Daily Republic: Jan. 18, 2023

Solano residents want state to take ground-level view for fire maps

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FAIRFIELD — Many of the two dozen people who attended Tuesday night’s meeting on the proposed Fire Hazard Severity Zone Map would like to see actual land uses and existing topography factored into the final version.

Those who spoke were clearly not convinced the maps reflect what is actually on the ground –whether that includes the efforts by landowners to mitigate fire risk or changes in the uses from wildland to agriculture, for example.

At least one speaker thinks the detailed information that went into making the maps should be made public before final decisions are made so residents can have input on those building blocks.

The bottom line for many of those at the meeting boiled down to the cost and even the availability of fire insurance, and how the new maps will affect that critical issue.

“The difference for most people is the fire hazard map and reducing the risk,” Supervisor John Vasquez said in an interview after the meeting.

He said that while the state maps may play a part, insurance companies have their own mapping off of which they develop policy standards, mitigation requirements and ultimately costs.

The silver lining is there are ways to certify properties to show insurance companies there have been efforts made to reduce the risk of wildfire, including a relatively new program being driven by the insurance companies themselves.

Marshall Turbeville, battalion chief for the Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit of the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said the state maps are not going to reflect a parcel-to-parcel view. It is going to be more general and take in the historical landscape.

“It’s modeled for what it could be,” said Turberville, explaining

that means wildlands.

“I believe the intent of the map is to keep homes from burning,” Turbeville said.

For those properties now in a higher hazard area, any new construction will have to meet the higher standards for fire-safe construction and materials.

The maps also only address the State Responsibility Areas within the county, with three hazard levels.

Solano County has 86,971 acres in State Responsibility Areas, pretty much the same as existed that last time the maps were done in 2007.

However, 31,570 of those acres are now placed in very high hazard areas, representing 36.3% of the SRA. That is 21.5% more than in 2007. The map shows 27,416 acres of the SRA (31.5%) is in the high hazard area, down 4.9% from 2007; and 27,987 acres in the moderate hazard area (32.2%), down 16.6%.

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DA: Suspected gunman in Suisun killing was out on bail for suspected role in Fairfield killing

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FAIRFIELD — A man charged in a murder case in Suisun City was out on bail at the time of the killing on a separate murder case in Fairfield, the Solano County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Tuesday.

Richard R. Klein, 51, of Martinez, appeared in court Tuesday and is charged with one count of murder in connection with the Suisun City case.

Klein is also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and the enhancement of discharging a firearm during the commission of a murder, the District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. Additionally, Klein is charged with an enhancement for committing murder while being out of custody on another criminal case.

The District Attorney’s Office and law enforcement have not

released the name of the person who was killed, only stating that he was 37 and had been shot multiple times.

The killing occurred about 9:50 p.m. Dec. 15 on the 1200 block of Potrero Circle. The victim died at a nearby hospital. The Solano County SheriffCoroner’s Office has said the case “is protected” and could not release any information.

Suisun City Police Chief Aaron Roth was not available for comment Friday afternoon.

Suisun City police detectives worked with the Solano County District Attorney’s Office Major Crimes Task Force on this investigation, the Police Department said last week in a community update to note Klein’s capture. Investigators from both entities were able to identify and locate Klein.

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Storms: The past three weeks were the wettest in 161 years in the Bay

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How wet has it been recently in Northern California?

New rainfall totals show that no person alive has experienced a threeweek period in the Bay Area as wet as these past 21 days. The last time it happened, Abraham Lincoln was president.

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County Office of Emergency Services has lifted the evacuation warning for residents who live within a quarter-mile of Suisun Creek.

The bigger issue right now is the number of roads that have been closed – including two different stretches of Pleasants Valley Road, the county reported.

Most of the closures are in the northern part of the county.

The good news is that the weather is cooperating, with a storm coming in Wednesday, but dry weather expected after that.

“We have received less than (a) half-inch of precipitation over the

past 36 hours,” the OES reported in its afternoon briefing. “Showers are expected tomorrow, but otherwise dry over the next week. Widespread overnight lows will be in the 30s for the next seven to 10 days.”

The OES continues to watch creek and lake levels, reporting “creeks continue to flow from runoff, but water levels have dropped significantly.”

As of Tuesday afternoon, 13 customers were without power due to three outages.

The county encourages residents to sign up at www.AlertSolano.com for emergency updates in your area.

The active road closures in unincorporated area can be found at https://bit.ly/3jXMyiK.

From Dec. 26 to Jan. 15, 17 inches of rain fell in downtown San Francisco. That’s the second-wettest three-week period at any time in San Francisco’s recorded history since daily records began in 1849 during the Gold Rush. And it’s more than five times the city’s historical average of 3.1 inches over the same time.

The only three-week period that was wetter in San Francisco – often used as the benchmark for Bay Area weather because it has the oldest records – came during the Civil War when a drowning 23.01 inches fell from Jan. 5 to Jan. 25,

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1862, during a landmark winter that became known as “The Great Flood of 1862.”

“The rainfall numbers over the past three weeks just kept adding up. They became a blur,” said Jan Null, a meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services in Half Moon Bay, who compiled the totals. “We had a strong jet stream that was bringing in storms, one after another. It was hard along the way to separate the individual storms.”

So much rain fell since Christmas in Northern California that some cities, including Oakland, Stockton, Modesto and Livermore, already have reached their yearly average rainfall totals. In other words, if it didn’t rain another drop until

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She fled Mexico violence at 17; now this pastor helps migrants on their journey

DALLAS — Isabel Márquez knows today’s immigrant journey like few other pastors.

She fled cartelrelated violence in northern Mexico at 17, and arrived in the U.S. as an undocumented and unaccompanied minor. She spent several months in detention.

Nearly three decades later, the 46-year-old is an associate pastor, welcoming and serving migrants who have fled violence and economic devastation in Latin America and other regions. Hundreds of thousands have crossed through Mexico into the U.S. in recent years.

And hundreds of migrants have found help at a respite center at the Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas, where Márquez and her crew of volunteers greet them with a meal, clean clothes and instructions on how to buy bus or plane tickets for the next leg of their journey.

“All these obstacles that we suffer as migrants and all the obstacles that we suffer as asylum seekers are part of the journey to actually know that God is there in the journey with us,” said Márquez.

“Yes, we’re going to suffer. But it’s not the end of the story. It’s just the comma.”

The rest of each migrant’s life story can pivot away from the pain of migration, which can include assaults, kidnapping and violence, said Márquez, who goes by Pastor Isabel. Many migrants arrive depressed and unsure of what lies ahead, she said.

“I know that I suffered from that experience,” said Márquez, who fled the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo, where there is still cartelrelated violence. “I don’t want them to have only those memories. There’s hope…There’s people that want to welcome them in this country.”

One recent morning, Márquez walked among the migrants in the church’s dining area, speaking in Spanish. The migrants were released from a federal detention center in central Texas and dropped outside the church..

Every power outlet was occupied by a charging cell phone. Bibles peeked out of orange netted bags that migrants received at the detention center. Some were confused

about where they were exactly. They were guided to a poster that gave the exact address.

“We need,” she said, “to let them know they are in a safe space.”

More people are migrating around the world than ever before, according to the United Nations refugee agency, which began collecting statistics after World War II. And at the southwest border, a record 2.2 million migrants were processed by the U.S. Border Patrol last fiscal year.

In recent months, about a third were quickly expelled to Mexico under a pandemic-related policy, known as Title 42, which is under litigation before the Supreme Court. The policy resulted in many immigrants making repeat tries because there were no consequences.

The right to apply for asylum

All the migrants arriving at the Oak Lawn church have been processed and released, and they carry immigration documents confirming that. Some are provided an immigration court date. Others are given instructions to report to federal immigration officials when they are at their final destination.

Advocates have stood firm on the right of migrants to apply for asylum, per U.S. and international law.

Márquez is among them. “We want to tell the people that it is very legal to apply for asylum in this country,” she said. “This is not something we are doing illegally. It is something to help people with resettlement.”

Rev. Rachel Baughman, the church’s senior pastor, echoed Márquez. “Nothing about this is an illegal process,” Baughman said. “These are people seeking asylum lawfully.”

The Oak Lawn church, in partnership with other nonprofits and faith groups, has helped migrants since 2018.

Some migrants have come from El Paso, where the local government there and the nonprofit Annunciation House have sent migrants to Dallas, in part, because the Dallas-Fort Worth region is a major transit hub.

When an official from the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, a small community of 2,300 in central Texas, called asking if the church could help, Márquez said she agreed.

“It was kind of shock-

ing for me,” she said. But after reassurances that the migrants had been processed by federal authorities and were being released, she agreed to help.

The number of people coming can vary from a few dozen one month to 100 weekly. Those numbers could climb higher as border migration – already at record highs – continues to hold steady despite the cold weather.

Helping migrants on their journey

One chilly afternoon, as the last of the migrants were sent on their journey, the pastor easily toggled between English and Spanish.

She was at a small desk with her computer, checking flights on a silver laptop. Small stickers decorated the computer with slogans like “Love Wins” and “Chingona como mi mama,” or “fierce and capable like my mom.”

The pastor was dressed casually in slacks and a green sweater that nearly obscured her religious collar. Little angel earrings dangled from her ear lobes. A Cuban man asked to confirm his flight plans.

“Cuál es tu apellido, mi hijo,” she said, asking for his last name.

“Garcia-Rodriguez,” he responded.

Luckily, he had several hours before his flight, but he rushed out the door to catch a ride with a volunteer.

Márquez’s biggest asset is her warmth, said Jesse Tafalla Jr., president of the Dallas rainbow LULAC council, who has known Márquez for more than a decade. “She always asks, ‘How are you doing,

Hurdle-jumping Hurdle-jumping has filled Isabel Márquez’s life journey. .

Her passage into Texas, through El Paso, was literally life-saving, she said, as cartel violence in Nuevo Laredo spread. She got help from relatives here.

Soon, she married a U.S. citizen and began her citizenship process. Her husband passed away after eight years of marriage, leaving her to raise two young sons. Eventually, she remarried. Márquez and her female partner adopted a girl, who is now 15 years old.

Márquez’s route to minister began as a Bible

studies volunteer at Cathedral of Hope, a Dallas religious institution ministering to the LGBTQ community. She specialized in working with women, children and immigrants.

“I saw the need in Bible studies and it escalated,” she said, laughing at the memory.

One day at the Cathedral of Hope, she was asked to make the official leap to formal ministry, cajoled with the observation, “You are already doing it.”

More hurdles came from cancer. By then, her spiritual journey was on firm ground, as she worked as an associate pastor at the Cathedral of Hope. She stayed there for 11 years, until the ravages of uterine

and ovarian cancer forced her to take a break. She eventually defeated

“I started meditating,” she said. “I said to my God, ‘Forgive me, work with me.’ I don’t know if it was meditation or medication… I survived.”

She got her bachelor’s degree in religion at the University of North Texas in 2021, and is working on a master’s degree at Iliff School of Theol-

Today, she proudly says that no one should be afraid or embarrassed by their story – especially immigrants. “They were willing to risk everything for change,” she said. “I really honestly understand what they have gone through.”

Márquez brings experience that resonates, said Almas Muscatwalla, a volunteer leader at the Oak Lawn United Methodist respite center. Some arrive at the day shelter disoriented. Others are still traumatized by the violence of a journey through multiple countries.

“This is real,” Muscatwalla said, “for somebody like Pastor Isabel.”

One evening after all the migrants had left the huge brown-bricked church complex, Muscatwalla, Márquez and two other women pulled together for a group hug, Muscatwalla recalled. Then they just wept.

Jesse?’” he said. “Anytime she asks for something, I’m there as a resource.”

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Associate Pastor Isabel Marquez welcomes migrants who have fled violence and economic devastation in Latin America and other regions.

Vacaville event honors legacy of MLK

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VACAVILLE — The dream of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has come a long way from where it started.

“We have a long way to go but we have made a lot of progress,” Black Chamber of Commerce President Tamuri Richardson said Monday at the 3rd Annual Peace at the Park event at the McBride Senior Center.

It really was near the park because of the rain, which inspired a change of venue.

Richardson looked around the McBride Senior Center and was pleased to see a rainbow of people in the packed room. She said the “Dream” that King spoke of wasn’t just for people of color but for everyone.

“It is a variety of the rainbow here today and that was part of the dream, having people come together,” Richardson said. “But until people can live out the dream of who they were, all we can do is keep trying. We will get there.”

The event is a collaborations of several groups that include Vacaville People’s Forum, Solano County Black Chamber of Commerce and Vacaville City Councilman Greg Ritchie.

The two-hour event showcased the talents of local singers and dancers in a tribute to the memory of King.

Assemblywoman Lori Wilson, the keynote speaker, spoke of a moment in childhood when she performed in one of the King memorial events and wondered why in the

ceremony everyone kept saying, “Some day we will get there.”

Her mother told her afterward that because King believed in peaceful protesting, that people during the civil rights movement couldn’t respond in force to make change happen: It had to be peaceful.

“Showing compassion is what is going to make a better world,” Wilson said. “But that doesn’t mean giving away money to a beggar or homeless person.”

King spoke in 1967 at New York City’s Riverside Church. Wilson recounted his words from that day: A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act.

One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

“Our job is to make sure the next generation doesn’t have to beg and be homeless,” Wilson said. “But we haven’t done what needs to be done to make that happen.”

Other speakers included Rep. Mike Thompson, state Sen. Bill Dodd and muralist Cassius Reynolds.

Music was provided by vocalists Tyler Bertani who sang “Imagine,” by John Lennon, Leslie Silver, the School of Rock Band and DJ John Laxa. The Bliss Dance Company per-

formed and yoga instructor Tisha Hill led a meditation. Food truck owner Jade Jones provided refreshments. And about 10 local community groups came out with tables.

