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Airbnb party in Pittsburgh turns deadly with shooting Tribune Content Agency PITTSBURGH — Two people were killed and several more were injured in a shooting at a home in Pittsburgh’s East Allegheny neighborhood early Sunday in what the mayor called a “senseless loss of life.” Up to 200 people – many of them underage – were attending a large party at an Airbnb rental property near the intersection of Suismon Street and Madison Avenue on the North Side when dozens of shots rang out around 12:30 a.m., officials said. Two juvenile males were killed, and eight other people were wounded by the gunfire. Police Chief Scott Schubert said five other people suffered non-gunshot-related injuries while fleeing the scene. Officials said no one had been detained, and there were no suspects as of Sunday afternoon. The motive behind the shooting also was not clear. Police believe there were multiple shooters, Schubert said at a news conference Sunday afternoon. "We're not going to sleep until we get who did this,” Schubert said. “This shouldn’t have happened. We're sick about it. We're going to do everything we can to get those responsible for it." Schubert said the ShotSpotter monitoring system registered more than 90 rounds fired. Public safety officials had initially said more than 50 shots were fired. Shell casings from around the area indicated there were multiple firearms used during the melee. Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz said earlier Sunday that some of the victims suffered broken bones and cuts as they jumped out of windows of the home while fleeing the gunfire. Some gunshot victims were transported to hospitals by Pittsburgh EMS and police, and others arrived at hospitals within and outside city limits via private transportation, Cruz said. Stephanie Waite, a spokeswoman for Allegheny Health Network, said the system treated See Pittsburgh, Page A8

Late-season storms bring Sierra snow Tribune Content Agency A series of late-season storms pummeled the Sierra Nevada with several feet of snow, drawing skiers to the mountains on Easter Sunday as more snow is expected to fall this week. In the last week, upper portions of the mountains around Lake Tahoe received 1 to 3.5 feet of snow, said Dawn Johnson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Reno. "It's pretty unusual to get storms like this, this late in the year," Johnson said. "We still have two more coming in this week." Tim LeRoy, a spokesperson for Mammoth Mountain, said the area received 14 to 16 inches of snow. "It'll sort of freshen things up through the remainder of this ski season," said LeRoy, adding that Mammoth will be open through at least Memorial Day. "Snow in Mammoth is water for the rest of California, so the more of it the better." Johnson said the storms have resulted in bumps in the snow water equivalent, or how much water is contained in the snowpack. She said it marks the first increase since December, "which of course is going to help considering that we spent so many months during our wet season being so dry." Johnson added, "It helps the drought but by no means eradicates the drought." Officials cautioned drivers coming up mountain passes to be prepared for snow-covered roads, as authorities have reported a series of weather-related wrecks and spinouts. "We just want to make sure anybody coming up here is prepared for winter conditions," Johnson said. "The worst time frames are always going to be in the nighttime into the early morning hours." INDEX Arts B4 | Business B5 | Classifieds B6 Comics A5, B4 | Crossword A4, B4 | Food B2 Opinion A6 | Sports B1 | TV Daily A5, B3

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Mariupol on brink as Ukrainian fighters defy surrender demand Tribune Content Agency SEVERODONETSK, Ukraine — A Russian deadline for Ukrainian troops to surrender in the devastated port city of Mariupol came and went Sunday in a pitched battle whose outcome could change the course of the war. A few thousand Ukrainian fighters bunkered in the Azovstal steelworks plant were offered a chance to lay down their arms, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. But the Ukrainian side appears to have rejected the offer, and Russia’s military warned that troops who refused “will be destroyed.” In an address to the nation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledged that the strategic coastal city was on the verge of being lost, saying Ukraine’s troops were outnumbered 6 to 1 and the situation there “remains as severe as possible.” “Russia is deliberately trying to destroy everyone who is there,” said Zelenskyy, who also warned that

Ukraine may walk away from peace talks with Russia if troops continue to commit atrocities in the city. Mariupol, which has endured almost two months of fighting, has become one of the starkest examples of Moscow’s brutal tactics in the invasion of its smaller neighbor. Officials say more than 20,000 people have been killed there. An estimated 100,000 civilians remain in siege conditions, with no food, water or heating, local officials and aid groups say. Speaking to CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said remaining Ukrainian soldiers and a large group of civilians “are basically encircled by the Russian forces.” The badly damaged city “doesn’t exist anymore,” he said. “They decided to raze the city to the ground at any cost.” Still, Mariupol has become a symbol of defiance for Ukrainians for refusing to bow even as many of its buildings lie in ruins and its people are buried in mass graves. A takeover of the city, which

lies on the Sea of Azov, would be a significant victory for Russia in a war marked by its forces’ missteps. A win there would not only provide a land bridge from the east to Russian-annexed Crimea, but would also free up Russian forces to move north and link up with the other thrust of the Russian offensive coming from the city of Izyum, some 144 miles north, and complete their encirclement of eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, the stated objective of the second phase of Russia’s invasion. The escalating battle for Mariupol comes as Russian troops press their offensive on cities and towns in the east. On Sunday, the United Kingdom’s Defense Ministry said Russia was deploying additional combat and support equipment from Belarus to locations close to Kharkiv and Severodonetsk. “Russian artillery continues to strike Ukrainian positions throughout the east of the country” as part of what the defense ministry said was a See Ukraine, Page A8

Pope Francis calls for end to all wars during his Easter blessing Tribune Content Agency ROME — Marking Easter Sunday with the traditional "Urbi et Orbi" (To the City and the World) blessing, Pope Francis has urgently called for an end to all wars and conflicts worldwide. "We have seen too much bloodshed, too much violence," the head of the Catholic Church said in front of roughly 100,000 worshippers on St. Peter's Square in Rome. Much like the disciples after the resurrection of Jesus Christ celebrated on Easter, today "our hearts are filled with fear and terror when so many of our brothers and sisters had to lock themselves up to protect themselves from the bombs," Francis said. The war in Ukraine dominated Easter celebrations in the Vatican, held with a bare minimum

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Pope Francis delivers his Easter Urbi et Orbi blessing from the balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square, Sunday. of restrictions for the first time since the pandemic began. "May a new dawn of hope soon rise over this terrible night of suffering and death!" the pope said, urging states to relent. "Let peace be chosen. Let there be no more flexing of muscles while people suffer." He said: "In my heart I carry all the many Ukrainian victims, the millions of refugees and internally displaced persons, the families torn apart, the

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gonna use them? Hurling: There are 15 players on the field at any given time during the Gaelic football game known as hurling. Now I had never heard of hurling before last week when preparing for this column. I mean, I had heard of it, but only in the context of what happened back in the day after I chugged several brews through a beer bong or what I felt like doing after after watching my Lakers play this season. Instagram: I watched the rock documentary “I’m Too Old For This Sh*t: A Heavy Metal Fairy Tale” last week that detailed a 1980s Florida metal band named Siren that never made it beyond regional success. They did, however, have rabid fans in Europe, and 30 years after they faded away, they were invited and did a gig in Germany for them. One of the running jokes was one of the guitarists being unable Courtesy photo to figure The T-shirts the “I Grew Up in Fairfield Too” Facebook Group are selling to raise out Instagram. funds for the Fairfield Community Service Foundation. Well, I see his Instagram and raise him a Facebook killed, it was sayonara for me. Fairfield freelance humor colStories and a TikTok. Most of I’m just too old school to be umnist and accidental local histhe time after watching a video knowin’ stuff like that, and it torian Tony Wade writes two from someone on those platreally ain't my cup of (Celestial weekly columns – "The Last forms I have a cartoon question Seasonings Cinnamon Apple Laugh" on Mondays and "Back mark floating over my head. Spice herbal) tea. in the Day" on Fridays. Wade is Andy Warhol said, "In the Well, thanks to my homie Lil’ also the author of The History future, everyone will be Google I discovered that she has Press book “Growing Up In Fairworld-famous for 15 minutes." a song called “Fifteen” so my field, California," published in Evidently now it's 15 seconds. life will be spared. I still haven’t 2021 and the upcoming History Taylor Swift: I was just listened to it though. Maybe I'll Press book "Lost Restaurants of telling co-worker Jeff Lacson Fairfield, California," which will last week that if I had to name a be in the mood for it in say, Taylor Swift song or I would be 15 years or so. be published on July 4.

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Some Christians challenge ‘Blues, Brews & BBQ Cook-Off’ what it means to be ‘pro life’ set for Saturday Tribune Content Agency

HOLLAND, Mich. — Growing up in this small town near the western edge of Michigan, Christy Berghoef learned to live by a simple rule. “To be Christian is to be Republican is to be ‘pro-life,’” she said recently, sitting in a renovated shed-turned-office behind her house on the 40-acre farm of willows and gladiolus where she was raised. “All else makes you a ‘baby killer.’” Berghoef abided those harsh judgments. As a child, she prayed for abortions to end. In her teens, she marched in anti-abortion vigils and carried signs at protests. After college, she found a job on Capitol Hill for her Republican congressman, where she was recruited Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/TNS to be a legislative aide on antiabortion law. An anti-abortion sign sits off a country road not far from Christy and Bryan Her politics eventually shifted Berghoef’s home in conservative Holland, Michigan. even has her faith stayed firm. She switched her voter registration to into this ‘pro-life’ movement that ing sides as the nation anticipates Democratic. Her definition of “pro- it’s not about saving the lives of the the possibility of a post-Roe landlittle babies in the pictures,” said scape that could further divide life” expanded to tightening gun Berghoef, a 47-year-old mother Americans and outlaw abortion in control and protecting the rights of of four. “It’s about politics and as many as 26 states. immigrants. She now believes — in being on the ‘right’ side of your “One of the most frustrating what is considered sacrilege in the community.” things for me on this issue of aborwood church where she was raised Americans’ views on abor- tion is that it’s described as if ‘It’s in the Midwest — that abortions tion have remained relatively the my body, my choice and I can do should never be outlawed, though same in recent years. About 59% whatever I want,’ or you are seen as she’d rather see fewer of them. believe it should be legal in all ‘murdering babies’ if you are ‘proIn a city of 33,000 that’s home or most cases, according to the choice,’” Berghoef said. “Those are to nearly 200 churches and where Pew Research Center. Conversely, your two options. I reject both.” “Pray for the unborn” billboards roughly 39% want it to be illegal in Raised on a farm and transare as common as campaign all or most circumstances. Oppo- formed by city life, Berghoef, signs in a presidential election sition is strongest among white whose elongated vowels thread an year, Berghoef, a worship leader evangelicals, among whom 77% upper Midwestern accent, at once at a liberal church where her oppose abortion in nearly all cases. fits in with the culture of Holland husband pastors, is part of a new, In the town of Holland, that and stands out. She often sports if disconcerting, breed of Chris- percentage can feel even higher. Ugg boots over jeans with a sweater tians challenging the teachings of “Abortion is morally wrong in any and scarf. She carries a carpenter’s their elders. case!!! No argument!!” one person tools. She recently finished gutting The Republican Party, evan- commented on Facebook in reply and renovating her kitchen with gelical Christianity and the to one of Berghoef’s many postings concrete countertops and wooden anti-abortion movement have been touching on the subject. It’s a tone shelves. In her backyard, she’s inextricably joined in a battle that she’s become accustomed to. rebuilt a small Civil War-era shed for the last five decades has shaped As a regular contributor to the she found on Craigslist, turning it the contours and passions of Amer- local newspaper, she’s learned that into an office and reading space. ican politics. The powerful alliance describing her stance as “broadly Berghoef descends from Dutch is a major reason President Donald pro-life” will get a reaction. “The immigrants who moved to the Trump was elected and able to shift way people fight for abortion shows Dakotas in the 19th century and the Supreme Court rightward. they are very ‘pro-abortion,’” said later relocated to this MichAs the nation awaits the court’s one letter to editor criticizing her. igan town. The conservative opinion on a case that could disPrivate messages from con- Dutch faithful came to the frigid mantle Roe v. Wade, the ruling that servative Christians have been Midwest in search of religious guaranteed the right to abortion, harsher, calling her a “murderer.” freedom. Today, the Holland area Berghoef is among an increasingly Berghoef, who grew up in the is dominated by the Christian vocal minority of former conserva- Christian Reformed Church, is in a Reformed Church and its cousin, tives who have been condemned by corner of a traditionally conserva- the Reformed Church in America. many in their faith as supporting tive community taking a different Streets and cities are named after a grave sin. stance. As a former Republican Dutch originals. Downtown, a park “I wish someone had told me activist, she also believes she can with a Dutch windmill and tulips back when I threw all my energy be a bridge between bitterly oppos- attracts tourists each spring.

