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FAIRFIELD — Elections often bring changes, and 2020 brought ballots full – including a new president of the United States. Closer to home, Fairfield, Vacaville and Vallejo all went to district-based representation, which means their city councils grew from five members to seven. Three new mayors were seated, and the voters’ choice for one of two Suisun City council seats was decided by the narrowest of margins. Mike Hudson returns to the Suisun City council after claiming the second of two available seats with a five-vote win over former police chief Thomas Alder. As close as that race was, equally as dominant was the victory for the other seat by first-time Councilwoman Alma Hernandez, who cleared Hudson’s vote count by See Elections, Page A8
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INSIDE • Fairfield hires city’s first woman police chief in 2020. Page A3. • 19th Amendment celebrates 100th anniversary. Page A3. • 2020 marked key dates for American wars. Page A4.
Voters wait in line at Bethel Community Church in Fairfield, Nov. 3. The election set a record for most ballots (209,002) cast in the county.
Voters fill plethora of school, college board seats
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FAIRFIELD — Family and friends of individuals who have been shot and killed by Vallejo police officers frequently demonstrated in front of the Solano County Government Center in 2020 – calling on District Attorney Krishna Abrams to do more. By more, they meant, for her to take action against the police officers who were involved in the shootings. On one occasion, the group peacefully marched up to the District Attorney’s Office on the fourth floor of the government building. They demanded to see her, but Abrams was not there that day. It was the same chorus of protest heard across the country as activists for ending social injustice hit the streets – sometimes with violent results. At the center of the demonstrations were the deaths See Streets, Page A8
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Activists demonstrate against Vallejo Police shootings in front of the Government Center in Fairfield, June 22.
FAIRFIELD — School and college boards governed over the end of one school year and the beginning of another in a very, very different world. The Covid-19 pandemic added the term distance learning to the common educational lexicon. some of those And boards got a new makeup of members in November. Judi Honeychurch, for the second election cycle, faced no opposition and therefore did not appear on the ballot for her Trustee Area 3 seat on the FairfieldSuisun School District. Bethany
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CMF erects tents to deal with inmate Covid outbreak Todd R. Hansen
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VACAVILLE — The California Medical Facility in Vacaville once again erected tents to help space out the inmate population after a Covid-19 outbreak at the prison. Lt. Brady Olivias, the public information officer for CMF, said 10 of the 12-man tents were scheduled to be set up Monday. “Some tents are being set up to spread out our population,” Olivias said. “We had these tents before . . . They were taken down about two months ago.” Solano County Public Health officials described the tents See CMF, Page A9
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FAIRFIELD — Solano County added 208 new cases Tuesday, bringing its total to 18,726 as a trio of new deaths were reported. The number reflects a continued slowdown of daily increases as the county is between the Thanksgiving surge, with daily numbers over 400, and the Christmas counts yet to be felt. “By the time people get sick, get tested and we find out about it, it will be Thursday or Friday See Deaths, Page A8
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Family feuds, then forgives Past year illustrates democracy’s resilience
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’ve been contemplating the competing public interests are trials and tribulations of a very negotiated and mediated through tough year as direct engagement by a nation’s 2020 comes to a close. citizens. Democracy flourishes First, I believe historians will when conflicting ideas and values describe 2020 as a hallmark are addressed with civility, moment in modern American clarity of purpose, evidencehistory. The fears and challenges based debates, open-mindedness posed by the ravages of the worst and a focus on advancing the public health crisis in a century Stephen Davis welfare of all people. Democracy will be tempered by the emerEye on education suffers in the absence of gence of new vaccines such conditions. (developed with unprecedented I’d also explain that modern concepspeed and coordination within the tions of democracy have been shaped scientific community). But it will take and honed by diverse cultural traditions time, an abundance of patience and and backgrounds. Moreover, the moral continuing fidelity to the advice of public foundations of democracy have emerged health officials before the novel coronathrough centuries of richly diverse virus pandemic is effectively managed. religious influences. It is likely that Americans’ awareness of, Modern democracy is not a uniquely and sensitivity to, large-scale public American model. There exist numerous health concerns and healthful practices renditions of democracy in practice. will be forever changed. While American democracy is espeSecond, the daunting task of rebuildcially prominent, it is only one among ing a battered economy lies ahead, and many successful examples. It is helpful the precise path to its redemption to think of democracy as an ideal with remains uncertain. But America is multiple variations, each grounded upon strong – over time the economy the “inalienable” rights of all people. will recover. Regardless of its particular rendition, Third, 2020 also witnessed the the American Declaration of Indepenreemergence and revitalization of dence exemplifies a common unresolved social justice concerns philosophical thread found in most throughout many segments of American modern democracies. society. Especially acute are persistent “We hold these truths to be self-evigaps in educational and economic dent, that all men are created equal, that opportunities between advantaged and they are endowed by their Creator with disadvantaged communities plus certain unalienable Rights, that among insidious cultural biases, many of which these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit remain embedded within the policies of Happiness – That to secure these and practices of public institutions rights, Governments are instituted and agencies. among Men, deriving their just powers Finally, 2020 bore witness to one of from the consent of the governed.” the most contentious political struggles No one exemplified this treatise with of the modern era as an increasingly greater clarity than Abraham Lincoln polarized society grappled with hardduring his Gettysburg Address. He said, ened perspectives on the boundaries and “. . . this nation, under God, shall have a norms of presidential leadership, fiercely new birth of freedom – and that governcontested public policy issues and the ment of the people, by the people, and meaning of democracy itself. for the people shall not perish Among the most dominant themes of from the earth.” 2020, none overshadows the resilience of The ideals of democracy expressed American democratic traditions and with such eloquence by our forefathers practices. As a former high school have a long-established and deep teacher and university professor, here’s history. From ancient Greece through what I’d tell students about democracy. the Age of Enlightenment and to modern I’d begin by explaining that at its America, democracy has continually core, democracy is a system of goverevolved – occasionally battered, never nance shaped and energized through the perfect, yet never broken. direct participation of a nation’s citizens. No dimension or element of democracy Stephen Davis is a career educator who exceeds the importance of the right to writes a column that publishes every vote and each citizen’s commitment to it. other Wednesday in the Daily Republic. Democracy has become the world’s Reach him by email at stephen most powerful political system in which davis71@gmail.com.
“The little cuss doesn’t even drink milk!” she said. “I love him to death, I’d give him an eye, but I could strangle him!” “I wouldn’t,” I said. eople say things happen for “Wouldn’t strangle him?” a reason. But sometimes it’s “No,” I said. “I wouldn’t give hard to say what him an eye. The doctors said it the reason is. wouldn’t help, remember?” I had a big fight with my Sharon Randall She got quiet, possibly trying sister. She called late one night to swerve back onto the road. driving home after she’d had a “If I give him an eye,” she said, “you big fight with our brother. have to give him something. Joe is blind and barely walks. He Maybe a kidney?” has other problems, too, none the least “He doesn’t need a kidney.” of which is his stubbornness and the “Well, he doesn’t need an eye, either, fact that he had to leave his apartment or I wouldn’t offer mine! It’s the and spend the winter smoking his pipe principle of the thing!” on our sister’s porch with a stocking “OK, I’ll give him a kidney. At least cap pulled down over his nose. kidneys don’t show.” I wish you could’ve seen him. “You could get a glass eye.” After five months of sharing a “I don’t want a glass eye.” bathroom, they were both glad when he “Fine, give him a kidney!” could move back to his own place. The “Fine,” I said, “I will.” nasty weather didn’t stop them – freezWe got quiet. I thought of my brother ing rain, black ice on the roads – and in his dark apartment and my sister my sister was fit to be tied. driving home dodging black ice. I could Before I tell you what she said, let hear her windshield wipers slapping me just say this. The woman is crazy about Walmart. She loves Walmart a lot out a tune, an old hit by Aretha Franklin (“You better think,” slap, slap, more than she loves me. Once, when I went to visit her for a week, she stopped “Think about what you’re tryin’ to do to me!”) by Walmart to “get a few things” and “Sissy?” I said. “Did you run off left me sitting in the parking lot the road yet?” for two hours. “No,” she said. “I’m here.” I am not making that up. Ask Joe. He was there, too, standing by the car So I cleared my throat and found the smoking his pipe with his stocking cap voice that I use when I want to be over his nose. People passing by kept a sure I am heard. wide berth around us. I told her she’s been a saint looking Anyhow. After settling Joe in his out for our brother, always being there apartment, she went to Walmart, she when we need her, and how very much said, to “get a few things” Joe needed. it would mean to our mother. Two hours later, she was about to check “When you get to heaven,” I said, out when the store made an announce“God will run out of stars trying to fill ment: They were closing due to an up your crown.” emergency generator shutting down. She didn’t seem to know what to say No, she was told, she could not pay to that. So I said, “Things happen for a for the items in her cart. And yes, they reason. Do you know why that generawere sorry about her blind brother, but tor shut down on you at Walmart?” she could not take the items for free. “No,” she said, “why?” She had to leave Walmart, hopping “Because you left me in that parking mad, find a grocery store and lot for two hours.” start all over. Sharon Randall is the author of “The To top it all, she said, after she World and Then Some.” She can be finally lugged the stuff into Joe’s reached at P.O. Box 922, Carmel kitchen, he had the nerve to ask, Valley, CA 93924 or at www.sharon “What? You only got one half gallon of milk?” randall.com. Editor’s note: Sharon Randall is taking off Dec. 29 for the New Year’s holiday. The following column is from 2009
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Fairfield hires city’s first Chevron to pay $147,000 female police chief in 2020 for air quality violations Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — Deanna Cantrell became the city’s first female police chief and 13th chief overall, taking her oath of office Oct. 14. Cantrell arrived from San Luis Obispo, where she had served as chief since January 2016. She also spent 21 years working for the Police Department in Mesa, Arizona. She is just one of several new faces to arrive in 2020, including her boss, City Manager Stefan Chatwin, whose first day was actually Dec. 30, 2019, but this was his first full year at the helm. Vacaville also named a new city manager, Aaron Busch, after the City Council terminated Jeremy Craig in March. Travis Air Force Base welcomed a new commander. Col. Corey A. Simmons took command of the 60th Air Mobility Wing on July 17, replacing Col. Jeffrey W. Nelson, who had served in the post for about 22 months. “This is the base I’ve wanted to get to for 22 years,” the Kentuckyborn Simmons said, calling Travis the “crown jewel” of the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command. Capt. Steve West, a 21-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol and a 40-plus-year resident of Solano County, took over as commander of the Solano Area office. He replaced Capt. Mark Headrick, who now heads the department’s Air Operations Section in Sacramento. Rio Vista had a shake-up in the Police Department and contracted for service with the
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TOP STORIES YEAR IN REVIEW Solano County Sheriff’s Office. Lt. Jackson Harris was named interim chief. Gov. Gavin Newsom turned to Solano County for several appointments. He named Deputy County Counsel Dan Wolk as a Yolo County Superior Court Judge. He is the son of longtime legislator Lois Wolk. Karen F. Tynan of Fairfield and Jennifer Schmid of Benicia were appointed to the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco. Additionally, Elizabeth Ichikawa, a supervising investigator for the Solano County Superior Court, was appointed to the California Professional Fiduciaries Advisory Committee. Other key civic changes in 2020: n Benicia: Hired Brad Misner as Community Development director. n Dixon: Hired Raffi Boloyan as Community Development director; Police Chief Rober t T hompson announced his resignation after the start of 2021. n Fairfield: Hired
David Gassaway as assistant city manager in charge of community and economic development; promoted Paul Keushal as Public Works director; hired Kristina Chamberlin as Parks and Recreation director; hired LaTanna Jones as Housing Services director. n Rio Vista: Hired Robin Burre as Public Works director; hired Jen Lee as Finance director. n Suisun City: Hired Lakhwinder Deol as Finance director. n Vacaville: Dawn Leonardini promoted to assistant city manager; Ken Matsumya promoted to director of Finance; Girum Awoke hired as Public Works director; Don Burrus returned to the city as Economic Development director; Matt Gardner will head city’s California Biomanufacturing Center Inc. nonprofit. n Vallejo: Veronica Nebb hired as city attorney; Michael Kihmm hired as deputy police chief; Paul Kelley hired as special adviser to the city manager. n Solano County: Promoted Bill Emlen to assistant county administrator; named Terry Schmidtbauer as interim director of Resource Management; hired Kim Williams as Human Resources director.
FA IR F IELD — Chevron USA Inc. will pay the Bay Area Air Quality Management District $147,000 to settle air quality violations at the oil company’s Richmond refinery. The violations, as reported by the air district, occurred from 2016 to 2018. “The air district has the most stringent air quality regulations in the nation to safeguard public health and air quality in the region,” Jack Broadbent, executive officer of the district, said in a
statement announcing the settlement. “This settlement is part of an ongoing process to ensure that Chevron is held accountable and follows all state, local and federal permit conditions to protect the health of those in neighboring communities.” The violations addressed in this settlement include: n Several notices of violation for flaring in violation of the federal New Source Performance Standard. n An odor nuisance notice stemming from complaints in San Francisco that occurred after
flaring at the refinery. n An odor nuisance notice stemming from complaints in the Richmond area related to restarting refinery operations after a power outage. n A sulfur dioxide exceedance at a sulfur recovery operation. n An excess of visible emissions at the fluid catalytic cracking unit. “All the violations that led to this settlement have been corrected,” the statement said. The settlement funds will be used for district activities such as inspection and enforcement efforts.
Solano marks 100th anniversary of 19th Amendment Todd R. Hansen
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FA IR F IELD — The ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, was so important that Solano County supervisors recognized the 100th anniversary of the achievement twice. The League of Women Voters also celebrated its 100th birthday in 2020. The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified Aug. 18, 1920, and signed into law Aug. 26, 1920. However, the last state to ratify the amendment, Mississippi, did not do so until 1984. The Women’s Suffrage movement started in July 1848 at the first women’s rights convention in the United States, known as the Seneca Falls Convention. “We are assembled
TOP STORIES YEAR IN REVIEW to protest against a form of government, existing without the consent of the governed – to declare our right to be free as man is free, to be represented in the government which we are taxed to support, to have such disgraceful laws as give man the power to chastise and imprison his wife, to take the wages which she earns, the property which she inherits, and, in case of separation, the children of her love,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton said at the convention. Other related dates of importance during 2020 include:
n It was the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited states from using policies and practices to suppress voters. n It was the 45th anniversary of the 1975 expansion of the Voting Rights Act to protect language minorities. n It was the 28th anniversary of the 1982 expansion of the Voting Rights Act to make voting more accessible for the elderly and people with disabilities. Additionally, the 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, stated that “the rights of citizens . . . shall not be denied or abridged by the United States by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.” The board recognized the 100th anniversary before the March primary and in August, the month of its passage.