The event culminated with the reading of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech by members of the Vacaville Neighborhood Boys and Girls Club.

Leaven Kids board honors Price with program in his name

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FAIRFIELD — The Leaven Kids board of directors has unanimously approved a plan to name an existing or in-development educational program after former Mayor Harry T. Price.

This naming recognition is meant to memorialize Price’s contributions to the Leaven Kids mission, according to a press release. Price was a founding member and longtime supporter of Leaven Kids. The motion was led by Leaven Kids board member and former Vacaville Mayor Len Augustine.

“Harry Price has been an incredible spokesperson for Leaven Kids since the beginning,” Augustine said in a press release.

“His love for improving the lives of children in-need has been an inspiration for many of us. As a close friend of Harry’s for over 25 years, I know his passion for improving the educational experience.”

The recently formed Leaven Kids Naming and Stewardship Subcommittee will draft a formal proposal and submit it to the board of directors for review and approval over the coming weeks. The subcommittee is being led by retired four-star U.S. Air Force general and Leaven Kids board of directors vice president,

Gen. Maryanne Miller.

“Mayor Price had a unique gift with children,” Miller said in the press release. “The leadership and passion he brought to the classroom served as an inspiration to our students, igniting in them an undeniable love for learning that will continue to serve them throughout their entire lives. These qualities exemplify the very values that our program seeks to promote – values that we hope to memorialize by naming one of our existing or indevelopment programs in his honor.”

Miller has a heralded history of service to the greater North Bay community. During her time in the U.S. Air Force, Miller served as the 349th Air Mobility Wing commander at Travis Air Force Base. She was a Fairfield resident for several years and, most recently, was selected to serve as the vice president for the Leaven Kids board of directors.

She has a personal connection with the surrounding community and feels passionately about honoring Price’s legacy of service, which drove the board’s decision to appoint her as the chair of this subcommittee, according to the press release.

Augustine will serve as the co-chair. Supporting

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Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic Tyler Bertani sings “Lift Every Voice and Sing” during Peace near the Park event, Monday.

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Members of Bliss Dance Company perform during Peace near the Park at the McBride Senior Center in Vacaville, Monday. The event celebrates the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Congressmen present more than $6M for Vacaville, Vallejo projects

VACAVILLE — U.S.

Reps. Mike Thompson and John Garamendi on Tuesday presented the city with a $4 million check for the Interstate 505/ Vaca Valley Parkway Multi-Modal Improvements Project.

A $1.219 million check also was presented to the Mare Island Historic Park Foundation for the Mare Island Preservation and Restoration Project, and an $830,000 check to the Vallejo Police Department for the Ghost Gun and Gun Violence Reduction Initiative.

The money in the government funding bill will provide for the restoration and preservation of the Mare Island Admiral’s Mansion and St. Peter’s Chapel, “two important structures on Mare Island,” Thompson, D-St. Helena, said in a statement. “St. Peter’s Chapel also includes 25 famed Tiffany stained-glass windows, the largest collection on the West Coast. I know that the Historic Park Foundation will be able to restore these buildings and help return the splendor to Mare Island.”

The Vacaville ceremony took place at City Hall.

The check presented in Vacaville supports the $16 million in infra-

structure improvements planned for the area – a plan designed to ease the movement of goods from industrial and manufacturing centers, improve safety and promote environmental sustainability, project officials said at a press conference last January.

Garamendi, D-Walnut Creek, and Thompson attended that event as well.

The area has increasingly become a busy center for housing, biotech, manufacturing and agriculture, and with the growth has come more traffic accidents and congestion.

The access has also been poor for the everincreasing number of trucks trying to make turns onto the parkway.

The project’s intent is to also accelerate commercial and industrial development, accommodate job growth and housing productions, and to provide alternative transportation access for Vacaville residents.

The city estimates the corridor improvement has the potential to stimulate more than 6 million square feet of new business development, pave a way for

1,250 new homes, have the potential to create more than 10,000 jobs and generate in excess of $3 million in annual tax revenue.

Shovels should go in the ground on the project in the fall with estimated completion by spring 2025.

Congress has earmarked $10 million for the project: $2 million from Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement funds, and the final $4 million from the federal “Infrastructure and Jobs Act.”

Thieves are targeting California’s refund cards; here’s what to watch out for

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To ease the pain caused by high gasoline prices, the state of California has been sending a Middle Class Tax Refund of $200 to $1,050 to eligible households.

Unfortunately, a portion of that amount has wound up in the hands of thieves.

The thefts have targeted Californians who received their grants in the form of a prepaid debit card distributed by the Money Network, a contractor for the state Franchise Tax Board. An undisclosed number of residents have reported that their card’s account was drained by fraudsters after they started using it.

Some Californians said that their money was taken even before they activated the card, according to KGO, the ABC TV affiliate in San Francisco. And many of the victims who tried to reach Money Network for help couldn’t get through, KGO reported.

Money Network didn’t respond to a request for comment from The Times.

Andrew LePage, a spokesman for the Franchise Tax Board, said the board was aware that some recipients had filed fraud claims with Money Network, adding, “Under the terms of FTB’s contract with Money Network the MCTR debit card program is expected to run with less than a 1% fraud rate, and currently Money Network reports that the rate is well below that level.”

With more than 9 million cards issued, though, just 0.5% would still be a large number of victims — 45,000, representing potential losses of $9 million to more than $47 million.

“Given the size of the MCTR program, we anticipated the possibility of fraud,” LePage said. “FTB and Money Network take all fraud claims seriously and will investigate each claim reported on an individual basis. We will ensure recipients get the payments that they’re eligible for.”

Here are some tips for protecting the money the state sent you, as well as what you should do if you think you’ve been victimized by scammers.

Why are prepaid cards vulnerable?

At least some of the Money Network cards have gone out without a security chip that would make it harder to steal the information stored on the card, such as the recipient’s name, account number, the expiration date and the three-digit security code on the back. As a result, those cards are more susceptible to a technique called “skimming.”

To use one of those cards at a retailer or restaurant, you have to swipe its magnetic strip through a card reader, then either enter your PIN into the reader or sign a copy of the receipt. But some card readers have been altered by thieves with a “skimmer” that collects the information on the magnetic strip. The thieves then use that information to make purchases with the card online, where no PIN or signature is required, draining the balance.

In some cases, thieves will also have hidden a pinhole camera to record the PINs entered into the keypad to go along with magnetic strip information captured by the skimmer.

“The whole secret to

the prepaid debit card,” said author and cybersecurity expert Adam Levin, “is that the holder is the owner, whoever may be holding it.”

In other words, the card is designed to behave like cash, which can be passed from person to person. And having the information from the magnetic strip is akin to holding the card, at least when making transactions where the card doesn’t have to be present.

This problem isn’t unique to the tax refunds — skimming and other forms of fraud are potential problems for any prepaid card. For example, CBS News reported in 2021 that skimming devices used by thieves apparently targeting unemployment benefit debit cards were found at five ATMs near Thousand Oaks.

If you have a card with a security chip, you can make purchases just by tapping it on a card reader that’s equipped to work that way. But those cards also come with magnetic strips because some businesses — for example, gas stations with older pumps that have built-in card readers — still rely on the strips to complete transactions. So they’re potentially vulnerable to skimming as well.

And Levin noted that both types of cards are equally vulnerable to “e-skimming.” That’s when hackers load mali-

cious software onto a retailer’s website to capture the credit-card information typed in by shoppers. Sadly, he said, “there’s absolutely no way for consumers to know it’s happening.” They’ll find out only after their account is tapped by thieves.

Money Network and the FTB aren’t revealing how fraudsters have been able to hijack some Californians’ refund cards, and there may be other explanations besides skimming. For example, Levin said, card recipients’ computers could have been infected with malware that recorded them entering their card information while making a purchase online.

“You’ve got a number of extremely sophisticated rings” defrauding the public, he said, including state-sponsored ones in North Korea and other countries. These groups are constantly trying to gain information, whether through hacking or trickery, that they can use to bleed funds out of their victims’ accounts.

Beyond that, Levin noted that data breaches such as the massive one at the Equifax credit bureau

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Rebuilding Together prepares to give away safety kits, food boxes

VACAVILLE —

Rebuilding Together

Solano County will be handing out free Disaster Safe at Home Kits and food boxes to veterans, active military and other military families Friday at the Vacaville Veterans Memorial Building.

“The Disaster Safe at Home Kits are made possible due to our generous sponsors, Wells Fargo, and Home Depot, as well as our additional donors including Bank of the West, Costco Vallejo, California State Automobile Association, First Bank, Food Bank of Contra Costa-Solano Counties, M&M Sanitation LLC, Medic Ambulance, Minuteman Press, Phillips 66, The Nimitz Group, Valero Benicia Refinery, Vallejo Community Presbyterian Church and other community supporters,” organizers said.

The giveaway will take place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The veter-

In brief

Commission recommends Audubon Society for county grant

FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Parks and Recreation Commission is recommending that the Board of Supervisors award the Napa-Solano Audubon Society a $2,500 Fish and Wildlife Propagation Fund grant.

The Audubon Society,

ans building is located at 549 Merchant St.

Rebuilding Together Solano County will also have a drawing for grocery gift cards and raised garden boxes, the organizers said.

Rebuilding Together is a nonprofit organization “dedicated to allowing low-income veteran, senior and disabled residents the ability to remain in their home –safely and with dignity. Our mission is to provide safe and healthy homes, revitalize communities and rebuild lives,” the organizers said.

Recipients must have a driver’s license showing a Solano County address; military ID, VA Card or a DD-214 discharge document. Each household is allowed one Safe at Home Kit.

For more information about Rebuilding Together Solano County, contact Elizabeth Hoffman at ehoffman. rtsc@gmail.com or call 707-580-9360.

which made a presentation to the commission Thursday, was the lone applicant for this year’s grant cycle.

The group told the commission it intends to use the funds for its education programs, targeting third- through fifth-graders in Solano County.

Consideration of the grant by the supervisors has not been scheduled.

Funds come from the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.

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at Travis AFB. He married Setsuko “Nancy”, in 1954. They were married for 60 years until she passed July 4, 2014. She was not only the love of his life, but was his life! After his retirement from the Air Force, he then retired in 1994 from the Alameda

Air Station as Department Head of Production and Planning. He was active as a Mason for over 60 years. In 1988, he was elected Grand High Priest of the Royal Arch Masons for the State of California. He is a member of the York Rite and Scottish Rite and is a Knight of the York Grand Cross of Honor He was the Intendant General of Northern California for the Red Cross of Constantine. Bob loved animals, especially Buttons, his Boston Terrier of almost 16 years. He is survived by his two sons Robert and David, daughter in laws Angie and Wendy. Grandchildren Shannon, Hayley, Holly and David Jr, Great Granddaughters Brooklyn and Freya. A special thanks to Iris Frederick’s who was his care giver for 10 years and her husband Joe for all of his help

He always said he lived by four words “Duty, Honor, Country and Family”.

He is a member of St Marks Lutheran Church. Memorial service will be Januar y, 21, 2023 at 11:00 a.m., 1600 Union Street Fairfield, CA 94533. Gravesite service will be February 6, 2023 at 1:15 p.m. at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, CA 95620.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Shriners Hospital at https://donate.lovetotherescue.org/give/119312/#!/donation/ checkout?c_src=lttr-home-slider. Please check in memory of: Robert G Evans.

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Chief Master Sergeant Robert “Bob” Graham Evans was born November 15, 1932 in New York City and passed away January 8, 2023. He attended public school in NYC and New Jersey. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1949, at 17 years old. He served in the Korean and Vietnam wars. He

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Vacaville Mayor John Carli, left, accepts a $4 million check on behalf of the City of Vacaville from Rep. John Garamendi and

Rep. Mike Thompson in Vacaville, Tuesday. The money will be used for the Interstate 505/Vaca Valley Parkway Project.

As more shooters wear body armor, a bill would ban most bullet-proof vest ownership

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Most Californians would be banned from purchasing or taking possession of body armor, such as a bullet-proof vest, under a bill now being considered by state lawmakers.

Assembly Bill 92, introduced by Assemblyman Damon Connolly, D- San Rafael, comes as a response to many highprofile mass shootings where the shooter wore body armor. That includes the 2015 massacre in San Bernardino, where two people wearing tactical gear killed 14 people at a holiday gathering.

State and federal law already prohibit people convicted of a violent felony from possessing body armor. AB 92 would make it a misdemeanor

for anyone outside of a specified profession to purchase or take possession of body armor.

In its current form, the bill exempts law enforcement officers and members of the military, armored car guards and security guards, firefighters and paramedics, firearms dealers and body armor salespeople, building safety inspectors and code enforcement officers.

The bill also makes it a felony to commit violence with a firearm while wearing body armor.

“Simply put, the widespread availability of military-grade body armor helps mass shooters and criminals kill more people,” Connolly said in a statement. “It is clear that the sale of body armor has empowered violent

criminals, including mass shooters, to harm, kill, and prolong their rampages. This ongoing and unnecessary epidemic of violence must be stopped and AB 92 will help protect innocent bystanders and our peace officers.”

While body armor is expensive and rarely used by criminals in most crimes, according to NPR, there has been an uptick in mass shooters wearing it during their attacks.

At least 21 mass shooters have worn some form of body armor over the last 40 years, according to The Violence Project, which studies gun violence. The majority of those cases were in the last decade.

AB 92 likely will be heard in committee later this spring.

