasters with an average of 3.7 million viewers. NBC had 2.7 million viewers, ABC had 2.3 million, Fox and Univision had 1.3 million, ION Television had 1.1 million and Telemundo had 930,000.

Fox News Channel led

SIMON COWELL: In this Sept. 18, 2018, file photo, Simon Cowell arrives at the "America's Got Talent" Season 13 Finale Show red carpet at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles. “America's Got Talent” topped the ratings last week, but it faces the absence of Cowell, seriously injured in an electric bicycle accident. Cowell, the NBC talent contest's creator and linchpin of its judging panel, underwent surgery for a broken back last Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, just before the show kicked off its live episodes this week. | Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File among cable networks, averaging 3.09 million viewers in prime time. MSNBC had 1.97 million, CNN had 1.34 million, HGTV had 1.27 million and TLC had 1.22 million.

ABC’s “World News Tonight” led the evening newscasts, averaging 8.4 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly

News” had 7.5 million, and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.3 million.

For the week of Aug. 3-9, the top 20 programs, their networks and viewerships: “America’s Got Talent,” NBC, 6.16 million.

“NCIS,” CBS, 4.91 million.

“America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 4.41 million.

“Celebrity Family Feud,” ABC, 4.4 million.

“60 Minutes Presents,” CBS, 4.14 million.

“Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Monday), Fox News, 4.08 million.

“FBI,” CBS, 4.06 million.

“Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Friday), Fox News, 4.01 million.

“Hannity” (Wednesday), Fox News, 3.98 million.

“Hannity” (Tuesday), Fox News, 3.97 million.

“Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Tuesday), Fox News, 3.96 million.

“Young Sheldon,” CBS, 3.95 million.

“Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Wednesday), Fox News, 3.89 million.

“Yellowstone,” Paramount, 3.83 million.

“Hannity” (Thursday), Fox News, 3.81 million.

“World of Dance,” NBC, 3.81 million.

“Hannity” (Monday), Fox News, 3.73 million.

“Great #AtHome Videos,” CBS, 3.71 million.

“Blue Bloods,” CBS, 3.71 million.

“Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Thursday), Fox News, 3.66 million.

“Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 3.66 million.

“The Rachel Maddow Show” (Thursday), MSNBC, 3.59 million.

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Stay home safe and enjoy some of our movie suggestions!

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1. The Book of Eli (2010) A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

2. Children of Men (2006) In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.

3. Edge of Tomorrow (2014) A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.

4. 28 Days Later (2002) Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.

5. Snowpiercer (2013) In a future where a failed climate-change experiment has killed all life except for the lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, a new class system emerges.

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ike many Americans, the recent pandemic may have you thinking a lot about your current living space and about buying a home.

If you’re a military service member, veteran or family member, both new and tried-and-true tools and resources can streamline the process.

To get you started, Wells Fargo Home Lending is providing these insights: • Assess your readiness: “The decision to buy is personal. Take into account your goals and financial circumstances,” says Greg Murray, VP, na-

tional client relationship manager/military program. “Interest rates are at historic lows, so if you feel financially ready, this is a great time to look.”

If you decide to move forward, it’s important to be realistic about what you can afford, and having a rainy day fund is a good sign of your readiness.

COVID-19 has reinforced the reality of unexpected economic ups and downs.

So, don’t overextend yourself in buying. Leave yourself with the ability to weather economic cycles and afford run-of-the-mill expenses for home repairs.

• Build your team: Enlist a home mortgage consultant who can help

you navigate the process, as well as discuss financing options that fit your needs. “Consider working with a military lending specialist who can help you make the most of the home loan benefits you’ve earned,” says Murray.

To get a better understanding of the local market, as well as the impact the pandemic may be having on home sales, lean on your real estate agent.

• Know your down payment options: Not all financing options require you to put 20 percent down. For military service members and veterans, VA loans provide low- and no-down payment options for qualified borrowers,

and don’t require monthly mortgage insurance.