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Sen. Dodd’s bill would provide grants for solar development Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — Legislation introduced Tuesday would provide grants to allow local governments to participate in developing alternative energy sources such as solar power. “Power shutoffs during our ever-increasing fire seasons are imposing enormous costs on California, prompting a rush to buy carbon-emitting
backup generators to serve critical facilities,” Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, who authored Senate Bill 99, the Community Energy Resilience Act of 2021, said in a statement released by his office. “But ensuring continuous power should not come at the expense of our environment. With adequate planning, clean energy alternatives can power the grid, providing a more reliable and sustainable source of electricity
for our state.” The program would be administered, in part, by the California Energy Commission. “As a condition of funding, local governments would submit their plans to a stakeholder review board, which would report annually to the Legislature,” the statement said. More than 1 million businesses in the state use solar power already, including Genentech in
Solano County. Supporters included The Climate Center, Microgrid Resources Coalition, Center for Sustainable Energy, Clean Coalition, Vote Solar and California Solar and Storage Association, according to the statement. Dodd represents the state’s 3rd Senate District, which includes all of Solano County..
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FAIRFIELD — A 62-year-old Sacramento woman died shortly after she had been transported to NorthBay Medical Center following a two-car crash late Christmas night on eastbound Interstate 80. Jeanne Day was a passenger in the backseat of a Lexus that collided with a black Honda Civic sitting in the fast lane, near the Travis Boulevard on-ramp, according to California Highway Patrol and Solano County Sheriff-Coroner reports. It was not immediately clear if Day died due to injuries sustained in the crash. A Coroner’s Office spokeswoman on Monday said the autopsy report was not available. The driver of the Civic – Yennis Hernandez, 20, of Fairfield – had lost control of the car on the slick
CHP reports nearly 40 died in crashes statewide over 78- hour span around Christmas holiday Daily Republic Staff drnews@dailyrepublic.net
FAIRFIELD — At least 38 people died in crashes across the state during the California Highway Patrol’s maximum enforcement period over the Christmas holiday weekend. A total of 573 arrests were made across the state for driving under the influence during roadway as she entered the highway. Her car skidded across all eastbound lanes, collided with the concrete center median and came to rest in the No. 1 lane, the CHP reported. The Lexus, driven by
the 78-hour enforcement period that started Thursday and ended Sunday, the CHP reports. T he Chr ist mas enforcement period was significantly less deadly than a similar enforcement period tied to the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. At least 50 people died in crashes throughout the state during the maximum enforceNathan Dea, 33, of Irvine, then smashed into the Honda, the CHP reported. The incident took place shortly before 11:30 p.m. Hernandez and three occupants of the Lexus were taken to NorthBay,
ment period during the Thanksgiving holiday Nov. 25-29, during which time the CHP made 868 arrests for driving under the influence during the 102-hour traffic safety effort. A similar enforcement effort starts at 6 p.m. Thursday in advance of the New Year’s Day holiday. That effort will continue through Sunday. where soon after, Day became unresponsive and died, the CHP reported. Three other eastbound vehicles in the vicinity of the incident were involved in separate, noninjury collisions.
Breonna Taylor sculpture stolen days after it was smashed in Oakland Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — A ceramic bust in Oakland honoring Breonna Taylor that was smashed the day after Christmas has now been stolen, the artist said Tuesday. Leo Carson, the artist who created the sculpture, discovered the bust missing Tuesday morning – a day after he had raised more than enough money through a GoFundMe account to rebuild the broken statue
in sturdier bronze. “The vandals are continuing their campaign of intimidation against the Black Lives Matter movement and we must resist their attempt to erase Breonna’s image,” Carson said Tuesday in an Instagram message. He added that he believes the bust is “likely completely destroyed.” Carson will be filling the base in Latham Square with concrete Tuesday afternoon as part of a rally and news conference
addressing the theft. Emblazoned with the phrase “Say Her Name,” the ceramic bust was found vandalized the day after Christmas, two weeks after it was installed in the city’s downtown area. The artwork commemorated Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman shot to death by police inside her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment during a botched drug raid in March. The deaths of Taylor and other Black people killed by police, such as George Floyd,
Federal budget bill adds nearly $14M for Sites water project Daily Republic Staff drnews@dailyrepublic.net
FAIR F IELD — The recently adopted 2021 federal budget legislation includes $13.7 million for the Sites Reservoir project. Appropriated through the Water Infrastructure
Improvements for the Nation Act, the funding brings federal support for the water storage project to $23.7 million, the Sites Project Authority announced. While the $3.5 billion, 1.5 million acre-foot project is primarily designed to support urban and agri-
cultural needs south of the Delta, especially in dry years, it also has provisions for enhancements to the Delta ecosystem, project documents state. The reservoir is to be located in the western foothills of Colusa County and is scheduled to become operational in 2029.
have spurred the country’s reckoning with generations of racial injustice and sparked massive protests across the country. Oakland police Monday said they were aware of the initial incident and were investigating but provided few details.
Shin Ando Tower, 96, died Dec. 14, 2020. Mrs. Tower was born and raised in SagamiharaShi, KanazawaKen, Japan. Mrs. Tower worked in the theatre, food service and dry cleaning business. Shin traveled the United States extensively visiting many friends in over 20 states. Her hobbies included floral arrangements, gardening, bowling, plus she was a gourmet chef. Shin was a life member of the Aux Air Force Sgts Association. Shin is survived by her stepson, James G. Tower, of Hapers Ferry, West Virginia; granddaughter, Susan M. Kandela; five grandchildren; and greatgrandchildren; brothers, Yoshio (Chie) and Tadashi (Miyoko) Ando; sisters, Kimie (Takashi) Nogi and Chiyoko Ishii; and sisterin-law, Michiko Ando, all
in Japan; plus many nieces and nephews in the United States and Japan. She was preceded in death her first by husband of over 30 years, James H. Tower, MSGT, USAF; her beloved parents, Kasuke and Haro Ando; brothers, Noborn and Kazuo Ando of Sagamihara-Shi, KanagawaKen, Japan; Shin is also proceeded in death by her second, husband Charles J. Seabrook. A small gathering of close friends and family only, will be held at noon Wednesday Dec. 30, 2020. At the families request, those attending to wear casual attire. Contributions may be made to the Salvation Army or the American Cancer Society. Arrangements under the care of BryanBraker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.
2020 marked key dates for US wars Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — The United States, in 2020, celebrated the 155th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the 45th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, however, many of the parades and other events that would have publicly recognized the importance of these wars, and all veterans, were canceled. The Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the Confederate attack at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The war ended April 9, 1865, when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse. In between, 620,000 combatants lost their lives. Some scholars put that number closer to 850,000.
YEAR IN REVIEW With the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the United States was thrust into World War II. Formal surrender documents were signed Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri, ending the war. There were 405,399 Americans who died. The start of the Vietnam war is more complicated, but with the landing of 3,500 Marines at Da Nang, the U.S. involvement was recognized March 8, 1965. However, there were 25,000 U.S. military advisers already in place by that time. In the end, 58,209 Americans had died. The United Nations celebrated its 75th commemoration in 2020 as well.
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Do cellphone records prove Sacto ISIS terror suspect falsely accused of murder? Tribune Content Agency SACRAMENTO — For more than a year, federal defenders in Sacramento have been working to get records out of Turkey that they say will prove their case that Omar Ameen, a Sacramento truck mechanic arrested in August 2018 and accused of murdering an Iraqi police officer in 2014, is innocent. Now, as Ameen sits in the Sacramento County Jail awaiting word on whether he will be extradited to face trial in Iraq and, possibly, executed, his lawyers have what they’ve been waiting for: cellphones records from Turkey that they say prove he could not have been in Iraq the day police Major Ihsan Abdulhafiz Jasim was slain by an ISIS convoy. “As anticipated, they completely exonerate Omar Ameen,� federal defenders Ben Galloway and Rachelle Barbour wrote in a filing in Sacramento federal court. “The records show Mr. Ameen was at his home in Mersin, Turkey, on June 22, 2014, the day Mr. Jasim was killed in Rawah, Iraq. “In fact, the cellphone records show that Mr. Ameen had two phone calls that very day, connecting through the cell tower closest to his home in Mersin. The cellphone records prove that Mr. Ameen was in Mersin during the entirety of June 2014, including in the days before and after Mr. Jasim’s murder.� Ameen’s lawyers say they received the records Dec. 22 after lengthy efforts to obtain them and over objections by federal prosecutors who contend there are eyewitnesses to the slaying and that Ameen should be sent back to Iraq to face trial there. “The United States continues to oppose any delay in these extradition proceedings, as the Turkcell records that Omar Ameen seeks to obtain via a letter rogatory are inadmissible contradictory evidence that could not obliterate probable cause,� prosecutors wrote in a filing one day before Ameen’s lawyers say they received the phone records. At issue is where Ameen was the day of the killing, leading an ISIS convoy into his hometown or Rawah, or 600 miles away in Turkey, where his lawyers contend
he was waiting with his family for permission to move to the United States. Ameen faces no charges in the United States, where he has lived since November 2014, first in Salt Lake City and then in Sacramento’s Arden Arcade neighborhood. But federal prosecutors have been working on an Iraqi government request that he be extradited to face trial in the slaying there. A Jan. 29 hearing has been set before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edmund F. Brennan as the next step in the case, and Ameen’s lawyers say the phone records – obtained after Barbour traveled to Turkey and the defense hired an investigator and Turkish lawyer to help – show Ameen had nothing to do with the slaying. “As the records prove, Mr. Ameen is absolutely innocent of the killing of Mr. Jasim,� they wrote in a court filing. The case, which began under the Trump administration Justice Department, is not expected to be settled before President-elect Joe Biden is in office, and the Secretary of State has the final say over whether to approve Ameen’s extradition if Brennan determines there is probable cause that Ameen should be sent back. The case has generated international headlines since Ameen, now 47, was arrested at his Eastern Avenue apartment complex during a raid by federal agents on Aug. 15, 2018. Court filings described him as a “terrorist,� a member of the Islamic State and the owner of a 2005 Kia Sportage “with a cut-out roof and a PKC machine gun mounted on the rear.� Iraqi officials contend in court filings that Ameen killed Jasim, a former neighbor and friend, by shooting him in the chest with an automatic rifle while he stood over him. “You are an agent of America,� one witness claimed to have Ameen. “You are an apostate.� His lawyers say that is impossible, that he was in Turkey with his wife and three children, checking in regularly with authorities and creating electronic records proving that as he used social media and his cellphone.
McConnell announces support for overriding Trump’s defense bill veto Tribune Content Agency Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed Tuesday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of this year’s defense bill, dealing an embarrassing blow to the outgoing commander in chief that suggests his firm grip on the Republican Party is loosening. McConnell, the top Republican in Congress, said in a floor speech that he’s teeing up a Wednesday vote in the Senate on a Houseapproved resolution to rescind Trump’s veto of the $741 billion military spending bill. If successful, it will mark the first congressional veto override of Trump’s presidency. “I would urge my colleagues to support this legislation one more time when we vote tomorrow,� McConnell said of the socalled National Defense Authorization Act, which includes 3% pay raises for members of the armed forces and billions of dollars for military construction projects and other Pentagon activities. Trump, who’s furious with McConnell and other GOP leaders for not doing more to help him subvert Joe Biden’s election, vetoed the NDAA on Dec. 23 because Republicans rejected his demand for the bill to include a provision to repeal liability protections for social media companies like Twitter. The president was also upset that Repub-
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Two-thirds of the Senate need to support the override resolution to squash Trump’s veto. With McConnell’s blessing, that appears a near-certainty. There is, however, one other snag that could delay the override. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and some progressive Democrats in the upper chamber are threatening to block fast-track passage of the override resolution until McConnell allows a vote on a House-approved measure to increase the forthcoming coronavirus stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000. Sanders could hold up the override resolution until Jan. 1, which he suggested he will do unless McConnell clears the way for a vote on the stimulus check measure. “Let me be clear: If Senator McConnell doesn’t agree to an up or down vote to provide the working people of our country a $2,000 direct payment, Congress will not be going home for New Year’s Eve,� Sanders said in a statement. “Let’s do our job.�
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Husband plans to attend party, with our child, with 80 people not just our child’s Dear Annie: My health at risk but also husband has a huge other people’s and mine. family. They gather If both of us get Covidevery year between 19, our daughter may Christmas and New end up with only one Year’s Eve in a hotel for parent or no parents. at least three days. — Not Willing to Risk It They are planning to do Dear Not Willing to so this year, during the pandemic. So far, most Annie Lane Risk It: I don’t blame you one bit. A getof them plan on going, Dear Annie together of 80 or more which would be almost people from different states is 80 people. They are coming not responsible right now. Your from Florida, Ohio, Massachuhusband is being short-sighted, setts, Washington and Maryland. I, of course, will not especially since the vaccine is already being shipped across be attending. I don’t think they will cancel America and will be available to all of us during the their gathering, and I fear that upcoming year. my spouse or our child will Promise him that you will contract Covid-19 and be attend the next family reunion contagious when they return. My spouse says he’s going no with bells on. If he still insists on attending, then when he matter what and taking our returns, he and your daughter child, too. I’ve told him I think it’s irresponsible, and he knows must quarantine for 14 days and get tested. I have health issues that would Dear Annie: Your column in make me vulnerable to the the Cape Cod Times brought virus and probably not back memories of how I survive it. “celebrated” Christmas when I take every precaution, my son and his wife were living including washing hands, wearing a mask, sanitizing and thousands of miles away. Over a period of a few avoiding stores (I actually have groceries delivered). Could you weeks, I watched for and bought items that I thought give me advice on how to they might like. It was imporconvince my spouse that going is irresponsible? It is putting tant that each item be wrapped
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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Someone wants you to make a change from your standard terms, and if you bend, he or she will, too. There is a place to meet – perhaps not in the middle, exactly, but you’ll still be better off for having made the deal. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Without grace, beauty doesn’t breathe; ornamentation doesn’t sparkle. With grace, bad ideas pass for brilliant; the mundane becomes magical. What exactly is grace? Whatever it is, you have it today. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Even though you think it’s obnoxious to draw attention to your work, attributes and good deeds, the fact is that unless you are seen exemplifying a quality, they will not understand who you are. Don’t do it for ego. Do it for clarity. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll lean toward acts of gallantry, nobility, high character, forgiveness, generosity. This leaning changes the balance, and into magnanimity you’ll topple. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll be asked to make a judgment, and you really don’t have to. A stance of no stance keeps you in a perfect position. You can say very little, keep the mood light and move on swiftly. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Work absorbs and excites you. You’ll make a difference and have an impact. These are the sorts of efforts that make time
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separately, so I did so, and I tagged them and put them into one or two cardboard banker’s boxes. I sent to them to be opened on Christmas morning. Some of the items were “serious,” real gifts, but others were chosen because they would cause the kids to have a good laugh. If any of your readers want to do this, possible items could include individual single-serving cartons of their favorite breakfast cereals, favorite candy bars, joke books, puzzles, small games, a calendar (perhaps with family dates added to it) -- anything that would be appropriate for the particular recipient. I believe I had as much fun choosing and wrapping these gifts as I suspect they had in opening them. It was a great way to be together while being apart! — Mama M. Dear Mama M.: What a wonderful suggestion for making the best of a challenging situation. I especially love the idea of a calendar with family dates added to it! Thanks for sharing. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.
