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Divers search for Winters teen after crash near Lake Solano Daily Republic Staff

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LAKE SOLANO — Divers were searching for an 18-year-old Winters man Sunday who was missing since shortly after midnight after the vehicle he was in crashed in the area of Lake Solano Park and sank. Rescue personnel were not able to find Eduardo Fierros overnight and resumed the search Sunday morning, the Solano County Sheriff’s Office reports. Deputies responded to a call just after midnight Sunday to an area near the east end of Lake Solano County Park and Putah Creek Road, west of Canal Lane. Deputies who arrived there found a red truck fully submerged and found an 18-year-old man clinging to the shoreline. Deputies assisted the man and called for medical aid. The man told deputies his friend, Fierros, was still in the truck, the Sheriff’s Office reports. Vacaville Fire Protection District firefighters trained in swift water rescue attempted to access the truck but were not able to get to it. The Solano County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team was called out while deputies searched the shoreline. The truck was later recovered from the water and was unoccupied, the Sheriff’s Office reports. Solano County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue personnel with assistance from the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office and the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office searched for Fierros throughout the day Sunday. The Sheriff’s Office at 12:20 p.m. announced the closure of Putah Creek Road from Pleasants Valley Road to Canal Road to facilitate the search. No further updates were provided prior to press deadline at 7 p.m. Sunday. The California Highway Patrol is conducting the crash investigation.

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Ukrainian troops move by tank on a road of the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, June 21.

Russia claims to have captured city of Lysychansk Ukraine denies claim Tribune Content Agency MOSCOW — Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu declared on Sunday that Russian forces had captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, but Kyiv rebutted the claim. Shoigu told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the city had fallen, granting Moscow full control of the Luhansk region, according to the Interfax news agency. But Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesperson Yuriy Sak said Lysychansk was not under the “full control” of Russian forces, in comments to the British public broadcaster BBC. The situation in the city has been “very intense for quite a while now,” he told the broadcaster, adding that Russian ground forces were attacking “non-stop.” Sak noted that Ukrainian forces may at times temporarily retreat from certain areas to protect people’s lives, but then retake them again later. Control of the eastern Donbass region – consisting of Luhansk and Donetsk – has been one of the stated goals of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Donbass would not be entirely lost, however, even if Russia captured all of Luhansk, the Ukrainian ministry spokesperson said, noting that other large towns in Donetsk remained under Kyiv’s control. “These are cities that for the last couple of days (have been) targets of severe missile attacks, artillery shelling,” he told the BBC, “but the battle for the Donbass is not over yet.” See Ukraine, Page A7 INDEX Arts B4 | Business B2 | Classifieds B6 Comics A5, B5 | Crossword A4, B4 | Food B3 Opinion A6 | Sports B1 | TV Daily A5, B5

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A boat navigates Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, June 11, 2021.

Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California and its social fabric Hayley Smith

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LOS ANGELES — Unprecedented dryness across the Western United States is meeting with increasingly warm temperatures to create climate conditions so extreme that the landscape of California could permanently and profoundly change, a growing number of scientists say. The Golden State’s great drying has already begun to reduce snowpack, worsen wildfires and dry out soils, and researchers say that trend will likely continue, along with the widespread loss of trees and other significant shifts. Some say what’s in store for the state could be akin to the conditions that drove people thousands of years ago to abandon thriving cities in the Southwest and other arid parts of the world as severe drought contributed to crop failures and the crumbling of social norms. But unlike in those ancient

civilizations, California’s current transformation is being accelerated by carbon emissions and human-caused climate change, which is creating not only longer and more severe droughts, but also hotter ones. It’s a process known as aridification, and many say it’s here to stay. “All the factors in the Southwest are leading to a drier and drier climate,” said Jonathan Overpeck, co-author of a 2020 paper on aridification. “And because they are being driven by human-caused increases in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we expect this drying out to just get worse and worse until we stop.” Hundreds of years ago, the Ancestral Puebloans of what is now known as the Four Corners region of the American Southwest were a prosperous people known for their art and architecture. But sometime in the late 1200s, they abruptly abandoned their established home for reasons long considered to

be a mystery. Now, a growing body of evidence suggests that a prolonged period of dryness known as the Great Drought is to blame, at least partially, for their exodus. A similar drying has also been linked to the collapse of ancient cities in Mesopotamia and the Mayan Empire. Researchers say that can offer clues about what’s to come. “We can use these sort of ancient, old climates to potentially learn about something that’s relevant for today,” said Jessica Tierney, a professor at the University of Arizona who studies past climates. “We know it’s going to get hotter and drier. It’s happening already. So I think the question we have to ask ourselves is, how do we adapt to those conditions?” According to Tierney, part of the challenge is that while there have been megadroughts and periods of high atmospheric carbon dioxide See Drought, Page A7

Proposal to boost state minimum wage to $18 won’t go on November ballot Jeanne Kuang

INSIDE In final sprint toward deadline, here’s how California’s November ballot changed. Page A7.

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Californians won’t vote this fall on whether the minimum wage should rise again as inflation continues to tear through families’ budgets. An initiative to bump the minimum wage to $18 over the next three years, though bankrolled by a wealthy investor and backed by a slew of labor organizations, has failed to qualify for the November ballot. The Secretary of State’s office said not enough signatures had been verified by county election officials by the Thursday deadline to qualify the measure. Triggered by the record rate of inflation, which in the past year has caused the biggest increase in the consumer price index in four decades, California’s topof-the-nation minimum wage already is set to increase to $15.50 an hour next January. Had the California Living Wage Act proposal succeeded, it would have

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A hiring sign is seen in Fairfield in 2021. increased it to $16 next January and $18 by 2025, after which the minimum wage would have adjusted annually to account for the cost of living.

‘Empty stomachs’ Starting in February, the initiative campaign was among the later ballot efforts to begin collecting signatures this year. Joe Sanberg, a Los Angeles startup investor-turnedadvocate against poverty, said he would spend what it took to get it on the ballot. He personally poured $10 million into the

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campaign, and supporters announced in May they had turned in more than a million signatures. But the measure, which was opposed by a group of small business owners, fell victim to the timeconsuming process of signature verification. Supporters said they’re still trying to get the measure on the ballot this fall through “whatever legal means necessary.” As of the Thursday night deadline, the measure was still awaiting signature verification from just a few larger counties such as San

Diego, Kern and Sacramento that would likely put the measure over the threshold to qualify. “Nothing should stand between working people and affording life’s basic needs – that includes meaningless bureaucracy,” said Anna Bahr, campaign spokesperson, in an email. “This is a wildly popular, morally See Wage, Page A7

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Some self-evident truths on the 4th of July I have always to just acknowlliked the part of edge them and the Declaration move on. I actually of Independence had one when that talks about writing this self-evident truths. column. I Never On this Fourth of Saw It Coming that July, I am passing the music I would along some of my choose that would own self-eviTony Wade be perfect to write dent truths. to would be The The last laugh WHEN TO Royal PhilharWEAR THEM: Just monic Orchestra plays because you can still fit ABBA. Somewhere into the hot pink spandex 17-year-old Metalhead Me or leather pants you wore is shaking his head in in the ’80s does not mean disgust, but whatevs, he that you should. Unless, of never heard "Mamma course, you want to Mia" with oboes. embarrass your teenage PAD YOUR RESUME: children, then you It’s very easy to pad your absolutely must. resume if you remember DUBS: Brand-new that there can be inherent Frisco Warriors fans, power in what you name whose team recently things. I got the following celebrated their seventh idea from what the late, NBA Championship, great Tom Petty went mocking the tied-for-thethrough in 1981. His most-ever-17-time-NBArecord company, MCA, champions Los Angeles wanted to up the price of Lakers is like some dude albums to $9.98, which winning a two dollah was $1 more than the scratcher mocking Jeff standard price for records Bezos for being broke. at that time. They wanted NASTY CATS: Porn to kick off the price and cat videos have never increase with Petty’s then received their proper upcoming disc “Hard amount of recognition for Promises.” Petty was fueling the growth of totally against it and the internet. fought MCA and even TOO MUCH MARVEL: threatened to name the Just because Marvel has new album “Eight made some awesome Ninety-Eight” in protest. movies does not mean that Eventually MCA relented. Disney should wring So, in that vein, my idea every single story out of to pad your resume is to the Marvel Universe as write a book and name it quickly as they can. I “a New York Times predict their last movie bestselling book” and then ever will be called "Dr. record an album and call Irony" about a supervillain it “an album that won that kills a goose that lays multiple Grammy awards golden eggs. including Best New NEVER SAW IT Artist.” Then on your COMING MOMENTS: resume you can have Everyone will have Never bullet points that say: Saw It Coming Moments n Wrote a New York in their lives and it's best Times bestselling book

n Recorded an album that won multiple Grammy awards including Best New Artist You’re welcome. SANTANA IN FAIRFIELD . . . KINDA: The next best thing to seeing the real Carlos Santana, who recently played at the Concord Pavilion, is to experience Santana tribute artists Zebop! live. They are the next band up in the Fairfield Summer Music Series and will play from 6 to 9 p.m. July 15 at Dover Park, 800 E. Travis Boulevard. I saw Zebop! at the Downtown Theatre a few years back and they were excellent. And just because they are not the genuine article, don't even think about lowering your expectations. They will not be playing “(Kinda) Smooth” or “Black Illusion Woman” or “Slightly Bad Ways,” these guys bring the Latin rock goods. Guitarist Antonio Jose Marquez makes his instrument cry, sweetly sing and wail with soulful fire. I'm not his PR guy, just a fan wanting to pass along info to other Fairfielders who love Santana and free stuff. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKED, BUT I WAS HIBERNATING: Back in May when a bear made unexpected and unwelcome trips into the Woodcreek neighborhood, there was a hot second when I coulda cashed in by branding him Woody the Woodcreek Bear and sold silk-screened T-shirts like Rio Vista did with Humphrey the Humpback Whale years ago, but I didn’t think of it until just now.

permission to use my copyrighted catchphrases in my absence. When they are walking behind a horse that befouls the parade route they can shout, “Fire in the hole! Stay calm citizens!” Then after they have scooped the poop and received appreciative applause, they can say, “Just doing my duty!” Happy 4th everyone!

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A Pixabay image of the book held by the Statue of Liberty with America’s Independence Day’s date on it. I DO NOT HAVE A CLONE: Since I am unable to be in two places at the same time I will not be at the Fairfield Fourth of July parade this year. I will be at the Suisun City event all day selling/ signing copies of my new book, “Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California,” all day, which is published today. It was 10 years ago when the city of Fairfield was not going to have a parade for a number of reasons until a bunch of residents banded together with just weeks to go and made it happen. I halfjoked that I would be a pooper scooper if that is what it took and have been doing it ever since. While I am now a seasoned pooper scooping pro, I came across a 2012 post on Facebook last week when I was less sure of my abilities. "You don't just show up and scoop poop, my friends. It requires precision drilling to hone eye-hand coordination so that you and the shovel become one. A properly

trained pooper scooper can anticipate the expulsion of a horse apple by the slightest trace of strain on an equine's otherwise hard-to-read face. I am so unprepared." Since I usually pooper scoop with the Boy Scouts, I hereby give them

Fairfield freelance humor columnist and accidental local historian Tony Wade writes two weekly columns – "The Last Laugh" on Mondays and "Back in the Day" on Fridays. Wade is also the author of two books published by The History Press: “Growing Up In Fairfield, California" and "Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California."

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Solano Land Trust has plenty of activities in July Susan Hiland

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano Land Trust will be offering up some fun activities in their parks in the month of July. However, due to high fire danger, they may need to close certain parks, so check the website for updates on closures. Registration is required for all events. Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space Park will host a nature hike from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 9. It’s an opportunity to explore the hills between Suisun Valley and Green Valley and see sweeping views of Solano County and beyond. This is moderately strenuous, 4 to 6 miles. Cancels for rain. Lynch Canyon Open Space Park will offer a Trail Crew Volunteer Opportunity from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. July 9. Join the trail crew every second Saturday of the month to work on trails and projects at Lynch Canyon. Attendance has been sparse lately, so they would love the help. Volunteers do not have to pay the $8 parking fee. Rush Ranch will host Get the Rush from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 16. This is a series of free activities offered the third Saturday of each month at Rush Ranch. Guests can visit the blacksmith shop, Pop-Up shops, Access Adventure wagon rides and various exhibit tables. The Marsh Walk begins at 10:30 a.m. The park is open until sunset. Registration is required for the walk. Rush Ranch will host an Astronomy Night from 8:30 to 11 p.m. July 22. Check out the night sky with little light interference. Volunteer Jon Pannier will lead the eve-

nings viewings. Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space Park offers another chance to volunteer for the trail crew from 9 a.m. to noon July 23. Help prepare a scenic open space for public access by completing trail work. Bring gloves, water and good walking shoes. Bringing a snack is not a bad idea. Lynch Canyon Open Space will host a hike from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. July 23. This hike will take visitors west along the Middle Valley Trail to Prairie Ridge. Expect a moderately paced hike of about 5 miles. Terrain is occasionally uneven and there are several steep climbs. The park is excellent for seeing birds of prey and other wildlife and boasts stunning views of Mount Tamalpais and the Bay. Wear good walking shoes, bring water and a snack. Rush Ranch will host Nicole Braddock courtesy photo a Country Night at the A view at the Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi open space, which is managed by the Solano Land Trust. Ranch from 4 to 7 p.m.