Other low down payment options to explore include Wells Fargo’s yourFirst Mortgage program, as well as FHA and rural lending programs. However, it’s important to understand that more money down could reduce your monthly payments and interest paid over the life of the loan, and may also eliminate the need for private mortgage insurance or reduce your funding fee on a VA loan.

• Leverage digital tools: At a time when health and safety is top-of-mind, digital tools can offer a contactless experience. While a recent realtor.com sur-

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vey indicates that 63.6% of consumers looking for a home want to see a property in person before buying, many start the hunt online, and now you have better opportunities to do so. In an effort to keep

clients safe, many realtors offer home walk-throughs using video chat apps.

When it comes to the mortgage process, lenders like Wells Fargo offer

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drawing, a nurse can be seen with a full coverall hazmat-style suit adjusting an IV rack with half a dozen IV bags hanging on it.

Oh highlights the hands of the worker by lightly coloring the green latex gloves that the nurse is wearing.

The only other color in the scene is the small slit of flesh where the nurse's mask ends and the face shield reveals the eyes. In each of these drawings, you notice that the little area of color where the eyes are peering out of the PPE is the only color in the scenes.

This shows the humanity of the nurses and doctors shining through.

Oh Young-Jun has gained a following on social media with his drawings on Instagram @nursing_story and on Facebook @nursingstory. He started sharing his drawings here because he wanted people to see the grueling hours, the mental and physical toll of the work and the risk and sacrifice that he and his colleagues are taking every day. You can think of Oh’s drawings as dispatches from the frontlines. We see nurses trying to insert an IV into a patient or carrying buckets of biohazardous waste to be disposed of. In one particular scene, a nurse inspects

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a tear in their latex glove, a startling moment in which we realize that a tear could expose the nurse to the virus. Thankfully the hole reveals a different color latex glove underneath the outer glove and shows just how many layers of protection are required to keep our hospital workers safe.

COVID-19 has brought MSJC many new challenges, one of which is shifting our curriculum online.

Hopefully this change will give us new ways of viewing the world, broaden our experiences and our sense of global humanity. It is with this spirit that we are honored to present the drawings of Oh Yung-Jun. For more information, please visit www.msjc.edu/ artgallery or contact Art Professor John Knuth at Jknuth@msjc.edu.

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early 1.2 million laid-off Americans applied for state unemployment benefits last week, evidence that the coronavirus keeps forcing companies to slash jobs just as a critical $600 weekly federal jobless payment has expired.

The government’s report Thursday did offer a smidgen of hopeful news: The number of jobless claims declined by 249,000 from the previous week, after rising for two straight weeks, and it was the lowest total since mid-March.

Still, claims remain at alarmingly high levels: It is the 20th straight week that at least 1 million people have sought jobless aid. Before the pandemic hit hard in March, the number of Americans seeking unemployment checks had never surpassed 700,000 in a week, not even during the Great Recession of 2007-2009.

Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, called the drop in weekly claims “a move in the right direction.” But in a research note, she added:

“Repeated shutdowns for virus containment remain a threat to the labor market, which is already weak.

The possibility of mounting layoffs that could become permanent is high. Without effective virus containment, the recovery remains at risk from ongoing job losses that could further restrain incomes and spending.”

The pandemic, the lockdowns meant to contain it and the wariness of many Americans to venture back out to eat, shop or travel have delivered a devastating blow to the economy despite the government’s emergency rescue efforts.

The nation’s gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic output, shrank at an annual rate of nearly 33% from April through June. It was by far the worst quarterly fall on record, though the economy has rebounded somewhat since then.

On Friday, the government is expected to report a sizable job gain for July — 1.6 million. Yet so deeply did employers slash payrolls after the pandemic paralyzed the economy in March that even July’s expected gain would mean

that barely 40% of the jobs lost to the coronavirus have been recovered.

And the pace of hiring is clearly slowing. A resurgence of cases in the South and the West has spread elsewhere and upended hopes for a speedy economic recovery as bars, restaurants and other businesses have had to delay or reverse plans to reopen and rehire staff.

