Daily Republic: Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Community gathers to remember nation’s fallen

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FAIRFIELD — About

100 people gathered near the old county court house Monday to mark Memorial Day 2023.

A bevy of buddy poppies were on hand. Flags, some handheld, some secured to flag poles, blew in the midmorning breeze.

The commemoration was to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country. It was hosted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Simmons-Sheldon Post and Auxiliary 2333.

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Knott, 8, sang the national anthem. The Laurel Creek student, who began singing when she was 7, said she rehearsed the song and felt pretty comfortable standing before the crowd. “I’ve been singing it over and over.

I know it pretty well now,” she said at the end

of the event.

Past post Commander Darrol Prill read General Order No. 11 which established Memorial Day in 1868. The order read the day “is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land.”

Post Adjutant Mike Johnson offered a preemptive apology prior to introducing dignitaries for any omission or mispronunciations. “It’s all about Memorial Day, don’t get your feelings hurt,” he said.

When he called out for any Gold Star families to stand, there was no response, “That’s a good thing,” Johnson said, adding that some

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Highlights, challenges, and a Key to the City presented at State of the City

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SUISUN CITY — Suisun City’s State of the City offered residents a chance to meet city staff and officials, members of different committees and neighbors.

More than 100 people filled a room at the Joseph Nelson Center to ask questions, get an update on city activities and accomplishments as well as the challenges the town of almost 30,000 face.

City Manager Greg Folsom said he often hears “there’s nothing happening in Suisun. They are not paying attention,” he said.

He recalled he and former Mayor Lori Wilson did a state of the city address with the local chamber of commerce. “We thought Suisun City deserves its own state of the city.”

Mayor Alma Hernandez presented a slide showing touting the city’s accomplishments in the last

Debt-limit deal faces final test in Congress to avert US default

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The debt-limit agreement forged by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy heads into a crucial final stretch with less than a week to win congressional passage before a June 5 default deadline.

Biden and McCarthy spent much of the Memorial Day holiday lobbying members of their respective parties to build enough support ahead of a House vote expected Wednesday.

If the two leaders can overcome expected opposition from their flanks, the deal goes to the Senate, where a single objection risks triggering time-consuming procedures that threaten to bring the US right to the brink of a firstever default.

“I never say I’m confident about what the

Congress is going to do, but I feel very good about it,” Biden told reporters Monday.

Representative Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said early Tuesday that the measure has clear momentum in his party.

“I think taken in its totality you will see enough Democratic support to make sure this bill passes,” Boyle said on CNN. “It’s neither perfect nor awful, but somewhere in between.”

Treasuries rallied, with yields on the securities set to mature when the government was most at risk of a default tumbling in European trading. Two-year yields were down about 4 basis points. Stock futures

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FAIRFIELD — The mysterious Flannery Group, which for about five years has been purchasing land in the Jepson Prairie and Montezuma Hills area of Solano County, has sued some landowners in those areas for at least $510 million.

“Flannery estimates that, to date, the Conspirators and their illegal price-fixing conspiracy have caused damages to Flannery from overpayment for properties from

12 months. “We have much more work ahead,” she said, noting the event was a time to “pause and the look at the bright spots.”

The audience applauded when

the Conspirators, their coowners, and third parties of at least $170 million and that Defendants are therefore jointly and severally liable to pay Flannery treble damages in the amount of at least $510 million,” states the lawsuit, which was filed by Flannery Associates LLC on May 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento.

Treble damages allows the court to triple the amount of the actual or compensatory damages.

“This is a simple case

she noted for the first time in almost a year, there’s been a full city council. Each department was featured

about a group of wealthy landowners who saw an opportunity to conspire, collude, price fix, and illegally overcharge Flannery, a buyer who had approached these landowners on an individual basis to buy their properties in the Jepson Prairie and Montezuma Hills area of Solano County, California,” the lawsuit states.

“This area hosts several utility-scale commercial wind farms, transmission lines, substations, and other energy infrastructure, as well as

numerous environmental conservation and mitigation projects.”

The land purchases includes SMUD’s Solano 4 Wind Wind Project, about which the utility recently settled a lawsuit by the county for development of larger turbines.

The lawsuit also specifically notes land values of some of the defendants due to wind development leases.

Flannery contends in the federal action that the more than 60 named

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John Aldridge of Post 306 salutes during the Memorial Day observance in front of the Solano County War Memorial in downtown Fairfield, Monday.

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Suisun City Planning Commissioner Kristina Elder speaks to city residents about new developments at the State of the City event, at the Joseph Nelson Community Center, Tuesday.

Gemma Geluz tries on VR goggles at the Suisun City State of the City event, at the Joseph Nelson Community Center, Tuesday.

School district superintendents under fire

The politics of public education have become quite “noisy” in recent years. From disputes over how to manage the Covid-19 pandemic to a groundswell of fervent conservative activism in school-communities across the nation, the educational establishment is literally reeling in an effort to maintain institutional equilibrium. Many educational stakeholders are feeling battered and bruised by increasingly vitriolic political pressures to banish books, to eliminate diversity instruction, to delegitimize LGBTQ rights in schools, and to infuse Christianity into school curricula.

No stakeholders have been more embattled than school district superintendents.

Unlike other school and district administrators, superintendents sit alone atop the professional hierarchy in their districts, and they are primarily accountable to one body, the school board. While the range and scope of their responsibilities are broad and enormously

complex, they have no tenure rights to their position, and they can be dismissed at-will for simply losing the confidence of the school board.

An increasing number of superintendent departures (voluntary or involuntary) are the result of fraught relations between superintendents and their school boards over governance policies, management styles, and/or educational philosophies.

There’s an old saying in public education: “If you want to be a superintendent, good luck. You better keep your bags packed.” Clearly, a bit of gallows humor here. But as they say, “where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

Consider the following example from a recent edition of EDSource, a prominent education journal. “With one day’s notice during winter recess, a conservative majority on the Orange Unified School District Unified School board fired respected Superintendent Gunn

Marie Hansen with no explanation after a closed-door meeting.” During her five years in the district Hansen was an award-winning superintendent with only positive performance evaluations. However newly elected board members decided to terminate Hansen’s contract over disagreements relating to Covid 19 mask policy, critical race theory, and gender identity issues. Just a few weeks earlier, newly elected conservative board members in another Orange County district dismissed long-time superintendent Kristen Brulte over similar issues.