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FAIRFIELD — The Parks and Recreation Department will host its first “Blues, Brews & BBQ Cook-Off” event Saturday on the County Annex Lawn. Attendees can enjoy free live blues music performed by Big Blu Soul Revue, purchase barbecue from food trucks, and adults 21 and older can purchase unlimited beer sampling in the beer alley for $45. Participants may enter the barbecue cookoff contest and compete for cash and trophy prizes. The event is being held in partnership with Community Action North Bay, or CAN-B, a local organization that focuses on the needs of those with extremely low incomes, including seniors, veterans and the disabled, in order that they may live healthy and productive lives. Net proceeds from beer sampling ticket sales will benefit CAN-B. To purchase beer-sampling tickets or find out more information about entering the cookoff, visit www.fairfield. ca.gov/events.

Garden Club talks Bonsai trees The bonsai tree will be the topic of the April meeting of the Fairfield Garden Club. Bonsai is the art of growing certain trees and shrubs, of many varieties, in small, shallow containers. It is through careful and precise training and pruning that the plant is slowly shaped and manipulated to give the appearance of an older, mature tree. Bonsai enthusiast Robin Hutchings will give a presentation on this area of gardening. The meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Fairfield Adult Recre-

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Several government meetings on tap Several government meetings will be held this week. Some are online and in-person and others are just online. Check the websites for further information. The meetings coming up include: Fairfield Suisun Sewer District Board, 4:30 p.m. Monday, 1010 Chadbourne Road, executive conference room, Fairfield. Info: fssd.com. Fairfield City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, 1000 Webster St. Info: www.fairfield.ca.gov/gov/ city_council. Rio Vista City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, City Hall, 1 Main St. Info: www.riovistacity.com/ city-council. Solano Irrigation District, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Lake Berryessa Room, 810 Vaca Valley Parkway, Vacaville. Info: ca-sid. civicplus.com. Vacaville Planning Commission, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Vacaville City Hall council chamber, 650 Merchant St. Info: www.ci.vacaville.ca.us. Suisun City Council, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: www. suisun.com/government/ city-council.

NASA nails down Astrovan successor for Artemis Tribune Content Agency ORLANDO, Fla. — Astronauts during the space shuttle era got their rides to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center for the most part from a classic converted Airstream dubbed the Astrovan. For the next generation, NASA has determined what its Artemis astronauts will ride in before blasting off to the moon and beyond. NASA will get a fleet of three crew transportation vehicles from Canoo Technologies Inc. designed to take the astronauts fully suited up along with their support team and equipment on the 9-mile ride from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout

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The Astrovan carries the astronauts to the launch pad to board space shuttle Atlantis for a scheduled launch at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida in 2011. Building to Launch Pad 39-B to board the Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System. The rides, officially referred to as Crew Trans-

portation Vehicles, are based on the company’s all-electric LV model. They won’t be needed until Artemis II, the first crewed mission of the

program slated for no earlier than May 2024. Artemis I, an uncrewed flight to the moon is slated to launch this summer. Artemis III, aiming for no earlier than 2025, seeks to return humans including the first woman to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972. “We are honored to transport the Artemis crew to the launch site for the first human lunar landing in more than 50 years,” said Canoo Chairman and CEO Tony Aquila. “The selection of our innovative technologies by NASA to take a diverse team of American astronauts to the moon showcases a great commitment to sustainable transportation.”

Newsom’s plan to tackle mental illness hinges on housing efforts in California Tribune Content Agency SACRAMENTO — State Sen. Susan Eggman called 911 on her way to the Capitol earlier this month because a person was standing in the road pouring water on their head in the middle of the turn lane. It’s something the Democrat said she sees a lot on her drive between her home in Stockton and her job in Sacramento: people with mental illness so severe they can’t keep themselves safe. Right now, calling the police is the only option many people have to try to get help for someone struggling with severe mental illness. As a result, many land in emergency

rooms and jails and don’t get the care they need, Eggman said. A proposal from Gov. Gavin Newsom that Eggman is shepherding through the Legislature would create a new avenue to help them. The plan would create a system called Care Court that would allow for family, community members, probation officers and others to refer people for services if they have schizophrenia or another mental illness. People could also be brought into the system if they are suspected of a crime or about to be released from an involuntary hold at a psychiatric facility. “We have not been able to reach a lot of those folks,” said Eggman.

“Care Court will provide a different on-ramp.” The proposal, written by Eggman; Sen. Thomas Umberg, D- Santa Ana; and Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D- Santa Monica, is still in the initial stages of the legislative process. It aims to help a small but very visible part of California’s homeless population, although participation in Care Court wouldn’t be limited to people who are unsheltered. Some advocates who have reviewed the latest version of the legislation say it still lacks key details and would need to be accompanied by additional funding, but they say it has promise.

The new vehicles are based on Canoo’s allelectric LV models, but customized for NASA, able to seat eight including the four astronauts expected to fly on most Orion flights. Canoo’s headquarters are moving from California to Bentonville, Arkansas, with manufacturing in Pryor, Oklahoma. The company won the $147,855 contract through competitive bidding. “Our customized vehicles are modular and upgradable throughout their lifecycle with a high level of recyclability at end of life,” Aquila said. The new vehicles are boxy, described as podshaped in a post on the NASA website, but touted as environmentally

friendly with zero-emission technology. The Astrovan was used for most of the space shuttle missions beginning in 1983 with STS-9 and used through the final flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-135 in 2011. Canoo is set to deliver the vehicles no later than June 2023. No crew transportation to any launch pad was needed from 2011 until SpaceX launched the Demo-2 mission in May 2020 when Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley flew to the International Space Station, but they got a ride in special Teslas before lifting off on their Crew Dragon from Launch Pad 39-A.

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Today’s birthday Your goals are unique, and your list of must-do experiences eclectic. You’ll work these plans like a boss this year, and with very little support at first. But as you forge forward with confidence, people join you, resources are offered, skills developed. You become the person who can bring your exciting visions into reality. Cancer and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 30, 1, 27 and 14.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You walk into a room and you set the tone. There’s no shortage of people who want to be around you. Just by liking the life you’re living and living the life you like, you influence people. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Persistence is your thing. You’re even persistent about being persistent. So long as you feel there is something else you can do that might help you achieve your goal, you’ll keep after it. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Eliminate stressful triggers. It’s the daily habits – for instance, always putting your keys and your glasses back in the same place – that make life smooth and allow

you to focus on highly valued relationships. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). You’re becoming aware of the ways you get off track. There’s an art to redirection, a way to lead yourself back to productivity. Sometimes it’s easier to change your environment first. Your thoughts will follow suit. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). The weather has shifted yet again, and your priorities adjust right along with the change. You’ll be coming back to a part of yourself you haven’t seen in a while. This part has been waiting patiently for your return. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). When you started this work, you weren’t expecting anyone to saddle up and carry some of the load. And though you didn’t ask, the sweet moment comes when you realize it’s happening all by itself. CELEBRITY PROFILES: Whether she’s working at a “Superstore,” playing “Ugly Betty” or voicing of Astrid, the teenaged Viking in the 3D fantasy film “How to Train Your Dragon,” America Ferrera’s Aries warrior spirit shines through. Her feisty fire sign nature is at the heart these characterizations. A natal moon in worldly Sagittarius lends sophistication and savvy, while Mercury in Taurus gives the grounding.

Bridge

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uses Blackwood. Or, when your prospects as declarer look hopeless, play for any chance of victory, however unlikely it might be. In today’s deal, South was in six spades. West led the heart king. Declarer won with dummy’s ace and cashed his two top trumps, but East discarded a club on the second. How should South have continued? North’s four no-trump was Roman Key Card Blackwood. South’s response showed three key cards (two aces and the trump king, or three aces). Five hearts asked for the trump queen, and five spades denied that card. With a guaranteed trump loser, declarer had to discard both of his low hearts before West could ruff in and cash the heart queen. That required finding West with four diamonds and East with a singleton nine, 10 or jack. At trick four, South cashed the diamond queen and unblocked the seven from the board. (This wasn’t DETERMINE NEVER vital, since he had the club ace as a entry, but it was esthetically TO SUBMIT OR YIELD hand pleasing.) East’s 10 was a hopeful start. Bridge isn’t a game for the Next came the diamond six. When weak-willed – you need strength of West played the four, declarer didn’t character to succeed. For example, in a submit or yield: He called for dummy’s matchpointed pair game, it can be right five. The six won. to risk going down in a guaranteed Now declarer played three more contract in the quest for an overtrick. rounds of diamonds, discarding his Or, if you make a light opening bid, see heart losers, and claimed. it through. Don’t pass partner’s forcing bid, or lie about your aces if partner COPYRIGHT: 2020, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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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 DETERMINE NEVER and computer program at TO SUBMIT OR YIELD www.sudoku.com

Bridge isn’t a game for the weak-willed – you need strength of character to succeed. For example, in a matchpointed pair game, it can be right to risk going down in a guaranteed contract in the quest for an overtrick.

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he deadline for filing federal income taxes is later than usual this year. Tax Day has been pushed back to April 18 to avoid coinciding with the District of Columbia’s Emancipation Day holiday. However, Americans don’t just pay taxes one day out of the year. Taxes are a part of our everyday lives, whether we’re conscious of it or not. Many politicians prefer that we don’t notice how much we’re taxed. And, so, taxes are often buried in the cost of products or subtly taken from our paychecks. The largest and most recognized U.S. tax is the personal income tax. It’s the reason for Tax Day. Federal tax rates on personal income range from 10% to 37%. Forty-one states Preston layer on additional income taxes. In places like New York Brashers City, the top combined federal, state and local income tax rate exceeds 50%. For young adults entering the job market, the first tax they may notice is the payroll tax. Looking at their pay stubs, they are often shocked to see 6.2% was taken out for Social Security and 1.45% for Medicare. What they may not realize, though, is that their employers also paid that same amount in Social Security and Medicare taxes. Since that’s part of the cost of hiring someone, that amount is also built into the paycheck – in the form of lower wages. Effectively, the federal government takes a 15.3% cut of most workers’ wages just to fund entitlements, double what shows up on their pay stubs. When workers go to spend that paycheck, they may have to pay a sales tax of 9% or more, depending on the state. And while states’ general sales taxes are usually visible, other taxes are better camouflaged. At the gas pump, for example, we’ll pay combined state and federal gasoline taxes of about 31 cents per gallon in most states. In California, it’s about 67 cents per gallon. When buying diesel in California, taxes will cost drivers 93 cents per gallon, in addition to the state’s 9.25% sales tax. Even if you don’t buy diesel, those taxes will still take a bite out of your wallet; they increase the price of most consumer products because they are transported by diesel trucks. Federal taxes also drive up the cost of vehicles themselves with, for example, a 25% tariff on imported steel and a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum. Americans paid about $87 billion in tariffs on imported products in 2021. How about renters? Many don’t realize they’re paying property taxes, since the landlords write those checks. But those checks are funded by the rent. Moreover, property taxes reduce the supply of housing on the rental market, thereby leading to higher rents. After paying all these taxes, some folks may still have some savings to invest. Suppose you buy stock in a U.S. corporation. The company will put those funds to use, and whatever profit it earns will face corporate taxes at a 21% federal rate and a 5% rate in a typical state. But for the government, why tax something once, when it can tax it two or three times? After taxing corporate profits – not to mention the wages that went into the investment – the government will take a cut of the same profits when they’re distributed to shareholders. When the corporation pays a dividend, the shareholder may be subject to an additional 15% or 20% federal tax, not to mention state capital gains taxes, which typically add about 5%. Ultimately, these taxes don’t just hit investors, though. Corporate taxes notoriously drive down workers’ real wages. Maybe the most damaging hidden tax in the government’s arsenal, though, is inflation. Compared to the same time last year, consumer prices are up 8.5%. Between the Federal Reserve, Congress and the White House, the government’s strategy for the last two years has been to print money and dump it into the economy. Spending with reckless abandon, the federal government has racked up more than $6 trillion of new debt in that time. The Federal Reserve holds most of that new debt. After flooding the economy with dollars, little wonder that each dollar is worth less. Inflation hits everyone and everything. Food prices are up 8.8% from last year, new vehicles 12.5%, electricity and gas utilities 13.5%, used vehicles 35.3%, and gasoline 48%. Preston Brashers is a senior policy analyst in The Heritage Foundation’s Hermann Center for the Federal Budget.

