Daily Republic: Wednesday, February 2, 2022

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Covid case trend on the decline in Solano A3

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A homeless encampment is set up along Cordelia Street in Suisun City, Tuesday.

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Solano supervisors cautiously sign on to regional homeless plan Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously endorsed a regional homeless plan that emphasizes the need for interim and permanent housing and preventive measures – issues that need to be worked on simultaneously – but a plan Supervisor Mitch Mashburn said lacks “meat on the bone.” “I don’t understand what the funding source is going to be and I don’t know what Solano’s costs are going to be,” Supervisor Monica Brown said about her concerns with the plan. Supervisor Erin Hannigan said the concept looks great on paper, but having yet another plan to address the issue does not mean anything will necessarily get done.

“It does not come without costs,” said Hannigan, who noted an estimate of $260 million to meet the ultimate goal of reducing homelessness by 75% by 2024. “I know this is a plan, but we can sign on to a thousand plans and not get anywhere,” Hannigan said. However, the board was told that by adopting the resolution to accept “the Regional Action Plan as a framework for reducing and preventing homelessness in Solano County,” the county did not commit itself to any specific project or to provide funding at this time. The board action followed a presentation by Regional Impact Council representatives Ken Kirkey, chief partnership officer for the nonprofit All Home, and Elaine de Coligny, principal at EdeColigny Consulting LLC and former head of

the Alameda County consortium of care agency. Supervisor Jim Spering, who sits on the council’s Steering Committee, brought the plan to the board and emphasized it not only addresses homelessness but also the needs of the poorest residents of Solano County and the Bay Area who are at risk of homelessness. “Where we have to make a difference is in the real-low income population in the Bay Area,” Spering said. He agreed the plan is ambitious in its goal, but that if the county accomplished just a small part – 20% instead of a 75% reduction in the homeless population – it would be a big step forward. Kirkey said there are more than 1 million Bay Area residents who See Plan, Page A8

Putin accuses West of using Ukraine as a pawn in showdown with Russia The Washington Post KYIV, Ukraine — President Vladimir Putin hit back against the West on Tuesday, accusing the United States and NATO of using Ukraine to hem in Russia and ignoring Moscow’s security concerns. The Russian leader, speaking to reporters as a major military buildup around Ukraine stokes fears of an assault, said the Kremlin was reviewing U.S. and NATO replies to recent proposals that seek to check NATO’s military presence in the region, one element in a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at averting further conflict. “But it is already clear that Russia’s fundamental concerns have been ignored,” Putin said, questioning NATO’s open-door policy that could allow for former Soviet states like Ukraine to join. “NATO refers to the right of countries to choose freely, but

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he talks during a press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister after their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Tuesday. you cannot strengthen someone’s security at the expense of others.” For weeks, East-West tensions have mounted over the deployment of more than 100,000 Russian troops close to Ukraine, which U.S. and NATO

officials say may be a precursor to a Russian land grab like the one that allowed Moscow to annex Crimea in 2014. Western leaders, threatening massive economic retaliation should Putin invade, say another assault would not only jeopardize Ukraine’s future but erode the norms that have underpinned transatlantic security for 70 years. Putin’s appearance alongside Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban marked the first time he has spoken publicly about the standoff since late December. While he suggested diplomatic discussions would continue, Putin also accused the West of making Ukraine a pawn in a great-power showdown. “It seems to me that the United States does not care that much about Ukrainian security – maybe they think about it somewhere in the back-

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County Deputy District Attorney Sharon Henry stood on the steps of the Hall of Justice on Wednesday to announce she is running for district attorney, setting up a showdown with her longtime boss, District Attorney Krishna Abrams. “I’m standing as a strong pillar of justice, a 34-year prosecutor for the people of the state of California, the people of this beautiful diverse community, victims of crime, and for law enforcement,” Henry told assembled friends and family. “That is an honor that I do not take nor have I ever taken for granted.” Henry has been a part of the Solano County District Attorney’s Office since 2014. She had previously worked in offices in Tulare and San Mateo counties. She is a graduate of the Hastings College of Law at the University of California, San Francisco and passed the bar in 1987. She chose the law as a 12-year-old when she heard her father, the Rev. W.H. Henry, tell one of his parishioners his dream had always been the practice law but he was unable to follow that path while growing up in a segregated Mississippi. See Henry, Page A8

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Solano County Deputy District Attorney Sharon Henry announces her candidacy for Solano County District Attorney at the Hall of Justice in Fairfield, Tuesday.

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ground,” he said. “But their main task is to restrict the development of Russia.” Putin spoke as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, hosting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for talks in Kyiv, warned of the potential for large-scale conflict. “This is not going to be a war of Ukraine and Russia. This is going to be a European war, a full-fledged war,” Zelensky said. “Because no

Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE said they have begun submitting data to U.S. regulators for authorization of their Covid-19 vaccine in younger children, hastening an effort to get shots to more kids after the omicron wave caused pediatric infections to jump. The companies said in a statement that they have started a so-called rolling submission with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seeking an emergency authorization for the vaccine in children ages 6 months to 4 years. A panel of outside advisers is scheduled to meet Feb. 15 to consider the request, according to a statement from the agency. “Having a safe and effective vaccine available for children in this age group is a priority for the agency and we’re committed to a timely review of the data,” Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock said in the statement.

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