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Today’s birthday You’d rather have one authentic exchange than a hundred generic gestures. The gems of your year will be just the sort of wonderful events that thrill and fortify you. Ever the cheerleader, you’ll use your airtime to promote others, and you’ll thrive in spite of this – or, more likely, because of it! Gemini and Leo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 40, 3, 22, 12 and 18.
speed. You’ll be happy for the puzzles that make everything stop for a minute. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The uphill climb won’t be safe until after the thaw. But wouldn’t it be silly to wait around? Since that won’t get you there at all, there’s no glory in taking that route. Go easy. Actually, it’s the only open route right now. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Right now it’s a little hard to get people to give you what you need, maybe because you’re not entirely clear on it. Explore the topic. Ask yourself the sharp questions. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). To complain always brings someone discredit. There’s a lot else to try before it comes to that. Offer a solution if you can. Another way
is to praise the way someone else did it and see if others don’t follow suit. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). What you admire in others you can cultivate in yourself. This will eliminate the need for you to carry around the kind of heavy energy that comes from wanting things from people. Self-sufficiency is incredibly light. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). You have friends in powerful places. Though you rarely ask anything of these connections, it’s a secure feeling to know that if you needed to, you could. Still, the best security is knowing you have your own back. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Maybe you don’t completely judge a book by its cover, but you do get a pretty good idea about what language it’s written in, what era it comes from and more. Today, you’ll use every hint you can get! CELEBRITY PROFILES: After more than three decades of stardom, Ted Danson is at the top of his game, cooler than ever in the role of a firehearted demon in “The Good Place.” Strong Earth-sign influences align with Capricorn Danson’s environmental awareness, which he has been actively sharing since a young age, including through the book he co-wrote, “Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.”
Bridge
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times you can give an opponent a visa to that hand and gain entry. In today’s deal, first, what should South rebid? That North hand is definitely worth an opening bid, but he felt uncomfortable on round two, forced to rebid in his five-card suit at the three-level. It looks obvious for South to rebid three hearts, but what happens if North has insufficient support for the major and no club stopper? He might be forced to bid four diamonds. It is more practical for South to rebid three no-trump. West leads his club, East taking the trick and returning a club to declarer’s king, West discarding a spade. What happens after that? South starts with eight winners: two spades, three hearts, two diamonds and one club. Hoping for a 3-3 heart break can wait. Instead, declarer tries for 3-3 diamonds. He plays a diamond LET YOUR OPPONENT to the king and cashes the diamond ace, but West pitches another spade -GIVE YOU A VISA gnash! All right, time for hearts. But Michael J. Mosley and Nicholas Ros- East fails to follow suit on the second round. What now? siter, in “The Human Face,” wrote, It is time to stamp West’s passport. “Somebody once said that beauty is the Keep going with hearts, giving West his passport to success, but it’s not a winners. But at trick 10 he must lead a passport. It’s a visa, and it expires.” That’s a tad depressing, but true. In spade away from his queen into South’s bridge, if you need an entry to, say, the ace-king-jack. Contract made. COPYRIGHT: 2020, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE dummy but do not have one, some-
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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9, with no repeats. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box. Solution, tips LET and YOUR OPPONENT computer program at GIVEwww.sudoku.com YOU A VISA Michael J. Mosley and Nicholas Rossiter, in “The Human Face,” wrote, “Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it’s not a passport. It’s a visa, and it expires.”
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Voters: Schools From Page One Smith similarly returns as the Trustee Area 1 representative. Winning posts on the board were Helen Tilley (Trustee Area 2) and Ana Petero (Trustee Area 6). Travis School District welcomed some new faces as Trustee Area 2 incumbent Russ Barrington chose not to seek re-election. Manveer Sandhu replaces him. He received the second-most votes for two available Area 2 seats. The other went to incumbent and top votegetter Ivery Hood. Winning a seat on the Travis board is Meghan Thompson in Trustee Area 1. The post was vacant and she is filling the remaining years on the term. Amy Sharp won the only contested race on the Solano County Office of Education board, and returns to represent Trustee Area 2. Michelle Coleman (Trustee Area 1), Teresa Lavell (Area 3), Elease Cheek (Area 5) and Peggy Cohn-Thompson (Area 7) regained their posts without opposition.
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College District: Rosemary Thurston (Trustee Area 3); Quinten Voyce (Area 5); and Michael Martin (Area 7). n Los Rio Community College District: Kelly Wilkerson won the Trustee Area 4 seat that includes a part of Solano County.
School districts n Benicia: Andrew Blackshear (District 2) and Gethsemane Moss (District 3). n Davis: Cecilia Escamilla-Greenwald (Trustee Area 5) and Vigdis Asmundson (short term). n Dixon: Melissa Maseda and newcomer David Bowen III. Lloyd McCabe will fill out the remaining years on the term to which he was first appointed. n River Delta: Mary Riley (Trustee Area 4). n Vacaville: Daniel Santellan, (Trustee Area 2), Joseph Conley, (Area 4), Kelley Ann Welsh (Area 6) and Michael Kitzes (Area 7). n Vallejo City: Christy Gardner (Trustee Area 2) and Latyna Young (Area 4). n Winters: Joedy Michaels (Trustee Area 3).
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Demonstrators take a knee along Beck Avenue in Fairfield while blocking the entrance to Interstate 80 during a
Black Lives Matter Rally and March, June 26. Protesters continue to demonstrate at various locations.
Streets: 9 arrested at council meeting From Page One of mostly black residents at the hands of police officers – some coming with disturbing videos, such as the centerpiece cause created by the death of George Floyd. P r otester s a lso marched in Solano County, and continue to demonstrate at various locations. Nine people were arrested at a Fairfield City Council meeting in November after newly hired Police Chief Deanna Cantrell concluded that
the September 2012 officer-involved shooting of 23-year-old Mario Romero in Vallejo was justified. One of the officers involved, Dustin Joseph, serves on the Fairfield force now. abrams Mostly the dem- cantrell onst rat ions have with breaking into a been peaceful. Vallejo business was However, vandalism and looting sprees did shot and killed by a break out in the county, police officer, who apparlargely described as ently mistook a hammer outside criminals and not the man was carrying for a gun. the protesters. One of those involved It only added to the
heat the situation was generating anyway. Abrams in November announced the establishment of the Solano County Major Crimes Task Force to investigate the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers. The Board of Supervisors in September set aside $150,000 and formed a committee comprised of Supervisors Erin Hannigan and John Vasquez to further the equity efforts within and outside the county walls.
Elections: Solano backs Biden-Harris From Page One 2,000 ballots.
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Deaths: Covid-19 From Page One (before the increases are reported),” Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health officer, said Tuesday in a phone interview. The Public Health Division reported three new deaths, all three community transmissions, though one was a hospice patient. They were two men and one woman, all 70 or older. They took matyas the total number of deaths attributed at least in part to Covid-19 to 98. Matyas said his office is also catching up on possible Covid-related deaths of people who died at home and will only be counted when the death certificates are reviewed. So he said he does expect to see an increase just as experienced with the first surge. Hospitalizations were at 129, down one from Monday, and the intensive care unit capacity was back up to 20% Tuesday after slipping to 11% a day earlier, the county reported.
The seven-day positivity testing rate was around 18.2%. The state on Tuesday did not extend the stayat-home order for the Bay Area region, but it is expected the extension will be made before the order is scheduled to be lifted Jan. 8. The extension was ordered for Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley regions. Va c a v i l l e ’s 109 new cases represented more than half of all the new cases in the county. It’s total is now at 4,697. Fairfield added 37 cases to bring its total to 5,322. Vallejo’s count was at 5,486 after 41 new cases, the county reported. Suisun City (1,304) added nine cases; Dixon (1,207) added seven cases; Benicia (493) added five cases; Rio Vista (156) added two cases; and the county reported an adjusted case number of 61 in the unincorporated area of the county. The county reported 166,165 residents have been tested.
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The Nov. 3 general election had the most ballots (209,002) cast in the history of the county, and by turnout percentage (80.74%), it was the second-highest. For the first time ever, all registered voters received a mail-in ballot, and while the mail-in option has been widely popular in Solano County for many years, the Nov. 3 election saw a record 178,512 mail-in ballots cast, which represented a record 85.4% of all ballots counted. The Registrar of Voters also reported there were 195 ballot compilations in November. There were some hiccups in Dixon and Vacaville on who received some of those ballots, as well as some printing omissions in the voter guides involving Dixon, Benicia and Vallejo. Election officials said the errors were corrected, and the outcomes were not altered by any of the problems.
Voters choose new mayors in Benicia, Dixon, Vallejo Steven Bird is not new to the Dixon City Council, but he is changing hats. He won a four-candidate race for the mayor’s seat, ousting Thom Bogue from the position. Bogue was second in the vote count. Benicia’s longtime mayor Elizabeth Patterson chose not to seek re-election, and Vallejo Mayor Bob Sampayan started the campaign but bowed out due to health issues. They will be replaced, as in Dixon, by council members. Robert McConnell, who was terming out as a Vallejo councilman, is now the new mayor. Steve Young is the new mayor in Benicia. Rio Vista’s Ron Kott was the only incumbent mayor to win his reelection bid.
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Volunteer Richard Vance inserts ballots into the ballot box at a drive-by voting location on Union Avenue in downtown Fairfield, Nov. 2.
County says goodbye to longtime supervisor, hello to new one 5th District Supervisor Skip Thomson announced his retirement after serving eight years in his second stint on the Board of Supervisors. He served from 19932003, and from 2013 to the end of 2020. In between, he also served three years as the elected assessor, part of a 38-year career with the county. Mitch Mashburn, who served 10 years on the Vacaville City Council, won the seat over the Rev. David Isom during the primary election in March. Mashburn will be sworn in on Jan. 4. Supervisors Erin Hannigan (1st District) and Monica Brown (2nd District) won their re-election bids outright in March.
First-timers make their way onto city daises Fairfield: Returning council members Pam Bertani (District 6) and Rick Vaccaro (District 4) are joined by newcomers Doriss Panduro (District 5) and Scott Tonnesen (District 2). Panduro will face the voters again in 2022. The others are serving four-year terms. Tonnesen is the brother of county Assessor Marc Tonnesen. City Clerk Karen Rees and City Treasurer Arvinda Krishnan return, unopposed. Suisun City: Returning City Treasurer Michael McMurray ran unopposed. Vacaville: Roy Stockton (District 1), Michael Silva (District 3), Jason
Roberts (District 5) and Jeanette Wylie (District 6) are all first-time council members. City Clerk Michelle Thornbrugh and City Treasurer Jay Yerkes ran unopposed. Benicia: First-timer Trevor Macenski joins incumbent Tom Campbell. City Clerk Lisa Wolfe and City Treasurer Ken Paulk ran unopposed. Dixon: Kevin Johnson (District 3) and Don Hendershot (District 4) join the council for the first time. James Ward Jr. is the new city treasurer. Rio Vista: Walt Stanish and Debra King are newcomers to the council. Rick Dolk, appointed to the council, was elected to finish that term. Vallejo: Rozzana Verder-Aliga (District 1) is joined by newcomers Guillermina “Mina” Diaz (District 3) and Cristina “Tina” Arriola (District 6).
Superior Court judges reaffirmed Seven Solano County Superior Court judges kept their gavels without opposition. They are Jeffrey C. Kauffman (Department 1); Stephanie Grogan Jones (Department 5); Wendy G. Getty (Department 8); Christine A. Carringer (Department 12); Shauna L. Chastain (Department 14); Dora Rios (Department 16); and Terrye D. Davis (Department 17).
Familiar faces return to Sacramento, Washington Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, and Rep. Mike Thompson,
D-St. Helena, return to Congress, representing the 3rd and 5th Districts, respectively, after runoff victories in November. State Sen. Bill Dodd (3rd District), D-Napa, Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar- Curr y (4th District), D-Winters, Assemblyman Jim Frazier (11th District), D-Fairfield, and Assemblyman Tim Grayson (14th District), D-Concord, return as part of Democratic supermajorities in their respective chambers in the Legislature. Solano joins nation in backing Biden-Harris Solano County voters favored President-elect Joe Biden and Vice president-elect Kamala Harris by nearly a 2-to-1 margin, with the Democrats winning 63.94% of the votes over President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, who collected 33.66% of the county ballots.
For the record There were a number of other elections decided in 2020. They include: n March Democratic Central Committee: 1st District: Lynette Henley, Tiffany Jones, Morgan Hannigan, Michelle Pellegrin and Karen Sims; 2nd District: Monica Brown, Steve Young, Jackie Arnold, Paula Bauer and Corey Penrose; 3rd District: Bonnie Hamilton, Daniel Espinoza, Steve Quinlan and Verneal Brumfield; 5th District: Brigette Hunley, Kevin McNamara, Jeanie White and Jeanette Wylie. n November Rural North Vacaville Water District: Joseph Gates, Patrick Sweeney and Robert Whitehouse. Solano Irrigation District: Charles Herich (Division 2) and Pete Sanchez (Division 4). Unopposed, Mike Barrett (Division 3) and Derrick Lum (Division 5). Cordelia Fire Protection District: Unopposed, Jeff Dittmer and Glen Langstaff. See the separate Daily Republic article on the school and college elections.
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CMF: Spread out population From Page One as a field hospital, but Olivias indicated that is not accurate. The idea is to spread out the inmate population to better prevent the transmission of the disease. As of Monday, there were 232 inmates with active cases of Covid-19 in the facility. No CMF inmate has died from the disease. “The well-being and safety of the incarcerated population and staff within CDCR (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) and CCHCS (California Correctional Health Care Services) is our top priority,” officials said in a statement issued by the Office of Public and Employee Communications. “We are holding daily calls with department operations and health care leadership to ensure coordination and communication as we respond to the increase in positive Covid-19 cases at California Medical Facility (CMF),” the statement said. Those efforts include “frequency of testing, conducting contact tracing and implementing isolation and quarantine measures to mitigate spread of Covid-19.” The agency also reported that 94% of the incarcerated population has been tested in the past 14 days, with additional “mass testing” underway. There have been 114 Covid-related deaths among inmates in the state corrections system. There have been 38,304 confirmed cases; 7,477 have tested positive in the past 14 days. There are 9,172 active cases currently. The state reports releasing 593 inmates who had active cases at the time, none from Vacaville.