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Sacramento-based country cover band Locked-n-Loaded wil play Rush Ranch’s “Country Night at the Ranch.” July 23. The Sacramentobased country cover band Locked-n-Loaded will be playing country classics and modern radio hits. In addition to great music, food, a wine and beer garden, and local vendors, there will also be oppor-

tunities to support Solano Land Trust. The cost for tickets is $25. For more information, send an email to volunteer@solanolandtrust.org or call 707-420-1041 (office), 808778-6095 (cell).

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Rush Ranch volunteer Joe Hoberg demonstrates blacksmithing to three boys at the Get The Rush open house at Rush Ranch in the Suisun Marsh, Nov. 20, 2021.

Gun buyback on Saturday Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — The Matt Garcia Foundation and other groups have joined with the city and the Solano County District Attorney’s Office for an anonymous gun buyback event. Faith Partners and Community is also involved in the event scheduled for 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Mount Calvary Baptist Church, 1735 Enterprise Drive, Building 3. “People can anonymously hand in unwanted guns and receive gift cards in return. No questions will be asked about who owns the guns or where they came from. Drive-up only, firearms must be unloaded in the trunk of your vehicle. You must remain in your car,” the city statement said. “Gift cards are limited to a first-come, first-served basis. Boxed ammo will be accepted. Explosives will not be accepted.” “Together as a community we can make an impact on reducing gun violence,” Profitt said in the statement. For more information, visit fairfield.ca.gov/ buyback or contact Profitt at 707-428-7709 or at jprofitt@fairfield.ca.gov.

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Hundreds of pistols and rifles were handed over during a gun buyback program at the Solano County Fairgrounds, in Vallejo, in 2013. utive Committee, 9 a.m. Monday, Suisun City Hall council chamber, 701 Civic Center Blvd., Suisun City. Info: http://ca-sid.civicplus.com/AgendaCenter. City n Fairfield Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, 1000 Webster St. Info: www.fairfield.ca.gov/gov/ city_council. n Rio Vista City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, City Hall, 1 Main St. Info: www.riovistacity.com/ city-council. n Vacaville Parks and Recreation, 6 p.m. Wednesday, council chamber, 650 Merchant St. Info: www.ci.vacaville. ca.us/city-government/ city-commissions.

Genealogy talk Government meetings on doing proper research Thursday on week’s calendar

FAIRFIELD — A few government meetings will be held this week. They are all open to the public. They will include: n Suisun-Solano Water Authority Board Exec-

Suisun City’s Pock earns City Clerk Award from state

VALLEJO — Genealogy Society of Vallejo-Benicia at its next meeting will discuss methodology and thorough research needed to uncover a family secret. The Zoom pre-

sentation will begin at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. The guest speaker will be Jeffrey Vaillant, a genealogical instructor and researcher. Vaillant has taught at the California, Marin County, Sonoma County and San Joaquin genealogy societies and has held monthly classes at the San Rafael Public Library. He attended the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy for nine years, Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh and Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research for three years, along with regional conferences. He is published in the Scotland Highlands Journal. All active Genealogy Society of Vallejo-Benicia members will receive a Zoom link. If you would like to attend as a nonmember guest, send an email to president@gsvb. org no later than 4 p.m. July 6 and request a Zoom invitation. More information on the event can be found at www.gsvb.org.

Talk on gun laws with League of Women Voters of Solano County FAIRFIELD — A League of Women Voters of Solano County committee meeting to address what the organization called “the carnage in our homeland” is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Thursday. In a statement announcing the virtual ad hoc Gun Responsibility Committee meeting, the league includes the language from the 2nd Amendment, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The league then contends the National Guard serves that role of a wellregulated militia. The meeting can be accessed at https:// us02web.zoom. us/j/453707314. The Meeting ID is 453 707 3149. For more information, go to https://my.lwv.org/ california/solano-county or on the group’s Facebook or Twitter sites. For the LWVUS position, go to www.lwv.org/ content/gun-control or to https://lwvc.org/issues/ gun-safety.

SUISUN CITY — Deputy City Clerk Donna Pock was recently recognized with a 2022 City Clerk Award of Distinction by the City Clerks Association of California. The award was the “Above & Beyond” award based on her work ethic and willingness to go above and beyond normal expectations to meet deadlines and provide outstanding service to Suisun City residents.

“It was an honor to nominate Donna Pock for this prestigious award and it is very well deserved by her. Donna Pock is the person behind the scenes that makes sure that City Hall runs smoothly and on time, which is critical in meeting mandated deadlines for meetings and official filings. Suisun City is privileged to have amazing employees like Donna Pock helping to move the city forward,” City Manager Greg Folsom said in a statement.

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Suisun City Deputy City Clerk Donna Pock was recently recognized with a 2022 City Clerk Award of Distinction by the City Clerks Association of California.

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Celebrating the 4th of July through patriotic poetry friendly, / Singing with Dear readers: I want open mouths their to wish everyone a very strong melohappy Fourth of July. As you are hopefully dious songs.” enjoying barbecues and “O Captain! My fireworks, you may want Captain!” by to read some of the Walt Whitman following famous “O Captain! my patriotic poems. I hope Captain! our fearful trip you enjoy them as Annie Lane is done, / The ship has much as I do. Dear Annie weather’d every rack, “I Hear America the prize we sought is Singing,” by Walt Whitman won, / The port is near, the bells “I hear America singing, the I hear, the people all exulting, / varied carols I hear, / Those of While follow eyes the steady mechanics, each one singing keel, the vessel grim and his as it should be blithe and daring; / But O heart! heart! strong, / The carpenter singing heart! / O the bleeding drops of his as he measures his plank or red, / Where on the deck my beam, / The mason singing his Captain lies, / Fallen cold and as he makes ready for work, or dead. / O Captain! my Captain! leaves off work, / The boatman rise up and hear the bells; / Rise singing what belongs to him in up – for you the flag is flung – for his boat, the deckhand singing you the bugle trills, / For you on the steamboat deck, / The bouquets and ribbon’d shoemaker singing as he sits on wreaths – for you the shores his bench, the hatter singing as a-crowding, / For you they call, he stands, / The wood-cutter’s the swaying mass, their eager song, the ploughboy’s on his faces turning; / Here Captain! way in the morning, or at noon dear father! / This arm beneath intermission or at sundown, / your head! / It is some dream The delicious singing of the that on the deck, / You’ve fallen mother, or of the young wife at cold and dead. / My Captain work, or of the girl sewing or does not answer, his lips are washing, / Each singing what pale and still, / My father does belongs to him or her and to not feel my arm, he has no pulse none else, / The day what nor will, / The ship is anchor’d belongs to the day – at night the safe and sound, its voyage party of young fellows, robust, closed and done, / From fearful

Horoscopes

ARIES (March 21-April 19). The treasure hunt is on. You have the most clues, but you still need more resources to take you to the “X” that marks the spot – perhaps plane tickets? Team with Sagittarius and Gemini for luck. TAURUS (April 20May 20). The featured endeavor is reminiscent of a school project, complete with a report, presentation, display and, for bonus points, a crowd-pleasing giveaway. It’s fun work, as long as you don’t wait until the last minute. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You are a great balance to those who are overly concerned with their status. You see everyone as equals with different roles to play. A person who stands up and cheers serves an equally important purpose as the person being cheered on. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Solutions are subjective. There’s no wrong or right, only what works or doesn’t work for you. It will seem as though nothing is working, until you hear an answer that strikes a chord. Yes, it’s for you. You’ll try it, and, “Walla!” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Under these stars it would be easy to forget the one or two things that will make things run smoothly. They may not be items so much as attitudes. For best results, prepare for the

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trip the victor ship comes in with object won; / Exult O shores, and ring O bells! / But I with mournful tread, / Walk the deck my Captain lies, / Fallen cold and dead.” “A Nation’s Strength” by William Ralph Emerson “What makes a nation’s pillars high / And its foundations strong? / What makes it mighty to defy / The foes that round it throng? / It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand / Go down in battle shock; / Its shafts are laid on sinking sand, / Not on abiding rock. / Is it the sword? Ask the red dust / Of empires passed away; / The blood has turned their stones to rust, / Their glory to decay. / And is it pride? Ah, that bright crown / Has seemed to nations sweet; / But God has struck its luster down / In ashes at his feet. / Not gold but only men can make / A people great and strong; / Men who for truth and honor’s sake / Stand fast and suffer long. / Brave men who work while others sleep, / Who dare while others fly ... / They build a nation’s pillars deep / And lift them to the sky.” Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday The oxygen of optimism feeds the flame of your heart’s desire, illuminating the way to its own fulfillment. You’ll compromise for a special close relationship, and your lives entwine in interesting and supportive new configurations. More highlights: a flourishing business, a dear animal connection and a winning hand. Aries and Libra adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 20, 4, 44 and 19.

day by running it in your mind before you step out. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’re in the mood to let life amuse you, and you won’t be disappointed. People witnessing the same scene will have interesting and varied interpretations, revealing more about how they think than about what actually happened. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There are people in your life who honor you with a quality of attention that makes your heart sing. Today you’ll have some competition for that attention. You’ll shine as you handle it with grace, class and maturity. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It would be easy to spend your time buying, using and main-

taining material things, but what you’re really after now is something that can’t be seen, owned or controlled. Having it is therefore tricky, but you’ll find a way. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Oh, the magnificent luck. Someone you adore feels the same about you. There’s alchemy at work in this relationship, which has its own character and spirit. A special magic happens when the two of you connect. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). It’s impossible to bring sunshine into other people’s lives without also feeling the warmth in your own. You’ll pull together a harmonious group and bask in the rays of mutual acceptance and celebration. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). People take your open heart as an invitation to reveal things to you that they don’t tell many others. Not only do you make people feel seen and heard but you make them feel that they are acceptable and normal. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). From tea service to spacecraft launching, there are rules for everything. You’ll learn the rule first, break it second. That’s the order that brings the most pleasure and, for the right rebellion, the most respect.

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Defending against four spades, West opened with the diamond king. Declarer, after winning with his ace, had several options. He could draw either two or three rounds of trumps and hope for a favorable club division: a 3-3 split or J-10 doubleton. However, as you can see, neither line would have worked. Instead, South returned his second diamond at trick two. Under his partner’s queen, East was careful to signal with the 10. He wanted to tell his partner to shift to hearts, not to clubs. Now West had to find the right play. If East had a singleton heart ace, West had to lead a low heart. But with the actual distribution, this would have allowed declarer to make the contract. When East won with the heart ace and returned a diamond, South would have discarded his second heart and, eventually, would have thrown his club loser on dummy’s diamond jack. However, West got it right. He THE SIGNAL WASN’T cashed the heart king before leading a low heart to his partner’s ace. Now a MISUNDERSTOOD diamond through promoted a trump I hope all of my American readers trick for West to defeat the contract. have a happy Independence Day. Give a suit-preference signal when you have several cards from which to Most players know how to give a choose, all of which are unnecessary suit-preference signal when they are either for winning tricks in the suit or returning a suit that partner will ruff, but there are other times when one of for a signal about that suit. Also, hope these signals will tell partner which suit partner is watching! COPYRIGHT: 2022, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE to lead.