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t looks like the Democrats the Constitution. Like the will take a congressioright to vote. nal bath next November. The only committee Nothing bad sticks to member to try to restrain the Republicans; anything Cruz was Ben Sasse, a Repubbad sticks to Democrats. lican! He called Cruz’s One party does nothing for performance “jackassery.” four years except give a tax John Hawley claimed that cut to millionaires. The other Jackson is soft on pedophilia Jack Batson and child pornography. For party revives the economy in one year, driving the unemHawley, there is no bottom. ployment rate to levels not seen Lindsey Graham threatened that since the last century. But an apparwhen the Republicans gain power, ent majority will favor the party they would retaliate with far-right that hasn’t done anything for them nominees, as if they haven’t already except terrorize them with fake stacked the court with judicial radiculture fears. cals. Jackson’s entire behavior was It’s a major danger for the nation. reasonable and thoughtful. One party’s chief groveled before The Republican Radicals didn’t Putin. The other is standing up to take the hearing seriously; for them it him, getting little credit. was a chance to engage in theater. So One party never fails to call the Graham stormed out – a good visual. other, “The radical Left,” but the Then he voted No in the full Senate insulted party doesn’t even respond. by sticking his arm into the chamber They’re clearly losing the meswith a thumbs down. Jackassery. saging wars. Please name any “radical-left The natural response to the above Democrat” who’s done anything should be a chorus chanting “the approaching the above. radical, anti-democratic Right.” Let’s Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell see how radical. hinted that if President Biden proWe saw some raw radicalism in poses any future nomination to the the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing. high court, he won’t even hold hearRising to the heights of absurdity ings, as he didn’t with Merrick and the depths of nastiness, Ted Cruz Garland. Ignoring the Constitution insisted that she “will be the furisn’t radical at all, is it? thest-left and most extreme justice Now please name a Democrat to ever serve on the Supreme Court,” who is as far Left as Sen. Rick Scott apparently because she wasn’t sure if of Florida is far Right. He’s come up babies are racist. Jackson’s demeanor with his very own “11-Point Plan to and history easily refute that. Rescue America” that will threaten No Democrat asked Cruz if she Social Security and Medicare. would be more radical than our He would require everyone to right-wing justices whose judicial pay income tax. Sounds good? Sure, philosophy, originalism, promises to keep the IRS busy collecting $5 or take us back a century and obliter$20 from astonished poor people ate the requirement that states obey while billionaires escape behind 400-

page tax returns that hide multiple hard-to-discover dodges. Here’s Scott’s best: “Today’s Democrat party is trying to rig elections and pack the courts because they have given up on democracy.” To confuse people, propagandists are well-known to accuse their adversary of what they themselves are actually doing. Scott is a case study. The Democrats need an 11-point counterplan to rescue us from right wing radicals like Rick Scott! Then there’s Republican congresswoman Marsha Blackburn who is crusading to ban contraceptives. Republican Sen. Mike Braun wants to ban interracial marriage. Sen. John Cornyn thinks that marriage equality is a court “edict,” and not a right. Many Republicans voted recently NOT to fund more weapons for Ukraine, NOT to supply foreign countries with Covid vaccines (apparently thinking that Covid doesn’t travel easily), NOT to allow Medicare to bargain lower prices for insulin. Very moderate. Again, Trump asks for Russian help in his next election (some nonsense about Hunter Biden), an absolute no-no politically and legally – until Trump. Nothing to see there, either, huh? Finally, nothing radical in an insurrection against the constitution that the President was part of. But it’s those darn Democrats who are radicals. And lots of conservatives believe it. Jack Batson is a former member of the Fairfield City Council. Reach him by email at jsbatson@ prodigy.net.

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am quite disappointed free press, social media and with President Biden comentertainment industries pared to former Presiamong others also suffer from dent Trump. One of our a dearth of tolerance, divergreatest, President Abraham sity of opinion and behavior, Lincoln, said: "Nearly all men unless it’s one they subscribe can stand adversity, but if to. We have somehow decided you want to test a man’s charthe other guy’s ideas and acter, give him power.” beliefs are woefully wrong In America, nothing comJim McCully and not worthy of civil pares to the power and discussion, let alone impleprestige of the President of the United mentation, if they don’t conform to States (POTUS). We have other powtheir shared orthodoxy. erful leaders in our Congress, and the We have created an abundance Supreme Court of the United States of self-absorbed people further(SCOTUS). However, POTUS sets the ing their own interests rather than nation's tone. Americans have taken the general good regardless of what party identification to such extremes they publicly profess. Dr. Martin that what we called bi-partisanship, Luther King Jr. said many things in has become the exception rather than his brief life. One I firmly believe the rule. We citizens have no one to is: "A nation or civilization that conblame but ourselves as we, with one tinues to produce soft-minded men notable exception (SCOTUS), voted purchase(s) its own spiritual death on these people into power. the installment plan.” History judges good and bad We have all seen President Biden's through its long arc. In "The Art lack of acuity on public display. I of War" Sun Tzu said: “Opportunidon’t gloat here as this is truly tragic ties multiply as they are seized and on many levels, both private and depart when ignored.” Far too often, public. I was personally around recently, we have given great power him years ago when no media was to those ill prepared to wield it. The present. I can state categorically he people chosen, whether appointed was never up to the job of POTUS. like the SCOTUS or elected like the We are in serious trouble on mulSpeaker of the House or Majority tiple fronts. Americans and our Leader of the Senate, have been disenemies know it. President Trump appointing. Many showing neither was undermined, sabotaged and true leadership or the courage wronged relentlessly by the extreme of alleged convictions nor used left-wing Democrat Socialist Propower for the greater good of "We gressive Peoples Party (DSPPP) the People." adherents. Regardless of this Interestingly, this is not a phemassive, pervasive and disgraceful nomenon solely attributable to public activity by entrenched hyper-partiservice. Leadership in our so-called san DSPPP leadership he displayed

leadership, integrity and character. The forces arrayed against him demonstrated their ruthless desperation to have him fail yet he didn’t. The decisive and needed actions taken for positive change correcting the obvious failures of the previous Obama-Biden Administration made America great again. Compare a few of his positive results: secure borders, massive tax cuts, outstanding economic recovery from the previous Obama-Biden Administration's glaring failures, inflation reduced to 1.8%, reinvigorated military, America energy independent for the first time in 50 years, fair trade policies reversing decades of foolish policies, streamlined regulations freeing American industry and agriculture, created economic opportunity zones in minority communities, raised minority job creation to the highest level in history, defeated ISIS in record time, facilitated several Arab nations signing peace treaties with Israel, forced NATO countries to meet their long neglected monetary defense treaty obligations, 200 Constitutional original intent judges appointed at every federal court level, fastest vaccine creation and production in history. As President Trump said: "In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake, but by what you finally accomplish.” He passed the test. Jim McCully is a former chairman of the Solano County Republican Central Committee and former regional vice chairman of the California Republican Party.

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Pause in Illinois gas tax hike Mayor calls for causes some political backlash solutions to recent violence Tribune Content Agency

CHICAGO — By Fourth of July, Illinois drivers likely will be greeted at the gas pump by 4-by8-inch signs informing them that as they fill their tanks, they’re actually saving money, courtesy of their elected leaders in Springfield. Legislation pushed through in the closing hours of the General Assembly’s truncated spring session this month freezes a scheduled hike in the state’s gas tax for six months. The measure, now awaiting Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature, includes a stipulation that every gas station in the state post a notice informing drivers about the gas tax freeze. That requirement, laid out in a single paragraph in the Democrats’ 923-page election-year tax relief plan, has gas station owners grumbling and Republicans howling. Democrats have responded by calling their GOP colleagues hypocrites because their party pushed a similar election-year proposal two decades ago. The fact that the law requires gas stations to pay for the signs or be fined and that the placards be in place when the hike would have taken effect on July 1, as the state budget year begins and just days after the June 28 primary, has emboldened critics to say the effort is little more than the latest example of old-school, gaspump politics. But Democrats, who correctly note that while Republicans complained they nevertheless voted for the measure, are defending the sign requirement. In addition to the gas-tax freeze, the $1.8 billion package approved by lawmakers in the early morning hours April 9 also includes a oneyear suspension of the 1% sales tax on groceries, direct payments to taxpayers and a property tax rebate. Democratic lawmakers say the package is a sharing of the wealth with residents who are struggling with record inflation as the state enjoys its strongest financial per-

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Norman White pumps gas at the Mobil station in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood in March. formance in decades. “We want our citizens to know that . . . Illinois government is on the mend, we’re in the best fiscal health in a generation, and we’ve done this for them,” sponsoring state Rep. Mike Zalewski, a Riverside Democrat, said when the plan was debated on the House floor in the middle of the night on the final day of the legislative session. Still, none of the Democratic leaders who negotiated the proposal – neither Pritzker, House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch of Hillside nor Senate President Don Harmon of Oak Park – would claim credit for the gas pump sticker requirement that was included in the final package. The state gas tax, currently 39.2 cents per gallon, is set to increase by 2.4 cents on July 1, according to the state Department of Revenue. But with Pritzker’s signature, that bump will be pushed off until Jan. 1, with the exact amount to be determined by where inflation stands at the end of September. Drivers will be hit with another increase on July 1, 2023. “Consumers across the state need to realize: The state’s going to get their money,” said Josh Sharp, CEO of the Illinois Fuel and Retail Association. “They’re not putting

this off indefinitely or forever. They’re just putting it off until after an election.” The association, which represents gas station owners, has threatened to file a lawsuit over the sticker requirement, arguing that it violates businesses’ freespeech rights. “Our members just do not like being told that they have to engage in and participate in speech that they don’t want to have anything to do with,” Sharp said. “The state of Illinois doesn’t get to tell our members what they have to say at the pump. That’s not their job, and doing so, we feel, is unconstitutional.” Once the measure becomes law, gas stations who fail to post the notice would be subject to a fine. Sharp and other critics note that Pritzker and the Democratic-controlled legislature didn’t require service stations to post a notice at the pump when they doubled the gas tax to 38 cents per gallon in 2019 and tied future increases to the rate of inflation. The extra revenue is being used to fund road and bridge upgrades through Pritzker’s $45 billion “Rebuild Illinois” infrastructure program – another theme voters will be hearing a lot about this year.

Ever Forward ship finally freed from Chesapeake Bay Tribune Content Agency BALTIMORE — At long last, the Ever Forward is free. After weeks of tugging, pulling, digging and dumping, the 1,095-foot cargo ship was pried from the muddy clutches of the Chesapeake Bay Sunday morning. Two pulling barges and five mighty tug boats manuevered the massive ship backward and sideways until it was dislodged just before 7 a.m. Salvage crews harnessed the power of a full moon and a spring tide in a third and final push to free the ship that had sat stuck for more than a month. Coast guard officials have still not revealed how the biggest ship to ever be so stuck in the Chesapeake Bay missed a turn and jumped the narrow Craighill Channel, propelling into at least 18 feet of mud and silt the night of March 13. The blunder has created a national spectacle marveled by onlookers and mounted a logistical nightmare for marine engineers. Following weeks of salvage operations, authorities turned to a costly last resort April 9 and began to remove containers from the ship. A crew assigned to two cranes rappelled up and down towering stacks of containers for 12 hours a day, every day, for the past week. Crews continued to offload containers under bright moonlight until 10:30 p.m. Saturday, when pleasant weather turned into a night of fierce winds. Nearly 500 of the 5,000 large metal containers onboard were removed from the Ever Forward and placed onto barges,

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Evergreen Line’s Ever Forward container ship passes under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge after it was freed from mud outside the shipping channel off Pasadena, Maryland. which returned them to the Port of Baltimore. The ship was traveling from Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, when it became wedged in shallow waters and was visible for weeks from the Eastern Shore and Pasadena. Exactly what the Ever Forward is transporting from China isn’t clear, though some items include a New York reporter’s furniture shipped from Hong Kong and 10,000 copies of a Los Angeles author’s recent graphic novel. The ship is owned by Evergreen Marine Corp., the same Taiwanese company that owns the Ever Given, which attracted international attention when it blocked the Suez Canal, a crucial channel for global trade. Maryland law requires that a local, expert pilot join and guide a ship when it is moving in and out of state waters. The Association of Maryland Pilots has not replied to requests to comment, but a Maryland pilot was aboard the ship at the time of the grounding, U.S. Coast Guard officials said. Removing 10% of the

ship’s cargo caused it to refloat by about half a foot, making enough room to reduce friction between its hull and the ground. The Ever Forward was then pulled across a dredged hole and finally into the safety of the channel’s 50-foot depth. Dozens of dredging boats cycled through the bay, digging around the ship, which needs 42 feet of water to safely navigate, and dropping mud at Poplar Island in Talbot County. The powerful Dale Pyatt, the largest clamshell dredge in the Western Hemisphere, was tapped for the excavation for its ability to scoop 60 cubic yards at once. At least 210,000 cubic yards of material were carried to Poplar Island, the size of 64 Olympic-sized swimming pools Still, the Ever Forward did not budge until the month’s highest tide arrived Sunday and resurrected the stalled ship. Once it refloated, the Ever Forward was weighed down again by water tanks to ensure safe passage under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

NEW YORK — Tying an ongoing spike in New York City crime to trends across the country, Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday called for “a national and local approach” to violence. The comments came as the city was still reeling from last Tuesday’s subway rampage in which 10 people were shot. Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell credited a NYPD manhunt and alert to New Yorkers for the Wednesday arrest of suspect Frank James, who called a tip line on himself. “We were kind of closing in around him,” she told ABC’s “This Week” during an interview alongside Adams. “One of the key factors, also, is our force multiplier, which are the eyes and ears of our incredible New Yorkers.” Five people are splitting the $50,000 reward for providing info that led to James’ arrest, officials said Friday. Adams repeated calls for more federal support, noting violence is spiking nationwide. “This is a national issue. This is not a red state-blue state (issue),” he said, going on to cite high murder rates from Mississippi to Oklahoma. He called for double the current number of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives officials in New York City, which he placed at 80. Adams also said authorities should

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N e w Yo r k M a y o r E r i c Adams calls on local and national solutions to combat violence. crack down on so-called ghost guns – weapons people can assemble on their own, with no serial numbers – and implementation of a “real gun tracing program.” Adams, a former NYPD captain, won office last year on a tough-on-crime platform. Still, crime has continued to spike during his first 3 1/2 months on the job – transit crime is up 68% compared with the same time last year, while seven major categories of crime are up 44%, according to NYPD stats. The mayor has brought back the NYPD’s controversial street crime units, and worked with Gov. Kathy Hochul to increase police presence on subways, among other steps. Noting that James apparently posted numerous hate-filled videos online, Adams called on social media companies to show “corporate responsibility.” “When we are watching hate brew online, we can identify, using artificial intelligence and other methods … those who are talking about violence,” he said.