County officials said the outbreak apparently started on Christmas Eve. It was not immediately clear how many inmates were involved, but nine of those individuals were taken to NorthBay Medical Center in Fairfield. That transfer of patients, however, did not follow the usual protocol of going through the Medical Health Operational Area Coordinator program, the county’s Public Health Division reported. “It is supposed to be going through MHOAC, so we did scold them about that,” Dr. Bela Matyas, the Solano County public health officer, said Monday in a phone interview. The regional system helps determine which hospitals can handle the influx of patients from other areas. As it turned out, Matyas said, NorthBay was able to absorb the nine prisoners. The state prison system is separate from the county’s Public Health operations, unless a prison incident potentially impacts the county. How the disease was transmitted during this outbreak was not addressed. Matyas said the usual source of the disease coming into a prison is from prisoners who are being transferred from other facilities. Olivias said transfers had been suspended, and the communications office added, the health and safety protocol “limits the movement of both staff and the population between and throughout the institutions.” The statement issued by the Office of Public and Employee Communications added additional details. “This i nclude s staggered dining and rec-
reation schedules to allow for physical distancing and disinfecting between use while not mixing housing units, education and rehabilitation materials delivered in the housing units, and only essential transfers conducted under the CDCR/CCHCS Patient Movement Matrix which dictates mandatory testing and quarantine timeframes for all transfers,” according to the statement. Additionally, inmates and staff must wear face coverings, and staff takes additional precautions such as wearing rubber gloves. In congregant facilities, such as skilled nursing homes, the most common transmission source has been staff bringing the disease into the facility. The county jail is also different from the prison system since inmates do not generally get transferred from one jail to another. Matyas said Sheriff Tom Ferrara implemented a quarantine system early into the novel coronavirus pandemic by which all new inmates are quarantined for 14 days. Anyone who tests positive must stay in those dedicated cells for an additional 10 days from the point of their positive tests before being released into the general population. “We have had inmates and staff contract Covid-19 within the county jail system. There are several factors that play into the transmission of the virus. Our staff spends most of their workday in the jail while the inmates come from our community and increase the risk of Covid-19 spreading,” a statement issued by the Sheriff’s Office said. Here are some of the precautions the Sheriff’s Office has adopted: n Staff adheres to
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county guidelines and public health rules with regard to wearing masks, keeping workplaces clean and not allowing sick people to come to work. n The inmates also follow public health rules and the Sheriff’s Office has incorporated guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as they relate to housing and medical needs. n Staff offers testing to all new and existing inmates that are going to be housed within the facility. n The Sheriff’s Office provides face coverings. n The Sheriff’s Office quarantines all new inmates for 14 days and tests them on the last day, before sending them to general population areas. n If any inmate has symptoms or tests positive, they are re-housed into medical isolation until medical staff clears them. “The health and wellbeing of our staff and inmates remains a top priority for the Sheriff’s Office,” the Sheriff’s Office statement said. “We have taken numerous steps to protect our staff and our inmate population from contracting the virus. We will continue to evaluate our protocol to make sure they remain safe.” Most people who have Covid-19 experience only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. Some people, especially older adults and those with underlying health problems, experience more severe illness such as pneumonia and at times, death. The vast majority of people recover. The World Health Organization reports people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover.
Trump, Michelle Obama named ‘most admired’ Tribune Content Agency He lost the popular vote and the U.S. election, but Donald Trump was named “most admired” man of 2020 in a new Gallup poll that left Democrats divvying up mentions. Former first lady Michelle Obama won the title of most admired woman for the third year in a row, according to the annual poll released Tuesday. Trump managed his first solo No. 1 finish despite his dismal 39% job approval rating due to his dominance of the GOP, Gallup said. Overall, Trump received 18% of mentions while former President Barack Obama and President-elect Joe Biden received 15% and 6%, respectively. Three percent of respondents named Dr. Anthony Fauci as their most admired man while 2% chose Pope Francis. Billionaire businessman Elon Musk, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, basketball superstar LeBron James and the Dalai Lama rounded out the list of top 10 men with 1% each. Trump’s first-place title ended Obama’s 12-year streak as most admired man, a record run he shares with only former President Dwight Eisenhower. Michelle Obama took top honors again after receiving 10% of
mentions. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris came in second with 6%. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held the No. 1 spot for 16 consecutive years before handing the title to Obama and has ranked first 22 times in total. Meanwhile, current first lady Melania Trump came in third this year with 4% of mentions. She joins Bess Truman and Lady Bird Johnson as the only former or current first ladies with no No. 1 ranking. Media mogul Oprah Winfrey received 3% of mentions this year while Clinton, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Queen Elizabeth II each received 2%. Newly installed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and climate change activist Greta Thunberg completed the top 10 list with 1% each. Dolly Parton, Condoleezza Rice, Malala Yousafzai, Nikki Haley, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Betty White and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also received 1% of mentions this year, but they still ranked lower than Barrett and Thunberg with fewer overall votes. The yearly Gallup poll asks participants to name the man and woman living anywhere in the world that they most admire.
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Why did Duke’s basketball team end its season? Tribune Content Agency RALEIGH, N.C. — When a teammate became infected with coronavirus, Duke women’s basketball players wanted their opponents to be tested for Covid-19 daily just as they are under the school’s stringent protocols during the pandemic. When those wishes weren’t granted by the ACC or NCAA, the team decided last week to opt out for the remainder of the season, citing health and safety concerns. Duke athletic department officials are declining to speak publicly about the decision, simply referring to the statement from a university spokesman last Friday saying the school supports the players’ decision. But Jade Williams, a 6-foot-5 senior center for the Blue Devils, posted several statements on her personal Twitter account providing some insight into the move to end the season after just four games played. “There are more than enough resources to make sure all competing teams are getting tested EVERYDAY,” Williams wrote, capitalizing ‘everyday’ for emphasis. “If you want entertainment, then make the playing fields, courts, etc safe!” The last game Duke played was Dec. 9, a 73-49 loss at home to Louisville. Two days later, the Cardinals announced they were pausing team activities due to positive Covid-19 tests among their Tier 1 personnel — meaning players, coaches and support staff. The following day, the ACC postponed Duke’s game with Miami as the Blue Devils went through contact tracing procedures due to having played a game with Louisville. Duke’s players then began requesting daily Covid-19 testing across the ACC, given they could have been exposed to the virus during the game with Louisville. Four days later, Duke paused team activities – causing three games to be postponed – when two positive cases among its staff were discovered. A player also later tested positive. The guidelines from the ACC’s Medical Advisory Group, which is headed by Duke infectious disease specialist Dr. Cameron Wolfe, calls for basketball teams to be tested three days per week, including no more than 72 hours prior to their game as well as 48 hours afterward. The report, last updated Dec. 1, does include guidance for daily testing but doesn’t mandate it. “In the sports of basketball, wrestling and volleyball,” the report states, “an See Team, Page B2
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Shanahan plans to keep Garoppolo in 2021; Aiyuk done for season Chris Biderman The Sacramento Bee
It would seem the biggest question facing the 49ers this offseason revolves around the fate of quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. But head coach Kyle Shanahan ahead of the regular season finale this week addressed the speculation about Garoppolo’s uncertain future, as he
did in November. “Yes, I do believe Jimmy’s going to be our quarterback next year,” Shanahan reiterated Monday via Zoom in his first session with reporters since Saturday’s victory over the Arizona Cardinals. San Francisco could move on from Garoppolo, who’s appeared in six games this season, given the little guaranteed money left in his contract.
But the options to replace him are hardly a slam dunk. They could trade for a veteran or draft a prospect that would be on a more team-friendly contract. Garoppolo will count for $26.9 million against the salary cap in 2021. Shanahan’s endorsement for Garoppolo was strong, but he wouldn’t make a concrete guarantee about next season. “You can’t say anything with
certainty. You don’t sit here and make promises on anything,” Shanahan said. “We build a football team, it’s your job to put the best team together year in and year out.” And like the team did last offseason, when Shanahan and general manager John Lynch admitted to evaluating Tom Brady as a free agent, the 49ers See Shanahan, Page B10
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After Golden State opened the season with two blowout losses, Coach Steve Kerr stripped down the offense to its simplest principals.
Kerr simplified Warriors’ offense, but now what? Wes Goldberg
The Mercury News
Going into this season, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr preached patience, and understandably so. The Warriors hadn’t played in nine months, Stephen Curry played in just five games in little more than a year because of a broken hand and Klay Thompson suffered a devastating Achilles tear sidelining him for the second straight season. Plus, GM Bob Myers was handing Kerr a turned-over roster whose core had been rebuilt since the dynasty days. New cornerstone Andrew Wiggins had played only one game with Curry and zero minutes alongside Draymond Green, and the team had to balance developing No. 2 overall pick James Wiseman and winning games.
So when Golden State opened the season with two blowout losses to the Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks by a combined 65 points, those results could have been written off as something expected. Instead, after failing to score 100 points in either of the first two games, Kerr made a dramatic change. He stripped down the offense to its simplest principles. “We’re learning and growing,” Curry said. “You have to be honest with yourself. First two games were terrible and disjointed. Even if shots went in, I think it was necessary to (change) from the other day to now, in terms of cutting it down.” Instead of a whirring series of ball screens, handoffs and timely cuts, Kerr installed an See Kerr, Page B10
Curry, Wiggins lead team to 116-106 win against Pistons Tribune Content Agency Weeks of work began to pay off as the Warriors beat the Pistons, 116-106, Tuesday in Detroit, providing glimpses that Stephen Curry is starting to jell with his new-look supporting cast. Curry finished with 31 points on 9-of-17 shooting (5 for 9 from 3-point range) and six assists, and got key contributions from Andrew Wiggins (27 points, seven rebounds, three assists, two blocks), Kelly Oubre Jr. (14 points, five rebounds) and Eric Paschall (10 points) in the Warriors’ final game
of the season-opening fourgame trip. “We’re getting better every game, we’re learning each other, knowing what each other likes,” Wiggins said. “The chemistry is building.” Entering Tuesday’s game with the league’s worst True Shooting percentage, the Warriors (2-2) hoped a newlysimplified offense would lead to easier shots, especially for Oubre, who missed his first 17 3-point attempts to start the season. Curling off a screen set by center Kevon Looney, Oubre took the handoff and See Curry, Page B10
Pandemic proving ‘next man up’ always been a lie in NFL Dennis Young
New York Daily News
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Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers reacts after a first down against the Atlanta Falcons, Dec. 20.
In a league dominated by brutal injuries, NFL players have to be replaceable. Lost a step? Next man up. Nearly lost a leg? Next man up. Concussion? Next man up, now that we treat players for them. But the pandemic has laid bare that NFL-level players are not quite as disposable as the league wants them to be. In order to tamp down on potential outbreaks, the league has implemented a relatively strict surveillance regime that has knocked out whole posi-
Commentary tion groups for several teams, with disastrous results. When the next man up can’t throw, catch or block, the whole thing falls apart. “Next man up” has always been a curious fit with the NFL. It would make some sense in a sport with a fully functioning minor league system, or even a single developmental league. Instead, as the league’s pandemic plan has accidentally proved, when NFL rosters get thin, there’s nowhere to go. In a way, it would be a more
suitable motto for a sport like baseball, which has a massive system of underpaid backup players that teams can call on in any moment. When the Marlins lost half their roster to Covid, they were able to call up a talented if slightly unseasoned group of minor leaguers and rip off a winning streak. When the Broncos lost four quarterbacks to a “masking slip,” they had to start a medical salesman and couldn’t move the ball; when the Browns lost four players to a hot tub, they had to slot a dog trainer in the lineup and lost to the freaking Jets.
No one embodied “next man up” more than the Patriots, who spent the last two decades winning Super Bowls with Tom Brady and a bunch of purported nobodies. This offseason, Brady left and eight players, including key parts of the defense, opted out because of the pandemic. With an entire roster of next men, the Patriots are terrible. How’s the “year of Next Man Up” going? “I don’t think it should have as big of an impact as it’s having,” Trent Green repeatedly said on Sunday’s CBS See NFL, Page B2
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NFL power rankings: Week 17
Chiefs end season where they started it, at No. 1 Mark Maske
The Washington Post
Each week during the NFL season, The Post’s Mark Maske ranks the 32 teams. This week, the Chiefs end the season right where they started it, atop the rankings. The defending champs weren’t always dominant but they have only one loss and have secured the AFC’s No. 1 seed. The Packers have the NFC’s top seed in their sights, and they stay at No. 2. The Dolphins replace the Titans in the top 10. The Jets don’t get to move up despite their two-game winning streak, which has done the organization far more long-term harm than good. The latest victory was achieved over a depleted Browns team that nonetheless should have fared better Sunday at MetLife Stadium. 1. Kansas City Chiefs Last week’s rank: 1 The Chiefs played down to the Falcons’ level but escaped with the victory and secured the top seed with a missed field goal by Atlanta. Get ready for a third straight AFC championship game to be played at Kansas City. Stop nitpicking about how the Chiefs are winning. Patrick Mahomes has reached the point in his career at which he simply knows how to do whatever it takes to win. 2. Green Bay Packers (12-3) Last week’s rank: 2 Aaron Rodgers was sharp. Davante Adams was brilliant. The running game was productive. The Packers were excellent and unrelenting on offense in dismantling a formidable opponent, in the Titans, Sunday night at snowy Lambeau Field to remain on course for the NFC’s No. 1 seed. 3. Buffalo Bills (12-3) Last week’s rank: 3 The Bills were dominant in Monday night’s road victory over the Patriots and currently are in line for the No. 2 seed in the AFC. With the way QB Josh Allen and WR Stefon Diggs are playing, they probably are the biggest threat to the Chiefs within the conference. 4. New Orleans Saints (11-4) Last week’s rank: 4 RB Alvin Kamara’s six-TD masterpiece in the Christmas Day win over the Vikings wrapped up a fourth straight NFC South title. The Saints have not had their offense truly revved up all season, not with the injury issues for WR Michael Thomas and QB Drew Brees. Could they finally be at their healthiest and at their best when the postseason arrives? They’ll need to be, with a trip to Green Bay probably necessary to reach the Super Bowl. 5. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (10-5) Last week’s rank: 6 Tom Brady’s 348-yard, four-TD first half against the Lions in Saturday’s playoff-clinching victory was impressive. But can the Buccaneers actually get it done when they face one of the league’s better teams? That has been the issue all season. 6. Seattle Seahawks (11-4) Last week’s rank: 8 The defense provided a key goal-line stand, and the Seahawks got it done Sunday against the Rams. The NFC West title is secure, and the No. 1 seed in the conference remains possible. The defensive improvement has made the Seahawks a better-balanced team as the postseason arrives. 7. Pittsburgh Steelers (12-3) Last week’s rank: 9 The Steelers finally got it together in the second half against the Colts to avoid a fourth consecutive defeat. QB Ben Roethlisberger was very good during the comeback. But there’s no way to know what to expect from Roethlisberger and his team once the playoffs begin. Will the Steelers more closely resemble the 11-0 team that began the season or the 0-3 version that followed? 8. Baltimore Ravens (10-5) Last week’s rank: 10 The Ravens are playing very well, and they’ve moved back into position for an AFC wild-card berth. Maybe this twisting path to the playoffs could end up being more useful to them as preparation for the postseason than last season’s joyride through the regular season proved to be. 9. Miami Dolphins (10-5) Last week’s rank: 12 Coach Brian Flores’s handling of his QB situation has been unconventional, to say the least. He has used Ryan Fitzpatrick twice in relief and once as a fill-in starter since rookie Tua Tagovailoa became the starter, each time turning back to Tagovailoa for the next game. But it’s working for the Dolphins. The wondrous show of “FitzMagic” on Saturday night in Vegas has them on the cusp of reaching the playoffs.