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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 THEand SIGNAL WASN’T computer program at MISUNDERSTOOD www.sudoku.com I hope all of my American readers have a happy Independence Day. Most players know how to give a suit-preference signal when they are returning a suit that partner will ruff,

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he day after Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, Mr. Batson the teacher was pleased. I drew a line on the blackboard moving to the left. “This has been our country’s history since 1933,” I declared. Then I rounded an imaginary corner and brought the chalk line back to the right, ending with an arrow. “This is where we’re going. I don’t know how far, but the turn is historic.” And so it was. The Supreme Court has just crowned that 42-year (1980-2022) reactionary movement with several shocking decisions. How far Right will we go? One side says, “Very far.” Another says, “That’s about it. Relax.” Only Jack Batson time will tell. Was the 47 years (1933-1980) of liberal ascendancy that sparked the revolt good or bad? You decide. By 1933, the USA was an oligarchy. There were the fabulously wealthy, a small but growing middle class, and a sea of struggling others. As was often said, “two great classes – tramps and millionaires.” Worldwide, that was normal back then. But the richest nation in the world had new, modern ideas. Perhaps we should try to be true to our liberal Declaration of Independence. Maybe our nation should allow widespread wealth. Modernity had near-revolutionary implications. Should we support Labor? The USA had the most murderous labor history of any nation. So FDR in the New Deal legalized labor unions. Labor fought successfully for increased wages (10 cents/hr was standard), shorter hours (10 hours, 6 days a week was standard), and better (safer) working conditions. You decide – good idea? Bad idea? Big Money was absolutely furious. “Socialism!” screamed the Liberty League. “Un- American!” Was it? The Democrats further taunted Big Money by creating the requirement that overtime be paid at 1.5 times regular pay. Huge numbers of people in society were insecure. They were paid too little to save for retirement. The poorest section of the population was the elderly. Nearly every man worked until he no longer could, typically within a year or two of death. Enter Social Security. People in a rich society should be able to retire at 65, then a very old age. Germany had had such a program since the 19th century. Should we have that too? Later, medical bills in old age presented a grave threat to the security of the elderly, so Medicare was created. Then Medicaid gave poor people some medical security. Conservatives were livid. “Socialism!” Should we build highways? Should rural people have electricity? Should factories stop pouring poisons into rivers and stop pumping pollutants into the air? Was smog a problem that government should address? Or should “the market” be trusted to do the right thing without that awful, un-American thing, “regulation.” Should banking be regulated to end the periodic destructiveness of “panics” that had plagued the preceding centuries? Boom, bust, inflation, deflation. Answer – yes. Today, that mission is pretty much done. Finally, when white Americans finally felt secure, it came time to give justice to Black Americans, then women. The Declaration declared “equality,” meaning political equality and the end of a century of Black voter suppression and segregation. It meant equality of opportunity in the workplace. A mistake? You decide. Is all this “un-American?” “Democrats are changing America,” screams right-wing media. “You can hardly recognize the place anymore.” Yes, correct. But it’s generally for the better – and probably inevitable. Correctly blame change on the development of the internet, the discovery of The Pill, Facebook and cheap labor in China, not the Democrats. Liberals accept change, conservatives fight it. Good luck, conservatives! To me, the liberal program has been a howling success. It’s made America the envy of the world, the paradigm of modernity. But action breeds reaction. The first publication to challenge the liberal agenda was William Buckley with his introduction of the magazine National Review, which stated in its first issue of 1955, “We stand athwart history yelling, “Stop!” We now face the Election of Destiny. Will conservatives really stop it all? Will they really try to return us to 1950? 1930? Jack Batson is a former member of the Fairfield City Council. Reach him by email at jsbatson@ prodigy.net.

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Supreme Court reminds the executive branch: Congress makes the laws Jennifer L. Mascott and Eli Nachmany

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he Supreme Court ended its term on Thursday with an important declaration: Using regulation as a shortcut to lawmaking will no longer fly. This limitation is long overdue. The shift emerged in the court’s decision in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, a highly anticipated environmental law case about the scope of the EPA’s authority to regulate carbon emissions. The court’s conclusion will impact not only emissions, but also regulation in many key policy areas of political and economic significance. The result may be a much-needed reinvigoration of Congress’s will to reclaim its legislative prerogative. The 6-to-3 opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, found that the Obama administration’s EPA overstepped its authority when it used a minor provision in the Clean Air Act to develop its far-reaching Clean Power Plan. The plan, which sought to regulate emissions from power plants, essentially would have shut down sizable portions of disfavored sectors of the energy industry, such as coal-powered plants. The court declared that the little-used Clean Air Act provision could not support the agency’s sweeping claim of authority to shift the power industry from coal to renewable sources. The broader takeaway is this: If an agency tries to take significant action with national economic and political impact, the agency must identify clear statutory authority for that action to be lawful. Congress must legislate policy requirements and grant authority through statutes empowering federal agencies to act. For decades, congressional gridlock has hindered significant legislation of this kind in response to modern problems. Instead, our nation’s lawmakers have

favored headline-grabbing or lesspermanent action through oversight, commissions, investigations or patchwork solutions in appropriations and emergency legislation. The burdens of the legislative process are ones of design. The Constitution deliberately imposes high hurdles for the passage of legislation. Yet, administrative agencies have tried to sidestep this process by shoehorning preferred policies into attenuated authorities granted under old laws, justifying them with claims of necessity or emergency. Consider, for example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s claim of authority under a 1944 law to declare a national moratorium on evictions. Or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s attempt, under a 1970 law, to impose a nationwide vaccine-or-test mandate in private workplaces. In both cases, the court held that the policy was unlawful. In West Virginia v. EPA, the court for the first time expressly identified a doctrine that limits federal agencies from claiming such broad, novel authorities by issuing regulations of vast economic and political significance. Titled the “major questions doctrine,” it posits that for a court to conclude agency action of national significance is lawful, Congress must have clearly granted the relevant authority. The court does not go so far as to require that an act explicitly address each potential regulatory proposal with specificity. But the four corners of the underlying statutory source must, by their terms, support the agency action. This will prevent agencies from claiming ever broader power from old, vaguely worded statutes as Congress sits on its hands. The court went to great lengths to show that this doctrine has been in place for decades, pointing to several additional past rulings. These included a 2000 decision that the Food and Drug Administration’s reg-

ulation of tobacco was unlawful and a 2006 opinion that the Controlled Substances Act could not be enforced against the prescription of medication for assisted suicide. The practical consequences of this ruling will anger many who see agencies as essential generators of solutions to national problems. But the court’s focus on Congress is critical to democratic accountability and constitutional process. Congress must serve as the institutional actor reaching consequential policy choices by majority vote. The Constitution embeds this mandate by vesting legislative power exclusively in Congress, which comprises elected representatives from every region and state. That rich and varied representation reflects diverse geographic and cultural interests with far greater reach than the monolithic representation of interests provided by a single agency or a single, nationally elected president. Under West Virginia v. EPA, overly general and outdated statutory language can no longer be the source of broad, novel regulatory initiatives. This holding will have farreaching implications, potentially impacting a number of critical policy areas currently regulated under decades-old laws, including technology, telecommunications, health care and corporate governance. Lawmakers will now face greater pressure to reach policy consensus more routinely and update old regulatory schemes to address new technological and industrial innovations. Re-situating Congress as the locus of policy control better reflects democratic will and restores a more constitutional order. Jennifer L. Mascott is an assistant professor at Antonin Scalia Law School and the co-executive director of the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State. Eli Nachmany is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School and a senior research fellow at the Gray Center.

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Court decision does not ban abortions

he Supreme Court of the “unborn human being.” United States’ ruling on Stare decisis, the doctrine Roe v Wade and Casey on which Casey’s controlling does not ban abortions. opinion was based, does not It returns the decision about compel unending adherence abortions to the voting citito Roe’s abuse of judicial zens of each state via their authority. Roe was egreelected representatives. giously wrong from the start. The important part of the Its reasoning was exceptionSCOTUS ruling is as follows: weak, and the decision Roger Oberbeck ally “We hold that Roe and Casey has led to damaging consemust be overruled. The quences. It is time to heed the Constitution makes no reference to Constitution and return the issue of abortion, and no such right is implicabortion to the people’s representaitly protected by any constitutional tives. Casey concerned the provision including the one on which Mississippi Gestational Age, which the defenders of Roe and Casey now stated, “Except in a medical emerchiefly rely – the Due Process clause gency or in the case of a severe fetal of the Fourteenth Amendment.” abnormality, a person shall not That clause has been held to intentionally induce an abortion of an guarantee some rights that are not unborn human being of the probable mentioned in the Constitution, but gestational age if the unborn human any such right must be “deeply rooted being is determined to be greater in this Nation’s history and tradition than fifteen weeks. Casey held that and implicit in the concept of most abortions after fifteen weeks ordered liberty.” employ dilation and evacuation The right to abortion does not fall procedures which involve the use of in this category. Indeed, when the surgical instruments that crush and 14th Amendment was adopted, three tear the unborn child and it conquarters of the states made abortion a cluded that the intentional crime at all stages of pregnancy. The commitment of such acts for nontherabortion right is also critically apeutic elective reasons is a different from any other rights that barbaric practice.” the courts held fall within the 1th States that have banned or are Amendment’s protection of liberty. banning abortion are Kentucky, Roe’s defenders characterize the Louisiana, South Dakota, North abortion right as similar to the rights Dakota, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklarecognized in past decisions involving homa, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia, Utah, matters such as intimate sexual Wyoming, Idaho, Texas, Wisconsin relations, contraception and marriage. However, abortion is and Michigan. Indiana, Florida, fundamentally different, as both Roe Montana and Nebraska will try to and Casey acknowledge, because it enact bars to abortion. Of course, this destroys what it called “fetal life” and may change if the will of the people of what the law now describes as these states leads to enactment of new

laws. Current polling suggests this is not understood by two-thirds of women polled. States that allow abortions are California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Washington to viability; Virginia to third trimester; Nevada and New Hampshire to 24 weeks; Kansas to 22 weeks; Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio and South Carolina to 20 weeks; Arizona and Florida to 15 weeks; Georgia to 6 weeks; and Alaska, Colorado, District of Columbia, Kansas, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Vermont are unspecified. Alternatives to abortion are contraceptives such as birth control pills, IUDs, condoms and morning after pills. Sterilization is another alternative. Legality of abortions should be decided by citizens of the various states voting for their elected representatives in a democratic process. Women who desire an abortion can travel or move to a state that meets their requirements. Proponents of abortion call it “reproductive health,” but in reality, it is reproductive death of an unborn living human being as life begins at conception. Roger Oberbeck is a Navy veteran, electrical engineer, Navy nuclear engineer, author and biotech senior validation engineer. He is a member of the Right Stuff Committee and can be reached at rogeroberbeck @yahoo.com.

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Wage From Page One righteous measure.” It is likely to qualify for the ballot in 2024 – which would create a much quicker timeframe for the $18 wage to go into effect by 2025. Sanberg, an early investor in the meal delivery service Blue Apron, has reportedly mulled a presidential run. He also has pushed for other anti-poverty measures in Sacramento. And he lobbied for the creation of a state Earned Income Tax Credit, which gives as much as $3,000 a year to low-income workers, and he formed a group to help qualified residents get the benefit. He announced the minimum wage campaign late last year as rising costs began to strain household budgets. Experts worry that inflation will offset strides the state made reducing poverty during the pandemic, largely from state and federal stimulus programs. “That’s $24 of pay per day, or $6,240 in extra pay per year for millions of people,” Sanberg said of the $18 minimum wage in an interview in May. “It means the difference between kids going to school with empty stomachs or stomachs filled with healthy food, and means millions of families that will be able to afford rent or not afford rent.” Recent price increases have hit the lowest wage earners the hardest, advocates said.