More than 70 dogs and cats rescued in Martinez house fire

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MARTINEZ — Seventy Pomeranian dogs and three cats were rescued in a house fire Tuesday morning that injured one resident, authorities said.

None of the canines or felines were injured and they were taken into temporary custody by Contra Costa Animal Services Department officers, authorities said.

Three residents of the two-story home on Barber Lane were able to get out on their own and one was taken to a hospital for smoke inhalation, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokes-

man Steve Hill said.

The fire started in the garage of the home about 11 a.m. and spread to the second floor, Hill said. Flames and smoke were coming out of the house when firefighters got to the scene.

Firefighters discovered the animals when they made entry into the house and brought them outside, Hill said.

Hill said the fire was brought under control about 11:30 a.m. No firefighters were injured.

The cause of the fire is under investigation. A damage figure was not immediately available.

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Lt. Alana Weissman, said the dogs, including some puppies, had been left in the care of the house residents about a week ago by their owner who lives out of the county. The owner was enroute to the house Tuesday afternoon to retrieve the dogs, she said.

She said animal services officers would remain on the scene to wait for the dogs’ owner to arrive.

She said officers were “happy to come out and assist and give the animals a quick onceover to make sure they were healthy. They all look happy and healthy.”

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The complex psychology behind keeping Californians safe in a megastorm

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Despite desperate pleas from California Gov. Gavin Newsom about the dangers of extreme weather, and weeks of advance warnings from meteorologists, the relentless series of storms drenching California has already claimed more lives than the death toll from the past two years of wildfires.

So how do people still get caught in the crosshairs of megastorms that have proven their ability to flood cars, ravage homes and claim lives? Have Californians – once roundly ridiculed as weather wimps – already become jaded to atmospheric rivers and overconfident that they can handle the hazards?

Meteorologists only really started digging into complicated questions about weather psychology like these around 20 years ago, according to Rebecca Morss, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

There’s a long list of reasons why people either can’t stay home in this extreme weather, or simply choose not to, so researchers are focusing on the best ways to help people recognize the risks. They want to avoid normalizing extreme events, or making people so afraid of weather reports that they shut down and reject the information entirely.

“Different people are going respond to different information in totally different ways – some people really trust authorities and science, some people don’t,” Morss said, explaining how political and cultural views complicate weather warnings. “There’s no one-size-fits-all solution. I think if this were an easy problem, we probably would have solved it by now.”

While scientific knowledge and forecast technology has improved by leaps and bounds over the last 30 years, Morss said crafting messaging that encourages emergency preparation without overstating the risks –a sure way to lose the public’s trust – is still a challenge, especially as extreme weather events become more frequent across the country due to climate change.

This messaging – and the collective response to it – has shifted significantly over the last few decades.

A lack of official warnings was partially to blame for hundreds of deaths during a 1976 flash flood in Colorado’s Big Thompson Canyon. But by 2011, after one of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history ripped through Missouri, researchers concluded that many residents had become desensitized to sirens and warnings.

Morss’ work focuses not only on the social science of how people make decisions when hazardous weather is on the horizon, but – maybe more importantly –what kind of information can help them make better choices.

At a basic level, she said it’s important to avoid meteorologist jargon, steer clear of complex information and repeat messaging to help people avoid finding themselves in a tragic situation.

“A lot of people have seen extreme weather on TV or been close to it, but how many of us have really experienced a truly life-threatening situation due to weather?” Morss pointed out.

“It’s really hard to know exactly where (flooding) is going to happen, and it’s also just really

hard for a person to imagine the place that they know and see every day suddenly being under all this water.”

Storms are unpredictable, she said, and it can be hard for someone to reliably judge when a normally safe roadway or other location has become an unsafe one – until it’s too late.

“We’ve all done things that we look back on afterwards and say, ‘Wow, I was so lucky,’” Morss said.

Significant storm systems in California are a routine occurrence, but Warren Blier, a meteorologist and science officer with the National Weather Service in Monterey, immediately knew the current set of storms was different.

“One day in late December, I was looking at computer model output through the extended portion of the forecast, and I remember thinking, ‘I just don’t see an end to this,’” Blier said. “What was so extraordinary was that even early on, it was starting to look to me like the possibility of just system after system after system.”

It was the first time he remembers seeing that kind of forecast since the El Niño winter of 1997-98.

“Astonished, that would be too strong,” Blier said of his reaction, “but it was more of a ‘wow’ moment – a series of ‘wow’ moments.”

While these weather conditions might generate more of a shrug for people in other parts of the country – from the Rockies and the Great Plains to the East Coast – there’s more potential for extreme impacts in a more vulnerable state like California.

He said it’s all about what people have learned and prepared for over time.

“I think people from other parts of the country who don’t routinely experience significant earthquakes find it a little mind-boggling that it doesn’t discomfort people here more, and the reverse is true when it comes to the weather stuff,” Blier said.

“In Minnesota, you kind of know what weather you’re going to have, and things are designed around that. But for a generally

reasonable, pleasant climate in California, when you suddenly throw in all these winds and all this water, (the state) is not really designed to accommodate all that because it’s not what routinely occurs.”

One of the most important developments in recent years is more collaboration between meteorologists and local emergency management workers – sharing weather expertise and predictions, and seeking out the best ways to disseminate that information to the community.

Daily weather briefings from the National Weather Service are sent to people like Kia Xiong, Santa Clara County’s emergency risk communications officer, who helps coordinate resources when those forecasts trigger the county’s inclement weather plans.

She said those plans activate outreach teams to reach unsheltered communities, especially along the creeks and waterways, while other public information officers blast messaging over Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, NextDoor and the county’s website.

Xiong said they stick to

Vietnamese and Tagalog, and include accessibility features like alt-text.

“That’s how we made sure that we’re reaching a broad audience and that no one is missed,” Xiong said. “The pandemic certainly changed the way we push out messaging, because now we

But

“Sometimes people do look out the window and see that it’s not raining as hard as the weather service or public government is saying,” Xiong said. “So it really is up to community members themselves to make those decisions.

“We can only say, ‘Hey, stay off the road’ so many times.”

School district transitioned child without telling parent, lawsuit alleges

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A conservative legal group has filed a lawsuit against the superintendent and school board members for the Chico Unified School District, alleging that a district employee helped a fifth grade student transition their gender identity without informing the child’s parent.

The Center for American Liberty, founded by attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who is campaigning to be chair of the Republican National Committee, filed the lawsuit on Jan. 6.

It contends that in 2021, an 11-year-old fifth grade student told a school counselor that they were transgender, prompting the counselor and teachers to refer to the child by a male name and male pronouns.

The child’s mother, Aurora Regino,

found out and “immediately sought answers” from the school district, according to a statement from the Center for American Liberty. The child later “returned to identifying as a girl,” according to the statement.

“If the school system thinks this is the law, then someone needs to stand up for our children and let them know how wrong and damaging it is,” Regino said in a statement. “Our rights as parents do not stop as soon as we drop our children off at school.”

The lawsuit contends that the Chico Unified School District maintains a “Parental Secrecy Policy” that keeps school employees from sharing a child’s gender identity or sexual orientation with parents.

After media outlets started

reporting the lawsuit last week, Superintendent

“While our legal counsel is currently reviewing the lawsuit, we can address the article’s headline and assure our community that Chico Unified does not have a ‘Parental Secrecy Policy,’ nor do we ever try to change a student’s individual identity,” Staley said. “In regard to the lawsuit, we value our community and will thoroughly review and investigate any claims.”

Transgender and gender-nonconforming students may not be “out” in all circumstances, including at home, according to the California Department of Education.

“Revealing a student’s gender identity or expression to others may compromise

the student’s safety. Thus, preserving a student’s privacy is of the utmost importance,” according to a department memo.

The department maintains that both state and federal law protects a transgender student’s right to keep their gender identity private.

“Disclosing that a student is transgender without the student’s permission may violate California’s anti-discrimination law by increasing the student’s vulnerability to harassment and may violate the student’s right to privacy,” according to the department.

Transgender youth are more likely to report suicidal thoughts and being victims of violence than their peers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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at the end of the day, community members are left to assess risks for themselves.

Kelly Staley sent a letter to school district parents.

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Renner suggests he’s home from hospital after accident

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Jeremy Renner suggested he’s home from the hospital in a tweet late Monday, more than two weeks after a snowplowing accident left him critically injured.

The actor tweeted about Sunday’s premiere of Season 2 of “Mayor of Kingstown,” which he stars in.

“Outside my brain fog in recovery, I was very excited to watch episode 201 with my family at home,” Renner wrote.

A representative for Renner didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Renner, 52, was hospitalized in critical but stable condition on Jan. 1 after his snowplow ran over him near his Reno, Nevada-area home,

officials said.

The actor, also known for playing Hawkeye in several Marvel movies and shows, suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries and underwent surgery, according to his rep.

“If anyone knows Jeremy, he is a fighter and doesn’t mess around,” his sister, Kym Renner, told People last week. “He is crushing all the progress goals. We couldn’t feel more positive about the road ahead.”

Renner shared several social media updates during his hospitalization and thanked fans for their support in a Jan. 2 tweet. He commemorated the release of his Paramount+ show’s new season Sunday by tweeting, “Let me know what you know think !!!”

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Crime logs

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FRIDAY, JAN. 13

7:24 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1300 block of CROWLEY LANE 9:15 a.m. — Vandalism, 5000 block of GURNETT LANE 9:40 a.m. — Vandalism, 2400 block of SUNRISE DRIVE 10:10 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2800 block of AUTO MALL PARKWAY 10:57 a.m. — Vandalism, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 11:10 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1300 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 12:40 p.m. — Battery, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 12:50 p.m. — Vandalism, 3900 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 12:51 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 2300 block of CAMPBELL CIRCLE 2:22 p.m. — Battery, 1800 block of SYCAMORE DRIVE 2:39 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, WATERMAN BOULEVARD 4:02 p.m. — Grand theft, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 4:12 p.m. — Reckless driver, 1500 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 4:15 p.m. — Residential burglary, 5200 block of WATERLEAF LANE 8:24 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2000 block of CORMORANT DRIVE 9:08 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, GOLD HILL ROAD 9 :12 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 2200 block of ROSS PLACE 10:39 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1600 block of UNION AVENUE

SATURDAY, JAN. 14 6:54 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1400 block of STARR COURT 12:03 p.m. — Trespassing, 4300 block of CENTRAL PLACE 12:05 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 12:18 p.m. — Vandalism, 700 block of WREN COURT 12:44 p.m. — Robbery, 1500 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 3:08 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 4:06 p.m. — Battery, 1800 block of SYCAMORE DRIVE 5:59 p.m. — Reckless driver, SUNSET AVENUE 6:13 p.m. — Residential burglary, 4700 block of STETSON DRIVE 6:56 p.m. — Battery, 1000 block of HAYES STREET 7:26 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2000 block of FAIRFIELD AVENUE 8:53 p.m. — Reckless driver, WESTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 9:13 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD 9:17 p.m. — Vandalism, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 10:39 p.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 SUNDAY, JAN. 15 12:35 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1400 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 12:52 a.m. — Battery, 200 block of EAST PACIFIC AVENUE 2:06 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2100 block of UNION AVENUE 4:23 a.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND AIR BASE PARKWAY 5:08 a.m. — Reckless driver, CLAY BANK ROAD 5:55 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 8:38 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 100 block of SERRANO DRIVE 10:30 a.m. — Forgery, 2400 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:23 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1400 block of WOOLNER AVENUE 11:57 a.m. — Vehicle burglary,

1700 block of REX CLIFT LANE 1:51 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1500 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 3:07 p.m. — Vandalism, 2400 block of HANSON DRIVE 3:39 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 2400 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 4:14 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, BEL AIR CIRCLE 6:12 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1500 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 6:22 p.m. — Battery, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 6:50 p.m. — Battery, 2700 block of WOODMONT DRIVE 9:43 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:02 p.m. — Robbery, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 11:25 p.m. — Trespassing, 1200 block of TABOR AVENUE MONDAY, JAN. 16 1:02 a.m. — Vandalism, 300 block of CHADBOURNE ROAD 2:09 a.m. — Arson, 2500 block of SUNRISE DRIVE 5:19 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 6:41 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1000 block of ROOSEVELT STREET 8:06 a.m. — Vandalism, 500 block of CARPENTER STREET 9:04 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 500 block of LOPES ROAD 9:07 a.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, 800 block of BRETON DRIVE 10:05 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1600 block of TRAVION COURT 11:36 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 4600 block of CENTRAL WAY 12:30 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 12:43 p.m. — Forgery, 900 block of BROADWAY STREET 3:43 p.m. — Battery, 3000 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 4:22 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1600 block of TRAVION COURT 4:30 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 4:34 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 4300 block of CORDELIA ROAD 5:48 p.m. — Reckless driver, DOVE WAY 7:01 p.m. — Prowler, 200 block of EAST BELL AVENUE 8:13 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1100 block of WILLOW LANE 9:56 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1200 block of SERENE COURT

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FRIDAY, JAN. 13

2:21 p.m. — Vandalism, DRIFTWOOD DRIVE / JUSTICE DRIVE 8:33 p.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, HIGHWAY 12 / LAWLER RANCH PARKWAY 10:50 p.m. — Hit-and-run no injury, SUNSET AVENUE SATURDAY, JAN. 14 2:09 a.m. — Trespassing, HARBOR CENTER 10:12 a.m. — Burglary, 1100 block of SCHOOL STREET 12:51 p.m. — Hit-and-run no injury, GREYLAG DRIVE 4:37 p.m. — Shots fired, PINTAIL DRIVE / PARKSIDE DRIVE 5:59 p.m. — Hit-and-run no injury, CANVASBACK DRIVE SUNDAY JAN. 15

1:43 p.m. — Vandalism, 1100 block of CRYSTAL STREET 7:49 p.m. — Assault, 600 block of BARNACLE WAY MONDAY, JAN. 16 12:42 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1100 block of WHIPPORWILL WAY 8:29 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 900 block of CANADA GOOSE DRIVE 10:22 a.m. — Assault, 900 block of EMPEROR DRIVE 12:07 p.m.