Stories like these have surfaced at an alarming rate across the country. For example, one school district in Alaska has cycled through six superintendents in just four years. Earlier this year, three large school districts in Nevada lost their superintendents. Another Nevada district has hired three interim superintendents due to its inability to attract qualified candidates to fill the vacancy created by the departing superintendent. Over the past two years, 14 of

America’s 20 largest urban school districts saw changes in superintendents.

Recent reports from the Rand Corporation and the Hechinger Report (a prominent education journal) tell a contradictory story. Last year, Hechinger determined that nearly 25% of America’s public school superintendents left their positions – up from 14-16% during a typical year.

According to the Association of American School Administrators, the average tenure of big city superintendents used to be about 6-7 years. Today, it stands at a fraction over 2 years. In comparison, they found that the average job tenure of a randomly selected group of corporate CEOs was just over 24 years.

While heated disputes over the management of the Covid-19 pandemic has played a prominent role in the growing instability of the superintendency, political turbulence spurred by the “education culture wars” raging across the country has exponentially increased job stress and concurrently depleted the talent

pool of prospective recruits. Apparently, keeping your “bags packed” has become more than just a catchy phrase.

Alternatively, a recent study by Rand found that in general, America’s superintendents have positive feelings about their jobs and have no intention of leaving anytime soon. Curiously, the highest job satisfaction rate was found in superintendents from large urban districts and/or districts with large numbers of minority students.

Almost by definition, the superintendent’s job can be a contradictory experience. For some, it is grueling, discouraging and highly stressful. For others it is largely rewarding, meaningful, and energizing. And for others both perspectives can be true at the same time.

Stephen Davis is a career educator who writes a column that publishes every other Wednesday in the Daily Republic. Reach him by email at stephen davis71@gmail.com.

TSA records busiest day of pandemic amid smooth holiday for air travel

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The number of travelers flying to their destinations in recent days set a pandemic-era record, according to federal data, marking a busy but smooth Memorial Day weekend and start of the summer air travel season.

The Transportation Security Administration screened

2.74 million people Friday, the highest number since Thanksgiving weekend in 2019. The agency said it screened 9.8 million people over the four-day weekend, about 300,000 more than the same period in 2019.

The Federal Aviation Administration, mean-

while, said Thursday’s 54,684 flights was the most on a single day since the beginning of the pandemic.

Airlines are under pressure to deliver a smooth season after a bumpy pandemic recovery marked by high rates of delayed and canceled flights. The TSA and FAA figures are an early sign of strong travel demand as summer arrives and an indication that the system is ready for heavy volumes of passengers, with few disruptions reported in recent days.

Airlines canceled less than 1 percent of flights each day between Thursday and Sunday, according to data from tracking service FlightAware. Less

than one-fifth of flights arrived late. The lower numbers also coincided with generally favorable weather across much of the country.

The industry has been under pressure from the Department of Transportation to improve its performance. On Sunday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tweeted he was encouraged by limited flight disruptions over the weekend.

“Glad to see good performance so far this Memorial Day weekend as flight cancellation rates remain below 1%,” he wrote.

The pandemic saw airlines shed workers as

people stayed home. More than three years after the virus gripped the planet, air carriers are still dealing with the fallout, rebuilding employee bases and tuning operations for the pandemic era.

Last summer, with the effects of the coronavirus receding, people were eager to get back onto planes. But airlines often found themselves unprepared, leading to rolling waves of cancellations and frustrations for travelers. The problems

persisted into Christmas, with Southwest suffering a crippling meltdown that brought scrutiny from regulators and lawmakers.

T hat made this weekend, the start of the summer travel season, a key test. American Airlines, which has suffered at points in the recovery, said it didn’t cancel a single flight between Wednesday and Saturday, and had to scrap only 13 regional flights on Sunday. The numbers “continue to show significant

improvement compared to both 2022 and 2019,” the airline said in a statement.

The potential for problems remains. Airlines have succeeded on key travel weekends in recent years, only to face disruptions on others. Meanwhile, a critical air traffic control facility in New York is badly understaffed, and while the FAA has been working with airlines on plans to mitigate the effects, it could still be a source of problems as the summer continues.

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FAIRFIELD — International Bird Rescue urgently needs community support to handle its busy baby-bird season.

Volunteers are required in all areas to help prepare food, clean cages, transport patients, and train to work with wildlife in Fairfield at its San Francisco Bay-Delta wildlife center at 4369 Cordelia Road.

Every year Bird Rescue receives up to 1,000 orphaned baby birds in spring and summer, including many ducklings and goslings. Volunteers play a key role.

One must be 18 or older to volunteer.

If bird lovers are unable to volunteer in person in the wildlife clinic, they can support Bird Rescue with public outreach, an online donation, check, or a wish list purchase on Amazon or Chewy.com. There is also a need for administrative volunteers.

“We can’t do this important life-saving work without the support of our wonderful volunteers,” said Kelly Beffa, Wildlife Center Manager at Bird Rescue, in a press release.

In addition to a providing an essential service to those in need, volunteers have unparalleled direct access and exposure to wildlife that is not available in any other setting.

“I love seeing the progression of the individual birds and being involved in their journey back to health,” said volunteer Grace McPhaill in a press release. McPhaill is studying veterinary medicine

at UC Davis. “The release of wildlife is always very rewarding, but their prog ress is most fulfilling.”

The last several years have been very challenging with Covid-19 protocols. Unfortunately, volunteer numbers continue to be at a record low during the busiest season. Go to www.birdrescue. org/volunteer to complete an online volunteer appli cation or call the volunteer hotline at (707) 456-4605. International Bird Rescue is a global con servation organization for birds in a changing world. Since 1971, Bird Rescue has responded to more than 250 oil spills and other wildlife emergencies, caring for more than 160,000 birds on six continents. The organization specializes in emergency preparedness

and response, day-to-day aquatic bird care, and scientific research.

The group also operates a Youth Education program at Cordelia Slough at the

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FAIRFIELD — Leg islation that would allow the continua tion of 50-50 raffles at major league sports sta diums has passed the state Senate.

Senate Bill 650 author, Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, said the raffles an important funding tool for a host of organizations benefiting youth and the underserved. Over the years, these raffles have raised millions for a diverse group of charitable organizations throughout the state. This approval is a step toward ensuring that continues.”