10. Indianapolis Colts (10-5) Last week’s rank: 5 A very good team will be left out of the AFC playoffs. Right now, that would be the Colts. Their second-half issues in the loss in Pittsburgh have put them in the uncomfortable position of needing Week 17 help to reach the postseason. Taking care of their part of the playoff-reaching equation shouldn’t be a problem, with a matchup Sunday with the Jaguars. 11. Tennessee Titans (10-5) Last week’s rank: 7 The Titans couldn’t keep pace Sunday night with the Packers. Few teams can, of course, when the Packers are functioning at that level. It was a wasted chance to clinch the AFC South title. But the Titans have another opportunity Sunday against the Texans. 12. Cleveland Browns (10-5) Last week’s rank: 11 Even with their shortage of wide receivers because of their coronavirus-related issues, the Browns should have found a way Sunday to beat the lowly Jets at the Meadowlands. Leaning on their running game and having Baker Mayfield throw the ball to tight ends and running backs should have been enough. Alas, it’s never easy with the Browns, is it? 13. Chicago Bears (8-7) Last week’s rank: 15 Mitchell Trubisky has the Bears on the doorstep of reaching the NFC playoffs. Who knew it was even possible? It seemed inevitable a few weeks ago that Trubisky was done in Chicago as a draft bust. There was room to wonder about the job security of Coach Matt Nagy. But they’ve done an admirable job of regrouping and making the Bears’ Week 17 matchup with the Packers have playoff implications for both teams. 14. Arizona Cardinals (8-7) Last week’s rank: 13 The loss Saturday to the 49ers was troubling, with so much at stake for the Cardinals and the Niners so depleted. But the Cardinals still can reach the playoffs with a Week 17 triumph over the Rams. The status of QB Kyler Murray after his late-game leg injury against the Niners will be the obvious issue to watch this week. If Murray can’t play, Chris Streveler or Brett Hundley would start. 15. Los Angeles Rams (9-6) Last week’s rank: 14 Jared Goff underwent thumb surgery Monday, and the Rams’ season is coming undone. Backup QB John Wolford is to start Sunday against the Cardinals. It’s too bad that the offense can’t pull things together because this is a really good defense. There’s no reason to trust that the Rams, of their own doing, will cash in on their Week 17 opportunity to reach the postseason. But they still can get in with a Bears loss to the Packers. 16. Los Angeles Chargers (6-9) Last week’s rank: 17 Justin Herbert broke the NFL record for TD passes by a rookie, and the Chargers continued their recent winning ways. It remains to be seen whether it will be enough to save the job of Coach Anthony Lynn. There is an argument to be made that maintaining continuity around Herbert would be beneficial. He certainly seems to be figuring things out. 17. Dallas Cowboys (6-9) Last week’s rank: 18 Andy Dalton put up big numbers, and the Cowboys beat the Eagles to remain in the NFC East race. They were the only team in the division to win Sunday as the NFC East reminded everyone that these are four bad teams and one of them will reach the playoffs purely by default. How crazy would that be if this Cowboys team, as disappointing as it has been, ends up in the postseason? 18. San Francisco 49ers (6-9) Last week’s rank: 26 The Cardinals shared their home field with the displaced 49ers. The Niners repaid that favor by handing the Cardinals a potentially costly defeat Saturday on that very field. No one ever said the NFL is fair or kind. 19. Carolina Panthers (5-10) Last week’s rank: 27 The Panthers honored their former coach, Ron Rivera, with the “Rivera Strong” shirts that their players wore during pregame warmups Sunday at FedEx Field. Then they went out and kept Rivera’s new team from clinching the NFC East title. 20. Washington Football Team (6-9) Last week’s rank: 16 Dwayne Haskins, with his release Monday, failed to last two full seasons in Washington after being the 15th overall pick in 2019. He takes his place among NFL draft busts--perhaps not on the upper tier of all-time QB draft busts, but certainly on the list. The best chance to clinch the division
title, at home against the Panthers, is gone. Now comes another opportunity Sunday night at Philadelphia. It’s clear that having Alex Smith back in the lineup is a must. 21. Denver Broncos (5-10) Last week’s rank: 19 Vic Fangio reportedly will be retained as the Broncos’ head coach. That could point toward the team maintaining the status quo at QB as well and entering another season with Drew Lock as the starter. 22. Las Vegas Raiders (7-8) Last week’s rank: 20 How in the world do you lose a game, as the Raiders did Saturday night, when you kick a goahead FG with 19 seconds left and the other team starts at its 25-yard line with no timeouts? Jon Gruden was right: That was inexcusable. The Raiders, with their late-season skid, have failed to make the expected progress in Year 3 of Gruden’s return to coaching. 23. New England Patriots (6-9) Last week’s rank: 21 The Patriots’ worst home loss of the Bill Belichick era came with Monday night’s 38-9 defeat to the Bills. It simply hasn’t worked with Cam Newton at QB and Belichick, this time, didn’t offer an immediate postgame declaration that Newton remains the starter. There’s really no reason not to give Jarrett Stidham a Week 17 starting opportunity. 24. New York Giants (5-10) Last week’s rank: 22 Wouldn’t it be fitting for the Giants to win the dreadful NFC East in a three-way tie with Washington and Dallas at 6-10? That remains a possibility, perhaps a strong possibility. All it would take is a Giants’ Week 17 win over the Cowboys and a Washington loss to the Eagles. 25. Philadelphia Eagles (4-10-1) Last week’s rank: 23 Jalen Hurts was turnover-prone in the loss to the Cowboys, and the Eagles officially were eliminated from the playoff chase. It’s not that easy to be out of the running before Week 17 in a division in which a 6-10 record still could win it. But there’s probably no turning back now from Hurts as the starter at QB, not this week and not heading into next season. 26. Minnesota Vikings (6-9) Last week’s rank: 24 Kirk Cousins fumed, and the Vikings were eliminated from playoff contention Friday in New Orleans. This team really should have been better, given the exploits of RB Dalvin Cook and the immediate contributions of rookie WR Justin Jefferson playing in tandem with Adam Thielen. 27. Cincinnati Bengals (4-10-1) Last week’s rank: 29 The Bengals are having a Jets-like late-season winning streak. The difference is that theirs didn’t cost them the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft. They already have their franchise QB, albeit one who’s on the mend from surgery for his season-ending knee injury. The best news for the Bengals wasn’t their recent victories. It was that video of Joe Burrow on his feet and able to walk, although gingerly. 28. Detroit Lions (5-10) Last week’s rank: 25 The Lions weren’t competitive Saturday against the Buccaneers without their coaches, just as the Broncos weren’t competitive against the Saints last month without their QBs. So it goes in this coronavirus-affected NFL season. 29. Houston Texans (4-11) Last week’s rank: 28 The Texans continue to lose but J.J. Watt provided a compelling public lecture on what being a professional player is all about. Watt and Deshaun Watson embody that. Watson continues to play through his injuries-and play remarkably well. It might be time for someone in the organization to force him to sit down, for his own preservation. 30. Atlanta Falcons (4-11) Last week’s rank: 30 Kicker Younghoe Koo has had a terrific season but that was a really dreadful miss on the gametying-FG-that-wasn’t against the Chiefs. It has been that kind of season for the Falcons. 31. New York Jets (2-13) Last week’s rank: 31 The Jets seem committed to doing whatever it takes to make their fans miserable. Their ill-timed two-game winning streak took them out of the running for the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft and the chance to select Trevor Lawrence. Maybe someone should have told them that it doesn’t do much good to begin a playoff push after a 0-13 start. 32. Jacksonville Jaguars (1-14) Last week’s rank: 32 The Jaguars are on the clock. They’ve wrapped up the top choice in the NFL draft and Trevor Lawrence, by all appearances, is Jacksonville-bound.
calendar Wednesday’s TV sports Note: Some events may be canceled or moved to different times and/or stations because of Covid-19 considerations
Basketball College men •Butler at Providence, FS1, 2 p.m. •Syracuse at Wake Forest, ESPN2, 2 p.m. •Virginia at Notre Dame, ACC, 3 p.m. •Nebraska at Ohio State, BIG TEN, 3:30 p.m. •Arkansas at Auburn, ESPN2, 4 p.m. •Mississippi State at Georgia, SEC, 4 p.m. •Richmond at Davidson, CBSSN, 4 p.m. •Murray State at Belmont, ESPNU, 4 p.m. •Seton Hall at Xavier, FS1, 4 p.m. •Boston College at North Carolina State, ACC, 5 p.m. •Penn State at Indiana, BIG TEN, 5:30 p.m. •DePaul at Connecticut, CBSSN, 6 p.m. •Tennessee at Missouri, SEC, 6 p.m. •Florida at Vanderbilt, ESPN2, 6 p.m. College women •Santa Clara at BYU, BYUTV, 1 p.m. NBA •Milwaukee at Miami, NBATV, 4:30 p.m. •Portland at L.A. Clippers, NBATV, 7 p.m. Football College •Duke’s Mayo Bowl, Wake Forest vs. Wisconsin, ESPN, 9 a.m. •Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Florida vs. Oklahoma, ESPN, 5 p.m. Soccer •La Liga, Granada vs. Valencia, BEIN, 7:50 a.m. •Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur vs. Fulham, NBCSN, 9:30 a.m. •La Liga, Atletico Madrid vs. Getafe, BEIN, 10:05 a.m. •Premier League, NewCastle vs. Liverpool, NBCSN, 11:55 a.m. •La Liga, Elche vs. Real Madrid, BEIN, 12:20 p.m. •La Liga, Celta Vigo vs. Huesca, BEIN, 2:30 p.m. (taped) •Copa do Brasil, semifinals, second leg, Sao Paulo vs. Gremio, FS2, 4:30 p.m.
Thursday’s TV sports Basketball College men •Arizona State at Washington State, PAC12, 1 p.m. •Utah State at Air Force, CBSSN, 1 p.m. •Minnesota at Wisconsin, BIG TEN, 1:30 p.m. •BYU at Pepperdine, ESPNU, 2 p.m. •Stanford at Oregon State, PAC12, P12BA, 3 p.m. •Utah at UCLA, FS1, 4 p.m. •Michigan at Maryland, ESPN2, 4 p.m. •Arizona at Washington, PAC12, 5 p.m. •Colorado at USC, ESPN2, 6 p.m. •California at Oregon, PAC12, P12BA, 7 p.m. College women •Maryland at Penn State, BIG TEN, 9 a.m. •Notre Dame at Miami, ACC, 10 a.m. •Northwestern at Nebraska, BIG TEN, 11 a.m. •Mississippi State at Georgia, SEC, 3:30 p.m. •Tennessee at Texas A&M, ESPNU, 4 p.m. •Arkansas at Kentucky, SEC, 5:30 p.m. NBA •Philadelphia at Orlando, NBATV, 3:30 p.m. •Phoenix at Utah, NBATV, 6 p.m. Football College •Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, Tulsa vs. Mississippi State, ESPN, 9 a.m. •Arizona Bowl, Ball State vs. San Jose State, Chs. 5, 13, 11 a.m. •AutoZone Liberty Bowl, West Virginia vs. Army, ESPN, 1 p.m. •Mercari Texas Bowl, Arkansasvs. TCU, ESPN, 5 p.m. Soccer •La Liga, Athletic Bilbao vs. Real Sociedad, BEIN, 4:50 a.m. •La Liga, Teams TBA, BEIN, 7:05 a.m.
Team: Duke From Page B1 institution may choose to test its respective team members with rapid antigen tests seven (7) days per week, as opposed to administering three (3) tests.” Kelly Williams, Jade’s mother, also posted on Twitter asking for the NCAA to institute mandatory daily testing.
“It needs to be said,” Kelly Williams wrote Dec. 20, “the NCAA CAN afford to subsidize daily testing for our NCAA athletes. Several leagues are already doing this (and) I applaud them but let’s do everything we can for our athletes (and) make sure they ALL get tested DAILY before taking the court (and) infecting another player.”
NFL: ‘Next man up’ has always been a curious fit with NFL From Page B1 broadcast of the Browns not having their top four receivers for the game. It really wasn’t that complicated. The Browns couldn’t pass because they didn’t have any receivers, they couldn’t protect the quarterback because the receivers were never open, and they couldn’t run because they couldn’t pass. It made for an offense bad enough to lose to the Jets. Green suffered a horrific knee injury in a 1999 preseason game and
the Rams’ quarterback situation seemed so dire that Dick Vermeil broke down crying about it, although to be fair Vermeil would get teary at the thought of a crisp punt coverage. Instead, former grocery store shelf stocker Kurt Warner came in and led the greatest offense of all time. So maybe Green is excessively invested in “next man up,” but he’s far from alone. Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield came into the Jets game one of the hottest players in football. He came out of it having a
self-flagellating meltdown, leaving the post-game Zoom call after one question and saying “There’s no excuse” and “I failed this team” over and over again. There’s one excuse: You had never practiced or played with the three wide receivers who played, and the receivers themselves were not very good. But the NFL would rather contort itself around its foundational lies than just admit they’re lies. Mayfield’s teammates and coaches were tripping over themselves to say that actually, it was
their fault the Browns lost. “I’m one of the reasons we did lose this game,” cornerback Denzel Ward said. “That has nothing to do with the result of this game,” coach Kevin Stefanski said of having to game plan for no receivers on zero notice and do a game-day walk-through in a parking garage. Players and coaches can be forgiven for saying things they don’t totally believe; you certainly can’t play a football game if you feel defeated before it starts. But there’s no excuse for people cov-
ering the game, even former players. On CBS’s halftime show, Nate Burleson exhorted Mayfield to “have a Michael Jordan effect” on his crappy temporary teammates, while Boomer Esiason said that for the Browns, there was “no use crying over spilled milk.” In this case, several gallons of milk were spilled on a pile of receiver gloves, and weren’t cleaned up before kickoff. You don’t need to be Dick Vermeil to cry over that. “Next man up” has always been more of an abstraction than practice.
NFL teams don’t really have room for robust backup plans, and pro football has no other league to instantly pluck players from. It exists as an idea in service of tamping down the value and personality of players while tying fans’ investment to laundry and not individuals. But the league’s Covid surveillance regime has turned it into an actual way of operating for most of the league. In theory, it’s a dumb mantra for making star athletes disposable. In practice, it makes for unwatchable football.
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Russia’s cyberattack no small thing
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his is the 21st century, so far a frightening age, and we’ve just had an act of modernistic war, a hacking attack through which Russia now knows gobs about our government, such as useful details about our nuclear weapons. It wasn’t just our top government agencies that got data sucked up for others to peruse, but something like 18,000 computer-using organizations worldwide, including energy producers, technology developers and Fortune 500 biggies. While no one knows for certain it was the Russians who have been doing this for nine months without detection, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says it almost surely was the Russians. President Donald Trump says it wasn’t, certifying that it was. Trump hasn’t seen it all as a terribly big deal despite worries about possibly disastrous results for the military, the economy, and hundreds of other Jay Ambrose matters, not the least of it being exactly how our government goes about functioning with Russia tuned in to everything. The FBI is investigating and President-elect Joe Biden is planning to strike back. Although some say it could take years to set thing right, he is getting set for sensitive negotiations on various topics and Russia has so far not done anything destructive to the computers. The federal government, which has fruitlessly spent billions to prevent this kind of thing, has itself engaged in cyberattacks to do some spying; in Iran, a cyberattack helped halt weapons development. The government finally learned what was happening through private high-tech outfits that serve us and learned themselves through Russia hitting them. This cyberattack was not new except in magnitude. We all know about Russians hacking Democratic emails, of course, and, in 2015, the Chinese were able to capture personal information, including Social Security card numbers, on 21.5 million federal employees. President Barack Obama didn’t want to get into a big fuss over this, but did say he was going to quit staying at the New York Waldorf Astoria that had been purchased by the Chinese a year earlier. It’s not necessarily governments that pull off these shenanigans. Sometimes its independent criminals. But it appears to have been the Chinese government that hacked 500 million guests at Marriott hotels around the world a couple of years ago for whatever reason. And also during the Obama administration, Russia actually hacked White House emails, including some sent and received by Obama. The Center for Strategic & International Studies lists more than 100 significant cyberattacks around the world in just this year alone. They involved such countries as Iran, Vietnam, Israel, North Korea, Bahrain, Austria, Turkey, Japan, Italy, Germany, Australia, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Ukraine, New Zealand and Norway. By the word “significant,” the center means such incidents as six-months of spying on the German Parliament. I used the word “war” in the first paragraph, and yes, what we have here is cyber combat in which a nation in some way binds up, hurts and conceivably even destroys a perceived enemy. While there’s an international agreement that no one will respond to a cyberattack with a military attack, cyberattacks or other ways of interfering seriously with computer networks can be as serious as military attacks. Consider for a moment how China has been developing its space capacities, recently landing a spacecraft on the far side of the moon. Suppose that someday it destroyed all of our satellites, not that hard. Our society is hugely dependent on satellite communications and the consequences could amount to a kind of shutdown with no quick fix. We need to have a quick fix just as we need vastly improved cyberattack defenses and effective cyberattack offenses. What this means is that whatever Biden does in response to this latest attack, his administration must spend more on the military, for cyber issues among other matters. I was critical of Trump earlier, but he started a space force and did enlarge a lapsing budget. Jay Ambrose is an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service.