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Prosecutors: 3 killed in Sacramento tied to gangs Tribune Content Agency SACRAMENTO — Three people who were killed in the April 3 downtown Sacramento shootout that left six dead and a dozen others injured were associated with gangs and involved in a conflict that preceded the deadly incident, Sacramento County prosecutors allege. A court filing reviewed by the Sacramento Bee details new information on the timeline of events leading up to the early morning shooting, when an estimated five suspects opened fire down the street from the state Capitol as nightclubs emptied about 2 a.m. Prosecutors said three men killed that night – Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, Devazia Turner and Sergio Harris – were linked to gangs, and that tension was brewing between two rival groups in the minutes before the shooting, the Bee reported Saturday. Officials in the Sacramento County district attorney's office said Sunday that the filing should be made available by Monday. Three suspected shooters named so far include brothers Dandrae and Smiley Martin and Mtula Payton. Dandrae Martin, 26, was booked into Sacramento County Main Jail and charged with being a felon in possession of a gun. Smiley Martin, 27, is hospitalized and recovering from injuries sustained in the shooting. Police are still searching for Payton, 27, who is wanted on multiple felony warrants. According to the 13-page filing, an Instagram video posted before the shooting showed the Martin brothers and Hoye-Lucchesi, 32, posing together with several firearms, the Bee reported. In the clip, "both Joshua Hoye and defendant

Smiley Martin discuss going to downtown Sacramento while armed to loiter outside nightclubs, display gang hand signs to the camera, point firearms at the camera, openly and repeatedly state their allegiance to the Garden Blocc Crips ('GBC') and boast about shooting rival gang members," the filing says. The filing alleges that the three then traveled to Sacramento. Later, surveillance video captured a person in black clothing standing next to Smiley Martin on K Street and, just before 2 a.m., that person "raised their right arm parallel to the ground while pointing northbound on 10th Street in the direction of Mtula Payton and Devazia Turner." Turner, 29, and Payton are allegedly members of the G-Mobb gang. Joined by Harris, a 38-year-old identified as a member of the Del Paso Heights Bloods, Turner and Payton then started moving toward the corner where the Martin brothers and Hoye-Lucchesi were standing. Shortly after, Turner and Smiley Martin allegedly began exchanging gunfire. It's unclear why the two groups of men were fighting. Hoye-Lucchesi, Turner and Harris died in the shootout, along with two women, Johntaya Alexander and Yamile Martinez-Andrade, both 21. Melinda Davis, 57, a homeless woman well known along the downtown corridor, was also killed. The district attorney's office filed the documents on Friday in Sacramento County Superior Court requesting that Smiley Martin be ineligible for bail release after he is booked into jail, alleging "clear and convincing evidence" that he "intended to engage in armed criminal action with an illegal firearm."

Golden Sachs sees US recession odds at 35% in 2 years Tribune Content Agency History suggests that the Federal Reserve will face a difficult task in tightening monetary policy enough to cool inflation without causing a U.S. recession, with the odds of a contraction at about 35% over the next two years, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The Fed’s main challenge is to reduce the gap between jobs and workers, and to slow wage growth to a pace consistent with its 2% inflation goal by tightening financial conditions enough to reduce job openings without sharply raising unemployment, Chief Economist Jan Hatzius wrote in a research

report on Sunday. Achieving a so-called soft landing may be tough, because historically large declines in the gap in the U.S. have only occurred during recessions. “Taken at face value, these historical patterns suggest the Fed faces a hard path to a soft landing,” Hatzius said. Eleven out of 14 tightening cycles in the U.S. since World War II were followed by a recession within two years, but only eight of them can be even partially attributed to Fed tightening – and soft or “softish” landings have been more common more recently, Hatzius said. He projected the odds of a recession in the next 12 months at about 15%.

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Ukraine From Page One shift “in its operational focus.” Officials said Russian shelling on central Kharkiv, the secondlargest city in Ukraine, had killed five people and wounded dozens more. They said two people were killed in an attack on a residential building in the town of Zolote, in the eastern Luhansk region. Ukrainian officials said they had failed to reach a cease-fire agreement with Russia to create an evacuation corridor that would allow civilians to escape fighting in the eastern and southern parts of the country. At the same time, Russia continued striking other parts of the country in what it has described as retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory. Sunday morning brought fresh reports of explosions in Kyiv , and the western city of Lviv. The capital, which was heavily bombarded at the outset of the war, had enjoyed a period of relative calm after Russian forces broke off an offensive in Ukraine’s north at the beginning of this month. Lviv, which has become a western outpost for aid organizations and displaced families fleeing toward Poland, had seen only sporadic attacks. The renewed assaults came after Russia was humiliated by the sinking of its most important warship in the Black Sea. Ukraine

says its forces struck the ship – an assertion backed by U.S. officials – although Russia maintains the ship was not attacked and sunk while being towed to port after suffering a fire. Meanwhile, in the eastern city of Lysychansk, a few miles from the front line with Russian forces and one of the easternmost points of Ukrainian control, a tense calm pervaded as residents went about their morning shopping ahead of Palm Sunday. But in nearby Severodonetsk, workers brought a fresh batch of corpses in body bags to the southern edge of the city, even as a bulldozer dug out a fresh furrow to place in the expanding cemetery. Once workers heaved the bodies into the grave, the bulldozer pushed the displaced earth over them. It was hard and also dangerous work, said Michael Padgaynyi, a white-haired volunteer with a humanitarian organization in town who was sweating in the morning sun. “We’re every day under artillery shelling. Some people from our personnel have been wounded,” he said, pleading for sets of body armor so they could do their grim work with some measure of safety. In the distance, a volley of artillery could be heard. “We’re just waiting for the big offensive from the Russian side,” he added. Moments later, a truck drove up to the cemetery, bringing another group of bodies to be buried. As Christians around the world

celebrated the Easter holiday Sunday, there were calls for peace. Pope Francis, speaking to tens of thousands of worshippers in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, implored world leaders to “hear people’s plea for peace.” “We have seen all too much blood, all too much violence,” he said. President Joe Biden said he was praying on Easter for those living in the “dark shadow” of war. But hopes for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict were fading. Kuleba, speaking to CBS, echoed Zelenskyy in saying that Russia’s siege of Mariupol may be a “red line” in the path of peace talks. Meanwhile, multiple European leaders said it is increasingly apparent that Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to acquiesce anytime soon. “I am beginning to think that those people are right when they say: ‘It is useless to talk to him, it’s just a waste of time,’” Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said in an interview with a local newspaper. Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who met with Putin last week, told NBC that Putin is disconnected from reality. Nehammer said Putin repeats Russian propaganda that Ukraine sparked the war by committing genocide against Russian-speakers in Ukraine’s east and “is now in his own war logic.” Nehammer said one thing is certain. Putin, he said, “believes he is winning the war.

Pittsburgh From Page One seven patients from the incident at Allegheny General Hospital on the North Side and one at Jefferson Hospital in Jefferson Hills. The patients were treated for gunshot wounds and other injuries, but Waite said the hospital wouldn't provide more details – such as ages, exact injuries or the condition of the patients – citing privacy laws and the ongoing police investigation. A UPMC spokeswoman said two patients from the incident were being treated at the health care system’s hospitals but wouldn't say where they were treated or what kind of injuries they had. In a statement Sunday afternoon, Mayor Ed Gainey said the city is "using all available resources" to investigate the shooting. He said some community members have come forward with information for police and urged anyone else who knows anything about it to contact the Major Crimes office at 412-323-7161. "At least 10 gunshot victims, two lives lost, and hundreds of lives forever changed, because we have yet to pass meaningful legislation to lessen the amount of guns in our streets or provide the much-needed resources to communities desperately need," the mayor said. "The time is now for us to move with a sense of urgency to bring justice to the victims and peace to our city.” Gainey noted Sunday's mass shooting comes on the heels of a series of shootings across the city in recent weeks. "We have been working on our approach to address gun violence in our city over the past several weeks," he added. "Now we will be calling a meeting with public safety and key community leaders to introduce our All In Citywide approach to public safety to get their feedback so we can build a path forward together. "It is critical that we come together now to help reduce the violence currently happening while we begin to do the long-term work

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Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert describes the mayhem outside an Airbnb apartment rental along Suismon Street, Sunday. Two people died and nine were injured. of ending the culture of violence people to get in (stretching) to the that is enabling the senseless loss of corner here.” Wilston said police were at life we are experiencing today. We must say no more and never again.” the scene prior to the shooting, City Councilman Bobby Wilson, but the party continued, despite who represents the area where the their presence. incident occurred, said in a state“It was so clearly underage ment that he is working with the kids,” he said. “These kids looked mayor's office and police to investi- like they were 14.” gate the incident. He said he had seen the apart“The mass shooting that ment rented for smaller, more occurred last night at an Airbnb intimate parties before, but he said party in East Deutschtown does not that was normally fine. reflect that neighborhood at all. . . . After speaking to reporters For now, my thoughts go out to the Sunday morning, Wilston took his loved ones of all the victims of this car to be washed after he saw blood shooting,” Wilson said. on the white sedan, presumably left In a tweet Sunday morning, U.S. by a victim running from the scene. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., called the A video circulating on social shooting “just awful.” media appeared to show a party At the scene Sunday morning, attendee shouting, "He's got a a broken window on the second gun!" and urging others to head story of the home was visible, with for the doors. shards of broken glass covering What sounded like a number the street below. From the eastern of rapid gunshots could be side of the building, where a small heard shortly after as attendparking lot meets Turtle Way, another broken window could be ees – packed shoulder to shoulder, seen – with more glass below on many screaming – rushed to exit the home. the concrete. Allegheny County real estate Around 9 a.m., a police crime scene unit returned to the scene records show the property at 900-902 Madison Avenue is owned and scanned the property. A neighbor who lives nearby on by 900 North Group LLC, which Suismon Street described the gath- purchased it in January 2018. Sunday’s shooting was the ering as “chaos,” with cars flooding the street around 11 p.m. and par- fourth in less than 30 hours within tygoers forming a line outside the city limits and the worst mass shooting in Pittsburgh since the apartment as they waited to get in. “It was like a club,” said Mitch- 2018 Tree of Life synagogue masell Wilston, 30. “There was a line of sacre in Squirrel Hill.

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CLEVELAND — With an 8-1 win Sunday against the Guardians, the San Francisco Giants secured their first sweep of the season, won their fifth straight game and improved to 7-2. Here are some takeaways from their red-hot start to the season.