This bill eliminates any sunset on the use of 50-50 raffles. The current law is set to

expire on Jan. 1. The legislation, passed on Thursday, now goes to the Assembly for consideration.

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Pacific Flyway Center. Its aim is to connect students with the beauty around them in greater Solano County.

Western Day at the Adobe set for Saturday

VACAVILLE —

The Peña Adobe Historical Society will celebrate “Western Day at the Adobe” on Saturday.

The free event will feature performances by the professional acting stunt troupe, the Congressional Gunfighters of America.

“The re-enactment group is dedicated to preserving old Western history, specializing in live entertainment. They use period costuming and weaponry,” organizers said in a statement.

Joe Hoberg, a blacksmith from Rush Ranch, will present demonstrations, and guests will be able to take part in an interactive demonstration with Hoberg and his team.

“The Pena Adobe is the oldest fully restored structure in Solano County. The adobe was built in 1842 by Juan Felipe Pena after he and Juan Manuel Vaca arrived from the New Mexico region,” the statement said.

Tours of the Adobe will be conducted by fifthgeneration Peña family descendants Darlene Peña Coombs and her cousin Cecelia Peña.

Native American docents Armando Perez and James Tunstall will be on hand to

discuss the Native Americans who lived in the Lagoon Valley prior to the arrival of Vaca and Pena.

The park is also home to the Mowers-Goheen Museum, with its artifacts from the area’s settlement, as well as the Willis Linn Jepson Memorial Garden and the Indian Council Ground. Activities for children will include an old-fashioned Potato Sack Race and learning to rope cattle.

Music will be provided by the Vacaville Acoustic Jammers under the direction of Terry and Leslie Cloper.

The Peña Adobe Park is located in Vacaville off Interstate 80, left of the Lagoon Valley Park entrance. For more information, call (707) 447-0518 or send an email to penaadobe@gmail.com.

FAIRFIELD — The Community United Methodist Church will host a J uneteenth Community Chancel Choir Concert in June.

The event will be on Monday, June 19, at 5 p.m. at 1875 Fairfield Ave. in Fairfield.

The concert is free to all.

An African-American-inspired dinner will follow immediately in the church’s Fellowship Hall at 6 p.m. The dinner is a fundraiser. The dinner will include fried chicken, African Jollof rice, potato salad, collard greens, green beans and peach cobbler.

Matt Arnerich, Music Director of the Community Chancel Choir has compiled music and narratives that illuminate components of African Americans’ history. Arnerich, the diverse community choir and members of Community United Methodist Church invite all to attend this celebratory experience and share the joy of freedom.

Special guests will include Fairfield Mayor Catherine Moy; Solano

County Supervisor Wanda Williams; Fairfield City Councilman K. Patrice Williams; representatives from Assemblywoman Lori Wilsons’ office; Dr. Genea Brice, first poet laureate of Vallejo; and Suzanne Bruce, Fairfield poet laureate.

Tickets to the African-American-Inspired Dinner can be purchased online at www.cumcfairfieldca.org.

For assistance, call the church office at 707-426-2944.

Guests planning to attend the concert only are encouraged to register by sending an email. Space is limited.

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic file Steave Madriaga, 11, puts on protective gear for rescuing birds amidst an oil spill with help from International Bird Rescue volunteer Laura Dekloe during a field trip to the proposed site of the Pacific Flyway Center in Fairfield, Wednesday, May 17.

Pena Adobe Historical Society courtesy photo The Congressional Gunfighters of America will return to Pena Adobe Park for Western Day, July 6.

Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic file (2018) International Bid Rescue Wildlife Center brown pelicans being nursed back to health, June 28, 2018.

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The WAshingTon PosT State Farm has stopped accepting homeowner insurance applications in California, where it had been a leading home insurance provider, due to the increased risk of catastrophes like wildfires and high construction costs.

The decision, which won’t impact current customers, went into effect Saturday and signals the growing threats to insurance availability and affordability in the face of climate crisis-fueled disasters, experts told The Washington Post.

“State Farm General Insurance Company made this decision due to historic increases in construction costs outpacing inflation, rapidly growing catastrophe exposure, and a challenging reinsurance market,” the company said in a statement. “It’s necessary to take these actions now to improve the company’s financial strength. We will continue to evaluate our approach based on changing market conditions.”

The company said it recognized the state government’s wildfire loss mitigation efforts, and pledged to “work constructively” with the California Department of Insurance and policymakers “to help build market capacity in California. However, it’s necessary to take these actions now to improve the company’s financial strength.”

State Farm did not respond to a request for comment.

Nearly 25,000 homes and other buildings across California have been destroyed by massive fires in the past five years. Thousands more have been badly damaged. A California Department of Insurance assessment predicted that by 2100, an average of 77 percent more acres will burn every year across the state, and insurance companies “may withdraw from offering insurance” as conditions worsen, The Post previously reported. Trouble from insurers is cropping up in parts of California, like throughout the Sierra Nevada region, according to Ryan Tompkins, a forester and natural resources adviser with the University of California.

“Many of our communities in rural, forested

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areas of California are experiencing not only increasing wildfire and increasing wildfire severity, but also increasing insurance problems,”

Tompkins said. “They’re getting dropped. They’re getting non-renewed. We’re seeing a sort of insidious, quiet impact economically.”

The communities hit hardest “may already have a higher probability of being disadvantaged,” further amplifying their economic burdens, Tompkins added. “A lot of the communities that I serve are grappling with these problems firsthand. . . . If you have a mortgage, you need an insurance as part of that agreement. If you can’t get insurance, it’s going to have cascading impacts.”

Increasing construction costs nationwide compound the climate crisis-related risk for insurers, said Janet Ruiz, communications director with the Insurance Information Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides information on the insurance industry.

“Reinsurance is also getting more expensive due to the amount of losses, not just in California, but also in other states” that experience tornadoes, hurricanes and other disasters, she said.

After Hurricane Ian, about a dozen firms that provide homeowners insurance in Florida became insolvent, The Post reported, leaving hundreds of thousands of property owners scrambling for coverage.

California’s “issues are a little different, but we have so far managed to not have insolvencies,” Ruiz said. Instead, “companies are shrinking how many policies they can handle in each area. Other companies are non-renewing in highrisk areas.”

As climate risksranging from wildfires, drought, extreme precipitation and storm surge - intensify in California and throughout the country, insurance companies and government regulation will have to find a way adapt, said Noah Diffenbaugh, a climate scientist and professor at Stanford University.