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referred to as Quakers, for hristmas 2020 was a Christmas like no their belief that people should other in our nation’s “tremble at the word of the history. Thousands of Lord.” They were considered churches across the country radicals and were persecuted, were shuttered, others had in some cases even executed. to hold services outdoors or They sought safety in the New restrict capacity indoors. World. One Quaker named Families were not allowed Robert Hodgson began to to gather for the holiday. Katharine C. preach to crowds in New Many Americans are Netherland (today, New York), Gorka rightly upset that the freedom but for that was arrested and to worship – the foundational flogged. Peter Stuyvesant, American freedom – has been director general of New Netherland, curtailed. For some it felt as if we subsequently forbade people from gave up without a fight, and that what allowing Quakers into their towns or is now gone will be lost forever. But giving them shelter in their homes. the past tells a different story. While When his strictures were challenged, we have never experienced what we he is said to have responded, “We are going through now, the past tells derive our authority from God and us that the passion for freedom runs the West India Company, not from deep in this nation, and it will not be the pleasure of a few ignoeasily squelched. rant subjects.” First and foremost, of course, is On Dec. 27, 1657, Tobias Feake, the very founding of the nation by the the sheriff of Vlissingen, New many who came for religious Netherland (today known as Flushfreedom. Not only did they face ing, New York), and the town clerk, persecution at home and a difficult Edward Clark, drafted a petition ocean voyage, but once here, they calling for acceptance of the beliefs still faced many challenges. The of others and their right to accept passengers of the Mayflower Quakers into their towns and homes. Compact never expected to be blown They persuaded 28 of their fellow hundreds of miles off course, to land citizens to stand with them in signing in a place where their existing patent the petition. More importantly, the had no standing. But with the petition they drafted, known as the Mayflower Compact, they crafted a Flushing Remonstrance, survives as powerful agreement that established one of the most beautiful and inspirself-rule, their right to worship as ing statements of the American spirit. they wished, and the rule of law. In In rejecting the prohibition that simple act, they laid the foundaagainst receiving or entertaining tion for a nation that would become a Quakers, the signatories of the beacon of freedom. Flushing Remonstrance stated: A lesser known but perhaps more "We desire therefore in this case important moment occurred in 1657. not to judge least we be judged, A new sect of believers had emerged neither to condemn least we be in England in the 1650s: the Relicondemned, but rather let every man gious Society of Friends, derisively stand or fall to his own Master . . .
"Therefore if any of these said persons come in love unto us, we cannot in conscience lay violent hands upon them, but give them free egresse and regresse unto our Town, and houses, as God shall persuade our consciences, for we are bounde by the law of God and man to doe good unto all men and evil to noe man." Feake and Clark paid a heavy price for this act of conscience: they were imprisoned and fined. But their spirit of resistance prevailed. Eventually the Dutch West India Company ordered Stuyvesant to "allow everyone to have his own belief." A little over 100 years later, the right to freedom of belief was codified in the Bill of Rights. Indeed, we tend to think of Thomas Jefferson as the father of our freedoms for having inspired the Bill of Rights, or James Madison for having drafted them, but the path to those freedoms was paved by ordinary citizens, such as the 30 who signed the Flushing Remonstrance. Winston Churchill said, “The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.” As we wait to be allowed to return to our churches and synagogues, we should remember that small band of 30 citizens in Flushing, New York, and remind ourselves that the American commitment to liberty does not depend on singular individuals such as James Madison or Thomas Jefferson, or on a president or governor, but it depends fully on the love for liberty each one of us holds and the lengths we are willing to go to uphold it. Katharine C. Gorka is the director for Civil Society and the American Dialogue at The Heritage Foundation.
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State farmers looking for regulatory sanity
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n his sequel to “Alice Perhaps we should in Wonderland,” Lewis consider unplugging the Carroll depicts a fantaselectrified maze and simplitical world in which his fying the pathway through. heroine finds that, like a The French political reflection in a mirror, everyphilosopher Montesquieu thing is reversed, includposited that laws should be ing logic. Since “Through easy to understand, and this the Looking-Glass” was pubconcept influenced our lished in 1871, the idiom has Dave Puglia Founding Fathers as they come to describe situations shaped our system of where you find the opposite of what limited government. is normal or would be expected. Unfortunately, the law has This frame of reference often become, “so complex and voluminous pops into my mind as farmers that no one, not even the most confront California’s many laws and knowledgeable lawyer, can underregulations. stand it all,” according to Jay I recently ran across a seemingly Feynman, distinguished professor of routine announcement from a state law at Rutgers Law School. Califoragency that was jarring, at least to nia employers are left to employ me, as an example of absurdity. expensive armies of lawyers and The California Department of compliance consultants to try to Industrial Relations announced avoid running afoul of the state’s the launch of a program by the Labor convoluted regulatory schemes. Commissioner’s Office to “help Former Gov. Jerry Brown employers understand Califoracknowledged this problem in a nia labor law.” little-noticed remark during his The state of California is hiring a tenure as attorney general in 2009. private company specializing in “The whole framework of law is payroll and human resources to crucial for the operations of business conduct webinars for employers enterprises,” Brown told Legal confused by California’s knotty Newsline. “But when over prescripemployment laws and regulations. tive, it creates a huge and growing Truly a through the lookingamount of overhead, and it does seem glass moment. that we’re reaching the point of Like so many other aspects of the counter-productivity.” state’s regulatory reach, California Expanding, Brown said: “We are employment law has become an moving every year to add more and electrified fence maze where walls more legal prescription to our lives, shift without reason and once-safe to our organizations, to our busipaths are suddenly blocked. nesses and how we all function . . . This can’t be dismissed as We’re overlaid too much with exaggeration when the state itself too many rules.” feels compelled to retain private Brown didn’t exactly relieve sector consultants to try to help employers of these burdens, but the beleaguered employers avoid the wisdom of his warning is only more fines and lawsuits that increasingly powerful 11 years later. define their experience with CaliforElected and appointed officials are nia labor law. quick to pursue new laws and rules
without seriously assessing the entire body of laws and rules already in place. New laws and rules make for nice press releases about some action that will show how the government is protecting us from some bad thing. But as Brown observed, too many laws and rules is a bad thing, too. We’ve reached that point, and many business owners are motivated to move away. While it is more difficult to do when land is your primary asset, companies in California’s agriculture sector are increasingly looking for the exits. Many of our members privately tell us they have or will soon invest in land and facilities elsewhere. We must press for regulatory sanity, but if California’s political leaders won’t answer that call, we must help our farmers find other ways to stay competitive. Technology innovation is the beacon of hope. Automation in our fields and facilities reduces exposure to the maze of trip wires that defines California labor law. Technology improvements in irrigation and fertilization mitigate increasingly impossible regulatory mandates affecting water supply and quality. In these other areas, innovative technology can enable farmers to survive and succeed even in the California labyrinth. California gave life to the revolutionary innovators and technologies that brought forceful and positive change to every aspect of our lives. Today, California’s farmers are looking to technology innovators everywhere to help them make it back to the saner side of the mirror. Dave Puglia is president and CEO of Western Growers Association, davep@wga.com.
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A band teacher finds himself in the Great Before, where new souls get their personalities in “Soul.”
Crew of ‘Soul’ designs kid-friendly afterlife Los Angeles Times Like his most recent film, “Inside Out,” Pete Docter’s “Soul” follows in the director and Pixar chief creative officer’s tradition of expressing intangible concepts and ideas within a palatable, kid-friendly story. The film, which he co-wrote with playwright Kemp Powers and Mike Jones, tells the story of Joe Gardner, a middle school band teacher in the midst of an existential crisis. After he dies unexpectedly, Joe enters a metaphysical realm where he struggles to find meaning in his time on Earth and becomes a mentor to a precocious young soul looking to find her life’s purpose. The brightly colored, highly stylized, PG-rated film poses big questions about personal fulfillment, where we go after we die and whether or not we are sent to Earth with a purpose. In the writing process, Docter delved into research on essentialism, nihilism and existentialism to better articulate the plight of his characters. “You have all this deep, heady stuff, which is not going to be appealing to kids unless you can make it fun,” he said. “The key to that is making the design colorful and fun to look at.” Much of the film takes place in the Great Before, the realm where unborn souls prepare to come to Earth. The Great Beyond, where souls go after death, is briefly hinted at but ultimately kept a mystery. “The Great Beyond was just this bright light, and it’s often been described that way,” said production designer Steve Pilcher. “Which is very hopeful in a sense because it’s like sunlight, like an open door of light – almost like the opposite of a black hole in the universe but more positive. We didn’t want to answer that question [because] it’s a matter of perception.” As for the Great Before (also referred to in the film as the You Seminar), Pilcher envisioned the realm as being “in a constant state of pre-dawn light.” “It’s like morning, but it never changes,” he said. “It’s kind of like when a baby wakes up in their crib in the morning, everything about it should feel
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childlike and soft and pastel. All the forms are blurred, there’s a certain amount of translucency and a lot of softness. It was very important that it feel very inviting, like a pillow.” When the team set out to design the structures and buildings of the Great Before, they looked to ancient Greece. “In Western culture, we’re taught that that’s the seat of civilization and philosophy,” Docter said. “But then we realized pretty quickly, ‘Well, we don’t want this to seem rooted in any particular culture because we’re saying everybody came from the same place.” “We looked up research on Elysian fields, which had Greek temples and structures,” Pilcher said. “But the problem with that was it felt too specific and also everybody does that. We wanted something more universally friendly and something a little bit fresher.” They wound up seeking inspiration from the architecture of World Fairs spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. “It seemed like a lot of the architecture was meant to inspire, to create a sense of awe and importance,” Docter said. Designing the look of the personality pavilions, where souls go to get programmed with personality traits, was somewhat interpretive, Pilcher says. “Some of them are really hard to figure out.” Because while a trait like “abrasive” easily calls to mind an association (“something that grinds against you, maybe it’s rough, maybe it’s jagged”), others are harder to translate. “One of our buildings was aloof,” Pilcher said. “Someone who feels aloof feels like they’re above it all or they’re floating. So how do you do that? “They’re abstract ideas, which is why we designed them to be abstract-looking shapes,” he added. “You just do something that you associate with the word. When you’re creating something abstract, you’re reinterpreting the feeling but [in simple terms].” The counselors known as Jerry, who serve as vessels through which the universe expresses itself and guide new souls through the process of incarnating on Earth, are
illustrated in the film as twodimensional line figures. The directors say that was a lot harder to animate than it looks. “The Jerrys are actually the most complex characters in the entire film because they’re supposed to be the universe dumbing itself down so that people can understand them,” said Powers, who also served as co-director. “A great comparison is like when human beings make a scarecrow thinking, ‘This is going to scare crows away because it looks like a human being.’ I’m sure to crows a scarecrow looks nothing like a human being. So by creating these 2-D line designs to exist in the 3-D space, we had no idea how complicated it was going to be to animate. But as with everything that Pixar does, we rise to the challenge of new animation technology.” As for the design of the souls themselves, “I think the final [idea] we settled on for the new souls was one of the first designs that Pete had scribbled on a napkin,” Powers said. “We spoke to a lot of experts early on about the idea of souls and what souls might look like, and regardless of culture you often hear terms like ‘vaporous’ and ‘ethereal,’ but we also wanted to come up with designs that were fun and engaging.” In fact, making sure the souls didn’t look like ghosts was of major concern for the design team. “The color palette was really one of the toughest things because if you make them all bluish, or just gray, they just look like ghosts. And if you make them all white, they’re going to look like ghosts too and then you can even bring in the sociocultural association of skin color, which we wanted to avoid. But if you take warm spectral light, like light through a prism, and shine it through a soft little form, you’ll get warm lights going through one side and blues and violets where they exit. We actually had to develop technology, which we called the ethereal helmet, [to accomplish it].” The designs also had to serve the dual purpose of fitting a surreal narrative, while remaining inviting to audiences of all ages.