All told, 16.1 million people are collecting traditional unemployment benefits from their state. For months, the unemployed had also been receiving the $600 a week in federal jobless aid on top of their state benefit. But the federal payment expired two weeks ago. Congress is engaged in prolonged negotiations over renewing the federal benefit, which would likely be extended at a reduced level.

In the meantime, millions of the unemployed suddenly have less money to pay for essentials. Many of them are among the 23 million people nationwide who are at risk of being evicted from their homes, according to The Aspen Institute, as moratoriums enacted because of the coronavirus expire.

MAP: Unadjusted figures. Map shows advance regular state program data which is subject to revision. | Source: U.S. Employment and Training Administration Graphic: Phil Holm & Larry Fenn Last week, an additional 656,000 people applied for jobless aid under a program that has extended eligibility for the first time to self-employed and gig workers.

That figure isn’t adjusted for seasonal trends, so it’s reported separately.

The Labor Department said Thursday that a total of 31.3 million people are now receiving some form of unemployment benefits, though the figure may be inflated by double-counting by some states.

A study released Monday

by Cornell University found that 31% of those laid off or furloughed because of the pandemic had been laid off

a second time. An additional 26% of people who were called back to work reported being told that they might lose their jobs again.

After the springtime lockdowns, restaurants and bars had begun to reopen.

Yet many soon had to reclose as viral cases surged, especially in the Sun Belt.

In Texas, for instance, just 26% of bars were closed on June 21. Two weeks later, the figure had shut up to 74%, though it has since come down slightly, according to the data firm Womply.

In Florida, whose tourism industry has been pummeled by the pandemic, John Brenner has lost his

position as a hotel manager.

A 38-year-old from Plantation, Florida, Brenner has now been out of work for four months.

Florida’s weekly unemployment aid is capped at $275 a week, so “I’m quite reliant on that extra $600,” Brenner said.

“That extra $600 put me at just about what I was making when I was working,” he said. “And I’d much rather be working. I’m going very stir-crazy.”

The stress, fear and sadness over prolonged unemployment, Brenner said, have diminished everything from his diet to his ability to sleep.

He said he’s angry that the U.S. Senate has balked at extending the extra unemployment aid at its current level.

“The anxiety the Senate is giving me isn’t helping much,” Brenner said.

Clover Williams, a teacher in Gallup, New Mexico, said she was laid off “right when the thing runs out — the extra $600 runs out.”

She received one unemployment check that included the $600 payment.

Without it, Williams, 63, worries that she won’t be able to pay her utility bills or medical expenses.

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here’s a widespread belief that the exorbitant quantity of money the Federal Reserve is pouring into the U.S. economy must eventually mean the return of high inflation. After all, if there’s lots more money but no more stuff to buy, prices must rise, mustn’t they? So the prospect of Judy Shelton – known for her support of the gold standard – joining the Fed’s Board of Governors is raising the hopes of those who want the Fed to be stripped of its money creation powers.

But the Fed’s mandate is price stability. And, as I shall explain, if the Fed can’t vary the quantity of money in circulation in response to economic circumstances, it can’t stabilize the price of a dollar.

What is the “price” of a dollar? Some people like to express the dollar’s price in terms of gold – though as the dollar hasn’t been backed by gold since 1971, this is perhaps a bad attack of nostalgia.

For them, the dollar’s price is anything but stable and the Fed is fatally undermining it.

Goldbugs think the rise in the dollar price of gold over the last century means the

If the fed wants the price of dollars to remain stable, it has no choice but to accommodate that demand by creating lots more dollars. dollar is worthless (despite me arguing about it with them for hours). I have had similar arguments with people who think that massive rises in the stock market/ bond market/real estate/bitcoin mean the dollar is hyperinflating. But as the dollar is not backed by assets, the rising price of assets tells us absolutely nothing about the price of a dollar.