It’s a fickle fish – one that evades even the most experienced anglers and darts for cover when curious passersby try to spot its freckled body against the backdrop of a gravel-lined stream.

Despite capturing the attention of many local scientists and conservationists, California’s Central Coast steelhead trout remain listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act, according to the latest review of the species released in May by the National Marine Fisheries Service, an arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The population segment on the south-central California coast reviewed by the federal agency, which has a range stretching from the Pajaro River in Monterey Bay to Arroyo Grande Creek, was first listed as threatened in 1997. It hasn’t appeared to improve since then.

A listing as threatened means the population is close to becoming endangered or at risk of extinction.

Devastated by drought and blocked migration pathways through their habitat, steelhead in San Luis Obispo County are struggling to survive in the waters where they were once abundant.

“These fish are canaries in the coal mine,” said Freddy Otte, biologist for the city of San Luis Obispo. “If they’re gone, something is wrong; our creeks aren’t healthy.”

The plight of the steelhead has motivated conservation and restoration efforts across the county in an attempt to save the species.

Teams of scientists have united to pool their data and countless hours toward studying the steelhead and restoring its San Luis Obispo County habitat.

With the proper resources, the work could benefit not only steelhead, but also entire ecosystems impacted by climate change and human interference.

“These are our lands and waters that if we don’t take care of them, and we lose our steelhead, that’s absolutely on us,” said Don Chartrand, executive director of Creek Lands Conservation, a local nonprofit organization that works on conservation plans and restoration projects.

“If the steelhead don’t

exist, our watersheds are going to unravel even more,” added Steph Wald, watersheds projects manager at Creek Lands Conservation. Trout once filled SLO County creeks Steelhead trout are considered an indicator species, scientists say.

If you see lots of them swimming in a stream, that likely means the water quality there is quite good. An absence of the fish could mean the water is polluted, too warm or lacks the proper nutrients for animals to survive.

The steelhead starts its life in freshwater creeks and streams.

Some of the fish, known as steelhead, then migrate to the ocean to grow big before swimming back to freshwater to lay eggs

Sandra Hussey

On April 17, Sandra Lyn Hussey p assed away at her home in Green Valle y, Fairfield CA; just 25 days shy of her 84th birthday. She w as born in San Jose, CA, raised in Vallejo and spent her adult lif e in Green Valle y.

Sandra enjoyed traveling, watching Hallmark movies and most of all shopping which included giving her special purchases to friends and family.

Sandra was deeply thoughtful, had a huge heart and was very generous and friendly. She had a remarkable ability to make ever yone feel special. She lived life to the fullest and would usually be the las t to leave a party or gathering because she would talk to ever yone upon leaving...especially if you had a child or baby

She had her faith, trusting in our Lord Jesus Christ for her eternal salvation.

Sandra was preceded in death by her parents Ernest Bowen and Mary Duarte, and son Stephen Lee Hussey. She is survived by the love of her life John Hom, her sons Bret Allen Hussey of Vallejo and Jon Paul Hussey (Lola) of Vacaville, and grandson Stephen Shane Hussey of San Francisco.

Sandra will be greatly missed by many more loving relatives and friends. A celebration of life will be held on Sunday, June 4 at 1:30 p.m at Rockville Presbyterian Fellowship, 4177 Suisun Valley Road, Fairfield, CA 94534.

The service will be available on Zoom, log on to https://www.rockvillepresbyterian.org for more information.

Dorothy Johnson

Dorothy Mary Johnson (nee Smith) was born on Saturday, September 23, 1933, to Edward W. Smith and Elsie M. Smith in the small hamlet of Tring, Hertfordshire, England, about 30 miles north of London. Dorothy was approaching her 90th trip around the sun before passing on April 18, 2023, in El Dorado Hills, CA. Dorothy was the only sister to older brothers Edward “Ted” Smith and Robert “Bob” Smith. She met her husband, Herman (Johnny) Johnson Jr. of Pawleys Island, SC at a picnic. He was a member of the United States Air Force and the two were married on June 21, 1958, in England. From this union, 4 children were born; Tracey (Cynthia), Lisa (John), Adam, and Stephen (Monica).

Dorothy’s career was focused on child education. Dorothy had a gift for working with children and flourished in her various teaching positions. Dorothy was a Teaching Assistant at Fairview Elementary School for over 30 years, in addition to positions at The Child Haven and My School (which is now the Fairfield Montessori School).

Dorothy also worked for the Daily Republic as a graphic layout artist assistant for a short time.

Dorothy never obtained a driver’s license or learned how to drive a car; cycling or walking were her primary modes of transportation. Fairfield locals more than likely have seen her walking across the Travis Blvd. overpass with groceries from Raley’s or walking downtown and offer her a ride home. She loved cats and never turned one away that came to her home.

Dorothy was “Nana” to grandchildren Jay, Drew, LaShea, Courtney, Naia, Hayden, Samantha, Dillon and great grandson Jaxson.

Dorothy was well known in the neighborhood and town as “Mom”, “Dot”, “Ms. Johnson”, “Ms. Dorothy”, “Mrs. J.”, or “Moms” and will be missed by a great many people for her kindness, wit, and caring personality.

Dorothy is survived by all of her children, grandchildren and great-grandson; as well as brother-in-law, Harr y, (Gladys); and a host of nieces, nephews, family and friends in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents, brothers, husband, and friends, specifically Dorothy’s closest friend Maureen Collins, who passed away in 1996. Dorothy never stopped mourning Auntie Mo’s passing.

Family and friends will gather to spread her ashes into the sea off the coast of Sausalito, CA.

President: Dorothy Andrews dorothy.andrews@sicentralsolano.com

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Cal Poly third years Max Grensted, left, and Jade Taylor, right, work to get small bugs off rocks in San Luis Obispo Creek on May 26. The work, conducted in partnership with the city of San Luis Obispo, will indicate whether the creek water quality is good based off what kind of bugs are present.

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LOS ANGELES — Leslie Van Houten, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson who took part in murders on his orders, is entitled to parole after spending more than 50 years behind bars, a California appeals court ruled Tuesday, reversing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to deny her release.

Van Houten, 73, has been recommended for parole five times since 2016, but all were denied by Newsom or his predecessor, Gov. Jerry Brown. Tuesday’s decision by the 2nd District Court of Appeal is the first time a court has overruled a governor’s denial of parole to a Manson follower.