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TAKE YOUR TIME, ESPECIALLY EARLY ON Paul Simon’s “The 59th Street Bridge Song” begins: “Slow down, you move too fast / You got to make the morning last / Just kicking down the cobblestones / Looking for fun and feelin’ groovy.” New York City marathoners can relate to that. The 59th Street Bridge is just past halfway, but it is tough
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by Phillip Alder because it has a steep rise and is very hard on the feet. The end of the bridge, though, is great because it is downhill and there are numerous people waiting on 1st Avenue to cheer the runners on. At the bridge table, everyone should slow down at trick one. More mistakes are made at that trick than at any other. In this example, how should South play in four spades after West leads a low heart? In the auction, North made a cue-bid raise to show at least gameinvitational values with three or more trumps. If this looks like an overbid with a heart king that could well be worthless, North’s hand contains only eight losers even if you count two in hearts, and has the valuable fourth trump. (Regular readers will know that I would have advanced with two no-trump, guaranteeing at least four-card support. I like to know when we have only eight trumps and when we have nine.) South seems to have 10 sure tricks: four spades, one diamond and five clubs. How might he go down? Only if the defenders take one spade, two hearts and one diamond. But to get that diamond, West has to push the suit through the dummy. To stop West from regaining the lead, declarer must play dummy’s low heart at trick one, not the king. COPYRIGHT: 2020, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE
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Senate could still be in session through New Year’s and beyond Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — The Senate could be in session straight through New Year’s Day if there is no agreement on taking up legislation the House passed on Monday to increase the size of economic relief checks to $2,000. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell informed senators of plans for a live quorum call at 5 p.m. Wednesday, followed by a vote on proceeding to the effort to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the fiscal 2021 defense authorization bill. “President Trump has rightly noted this year’s defense bill doesn’t contain every provision that we Republicans would have wanted. I’m confident our Democratic colleagues feel the same way,” the Kentucky Republican said earlier Wednesday “But that is the case every year. And yet, for 59 consecutive years and counting, Washington has put our differences aside, found common ground, and passed the annual defense bill.” The defense policy measure passed the Senate 84-13 on Dec. 11, and while some senators may defect to support the president’s objections, the override’s ultimate passage with the two-thirds threshold required seems assured. The question is when.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, departs after the Republican policy luncheon, Nov. 18, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (The House on Monday voted to override the veto on a 322-87 vote, sending it to the Senate for consideration.) There was some frustration about the pace of consideration of the override vote. Armed Services Chairman James M. Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, told reporters of the vote timing, “to all these people who live here, they don’t care. But I care.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is leading objections on behalf of Democratic caucus members over the timing of the vote, in response to McConnell’s objections to taking up and voting on the House-passed bill to provide enhanced Covid-19 economic relief payments supported by the president. McConnell can work around Sanders by filing
a cloture motion to limit debate of the defense bill veto override and break any filibusters, once the motion to proceed to that measure is agreed to Wednesday evening. That sets up a cloture vote an hour after the Senate comes in on Friday, which is New Year’s Day. There would then be just enough time to get the defense measure cleared over Trump’s objections either Saturday evening or Sunday morning, before the 116th Congress – and its outstanding business – expires at noon. At that point, the focus turns to the pomp and circumstance of a new Congress and the incoming new slate of legislation and eventual executive and judicial nominees. There is not enough time left in the Con-
gress for overcoming two filibusters, meaning that advocates for the $2,000 rebates could face an expiring clock if there is no agreement to move ahead. Sanders and other members of the Democratic caucus were on the floor Tuesday calling for unusually quick action. “The 52 Senate Republicans serving in this chamber are the only thing standing in the way of $2,000 being sent to 160 million of our neediest citizens. The House passed the bill authorizing the checks in a big bipartisan vote. It is hard to get two-thirds of the House of Representatives to agree on what time it is. But two-thirds of the House of Representatives voted for the $2,000 checks,” Sen. Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., said in a floor speech. “President Trump supports the $2,000 checks. So he’ll sign the bill if the Senate sends it to him.” Before adjournment Tuesday, the procedural gears were set in motion on making the House-passed bill available for floor consideration, as well as a Senate GOP alternative that includes a rollback of the protections of Section 230 of the Communications Act, one of several extraneous priorities of the outgoing president that led to the veto of the defense measure.
Republicans block bigger Covid-19 stimulus checks Tribune Content Agency Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused Tuesday to quickly raise the amount of the coronavirus stimulus direct payments to $2,000, rebuffing demands for bigger checks from Democrats and President Donald Trump. McConnell, R-Ky., blocked Sen. Chuck Schumer’s effort to allow a vote on the measure, instead suggesting he would only allow the Senate to “begin a process” to discuss raising the checks along with other
unrelated issues. The move effectively leaves the push for bigger checks in limbo despite growing support from across the political spectrum. Schumer, D-N.Y., made an impassioned plea for the Senate to immediately increase the aid to hardpressed Americans. “Let the chips fall where they may,” Schumer said. But McConnell stuck to his guns. He insisted he would only permit the Senate to start discussing the increased stimulus payments as part of a grabbag of other measures that
Democrats oppose, including Trump’s unfounded claims of widespread fraud in the presidential election he lost. After the House approved the move by a 2-to-1 margin, Trump had weighed in overnight on Twitter with a call for action from his Mara-Lago resort. “Give the people $2000 not $600. They have suffered enough,” the president tweeted at 1:53 a.m. At least five Republican senators, including McConnell allies like Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio, have flip-
flopped in recent days and now claim they support the $2,000 checks. The measure will need the support of at least 60 senators. McConnell has opposed spending more than the $900 billion stimulus that has already passed. He spent months refusing to even consider more expensive bills passed by the Democratic-led House. Trump threw a wrench into the debate by initially refusing to sign the compromise bill that was negotiated between McConnell, Democrats and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
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How can state have 0% ICU capacity and 1,300 available beds? Tribune Content Agency SAN JOSE — We’ve been hearing for weeks about the crush of patients crowding intensive care units in hospitals as California copes with the worst phase of the coronavirus pandemic. But when the Golden State’s official calculation for statewide ICU capacity dropped to 0% late last week, it raised a question that anyone with a basic understanding of math would find perplexing: How could something be at “zero percent” – for example, ICU beds when some are still available? Turns out, as with so many metrics tracking the Covid-19 outbreak, the state’s definition of “capacity” is far from simple. With Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office desperately trying to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed, the state on Dec. 3 linked its latest stay-at-home orders to ICU capacity. It broke California into five regions and announced that new restrictions would be triggered when ICU capacity dropped below 15%. Southern California was quickly under the new order. And since Dec. 17, four regions, home to 98% of the state’s population, have been under the Regional Stay Home Order. The only region that has not dropped below 15% is the sparsely populated Northern California region, which had 29% ICU availability as of Monday. Alarms have been going off since two of the regions – sprawling Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley – dropped nearly two weeks ago to 0% on the ICU capacity meter. The Bay Area region is at 9.5%, and the Greater Sacramento region is at 16.6%. But how do those percentages, ranging from zero to nearly 30, add up to a statewide ICU capacity of 0%? To add to the confusion, the California Department of Public Health also reports that as of Sunday there were
1,385 available ICU beds in the state. We’ve been asking the CDPH to clarify how these seemingly contradictory figures add up, and late last week they provided an email with an answer: The ICU capacity measure “is standardized to reflect effective capacity in ICUs by looking at the percentage of Covid-19 positive patients in the ICU,” the department wrote. So that would mean each region has an ICU capacity that is “adjusted” to account for the intense demand for Covid-19 care. CDPH says it calculates the adjusted ICU capacity based on the proportion of ICU patients who have Covid19. “If a region is utilizing more than 30% of its ICU beds for Covid-19 positive patients, then its available ICU capacity is adjusted downward by 0.5% for each 1% over the 30% threshold,” according to the CDPH office of public affairs. So that mind-bending formula explains how the state has 0% capacity with more than 1,300 ICU beds still available – and maybe why an explanation has been so hard to come by. CDPH has still not responded to a request for the actual and adjusted ICU capacity measures for each of the state’s five regions. San Bernardino, one of the hardest-hit counties in Southern California, provides some additional details that lend insight on the ICU crisis. A chart from the county’s coronavirus data dashboard shows the total number of ICU beds has risen slightly since early October, while Covid patients in the ICU have shot up. Now, Covid patients appear to make up more than half of all patients in the ICU, but some beds are still available. CDPH said it adjusts the capacity measure “to preserve the capacity of the ICU to also treat nonCovid-19 conditions.”
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LOCATED AT: 1441 Granada St, Vallejo CA 94591 Solano Mailing Address: 1441 Granada St, Vallejo CA 94591 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Randy Tsutsui 1441 Granada St Vallejo, 94591 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Randy Tsutsui IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 2, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 03, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002157 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043776 Published: Dec. 16, 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 2021
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Manuel Barajaz Lopez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Manuel Barajaz Lopez Proposed Name: a. Manuel Anthony Lopez THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: FEB. 5, 2021; Time: 9:00 am Dept.: 4 ;Rm.: 305 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Hall of Justice 600 Union Ave. Fairfield, CA 94533 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Republic Date: DEC 10, 2020 /s/ Bradley Nelson Judge of the Superior Court FILED: DEC 16 2020 DR# 00043992 Published: Dec. 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 13, 20, 2021
LOCATED AT: 5089 Ellis Godfrey Dr. Fairfield, CA. 94533 Mailing Address: 5089 Ellis Godfrey Dr. Fairfield, CA. 94533 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Charity Byrd 5089 Ellis Godfrey Dr Fairfield 94533 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Charity Byrd IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 1, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 02, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002147 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043652 Published: December 9, 16, 23, 30, 2020
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MOORE AND SONS JUNK REMOVAL LOCATED AT: 934 Sheridan Street, Vallejo, CA, 94590 Mailing Address: 934 Sheridan Street, Vallejo, CA, 94590 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Daniel Eugene Moore II 934 Sheridan Street, Vallejo, 94590 2) Daniel Eugene Moore 3030 Garvin Ave., Richmond 94804 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a General Partership The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Daniel E. Moore II IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 3, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 04, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002159 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043657 Published: December 9, 16, 23, 30, 2020
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS PEACE OF MIND AUTO PARTS & SERVICES LOCATED AT: 601 Lexington Dr., Vallejo, CA, 94591 Solano Mailing Address: 601 Lexington Dr., Vallejo, CA, 94591 Solano (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Garry Peace Sr. 601 Lexington Dr., Vallejo, CA, 94591 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Garry Peace Sr. IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 10, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 11, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002213 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043786 Published: Dec. 16, 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 2021
DEPARTMENT OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Planning Services Division NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Zoning Administrator NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Solano County Zoning Administrator will hold a PUBLIC HEARING to consider the application of (Klassen – Blue Ridge Kennels) for a Minor Revision No. 1 of Land Use permit R-294 to permit the as-built expansion of an existing commercial dog kennel from 20 kennels to 42 kennels located 1.2 miles west of the City of Dixon in the Exclusive Agriculture (A-40) zoning district, APN 0109-050-120. (Project Planner: Travis Kroger) Due to COVID-19 and to protect County staff and members of the public, the Zoning Administrator’s Meeting will take place by telephonic conference and not in person. This precaution is being taken pursuant to the authority conferred by Governor Newsom’s Executive Order N-29-20. The telephonic hearing will be held on January 7, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. in the Department of Resource Management. Conference Room, 5th Floor, 675 Texas Street, Fairfield, California. Interested persons may call the number provided to be heard. If you wish to participate, please dial 1-877-411-9748 and use the access code 6208644 at 10:00am the day of the meeting. Any person challenging the proposed consideration in court may be limited to raising only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission at, or prior to, the public hearing. You may also submit your statement via email at Planning@SolanoCounty.com. Staff reports and associated materials will be available to the public approximately one week prior to the meeting at www.solanocounty.com under Departments, Resource Management, Boards and Commissions. Any person wishing to comment on the project and/or review the information contained within the project file may do so at the Solano County Department of Resource Management, Planning Division, County Administration Center, 675 Texas Street, Suite 5500, Fairfield. DR# 00043846 Published: December 30, 2020 SUMMONS (CITATION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (NUMERO DEL CASO) FCS053385 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): Blacks Edition LLC, Paulina S. Ung; Ernestina Flores; Ernestina Lozoya; Artemio C. Nuestro; and all persons unknown, claiming any legal or equitable right, title, estate, lien or interest in the property described in the complaint adverse to plaintiff's title, or any cloud upon plaintiff's title thereto; And Does 1-20 YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDADO EL DEMANDANTE) Alejandra Garcia NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs of any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court's lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS CALENDARIO despues de que la entreguen esta citaction y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta porescrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que yaha un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos extentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbirage en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): Superior Court of Solano County 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): James J. Falcone. (SBN 131235) Law Office of James J. Falcone 300 Capitol Mall, Suite 1800 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 442-4204 Date (Fecha): JUL 22 2019 /s/ Clerk, by J. Sapp-Chun, Deputy (Adjunto) DR# 00043796 Published: Dec. 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 13, 2021
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MIMOSCREATIONS LOCATED AT: 484 Lupine Circle Vacaville CA 95687 Solano Mailing Address: 484 Lupine Circle Vacaville CA 95687 Solano (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Michelle Molina 484 Lupine Circle Vacaville 95687 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Michelle Molina IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 9, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 10, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002199 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043778 Published: Dec. 16, 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS NAPA VALLEY FLOWER CO. LOCATED AT: 3850 Clay Bank Rd, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano Mailing Address: 3850 Clay Bank Rd, Fairfield CA 94533 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Imandeep Sahota 3850 Clay Bank Rd Fairfield, 94533 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business n am e o r n a m e s l i s t e d a b o v e o n 12/07/2020. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Imandeep Sahota IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 9, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 10, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002196 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043792 Published: Dec. 16, 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS DAMN FIRE PIT, PRINCESS-MAYA MAGIC HAIR PRODUCTS, KINGS & QUEENS ROYAL ENTERPRISE LOCATED AT: 661 Gree Tree Circle, Fairfield CA 94534 Solano Mailing Address: 661 Gree Tree Circle, Fairfield CA 94534 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) PrincessMaya Fields 661 Green Tree Circle Fairfield, 94534 2) King-Nas-Zayah La'Blue 661 Green Tree Circle Fairfield, 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a General Partership The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Princess-Maya Fields IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION November 17, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: NOV 18, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002074 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043779 Published: Dec. 16, 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 2021
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LOCATED AT: 4050 Shaker Run Circle, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano Mailing Address: 700 Bogue Rd Apt 104, Yuba City CA 95991 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Danisha Matthews 700 Bogue Road Yuba, 95991 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Danisha Matthews IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION November 29, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: NOV 30, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002129 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043777 Published: Dec. 16, 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 2021
LOCATED AT: 907 Ohio St #B, Vallejo CA 94590 Solano Mailing Address: 907 Ohio St #B, Vallejo CA 94590 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Dannie Cotton 907 Ohio St #B Vallejo, 94590 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 09/25/2020. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Dannie Cotton IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 14, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 15, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002223 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043882 Published: Dec. 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 13, 2021
CITY OF FAIRFIELD PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD will hold a public hearing on the following item: BLESSED BAPTIST CHURCH - (ANX2019-002) Public Hearing on request by Joseph Palafox to annex a vacant ±1.23-acres parcel of off Sunset Avenue (APN: 0037-160040) into the City of Fairfield to construct a 10,132 square-foot church and associated site improvements (MD2019-010). The proposed Mitigated Negative Declaration finds that the project will not have a significant effect on the environment (ER2019-043). (Planner: Meily Sheehan, 707-428-7474, msheehan@fairfield.ca.gov) NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN THAT said public hearing will be held on TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2021 beginning at 6:00 p.m. via teleconference, at which time and place any and all persons interested in said matters may appear and be heard. If you challenge any of the above-cited items in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to: Community Development Department, at, or prior to, the public hearing. For additional information, please contact the Community Development Department, City Hall, 1000 Webster Street, Second Floor, or phone 707-4287461. Consistent with the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 regarding public meetings during the COVID-19 emergency, the City Council meeting is not physically open to the public and the meeting will be held by teleconference. The public can speak on matters during the meeting by joining the Zoom meeting. The details of the meeting will be posted within 72 hours of the meeting on the agenda and the website. When joining via Zoom, you will use the “raise your hand” feature if using a computer, or *9 if using a phone, to let it be known you would like to speak. Staff will call on you at the appropriate time. The City of Fairfield does not discriminate against any individual with a disability. City publications will be made available upon request in the appropriate format to persons with a disability. If you need an accommodation to attend or participate in this meeting due to a disability, please contact Lucia Morales, Administrative Assistant, 707-4287446, lmorales@fairfield.ca.gov, in advance of the meeting. DR# 00043894 Published: December 30, 2020 NOTICE OF INTENT TO ADOPT A MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION City of Fairfield Community Development Department 1000 Webster Street, Second Floor, Fairfield, California 94533 Given pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Sections 21091 and 21092 of the Public Resources Code and Section 15072 of the CEQA Guidelines. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a draft Mitigated Negative Declaration has been prepared and is available for public review and comments regarding the following project: PROJECT TITLE: Blessed Baptist Church PROJECT LOCATION: Sunset Avenue (APN: 0037-160-040, 0037-160-060) PROJECT APPLICATIONS: Annexation (ANX2019-002), Minor Development Review (MD2019-010), Environmental Review (ER2019-043) PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Annexation of two parcels totaling ±2.1-acres off Sunset Avenue (APN: 0037-160-040, 0037-160-060) into the City of Fairfield in order to construct a 10,342 square-foot church and associated site improvements on the vacant ±1.23-acre vacant parcel (APN: 0037-160-040). REVIEW PERIOD: December 30, 2020 – January 18, 2021 CONTACT PERSON: Meily Sheehan, Senior Planner, 707-428-7474, msheehan@fairfield.ca.gov HEARING DATES: January 19, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. LOCATION OF HEARINGS: Fairfield City Council Chambers 1000 Webster Street Fairfield, California 94533 Copies of all relevant documents are available at the City of Fairfield Community Development Department at the above address. Comments to the Mitigated Negative Declaration must be received by the Community Development Department in writing no later than 5:30 p.m. on January 29, 2019. The comments should focus on the sufficiency of the environmental documentation in its discussion of the possible impacts of the project. The project site is X is not listed on any list of hazardous waste sites prepared pursuant to Government Code Section 65962.5. Any information contained in a Hazardous Waste Substances Statement is attached to this Notice. Further information may be obtained from the Community Development Department during regular business hours, Monday through Friday (closed first and third Fridays), 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at 707-428-7461. DR# 00043895 Published: December 30, 2020
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Quake lays waste to Croatian towns; 5 killed by falling rubble Tribune Content Agency
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French fashion designer Pierre Cardin dies at 98 Tribune Content Agency PARIS — Pierre Cardin, a designer who revolutionized fashion and built a couture empire, has died at the age of 98, the French news agency AFP reported, quoting family sources. With Cardin, France has lost one of the greatest visionaries in fashion, known for co-developing futuristic fashion and marketing his name worldwide. The designer was born in Italy on July 2, 1922 as the son of a French wine merchant. After World War II, he started to work as a fashion illustrator in Paris at the Paquin fashion house. Shortly after, he moved on to Christian Dior, where he helped create the legendary “New Look” in 1947. Three years later, he founded his own haute couture company. Cardin continued to design collections into old age. Along with Paco
Rabanne and Andre Courreges, Cardin was considered the inventor of futuristic fashion. In the early 1960s, he sent his models down the catwalk in astronaut-like suits and helmets. Among his most successful creations were geometrically cut mini dresses with shooting target patterns and skirts with vinyl stripes. The industry veteran was the first couturier to launch a pret-a-porter collection – and the first to lend his name to countless products such as furniture, mineral water, record players and cars. Cardin was also ahead of his time in other ways: He put out feelers to the former Soviet Union earlier than anyone else and was among the first to bet on the Chinese market. His tailoring made Cardin one of the richest men in France. He leaves behind a fashion empire of hundreds of factories and licences worldwide.