‘Fallout on Main Street’ But raising the minimum wage again would strain small employers, who also face rising supply costs and a tight labor market, said John Kabateck,

Ukraine From Page One Reports out of the combat zones are almost impossible to independently verify. Pro-Russian separatists had announced the capture of Lysychansk on Saturday already, but Kyiv rejected those claims too. Earlier on Sunday, however, the Ukrainian general staff acknowledged that Russian troops had made further gains in the city. Lysychansk, which had more than 100,000 inhabitants before the war, has been the last large Ukrainian-controlled city in the Luhansk region following the fall of nearby Severodonetsk. In southern Ukraine, meanwhile, the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol was shaken by dozens of explosions overnight as one of its four military bases came under attack, the city’s Ukrainian mayor Ivan Fedorov said on Sunday. More than 30 projectiles were fired at the base, putting it out of action, Fedorov said in a video address on Telegram. The claim could not be independently verified. Military equipment and several fuel depots were hit, according to Fedorov, leading to continued explosions several

state director of the National Federation of Independent Business’ California chapter, which represents about 15,000 small businesses. Many employers already offer starting pay above the minimum wage, and raising the state minimum would force employers to boost the pay of higher-level employees, he said. “We think this is an absurd proposal that keeps recurring again and again . . . without the understanding of the fallout on Main Street and businesses crawling out from the Covid hole,” he said. The minimum wage is currently $15 an hour for most employees and $14 at businesses with 25 or fewer employees. The Legislature passed that wage hike in 2016, heading off a ballot measure spearheaded by unions that year. The baseline was expected to increase Jan. 1, 2023 to $15 for employers of all sizes, but a 7% rate of inflation will instead push it to $15.50, the state Finance Department announced in May. A hike to $18 by 2025 would not have been as dramatic a shift as it sounds. Under current law workers already could see a bump to $16 in 2024 if inflation forecasts hold true, wrote UC Berkeley economics professor Michael Reich in a policy brief this week. And about a third of the state’s privatesector workers already are covered by some 37 local minimum wage ordinances that are higher than the state’s and that rise with inflation, Reich wrote. He projected that an $18-an-hour statewide base wage would result in a raise for close to 5 million workers and cause an overall increase in restaurant and retail prices of less than 0.05% over three years. hours after the attacks. Social media posts showed clouds of smoke rising above the city. Melitopol was seized in the days following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began more than four months ago. Across the border in Russia, explosions in the city of Belgorod near Ukraine killed three people, according to the governor of the Belgorod region. Vyacheslav Gladkov announced the news on Telegram early on Sunday, according to the TASS news agency. Four other people were reportedly injured in the explosions, including a 10-year-old child. Some 50 houses were also damaged. The cause of the explosions was under investigation and the city’s air defense system was expected to be activated. The information could not be independently verified. Besides Belgorod, other Russian regions near the country’s border with Ukraine, including Kursk and Bryansk, have repeatedly accused the Ukrainian military of shelling civilian targets since Moscow’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine. Kyiv does not usually comment on such accusations.

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In final sprint toward deadline, here’s how California’s November ballot changed SACRAMENTO — California’s November ballot will be packed with policy questions, asking voters to make decisions on topics ranging from abortion to sports betting. Several new meaRobert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS sures qualified for the ballot last week in the M a i l - i n b a l l o t s a r e lead-up to Thursday processed at a Los Angeles evening’s qualification County facility in Downey. deadline. The final result is a field of seven ques“To deny women the tions: three constitutional ability to make their amendments, three ini- own healthcare decitiative statutes and one sions is to deny that we referendum. are all equal,” AssemProponents and oppo- bly Speaker Anthony nents have already spent Rendon, D-Lakewood, millions for and against said when the bill was the measures, and there’s introduced. “By ensuring still four months until that Californians have the voters head to the polls. right to choose enshrined in our constitution, we will make certain that First up: abortion An initiative to everyone can determine enshrine the right to an their own future as they abortion in California’s see fit, regardless of the constitution won’t just be political whims of a radion the November ballot – calized Supreme Court.” it’ll be first on the list. Legislators made sure of this when they passed the budget last week. Proposition 1 originates from SCA 10, which lawmakers introduced this spring alongside a lengthy list of other abortion protections, many of which are making their way through the Legislature. The bills – including SCA 10 – gained new urgency after the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade on June 24.

Drought From Page One in the past, the pace of the current warming and drying is unlike anything ever experienced. “Ecosystems, living things, don’t have time to adjust when you change CO2 as fast as we’re changing it, and the geological record tells us that humans are changing CO2 faster than anything that we know about in the last 66 million years,” she said, adding that “our entire society was built under CO2 of just a little bit under 300 parts per million.” Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere last year surpassed 419 parts per million and are continuing to climb. Tierney said living in a drier Southwest is certainly possible through adaptation, but “we just have to make smart decisions about it.” “There were big droughts previously, like during the medieval times around 1,000 years ago . . . but we’ve actually kind of surpassed that now,” she said. “We’re kind of going into this unknown territory.” One important factor that distinguishes today’s conditions from those of the past is temperature, according to Matthew Kirby, a paleoclimatologist and professor at Cal State Fullerton. While drought alone is often seen as a measure of precipitation, aridification also accounts for the factor of heat. Because average temperatures are increasing, “we’re going to start drying the soil moisture and changing the dynamics of snowpack, snowfall and rainfall,” Kirby said. “And all of that impacts water availability in ways that – without the temperature change – we might not see.” And while drought can be a naturally occurring process tied to La Niña and other Earth systems, aridification is “without a doubt” linked to human-caused climate change, he said. “What makes today unusual is the fact that we have humans involved. Humans weren’t chang-

to go,” Zochodne said.

In late June, it appeared that California’s wealthy tribal casinos were positioned to seize control of lucrative legalized sports betting on tribal lands. But last week, a separate measure to allow online sports betting earned enough signatures to join the ballot.

Backers of both initiatives, Propositions 26 and 27, have already pledged $100 million toward their respective causes – an indication of the profits at stake. Driving the online measure are FanDuel and DraftKings, two giants in the industry. The Pechanga, Barona, Agua Caliente and Yocha Dehe Tribes put forth the tribal lands measure in 2019. “It’s going to be if not the most costly initiative battles in California, one of the most costly for sure,” said Covers’ sports betting industry analyst Geoff Zochodne. Voters will have the opportunity to approve neither measure, one of the two or, potentially, both. What would happen in that case? “At that point, it becomes a really sticky subject,” Zochodne said. “It seems like it would set up, potentially, a legal wrangling over what happens there.” Zochodne pointed out that proponents of the online measure often present it as complimentary to the tribal one, implying that they could coexist. Supporters of the tribal initiative might not be on the same page. “They are very adamant that retail sports betting at their casinos would be the better way

California voters won’t be asked to require that plastics producers make major reductions –the Legislature already did that. But they will be asked if they want to tax the Golden State’s richest residents in an effort to fight climate change. Last week, an initiative aimed at reducing plastic production was still set for the November ballot. But on Thursday, its three petitioners withdrew it from consideration. Backers of the proposition said they were satisfied with the passage of SB-54, a similar, albeit less progressive, policy that also targets plastic production. Another environmental measure did make the ballot. Proposition 30 would impose a wealth tax on those making more than $2 million a year. The estimated $3 billion to $4.5 billion in annual revenue would go toward greenhouse gas reduction, including incentives for electric vehicle purchases. The Clean Cars and Clean Air Act is backed by Clean Air CA, a coalition of climate groups, transit organizations, elected officials and more.

ing climate 8,000 years ago, but they’re changing climate today, and that is the big unknown,” he said. While some of what that means for California remains to be seen, parts of the process have already begun, including the steady decline of the Colorado River. Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir which is located along that river, is now only 150 feet from dipping below its lowest intake valve, officials announced in June. Also likely to be affected by aridification are California’s trees. Drier soils and intense summer heat waves will worsen the two main causes of massive dieoffs in Western forests: bark beetle outbreaks and wildfires, according to UCLA climate scientist Park Williams. And because so many of the state’s forests are full of trees that were established under wetter, cooler conditions, “it is therefore very likely that when vegetation comes back after these mass tree mortality events, we’ll get something different than what was there before,” Williams said. That means fewer conifer trees such as pines, cedars and firs in California, and more grasses and shrubs that are attuned to the drier conditions, especially at lower elevations. The warmer atmosphere will also make more precipitation fall as rain instead of snow, affecting the timing and availability of water in the state, and will increase the likelihood of erosion as it saps moisture from plants and soil, said Williams, who recently published a study that found that the current megadrought was the driest 22-year-period in at least 1,200 years. He likened California’s changing climate to a yo-yo on an escalator. The yo-yo is the state’s droughts, which will continue to oscillate, and may even give way to extreme precipitation events such as atmospheric rivers or floods, as in the Oroville Dam crisis in 2017. But the escalator – aridification – is only moving in one direction: up. “We’ll have a period of

relative wetness again,” Williams said, but at the same time, “we have this slow and steady aridification trend that we do not expect to reverse any time soon.” It’s not only trees and forests that will experience the shift, but also other living things, said Andrew Hoell, a research meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Physical Sciences Laboratory. “When you think of an area like the Southwest, or even semi-arid areas in California where there’s already a limited water supply to begin with, and you start decreasing that because of aridification, you’re going to change the ability of certain ecology to live there eventually,” Hoell said. “They just can’t survive.” The Audubon Society, for example, has said that aridification of the Colorado River basin means there will be fewer available wetlands for birds. The group’s recent climate report found that 64% of North American bird species are at risk of extinction from climate change, including critical drying in the West. Fish are also at risk as the state’s rivers get warmer and more dry. Salmon, in particular, have already been pushed to the brink of extinction in California, with officials now scrambling to release cold water supplies and even truck the fish to areas where they have a better chance at survival. Adding to the challenge is that there’s no way to know when the current drought will end, Hoell said, meaning that “society then has to adapt to [aridification] in the midst of drought.” “That is kind of the existential problem we’re at right now, where we’re trying to separate what is drought from aridification in the West,” he said. Despite the massive changes in store, California will still maintain its technical classification as a “Mediterranean climate,” which is based on its latitude and continental proximity to the ocean, Hoell and the other scientists said. But that doesn’t mean

humans will be spared the effects of the drying – especially when it comes to agriculture, which uses a vast majority of water in the state but also represents a huge portion of California’s economy and the nation’s food supply. “The choice is going to increasingly be, do you want the water for the metropolitan areas and the cities, or do you want the water for the agriculture?” said Overpeck, who is also dean of the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability. Kirby, of Fullerton, noted that those kinds of decisions typically hit the poorest and most vulnerable people hardest. Aridification is “certainly going to impact quality of life – it’s going to impact where, as the future goes on, you can really make a decision about living,” he said. That doesn’t mean all hope is lost, however. Overpeck said the surest fix is cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions. “If we want to stop aridification from getting worse, if we want to stop our droughts from getting worse, if we want to stop our water supply from declining, if we want to stop our wildfire crisis from getting worse, if we want to stop the big threat to agriculture in our region – all of those things come from acting on climate change,” he said. Conservation and adaptation strategies can also help the state better prepare. Many projects, including those to improve infrastructure, stormwater capture and groundwater recycling capabilities, are already underway. But while the current drought may come and go, the “upward escalator” of aridification means it is imperative that Californians learn from the past and don’t stay stuck in their old ways. “If the state says the drought is over, act like it’s not,” Kirby said. “We’re doing a good job, but we need to live under a permanent state of water conservation because water is the final frontier – especially with the aridification in the Western United States.”

Who gets to control sports betting? A battle emerges

One climate measure in, one out

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SF ends home stand with blowout loss to White Sox Tribune Content Agency SAN FRANCISCO — Last Thursday, after three one-run losses to the surging defending champions, the Giants boarded their charter flight home from Atlanta in need of a fresh start. One player remarked about the cleansing nature of returning to the crisp summer air of the Bay Area after a few soupy days in the south. What followed was anything but refreshing. Call it the home

stand from hell. A 13-2 loss Sunday capped a series sweep at the hands of the White Sox and a stretch of eight games at Oracle Park that resulted in two wins. Hosting three teams with losing records, they failed to take a series from any of them. Their latest loss came hours after manager Gabe Kapler called out his team for a lack of energy. But the nine innings that followed featured the same sloppy defense and anemic offense that

has plagued them all home stand. The bulk of the White Sox’s runs came after Donovan Walton botched what would have been an inning-ending double play by throwing wide to Wilmer Flores at second in the third, then on a bases-clearing double in the fifth that scored three runners — two of whom reached on infield singles that could have been outs in an alternate timeline. Fans streamed for the exits during a

five-run eighth inning that made it 11-1 and prompted the Giants to bring in catcher Austin Wynns pitch the ninth. Facing a starter who took a 5.19 ERA into Sunday’s game, seven of the first eight Giants batters struck out against Lucas Giolito, who didn’t allow a hit until Joc Pederson’s bloop single in fourth inning. Pederson drove in the Giants’ only run until the ninth with a sixthinning double off the brick wall in right center that scored Austin Slater.