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October, they would still have a normal precipitation year.

The parade of soaking storms, which have caused flooding in the Central Valley, Salinas Valley and Santa Cruz Mountains, along with power outages, mudslides and at least 20 deaths statewide, left the Sierra Nevada with a statewide snowpack 251% of normal on Tuesday.

Light rain is expected Wednesday night, but otherwise forecasts call for dry conditions for much of the rest of January. River levels now are dropping.

“We’ve gotten so much water and so much snow,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. “It’s going to help us dry out and dig out heading into late January. It’s really good news because it takes off the trajectory toward

worsening flooding.”

For a sense of how much worse it has been, consider the winter of 1861-62.

Between November 1861 and January 1862, it rained so much that the Central Valley became a vast inland sea, 30 feet deep, for 300 miles. Leland Stanford, who had been elected governor, took a rowboat through the streets of Sacramento to reach his inauguration.

Warm storms on a massive snowpack that winter caused immense flooding, wiping farms, mills, bridges and in some case whole towns off the map. An estimated 4,000 people died, roughly 1% of California’s population at the time, and more than the death toll in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

Now, California has large dams and reservoirs that limit flooding in wet years. There also are thousands of miles of levees and pumps, weirs and other flood control projects that were not in

place in the 1860s.

And despite the recent wet weeks, Northern California is nowhere near the final yearly rainfall total of 1861-62. San Francisco on Tuesday had 21.75 inches of rain since Oct. 1. That total would have to more than double in the coming months to reach the 49.27 inches that fell in 1861-62, or the 47.19 inches that fell in the second-wettest year in history, 1997-98.

Weather experts have become increasingly concerned that if another massive winter like 1861-62 hit – and tree rings and other historical records show they have occurred roughly every 100 to 200 years – millions of people could be trapped by floods, freeways could be shut for weeks, and the damage could reach into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

A study last summer by scientists at UCLA found that the chances of such a series of huge storms, while still remote, have roughly doubled due to

climate change. Climate change has warmed ocean waters, allowing more moisture to be absorbed in atmospheric river storms.

Swain, a co-author of that study, said that climate change is already increasing the amount of moisture in such storms by about 5%, and that will climb as temperatures continue to warm.

Very wet winters are nothing new in California. Since July 1, San Francisco has had the fifth most rainfall on record. But all four of the wetter periods were in the 1800s.

“California has always had big storms like this,” said Park Williams, an associate professor of geography at UCLA, whose research has shown that droughts and wildfires are becoming more severe due to warming.

“Climate change can make them more intense. But we might have had a year this wet whether or not we had climate change. And 1862 proves that.”

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areas not in the state areas will be developed as well as urban maps related to fire hazard ratings.

The meeting, held in the county Events Center, opened with a video explaining how the maps were developed – based on wildland areas, vegetation types, weather – especially wind – and other factors.

Then a very formal public hearing was con ducted, comments during which will be included in final consideration of the maps.

David Stevens, the president of the Pleasants Valley Fire Safety Council, said the state process does not provide enough information for people to know what impacts are going to come from the map.

He also said he was “offended” the state did not make a stronger effort to notify people of the mapping process and the community meetings.

“The proposed changes

.

. . will have a tremendous impact on Solano County. Unfortunately, none of us know what those impacts will be,” Stevens said.

Roberta Bresler-Sullivan wanted to know if Cal Fire resources will be brought closer to the higher hazard areas, and

if other resources will be beefed up as well.

While the Cal Fire officials conducting the hearing could not answer questions on the record, Turbeville later indicated “there is nothing that has me leaning that way.”

To determine the

Fire Hazard Safety Zone for a specific property, go to https://osfm.fire. ca.gov/divisions/commu nity-wildfire-prepared ness-and-mitigation/ wildfire-preparedness/ fire-hazard-severity-zones. The automated hotline is 916-633-7655.

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charged with murder in connection with a deadly shooting April 21 in Fairfield. He also is charged with an enhancement for personally discharging a firearm during the commission of that murder, the District Attorney’s Office reports, and with being a felon in possession of a firearm. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and was initially held without bail.

A preliminary hearing Oct. 28 ended with Klein ordered to stand trial. During arraignment

Nov. 14, Klein’s attorney asked the court to lower the bail to $400,000 – a request the District Attorney’s Office opposed citing the risk to public safety, risk to safety of the victim’s family, seriousness of the offense charged, Klein’s criminal history, Klein’s prior prison commitments and that Klein “was previously a validated member of the Nazi Low Rider gang,” the District Attorney’s Office reports.

Klein was soon released on pre-trial services, ordered to meet with probation and to wear a GPS monitor, the District Attorney’s Office reports.

The Fairfield shooting that killed Anthony Fuimano, 51, of Fairfield, happened at approximately 11:25 p.m. on the 300 block of Manzanita Avenue. Fuimano survived the initial shooting but died at approximately 2 a.m. April 22 at a local hospital. Klein was arrested May 3.

Then came the deadly shooting Dec. 15 in Suisun City, which authorities linked to Klein and obtained a no-bail arrest warrant.

Klein was taken into custody at approximately 11:15 a.m. Jan. 11 by the U.S. Marshals Service while he was in Rosarito, Mexico. The arrest by the

U.S. Marshals Service was coordinated with the Mexico Federal Police. No plea was entered during Klein’s arraignment Tuesday. Klein is scheduled to return to court for further arraignment in the Suisun City case at 9 a.m. Wednesday in Department 15 in the Solano County Superior Court in Vallejo. He is also scheduled to appear Wednesday for a trial readiness conference in the Fairfield case. A trial management conference in that case is scheduled Monday with trial tentatively scheduled to start Jan. 25.

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Cyclists ride through a flooded bike path in Sausalito, Jan. 7.

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Roberta Bresler-Sullivan comments on the proposed California Fire Hazard Severity Zones map during a meeting at the Solano County Events Center in Fairfield, Tuesday.

Once-in-a-generation political fight heating up for Feinstein’s seat

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SAN JOSE, — A oncein-a-generation political battle is heating up in California as candidates begin to spar over Dianne Feinstein’s coveted Senate seat, promising reverberations that will shake up everything from representation in the U.S. House to local Bay Area elections.

It’s exceedingly rare – like snow in San Jose rare – for one of California’s two U.S. Senate seats to hit the ballot without an incumbent running. But that’s exactly what may happen in 2024 when many expect Feinstein, a Democrat who is almost 90 and reportedly facing cognitive decline, to retire.

U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, an Orange County Democrat, made waves this past week when she became the first to officially declare her candidacy for Feinstein’s seat. And several of the Golden State’s representatives in the U.S. House, including locals Barbara Lee from the East Bay and Ro Khanna from Silicon Valley, and Adam Schiff from Southern California, have shown interest in the seat Feinstein has held since 1992.

Others, including Rep. Eric Swalwell from the East Bay – who was 12 when Feinstein took office – also have been mentioned as contenders. If they run, the scramble could open the door for a new generation of ambitious Democrats to slip into those vacated House seats, providing a chance for termed-out local mayors, county supervisors and city council members to move up the political ladder without facing off against an entrenched opponent.

“There are a lot of people who will be looking at this as an opportunity,” said David McCuan, a political science professor at Sonoma State University.

The election is still nearly two years away. And what’s more, Feinstein –who has been adamant she won’t leave office until she’s good and ready –hasn’t even hinted that she won’t seek reelection in

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in 2017 have resulted in huge amounts of sensitive personal information being available online, making millions of people susceptible to identity theft. “We’re living in an era where we are incredibly vulnerable,” he said.

And if some people’s cards really were drained before they were activated, that’s not a skimming issue. Instead, Levin said, that suggests thieves gained access somehow to key account information before the cards

2024. But the fact that the feeding frenzy already has begun shows it’s going to be a crowded, dramatic and expensive race.

“It could be a cast of thousands,” joked Larry Gerston, professor emeritus of politics at San Jose State University. “These things don’t come up very often. It’s a gem of a position to have, that’s for sure.”

Landing a seat in the U.S. Senate is scoring one of the “ultimate” jobs in politics, Gerston said. It’s an exclusive club with just 100 members, and it can serve as a springboard to the presidency.

Porter got some blowback for the timing of her announcement – in the midst of damaging storms and flooding that have resulted in multiple deaths across the state. But she put pressure on other prospective candidates to make a move, McCuan said. Timing is important, he said, and no one wants to be last.

The next day, Lee told colleagues during a closeddoor meeting that she plans to run – though she hasn’t formally announced her intentions, a source close to Lee confirmed to this news organization. Meanwhile, Khanna has said he’s considering a Senate run. There’s even speculation that Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is thought to have his eye ultimately on the presidency, might throw his hat in the ring – though he has publicly promised to serve all four years of his brandnew term as governor.

Feinstein, the longestserving female senator in U.S. history, is a political legend in California and throughout the country. She has deep Bay Area roots, serving as a San Francisco supervisor and then mayor before joining the Senate. But her advanced age and recent questions over her ability to do her job have opened the floodgates to rivals eager to replace her.

“I think if she chooses to run she’s still hard to beat,” said Thad Kousser, a University of California, San Diego political science professor. “She’s not

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unbeatable. She’s no longer the single most popular politician in the state, as she once was.”

All that jostling for Feinstein’s seat will spur some interesting downticket races. With Porter no longer in the mix, it’s not unlikely that her battleground Southern California district will go to a Republican – potentially helping the GOP hold onto their control of the House.

Lee’s vacated House seat, on the other hand, would undoubtedly go to a Democrat – maybe someone like former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf or Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan, who recently lost her bid for Alameda County supervisor, Gerston said.

Amelia Ashley-Ward, publisher of the SunReporter – a historic San Francisco newspaper serving the Black community – wants Feinstein to step down early and Newsom to appoint Lee to take her place. The Black community felt “robbed” when Newsom did not replace then-Sen. Kamala Harris – the only Black woman in the Senate when she became vice president – with another Black woman, Ashley-Ward said (though she loves Sen. Alex Padilla, who ultimately took that seat). Newsom has since promised to appoint a Black woman if Feinstein steps down.

“We’re underrepresented and we need to have our voices heard there,” Ashley-Ward said. “I think that it’s really, really needed.”

The hot-button race is also a fight for geographic representation, pitting Northern California candidates (Lee, Khanna and Swalwell) against Southern California ones (Porter and Schiff). Until Harris vacated her spot for the vice presidency, Northern Californians had occupied both of the Golden State’s Senate seats since Feinstein and Sen. Barbara Boxer, from Marin County, were elected together three decades ago.

But no matter who wins, they are likely to vote very

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similarly on key issues, Kousser said.

“It’s going to be a fight for different flavors of progressive Democrats,” he said.

Harmeet Dhillon, a San Francisco lawyer running for chair of the Republican National Committee, thinks while the candidates mentioned so far might garner votes in big, liberal cities, their left-leaning politics are too “extreme” to win fans statewide.

“These are not likable, crossover, appealing-tomoderates candidates in my opinion,” she said.

The race hasn’t drawn any Republican challengers yet, but Gerston is sure it will – though they will face a “steep hill to climb” in liberal California, he said.

With so much time to go until the race, there are sure to be plenty of shake-ups and surprise candidates. In addition to the big names, we also might see someone who is new to politics but is wealthy enough to finance their own campaign.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., leaves the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Nov. 16, 2022.

members include Joe Allio, former Fairfield chief of police and Leaven Kids board president; Sheriff Thomas Ferrara, a Leaven Kids board member; Judge Mike Nail, former Superior Court judge and former Leaven Kids board pres ident; Dr. Chris Walker, Kaiser Permanente physician in charge; Osby Davis, former Vallejo mayor; and Lisa Brasher, Jelly Belly Candy Company CEO.

The Price family will also be involved in the naming decision.

“It’s important to recognize the contributions of those who came before us –the trailblazers who helped build the Leaven Kids that we know today,” Augustine said in the press release.

“Mayor Price was instrumental to our success. His legacy and the transformative impact he had on the community will forever be reflected in the Leaven Kids mission.”

Price died Dec. 16. He was 85.

Welcome to Alejandro’s Taqueria!

Located in Downtown Fairfield, Alejandro’s Taqueria offers a large variety of authentic Mexican dishes. Breakfast includes: Huevos Rancheros, Huevos con Chorizo ahd Huevos con Jamon. Their daily lunch special includes a choice of one of the following: Taco, Tostada, Chile Relleno, Enchilada or Tamale with rice and beans. Dinner Plates include traditional dishes such as: Carne Asada, Chile Verde, Pastor or Carnitas. Also available is Mariscos/Seafood ranging from Fajitas de Camaron, Coctel de Camaron, Caldo de Camaron and Mojarra and much much more!

In addition Burritos, Tostadas, Super Nachos, Chimichanga, Tortas, Quesadilas and Flautas are also included in their menu.

Saturday and Sundays; Birria (BBQ Goat) and Menudo is served.

Aaron Rosenblatt/ Daily Republic file Mayor Harry Price at the Fun on the Run Toy Giveaway at Grace Episcopal Church in Fairfield, in 2016.

49ers-Cowboys: Tale of the tape for Sunday’s NFL playoff rematch

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SANTA CLARA — Make way for the ninth playoff battle between the 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys.

Time now for Brock Purdy and Dak Prescott to join the pantheon of quarterback duels in this epic, postseason rivalry.