For ordinary U.S. people and businesses, the price of a dollar is its purchasing power. The dollar’s domestic purchasing power is the quantity of U.S. goods and services U.S. residents can purchase with their own currency.

The rate at which the dollar’s purchasing power changes is known as the “inflation rate.”

If people reject a currency in favor of gold or another currency, its purchasing power falls to zero. This is known as “hyperinflation.”

It has never happened to the U.S. dollar.

For foreigners, the price of a dollar is its exchange rate versus their own currency. The exchange rate is the

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quantity of another currency that one dollar can purchase.

This in turn determines not only the quantity of externally produced goods and services that U.S. residents can purchase with dollars, but also the quantity of U.S.-produced goods and services that foreigners can purchase with their own currencies.

We can therefore regard the exchange rate as measuring the dollar’s purchasing power outside the U.S. A fall in the exchange rate means one dollar purchases fewer foreign-made goods and services. The rate at

which the exchange rate falls is thus the external equivalent of the domestic inflation rate.

Exchange rate collapse destroys the external purchasing power of the currency, just as hyperinflation destroys its domestic purchasing power. Indeed, the two are often seen together. If the country has large amounts of debt denominated in foreign currencies, exchange rate collapse can mean it becomes unable to service these debts.

Furthermore, if the country is dependent on imports, a sudden exchange rate fall

can mean it can’t pay for imports. All too often, the government’s response to these disasters is to print enormous amounts of its own currency in the hope of exchanging it for the foreign currency it needs. This fuels the exchange rate collapse and triggers domestic hyperinflation.

In the past, central banks and governments regarded the exchange rate as the most important price. They thought countries must “earn their way” in the world by exporting goods and services to other countries, and they knew controlling the exchange rate would help them to export. They also feared that if a country allowed its exchange rate to float against other currencies it would collapse, resulting in hyperinflation. So they pegged their currencies to gold or other assets, or even to each other.

“Fear of floating” determined monetary policy long after the end of the gold standard. Indeed, for many developing countries it still does. As recently as the 1980s, the Fed was actively managing the dollar’s exchange rate, aided by other central banks.

But after the failure of the

Louvre Accord in 1989, the Fed switched to managing the dollar’s domestic purchasing power instead of the exchange rate. Along with most major central banks, it set a target of 2% per annum consumer price inflation and allowed the exchange rate to float.

Since then, the Fed has managed inflation by adjusting the interest rate it charges banks to borrow dollars. Bank lending creates purchasing power. Increasing banks’ borrowing costs encourages them to charge more for loans to individuals and businesses, which damps demand for loans and thus reduces bank lending. When bank lending falls, the rate at which purchasing power increases also falls. In other words, less bank lending means lower consumer price inflation.

Of course, U.S. banks create dollars when they lend.

But the Fed doesn’t directly control the quantity of dollars they create. And it doesn’t restrict its own money creation either. It creates reserves in response to demand from banks, and provides liquidity to financial markets in response to signals from mar-

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VETERANS POST A CHILD LIKE THAT The regular crew of older veterans was spread out on the sidewalk in front of the coffee shop, but I didn’t expect they’d be there long. The heat was coming up and it was going to be a brutal day. Half of them were drinking iced coffees.

One of them held out his paper coffee cup to me as I walked up. “A little more ice, please, since you’re standing right there.” I took his cup and tapped on the pickup window glass. The unfriendly counter girl dumped a few more pieces of ice in the cup.

When I didn’t take it away, she added a few more.

One of the vets was reading from his tablet, an iPad that seemed to have every single news alert known to man. Every few minutes it dinged.

A woman pulled into a parking space and climbed out.

“Here comes my warden,” muttered one of the vets.

“Daddy, I’m concerned about you in this heat,” the woman said to him. “Are you about ready to come home?”

“I was about to order a sandwich,” he said, but he was finishing up his coffee as he said it.