Over the final 39 innings of the home stand, the Giants scored nine runs. Besides a ninerun outburst last Saturday against the Reds, they were held to four or fewer in every game. On Sunday, they were outhit 17-7. Those figures were bolstered, too, by three runs on four hits in the ninth, once it was already 13-1. These three series acted as slump busters, but not for the home team. Chicago had lost six of eight entering this series. The Reds, with the NL’s

worst winning percentage, had lost seven straight before visiting China Basin and taking two of three. And the Tigers, a game out of last in the AL Central, had lost 10 of 14 before splitting two with the Giants. Earlier Sunday morning, the Giants learned that Anthony DeSclafani would require surgery to address the inflammation in his right ankle, likely ending his season. Forced to fill his See Giants, Page B8

USWNT heads to Mexico for qualification quest, revenge The Washington Post

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Golden State Warriors’ Gary Payton II passes the ball against Memphis Grizzlies’ Morant (12) in the fourth

quarter of their NBA game at Chase Center in San Francisco, Dec. 23, 2021.

Warriors free agency: Where they sit after Payton, Porter departures Tribune Content Agency SAN FRANCISCO — The Warriors intended to run it back next season to defend their 2022 NBA title. But with nine players in the market for new deals and some financial constraints, general manager Bob Myers and the rest of Golden State’s front office recognized the challenge they faced with trying to keep a championship team intact while also trying to stay within a budget. Three days into free agency, the Warriors find themselves in an interesting situation. They lost five players, including two valuable pieces of last season’s championship team, in free agency, but retained Kevon Looney, Golden State’s top free agent target, and added Donte DiVincenzo.

The biggest blow was the departure of Gary Payton II, who will reportedly sign a three-year, $25 million deal with the Portland Trail Blazers. Losing Otto Porter Jr., who revived his career last season with the Warriors, also hurt. That’s two of the Warriors’ eight rotational players in the NBA Finals that won’t be part of Golden State’s title defense next season. The Warriors will also be without Nemanja Bjelica, Juan Toscano-Anderson and Damion Lee next season. Bjelica is reportedly leaving to play overseas in Turkey. Toscano-Anderson is heading to the Los Angeles Lakers, and Lee is reportedly signing with the Phoenix Suns. Payton was the second-most important free agent for Golden State behind Looney. He became a vital defensive weapon for the

Warriors, leading the team in deflections (180) and steals (96). Knocking down timely corner 3s and dunking at 6-foot-3 were added bonuses within his versatile skillset. The Warriors, who had a recordsetting payroll last season and are already deep in the luxury tax and repeater tax zone, ultimately let Payton walk because they were unwilling to match his costly deal with the Trail Blazers, a decision that “stung” several within the organization, according to The Athletic. Meanwhile, Porter, who’s reportedly signing with the Toronto Raptors, turned out to be a perfect fit for the Warriors after injuries derailed his career. He provided a jolt off the bench with his shooting, See Warriors, Page B8

SF Giants’ Anthony DeSclafani to undergo surgery on problematic right ankle Tribune Content Agency SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants will be without a key member of their rotation for the foreseeable future, as the club announced Sunday that Anthony DeSclafani will undergo surgery on his right ankle. DeSclafani, 32, has already logged one stint on the 60-day injured list this season with inflammation in his right ankle. He returned for two underwhelming starts and was never able to fully heal, so he will instead go under the knife. The Giants did not immediately provide details of the procedure,

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San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Anthony DeSclafani (26) leaves the field after being pulled from the game against the Cincinnati Reds at Oracle Park in San Francisco, June 26. but it’s unlikely that DeSclafani will pitch again this season. Dr. Robert

Anderson, the same specialist DeSclafani visited in Green Bay, Wisconsin,

earlier this season, will perform the operation next Tuesday. “Anthony worked really hard following last season to come to camp healthy and be the best version he can possibly be for the Giants,” manager Gabe Kapler said. “I appreciate the work ethic and how much he gave to us. We know that he’s going to give that same level of effort in this rehab process. The optimistic view is that he’s going to come back as healthy as he’s been for the beginning of 2023.” In five starts this season, DeSclafani had a See Surgery, Page B8

MONTERREY, Mexico — The U.S. women’s national soccer team, a mix of ages and experiences but missing several eminent figures, has come to this mountain-draped metropolis carrying a three-part mission statement. Qualify for the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, a project that, barring historic upsets, will come to fruition in short order. Qualify for the 2024 Olympics, which will require substantial work. Reclaim the regional mantle from gold medalist Canada after stumbling at the Tokyo Games last year. All three quests will play out over two weeks in two stadiums in one eight-nation tournament, the Concacaf W Championship. Four teams will qualify for the World Cup but just one will earn an automatic Olympic berth. The second invitation to France will be decided in a playoff

next year between the second- and third-place finishers here. “The tournament, the significance of it, is a little bit bigger because we do try to qualify for two major tournaments,” said U.S. Coach Vlatko Andonovski, whose team will begin group play Monday night against Haiti. “We can look at Canada [but] our focus is to be the best we can in the first game and then we’ll move on to the next one.” For the opportunity to pursue a third consecutive World Cup trophy next summer, the topranked Americans are required to finish first or second in the group stage here. To accomplish that, they will probably need only to defeat the 60th-ranked Haitians and then No. 51 Jamaica on Thursday. In 11 combined meetings, the United States has won every match, and by a 72-0 aggregate. Should results in the other Group A matches leave mathematical uncertainty, the AmeriSee Revenge, Page B8

Montas leaves early as Oakland A’s dreadful first half ends Tribune Content Agency One of the most dreadful first halves in Oakland A’s history ended Sunday in a frustrating and perhaps fitting way. The A’s managed only four hits and saw one of their biggest potential trade chips in starter Frankie Montas exit after one inning in what became a 2-1 loss to the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park. Elvis Andrus homered in the seventh inning but the A’s went 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position as they lost three of four in the series and went 3-7 on the road trip that started with stops in Kansas City and New York. The A’s are now 26-55, the secondworst record at the midway point in Oakland history, bettering only the 1979 team that was 23-58 at the halfway mark. Entering Sunday, the

A’s ranked last in MLB in batting (.213), on-base percentage (.274), slugging percentage (.330), and OPS (.604). Of more immediate concern was the health of Montas, who exited Sunday’s game after he threw just 13 pitches in the first inning, including a 92 mph sinker that Mariners leadoff hitter Julio Rodriguez took over the left-field wall for a 1-0 Seattle lead. Montas also allowed an infield single to Eugenio Suarez. Right-handed reliever Austin Pruitt warmed up in the A’s bullpen in the first inning and took over for Montas in the bottom of the second. The A’s, per MLB. com, said they would provide an update on Montas after Sunday’s game, the last of a four-game set. A team spokesperson added that Montas has not See A’s, Page B8

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A water tower looms over downtown Lockeford, June 17.

Amazon drones coming to town Some Lockeford locals want to shoot them

The Washington Post LOCKEFORD — Six months ago, Amazon contacted local authorities in this rural town to let them know it planned to launch its long-awaited drone delivery service here. But as of last month – when Amazon made the news public – many of the residents of unincorporated Lockeford, with its vineyards, fruit stands, and ranches, still didn’t know about the plan. An 82-year-old woman who lives directly across the street from the still under construction drone facility with her dog, horse, two ponies and small herd of goats said no one had mentioned Amazon’s plans to her. The same went for two brothers busy converting the neighboring winery they recently purchased into a marijuana farm. A man at a local archery shop commented jokingly, “Target practice!” when he found out. When Amazon announced that it would begin delivering packages via drones for the first time in the United States, the news took many residents of Lockeford by surprise. Amazon often embarks on its projects covertly, using code names and negotiating tax subsidies in secret, whether building data centers, corporate headquarters, or new fulfillment centers. But the big reveal sometimes comes as a shock to locals, triggering fights between the tech giant and the communities it aims to court. In recent years, a Denver suburb, an island community on New York’s Canadian border and a small town in Massachusetts have all rallied to stop development by Amazon after the news became public. In 2018, after a hush-hush process to select New York City as one of its second headquarters sites, it nixed the plan due to major pushback. (Amazon is in the process of building its so-called HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia.) The team that chose Lockeford liked it because of its weather, rural topography, access to the highway and existing customer base, a former Amazon employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of concern for retaliation told The Washington Post. But the team also thought it was a good choice because there wouldn’t be too much red tape. It “felt sort of cowboy and do what you will out there,” the person said. The company said it started reaching out last month to locals within a four-mile radius of the site to find out who is interested in trying the program. Those who sign up will be able to

An Amazon facility in Lockeford remains under construction, June 17. choose from a selection of items under five pounds being stored at a small nearby warehouse. The drones, which are 6.5 feet wide and almost 4 feet tall, are supposed to drop the packages on a predetermined spot from a height of about 4 feet. There were some caveats: San Joaquin County, which houses Lockeford, is still processing its permits, and the company still needs to get sign off from the Federal Aviation Administration. But not all residents are ready to lay out the welcome mat. “They’re invading our privacy,” said Tim Blighton, a cement contractor who lives near Lockeford and who said he once threatened to shoot down a neighbor’s drone flying over his house. He’s worried about Amazon cameras seeing into his backyard. But Blighton added he wouldn’t be interested in any kind of delivery from Amazon, which he said is “going to destroy our mom and pop stores.” “I’m not an Amazon guy,” Blighton said. “I think they’re going to wreck everything for us.” Amazon is cooperating with local authorities in Lockeford, said company spokesperson Av Zammit, and is working to obtain permissions. The company’s drone “does not capture imagery from underneath when it is flying to its delivery destination and back” and doesn’t use that data for any other purpose. The drone project will add new jobs, too. Some day, seeing Prime Air drones will be as normal as Prime delivery trucks, he said. “However,” he added, “if someone did shoot down a drone they would have broken the law.” Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, made a big splash when he announced drone delivery

on “60 Minutes” in 2013. But the company has struggled to deliver on its promise, so far making just one drone delivery in Cambridge, England, in 2016 before the team was disbanded. In March 2020, Bloomberg reported, Amazon hired David Carbon from Boeing to speed the project along, and some employees clashed with his approach. Former flight assistant Cheddi Skeete has spoken out publicly about his safety concerns regarding Prime Air, which has experienced multiple drone crashes during test flights, including one in Oregon that started a 25-acre fire. Amazon has tried to sidestep regulation and avoid FAA inspections following crashes, Business Insider reported last month. Asked whether the clashes between the agency and the company over its test site in Oregon could delay the drone launch, FAA spokesperson Ian Gregor said the agency “doesn’t comment on pending certification projects or discussions with companies.” Amazon’s Zammit said the company’s drones are tested in a “closed, private facility” and that “no one has ever been injured or harmed as a result of these flights.” The Lockeford deliveries won’t be experimental, he added, and will be offered under an FAA air carrier certificate to ensure the program meets the agency’s “high safety bar.” The company is working closely with local authorities, too. The former Amazon employee familiar with Prime Air said the team is under pressure to accomplish some deliveries this year, or the future of the project could be under threat. Amazon denies this. Some Lockeford residents said it could make sense for them. “I’ve got a lot of room, why not?” said Tracy Clarke, a local Amazon customer who

said she orders just about everything from the site. Pam Coleman, who lives on a nearly 30-acre property not far from Lockeford, said the nearest town has only a few amenities. “It might be better in places like that,” she said. Others were mixed. Greg Baroni is an Amazon customer who lives close enough to sign up for drone delivery. But he said Amazon delivers packages to his house fast enough as it is. “I don’t think drones are needed,” he told The Post. “They’re taking jobs away from people who are looking.” Like Blighton, the idea of drones made him uncomfortable. “I don’t want drones flying around my house – we live in the country,” he said. The property where Prime Air will be based, which Amazon is leasing from a local concrete producer, was already zoned for distribution, according to Stephanie Yoder, a spokeswoman for the county. The county said the company is currently in the process of getting the appropriate building and business permits, adding that it will also undergo an environmental review via the FAA. Amazon has a team that interfaces with local governments to ensure the community is open to its presence, the former employee said. It can also be a challenge to convince customers to participate in a program that limits what they can order and requires coordination with Amazon. “It’s a pain,” the employee added. Amazon spokesperson Zammit said customers will be able to order packages to be delivered by drones in the normal way. Amazon has also announced plans to bring drone delivery to College Station, Texas, where the city council is scheduled to vote on the plan on July 14. But at a zoning commission meeting

last month, members of the public voiced concerns about safety and noise, including resident Amina Alikhan, who said if Lockeford was open to trying drone delivery first, College Station should “let them be the test site.” But in Lockeford, many residents were surprised to hear their rural farming town had been picked for Amazon’s program. “I have a large amount of livestock and horses, and a drone would easily frighten the animals,” said Naydeene Koster. “Horses will run straight through a barbed wire, or really any kind, of fence when they think they’re in danger. I’ve seen horses kill themselves over a flying balloon, I’d hate to see the damage a flying drone would cause coming into their area.” “Lockeford is an old school farm town made up of mainly old ranches,” she continued. “So the idea of this newer technology invading your privacy while potentially scaring your animals is quite scary to many out here.” Amazon’s Zammit said that the company has worked to reduce noise and will “work hard to minimize any potential disruption.” Lockeford resident Joy Huffman said her daughters order so much from Amazon that she gets a package delivered almost every day. Still, she’s not sure she’d volunteer for the program. “I wonder how it’s going to work,” she said. “Hopefully, the drone puts it in the right yard.” “I don’t like the taking people’s jobs away,” said Jennifer Hoy, who moved to Lockeford from nearby Lodi about a year ago. “But I do want to check it out – I’d like to see what it looks like.” But there are also those for whom Amazon, whether delivered by human or by drone, is a nonstarter. “My stepson worked for them, they don’t treat their employees right,” said Jay Jiminez, who stopped to pick up sausage in Lockeford recently. “If I go to order something and I see it says Amazon, I pass it by.” A man watering his garden just down the road from Amazon’s soon-to-be drone launch site was also concerned about Amazon’s poor reputation as an employer. The man, who declined to give his name, said his wife orders from Amazon regularly. Asked if he’d be signing up for the drone experiment, he shook his head. “They have too much money and too much power already,” he added.