Come Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in a divisional-round game at Levi’s Stadium, they’ll follow such matchups as John Brodie vs. Roger Staubach (and Craig Morton), Joe Montana vs. Danny White, Steve Young vs. Troy Aikman, and, as recently as last January, Jimmy Garoppolo vs. Prescott.

Defenses will have their say, of course. They’ll have the ultimate say, and they’re enjoying stellar seasons. Dallas’ Micah Parsons leads the way for Amer-

ica’s Team, and Nick Bosa keys, shall we say, Great America’s Team (in a nod to the 49ers’ neighboring, amusement park).

Quarterbacks. Pass rushers. Legacies. Winner advances to next the NFC Championship Game, to keep alive a generational pursuit of a sixth Lombardi Trophy, and that goes for either the 49ers or Cowboys.

Sure, their playoff history is rich, but how do their current editions compare? Here is the tale of the tape:

Quarterbacks

Cowboys: Prescott infamously ended last season’s playoff loss at Dallas by scrambling and sliding in the final precious seconds against the 49ers, who won 23-17.

His rushing (and bootleg) ability resulted in a fourth-and-goal touchdown in Monday’s playoff return, a 31-14 win over Tampa Bay. This season, he tied for the NFL-high with 15 interceptions, including at least one in seven straight games entering the playoffs. After fracturing his right thumb in their opener, Prescott had a five-game hiatus, and questions about his accuracy have followed in his comeback.

49ers: Purdy’s seventh career start comes amid his deification, which grows week by week, win by win. In beating the Seahawks 41-23 in Saturday’s playoff debut, Purdy became the first rookie quarterback in an NFL playoff game to produce four touchdowns (three passing, one rushing). Purdy’s completion percentage (67.1) tied with

Rodriguez grad Adderly making most of his minutes for Cal Maritime hoops

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FAIRFIELD — Rodriguez High School graduate Braxton Adderly has settled into a starting role as a senior guard with the Cal Maritime men’s basketball team.

Adderly is in his second season with the Keelhaulers and his production has climbed at the Vallejo campus. He went from averaging six points a game over 21 games last season to now over eight. Adderly has also notched four straight double-figure scoring games.

Adderly went for 11 points, four rebounds, two assists and one steal in a 79-62 loss Saturday to

Antelope Valley. He had 16 points, three rebounds, one assist and one steal Thursday in a 61-59 win over La Sierra.

After high school, Adderly played for Napa Valley College before making his way to Cal Maritime.

Here’s a look at how other athletes with local ties performed this past week at four-year colleges:

Men’s basketball Senior guard Jordan Adams (Vacaville, Solano) saw action in two games for William Jessup. Adams had two rebounds, one assist and one steal

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Warriors visit White House for 2022 NBA title accolades

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden welcomed the Golden State Warriors and their families to the White House Tuesday afternoon to honor them for their 2022 NBA title.

As has come tradition with past visits – but had notably stopped under the previous president Donald Trump – Biden, the nation’s 46th president, received a No. 46 Warriors jersey with his name emblazoned on the back in a ceremony in the East Room.

“The Golden State Warriors are always welcomed in this White House,” Biden said before quipping, “Four NBA titles and six Finals in the last eight seasons. That ain’t bad, man.”

Vice President Kamala Harris, an Oakland native, was the opening speaker and discussed her “beloved” Warriors, recalling a time when she once hopped on BART to make sure she wasn’t late to get to a Warriors game.

She was presented with another custom jersey –this one a No. 1, as she previously was gifted a No. 49 jersey from the team upon becoming the 49th vice president.

“On a personal note, I have been a Warriors fan my entire life, and this team has been a constant source of joy and pride, for me and for so many of us,” Harris said.

“My pride in the Warriors today is not because they win, but because these players, their coaches and this entire organization consistently stand for the principles of equity, equality and justice, which they do with great integrity and excellence.”

One day after the Warriors beat the Washington Wizards, star guard Stephen Curry and coach Steve Kerr spoke in the White House press briefing room ahead of the ceremony and said they were excited to be able to celebrate their championship. Curry also specifically thanked the President for his

Why Japanese star pitcher, A’s might just be a perfect match

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OAKLAND — There wasn’t an empty seat at the Oakland A’s introductory conference for Japanese pitcher Shintaro Fujinami, the team’s newest free agent addition.

The makeshift podium room at the A’s Jack London Square offices was jam-packed with reporters, cameras and team executives – including former president of baseball operations Billy Beane standing in the back of the room.

“Wow,” general manager David Forst said as he looked around from the podium. “This is exciting, it’s not something we do every day. It’s been a while.”

The A’s aren’t big on the pricy free agency

signings that might warrant a flashy news conference – a recent history of cost-cutting and low budgets forces the front office to keep spending at a minimum. So it has been a while.

Think Yoenis Cespedes’ intro in 2013, or Hideki Matsui in 2010.

Fujinami’s one-year, $3.5 million deal with the A’s wouldn’t normally warrant the big gathering, but the international draw was enough to get a large group of Japanese language media who will follow “Fuji” –his preferred American nicknamed – through his MLB journey.

“Like Mt. Fuji,” Fujinami said through Japanese interpreter Issei Yamada.

Fujinami’s deal with

Rodriguez boys edge Bethel in nonleague game Saturday

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FAIRFIELD —

Cameron Brewer notched a double-double with 10 points and 14 rebounds as the Rodriguez High School boys basketball team won a nonleague game Saturday night at home 55-49 over Bethel of Vallejo.

Gianni Miles had 16 points and three rebounds. Jerel Victory scored 13 points and had

four rebounds. Joe Gould also scored 12 points to go with six rebounds, two blocked shots and two steals.

It was the sixth straight win for Rodriguez. The Mustangs are now 10-9 overall.

Rodriguez won the junior varsity game 75-25. Jamar Missouri had 13 points and 11 rebounds. Chase Bahou had 13 points and five steals.

Rodriguez was scheduled to play host to

Fairfield Tuesday night in a Monticello Empire League game.

Vanden beaten by St. John Bosco

FAIRFIELD — Tyler Thompson scored 19 points for the Vanden High School boys basketball team in a 70-54 loss Monday to powerhouse St. John Bosco in Bellflower.

Sterling McClanahan had eight points and Elijah Lewis scored seven. The

Vikings fell to 12-7 overall. St. John Bosco raced out to a 22-7 lead at the end of the first quarter. Vanden could not close the gap, though the Vikings finished the game strong with a 16-8 advantage in the final period.

Vanden played Bishop Montgomery in Torrance on Saturday and lost 54-36. Both games were part of Martin Luther King Jr. Showcase matchups.

Vanden was scheduled to play at Vacaville

Tuesday night in a Monticello Empire League early season showdown.

Vanden JV team tips

Modesto Christian

FAIRFIELD — Logan Bailey scored 34 points and Ethan Poirier added 10 points as the Vanden High School junior varsity basketball team earned a 62-56 win Saturday over Modesto Christian at the Vanden Vikings’ JV MLK Showcase.

Vanden is now 9-6 overall.

Wrestling Armijo wrestlers take 4th place

FAIRFIELD — The Armijo High School wrestling team finished fourth out of 20 teams at the 50th version of the Armijo Invitational.

loss to Ottawa University (Arizona). He dished out two assists in a 94-64 loss to Arizona Christian.

Sophomore guard Jeremiah Jones (Salesian, Vacaville resident)

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Courtesy of Cal Martime Rodriguez High School graduate Braxton Adderly has moved into the starting lineup at Cal Maritime.

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Liv Golf planning a TV deal with The CW network

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NEW YORK — The Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf League is nearing a TV deal with The CW Network, according to multiple reports.

Though the Saudis poured billions of dollars into the breakaway golf league to lure star talent away from the PGA Tour, they couldn’t secure a television contract for the inaugural season.

But the CW partnership, which has not been

officially announced, will run for multiple years, sources told Sports Illustrated.

Golf analyst David Feherty, who jumped to LIV Golf last year, dropped a hint about the deal at his stand-up comedy show in West Palm Beach, Fla., last Thursday, the Palm Beach Post reported.

“Have you heard of CW?” he said, according to the outlet. “I might get fired for this, but . . .”

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Leonardo Gonzalez (132 pounds) and Kendrick Salcedo (285) won weight titles. Manual Khangab (112) took second. Justice Grimmit was third. Grimmit’s weight class was unavailable.

Vacawrestlers finish 4th at Temecula

VACAVILLE — Vacaville High School wrestlers took fourth overall as a team Saturday at the Temecula Valley Invitational’s “Battle of the Belt.”

Thomas Sandoval was a first-place finisher. Elijah Martinez was fourth, Arjun Nagra was fifth, Pablo Lopez finished sixth and Wyatt Sandoval came in eighth.

Vacaville will wrestle Fairfield and Armijo in Wednesday night Monticello Empire League action at Will C. Wood.

Strong finishes for Will C. Wood

VACAVILLE — Vaea Salt of the Will C. Wood High School wrestling team placed third Saturday at the Tim Brown Memorial Tournament in Sacramento.

Salt beat three state ranked opponents throughout the tournament.

At the Armijo varsity tournament, Isaiah Howard made his way to the finals before falling short and placed second. Maxwell Schneider joined him on the podium at heavyweight and took third.

Also Saturday, the Lady Cats were in action as they notched another

first in program history. The Lady Cats secured a team tournament title at the Lady Zebra in Lincoln by beating out Pitman.

Wood was led by five second-place finishes in Sophia Villoria, Levi Crabtree, Casey Fuller, Josey Mays and Djesire Emerson. Madison DeValle finished fourth. This is the Lady Cats’ second tournament trophy of the year.

Wood will continue Monticello Empire League action Wednesday against Fairfield and Armijo at Will C. Wood.

College Solano women roll by

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ROCKVILLE —

The Solano Community College women’s basketball team enjoyed a 67-28 win Saturday over visiting Contra Costa.

Ale Ibarra had 11 points and seven rebounds. Julia Wright scored 11 points and five rebounds. Jaslyn Woods added 11 points and four rebounds.

Solano jumped out to a 20-9 lead after the first quarter and made it 36-14 at halftime.

The Falcons improved 10-8 overall and 5-1 in the Bay Valley Conference.

The Solano men lost to Contra Costa 93-64 and fell to 3-14 overall and 1-5 in conference.

The Solano teams play at doubleheader at home Wednesday with the men’s game at 5:30 p.m against Los Medanos, followed by the women’s game at 7:30.

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Kings’ Murray among top rookies

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SACRAMENTO — Kings rookie Keegan Murray’s monotone voice can be hard to hear. The 22-year-old forward speaks softly, but that belies his confidence.

Case in point: He’ll occasionally offer friendly smack talk to point guard De’Aaron Fox, talking about “catching bodies” in the form of more posterizing dunks, which Fox has made a habit of recently, which leads to the outspoken Fox firing back.

“I get Keegan to talk a lot,” Fox said recently. “I definitely get him to talk a lot.”

Doing most of the talking for Murray these days is his 3-point shooting. The No. 4 pick in June’s NBA draft is shooting 40.4% from distance, easily the highest clip in the league among first-year players who have appeared in at least 30 games. His 2.4 makes and 5.9 attempts per

49ers’ exec will join with Titans

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SANTA CLARA — The NFL’s minority hiring incentive remains a pipeline for stocking the 49ers with compensatory thirdround draft picks.

The Tennessee Titans’ search for a general manager has led them to Ran Carthon, the 49ers’ director of player personnel, ESPN first reported.

His departure would send the 49ers compensatory picks in the third round of the next two drafts.

This is the third year since the NFL enacted its incentive program, yielding the 49ers multiple third-round picks with the hiring of Robert Saleh (2021 New York Jets, head coach), Martin Mayhew (2021 Washington Commanders, general manager), and Mike McDaniel (2022 Miami Dolphins, head coach).

In 2021, the 49ers selected cornerback Ambry Thomas with their compensatory pick. Last year, they had two such picks, and after trading away one to Miami as part of the 2021 package to move up and draft Trey Lance, the 49ers used their other pick on wide receiver Danny Gray to close out the third round.

The 49ers will have three compensatory, thirdround picks on April 28, for the combination of losing Saleh/Mayhew, McDaniel and Carthon. The 2024 draft would include one more third-round pick, for Carthon’s exit.

game also pace his rookie class.

That has helped the Kings become the third-most efficient offense in the NBA through half of the season. The team’s 117.3 offensive rating heading into Wednesday’s road game against the Los Angeles Lakersranks only behind the Boston Celtics (117.8) and Denver Nuggets (117.5). Murray is averaging 11.8 points per game, ranking fifth among rookies.

Oddly enough, Murray is shooting at a better rate from behind the arc than he did during his last season in college. Murray shot 39.8% on 4.7 attempts per game with the Iowa Hawkeyes, attempting 1.2 fewer 3s than he is now in the pros.

“I just think it’s the shots that I’m getting,” Murray said. “I feel like I took a lot of tougher shots in college. And now we have a lot of better spacing and I feel like my shots are more in rhythm and things like that.”

Indeed, Murray didn’t have a pair of NBA All-Star caliber players in Fox and Domantas Sabonis getting

him the ball in favorable spots. Nor did he have veteran shooters around him who defenses had to account for like Kevin Huerter or Harrison Barnes.

“I like his shot selection, especially with the way we play,” Kings coach Mike Brown said. “We’re preaching pace, pace, pace, whether it’s in the half court, but particularly in the full court, even after makes. And so he’s doing a great job, especially getting to the corners. And there are times when he sprints to the corners and he doesn’t get the ball, but he flattens the defense and opens the paint (so) guys are able to get in there and score. So the way he’s playing, we love it.”