In 2020, the Board of Parole Hearings recommended Van Houten for parole, saying that she did not “pose an unreasonable risk to public safety” and showed remorse for her crimes. Newsom rejected her parole in 2022 and said Van Houten would pose an “unreasonable danger” if released.

Newsom wrote in his denial that there were inconsistencies between Van Houten’s recent statements and those she made during the killings in the summer of 1969, indicating “gaps in Ms. Van Houten’s insight or candor, or both.”

Judges for the appellate court in Los Angeles wrote that Newsom’s rejection “fails to account for the decades of therapy, self-help programming and reflection Van Houten has undergone in the past 50 years.”

Newsom could still appeal the deci-

Leslie Van Houten expresses remorse in the killings of the LaBianca couple to members of the Board of Prison Terms commissioners during her parole hearing in 2002 at the California Institution for Women in Corona, California.

sion to the California Supreme Court.

Van Houten is serving a life sentence for helping members of the Manson “family” kill Los Angeles grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, in August 1969. Van Houten, who was 19 at the time, and the others fatally stabbed the LaBiancas and smeared their blood on the walls.

Manson and his followers were sentenced to death in 1971, but those sentences were commuted to life in prison after capital punishment was ruled unconstitutional in 1972.

Van Houten’s case was overturned on appeal; she was later convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. In 2017, Manson died of natural causes while serving a life sentence.

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and start a new generation. Fish that never swim out to sea are called rainbow trout.

Collectively, the fish are known by the species name Oncorhynchus mykiss despite genetic differences between the two.

Through the Great Depression, San Luis Obispo County creeks brimmed with the fish, according to historical accounts.

“If one had nothing else for dinner, there were always the fish in San Luis Obispo Creek,” Rose McKeen writes in a 1988 book about historical San Luis Obispo.

“During those disastrous years, the creek literally fed many people, just as it had once fed the mission padres and the Chumash Indians.”

Pollution, dams, levees and severe drought have since left the creeks with little to no steelhead.

This year, Otte said he hasn’t seen a single steelhead in San Luis Obispo Creek. Others have seen small juveniles, but there’s a noticeable absence of the large adult steelhead.

“Historically, there were thousands of fish in our streams,” said Don Baldwin, an environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “Today, we’re lucky to see any.”

Decline of steelhead due to drought, migration barriers

The National Marine Fisheries Service’s fiveyear review of the species released in May attributes the lack of steelhead to two main factors: devastating drought worsened by climate change and blockages in creeks that impede migration paths.

Without enough water in the streams, steelhead simply cannot survive.

“The big story is the prolonged drought during

this five-year review period,” which caused local streams to shrivel to trickles, said Mark Capelli, the local steelhead recovery coordinator for the National Marine Fisheries Service. “On top of that, we had numerous wildfires in the various watersheds and then there was a deterioration in ocean conditions, which were not conducive to the rearing of adult steelhead.”

Wildfires in the Big Sur area filled streams with charred debris and ash – and record-high ocean temperatures from 2013 to 2019 likely caused many of the adult steelhead to die, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service’s report.

Human-made barriers in streams, such as dams, have also likely hurt the population by impeding where the fish can migrate to lay eggs, the report said.

Lack of comprehensive monitoring impedes species assessment

Figuring out how many steelhead are swimming up and down the Central Coast’s streams is a difficult task because of a severe lack of funding and staffing.

“The lack of comprehensive monitoring has ... limited the ability to fully assess the status” of the species, the National Marine Fisheries Service’s population review said.

The state has funded coastal monitoring programs for steelhead and salmon in areas north of San Luis Obispo County, such as the Carmel and Big Sur rivers.

South of that, however, there isn’t a dedicated funding source for counting the fish locally, Baldwin said.

Any monitoring efforts conducted in San Luis Obispo County streams are conducted through a patchwork of self-funded efforts by Fish and Wildlife, local cities, nonprofit and non-governmental organizations.

“Funding and staffing is the biggest challenge,”

Baldwin said. “And then, even once you have the staffing, landowner access can be a challenge. A lot of our creeks are on private property – anywhere from large ranch lands to small urban subdivisions –and it’s difficult to get full access.”

A bill introduced by California State Assembly member Steve Bennet, D- Oxnard, would stabilize funding toward coastal monitoring by Fish and Wildlife by establishing a dedicated fund to support the programs.

Assembly Bill 809 has yet to pass through the Assembly for a vote by the California State Senate.

Plus, it’s difficult to monitor a species that tends to avoid human interaction, Baldwin noted.

“Steelhead are very difficult to monitor because they are so elusive,” he said.

“We’re chasing ghosts. We never see them,”

Baldwin said. “They can come in one day, spawn overnight and head back to the ocean.”

Restoration projects could help boost steelhead population

Steelhead restoration efforts over the past few decades across San Luis Obispo County have attempted to make the area more habitable for the important fish.

The groups conducting this work hope that by helping to repair habitat for the steelhead, the entire watersheds will benefit and become more resilient to climate change impacts.

For example, an old city water system dam on San Luis Obispo Creek along Highway 101 on the Cuesta Grade was knocked down about two decades ago to allow fish to migrate through there.

The city of San Luis Obispo also removed a culvert on Coon Creek at Pecho Valley Road – an access road to Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant – in 2004.

A 1930s-era stream gauge on Arroyo Grande

Creek near the intersection of West Branch Street and Highway 101 is slated to be modified so steelhead can jump over it and continue to migrate to better habitat upstream.

That project, primarily carried out by Creek Lands Conservation, is a collaboration between the county, city of Arroyo Grande, Lucia Mar Unified School District, California Conservation Corps and private landowners.

Other restoration efforts around the county include a new San Luis Obispo Creek resiliency and rewilding plan funded by the Harold J. Miossi Charitable Trust; predator removal in areas such as Chorro Creek, which feeds into the Morro Bay estuary, and rehabilitation of the Villa Creek estuary north of Cayucos.

To combat drought, Creek Lands Conservation is working to design and soon implement what it calls streamflow enhancement projects.

The process could increase streamflows during abnormally dry periods by strategically releasing water stored in tanks or reservoirs into drought-thirsty streams.

Preventing steelhead from becoming endangered takes more than just monitoring the population and working to fix up habitats, Chartrand said.