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This shrimp and grits recipe is the best ever – really Daniel Neman

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xcuse me for a minute while I suck up to my boss. Not long ago, my editor mentioned in passing that her favorite thing to eat is shrimp and grits. Suddenly, and for reasons as mysterious as they are inexplicable, I was struck by a consuming desire to write about shrimp and grits. Fortunately, as with practically everyone who has ever had it, I happen to like shrimp and grits. I still remember the first time I tried it: It was at a little neighborhood bistro in Richmond, Virginia, perhaps 30 years ago. Despite living only a few hours from South Carolina, where the dish originated and was popularized, I had not even heard of it at the time. I was instantly intrigued. Soft, creamy grits topped with highly spiced, perfectly prepared shrimp? It sounded amazing. And it was. It was one of those dishes that you know you are going to be ordering for the rest of your life. I don’t recall ever trying to cook it before. But for the sake of my editor (more sucking up!) I decided to make the best, richest and creamiest shrimp and grits that I possibly could. And then I walked back that

idea. I had initially planned to use heavy whipping cream in the grits, but no one needs that many calories in their lives. Half-and-half will be fine, I thought. It was more than fine. It was spectacular. Frankly, the heavy cream would only have gilded the lily and then drowned it in cream. Making shrimp and grits is a two-part process. Part one is the grits. Part two, as you have already deduced, is the shrimp. Usually, grits are made just by pouring hominy (treated cornmeal) into boiling water and cooking it until the corn has absorbed the liquid and become soft and palatable. But soft and palatable is not good enough for the shrimp and grits I wanted to make. I wanted my grits to have oomph, to have pizzazz. I wanted them so good that it would be an insult to call them grits. I began with stone-ground grits, which are to grits what whole-grain flour is to all-purpose flour. It includes the outer part of the kernel, the part that gets stuck in your teeth when you eat popcorn. This process gives the grits more texture, but that is less important than the fact that it also gives them a richer taste of corn. More significantly, I did not

boil them in water. Good cooks know that grains always taste better when they are cooked in a flavorful stock, so I used chicken broth for half of my cooking liquid. The other half was half-and-half. That’s the part that could have been heavy cream, but let’s not be ridiculous. The halfand-half made the grits rich and creamy enough, especially once I stirred in some sharp cheddar cheese. The grits were remarkable on their own, but they are only half a dish. I wanted the other half, the shrimp half, to be as good as the grits. Naturally, I started with bacon. I rendered a couple of slices of diced, thick-cut bacon and used the bacon fat to cook minced onion, celery and green pepper. Yes, that is a New Orleans combination of ingredients, not South Carolina, but they know how to cook shrimp in New Orleans, too. Next, I tossed some shrimp in my own mixture of celery salt, paprika, cayenne pepper and black pepper, and sautéed them with the bacon-scented vegetables. I sprinkled it all with a couple of tablespoons of flour, and stirred it to make a quick roux. All it needed then was

more chicken stock to create a thick and ridiculously delicious sauce. But don’t just take my word for it. I gave some to my shrimpand-grits-loving editor. She tasted it and, with a big smile on her face, said, “It’s perfect.” SHRIMP AND GRITS Yield: 4 servings 2 ½ cups plus ¾ cup chicken stock, divided 2 ½ cups half-and-half 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon salt 1 1⁄8 teaspoons black pepper, divided 1 cup grits, preferably stone-ground ¾ cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese 2 slices thick-cut bacon, diced 1 ⁄3 cup green pepper, diced small 1 ⁄3 cup onion, diced small ½ cup celery, diced small ½ teaspoon celery salt ¼ teaspoon paprika 1 ⁄8 teaspoon cayenne pepper, or to taste 1 pound shrimp, shelled and deveined 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1. In a large saucepan over high heat, combine 2 ½ cups of the chicken stock and the half-and-half. Add butter, salt and 1 teaspoon pepper, and bring to a boil. Stir in grits and return to a boil. Lower

heat to a gentle simmer and cook 40 to 50 minutes until done, stirring frequently. Scrape bottom of pot when stirring to keep grits from sticking. Grits are done when bubbles turn big, like volcanic magma or hot mud pools, or when they have the texture of wet mashed potatoes. Remove from heat. Add cheese and stir until thoroughly combined. Cover to keep warm. 2. Meanwhile, in a large skillet over medium-high heat, cook bacon until crispy. Remove bacon pieces with a spoon and reserve, leaving bacon grease in pan. Add green pepper, onion and celery to the pan and sauté until onion is translucent, about 3 minutes. 3. Combine celery salt, paprika, cayenne and remaining 1⁄8 teaspoon black pepper in a small bowl, and sprinkle over shrimp; toss until evenly coated. Add shrimp and vegetable oil to pan and sauté until shrimp is nearly pink and curled. Sprinkle with flour and cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes. Add remaining 3⁄4 cup chicken stock and cook, stirring, until liquid thickens. 4. To serve, spoon shrimp and sauce over grits, and top with reserved crispy bacon. Per serving: 774 calories; 42 g fat; 24 g saturated fat; 290 g cholesterol; 44 g protein; 55 g carbohydrate; 11 g sugar; 3 g fiber; 1,355 mg sodium; 433 mg calcium Recipe by Daniel Neman

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The Washington Post Every week, Aaron Hutcherson and Becky Krystal answer questions and provide practical cooking advice in a chat with readers. Aaron and Becky write and test recipes for Voraciously, The Washington Post’s team dedicated to helping you cook with confidence. Here are edited excerpts from a recent chat. Q: What’s your preferred method for preparing corn on the cob? A: Honestly, for me, it’s the microwave! I throw the whole ear in there and cook for 3 1⁄2 to 4 minutes for 1 ear and 7 or 8 for 2. Let it hang for a few minutes, shuck and enjoy.

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Aaron Hutcherson says he likes to throw corn – husk and all – on the grill. and then serve it with butter and salt. — Aaron Hutcherson

Q: I’ve been asked to bring a vegan gluten-free dessert to an event and it’s left me struggling for ideas. The obvious thing at this time of the year with all the lovely fruit available would be a fruit salad but I’m just wondering if anyone has any

other ideas that I can try. A: A fruit crumble is a great option! Use nondairy butter, vegetable shortening or olive oil in place of the regular butter. For the fruit, replace the 3 tablespoons of flour with half as much cornstarch. For the crumble topping, you could replace the flour with a gluten-free alternative, or in the past, I’ve

Q: I have a hummus question. Should I go to the trouble to remove the skins from my chickpeas before putting them in the blender with the other ingredients? It seems like a lot of trouble for a little bit more smoothness. A: You don’t need to, but removing the skins will result in a super creamy hummus. Also, you can make great hummus with chickpeas from a can, too! — A.H.

Q: I don’t like to cook in the summer. Hot weather + hot kitchen = cranky family. Any suggestions or recipes for summer dishes that minimize heat in the kitchen and aren’t salads? Our HOA prohibits outdoor grills so we have a countertop George Foreman but that’s still indoor heat. A: I love a good

summer sandwich, whether it’s a BLT (can do everything on the stovetop, if you don’t want to bake the bacon), fresh tomato sandwich or even a riff on caprese on bread. — B.K.

Q: When making gazpacho, should I remove the seeds and insides of the tomatoes? Also which type of tomatoes are best to use? A: Nope, keep it all! You want to get as much tomato flavor in there as you can. Keep in mind that the whole thing is getting blended. You can always strain it after that if you want a super-smooth texture. (I never bother.) I’ll use pretty much any tomato on gazpacho other than the small cherry or grapes, which have not a lot of flesh compared to seeds/skin. Nice as a garnish, though. — B.K.

Q: I have just finished

a very long nine-month kitchen [renovation] and during that time cooked very basically on a hot plate and a grill. We’ve eaten meat because that doesn’t require anything to be chopped. Now that I’m back in the kitchen, how to I start cooking again? Where do I go for inspiration? Easy recipes? What should be my game plan? Do you have any thoughts how you would approach it? A: First of all, I bet your brand-new kitchen will help get you in the spirit of cooking. What did you like cooking before? Are there dishes you missed making? This is also the time of year where I like to peruse all the fresh produce at the markets. Maybe that can inspire you, even if it’s just a pretty salad with lots of colorful seasonal ingredients. — B.K.

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So, I thought, “Well, she must have really been a singer.” ickie Lee Jones went AND Then she died an from the coffeehouses of untimely death. Los Angeles to the cover So, I told her story, of Rolling Stone magazine in among others – the grandfawhat must have seemed like ther, the grandmother, the the blink of an eye to aunt and, on other side, all of some observers. those characters. Of course, no success story is Q: Why was it important to quite that simple – and it would you to include all these be a mistake to label this one as family members? happening overnight. Yet, the A: It’s a story of a family. singer-songwriter’s self-titled And I’m one of the members of debut in 1979 was certainly met the family. People buy it with immediate and overbecause I’m the famous whelming success, thanks to in member. But I’m just one of the large part to the now-iconic members of an incredible jazz-pop single “Chuck American story that includes E.’s in Love.” vaudeville and hippies and rock A year after the album’s stars and suicides and drug release, Jones won the trophy addiction and incredible for best new artist at the 22nd triumph and tragedy. Annual Grammy Awards. And that’s the American Jones is still going strong story. That’s the one we don’t more than four decades later, talk about enough. That’s splitting her time between everybody’s story, more or less. recording new music, playing That average story is so not concerts and supporting her average – so sublime in newly released memoir “Last it’s details. Chance Texaco: Chronicles of I was kind of obsessed with an American Troubadour.” the idea that it was an AmeriI recently had the chance to can story. So in the title, I chat with the star about the included an “American Troubamemoir, which has received dor.” They took it out for the praise from Rolling Stone, European (edition) because I Pitchfork, NPR and other guess American can have a media outlets. particularly political or social Q: Why did you want to definition that might make write a memoir? people not buy the book. A: Because there are too But, for Americans, I feel many ghosts around and they like anybody who lived in a are always tapping on my head cave or hitchhiked down a and my shoulder telling me to highway or sat along the road write their story. So, I wrote and played a guitar when they their story out of respect to all were 18 will understand what I the ghosts that mean when I say American. follow me around. Q: You don’t shy away from Q: Which ghosts were the addressing the hard times in most persistent? the book. How difficult was it A: I kept hearing from my go back and revisit some of Aunt Bea, who is my father’s those times? sister, who died when he was A: I don’t go back. The past is only 20 or 21. Legend had it that always with me. There’s no she was a jazz singer and a traveling back. It’s just a friend of Benny Goodman or question of what direction I the Dorseys. One of those choose to look in. characters would stay at her Once I wrote these stories house when they passed through town. down, they began to fade BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

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from my grasp. I guess most people don’t see time the way I do. But I felt no distance from me at 8 (years old) from me at 48. It’s not a further reach. It’s just a different reach. The memories are vivid and ever-present. It’s not hard, because it’s always with me. It’s no different than everyday. It’s not a traumatic event that has wounded me in the future. It is that the past and future and the present are one. That’s how I experienced them – I think Q: You say the past is always with you. But did you find yourself sort of rediscovering any old memories while writing this book? A: I remembered the night the man tried to break into our house. That was a memory that had been suppressed. At some point, some years ago, I remembered it. But then it went right back to wherever it had been. When I was writing, I remembered that. Scary monsters have haunted me all my childhood. I think it’s just as simple as watching a scary movie that had a big impact on me when I was little. But this was a real thing. The man – the shadows from the street that cast him on the Venetian blinds was very much like a movie. But then I realized that, “Oh, my God, ever single thing was real.” There are still a lot of amazing things that I didn’t write about. Some of them drift around like a kaleidoscope. But I crafted the book so that it would be like a great song – and not be heavy with too much trouble, not be happy story after happy story. And I could honor the relatives but also construct it so that the reader, when they put the book down, had a wonderful time and maybe wanted to read it again.