That’s some good pitching With Alex Wood’s five-plus shutout innings Sunday, all but one Giants starter has gotten

two turns through the rotation. Factoring in their bullpen performance, too, it’s hard to imagine much better results. The staff has allowed the fewest runs in baseball and has the lowest ERA of any team. Is it sustainable? Their 2.51 FIP (fielding independent pitching) would seem to indicate so, but it’s worth noting that the 4.5% rate that fly balls allowed are leaving the yard ranks second-lowest in MLB and is about half their rate of last season

(10.9%), which also ranked second-lowest in MLB. Wood’s outing Sunday also gave the Giants their ninth straight start of two or fewer runs allowed, only the second time in modern major league history (since 1901) that a team has started a season with that many consecutive starts without allowing more than two runs. “I think everybody’s really happy with the start we’ve had as a staff,” Wood said. “I think we’ve got some competitive juices flowing and guys want to back up what the guy does the day before. It’s been a lot of fun

so far, so hopefully we’ll keep throwing it well the rest of this road trip.” However, the feat has been accomplished in a different style than baseball has ever seen, really. Wood got the hook in the sixth inning Sunday despite not allowing a run, a side effect of this year’s condensed spring training but also a result of the Giants’ focus on managing their pitchers’ workloads. Wood had allowed only four base runners through five frames but put the first two runners on in the sixth – and had reached

87 pitches – when Kapler came out with the hook. While Logan Webb and Carlos Rodón are making an early case as the best 1-2 punch in the game, combing for 26 innings and allowing only four total runs over each of their first two starts, they are also the only members of the Giants rotation to complete six innings. For comparison, the 2002 Giants, who started their season with eight consecutive starts without allowing more than two runs, had one pitcher go less than six innings during See Giants, Page B8

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Jordan Poole (3) of the Warriors reacts after drawing a foul and scoring a basket against the Nuggets in the second

quarter of Game 1 of their NBA first-round playoff series at Chase Center in San Francisco, Saturday.

The Warriors’ Game 1 win might have been a big warning to NBA Dieter Kurtenbach THE MERCURY NEWS

SAN FRANCISCO — The Warriors’ start to the 2022 playoffs was, in a word, perfection. What else could you call a rollicking 123-107 win over the Denver Nuggets where no fewer than six Golden State players turned in perfect 10 performances? Across, the board, the Dubs exuded greatness on Saturday night to take a 1-0 series lead in their first-round matchup. It was the kind of performance that makes it impossible not to think big when it comes to Golden State’s postsea-

COMMENTARY son chances. Just how far can these Warriors go this spring? If Saturday was a harbinger of what’s to come, they could well make it to the summer. Now, it’s important to note that Denver is a favorable matchup for Golden State. Also, this first-round series is nowhere near over yet. Not by a long shot. The Nuggets are plucky and talented, after all. Plus, we all know it’s never a good idea to get high on one’s own supply. But now that those dis-

claimers have been read, another bit of optimism: We had no idea what to expect from the Warriors team in Game 1. This team entered the postseason with significant questions. It sure seemed like Saturday’s game provided emphatic answers. There’s no question now that Jordan Poole is built for the playoffs. You can’t fake what he did in Game 1. The 22-year-old was, simply put, the best player on the court on Saturday, scoring 30 points with an absurd effective field goal percentage of 88.5. His confidence

and swagger were the Dubs’ North Star early in a contest where Golden State required roughly 20 minutes of game time to compose itself. But compose itself it did. The Dubs’ small-ball lineup of Poole, Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and the integral and effective Andrew Wiggins could not have been more superb when they came into the game for the final four-plus minutes of the second quarter. My goodness was that lineup dangerous. The Pour Four with Green running point? See Warriors, Page B8

Can Oakland A’s fans fall in love with their favorite team again? After an acrimonious eight-month stretch between the public and ownership in which season ticket prices were raised, talks of parallel paths continued, questions about a new waterfront ballpark persisted, and several star players were jettisoned, the A’s are playing their first home game of the season on Monday, hosting the Baltimore Orioles at the Coliseum. And yet, there’s room for optimism. Despite having a handful of new faces on the roster after several high-profile and increasingly expensive players were shipped out of town, the A’s came out of a challenging 10-game road trip in the Eastern Time Zone against three playoff-caliber teams with a 5-5 record. “I couldn’t be happier with the club’s energy, effort level and fight

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Athlete goes from once homeless to star for UCLA track and field Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — The same question haunted Zaylon Thomas when he was a teenager trying to get to high school as a senior preparing for graduation and a promising athlete looking for his next option. What's next? The UCLA sprinter and high jumper is still asking himself that when he has seemingly everything he could want. The sophomore attends his dream school. It's surreal to sit in the stands at Drake Stadium and marvel at a postcardworthy view of UCLA's campus. Yet he remains consumed about envisioning his next steps. Focusing on what's next will keep him away from what once was. See Track, Page B8

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UCLA sophomore track and field athlete Zaylon Thomas, right, greets friend Cam Johnson, left, competing in the 200 meters at the Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational at Drake Stadium in March.

through these 10 days,” manager Mark Kotsay said. “The record may not reflect, right now, how well I feel we played on this road trip.” Behind what’s been a productive offense so far, along with some mostly solid starting pitching, the A’s had a realistic chance to win eight of those 10 games, including Sunday’s 4-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. “We’re a team that’s going to have to grind games out,” said A’s pitcher Paul Blackburn, who has a 1.80 ERA in two starts. “We’re a good team. We’ve got guys here who can play. They might not be the names that everyone around the league is used to, but guys are coming here inspired.” The A’s are the last team in Major League Baseball to have their home opener, and attendance for Monday’s game will likely fall well short of previous ‘Opening Nights’ crowds at the old building.

MINNEAPOLIS — The Wild is officially playoff bound. A 5-4 overtime win against the Sharks on Sunday in front of 19,029 at Xcel Energy Center sealed the team's berth, the 12th in franchise history and ninth over the last 10 years, and in the process the Wild reached 100 points for the fifth time and fourth over the past eight seasons. Kevin Fiala capped off a four-point effort with his 30th goal of the season 1 minute, 5 seconds into overtime. Before then, a deflection by Fiala tied the game 8:54 into the third after San Jose moved ahead on a shorthanded tally from Nick Bonino at 1:37. The Wild was actually up by two goals early in the first period after

shots 1:25 apart from its blue line: Dmitry Kulikov (6:04) and captain Jared Spurgeon (7:29). But the Sharks didn't fade despite toting a season-long nine-game losing streak into action. A Rudolfs Balcers shot went five-hole on Wild goalie Marc-Andre Fleury at 9:38 of the first, and then Matt Nieto scored the equalizer 1:19 into the second off the rush. Matt Boldy pulled the puck out of traffic and wired it by San Jose goalie James Reimer at 6:37 to regain the lead for the Wild, but the Sharks again answered back when Noah Gregor buried a rebound behind Fleury 11:11 into the second. Fiala also assisted on a pair of goals to total 12 points during a sixgame point streak.

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assover this year will mean for many, across the globe, a return to the in-person Seder table for the first time in three years. As remarkable as some Zoom Seders may have been, an extra dose of joy will be in attendance for those getting back to the old ways – even if coronavirus tests play a new part. Passover is, after all, a holiday whose very essence is brought to life when a group of people come together around a table – family, friends, acquaintances bumping elbows as they turn the pages of the Haggadah, lift four glasses of wine, pinky-dot plagues along the rim of a plate and grumble in reverent anticipation of an unleavened meal. For many, it’s also decidedly about the soup. It could be said that Passover is the most important soup holiday in the Jewish and Jew(ish) tradition. Maker of memories generations long, matzoh ball soup signals both the true beginning of the festive meal and the reigniting of discourse on the buoyancy of balls. And given matzoh ball soup is available on secular menus all year long, I happen to think it’s never not a good time to dive into the great debate: sinkers vs. floaters. The crux, I believe (as what kind of eater would I be without an opinion?), is that sinkers are largely problematic, both during the soup course and long after, by way of their maker’s reputation. Oh, there will be naysayers, because out there in this world are people who actually like sinkers. (We worry about them.) My husband’s dear aunt is a maker of sinkers. They are indeed . . . memorable. I recently, delicately, raised the subject of matzoh balls with her. Turns out, she’s unabashed. “I make sinkers! My family loves them!” she exalted. I didn’t tell her I once met the gaze of a guest across her Seder table, finding ourselves in a synchronized struggle to push our spoons into dense spheres at the bottom of our broth. A flash of acknowledgment passed between us: Team Floaters. I’ve come to wonder whether Team Sinkers holds its ground in part because supporting – and cherishing – the efforts of our loved ones, especially when they’re feeding us, is what love is all about. And Aunt Beth’s matzoh balls, those perfect sinkers, are part of a picture I revisit in my head when I think fondly of Seders of yore. My husband was so concerned for his aunt’s feelings, I called her up to tell her I might make mention of her sinkers in the town square. Her response? She doubled down. “I make ’em hard, and I’m proud of it!” I find her total baller confidence a delight.

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Making matzoh balls is not innate; it’s learned through repetition, perhaps some flubs. Practice making these fluffy matzoh balls. Still, I’m steadfast in my belief that consideration can be paid to ensure that neither you nor your guests require any muscle strength or an additional utensil to carve your matzoh balls. If you can’t easily slice through them with the side of a spoon, perhaps it’s time to rethink your method. If for nothing else, there are splash concerns. In the height of soup season, Katz’s Delicatessen, on the Lower East Side of New York City, serves about a thousand floating matzoh balls a day. Owner Jake Dell says, entirely serious, he hopes his customers like his matzoh balls second best. He explains, “The favorite should be your grandma’s or someone you love.” Whether you’re in the outof-the-box camp or you make your mix from scratch (perhaps with seltzer!), look no further than your palms. But if you treat your mix like cookie dough, your balls will repay you by hitting the bottom of your bowls and alienating you from your guests. No one remembers perfect matzoh balls, because they’re not really all that hard to achieve, but if you produce sinkers, well, people will talk. (Maybe even write about them.) Rejoice! You’re fully in charge of the density destiny of your balls. Here’s what to keep in mind: n Set ball goals. Make no mistake, floaters are no stranger to substance. Leah Koenig, author of “The Jewish Cookbook,” likes a floater “with a bit of chew.” She explains, “Feather-light matzoh balls don’t do it for me. The perfect matzoh ball is technically a

floater, in that it floats to the top of the pot when you boil them, but gives a little resistance under the teeth.” Dell describes the Katz’s matzoh ball as a floater, “but dense in your belly.” (I’m going to be thinking about this for a while.) n Embrace the practice. Making matzoh balls is not innate; it’s learned through repetition, perhaps some flubs. Lean in. “I don’t care what other experience you have in this world rolling other things, it’s not the same,” Dell says. Don’t overthink it, just keep making them. Practice will set you free. n You must chill. Never skip the refrigerated downtime for the mix. “You need that for the interaction between the matzoh meal, eggs and fat,” Dell says. This, he adds, is what gives matzoh balls their “floating properties.” But of course. n Keep your hands wet. (And consider removing your rings.) Matzoh ball mix is a wee sticky, so be sure your palms and digits are watered. When forming your balls, keep a bowl of water next to your mix and dip in as needed. n No pressure. To become a Katz’s matzoh ball roller, Dell describes training that reminds me of Mr. Miyagi and something akin to “paint the fence.” Because, according to Dell, hand technique is where it’s at. No squeezing allowed. “It’s how you cup and angle your hands. And it’s not a stress ball. It’s delicate.” Think a bit hot potato. Remember, the only pressure involved should be what you put upon yourself to bring the star of the soup to the table. My mother, who turns 80 next month, distinctly

remembers her brush with sinkers at age 13. Her mother was out of town, so she decided to make matzoh ball soup, for the first time, to surprise her father. The broth was delicious, she recalls, but she forgot to chill the mix, and the result was, you guessed it, “leaden balls.” I can picture the grandfather I know only from photographs sitting at a dining table, eating soup alongside a girl I also know only from photographs, but who would grow up to become my mom. Her dad ate the matzoh balls from the bottom of his bowl and didn’t say a word. And we’re back to love. FLUFFY MATZOH BALLS Active time: 30 minutes | Total time: 30 minutes, plus 2 to 24 hours chilling time 8 to 16 servings (makes about 16 balls) These matzoh balls are exceptionally fluffy and light, thanks to a rest in the refrigerator. Adding schmaltz infuses them with more flavor (if you make your own chicken soup, skim the fat from top of the soup and refrigerate it overnight), but you also can use a neutral oil, such as grapeseed or vegetable (see NOTE if making these for a Jewish holiday other than Passover). Cook these in salted water and then add to bowls of hot soup; cooking the matzoh balls in the soup itself will make the broth cloudy. Make Ahead: The matzoh ball mixture needs to be prepared and chilled at least 2 and up to 24 hours in advance. 1 cup matzoh meal (not matzoh ball mix) 1 ⁄2 cup finely chopped fresh dill or flat-leaf parsley, plus more for garnish 1 teaspoon fine salt, plus more as needed 1 ⁄4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

5 large eggs 1 ⁄3 cup schmaltz or grapeseed or vegetable oil (see NOTE) 1 ⁄4 cup club soda or seltzer In a medium bowl, use a fork to mix together the matzoh meal, dill or parsley, salt and pepper until combined. Using the same fork, incorporate the eggs until well blended. Add the schmaltz or oil, followed by club soda or seltzer, mixing until everything is thoroughly combined. Cover and refrigerate until the mixture is firm and fully hydrated, at least 2 and up to 24 hours. It should be thick and malleable. Bring a large pot of generously salted water to a boil. Using a soup spoon, gently scoop the matzoh mixture into 1-inch balls, setting them on a plate. When all the balls are formed, use your hands to gently, without applying much pressure and compacting the mixture, reroll any misshapen balls. Gently slide the matzoh balls into the boiling water and cook until they float to the top and puff up to about twice their original size, 12 to 15 minutes. Using a slotted spoon or spider, transfer the matzoh balls to a plate and cover to keep warm. When ready to serve, distribute to individual portions of soup, as needed. NOTE: If making matzoh balls for Passover, make sure the cooking oil is labeled kosher-for-Passover. Nutrition information per serving (1 matzoh ball), based on 16 | Calories: 90; Total Fat: 6 g; Saturated Fat: 1 g; Cholesterol: 58 mg; Sodium: 171 mg; Carbohydrates: 6 g; Dietary Fiber: 0 g; Sugar: 0 g; Protein: 3 g This analysis is an estimate based on available ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s or nutritionist’s advice. Recipe from Washington Post assistant recipes editor Olga Massov.