Murray’s been playing with a thumb injury on his left, non-shooting hand since early December that’s required him to wear a wrap similar to what Sabonis has sported since suffering an avulsion fracture to his right thumb last month.

Storms tell California to upgrade its plumbing

The rain and snow storms that have pummeled California for weeks have taken nearly two dozen lives and caused billions of dollars in damage to public and private property.

The flip side, however, is that they dropped immense amounts of water on a state that has suffered through severe drought for several years. At one point this month, an astonishing 160,000 cubic feet of water – 1.2 million gallons – was flowing through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta every second. That’s enough water to fill a reservoir the size of Folsom Lake, about 1 million acre-feet, in three days and doesn’t count water falling on other regions, such as Southern California.

Whether the storms have ended the drought, however, depends on California’s ability to capture enough water to fill its badly depleted reservoirs and at least begin to recharge underground aquifers that have been terribly overdrafted by desperate farmers.

So far, only a relatively tiny amount of the immense storm runoff has found its way into storage. For instance, just a trickle of the Delta’s heavy flows has been pumped into state and federal aqueducts for delivery to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, largely because of rules that limit diversions to protect endangered species such as the 2-inchlong Delta smelt.

San Joaquin Valley legislators have beseeched President Joe Biden and Gov. Gavin Newsom to relax the rules so that more runoff can be either delivered to farmers or placed in storage, such as the San Luis Reservoir, which is now less than half-full.

“This is no time to be dialing back the pumps,” state Sen. Melissa Hurtado and Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains, both Democrats from Bakersfield, told Newsom in a letter last week. “After several years of drought and low reservoir levels, it only makes sense to capitalize on wet conditions.”

“We have a moral obligation to provide Californians any relief that is within our control,” five Republican congressional members told Biden and Newsom. “Government regulations should not and must not deny our constituents critical water from these storms.”

State water officials, however, say their hands are tied by environmental protection rules requiring that initial winter flows be allowed to flush out the Delta and San Francisco Bay.

What’s been happening, or not happening, during the weeks-long deluge indicates that California needs some new plumbing to take advantage of the periodic “atmospheric rivers” that bring immense amounts of precipitation.

Meteorologists believe that due to global climate change, the state will experience more erratic weather – prolonged periods of drought interrupted by occasional storm events such as the ones California has been experiencing.

That means we need more storage, such as the Sites Reservoir on the west side of the Sacramento Valley that’s been in the planning stage for several decades, and sinking basins to recharge aquifers. The long-dormant, $4 billion Sites project now has the ardent support of state and federal officials, as well as some serious money.

The relatively meager diversions from the Delta now allowed by law, meanwhile, bolster the case for the “Delta Conveyance,” which would allow more water to be diverted into the state and federal aqueducts, and thus into downstate reservoirs, without running afoul of environmental restrictions. The project has kicked around for six decades, first as a “peripheral canal,” later as twin tunnels dubbed “Water Fix,” and now a single tunnel.

California water managers will have another chance to fill reservoirs in a few months, when the immense Sierra snowpack that’s twice the historic average and still growing melts. We can only hope Mother Nature releases the snowpack’s water slowly enough to avoid destructive floods.

CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.

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GOP, just say no to quoting MLK

“Loose and easy language about equality, resonant resolutions about brotherhood fall pleasantly on the ear, but for the Negro there is a credibility gap he cannot overlook. .

. Each step forward accents an ever-present tendency to backlash.” — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 1967

During Kevin McCarthy’s embarrassing, shameless attempt to win the House speakership, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) stood to nominate black Republican Byron Donaldson (R-Florida) for the job. Roy noted that the choice showed that Republicans judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. Gag.

Every King day we’re subjected to conservatives masquerading as supporters of Martin Luther King usually by parroting the only line from a King speech they know.

You can’t say you support Dr. King if you spend your time trying to suppress the Black vote. If you’re voting for laws that limit ballot access, early voting and assembling roadblocks to disenfranchise voters, you don’t support the legacy of MLK. Do you believe that if Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today he’d be focused on

passing laws to make voting more difficult?

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) tweeted an MLK quote and it was roundly pooh-poohed online. Why? That’s like Kanye West tweeting Hanukkah greetings, Alex Jones offering condolences for school shooting victims or George Santos saying . . . anything. If you don’t walk the walk, no one is interested in your talk.

The past couple of years, the Republican Party has been chasing the bugaboo of critical race theory, a concept taught in universities that they pretend is permeating grade schools across America. Nineteen states have passed laws against teaching critical race theory in K-12 schools. What these laws seek is to restrict the teaching of Black history.

For example, Tennessee’s anticritical race theory statute states a teacher cannot teach that “an individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, is inherently privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or subconsciously.” These statutes are intended to ensure that no one’s little feelings are hurt by the knowledge of history. To say that white skin or male gender doesn’t

afford privilege in this society is asinine. This is the Republican Party creating safe spaces for their easily offended constituents.

And does anyone believe that Martin Luther King Jr. would be opposed to the teaching of controversial American history? He’s part of that controversial history!

Conservative politicians continually try to co-opt MLK when the real Martin Luther King Jr. would be opposed to today’s Republican Party. Consider a speech he gave a year before his murder when he said, “The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.” How conservative does that sound?

If you’re going to quote from and champion a man, you might want to get to know the man you’re quoting.

So unless you’re ready to reckon with the actual Martin Luther King Jr. instead of paying lip service, to paraphrase Will Smith, cloutchasing Republicans should keep the reverend’s name out of their mouths. Peace.

Kelvin Wade, a writer and former Fairfield resident, lives in Sacramento. Reach him at kelvinjwade@ outlook.com.

Sparks will fly in the electric-car trade war

Will Ferrell’s 2021 Super Bowl ad for General Motors Co. makes bleak viewing today. The actor’s comic fury at being “outEV’d” by Norway hit at a truth that was a point of pride for Europe: When it comes to electric-vehicle sales, the U.S. has been a laggard, lacking the regulatory and investment push seen in China and Europe. “Don’t hate, imitate,” Volkswagen AG-owned rival Audi replied. Imitate, the Americans have – and now it’s European Union politicians who are prone to Ferrell-style rants. The Biden administration’s tax credits of up to $7,500 on EVs assembled in North America are seen as an “aggressive” competitive threat by the E.U. and the likes of South Korea, as are other goodies promoting green investment in the $369 billion Inflation Reduction Act. Battery-makers like Sweden’s NorthVolt AB are pivoting to the U.S., with energy costs also in mind after a year that saw European natural-gas prices trade eight times higher than in the U.S.

This is not a textbook trade war: We’re a long way from the Trump-era threat of tariffs on European cars, and the Ukraine conflagration has pushed NATO allies closer. But we’re also a long way from a new era of multilateralism under Biden. A subsidy salvo designed to keep China in check and incentivize new factories in the U.S. is bad for trade partners caught in the middle, even if it’s good for the climate. The protectionism tying together “Buy American” provisions with subsidies that manufacturers say equates to a cost reduction of about 30% feels like a grim new era.

“The risk for Europe is the kind of deindustrialization we haven’t

seen for years,” says Antoine Huard, co-founder of French power-plant developer Verso Energy.

So far, Europe’s response has been halting. Appealing to Biden’s good nature has procured the promise of tweaks, but not much more. Complaining to the World Trade Organization feels like a fool’s errand: Dispute-resolution mechanisms have become gummed up and undermined by the U.S.; they weren’t exactly fleet of foot in the first place. There’s been little appetite for the threat of retaliatory tariffs, which Canada used to its advantage.

The obvious move left is, in the words of Audi, imitate rather than hate. The E.U. has launched a 750 billion-euro ($812 billion) fund to heal its pandemic-scarred economy, and not all of it is spent yet. It’s eyeing 43 billion euros in public and private spending for semiconductors. Would another industrial boondoggle be so bad? European Commission industry chief Thierry Breton, the face of French-style dirigisme in Brussels, is whipping up support for a “Clean Tech Act” to support industry.

There are some good reasons to join the subsidy race, even if few expect an overall “win.” Demand wouldn’t be created from scratch.

There’s already investor appetite and corporate demand for green investments like batteries or renewables, especially with the pressure to reduce supply-chain dependencies on China and re-shore critical components. Carmaker Stellantis NV wants to itself produce half its European factories’ energy supply, for example. Public support would help make the E.U. more competitive by subsidizing energy or relevant tech.

But there are also risks. One is

more fanning of trade tensions. The E.U.’s latest plan to further ease restrictions on state aid in response to the U.S., as reported by Bloomberg News, will lead to plenty of internal fights over unfair competition between big countries like Germany and those with less financial firepower. And the more the E.U. tries to create carve-outs for specific products or industries, the likelier it is to damage its credibility with other trade partners, reckons Bruegel research fellow Niclas Poitiers.

Another is wasting money. In the current environment, there is plenty of demand for raw materials or components that are produced locally because they’re easier to transport and carry no geopolitical risk. But there is a point where shortages might turn into gluts, as seen in the chip industry in the past. Even in the gleaming world of Tesla Inc.-style gigafactories, which have attracted $300 billion in investment worldwide since 2019 with China in the lead, there are likely to be flops, such as the “Britishvolt” battery factory that came close to collapse last year.

So even as the E.U. races to fuel its own industrial-champion dreams, it should also be on guard. Bend stateaid or antitrust rules too much and they will break. Past efforts to build new Airbus-style ventures haven’t always worked out. And effective spending, not just more of it, should be a priority, according to economist Xavier Jaravel, who points out France still has 40 billion euros of recovery funds to put to work. The stakes are high, as are the risks. Sparks will fly.

Lionel Laurent is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering digital currencies, the European Union and France. Previously, he was a reporter for Reuters and Forbes.

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‘Sucking it up’ is not the answer

Dear Annie: I’ve read a few letters in your column in which parents wrote about two of their children arguing and wanting there to be peace. And in all of the replies, you have advocated trying to remind people about the good times and work toward building back the relationship.

Generally, in most of these situations, there is one sibling who was the one hurt. I know in my case I had a three-year estrangement with my sibling, and my parents acknowledged that my sibling was the one in the wrong. However, they kept saying that even though they were wrong, I should apologize and make peace so the family can “be happy.” This really damaged my relationship with my parents because all they really cared about was having their wonderful fantasy of a happy, loving family.

When a parent tries to pick sides or tries to convince the quieter or less volatile sibling to suck it up for the family, that may work for a short period of time, but it is going to create resentment and disillusionment in the long run. While my brother and I did eventually make peace, what’s happening now is that they are trying to micromanage all the situations to avoid triggering the

volatile sibling – my brother– at the expense and fairness of the other one – me. I would suggest in the future that parents continue their relationship with their kids as they normally do, but let the siblings work it out or not work it out as they see fit.

Every holiday, I visit my parents and get yelled at because they want to make sure that my brother and his family don’t get mad. And because my sibling is the older one and lives closer to them, it’s important that they keep him happy, I guess, because it would work out better for them. Here is one such example. For the last 20 years, I have always made the cranberry sauce for every holiday. One year ago, I called my nephew to the kitchen and showed him how I made it.

My nephew has decided he doesn’t like me adding some mulling spices and orange juice to the cranberry and he wants to make it himself now. The day before the dinner, my dad yelled at me that I cannot make cranberry sauce because it’s important to keep the peace.

He doesn’t want my brother to get mad that I am making the cranberry sauce. Even when I suggested that my nephew make his own and I make my own, that was not enough – just

Horoscopes

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s not a painless one. The truth can hurt, sometimes unnecessarily so. Before you decide to speak up, consider the chances of the situation improving because of this sharing.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your imagination is ablaze, and you don’t just think of what might be – you find realworld applications. Share your vision. You’ll get plenty of blank stares, but if you find even one person who gets you, it’s worth it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You can’t take back what you say once it slips your lips, but it has a chance of being soon forgotten. The written word, however, can be forever saved. It’s a day to exercise restraint before clicking that send button.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Luck is on your side today, and yet it would be foolish to waste fortune’s favor by taking a big risk. Instead, continue your work and enjoy the graceful momentum and auspicious outcomes.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You have advocates. Not that you need defense or are trying to inspire passion in your devotees. Still, it’s nice to know that people are on your side and will be there when and if you

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday

You’ll achieve beyond what you thought you could. What you bring to an endeavor is more than could be learned through study. You have a special talent – a spark that will catch on. More highlights: seeing your team win, experiencing the dramatic peace of the ocean and bringing something entirely new into being. Virgo and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 3, 33, 20 and 12.

ever need them.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Elitist behavior is abhorrent until the “insider” is you. To struggle this way is human.

“People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.” —

Russell Baker

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Before you explain yourself, consider carefully your audience. Many already know, don’t want to know or aren’t capable of understanding. There’s but a small percentage of people who need and will be receptive to explanations.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Love is the one commodity you can’t get too much of, especially

in case my brother got mad at that idea.

I can’t keep living like this anymore, so I’m thinking of gradually going low contact with my parents. Parents forcing a reconciliation when it is not wanted directly is also contributing to my feelings of alienation. -- Calling It Quits Dear Quits: Ask yourself, is it really about the cranberry sauce? Telling you to suck it up is never the right response; having you walk on eggshells in front of your brother is never a recipe for a happy family holiday get-together. But saying that your sibling is the one always in the wrong or jumping on that type of validation from your parents is not going to solve anything.

The goal is not to be right; the goal is to be peaceful and joyful and happy with your family. The best way to do that is to look at the big picture and not sweat the small stuff. Tell your dad how you feel; make the cranberry sauce your way, and let your nephew make it his way. The point is to try to be flexible with each other and loving your family. If you decided to not participate at all or call it quits, then that is you who is being rigid and inflexible.