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TRY TO KEEP HIM AT BAY Ambrose Bierce was a particularly pessimistic individual. For example, he believed that “Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves and good fortune to others.” In bridge circles, this is known as the Unlucky Expert syndrome. However, when a player claims to be unlucky, analysis will normally show that he misplayed. Today’s deal is a good example. Against three no-trump, West led the

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by Phillip Alder club king. Declarer saw that he had eight top tricks: four spades, one heart, two diamonds and one club. He realized that a 3-2 diamond break would allow him to generate the extra trick he needed. Correctly, South held up his club ace until the third round. Then, incorrectly, he played three rounds of diamonds. West won the last of these with the diamond jack and cashed two club tricks to defeat the game. “Just my luck!” grumbled South. “West has five clubs and three diamonds. Do you know the odds against that, partner?” “Not exactly,” replied North. He knew that the game should have been made with an avoidance play in diamonds. At trick four, play a spade to dummy’s jack. Then lead a low diamond toward hand, winning with the ace when East plays low. Take your three remaining spade tricks, pitching your low heart, and lead a second diamond. If East doesn’t play the queen, win with the king and lead a third round, hoping for the best. When the queen does appear, play low from hand. After West follows and East switches to a heart, claim an overtrick. Finally, note that if the spades are 3-3, do not cash the last one; otherwise, East can jettison his diamond queen. COPYRIGHT: 2022, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 21700 of the Business and Professions Code, State of California, the undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding. This lien sale shall be conducted online at www.storagetreasures.com where additional information about the sale and the contents to be auctioned will be posted at least seven (7) days before the sale date. The contents will be sold to the highest bidder on 07/13/2022 at 12:00PM. E0005 Lily Garcia B0029 Jennifer Johnson A0020 Kyle C Skillman This sale is subject to cancellation without notice in the event of settlement be-tween owner and obligated party. SECURITY PUBLIC STORAGE 606 Parker Rd, Fairfield, CA 94533 DR#00055865 Published: June 27, July 4, 2022 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. CA-22-900171-AB Order No.: 02-22001466 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 11/10/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): BENITA JONES, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN Recorded: 11/10/2005 as Instrument No. 200500175311 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SOLANO County, California; Date of Sale: 7/27/2022 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Santa Clara St. Entrance of the Vallejo City Hall, located at 555 Santa Clara Street, Vallejo, CA 94590 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $1,190,449.13 The purported property address is: 2007 DAY BREAK CT, FAIRFIELD, CA 94534-6758 Assessor's Parcel No.: 0181-552-140 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 800-280-2832 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this internet website http://www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-22-900171-AB. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an "eligible tenant buyer," you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an "eligible bidder," you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 800-2802832, or visit this internet website http://www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-22-900171-AB to find the date on which the trustee's sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee's sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee's sale. If you think you may qualify as an "eligible tenant buyer" or "eligible bidder," you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser's sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary's Agent, or the Beneficiary's Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right's against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio S San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http://www.qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-22-900171-AB IDSPub #0179300 7/4/2022 7/11/2022 7/18/2022 DR#00056109 Published: July 4, 11, 18, 2022

Metropolitan Transportation Commission Notice of Availability Interested persons are invited by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to comment on the following draft transportation programming documents: 1) Draft 2023 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP): This is the region’s transportation programming document that contains surface transportation projects proposed over the next four years that will receive federal funding, are regionally significant, or are subject to a federally required action. These projects include, but are not limited to, public mass transit, highway, local road, and bicycle and pedestrian projects. Federal regulations require the TIP to be updated at least every four years. The Draft 2023 TIP was developed to be consistent with MTC’s Plan Bay Area 2050, the long-range plan for transportation projects in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. 2) Draft Transportation-Air Quality Conformity Analysis for Plan Bay Area 2050 and the 2023 TIP: MTC is also preparing a new transportation-air quality conformity analysis for Plan Bay Area 2050 and the 2023 TIP. The Draft 2023 TIP only includes projects consistent with Plan Bay Area 2050. These projects have been modeled in the appropriate analysis year using the latest planning assumptions. The Draft 2023 TIP, which includes a financial constraint analysis, and the Draft Transportation-Air Quality Conformity Analysis are available for public review starting July 5, 2022. The documents will be posted on the MTC web site at https://mtc.ca.gov/funding/transportation-improvement-program-tip. Interested persons are invited to comment on these documents during MTC’s July Programming & Allocations Committee meeting. The public meeting is currently scheduled for: Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 9:45 a.m., or immediately following MTC’s Administration Committee meeting, whichever occurs later, (Remotely). In light of Governor Newsom’s State of Emergency declaration regarding COVID-19 and in accordance with Assembly Bill 361’s (Rivas) provisions allowing remote meetings, this meeting will be accessible via webcast, teleconference, and Zoom for all participants. Detailed instructions on participating via Zoom are available at: https://mtc.ca.gov/how-provide-public-comment-board-meeting-zoom. The meeting Zoom link and accessibility instructions will be posted to: https://mtc.ca.gov/meetings-events no less than 72 hours prior to the public meeting. Written comments will be accepted until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 and may be submitted to MTC’s Public Information Office via e-mail to info@bayareametro.gov or via USPS at: Metropolitan Transportation Commission Bay Area Metro Center 375 Beale Street, Suite 800 San Francisco, CA 94105 For more information, call MTC’s Public Information Office at 415-778-6757. This notice also serves to satisfy the public involvement requirements of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) annual Program of Projects, for applicable funds. MTC’s Programming and Allocations Committee is scheduled to consider public comments received by the end of the comment period at its September 14, 2022, meeting. MTC is expected to approve the final transportation-air quality conformity analysis and the 2023 TIP during it’s the Commission meeting on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. Do you need an interpreter or any other assistance to participate? Please call 415-778-6757. We require at least three working days’ notice to accommodate interpreter requests. For TDD or hearing impaired, call 711, California Relay Service, or 1-800-735-2929 (TTY), 1-800-735-2922 (voice) and ask to be relayed to 415-778-6700. ¿Necesita un intérprete u otra asistencia para participar? Por favor llame al 415-778-6757. Solicitamos tres días hábiles para poder coordinar servicios de interprete. Para servicios de TDD o para sordomudos, favor de llamar al 711 al Servicio de Retransmisión de California o al 1-800-735-2929 (para TTY) o al 1-800-735-2922 (para voz) y pida que lo conecten al 415-7786700. 您是否需要翻譯員或任何其他幫助才能參加呢？請提前三天致電415-7786757. 有聽覺或者語言障礙的人士, 請打電話到711, 加州傳達服務. 電傳打字機的聯系號碼是1-800-735-2929, 需要語音服務可以打電話到1-800-7352922, 然后要求傳達到 415-778-6700. ### J:\SECTION\LPA\PUBLIC INFO-SHARE\Legal Noticespublic Hearings\TIP Legal Notices\2023 TIP Adoption\2023TIP_Draft_Public_Notice-English. Docx CNSB#3600488 DR#00056155 Published: July 4, 2022

Notice of Self Storage Sale Please take notice Central Self Storage - East Travis 837 E Travis Blvd Fairfield CA 94533 intends to hold an auction of the goods stored in a self-service storage unit by the following persons. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.storagetreasures.com on 7/20/2022 at 12:00 PM. Unless stated otherwise the description of the contents are household goods and furnishings: Christ Cordell Natalie Estrada Myrinda R Gant Margurite Pariani (2 units) Leonardo Gonzalez Chrishonna Gates Latoya Richardson Janell Mesa Olivia Liera Earnest Baker Roderick D Booker All property is being stored at the above self-storage facility. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply. See manager for details. 7/4, 7/11/22 CNS-3598908# THE DAILY REPUBLIC DR#00055990 Published: July 4, 11, 2022 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. CA-22-910677-JB Order No.: FIN-22003200 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 5/1/1998. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): Eva Padilla, an unmarried woman and Norma G. Padilla, an unmarried woman and Guadalupe G. Chavez, an unmarried man Recorded: 5/12/1998 as Instrument No. 1998-00035142 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SOLANO County, California; Date of Sale: 7/27/2022 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Santa Clara St. Entrance of the Vallejo City Hall, located at 555 Santa Clara Street, Vallejo, CA 94590 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $88,250.07 The purported property address is: 2470 BEAUFORT DR, FAIRFIELD, CA 94533 Assessor's Parcel No.: 0168-304-050 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 800-280-2832 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this internet website http://www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-22-910677-JB. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an "eligible tenant buyer," you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an "eligible bidder," you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 800-280-2832, or visit this internet website http://www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-22-910677-JB to find the date on which the trustee's sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee's sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee's sale. If you think you may qualify as an "eligible tenant buyer" or "eligible bidder," you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser's sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary's Agent, or the Beneficiary's Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right's against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio S San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http://www.qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-22-910677JB IDSPub #0179147 6/27/2022 7/4/2022 7/11/2022 DR#00055926 Published: June 27, July 4, 11, 2022 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. CA-22-910460-AB Order No.: DEF-392405 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 11/25/2019. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): JERRY LOPEZ, A MARRIED MAN AND MICHAEL LOPEZ, A SINGLE MAN AND ADAM LOPEZ, A SINGLE MAN, AS COMMUNITY PROPERTY Recorded: 11/27/2019 as Instrument No. 201900087684 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SOLANO County, California; Date of Sale: 7/13/2022 at 10:30 AM Place of Sale: At the Santa Clara Street entrance to the City Hall, 555 Santa Clara Street, Vallejo, CA 94590 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $416,173.56 The purported property address is: 86 ALEXANDER WAY, SUISUN CITY, CA 94585 Assessor's Parcel No.: 0032-351-050 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 1-866-539-4173 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this internet website http://www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-22-910460-AB. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an "eligible tenant buyer," you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an "eligible bidder," you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 1866-539-4173, or visit this internet website http://www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-22-910460-AB to find the date on which the trustee's sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee's sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee's sale. If you think you may qualify as an "eligible tenant buyer" or "eligible bidder," you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser's sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary's Agent, or the Beneficiary's Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right's against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio S San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 1-866-539-4173 Or Login to: http://www.qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-22-910460-AB IDSPub #0179011 6/20/2022 6/27/2022 7/4/2022 DR#00055804 Published: June 20, 27, July 4, 2022

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DAVID H. ANABO DECEDENT Case Number: P051502 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Mariya Anabo in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Mariya Anabo be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. 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: JULY 15, 2022 TIME: 8:30 a.m. DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano Superior Court 600 Union Ave. Fairfield, CA 94533 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 appointed 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. Petitioner: Mariya Anabo 3700 Bridgeway Lakes Dr. West Sacramento, CA 95691 510-541-9828 DR#00056173 Published: July 1, 4, 8, 2022 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GAIL BRADFORD, AKA GAIL SMITH Case Number: P051492 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Gail Bradford, aka Gail Smith A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Joyce A. Coggburn in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Joyce A. Coggburn be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. 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: JULY 20, 2022 TIME: 9:00 a.m. DEPT.: 22 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 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 appointed 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. Petitioner: Lori A. Hunt Manfred & Hunt, LLP 2025 Redwood Road, Suite 5, Napa, CA 94558 707-927-0999 DR#00055903 Published: July 1, 4, 8, 2022

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Revenge How much money waits for UCLA and USC in the Big Ten Conference? From Page B1

Tribune Content Agency It’s about name, image and likeness, they said. It’s about like-minded academic institutions. It’s about growing opportunities to recruit. The true reason behind UCLA and USC’s drastic shift to the Big Ten Conference is much simpler than the language administrators use in longwinded statements. It’s money. With the Pac-12’s recent struggles and archaic TV deal, the conference’s teams were simply getting left behind, and jumping ship to the Big Ten gives USC and UCLA their best financial lifeline to compete in a college sports scene that is blurring the lines between professional and amateur more each day.