“I have ham and cheese and turkey and salami at home, if that’s OK. And the big Kaiser rolls you like.”

“Hope there’s enough mustard,” he said, getting up and folding his chair.

After she’d loaded him in the car and driven off, the group went quiet until: “Be a heck of a thing if she hadn’t taken him in.”

The story came out in pieces: The daughter had discovered her veteran father in sad shape in the retirement home, had a few choice, very loud words to say to management, and had promptly packed up her daddy and taken him home with her. That was mere weeks before the coronavirus hit the home and veterans started getting sick.

“Yup,” said another veteran, taking a final sip of his coffee. “We all need a child like that.”

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To understand why the Fed can’t meet its price stability mandate by directly controlling the quantity of

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dollars in circulation, it’s helpful to look at bitcoin’s behavior. Bitcoin’s algorithms control its quantity, not its price. The quantity of bitcoin in circulation increases at a constant rate and is ultimately limited to 21 million (even though this won’t be reached in the lifetime of anyone alive today).

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This year, Hunt Heroes Foundation (HHF), a nonprofit organization founded by Hunt Military Communities (HMC), the nation’s largest military housing owner, has announced its support of Operation Homefront and its Back-to-School Brigade.

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price swings of the kind all too often seen on the bitcoin charts would be disastrous.

As we saw in September last year and March this year, international demand for dollars heads for the moon at times of crisis. So if the Fed wants the price of dollars to remain stable, it has no choice but to accommodate that demand by creating lots more dollars.

This would still be true if it were targeting the exchange rate, by the way. International dollar shortages cause the dollar’s exchange rate to rise.

If the Fed adopted some kind of algorithm that kept the rate of money creation constant, or linked the dollar to gold or some other asset, the result would be renewed instability both in the dollar’s external value and its

domestic purchasing power, not on the upside (exchange rate collapse and hyperinflation really are not a serious risk) but on the downside.

We know from the 1930s that when the Fed is prevented by a rule or a gold standard from creating enough money to ease a crisis, the result is debt deflation and severe economic depression.

Let’s not go there again.

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oing back to school, whether online, in-person, or a combination, is a yearly expense that can be especially challenging for military families.

In 2019, families in the United States spent approximately $700 per child on school supplies for the school year, according to the National Retail Federation. The combination of backpacks, clothes, notebooks, and lunchboxes adds up, and many schools also ask parents to contribute as much as $100 per family to help cover the costs of classroom materials. Many military families find themselves hard-pressed to purchase school supplies on top of other child-care costs and household needs.

Operation Homefront, a national nonprofit organization that has been supporting strong, stable military families since 2002, has taken on the challenge of getting military kids classroom-ready through

er than its price is price instability. Bitcoin’s price is subject to wild swings as demand for it fluctuates, while its quantity does not. This roller-coaster ride doesn’t really matter for bitcoin, because almost no one is buying their weekly shopping with it or hodling their life savings in it. But for the millions of people whose livelihoods depend on the dollar,

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l número de casos de coronavirus confirmados en todo el mundo superó el martes los 20 millones, de los cuales más de la mitad están en Estados Unidos, India y Brasil, en momentos en que Rusia se convirtió en el primer país en aprobar una vacuna contra el virus.

El presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, dijo que una de sus dos hijas adultas ya había recibido la vacuna aprobada, que describió como efectiva.

“Ella se siente bien y tiene una gran cantidad de anticuerpos”, indicó el mandatario.

Rusia ha reportado más de 890.000 casos, el cuarto total más alto del mundo, según un recuento de la Universidad Johns Hopkins que también mostró que el total de casos confirmados a nivel mundial supera los 20 millones.

Desde la aparición del coronavirus a finales del año pasado en una ciudad del centro de China, se necesitaron seis meses para que superar la barrera de los 10 millones de contagios, pero pasaron poco más de seis semanas más para que esa cifra se duplicara.