BELGRADE, Croatia — A powerful earthquake struck Croatia on Tuesday, causing at least five deaths and dozens of injuries as rescuers scrambled to find two people reportedly buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings. A girl was killed by falling rubble in Petrinja, about 40 miles west of Zagreb and right on top of the epicenter of the magnitude-6.0 quake. Four others – a young man, an elderly man and a father with his son – were killed in the area of Glina, the town Deputy Mayor Branka Baksic Mitic confirmed to the news media. An aftershock almost as powerful as the main quake struck the area in the early afternoon, along with many lesser tremors. It was unclear whether any of the victims were killed in the latter quake.
An aftershock almost as powerful as the main quake struck the area in the early afternoon, along with many lesser tremors. It was unclear whether any of the victims were killed in the latter quake. Petrinja and the nearby Sisak were hit the hardest. “Most of the buildings are unusable,” Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said after arriving in Petrinja. In Sisak, the roof on the town hospital collapsed. “This is terrible, there are casualties, there are injured. We saw a child killed on the town square,” the mayor of Petrinja, Darinko Dumbovic, told reporters from the daily 24Sata.
The Tuesday earthquake could be felt in the surrounding countries. It finished off many buildings already damaged by two tremors, of magnitude 5.2 and 5.0, on Monday morning. Dumbovic said that seven engineers had been pulled out alive after being buried under the rubble of a building they were assessing for damage from the previous day. Rubble could also be seen on the streets in Zagreb. Most of the capital was without electricity, and the national power company HEP said that its grid had sustained wide and severe damage and urged consumers to minimize the usage of power. Krsko, the western nuclear power plant that Croatia shares with Slovenia, said it had shut down out of precaution, pending damage assessment.
The Interior Ministry urged people residing in buildings that showed signs of damage to leave immediately. A 5.3-magnitude quake on March 22 inflicted heavy damage to Zagreb, including its iconic Catholic cathedral, which has been under reconstruction since the 1980s. A tip of one of its twin towers fell immediately, while the other had to be removed later. In April, Croatian authorities estimated the damage from that quake at 42 billion kunas ($6 billion). Until Tuesday, that quake had been the most powerful in 140 years. Croatia is an EU member state since 2013. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted that she spoke to Plenkovic on the phone and promised the bloc’s support.
First US case of UK Covid-19 strain reported in Colorado Tribune Content Agency The potentially more dangerous Covid-19 mutant strain that has set off alarms in Europe has been identified in the U.S. On Tuesday, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced that the first case of the B.1.1.7. variant had been discovered in his state. It is believed to be the first confirmed mutant coronavirus report in the U.S. “There is a lot we don’t know about this new Covid-19 variant, but scientists in the United
Kingdom are warning the world that it is significantly more contagious,” stated Polis on Twitter. “The health and safety of Coloradans is our top priority and we will closely monitor this case, as well as all Covid-19 indicators, very closely.” A Colorado state laboratory identified the variant through diligent sample analysis. In late November, Polis disclosed that he and his partner, Marlon Reis, had tested positive for coronavirus and were self-isolating. But Dr. Anthony Fauci,
the renowned immunologist leading the White House Coronavirus Task Force, isn’t so sure the European strain is any more dangerous than the current virus. “Does it make someone more ill? Is it more serious virus in the sense of virulence? And the answer is, it doesn’t appear to be that way,” said Fauci. Although U.K. officials claim that the vaccines being rolled out will be strong enough to deal with the new variant, Fauci said U.S. scientists would be carrying out their own studies.
Colorado, which has recorded 326,000 coronavirus cases statewide, has reported 4,631 deaths as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the Colorado Department of Health & Environment website. Nationally, 337,000 Americans have lost their lives to the disease, according to health tracker Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, the Covid-19 death toll has exceeded 1.78 million. Nearly 1in every 5 people on Earth who has succumbed to the disease has been an American.
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are going to keep their options open. “Now, you look into every avenue, and you see if there’s something out there that can get you a ton better, it’s the same answer for every position,� Shanahan said. “But look at Jimmy, look at what he’s done, look at where he’s at with us financially, and we better have a very good answer if you’re going to find something better than that. Jimmy’s shown in one year he’s a guy that can take us to the Super Bowl, and I also think Jimmy’s going to get a lot better the more he plays.� The 49ers are 22-8 in regular season games (2-1 in the playoffs) started by Garoppolo since he was acquired via trade from the New England Patriots in 2017. He missed 12 games in 2018 after tearing his ACL in Week 3 and will likely finish this season having missed 10 games with two high ankle sprains to his right plant leg. Garoppolo started all 16 games in one season, 2019, when he helped his team reach the Super Bowl as the top seed in the NFC. That team, of course, had the league’s second-ranked rushing attack and toprated pass defense. Garoppolo was also 31st in air yards per pass attempt, 6.5, ( Drew Brees was 32nd at 6.4) and Garoppolo had just eight pass attempts in last season’s NFC title game. Garop-
polo this season completed just 1 of 10 throws longer than 20 yards downfield, according to Pro Football Focus, while the majority of his playing time came on his balky ankle. Garoppolo signed a five-year, $137.5 million contract in February of 2018 after going 5-0 as San Francisco’s starter at the end of 2017, helping the 49ers become the first team in NFL history to finish 6-10 after beginning the year 0-9. Garoppolo’s contract was frontloaded with a $28 million roster bonus that gave him a $37 million cap number in his first year of the deal when the 49ers were among the league leaders and cap space. Garoppolo’s cap figures have leveled off since, apparently leaving Shanahan comfortable with the financial details of his contract. He has two years remaining on his deal. Shanahan s a id Garoppolo’s contract is middle-of-the-pack relative to other signal-callers, saying he was somewhere in teens when it came to price. “That’s how much they cost,� Shanahan said. According to Over thecap.com, Garoppolo’s $26.9 million cap hit ranks 11th among quarterbacks under contract for next season, which doesn’t include Cowboys starter Dak Prescott, who played this season on the $31.4 million franchise tag before getting injured. Prescott could get tagged again in 2021.
Shanahan was asked how he evaluates Garoppolo’s season given the limited playing time because of the injury. “I think he would have taken steps forward and it would’ve been great for him to play this year,� he said. “After what he got playing the year before, being able to go through his first full season, I think regardless of how it started out, it would have been a good experience for him to only get better. The injuries he had kind of took the year from him.� Garoppolo had his practice window opened last week as he continues to work back from his second high ankle sprain suffered in early November against the Seahawks. Shanahan said Monday Garoppolo is unlikely to be added to the active roster this week, noting the team is hoping practice squad quarterback Josh Johnson could return from the reserve/ Covid-19 list by Thursday to be available as the backup to C.J. Beathard on Sunday. If not, the 49ers will likely call on the recently acquired Josh Rosen to serve as Beathard’s backup for the second straight week.
Aiyuk to miss regular season finale Promising rookie receiver Brandon Aiyuk won’t break Jerry Rice’s rookie receiving record after all. Shanahan
revealed Monday Aiyuk suffered a high ankle sprain early in Saturday’s game and won’t play in the finale against Seattle. Aiyuk reported pain to the training staff during the first quarter Saturday and had his ankle retaped. It was more painful than he anticipated in the days after the game which led to getting the ankle examined. “The way it swelled up, he came in and said it hurt worse than he thought and we just got an MRI and found out about the high ankle,� Shanahan said. Aiyuk finished his first NFL season with 60 catches for 748 yards with five receiving touchdowns and two rushing touchdowns. His receiving total is the third best among San Francisco rookie receivers behind Rice’s 927 in 1985 and current teammate Deebo Samuel’s 802 last season. Shanahan said Aiyuk’s first season set the bar high for what to expect as his career unfolds. He’s hoping he can continue to be a prominent weapon, alongside Samuel, whose season was awash with foot and hamstring injuries. “I was real happy with Aiyuk,� said Shanahan. “I’m real excited about him going into year two and just even talking with him before the game (Saturday) and just understanding on what the expectations are for him. He’s here for a reason and it’s to really help us out, which he did this year.
Curry: Picked apart Detroit’s defense From Page B1 buried his first 3-pointer 2 1⠄2 minutes into the game. The strong shooting start continued as the Warriors opened the game shooting 47.4% from the floor and finished shooting 49.3% overall. However, they trailed the Pistons (0-4) 29-24 after the first quarter because of their inability to box out. As a team, the Pistons grabbed 16 offensive rebounds and outscored Golden State 20-10 in second-chance points, but were held to 38% shooting overall. “We got hurt by a lot
of offensive rebounds, but we were getting stops,� said head coach Steve Kerr. “We were smarter, tougher, contesting more shots, didn’t give them a whole lot of easy stuff.� Blake Griffin’s free throws after Detroit’s offensive board opened up a 12-point lead mid-way through the second quarter, but Golden State cut into that lead and trailed 51-48 by halftime. After taking an elbow to the head in the first half, Griffin did not return to the game due to concussion protocols after 17 minutes, eight points, five rebounds
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But it was with Curry mostly on the bench in the fourth quarter when the Warriors made the gamedeciding 20-4 run, powered by 17 fourth-quarter points from Wiggins and highlighted by an exciting block, dribble and dunk sequence from rookie center James Wiseman. Curry re-entered the game and seized Golden State’s largest lead of the game at 13 when he drilled a 3-pointer with 4:17 remaining. “A great feeling to turn what was a mess of a road trip into a really good one,� Kerr said.
offense predicated on high pick-and-rolls, with a ball-handler using a big-man screen to get downhill and create shots for himself or shooters spread around the arc. The result: A 129-128 win over the Chicago Bulls, Curry beginning to snap out of a shooting slump and Wiggins – whom this team will rely on so much – finding his rhythm as a pick-androll playmaker. In the win, Wiggins recorded four assists after having just one in his first two games combined. “Something I’m familiar with,� Wiggins said before Tuesday’s game in Detroit, the last of the team’s four-game trip to open the season. “It feels good and I’m comfortable in those situations.� While this distilled offense is easier for players like Wiggins, Kelly Oubre Jr. and Wiseman to grasp, it’s far from the sophistication Kerr was used to when coaching basketball savants Andre Iguodala, Shaun Livingston and Green, who has yet to play this season with foot and conditioning issues. Kerr had spent an extended offseason preparing to rebound from last season’s 15-50 ordeal. But even that doesn’t compare to the learning curve he faces coaching a still-rebuilding team in fan-less arenas, and fresh off the organization losing $50 million in revenue due to the pa ndem ic - shor tened 2019-20 season. After more than three decades as a player, executive and coach, this is new ground. “It’s by far the biggest challenge that I’ve
Today’s Games GOLDEN STATE 116, Detroit 106 SACRAMENTO 125, Denver 115 New York 95, Cleveland 86 Boston 116, Indiana 111 Philadelphia 100, Toronto 93 Chicago 115, Washington 107 Milwaukee 144, Miami 97 Orlando 118, Oklahoma City 107 Phoenix 111, New Orleans 86 L.A. Clippers 124, Minnesota 101
had,� he admitted. Though he may not be able to implement his motion-heavy system this season, the next challenge for Kerr will be adding wrinkles to the offense to stay unpredictable. What made the Warriors dominate during their run of five straight Finals was that element of unpredictability: Green, Iguodala and Livingston thinking several moves ahead while Curry and Thompson scamper to find openings and make 3-pointers with surgical precision. But Wiggins and Oubre don’t have that ability or experience to create, and thrive more as isolation scorers getting downhill and finishing at the basket; Wiseman does not have the playmaking chops of past centers Andrew Bogut, David West and Zaza Pachulia; and Curry is without his long-time backcourt partner in Thompson. Over the next few weeks, Kerr will be careful to add more movement elements and prevent the Warriors from becoming stagnant. Green’s return, which will add a playmaker and organizer to the court, will help. “I think we have to figure out what we have to do different,� Green said. “Figuring out what those changes are, while trying to stay true to who we are, who we know ourselves to be, is the challenge. “I have no doubt we’ll figure it out. It just may take some time.�
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and three assists. The Pistons’ defensive strategy to swarm Curry every time he touched the ball limited him to just six shot attempts in the first half, but he used that attention to pick apart Detroit’s defense and set up teammates for open shots. Draymond Green, out with a foot injury, watched from the sideline in the third quarter as Curry found Paschall on the receiving end of a pickand-roll for a two-handed dunk. On the next possession, Curry found Oubre cutting to the basket for another dunk.
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