Giants From Page B1 spot in the rotation for the first time, the Giants turned to a menagerie of relievers and recalled 25-year-oldright-handerSean Hjelle from Triple-A.

A’s From Page B1 been traded. In the first inning, Montas’ four-seam fastball was measured at 94 mph, a pitch that is usually 2-4 mph faster. Montas’ fastball got up to 99 mph on June 23 when he no-hit the Mariners

Warriors From Page B1 rebounding and ability to defend multiple positions. The Warriors are looking to fill the voids left by Payton and Porter with DiVincenzo, a combo guard who’s expected to sign a two-year, $9.3 million deal with the Warriors once contracts can officially be signed Wednesday, according to league sources. Golden State also has two internal candidates to help: Jonathan Kuminga and Moses Moody. Both lottery picks in last year’s draft, Kuminga

The Big Ten’s emergence as a financial titan began when the conference signed a six-year, $2.65-billion TV deal that began in 2017. At the time, the Pac-12 was outpacing the Big Ten in revenue thanks to a landmark TV deal under former commissioner Larry Scott. That 12-year, $3-billion deal signed in 2011 tripled the conference’s annual TV revenues and created the Pac-12 Networks. It was the richest media rights deal in college sports at the time. But it didn’t age well. Hamstrung by the longterm deal and the failure of the Pac-12 Networks, the Pac-12 distributed only $33.6 million to each of its member institutions in 2019-20. The Big Ten offered, on average, $49.2 million that year

to its 14 members, with the 12 longest-tenured institutions receiving on average $54.3 million. Maryland and Rutgers, which were not full members at that time, took home $27.6 million and $11.4 million, respectively. The $20-million difference between what USC and Ohio State continues into the following year. The Covid-19 pandemic had major financial impacts on all athletic programs, but the Pac-12 especially suffered. The conference reported a 35.7% drop in revenue from the 2019-20 fiscal year to 2020-21 and distributed just $19.8 million to each school. The Big Ten fell by 11.6% but still distributed $47.8 million for each school.

Ten’s The Big 2017 media rights deal produced an average of $441.7 million in TV revenue a year. That number could double in the conference’s upcoming contract. Initial reports indicate the Big Ten’s new deal that starts in 2024 could be worth a whopping $1 billion a year. That was before UCLA and USC signed on and brought the second-largest media market in the country. Splitting $1 billion of annual TV revenue among 16 Big Ten schools yields an average of $62.5 million per school. That alone, before additional revenue streams such as NCAA men’s basketball tournament payouts and bowl games, is almost twice what UCLA earned from the Pac-12 two years ago.

Six runs came in Hjelle’s two-plus innings, but only four were earned. With DeSclafani unlikely to return this season and Jakob Junis (hamstring strain) still sidelined, the Giants will likely have to turn to more bullpen games in the near future. After Sunday’s loss, they have split

the eight games in which they relied on relievers and gotten a 3.00 ERA from their pitchers in those contests. Making matters worse, the Giants played host to three beatable teams while the two teams ahead of them in the NL West, the Dodgers and the Padres, beat up on

each other in a four-game series in Los Angeles. As recently as two weeks ago, the Giants were 3.0 games out of first place in the division; after Sunday’s loss, they sit a seasonhigh 8.5 games back. At 40-37, they haven’t been this close to .500 since a loss at Cincinnati dropped them to 24-21.

through 7 2/3 innings at the Coliseum. Montas pitched eight scoreless, but the A’s allowed two runs in the ninth and lost to Seattle 2-1. Montas entered Sunday with a 3-8 record and a 3.20 ERA and 99 strikeouts, although his record is a bit deceiving. Before Sunday, he had received one run of support or fewer in each of his last three starts and 10 of

his last 11. Because of his arm, Montas’ name has been bandied about in trade rumors, as teams looked to fortify their starting staffs before the Aug. 2 deadline. An injury, though, could cool those trade talks. Pruitt kept the A’s in the game as he retired 12 straight batters from the second to the fifth inning, collecting six strikeouts. He allowed an

RBI double to Rodriguez in the sixth inning as the Mariners took a 2-0 lead. Oakland managed just three hits in the first six innings against Mariners left-hander Robbie Ray, who finished with 12 strikeouts. But Andrus’ home run, his fifth of the season and his fourth this year at T-Mobile Park, got Ray out of the game after 107 pitches.

and Moody were expected to have expanded roles next season. Both are expected to compete in Summer League this month, though Moody didn’t play in the Warriors’ California Classic opener Saturday as part of a scheduled rest day. Kuminga and Moody had said they’re looking at this summer to be huge in terms of their development. Kuminga wants to focus on improving his rim protection and shooting, while Moody listed a laundry list of areas he hopes to shore up this offseason. “I obviously want to put focus on getting better and getting prepared for next year, and what better way

Scoreboard BASEBALL Saturday’s Games Seattle 2, OAKLAND 1 Chicago White Sox 5, SAN FRANCISCO 3 Miami 5, Washington 3 Pittsburgh 7, Milwaukee 4 Tampa Bay 6, Toronto 2 Atlanta 4, Cincinnati 1 Minnesota 4, Baltimore 3 Detroit 4, Kansas City 3

Texas 7, N.Y. Mets 3 Houston 9, L.A. Angels 1 N.Y. Yankees 13, Cleveland 4, 1st Game N.Y. Yankees 6, Cleveland 1, 2nd Game Colorado 11, Arizona 7 St. Louis 7, Philadelphia 6 L.A. Dodgers 7, San Diego 2 Chicago Cubs 3, Boston 1 Sunday’s Games Seattle 2, OAKLAND 1 Chicago White Sox 13, SAN FRANCISCO 4 Kansas City 7, Detroit 4 Miami 7, Washington 4 Milwaukee 2, Pittsburgh 0 Tampa Bay 7, Toronto 3

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Seattle at San Diego, 3:40 p.m. St. Louis at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m. Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 6:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Toronto at OAKLAND, 6:40 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO at Arizona, 6:40 p.m. Seattle at San Diego, 1:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Miami, 3:40 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Cincinnati, 3:40 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m. Texas at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Cleveland at Detroit, 4:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Boston, 4:10 p.m. Kansas City at Houston, 5:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. St. Louis at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m. Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

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Cincinnati 4, Atlanta 3 N.Y. Mets 4, Texas 1 Cleveland 2, N.Y. Yankees 0 Baltimore 3, Minnesota 1 Houston 4, L.A. Angels 2 Boston 4, Chicago Cubs 2 Colorado 6, Arizona 5 San Diego 4, L.A. Dodgers 2 St. Louis at Philadelphia (n) Monday’s Games Toronto at OAKLAND, 6:07 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO at Arizona, 3:10 p.m. Miami at Washington, 8:05 a.m. Texas at Baltimore, 10:05 a.m. Cleveland at Detroit, 10:10 a.m., first game Cleveland at Detroit, 3:40 p.m., second game Tampa Bay at Boston, 10:35 a.m. Kansas City at Houston, 1:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 1:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Cincinnati, 3:40 p.m.

still up in the air, so they could use another veteran big man to help relieve Looney and Green. Also, it’s still unclear whether Andre Iguodala, an unrestricted free agent, plans to retire or possibly return to the Warriors for one last run. The 38-yearold missed most of last season and the playoffs due to a myriad of injuries, but he’s a well-respected veteran who has the ear of the Warriors big three. He’s also an invaluable mentor to Golden State’s younger players. The Warriors are still in a position to contend for a title next season, but they’re still a few pieces away from being complete.

Surgery From Page B1 9.95 ERA, after he gave the Giants 31 starts with a 3.17 mark last season. The Giants rewarded him with a three-year, $36 million contract – the longest deal they have handed out under president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi. The inflammation in his ankle first popped up during a start late last year, but he entered spring training optimistic the problem was in the past after a couple months of rest. However, even after spending two months on the IL, DeSclafani was “hitting a wall” in his two starts since being activated, Kapler said. He completed five innings in

only one of his starts and didn’t pitch past the third in either start since coming off the IL late last month. Without DeSclafani, the Giants only have four healthy starters on their roster. “We’ll do the best we can under the circumstances,” Kapler said, noting that Jakob Junis (hamstring strain) is “not far away.” Junis, a free-agent pick-up who previously filled in for DeSclafani with seven starts and a 2.63 ERA, has been out since June 10 with a Grade 2 hamstring strain. He has thrown two bullpens, most recently on Friday, and Kapler said the Giants are taking it “day-byday” with him, though a rehab assignment could be in the cards soon.

CALENDAR Monday’s TV sports Baseball MLB • San Francisco at Arizona, NBCSBA, 3 p.m. • Toronto at Oakland, NBCSCA, 6 p.m. Basketball • WNBA, Phoenix at Los Angeles, ESPN, 4 p.m. Tennis • Wimbledon, ESPN, 3 p.m. • Wimbledon, ESPN, 5 a.m.

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is there to get better than to be in live games with real reps and real fans,” Moody said. The Warriors could sign up to three more players in free agency and will be looking for highlevel role players to round out their roster. Last season, they hit big with Porter and Bjelica, who joined the team on veteran minimum deals. Golden State could use a veteran two-way wing, who can help space the floor and guard multiple positions. And though the Warriors have made their brand of basketball by playing small, Golden State is thin at center, especially with James Wiseman’s status

cans might need another point July 11 against No. 26 Mexico. The U.S. record in the Mexico series is 39-1-1, but a big crowd is expected to support an improving home side that’s chasing a third World Cup berth in four attempts. Furthermore, that one defeat came in the 2011 World Cup qualifiers in Cancún, a result that shipped the Americans to an intercontinental playoff. There is greater room for error these days, thanks to FIFA expanding the World Cup field, starting in 2023, with 32 teams, an increase of eight, and four Concacaf slots instead of three. The U.S. team will look much different here than in recent years. Only six of the 14 players who appeared in the 2019 World Cup final against the Netherlands are on the current roster. Carli Lloyd has retired and Tobin Heath didn’t make the cut. Crystal Dunn and Julie Ertz are on maternity leave. Christen Press, Sam Mewis, Abby Dahlkemper and Tierna Davidson are hurt. Newcomer Catarina Macario, who quickly became one of the world’s top players, tore an ACL last month. Lynn Williams is also sidelined. Andonovski filled the voids with, among others, the Washington Spirit’s Ashley Hatch, Ashley Sanchez,

Trinity Rodman and Andy Sullivan (Lorton, Va.); Racing Louisville’s Emily Fox (Ashburn, Va.); and Gotham FC’s Margaret Purce (Silver Spring, Md.) They have joined a core of 30-somethings: Megan Rapinoe, captain Becky Sauerbrunn, Alex Morgan, Alyssa Naeher and Kelley O’Hara, who is one of seven Spirit players on the 23-player roster. The young players have “done [an] incredible job so far, but at the same time, we also know and understand they can’t take everything [on] themselves,” Andonovski said. The middle layer, in terms of age and experience, includes 2019 World Cup hero Rose Lavelle, Lindsey Horan and Mallory Pugh. It was important, Andonovski added, to invite players who add maturity both on and off the field. “They need to help [the younger players] for stressful environments like this tournament,” Andonovski said. “These young players, as good as they’re doing, they’re doing even better now with the experienced players around them.” Assessing the team as a whole, Sauerbrunn said, “This is a motivated, hungry group. And just being with this group, the last week and a half, two weeks, the vibes are just really good. The energy is really good and, going into a major tournament, that’s one of the most important things I look for: How does it feel? And right now it feels really good.”

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Regional forecast Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Tuesday’s TV Sports Baseball MLB • Tampa Bay at Boston, TBS, 4 p.m. • San Francisco at Arizona, NBCSBA, 6:30 p.m. • Toronto at Oakland, NBCSCA, 6:30 p.m. Basketball NBA • Summer League, Memphis vs. Philadelphia, ESPN2, 4 p.m. • Summer League, Oklahoma City vs. Utah, ESPN2, 6 p.m. Cycling • Tour de France, Stage 4, USA, 5 a.m.

San Mateo 75|61 Palo Alto 78|61

Soccer • USL, Colorado Springs vs. San Diego, ESPN2, 6 p.m.

San Jose 79|60

Tennis • Wimbledon, ESPN, ESPN2, 5 a.m.