Un análisis de The Associated Press de los datos disponibles hasta el 9 de agosto mostró que, juntos, Estados Unidos, India y Brasil acumulaban casi dos tercios de todas las infecciones reportadas en el mundo desde que se alcanzaron los 15 millones de casos el 22 de julio.

Las autoridades de salud creen que la cifra real es mucho mayor que el conteo que realiza la Universidad Johns Hopkins, dadas las pocas pruebas de detección que se realizan y el hecho de que hasta el 40% de los infectados no presentan síntomas.

Como resultado, la carrera para desarrollar y administrar una vacuna ha encabezado la agenda geopolítica y de atención médica mundial, mientras Naciones Unidas ha advertido que cualquier vacuna debe ser segura y estar disponible para todos, no solo para los ricos.

Putin dijo que la vacuna rusa se sometió a las pruebas necesarias y que ofrece inmunidad duradera contra el coronavirus. Sin embargo, los científicos han advertido que apresurarse a comenzar a usar la vacuna antes de los ensayos de fase 3, que normalmente duran meses e involucran a miles de personas, podría ser contraproducente.

“El punto es no ser el primero en vacunar”, dijo el martes el secretario de Salud de Estados Unidos, Alex Azar, durante una visita a Taiwán cuando se le preguntó sobre la vacuna rusa. “El punto es tener una vacuna que sea segura y efectiva para los estadounidenses y todo el mundo”.

Estados Unidos tiene una media docena de posibles vacunas en desarrollo, China ha comenzado a aplicar una vacuna experimental y los países europeos tienen varios ensayos en curso.

El número de casos diarios sigue al alza en India, que alcanzó un promedio diario de 58.768 en una semana. En Estados Unidos, que tiene más de cinco millones de contagios, la media se ha reducido desde el 22 de julio, pero sigue siendo elevada, con 53.813 casos nuevos por día.

En los 45 días que pasaron hasta que las infecciones reportadas en todo el mundo alcanzaron los 20 millones, los decesos causados por el virus aumentaron a 736.191, desde 499.506, según los datos de la Universidad Johns Hopkins. Esto supone un promedio de más de 5.200 decesos diarios.

Alrededor de una quinta parte de las muertes reportadas, el equivalente a más de 163.000, ocurrieron en Estados Unidos, el país con más víctimas mortales por COVID-19, la enfermedad causada por el virus.

Los contagios siguen creciendo rápidamente en muchos otros países, incluyendo Indonesia y Japón.

En México, el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador, como sus homólogos de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, y Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, rara vez lleva mascarilla y se ha resistido a los pedidos para aplicar una cuarentena estricta. Sostiene que debe convencerse a los mexicanos para que guarden la distancia social, no obligarlos mediante la policía o multas.

Con cerca de 500.000 casos y más de 50.300 fallecidos, México ha tenido problemas con la forma de frenar los brotes dado que cerca de la mitad de su población trabaja en la economía informal y no tiene ayudas ni seguro de desempleo.

Una cuarentena total tendría un costo demasiado alto para la población con pocos ahorros y escasos ingresos diarios, dijo Hugo López-Gatell,

subsecretario de Prevención y Promoción de la Salud y el elegido por López Obrador para gestionar la respuesta a la pandemia. Según el funcionario, México no necesita una solución que, en términos sociales, sea más costosa que la enfermedad en sí.

La tasa de mortalidad relativamente alta de México es, en parte, consecuencia de que el país tenga una de las mayores tasas de obesidad y diabetes del mundo. También se han realizado pocas pruebas de detección, pero de las efectuadas, el 47% fueron positivos, lo que sugiere que solo se practican a personas gravemente enfermas.

Esto ha obstaculizado el rastreo de contactos.

India confirmó 53.601 nuevos contagios el martes, mientras el número total de infecciones en la nación se acercaba a los 2,3 millones de personas.

Su tasa de mortalidad reportada es del 2%, mucho más baja que la de Estados Unidos y Brasil.