Scientists can study the steelhead, release reports and perhaps implement successful restoration projects, he said. But all of that work means nothing if the public doesn’t know about it or doesn’t care about it, he added.

“We need to change that legacy of decision making that costs us our natural heritage,” he said. “We just can’t afford (not to do) it.”

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State Democrats want Newsom to close five more prisons by 2027; here’s why

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California Democrats want to see more prison closures as the state’s inmate population continues to decline and the state faces a large spending gap.

Assembly Democrats’ 2023 budget plan – released on the heels of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May budget revision – suggests the state should shut down five prisons by 2027. That’s an increase from their December budget blueprint, which pushed three more prison closures by 2025.

Newsom has already taken steps to shut down three correctional facilities during his time in office. His administration announced in December the state would close several prison yards and Chuckwalla Valley State Prison in Riverside County by 2025. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is also in the process of closing the California Correctional Center in Lassen County.

The state shut down Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy in 2021.

Assembly Budget Chair Phil Ting, D- San Francisco, said the change is the result of updated data the Legislative Analyst’s Office released in January showing California could have almost 20,000 empty prison beds by 2027.

“As a result, we updated this number to five in our Assembly budget plan to account for this surplus of empty beds and the current fiscal environment,” Ting said in an emailed statement.

Newsom and Senate on prison closures

Assembly and Senate leaders are in the process of negotiating the budget with Newsom and his administration. The Legislature must pass a spending plan by June 15,

and the governor must sign it before the new fiscal year starts July 1. State leaders must find a way to close an estimated $31.5 billion budget shortfall while maintaining policy priorities.

The most recent version of the Senate’s budget plan “approves continued efforts to close prisons to reflect the declining incarcerated population” but does not specify how many facilities the state should shut down, nor does it include a timeline.

Senate Budget Chair Nancy Skinner, D- Berkeley, would not comment on specifics in the Assembly’s budget plan during ongoing negotiations, according to Robert Gammon, the senator’s spokesman.

Newsom in his May budget revision noted that his administration “remains committed to meeting the needs of staff and the incarcerated populations while right-sizing California’s prison system to reflect the needs of the state as the prison population declines.”

Izzy Gardon, a Newsom spokesman, declined to provide further comments when asked about Assembly Democrats’ proposal.

Lawmakers skeptical of San Quentin reforms

California leaders have spent nearly 15 years reducing the state’s prison population after decades of harsh sentencing laws led to severe overcrowding. A panel of federal judges in 2009 ordered the state to incarcerate fewer inmates, and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the decision in 2011.

The state slowly began to decrease the number of prisoners in California facilities using a combination of legislation and voter-approved ballot initiatives.

The new laws altered sentencing for some lower-level crimes and shifted certain inmates from state prisons to county jails. Additional changes allowed prisoners to shave time off their sentences faster by exhibiting good behavior or participating in rehabilitation programs.

The Covid-19 pandemic also prompted the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to release more inmates to prevent the spread of the virus.

As of May 24, the state incarcerated around

Two standoff situations in the Sacramento area on Memorial Day end in arrests

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Two men are in custody following unrelated standoffs with authorities that took place in the Sacramento area on Monday.

The first started about 2:30 p.m. when a motorist led Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies on a chase in south Sacramento after allegedly refusing to stop for deputies.

According to the California Highway Patrol the man was seen talking on his cellphone and not wearing a seat belt while driving west on Florin Road near 65th Street.

The motorist sped away

10 rescued at Folsom Lake in incident involving alcohol

Ten victims were rescued in an incident Monday afternoon when they jumped off a boat and into Folsom Lake.

The group’s boat ran out of gas near Beal’s Point. A “good Samaritan” towed it near the Granite Bay boat ramp and cut them loose near shore thinking the group could get the boat back, according to Barry Smith, a California State Parks superintendent.

The boat drifted away from the ramp, and the group decided to jump out and swim to shore.

None of the 10 wore life jackets.

because the boat’s operator was sober.

“Fortunately, they were next to the ramp, so there was a lot of people around there,” Smith said.

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from deputies, taking to northbound Highway 99 during the pursuit.

The Sheriff’s Office said that the man also threw a firearm out of the driver’s side window as he entered the freeway’s on-ramp.

CHP officers took over the pursuit shortly before the vehicle exited the freeway and crashed into a parked vehicle and fence on 41st Street in the Lemon Hill neighborhood. The man then ran on foot through several backyards and barricaded himself inside a shed on the 5800 block of 41st Street near 37th Avenue.

Sheriff’s deputies said

some homes near the shed were voluntarily evacuated for a time while both agencies worked to apprehend the man without further incident about 5:30 p.m., said Officer Mark Leavitt, a spokesman for the CHP’s South Sacramento office.

The man is being held without bail at the Sacramento County Main Jail; he’ll be arraigned by a judge Wednesday afternoon.

Several hours later in an unrelated call to deputies, a man was arrested following a short standoff in Rancho Cordova, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

96,000 inmates and was operating at 112.9% of design capacity, below the 137.5% the federal judges required.

As California has reduced its prison population, lawmakers have begun closing facilities as a cost-cutting measure.

Newsom in March also announced plans to reform San Quentin State Prison and turn it into a rehabilitation and education facility by 2025. The changes would cost more than $380 million in general fund and lease revenue bond dollars.

However, lawmakers are not entirely on board with the governor’s proposal. Assembly and Senate Public Safety subcommittees recently rejected the $360 million bond-funded construction elements of the plan.

Lawmakers also added requirements to the $20 million in general fund money that would pay for planning costs.

Some of the group was under the influence of alcohol, Smith said. All 10 were rescued but only some needed to be treated for exhaustion or swallowing water.

Smith said no one would be cited or charged

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Al Roker is back on ‘Today’ after his knee surgery

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Al Roker‘s new knee made its “Today” debut on Tuesday after the longtime weatherman underwent surgery earlier this month.

Roker returned to co-host the third hour of the morning program and gave viewers an update on his recovery following a three-week hiatus. The feature anchor had total knee replacement surgery on May 9.

“I feel good,” Roker told co-hosts Craig Melvin, Dylan Dreyer and Sheinelle Jones at the top of the hour.

“This was a much more involved operation because they were taking out a knee and then putting a knee back in – put some other stuff in.

But that said, it’s coming along well.” Asked what he decided to do with his “old knee,” Roker joked that he’s selling the body part on EBay.