Wondra instant flour a shortcut to better gravy, pie crusts, more A aron Hutcherson THE WASHINGTON POST

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remember a cobalt blue canister of Wondra flour sitting in the pantry of my youth. The packaging, which doesn’t seem to have changed much since (if at all), markets it as a lifesaver for the gravy-challenged. It’s the key to making lump-free sauces – but it can also do so much more. Introduced in the early 1960s, Wondra is the brand name for a type of instant flour that has been steamed and dried – a process called pregelatinization – before being packaged and sold. The process essentially precooks it and results in a super fine powder that easily dissolves in liquids. “I love it,” chef and cookbook author Adrienne Cheatham said when talking about making gravy for smothered chicken. “For singer-ing the pan, [the

French term for sprinkling the pan with flour when building a sauce], I use Wondra every time because you never have to worry about lumps.” What sets instant flour apart from all-purpose is that it disperses easily and can be sprinkled in as-is to a liquid to help thicken it without needing to make a roux, beurre manie or slurry. A canister of Wondra in your pantry will be a godsend the next time you find yourself with a watery gravy that needs be salvaged at the last minute. Beyond sauces, Wondra is great for coating baking pans for easy release. Its fine texture makes it easy to evenly distribute across a pan’s surface in a thin layer, meaning that less flour is added to a recipe, thereby not impacting the outcome. Another result of the pregelatinization process is that the flour’s ability to form gluten is diminished, making it behave

similar to low-protein flours such as cake or pastry flour. This means Wondra can be used to make tender, flaky pie crusts, and it results in crepe batter that doesn’t need to rest, as suggested by Julia Child in her seventh cookbook, “The Way to Cook.” Food writer Allison Robicelli uses it in her angel food cake recipe “that’s ethereally fluffy, no folding or futzing required,” she wrote. However, it’s important to note that it is more expensive than other flours – Wondra is about double the price of cake flour and five times as much as all-purpose – so I wouldn’t recommend it for recipes that require flour in large amounts. Instant flour is also great when cooking animal protein. “Chefs love to use Wondra flour for dusting fish and meat,” food writer David Hagedorn wrote in a recipe for veal piccata. “It aids in even browning and prevents

items from sticking during sauteing, but it doesn’t impart the pastiness that regular all-purpose flour can.” Jacques Pépin calls for Wondra in his recipe for garlic chicken breasts. And the folks behind “Modernist Cuisine” use it in conjunction with potato starch in their recipe for Korean-style chicken wings for a long-lasting crisp. (They also recommend it as a thickener for creamed spinach.) Chef Eric Rivera loves using it to coat “lean and thin fish like petrale sole, or thin sliced fish like a ling cod or halibut,” he said. Since these items cook so quickly, “about 30 to 60 seconds on each side,” the fact that the flour is essentially precooked means there’s no worry about raw flour, even with the short cook time. “It’s great for creating a light, crisp crust on proteins, because it binds the surface liquids really

well with an even coating that you can’t achieve by using raw flour,” Cheatham told BuzzFeed. “The crust is so light that it seems like there’s nothing on the protein at all. You just end up with a beautiful sear!” And when it comes to getting a beautiful sear, Wondra is the secret to great scallops. As former Washington Post deputy food editor Bonnie S. Benwick wrote in 2016: “We’ve been taught never to expose a sea scallop in the skillet to very high heat, lest its tender meat turn rubbery and dry-looking cracks creep up from the bottom edges. The new ‘Poole’s: Recipes and Stories From a Modern Diner’ (Ten Speed Press, September 2016) has forced me to reconsider that position because of the way chef Ashley Christensen puts a dark sear on them. One side only is coated with Wondra flour, which promotes a brown crust.”

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FAIRFIELD — An animated gang of bad creatures decided to reform in order to escape going to prison in “The Bad Guys,” which is coming to local theaters this weekend. Also in local theaters is a tale of revenge with “The Northman,” which is set in Iceland. After a young man loses his father to murder, he sets out to avenge him. Opening nationwide are: “The Bad Guys,” in which notorious criminals Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Shark and Ms. Tarantula are finally caught. They think trying to become upright citizens will help then avoid prison, so they set out on the biggest con yet: to play upstanding citizens. Under the tutelage of their mentor, Professor Marmalade, the dubious gang sets out to fool the world that they’re turning good. The film is rated PG. “The Northman,” in which Prince Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy’s mother (Nicole Kidman). Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who raids Slavic villages. He soon meets a seeress (Björk) who reminds him of his vow – save his mother, kill his uncle, avenge his father. The film is rated R. “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” in which Nicolas Cage plays himself in this much-anticipated film. Feeling creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, the fictionalized version of Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of his biggest fan. Things take a wild turn and Cage is forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his

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ehold, the monito del monte. Weighing in at less than 2 ounces, this small opossum has been around since dinosaurs roamed the Earth. A resident of Chile and Argentina, the monito del monte is the only surviving species of the order Microbiotheria. And thanks to its extremely messy eating habits, it helps spread the seeds of more than 20 plant species in the forests of Chile and Argentina. The monito is also one of the many animals getting their extreme close-up in “Our Great National Parks,” a new Netflix series devoted to the eye-popping, heart-stopping, consciousness-raising wonders of the world’s most astounding national parks. Arriving just in time for Earth Day on April 22, the five-episode series focuses on just a handful of the world’s more than 4,000 national parks. The series – which was executive produced and narrated by former President Barack Obama – travels from the lush rain forests of Indonesia’s Gunung Leuser National Park to the coves and beaches of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, with stops in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park and Chilean Patagonia. Its cameras catch the nighttime moves of black rhinos gathering at a Kenyan waterhole, Chilean stag beetles locking jaws in a battle for a mate, and the first-ever footage of a 2-month old orca taking part in the hunt of gray whale calf. But whether it is going for gasps, laughs or goosebumps, “Our Great National Parks” has one message for the humans at home: We are not entirely doomed. Not yet. Like any responsible nature series, “Our Great National Parks” cannot talk about the

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wonders of the natural world without acknowledging the many ways in which that world is under siege. No one here is pretending that climate change, habitat loss and pollution do not exist. But in the world’s national parks, endangered animal and plant populations are coming back, farmlands are being returned to the wild, and there are amazing views of the stars where light pollution used to be. In the national parks, hope abounds. And this series wants you to revel in it. The first episode, “A World of Wonder,” is the only one that features multiple parks. As it hops from the Loango National Park on Africa’s west coast to Japan’s Yakushima National Park and beyond, “A World of Wonder” acts as a grand introduction to the world’s breathtaking preserves and sanctuaries and the creatures that are thriving there. There are Loango’s surfing hippos, which are captured in all of their buoyant glory in some stunning drone footage. In Costa Rica’s Manuel Antonio National Park, the three-fingered sloth plays oblivious host to the micro-kingdom of 80-plus fungi species living in its thick, perpetually damp fur. And in a sequence that is both stressful and astonishing, a group of endangered Von der Decken’s sifakas (a type of lemur) traverse the jagged limestone pinnacles of Madagascar’s Tsingy de Bemaraha. Hats off to the intrepid humans who filmed this feat of nature. This first installment also sets the tone and template for the series. Although the filmmakers worked closely with scientists, conservationists, local guides and other experts, there are no on-camera interviews with any of them. There is no graphic footage of animals in peril. Even when one animal hunts and kills another, the deaths are not overly bloody. Climate change and other threats are

acknowledged but not dwelled upon. Instead, the series gives you cleverly constructed, anthropomorphized vignettes of animals meeting the extraordinary challenges of eating, mating and child-rearing in places that range from the paradisal to the perilous. All of these vignettes are narrated in a friendly, but passionate way by the 44th president of the United States, who does not have to push too hard to get you invested the stories he wants to tell. Over the five episodes, you will see a young puma attempt to take down a guanaco (a relative of the llama) that is almost triple her weight; humpback whales gorging on swarms of anchovies on Monterey Bay; a young Andean condor learning to fly; and the aforementioned monito del monte, returning to the communal nest after a night of saving the forest. The narration occasionally ambles into Dad-joke territory, and some of the scenes are a little over-scripted. (Seagull reaction shot, anyone?) But it is a very small price to pay for such a life-affirming, wonderreviving look at the world around us. And throughout, “Our Great National Parks” reminds viewers of the conservation strides that have been made since Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872. Today, around 15% of the world’s lands and 8% of our oceans have been protected through parks and reserves. In Monterey Bay, nature thrives in one our most populous states. Ecotoursim is bringing millions of dollars into Patagonia. There is a mountain gorilla baby boom in Rwanda. As poet Emily Dickinson said, “ ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers.” In “Our Great National Parks,” hope also has fur, scales, gills and claws. Good thing, too. It’s a climate jungle out there, and the world needs all the help it can get.

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as is nearly six bucks a gallon. Groceries are 8% higher than last year. Dollar stores: now dollar-and-a-quarter stores. But a giant, 23-ounce can of AriZona iced tea still costs 99 cents, the same price it has been since it hit the market 30 years ago. Today, that’s cheaper than most bottled water, 20-ounce sodas, iced teas and canned coffees on the market. If you could fill your car up with cans of AriZona Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey, it would be cheaper than L.A. gas by nearly 40 cents a gallon. How does AriZona pull this off while everything else goes up? The price of aluminum has doubled in the last 18 months. The price of high fructose corn syrup has tripled since 2000. Gas prices are pumping up delivery costs. One 1992 dollar, adjusted for inflation, is worth two 2022 dollars. But the 99-cent Big AZ Can, as the company calls it, persists. The short answer: the company is making less money. The big cans are still profitable, but for the moment, they’re much less so than a few years ago. Don Vultaggio, the 70-yearold, 6-foot-8 founder and chairman of the company, is choosing to take a haircut in order to keep the price flat and cans moving. “I’m committed to that 99 cent price – when things go against you, you tighten your belt,” Vultaggio said on a Zoom call in early April from his headquarters on Long Island, N.Y. Even though his costs are higher, “I don’t want to do what the bread guys and the gas guys and everybody else are doing,” Vultaggio said. “Consumers don’t need another price increase from a guy like me.” He has the power to make a call like that because AriZona is one of the few independent private companies remaining in the consolidated world of nonalcoholic packaged beverages, a market dominated by PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, and Keurig Dr Pepper, which owns Snapple. Vultaggio, a Brooklyn native with the accent to prove it, got the idea for the tea company when he was running his route as a beer distributor in Manhattan. He noticed that people were drinking Snapple, even though it was freezing outside. He decided to get into the iced tea business then and there. Today, he co-owns the company in its entirety with his sons, Spencer and Wesley, who serve as chief marketing officer and chief creative officer, respectively, and joined him on the call. Forbes puts their combined net worth at over $4 billion, all from AriZona, placing them among the thousand richest people in the world. The company sells about 1 billion 99-cent cans each year, Vultaggio said, which makes up about 25% of its total revenue. Its fruit drinks, energy drinks, bottled teas, snacks, hard seltzer, and other offerings move less volume, but have higher prices and higher margins. When Vultaggio started out, Snapple also charged 99 cents for its signature 16-ounce glass bottles. AriZona was cheaper, but only because it contained 50% more tea per can. Now, a Snapple’s $1.79. An 18.5-ounce container of Gold Peak, Coke’s brand, costs $1.99. Pure Leaf, the upscale Pepsi-Lipton label, goes for $2.09. AriZona products commanded nearly 16% of the ready-to-drink tea market in the U.S. by volume in 2020, second only to PepsiCo’s slate of Lipton, Pure Leaf, and Brisk. That amounts to 255 million gallons of AriZona iced tea sold, according to data from Beverage