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considering how many forms it comes in. Money, however, can be problematic in great quantities and can complicate things in unforeseen ways.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). You’re in the mood for a makeover. Wherever you direct this energy, whether toward your image, domestic scene, relationships, finance or other, today’s steps will be touched with luck.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). You will inspire people, not with what you say but with how you say it. You’re relatable. People see themselves in you, or they see an aspirational version of their future selves.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Your key to success is your ability to focus on one thing until it’s finished. By the end of the day, you’ll have something excellent to show for your efforts. Avoid adding nonessentials or going off on tangents.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your life is moving along. You don’t mind momentarily stopping the action for special reasons or people, but, like a train, you won’t stop for long. Whether they get on board or not, you will keep to your schedule.

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IT GETS CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER

Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote, “Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”

Well, it certainly helps to be curious at the bridge table. You need to know about the opponents’ methods, and you must search for any little edge in the play that will increase your chances of success.

Today’s deal looks so easy, but the unwary – the uncurious –

Sudoku

will go down.

Alder

North responded with the Jacoby Forcing Raise. South’s three-diamond rebid showed a singleton or void in that suit. One control-bid and two doses of Blackwood followed.

West led the spade 10: queen, king, ace. Now, with a spade loser virtually unavoidable, South had to assume the heart finesse was working. Then, if the clubs were 3-2, he was safe. But, if possible, he wanted to allow for a 4-1 club split.

At trick two, South unblocked the diamond ace. Then he played a club to dummy’s king and took a successful heart finesse. (It doesn’t help East to cover with the king.) A diamond ruff followed, then the heart ace, a heart to dummy and the diamond queen ruffed in hand. Finally, South cast adrift with his spade.

If East had won this trick, he would have been forced to lead a diamond or a spade, conceding a ruff-and-sluff and permitting South to avoid a club loser. However, when West won with the nine, he was no better off. Leading away from the J-10 of clubs saved South a loser in the suit. (This line would also work if West had a singleton club eight.)

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Annie Lane Dear Annie

Thrilling sequel ‘Missing’ further examines role of tech in our lives

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In 2018, director Aneesh Chaganty and co-writer Sev Ohanian turned in a nifty little thriller, “Searching,” that commented on the way we live now, which is to say, online. In it, John Cho searches for his missing daughter through her digital detritus, parsing clues that lie in plain sight. The entirety of the film took place on a computer screen, making use of the way that cameras have permeated our everyday existence, from FaceTime to surveillance video.

“Searching” was a critical and commercial success, and a sequel, “Missing,” is hitting theaters with a story by Chaganty and Ohanian, directed by Nick Johnson and Will Merrick, who wrote the screenplay as well. This time, the parent goes missing, as a daughter searches for her mother, turning up a whole host of new terrors and triumphs of tech and true crime.

Johnson and Merrick utilize the format set by “Searching,” but the technological, cultural and media landscape has evolved, including the fire hose of streaming true crime content — the only time the camera is ever liberated from the laptop screen is during fake-out recreations from a Netflix true crime series called “Unfiction.” There’s also the proliferation of TikTok detectives and Twitter police performing armchair analysis on every missing person case.

If you’ve seen “Searching,” you’ll probably have an inkling that the answer will be planted in front of us, but “Missing” takes some absolutely wild and crazy twists and turns arriving at its destination. College-bound June (Storm Reid), 18, just wants to rage with her friends while her mom, Grace (Nia Long), is on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, Kevin (Ken Leung). But when a hungover June rolls into LAX to pick them up a week later, Grace and Kevin are a no-show.

Relying on her impressive Google skills, innate to a digitally native member of Gen Z, June starts searching for her missing mom, combing through tourist live cams, bank statements and hiring a TaskRabbit-type helper, Javi (Joaquim de Almeida) to do footwork on the ground in Colombia. June is smart, resourceful and bold, and the way she cracks passwords and navigates the maze of information will make anyone think deeply about how much information tracking one should leave toggled on in their Google account.

Is it better to leave a trace? Depends on what you’re doing.

The swift and suspenseful “Missing” plows through nearly two hours of shocking plot twists at a breakneck pace, and while it’s entertaining to be sure, it also takes on a somber tone as it reckons with grief, loss and intimate partner violence in a way that’s very real, backed up by headlines ripped from the news, and yes, those true crime series and TikToks that are so very compelling.

That’s what makes movies like “Searching” and “Missing” so captivating. They’re high-concept thrillers featuring melodramatic acting (Reid is a likable presence, but it’s doubtful she’ll snag an Independent Spirit Award nomination the way Cho did), but they also feel authentic to the way we live, even in the outlandish moments.

Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis

Dilbert Scott Adams

Baby Blues Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Baldo Hector Cantú and Carlos Castellanos

Twenty years ago, the veteran manager and record producer – then also the president of Presley’s storied label, Capitol Records – had cut the singer’s debut single with her in the studio, and now he was prepping her for what was to come.

“I said, ‘This song is a good entry point for what you’re doing on your album, so what we’ll do is we’ll put a promotional tour together because people will want to talk to you about the song,’” Slater recalled of “Lights Out,” a glossy but muscular poprock tune in which the singer addresses her background as the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley. “‘We’ll go to radio stations in a couple cities and get up early and do morning shows.’ And she goes, ‘I just have one question: Can I bring my plane?’” Slater laughed. “I said, ‘As long as we don’t park it at the radio station, I think we’re good.’”

A rookie artist with all the comforts – and some of the burdens – of success: That was Lisa Marie Presley’s strange position as she embarked on a music career in her mid-30s after decades of tabloid notoriety brought on by a series of high-profile marriages and of course by her intimate connection to one of the most consequential cultural figures of all time. The singer, who died Thursday at age 54 after suffering cardiac arrest, released three studio albums, beginning with 2003’s “To Whom It May Concern,” which featured “Lights Out” and went on to be certified gold for sales of more than 500,000 copies; a second LP, “Now What,” came out in 2005, followed seven years later by “Storm & Grace.”

Each showcased Presley’s bluesy vocals and a songwriting talent she used to illuminate her complicated family history. “Someone turned the lights out there in Memphis / That’s where my family’s buried and gone,” she sang over the pealing guitars and driving groove of “Lights Out,” “Last time I was there I noticed a space left / Next to them there in Memphis, in the damn back lawn.” (Last week, a spokesperson said Lisa Marie would be buried at Graceland, her father’s estate in Memphis, near Elvis and other family members, including Lisa Marie’s son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020.)

Yet despite the familiar snarl in her voice – not to mention the darkly sensual eyes that instantly evoked her dad in photos – Presley was determined to create her own path in the music industry, according to people who worked with her.

“Lisa Marie never wanted to trade off her status and fame,”

said Glen Ballard, the seasoned songwriter and producer who co-wrote much of the material, including “Lights Out,” on “To Whom It May Concern.” “It was like being born a princess –kind of an accident of birth. She always felt there was some unearned capital there.”

Slater says “Lights Out,” which peaked at No. 18 on Billboard’s adult pop airplay chart, was originally called “Memphis” but that Presley was “very apprehensive” about the title and so changed it. “I respected that because she wasn’t trying to draw too hard a line [between her and Elvis],” Slater said. “She was doing music for the right reason, which was that she had something to say and music was the vehicle for her to express herself emotionally.”

Indeed, Presley had begun writing songs when she was 20, she told Playboy in a 2003 interview, “for cathartic reasons, as an outlet. I just haven’t been doing it publicly.” She needed time to “find my way, stylistically,” she said. In 1998 she struck up her collaboration with Ballard, who’d co-written “Man in the Mirror” by Michael Jackson (to whom Presley was married from 1994 to 1996) and who’d produced Alanis Morissette’s 1995 blockbuster “Jagged Little Pill,” which Presley identified as an inspiration.

Though she was wary of profiting from her father’s renown – or at least of being seen that way – “the unusual circumstances of her life couldn’t be ignored, in her own psyche or as an artist,” Ballard said. “We had many conversations about it, and finally she came to the conclusion that she could write about her experiences. I mean, to deny it would have been artistically fraudulent on some level.” Other tunes on “To Whom It May Concern” take up her string of broken relationships – Presley was also married to musicians Danny Keough and Michael Lockwood and actor Nicolas Cage – and the media’s treatment of Elvis near the end of his life.

As Ballard points out, Presley had “absolutely no experience grinding it out in clubs to sort of carve out her performance identity” before she made her

debut. “Elvis earned his way through some of the worst clubs in the world, and Lisa Marie was expected to be able to just step onstage and be great like her father,” Ballard said.

Yet Slater says she had a natural charisma that made all that irrelevant. “I either believe a singer or I don’t, and I believed her,” he said. “So did everyone at Capitol. She was tough and passionate but really sensitive and humble.” Funny too, according to Ballard. “She would take the piss out of everything,” he said. “She had a lot of angst but also a lot of humor. All the time I spent with her was fun.”

As the head of Capitol, Slater oversaw “Now What” – which featured a droll rendition of Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry” – before he left the company following a corporate merger in 2007. The impression he had of Presley at that time was of “an artist at the beginning of their career,” he said. “To me it all looked like it was going in a good direction and she was feeling the power of becoming a performer.” Slater sensed that she might eventually move toward a darker rock sound; he remembers her interest in Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath and recalls introducing Presley to Fiona Apple, whose smash debut, “Tidal,” he produced and whose career he’s managed for years.

“I forget where we were –may have been a Christmas party or something,” he said. “I don’t know what they talked about but they spent some time together and I remember Fiona saying, ‘I like her.’” For “Storm & Grace,” Presley recruited producer T Bone Burnett for a rootsy, slightly goth-inflected LP that looked back to the stripped-down records Elvis cut at Memphis’ Sun Studio in the mid-1950s. It was the last album she’d release, though she contributed vocals to a virtual duet with her father for a gospel-themed Elvis compilation from 2018.

Asked if Presley was proud of the music they made together, Ballard said he thought she was. “But there were so many other pressures in her life that I don’t know if she ever really got to feel the validation from it,” he said.

BRIDGE CAN BE A BAFFLING GAME

Bridge can be such a perplexing game at times. Henry Carey had the right idea when he wrote, “Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.” But sometimes the knavish cards leave the players frustrated.

In today’s deal, you make seven spades but go down in six! How come? Read on.

South opened with a textbook weak two-bid. North, who knew his partner’s style, didn’t stop to smell

the flowers.

West, a pupil of the Aggressive Leads Against Small Slams School, flashed the club six onto the table.

Looking at the full deal, you can see that the heart finesse is winning. However, without the advantage of a free peek, that isn’t the correct play in six spades.

South exhibited excellent – if unsuccessful – technique. He knew that, having to find one red-suit queen, he should cash the ace-king in the suit with the greater number of cards. Then, if the queen hasn’t dropped, finesse in the other suit.

Declarer ducked the first trick to open up his communications. He won the second trick with the club ace, drew trumps and cashed dummy’s heart ace-king. Next came the diamond ace, a club ruff to get back to hand and a finesse of the diamond jack. Unlucky – down one.

However, in seven spades the diamond finesse is probably not taken. Needing two discards, South must hope that the heart suit is generating five tricks. He wins trick one with the club ace, cashes the heart ace, draws trumps and finesses the heart jack. Lucky –seven made.

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Andrew Slater remembers explaining to Lisa Marie Presley how this whole thing was going to work.

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Singer Lisa Marie Presley performs at the Avalon, in Los Angeles April 13, 2004

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

PETITION OF:

LI, YINING CASE NUMBER: FCS059370

TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS: Petitioner: Li, Yining filedapetitionwiththiscourtforadecree changingnamesasfollows: Present Name: a. Yining Li Proposed Name: a. Yakov Yeening Lee THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING

Date: Feb. 1, 2023; Time: 9:00 am; Dept: 3; Rm: 2 The address of the court is:

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 Old Solano Courthouse

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TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS:

Alan Arthur Vincent filedapetitionwiththiscourtforadecree changingnamesasfollows: Present Name: a. Alan Arthur Vincent b. Alan Arthur Jones Proposed Name: a. Alan Arthur Vincent b. Alan Arthur Vincent

THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING

Date: Feb. 1, 2023; Time: 9:00 am; Dept: 3; Rm: 2

The address of the court is:

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533

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Patrick Mahomes for seventh-best in the regular season, just behind Purdy’s injured predecessor, Jimmy Garoppolo (67.2).

Running backs

Cowboys: A tremendous tandem exists with Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard, with the latter having made the Pro Bowl. They combined for 1,831 yards and 21 touchdowns on the ground in the regular season.

Elliott hasn’t had a 100-yard game since October 2021, and his average of 3.8 yards per carry was the lowest of his seven-year career. In last year’s playoff loss, he had just 31 yards (12 carries), and Pollard just 14 yards (four carries).

49ers: Christian McCaffrey has been a godsend to the 49ers’ offense, and while his receiving ability is unmatched among NFL running backs, he’s run for over 100 yards in four of the past six games. The 49ers can spell him with Deebo Samuel, Elijah Mitchell, and, perhaps rookie Jordan Mason. Samuel’s 26-yard touchdown run seized control for the 49ers’ in last year’s playoff win at Dallas, and he finished 72 yards (10 carries) while Mitchell had 96 (27 carries). Mitchell had just 2 yards (nine carries) on Saturday, and Samuel had 32 yards (three carries).