Over the Memorial Day weekend, Roker said, he was “feeling good enough” to go out to dinner, ride a boat and have a barbecue with his family. Roker is married to rival newscaster Deborah Roberts and has three children: Nick, 20, Leila, 24, and Courtney, 36 – who is more than seven months pregnant. “We ... just had a good trip,” Roker said.

This marks Roker’s second knee replacement surgery – “a replacement of a replacement,” as he put it.

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organizations supporting veterans, “have gone by wayside. Hopefully some will get re-established.”

There was a tribute to the late Harry Price, an Army veteran who served as Fairfield’s mayor for several years; Price died in December 2002.

Col. Derek Salmi, com mander 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base. Last week he was instrumental as the base marked its 80th anniversary.

He thanked Majesty for sharing her talent at the gathering and noted, while there were no Gold Star families present, they were in his thoughts and prayers.

Salmi shared a story from 1944, when the 60th air carrier group flew missions to Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece to resupply forces.

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defendants “formed a secret conspiracy to drive up prices to supracompetitive levels by eliminating the free market competition in the sale of properties that would have otherwise occurred among the Conspirators.”

“Acting in flagrant disregard of federal and state law, the Conspirators agreed to sell to Flannery only at supracompetitive prices.”

The lawsuit states that actions of the defendants violated federal and state antitrust laws, and specifically parts of the federal Sherman Act, parts of the state Cartwright Act and the California Unfair Competition Law.

“Flannery estimates that, to date, the Conspirators and their illegal price-fixing conspiracy have caused damages to Flannery from overpayment for properties from the Conspirators, their coowners, and third parties of at least $170 million and that Defendants are therefore jointly and severally liable to pay Flannery treble damages in the amount of at

least $510 million,” the lawsuit states.

The Flannery Group “is owned by a group of families looking to diversify their portfolio from equities into real assets, including agricultural land in the western United States,” the group’s attorney wrote in a letter to the county.

However, little else has been made public about the investors. The chief executive officer is listed with the California Secretary of State’s Office as Andrew Lerner.

When the name first surfaced, there were concerns that the group represented foreign interests, possibly China, a concern heightened by the proximity of some of the land purchases to Travis Air Force Base.

When asked about Flannery, base commander Col. Derek M. Salami in February said Travis officials are very aware of the Flannery activities, and that he has been briefed by federal agencies that are directly tracking the situation, including, according to an aide to the commander, the FBI.

Salmi did not provide any additional details, but said there “is a lot that has to be sorted out.”

“The aircraft would land on hastily made runways,” Salmi said. “In the dead of night.” Twenty-eight airmen lost their lives. Memorial Day is a time to remember such sacrifices, he said. He also shared the key roles the community plays in helping Travis Air Force Base.

“We honor the dead by helping the living,” Salmi concluded. The remembrance ended with a group rendition of “America the Beautiful.”

A VFW ceremony followed at the Fairfield-Suisun Cemetery, along with an American Legion ceremony at Rock-

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advanced, with contracts on the S&P 500 up 0.5% as of 7:29 a.m. in New York. The dollar dropped.

The bill sets the course for federal spending through 2025 and will suspend the debt ceiling until Jan. 1, 2025 – likely putting off another fight over federal borrow ing authority until the middle of that year. In exchange for Republican votes for the suspension, Democrats agreed to cap federal spending for the next two years.

White House interpretation of the caps has it telling lawmakers the deal would lower spending by about $1 trillion over a decade, while the GOP argues the spending cut is double that. Restive conservatives, however, wanted to extract much deeper reductions.

“It’s pretty clear based on their public statements and where we are now that we’re the clear victors,” Representative Garret Graves, one of McCarthy’s chief negotiators, said on a call Monday.

The first test for the deal will come Tuesday afternoon at the House Rules Committee, which controls floor debate. The 13-member panel includes four Democrats and three far-right Republicans who are often critical of McCarthy.

One conservative on the committee, Representative Chip Roy of Texas, tweeted Monday that

in the slide show, sharing the good news including establishing a code enforcement division and hiring its enforcement officer.

The fire marshal position was reclassified, and the city now has Jose Colin overseeing fire prevention and investigations. The police department, in addition to its regular

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Veterans of Foreign Wars Simmons-Sheldon Post 2333 Commander Barry Adams salutes after a wreath is placed in front of the Solano County War Memorial in downtown Fairfield during a Memorial Day observance, Monday.

ville Cemetery.

Retired U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Jesse Branch was one of the dignitaries on hand. Memorial Day, he said, is to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and to show grat itude for them.

“I often have to tell people, ‘Freedom is not free,’ “ he said.

It’s a very different Marine Corps than when Branch served. He was one of 40 recruits in when he joined in 1951. Three were Black.

There were no Black drill sergeants when he enlisted.

Branch’s uncle, Frederick C. Branch Hall, became the first black officer in the Marine Corps in 1945.

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Chaplain Fred Williams watches the Memorial Day observance in front of the Solano County War Memorial in downtown Fairfield, Monday.

in the House is critical to getting the bill through the Senate before the Monday deadline.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky supports the deal, and has a long track record of finding Republican votes for agreements like this one. But only one other Republican –Senator Mitt Romney of Utah – publicly supported the bill by Monday night, and they need at least seven more to overcome an anticipated filibuster.

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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on a deal struck yesterday with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise the national debt limit in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, in Washington, DC, Sunday.

McCarthy had promised while running for speaker that nothing would pass muster in Rules without at least seven GOP votes. He and Ralph Norman, another Republican on the panel, already oppose the bill – so they need just one more defector.

Spokespeople for McCarthy did not respond to requests for comment.

Across the full House, there are at least 10 GOP “no” votes. Representative Tom Emmer, the Republicans’ chief vote counter, worked the phones over the weekend to prevent that number from swelling much beyond that. His efforts will shift Tuesday to more direct attempts at persuasion as lawmakers return to the Capitol.

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duties, united to purchase a new bike for a Suisun City resident who had his stolen.

Public works emptied almost 270, 000 pounds of trash while recreation, parks and marina department got a $2.3 million grant to establish a Police Activities League program. The challenges are bringing in more revenue and rising costs, to name a few. It was also noted the importance Measure S plays in city finances. It expires in March 2027.

leader Hakeem Jeffries and his top vote counter, Katherine Clark, are also trying to pin down votes.