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Amid rampant inflation, Arizona Beverage Company is choosing to take a haircut in order to keep the price flat and cans moving. Marketing Corp. – enough to fill Echo Park Lake 10 times over. Vultaggio’s calculation is that raising prices and losing customers in the process just isn’t worth the short-term profit. “Your company has to deal with cost increases, but your customers have to deal with cost increases too,” Vultaggio said. “And if you break their back, nobody wins.” AriZona’s 30-year run at 99 cents is exceptional, but the record for longest-holding beverage price still goes to Coca-Cola, which held the cost of a 6.5-ounce bottle at five cents for more than 70 years, from 1886 to 1959. The Nickel Coke phenomenon developed in a different retail era, and grew out of a series of accidents: first, Coca-Cola agreed to sell its syrup to bottlers at a fixed price in perpetuity, thinking bottling was just a fad. Then, when the company managed to renegotiate, there was so much five-cent price advertising and so many vending machines that only accepted nickels that it took another couple of decades before Coca-Cola could break the nickel’s spell. The end result, however, was a world-spanning soft drink empire geared toward volume, not margins. More generally, economists have shown that prices that end with a 9 are more resistant to change across the market, even when inflation is raging. Haipeng (Allan) Chen, a professor of marketing at the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics, studied what happened to prices in Israel during a period of runaway inflation

in the 1980s. “If you look at these 9s, they’re much more rigid,” Chen said, as retailers resist edging up by one or two cents and losing the supposed psychological benefit of that final 9. But when they do jump, they jump big – 10 cents, to land on another nine, or even further. Surprisingly, this affinity for 9s holds even in online shopping, in which digital payments don’t require exact change. Vultaggio has his own explanation for the 99-cent appeal. “It’s been like that since cavemen, the 99-cent price point was exciting then, and it’s exciting today,” Vultaggio said. “Something under a dollar is attractive,” and knowing exactly how much more a drink is going to add to your lunch offers a sense of security. “I started out as a blue collar guy, and budgeting your finances on a daily basis was a part of life.” Another dynamic is likely in play with AriZona’s sticky price: a sense of trust. “It’s like a pricematching guarantee,” Chen said, “it says: trust me, I’ll take care of you, I’m not charging a horrendous price.” AriZona has been committed to 99 cents since 1996, when it started printing the price directly on cans to stop retailers from raising prices on their own. But it’s tough to run a profitable business with a fixed price. AriZona has used scale, technology and constant tweaks to the business to keep costs down and revenues rising over the past 30 years. Some of the key changes, Vultaggio said: back in the day,

only one factory made the huge cans – now, there are multiple suppliers competing on price, and can technology has changed to reduce the amount of aluminum in each by 40%. The company has streamlined operations, using its own factory in

AriZona’s 30-year run at 99 cents is exceptional, but the record for longestholding beverage price still goes to Coca-Cola, which held the cost of a 6.5-ounce bottle at five cents for more than 70 years, from 1886 to 1959. New Jersey, which can churn out 1,500 cans per minute, for much of its product. Company trucks mostly make deliveries in the middle of the night to avoid traffic. But the economics right now are brutal. The company charges wholesale distributors a little more than $12 per 24-can case, or 50 cents a can (AriZona declined to share how much it charges retailers it distributes to directly, but distributors charge about 70 cents per can to their customers). With just that stack of pennies to work with, every cent counts. The cost of aluminum has doubled in the last 18 months, from about $1,750 per metric ton to nearly $3,250 today. Shipping, taxes, and other expenses for aluminum ingots up the price again – and those premiums increased from about $420 per ton in April 2019 to more than $880 today. With about 23 grams of aluminum per Big AZ Can, that

means the price of metal alone has gone from nearly 5 cents up to 9.5 cents a pop – when you’re selling a billion cans a year, that’s $45 million down the tubes. The Vultaggios declined to break down exactly how much their costs have risen per can. They did say that the company typically hedged aluminum prices to offset costs, but those hedges expired. Now, it’s exposed to the full brunt of the global commodity price. The prices of tea, water, high fructose corn syrup, honey, citric acid, and flavorings have remained fairly flat in recent years, but over the long term the pressure has grown. High fructose corn syrup has risen from around 15 cents per pound at the turn of the century to more than 45 cents today, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, amounting to something like a 3-cent cost increase per can in the last 20 years. That small change, times a billion, equals an additional $30 million eaten away. One of AriZona’s largest cost savings isn’t in the can or the corn syrup, however: it’s in the marketing. “Most brands in America today believe they have to go out and have a Super Bowl commercial or do traditional advertising,” Vultaggio said. “When we first started, I didn’t have the money for that – so each can had to be like a billboard. That’s why I chose the big can. It stood tall.” The eye-melting color combinations on the labels were designed with the same goal in mind. To this day, the company has kept its marketing budget to a minimum and its entire operation lean, with only about 350 people on staff at its headquarters and 1,500 companywide. The brand name itself, and the pastel Southwest color scheme, were inspired by the aesthetics of Don’s wife, Ilene, who had already redone their home in a seaside New York City neighborhood in fauxadobe style by the time Don started the company. “The name Arizona came to me because Arizona, when I was a kid was, it was dry. It was healthy. You had asthma, you moved to Arizona,” Vultaggio said. Ilene came up with the capital Z in the middle of the name. “Then it became comfortable to customers, because they’d heard of Arizona, so we got that kind of glow.” Vultaggio didn’t make it to the Grand Canyon State himself until 1995 or so, but noted that he thinks the iced tea’s success has helped the state’s brand, at this point. And the company has seen both the good and bad of its strong 99-cent brand play out in recent years. On the one hand, its low-cost and neverchanging branding has turned it into a recognizable icon – the company can sell bucket hats and hoodies emblazoned with its can designs, Adidas has made an AriZona shoe, and for a whole month in 2019, celebrity chef Danny Bowien, of Mission Chinese food, turned his Brooklyn restaurant into an AriZona zone, with green tea and grapeade dishes and “Great Buy! 99¢” signage. But when photos of its Canadian cans – which sell for $1.29 Canadian – make the rounds online, people tend to freak. A tweet that said, “If this world is coming, I don’t want to live in it,” with a photo of a $1.29 Canadian can, went viral in 2021. The company had to take to Twitter to reassure its customers, explaining the concept of exchange rates. “Don’t worry fam,” the iced tea company wrote. “We still got you.”

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LOCATED AT 321 Texas St Ste 108, Fairfield, CA 94533 Solano. Mailing Address 1012 Warren St, Fairfield, CA 94533. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Brandon Lopez 1012 Warren St 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 03/14/2022. 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/ Brandon Lopez 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 March 21, 2027. 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: March 22, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000510 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00053867 Published: March 28, April 4, 11, 18, 2022

LOCATED AT 4950 Fulton Drive, Unit E Fairfield, CA 94535. Mailing Address 4950 Fulton Drive, Unit E Fairfield, CA 94535. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Longares Global Operations, Inc. CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Corporation 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/ Joel A. Longares, Jr (Exec. Vice President/Secretary) 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 March 29, 2027. 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: March 30, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000553 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00054387 Published: April 18, 25, May 2, 9, 2022

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE INVITING QUALIFICATIONS AND PROPOSALS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, acting by and through its Board of Education, hereinafter referred to as the District will receive sealed proposals from qualified Bidders, up to, but no later than May 19, 2022, 1:00 p.m. local time and will not be opened publicly, for the award of contracts for the following: RFQ/P #2139-22 Special Education Coaching and Professional Development Interested Bidders are referred to the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Purchasing Department website, https://www.fsusd.org/Page/15594, for all communication, instructions, and forms. The RFQ/P packet will be posted by 4:00 p.m. on April 19, 2022. All questions regarding this RFQ/P will be accepted until 4:00 pm on April 28, 2022 and must be submitted in email to: Melissa Iriarte at melissair@fsusd.org – using the subject line of “RFQ/P #2139-22 Questions”. It is the responsibility of the Bidder to check the website for addenda and/or updates. Proposals are due at the Purchasing Office for time and date stamping on or before 1:00 p.m. local time on May 19, 2022. One original and one electronic version (usb drive) response must be submitted in a sealed, clearly marked envelope. All proposals must be received and time and date stamped in the Purchasing office by the above due date and time. Proposals received after the due date and time will be returned unopened to the Bidder. No exceptions. Faxed or emailed proposals will not be accepted. All proposals must conform and be responsive to this RFQ/P, and all necessary documents must be enclosed. Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, to waive any informalities or irregularities therein, and to accept the proposal in whole, or portions of the proposal that, in the opinion of the District, is in the best interest of the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District. No Bidder may withdraw their proposal for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the opening. Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District reserves the right, in its sole discretion and subject to applicable laws, to determine the criteria and process whereby proposals are evaluated and awarded. DR#00054261 Published: April 18, 25, 2022 FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE INVITING BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the GOVERNING BOARD OF THE FAIRFIELDSUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, OF THE COUNTY OF SOLANO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, will receive up to, but not later than, May 17, 2022 at 1:00 pm local time that will not be opened publicly, at the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, Purchasing Department at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, CA 94534, bids for the following Project: Bid #2143-22 Custodial Supplies Interested Bidders are referred to the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District website https://www.fsusd.org/Page/15594, for details, instructions, bid forms, and addenda. It is the responsibility of the bidder to visit the website for all addenda, communication, deadlines, and/or updates. All questions regarding this Bid are due on or before 4:00 p.m. on April 28, 2022 via email to: Melissa Iriarte at melissair@fsusd.org the subject line of “BID #2143-22 Questions/RFI”. Only questions submitted through this process will be accepted. Each bid shall be made on forms prepared by the District in the Contract Documents. Bid packets will be available on April 19, 2022 by 4:00 pm which can be accessed on the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District/Purchasing website at https://www.fsusd.org/Page/15594. Bids shall be delivered and addressed to the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, Attention: Melissa Iriarte, Director of Purchasing & Contract Services, 3rd floor, 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield CA 94534, and shall be labeled “Bid #2143-22 Custodial Supplies”, due no later than May 17, 2022 on or before 1:00 p.m., local time. Bids will not be considered unless they are received by the proper time. No oral, telegraphic, electronic, facsimile, or telephonic bids or modifications will be considered. It is the responsibility of the Bidder to see that any bid submitted shall have sufficient time to be received by the Purchasing Office before the Bid Submittal Deadline. Bids received after the deadline will be returned unopened. Bids must bear original signatures and figures. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the opening for bids except as provided pursuant to Public Contract Code section 5100, et seq. The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any informalities or irregularities in the bidding. DR#00054331 Published: April 18, 25, 2022

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS BOMMARITO REAL ESTATE LOCATD AT 4266 Stonefield Lane, Fairfield CA 94534 Solano. Mailing Address 4266 Stonefield Lane, Fairfield CA 94534. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNERS) Christopher Bommarito 4266 Stonefield Lane Fairfield, 94534. 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/ Christopher Bommarito 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 March 21, 2027. 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: March 22, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000512 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00053863 Published: March 28, April 4,11, 18, 2022 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: HAZEL LOUISE COX Case Number: FPR051297 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Hazel Louise Cox A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Pedro C. Cox Herrera in the Superior Court of California, County of: SOLANO The Petition for Probate requests that: Pedro C. Cox Herrera be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: MAY 9, 2022 TIME: 8:30 a.m.; DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO 600 Union Avenue PO Caller 5000 Fairfield, CA 94533 Probate/Estate If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative ap- pointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: David W. Knight, ESQ. (SBN 195105) Law Offices of David W. Knight 2300 Boynton Avenue, Suite 104 Fairfield, CA 94533 707-422-5411 DR#00054349 Published: April 15, 18, 22, 2022

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Monday’s TV sports Baseball MLB •San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, NBCSBA, 4 p.m. •Baltimore at Oakland, NBCSCA, 6:40 p.m.