Receivers

Cowboys: They’ve got a Pro Bowler in CeeDee Lamb (107 catches, 1,359 yards, nine touchdowns). Limited by the 49ers to one catch on five targets in last year’s playoff debut, Lamb couldn’t catch Prescott’s first two passes Monday night (then T.Y. Hilton dropped the third to spoil the opening series.) Tight end Dalton Schultz had two touchdown catches in Monday’s first half, and he was their leading receiver (seven catches, 89 yards) against the 49ers in last year’s playoffs. Michael Gallop and Noah Brown are other options, as are the running backs.

49ers: Samuel, on the eve of his 27th birthday, tallied 133 yards Saturday that were the 49ers’ most in a playoff game since 2014 ( Anquan Boldin, 136 at Carolina). All of Brandon Aiyuk’s 73 yards Saturday

Warriors

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work in helping bring Brittney Griner home from Russia.

“It’s a big part of our basketball family and it means a lot to know that she’s here and home safe with her family and all the work behind the scenes to make that a reality,” Curry said. “I just want to say thank you there.”

Kerr added that he, Klay Thompson and Moses Moody participated

came in the first half, and he dropped a potential fourth touchdown pass by Purdy, but Aiyuk’s first 1,000-yard season has been the aerial complement needed for this offense.

George Kittle caught his only two targets Saturday (37 yards), but he’s been a fabulous target for Purdy, including on improvised plays. Of Kittle’s career-high 11 touchdowns, seven came in the four games entering the playoffs. No. 3 receiver Jauan Jennings is battling an ankle issue, and Ray-Ray McCloud lurks as a speedy option from the slot.

Offensive line

Cowboys: Right guard Zack Martin is an All-Pro and Pro Bowler. Left tackle Jason Peters tapped out with a hip injury just before halftime Monday night, and Tyler Smith replaced him, rather than immediately shift Tyron Smith back over from right tackle. Center Tyler Biadasz is battling through a recent high-ankle sprain.

49ers: Preseason concerns have been replaced by strong confidence in this cohesive unit. The 49ers boast the NFL’s best lineman in left tackle Trent Williams, who’s flanked to his right by Aaron Banks, Jake Brendel, Spencer Burford and Mike McGlinchey. Burford has rotated with Daniel Brunskill most of the season, and that’s yielded mixed results.

Defensive line

Cowboys: Parsons entered Monday night’s game with the league’s best pass-rush win rate (29.8 percent) He opened the playoffs with a tackle-for-loss on his first snap, but he limped into the locker room at halftime, so he might not be at full strength Sunday. Demarcus Lawrence is a ninth-year veteran with 49 ½ career sacks. Keep an eye on the interior for Osa Odighizuwa and Johnathan Hankins, the latter of whom just came off injured reserve.

49ers: Bosa runs this show, as evident by his league-leading 18 ½ sacks and 48 hits. But he had neither sacks nor quarterback hits in the playoff opener, so that showed just fierce the rest of the defensive front. Arik Armstead, Javon Kinlaw, Kevin Givens and T.Y. McGill are stout on the interior. The versatile Charles Omenihu had two sacks in the opener, including the play of the game with a strip sack. Samson

in a one-hour round table on gun violence and gun safety with senior White House officials. It’s a subject particularly close to Kerr’s heart, as his father was assassinated at American University of Beirut in Lebanon.

“Over the last hour or so, we learned a lot about what this administration is doing to help create a safer environment in our country,” Kerr said. “That’s something that’s very close to my heart and it’s wonderful for me to learn a lot more than I knew. Coming

Ebukam(ankle) and Jordan Willis round out the rotation unless Drake Jackson gets activated for pass-rush help.

Linebackers

Cowboys: Leighton Vander Esch has returned from a neck injury to patrol the middle of their defense. Anthony Barr has the veteran experience to snuff out screen passes. Parsons is technically a linebacker but he’s best used as an edge rusher.

49ers: The NFL’s best unit is led by All-Pro Fred Warner both as a tackler and vocal leader. Dre Greenlaw has been a more electric playmaker with his speed, range and guts (see: asking Tom Brady to autograph the football he intercepted last month). Greenlaw had 11 tackles in the playoff opener, Warner had six and Azeez Al-Shaair three.

Defensive backs

Cowboys: Two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Trevon Diggs gambles but, “I love the kid and he makes plays,” former Cowboys and 49ers cornerback Deion Sanders said on ESPN’s “ManningCast” Monday night. “If you continually play with him, he’s going to get you sooner or later.” DaRon Bland gave up a 30-yard touchdown catch as Monday’s third quarter ended. Jayron Kearse made an end zone interception Monday night, but he hurt his left knee late in the third quarter. Fellow safeties Donovan Wilson and Malik Hooker are potential play makers.

49ers: Charvarius Ward has been the 49ers’ best cornerback since Richard Sherman in 2019, although Ward struggled Saturday and in their last loss three months ago to Kansas City. Deommodore Lenoir’s interception in his playoff debut likely won’t stop him from being targeted but his confidence hasn’t wavered all season. At safety, the 49ers have an All-Pro and Pro Bowler in Talanoa Hufanga, while Tashaun Gipson Sr. has been a tremendous complement all season. The further the 49ers go, the better return that Jimmie Ward might get in his contract year.

Special teams

Cowboys: Brett Maher missed four point-after kicks Monday night, so that position is a glaring concern for Dallas. KaVontae Turpin is a Pro Bowl return specialist. Punter Bryan

in today is a great day on many fronts.”

Biden also addressed the storms that have struck the greater Northern California region in the past two weeks and added that he’ll be traveling to the state on Thursday.

Despite this summer’s win over the Boston Celtics being the Warriors’ fourth title in eight years, Curry noted in the White House press briefing room that this is only the second trip to the White House for Golden State during this run and

Anger, a Cal product, had a 42.8 net average in his 11th season. 49ers: Robbie Gould has been historically automatic in 14 career playoff games, making all 25 of his field-goal attempts and 37 pointafter kicks. The 40-year-old kicker feels stronger than his younger days and that shows on touchbacks as a kickoff specialist. Mitch Wishnowsky only punted once Saturday, a 57-yard gem. Ray-Ray McCloud has been sure-handed and on the verge of busting a big return.

Coaching

Cowboys: Mike McCarthy, the 49ers’ offensive coordinator in 2005, is 0-3 against them in the playoffs as a head coach. That includes two meetings as the Packers’ coach before he took over the Cowboys in 2020. McCarthy’s produced backto-back 12-5 seasons. Defensive coordinator Dan Quinn is to interview Friday for the Denver Broncos’ post; he got his NFL start as a 49ers assistant in 2001-04 and eventually went 43-42 as coach of the Atlanta Falcons, whom he took to the 2016 season’s Super Bowl with Kyle Shanahan as his offensive coordinator.

49ers: Shanahan’s sixth season has been his best with the 49ers, seeing how they’re on an 11-game win streak and on their third quarterback. Shanahan’s offensive wit is also showing through with McCaffrey joining the air-and-ground assets. DeMeco Ryans, in his second year as defensive coordinator, oversees the NFL’s stingiest unit and that’s set him up for head-coaching interviews this week with the Broncos and Houston Texans, with the Arizona Cardinals and the Indianapolis Colts also requesting a shot.

Series history

Cowboys: All due respect to “The Catch” Dwight Clark made to launch the 49ers’ dynasty in the January 1982 NFC Final, the Cowboys’ playoff history includes wins in the Bay Area. Monday marked the Cowboys’ first road playoff win since January 1993 at Candlestick Park; they’ve also beaten the host 49ers in the 1970 and ’72 playoffs.

49ers: Levi’s Stadium is offering its best home-field advantage yet in nine seasons. The 49ers have won 13 of their past 14 appearances, although that followed a calendar year between home wins.

first since 2016 when the 2015 title-winning team met with then-President Barack Obama.

While it had become customary that the commander-in-chief, regardless of their political affiliation, would honor championship sports teams with celebratory trips to the White House, it changed when Donald Trump took office. Many athletes took issue with President Trump’s policies and rhetoric toward minorities, women, immigrants, as well as NFL players who protested .

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scored 10 points for Stanislaus State to go with one rebound and two assists in a 94-84 win over Cal State Bakersfield. He had four points, two rebounds and an assist in a 70-62 win over Cal Poly Pomona.

Senior guard Jay Nagle (Will C. Wood) was with Idaho State in a pair of matchups against Montana schools. Nagle scored nine points and had three rebounds, four assists and a blocked shot in an 81-68 loss to Montana State. He had 10 points, two rebounds and two assists in an 84-55 loss to Montana.

Junior forward Landon Seaman (Will C. Wood) continues to have strong games for Menlo. Seaman had 22 points, nine rebounds, two blocked shots and one assist in an 81-64 loss to Arizona Christian. He had 12 points, four rebounds and one assist in a 91-78 win over Ottawa.

Senior guard Dunnell Stafford (Solano) is at Fort Lewis where he scored four points, pulled down two rebounds, picked up three assists and had a blocked shot in an 84-72 win over Chadron State. Stafford also had a 14-point game with five rebounds, two assists and three steals in an 80-62 win over Colorado Christian.

Junior guard Ricky Hamilton-Holland (Will C. Wood) scored 20 points with five rebounds and an assist for Pacific Union College in a 100-69 loss to Antelope Valley. He had 12 points, five rebounds, four assists and two steals in a tight 78-77 win over La Sierra. Senior guardforward Sterlan Thomas (Vacaville, Solano) added four points, eight rebounds, one assist and one steal in the Antelope Valley game.

Women’s basketball

Junior guard Ashmeen Sran (St. Patrick-St. Vincent/Solano) and sophomore forward Joia Armstrong (Vanden) saw action for Stanislaus State. Sran had three assists and one steal in a 62-59 loss to Cal State San Bernardino and three points, two rebounds, one assist and one steal in a 70-69 loss to Cal Poly Pomona. Armstrong had eight points, seven rebounds, one assist and one blocked shot in the San Bernardino game and 10 points, three rebounds, four assists, two blocks and one steal in the Pomona game.

Junior forward Milia Gibson (Rodriguez) scored six points to go with seven rebounds, one assist and three steals for Mississippi Valley State in a 69-55 loss to Prairie View A&M.

Senior forward Taimane Lesa-Hardee (Salesian, Fairfield resident) scored 14 points

A’s

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Oakland poses a perfect opportunity for both sides. Fujinami was looking for a team that would let him pitch as a starter. And the A’s were in need of another arm in their rotation.

“It was important to him to have a chance to be a starter, and that’s how we’ve seen him perform in Japan,” Forst said.

The opportunity to start alone could have been the ultimate draw to Oakland for Fujinami. The 28-year-old was drafted in the first round into the Nippon Professional Baseball, alongside superstar and high-school rival Shohei Ohtani in 2012. He made four straight NBP All-Star teams during his 10-seasons with the Hanshin Tigers as a hardthrowing starter who can hit triple-digits to go with a low 80’s mph slider and a splitter.

But Fujinami lost his

with five rebounds, two assists and three steals for San Francisco State in an 84-81 loss to Cal State East Bay. She had 14 points, four rebounds, three assists, one blocked shot and two steals in a 77-65 loss to Cal State Dominguez Hills.

Senior guard Myli Martinez (Vanden) went for 17 points, seven rebounds, three assists and one steal for Chico State in a 68-63 loss to Cal Poly Pomona. She had 11 points, three rebounds and four assists in a 67-56 win over Cal State San Bernardino.

Freshman guard Jiana Creswell (Vanden) had one rebound in the San Bernardino game.

Freshman guard Kiki Roberts (Vanden) scored one point and had two rebounds for Eastern New Mexico in a 77-55 loss to Lubbock Christian. She had two points, three rebounds and two steals in an 84-55 loss to Western Texas A&M.

Freshman guard Camryn Washington (Rodriguez) scored four points for Cal State East Bay and had two rebounds in the 84-52 win over San Francisco State. Washington also had a rebound, an assist and one steal in a 66-46 win over Cal State Monterey Bay.

Women’s gymnastics

Senior Nevaeh DeSouza (Vacaville, DreamXtreme) and sophomore Maddie Williams (Buckingham Charter, DreamXtreme) helped Cal win the Wasatch Classic in Utah over Oregon State, Iowa and Pitt. DeSouza scored a 9.900 on the vault that her tied for third place and was third overall in the all-around with a score of 39.375. Williams had a 9.900 on the uneven bars that tied for third.

Freshman Amelia Money Maker (Del Oro, DreamXtreme) scored 9.725 on both vault and floor events for UC Davis in recent competition.

Senior Thea Michovsky (Napa, Dream Xtreme) scored a 9.800 for UC Davis on the uneven bars.

Junior Jaudai Lopez (Buckingham, Dream Xtreme) had a 39.05 allaround at two events for San Jose State.

Freshman Madelyn Gomez (Dixon, Dream Xtreme) made her debut for the University of Alaska, Anchorage. She competed in the vault and floor events.

Freshman Ariana DeSouza (Vacaville, Dream Xtreme) also debuted in the vault, beam and floor at Alaska.

Wrestling

Lawrenz Saenz (Vacaville) picked up a win at 141 pounds for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in a 22-12 loss to Air Force.

command somewhere along the way. In 2017, at age 23, his walk rate jumped from 3.7 walks per nine innings to 5.7 in 26 games with the Tigers, including 11 starts. His struggles had him switching between starter and reliever toward the latter part of his Tigers career.

Lately, he’s been able to regain some of that control, lowering his BB/9 back down to 3.0 in 25 games. The 6-foot-6 pitcher struck out 65 batters with 21 walks for a 3.38 ERA over 66 2/3 innings last season – both as a starter for 10 games and a reliever for six.

It was Fujinami’s track record as a starter that interested the A’s, who are in desperate need of some stability in their rotation with Daulton Jefferies recovering from Tommy John surgery and James Kaprielianlikely to miss time to start the season with an arm injury.