Vietnam pasó de no haber registrado muertes confirmadas y de muy pocos casos de coronavirus a luchar contra nuevos brotes que surgieron en la ciudad costera de Danang.

Nueva Zelanda, que ha sido elogiada por controlar rápidamente el virus, informó el martes de los primeros casos de transmisión local en el país luego de 102 días. La primera ministra Jacinda Ardern dijo que las autoridades registraron cuatro casos del coronavirus en un hogar de Auckland.

Mientras tanto, los brotes en China continental y el semiautónomo Hong Kong disminuyeron, y el número de nuevas infecciones comunitarias en China descendió a 13, todas en la región noroccidental de Xinjiang. Hong Kong reportó 69 casos nuevos.

En Japón, donde los brotes han aumentado mientras las autoridades instaban a la población a considerar las vacaciones estivales de este año como “especiales” y quedarse en casa, la tasa de positivos en Tokio, la región más afectada del país, ha aumentado aunque sigue en el 7%.

La pandemia se ha ralentizado y se vuelto a reactivar en muchas regiones. Gran Bretaña y España, por ejemplo, registran nuevos brotes tras haber sufrido la peor parte de la primera oleada que paralizó gran parte de Europa.

onald Trump tiene una solución para casi cualquier crisis: Más Donald Trump.

Siguiendo la tónica que fijó en la convención republicana del 2016, cuando dijo “soy el único que lo puede resolver”, el presidente insiste en presentarse como la solución de todo, metiéndose en controversias y negándose a ceder el escenario.

Ese patrón se intensifica a medida que se acercan las elecciones de noviembre.

Reanudó las sesiones informativas sobre el coronavirus y, en contra de las recomendaciones de algunos asesores, no va acompañado de funcionarios de salud pública. Se reserva el escenario exclusivamente para él. Apuesta a que los debates cara a cara con su rival Joe Biden son su mejor oportunidad de acortar la distancia que lo separa del candidato demócrata en las encuestas.

Sacado apresuradamente de la sala de conferencias por un agente del servicio secreto el lunes a raíz de una balacera cerca de la Casa Blanca, Trump regresó a los pocos minutos y dijo, “ni me pasó por la cabeza no volver”.

Luego de permanecer al margen de las negociaciones en torno a un nuevo alivio económico por la pandemia del coronavirus, actualmente estancadas, se metió de lleno en el tema firmando una serie de decretos, para muchos de limitada legalidad y efectividad, en la esperanza de aparecer como un líder firme, que no se queda de brazos cruzados.

“Parte de su estrategia es absorber todo el oxígeno de la sala”, dijo Michael Steele, expresidente del Comité Nacional Republicano crítico de Trump.

“La sustancia de lo que hace no es lo que importa.

Lo que importa es que los reflectores apunten hacia él”, agregó.

Nunca hubo un presidente tan obsesionado con la cobertura de la prensa, tan decidido no solo a ser el foco de atención del nuevo ciclo noticioso sino a ocupar cada minuto posible en las redes sociales o los canales de noticias, según tres miembros o exmiembros

TRUMP: Donald Trump ofreciendo una conferencia de prensa en la Casa Blanca el 10 de agosto del 2020. Fiel a su estilo, el presidente insiste en ser el foco de atención, convencido de que eso puede darle otros cuatro años en la presidencia.| Foto AP./ Andrew Harnik de su campaña que no son identificados por no estar autorizados a hablar del tema en público.

Ese énfasis en la táctica, no en la estrategia, que busca resultados inmediatos sin importar los problemas que puedan surgir en el futuro, le permitió a Trump sobrevivir a las amenazas que comprometían su presidencia pero también puede haber contribuido a su caída en las encuestas, que comenzó poco después de la llegada de la pandemia del coronavirus a Estados Unidos.

Por un momento, dio la impresión de que Trump estaba dispuesto a dejar que otro fuese el rostro de la lucha contra la pandemia. Se encomendó al vicepresidente Mike Pence coordinar los esfuerzos e informar al público.