NBA Playoffs Saturday’s Games Utah 99, Dallas 93 Minnesota 130, Memphis 117 Philadelphia 131, Toronto 111 GOLDEN STATE 123, Denver 107 Sunday’s Games Miami 115, Atlanta 91 Boston 115, Brooklyn 114 Milwaukee 93, Chicago 86 New Orleans at Phoenix, Late Monday’s Games Toronto at Philadelphia, 4:30 p.m. Utah at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Denver at GOLDEN STATE, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Miami, 4:30 p.m. Minnesota at Memphis, 5:30 p.m. New Orleans at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Basketball NBA Playoffs •Toronto at Philadelphia, TNT, 4:30 p.m. •Denver at Golden State, TNT, 7 p.m. Golf PGA Tour •Professional Championship, second round, GOLF, Noon Celebrity •Skills Challenge, GOLF, 4 p.m.

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Running •Boston Marathon, USA, 5:30 a.m.

NHL

Tuesday’s TV sports

EASTERN CONFERENCE Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Carolina 76 48 20 8 104 251 187 x-N.Y. Rangers 76 49 31 6 104 235 191 x-Pittsburgh 77 43 23 11 97 254 215 Washington 75 42 23 10 94 260 223 N.Y. Islanders 75 35 31 9 79 208 210 Columbus 75 35 34 6 76 241 276 New Jersey 75 26 42 7 59 231 278 Philadelphia 76 23 42 11 57 196 278 Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Florida 75 54 15 6 114 317 218 x-Toronto 76 50 20 6 106 295 235

Baseball MLB •San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, NBCSBA, 4 p.m. •Atlanta at Los Angeles, TBS, 7 p.m. •Baltimore at Oakland, NBCSCA+, 6:40 p.m. Basketball NBA Playoffs Toronto at Philadelphia, TNT, 4:30 p.m. •Utah at Dallas, NBA, 5:30 p.m. •Denver at Golden State, TNT, 7 p.m.

75 46 21 8 100 250 212 75 46 24 5 97 233 203 78 29 38 11 69 219 278 76 29 36 10 68 214 291 75 28 40 7 63 204 244 76 20 45 11 51 197 295 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Colorado 75 55 14 6 116 294 206 x-St. Louis 76 46 20 10 102 288 219 Minnesota 75 47 21 7 101 281 235 Dallas 75 43 27 5 91 219 221 Nashville 76 43 28 5 91 244 225 Winnipeg 76 35 30 11 81 235 245 Chicago 75 25 39 11 61 202 268 Arizona 75 22 48 5 49 183 287 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Calgary 75 46 20 9 101 268 188 Edmonton 76 44 26 6 94 264 235 Los Angeles 77 40 27 10 90 222 226 Vegas 76 41 30 5 87 244 226 Vancouver 75 37 28 10 84 224 211 Anaheim 76 29 33 14 72 213 249 SAN JOSE 75 29 34 12 70 195 241 Seattle 74 24 44 6 54 193 258 x-clinched playoff berth NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Sunday’s Games Minnesota 5, SAN JOSE 4 Florida 6, Detroit 1 Buffalo 5, Philadelphia 3 St. Louis Blues 8, Nashville 3 Toronto 4, N.Y. Islanders 2 Columbus at Anaheim, Late Monday’s Games Calgary at Chicago, 5 p.m. Washington at Colorado, 6 p.m. Ottawa at Seattle, 7 p.m. Carolina at Arizona, 7 p.m. New Jersey at Vegas, 7 p.m. Dallas at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Columbus at SAN JOSE, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Toronto, 4 p.m. Minnesota at Montreal, 4 p.m. Detroit at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m. Winnipeg at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 4:30 p.m. Calgary at Nashville, 5 p.m. Boston at St. Louis, 5 p.m. Ottawa at Vancouver, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

Soccer DFL •SC Freiburg vs. Hamburger SV, ESPN2, 11:30 a.m. EPL •Manchester United vs. Liverpool, USA, Noon Wrestling WWE NXT Smackdown, USA, 8 p.m.

Denver stands no chance of defending it. I’m not sure there’s a team in the NBA that can. Saturday’s was the kind of performance from a lineup that you can’t help but extrapolate past this round, the next, and who knows, even the Western Conference Finals, too. Alongside Poole creating his own gravity and Wiggins perfectly inhabiting the old Harrison Barnes role on both sides of the court, Steph, Klay and Dray were magic in Game 1. Yes, the veteran triumvirate might have only played 11 minutes together since the 2019 NBA Finals, but you don’t win 77 playoff games together without some chemistry. So despite Curry only playing 22 minutes in his first game since injuring his left foot one month ago, the Dubs’ big three made it clear that they are, together, still operating on a different level than anyone else in the league. Green was a force on both ends. His defense on possible back-to-back MVP Nikola Jokic was

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Giants third baseman Wilmer Flores congratulates teammate Thairo Estrada on his two-run homer in the second inning in Cleveland, Sunday. incredible – the Nuggets big man shot 3-of-12 from the floor with Green as his primary defender, per ESPN. His screens, particularly in the final minutes of the first half, where the Warriors’ aforementioned smallball lineup first formed, created open look after open look. Green’s passing was prodigious, too. He had 9 assists on 14 possible assists. He even knocked down a 3-pointer of his own. When Green turns in a perfect 10-rated game like Saturday’s, he controls the contest. It’s not obvious, but it’s nevertheless evident. And no one is beating the Warriors when Green is on that level. Thompson turned in a 10-of-10 performance as well. Space was provided and it was exploited. Was it a terribly prolific game from Thompson? No. But his impact on the game felt larger than his boxscore numbers. Curry didn’t have a 10-of-10 game, but he did find his stroke late. After missing a month, it only took him about 15 minutes to find his game. Let’s also take a moment here to acknowledge the perfect-10 game from Wiggins, who had nine rebounds and had 16 points.

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From Page One their streak. “I choose to enjoy that stat,” manager Gabe Kapler said. “We’re aware our starters are pitching well. We expected it to be a strength of our club. They just come out and fill up the strike zone. It’s exactly what we’re asking to do. All of them have left the games giving our bullpen a chance to win games for us. From the standpoint of one of the strengths of our club coming out of spring training, I think it’s been solidified since the season began.

Bats heat up The Giants and Guardians had gone 15 matchups without either team scoring more than five runs, the longest active streak of its kind in the majors, until Thairo Estrada raced home from second base in the fifth inning to extend the Giants’ lead to 6-0. Estrada played a role in all of the Giants’ first six runs, smacking his second home run of the season into the left field seats in the second inning, forcing a bad throw on a potential double-play

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ball that led to two more runs in the fourth, and doubling home Joc Pederson and then scoring on a single by Steven Duggar in the sixth. “We see Estrada as a pretty complete player,” Kapler said. “He’s a heads-up base runner with pretty top-end quality sprint speed and the ability to drive the baseball. Sometimes he drives it on the ground for several days in a row and you’re waiting for that big one, but not many people were able to leave the yard to left field during this series – and a lot of balls were hit out there – and Estrada’s got out.” Just before Estrada’s home run, Wilmer Flores gave a ball a ride in the same direction. It left the bat harder than Estrada’s hit and traveled 14 feet further, according to Statcast, but only provided Estrada one more run to knock in when he came to the plate. When they returned to the dugout, Flores had a playful question for Estrada. “He basically asked me, what is it that you’re doing? What are you doing?” Estrada said through Spanish language translator Erwin Higeruos. “I just said, ‘Hey, I just put the ball where there’s a home run.’”

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Pct .600 .556 .500 .500 .333

GB — ½ 1 1 2½

Pct .667 .444 .444 .375 .333

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Pct .556 .556 .500 .500 .222

GB — ½ 1 1 3½

National League East Division W L Pct 7 3 .700 5 6 .455 4 5 .444 4 6 .400 4 7 .364 Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 5 3 .625 Chicago Cubs 5 4 .556 Pittsburgh 5 4 .556 Milwaukee 5 5 .500 Cincinnati 2 8 .200 West Division W L Pct L.A. Dodgers 7 2 .778 SAN FRANCISCO 7 2 .778 Colorado 6 3 .667 San Diego 6 5 .545 Arizona 3 6 .333 Saturday’s Games OAKLAND 7, Toronto 5 SAN FRANCISCO 4, Cleveland 2 Arizona 3, N.Y. Mets 2 N.Y. Mets Atlanta Miami Philadelphia Washington

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Hockey NHL •Los Angeles at Anaheim, ESPN, 7 p.m. •Columbus at San Jose, NBCSCA, 7 p.m.

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East Division W L 6 4 5 4 5 5 5 5 3 6 Central Division W L Chicago White Sox 6 3 Cleveland 4 5 Detroit 4 5 Kansas City 3 5 Minnesota 3 6 West Division W L L.A. Angels 6 4 Houston 5 4 OAKLAND 5 5 Seattle 5 5 Texas 2 7 Toronto Boston N.Y. Yankees Tampa Bay Baltimore

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Golf European Tour •Asian Stableford Challenge, GOLF, 8 a.m. PGA Tour •Professional Championship, third round, GOLF, noon

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Davis 69|52 Dixon Santa Rosa 68|53 63|47 Vacaville Napa 68|54 65|48 Fairfield/Suisun City 67|52 Vallejo Benicia 58|56 Rio Vista 66|52 70|53 Concord | 69 50 Richmond 64|52 Walnut Creek 69|51 Oakland 66|52 San Francisco 65|52 San Mateo 67|51 Palo Alto 69|51

San Jose 72|50

Thomas battled homelessness starting in eighth grade, crisscrossing the country with mother Wanda McKinney. Living in three states in five years, Thomas doubted whether he would graduate from high school. Now he's dreaming of leaving his mark at UCLA. Despite almost no formal training in high school, Thomas now competes in the 200meter and 400-meter races, 400-meter relay, high jump and long jump. In January, he helped UCLA's 1,600-meter relay team produce the fourth-fastest time in school history with a time of 3 minutes, 9.65 seconds at the New Mexico Team Open. Thomas opened the outdoor season on March 26, running the 200 at the Rafer Johnson/ Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational. McKinney, flanked by her father William, Thomas' older brother Xarius and his cousin Sheaun, threw her arms in the air when Thomas crossed the finish line with a heat-winning time of 22.32 seconds. It was the first time she got to watch him compete in college. "It was quite the journey," McKinney said. The relocations started when McKinney lost her job. The bills piled up. The electricity got cut off. They couldn't stay in their Sacramento home anymore. McKinney tried to start over in Maryland, where she hoped to start a business with friends. When that failed to take off, McKinney sent her son back to California to live with his grandparents for a year. But he missed his mother and asked to be with her. Thomas is a mama's boy, McKinney said. They found refuge in homeless shelters, hotels and friends' houses. They occasionally lived out of their vehicle, braving cold Maryland nights, showering in public gyms and selling almost every item they had. Sometimes, they still didn't have enough money to buy a gallon of gas. Through daily challenges, the bond between mother and son was consistent. When they had little else, having each other was enough. His mom is "the best person in the world to me," Thomas said. "[She] was just always trying to figure out the next step, even though we didn't know what the next step would be," Thomas said. "[She] would always try to figure out in little incre-

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ments: this is how you're going to get to school and then after school, this is how we're going to do it, this is how we plan things. It was just like finding out minor steps to make major impact on something." Thomas' raw athletic ability helped him excel in any sport he tried, but without structure he lacked confidence, said McKinney, who is on track to open a counseling facility this year. He dabbled in basketball and football, Thomas' first love, but didn't start track until his senior year of high school when he and his mother relocated to Nevada. Track coaches at Las Vegas Centennial High knew Thomas was a gifted athlete and tried to get the basketball prospect to give running a try. He didn't listen until he realized kids on the track team were getting college scholarship offers. It could be his way out. Two months after starting from scratch, Thomas won the Nevada Class 4A state championship in the high jump, clearing 6 feet, 5 inches in the state final. He was an explosive sprinter — though he gave up the 100-meter dash after he slipped out of the blocks during his first meet — and had a personal best of 48.77 seconds at 400 meters. Thomas' performances in the quarter-mile race caught the eye of UCLA assistant Curtis Allen. He was recruiting at a meet in New Mexico when he watched Thomas go from sitting on the sideline on a cold day to running the 400 less than 15 minutes later, a nearly unheardof feat for a race that usually requires ample warmup time. Allen knew the kid had talent but he wasn't sure if he had the grades. When Thomas introduced himself and sent Allen his transcripts, the UCLA coach noted passing grades in classes like biology with failing marks in gym. He asked about the disconnect. Each year in school was like a restart, Thomas told Allen, meeting new people in a new school with new teachers as he and his mom moved from state to state. Getting to school proved challenging some days. He had four outfits and three pairs of shoes for an entire school year, trying to mix and match combinations as best he could so his classmates wouldn't catch on. "It was hard to get to school sometimes and then when I was at school, it was hard to focus because I didn't have much," Thomas said.