Pero cuando la pandemia sacudió Wall Street por primera vez a fines de febrero, el mandatario, horas después de regresar de un viaje a la India, se subió al escenario y no lo dejó por casi dos meses. Sus presentaciones se tornaron problemáticas y fueron interrumpidas poco después de que plantease la posibilidad de que la gente se inyectase desinfectante para combatir el coronavirus.

El presidente, no obstante, no pudo resistirse y reanudó las conferencias el mes pasado, nuevamente en contra de las recomendaciones de sus colaboradores, que le decían que dejase que Pence o los funcionarios de salud pública diesen las malas noticias.

Trump les dijo a sus colaboradores que no las hará tan largas y que se concentrará en el mensaje, evitando encontronazos

con los periodistas en un esfuerzo por demostrar que está en control de la situación.

“Es todo táctica, nada de estrategia”, dijo el estratega republicano Alex Conant. “Lo de Trump es la TV. Y en la TV, si la cámara no te enfoca, no existes. Su estrategia siempre ha sido asegurarse de que la cámara se enfoca en él todo el tiempo”.

Pero Trump ya lleva tres años y medio en la Casa Blanca y no le resulta tan fácil ser el centro de atención. Algunos de sus tuits, que otrora hubieran causado gran revuelo en Washington, ahora pasan casi inadvertidos.

Y los canales de noticias no dedican tanto tiempo a sus presentaciones.

Firme creyente en la idea de que lo que importa es que hablen de él, incluso si no es para decir cosas buenas, durante la actual campaña Trump ha dominado la cobertura noticiosa, a veces en contra de sus propios intereses. A esta altura, la contienda se presenta no como una puja entre los candidatos, sino como un referendo sobre su manejo de la pandemia del coronavirus.

“La presidencia de Donald Trump nunca tuvo como objetivo mejorar la vida de la gente, una verdad trágica que se hizo evidente una vez más este fin de semana cuando generó la ilusión de liderazgo con decretos que solo producirán más caos sin abordar la crisis económica y de salud”, dijo el portavoz de Biden TJ Ducklo.

“Es un presidente que busca formas de ser reconocido en lugar de implementar respuestas nacionales reales a esta pandemia”

¿Es seguro viajar en transporte público durante la pandemia?

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epende de una serie de factores, pero existen formas de minimizar el riesgo.

La principal vía de propagación del virus es a través de las gotitas que la gente esparce cuando habla, tose o estornuda. Esto supone que la mejor forma de minimizar su expansión en el transporte público y en otros lugares es llevar mascarilla y mantenerse a unos dos metros (seis pies) de los demás, según los expertos.

En todo el mundo, los sistemas de transporte exigen a sus usuarios que usen cubrebocas y les instan a mantener la distancia social. El cumplimiento de las recomendaciones puede variar, especialmente a medida que aumenta el número de viajeros y los trenes y autobuses se llenan de nuevo.

Pero hay otras medidas para hacer que esos viajes sean menos peligrosos.

Los Centros para el Con-

NUEVA NORMALIDAD: Medidas de seguridad. | Free pik trol y Prevención de Enfermedades de Estados Unidos (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) sugieren viajar fuera de las horas punta, evitar lugares concurridos en las estaciones y dejar filas vacías entre los asientos cuando sea posible.

Se cree que las superficies suponen también un riesgo, aunque en un grado menor, y en el transporte público se están utilizando una amplia variedad de técnicas de limpieza. Moscú y Shanghái han experimentado con luz ultravioleta que mata

los gérmenes mientras que Hong Kong ha desplegado un robot que ricía peróxido de hidrógeno. En Nueva York, el metro cierra durante la noche para limpiar los trenes.

Aún así, los CDC piden que, si se puede, se evite tocar superficies como los tornos de entrada o los pasamanos.

Por ahora hay mucho por saber acerca del virus y de cómo se propaga, pero los expertos destacan que todavía no ha habido ningún gran brote ligado al transporte público.

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