Complicating their efforts is the Sierra Club, one of the nation’s bestknown environmental groups, which on Monday urged opposition. The organization cited provisions that would expedite approvals for a natural gas pipeline running across West Virginia and time limits it would impose on environmental reviews of energy projects.

Some Democrats –including Representative Raul Grijalva, who leads his party on the House Committee on Natural Resources – are angry because of that language, and could vote against it.

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Homelessness which brought Shirley McGee to the meeting. Her concern is the homeless encampment at Sunset and Railroad Avenues. “I have to go by it almost every day,” she said. When company comes, she said, she takes another route.

Her son, who is moving back to the area from Germany, told her “Suisun City is really dirty.”

A homeless forum is being planned for July.

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Conservative Senator Mike Lee of Utah has threatened to hold up passage of a bill he doesn’t like, and any senator has the power to force days of delay. At least three other conservative GOP senators – Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Ted Cruz of Texas – made clear in recent days they oppose the legislation.

Senators in both parties could also insist on voting on amendments to address the spending caps. Defense hawks are unhappy with a 3.3% increase proposed by Biden not keeping up with inflation.

Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican hawk, said on Monday that he’ll use “all powers available to me” to boost defense spending. He called on a 90-day increase in the debt ceiling instead to provide more time to work on that part of the accord.

M committee. She feels the city really needs to boost its revenue, but not from building more warehouses. There’s enough empty warehouse space, she said.

The presentation wrapped up with Key to the City presentation to Donna LeBlanc. Another will be presented at a future city council meeting, Hernandez said. “I’m so surprised,” LeBlanc said. “I really believe in our community.”

State lawmakers urge transit bailout, pushing back on Newsom’s proposed budget cut

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California lawmakers Tuesday pushed back on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget for trimming transit funding and declining to bail out transit agencies like BART, which are threatening deep service cutbacks as they struggle to rebound from a pandemic plummet in ridership.

The lawmakers, led by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, said the transit agencies’ money woes aren’t their fault but stemmed from from the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns. Without a bailout, they said, service cuts will further depress ridership, worsening traffic congestion, air pollution and

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other woes.

“Our transit systems have been telling us for months and months and months that this fiscal cliff is happening, and unfortunately the governor’s budget had zero dollars in it to address these operational shortfalls — zero!”

Wiener told reporters Tuesday in Sacramento. “Instead, the governor’s proposal slashes $2 billion in transit infrastructure money, which will kill various projects around the state and will cause us to forfeit billions of federal matching dollars if we’re taking away our own capital investment.”

Newsom’s office hinted at a willingness to compromise Tuesday but noted how the state is scrambling to balance a projected

$31.5 billion deficit, just a year after enjoying an unprecedented $97.5 billion budget surplus.

Newsom’s proposed revised budget released May 12 closes that budget gap with trims to climate programs, no bailouts for beleaguered mass transit systems and no new taxes. The legislature must pass a budget bill by June 15.

“These budget issues are very difficult,” Daniel Villaseñor, Newsom’s deputy press secretary, said Tuesday. “However, the governor has signaled a willingness to work with the legislature to address this critical transit issue.”

Villaseñor referred to Newsom’s May 12 response to questions about a transit bailout, in which he said he was “very concerned

with what’s going on with a lot of public transit agencies across the state, across our country” due to their “alarming” ridership collapse. But Newsom added that “we’re going to have to do things differently.”

“I’m open to solving every problem that exists, to the extent I can, but you can’t do everything,” Newsom said May 12. “It’s about balancing other priorities. . . I don’t want to over-promise that we’re in a position to offset ongoing subsidies to transit agencies all across the state of California within the confines and constructs of our current obligations within the state.”

Villaseñor added Tuesday that “despite the challenging budget situation, the state has invested

over $3.2 billion in public transit projects during the first four months of this year.”

“This funding is part of a larger, multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment to upgrade the state’s transit system to support equity, enhance mobility options, improve service and reduce an overdependence on driving,” Villaseñor said. “This demonstrates our continued commitment to meet our climate goals.”

Wiener was joined by Democratic senators Dave Cortese of San Jose and Ben Allen of Santa Monica, and Assembly Members Buffy Wicks of Oakland and Damon Connolly of San Rafael, as well as representatives of environmental and transit groups,

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who argued the transit agencies need a bailout.

“We know that this is not just a California problem, it’s a national problem,” Wicks said. “It’s time for the state of California to intervene and ensure we don’t step off a transportation fiscal cliff from which we cannot recover.”

Connolly added that “congestion is coming back, we’re seeing it on our roads, we’re seeing it in the Bay Area.”

Craig Segall, former deputy executive officer with the California Air Resources Board, said that “there’s no way California meets its climate goals or cleans up its air if we let public transportation collapse.”

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11 Vikings celebrated for scholarships to next level

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FAIRFIELD —

Eleven student-athletes headed to four-year colleges on scholarships were honored Tuesday night at Vanden High School in what athletic director Sean Murphy called “the most decorated class in school history.”

Murphy said that this group of Vikings has been a part of eight Sac-Joaquin Section championships during their careers and “numerous league championships.”

“It says a lot about what they put into their four years,” Murphy told the assembled ath-

letes, coaches, family, friends and teammates.

“I truly feel our staff has gotten them prepared for college. We’re very proud of all of them.”

Football standout

Devin Martin is headed to LaVerne University. Three members of Jake and Allison Johnson’s basketball team are moving on in Kay Harris (Stanislaus State), Gabby Wright (Cal State Dominguez Hills) and Alyssa Jackson (San Diego State).

Cindy Scolavino’s volleyball program was represented by Francesca King (Nevada) and Sumerlyn Spencer (Oregon Tech). Softball

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Scholtens finally gets his shot on the mound with White Sox

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FAIRFIELD — Perseverance has paid off for Rodriguez High School graduate Jesse Scholtens. After toiling for seven seasons in the minor leagues, the 29-year-old right-handed pitcher is finally a big leaguer.

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Nine of 11 scholarship winners in athletics were celebrated at Vanden High School Tuesday night.

Vacaville softball gets knocked out by East Nicolaus

VACAVILLE — The Vacaville High School softball team opened the Northern California playoffs Tuesday and ran into a powerhouse in East Nicolaus as the Bulldogs fell to the host Spartans 6-4.

Vacaville scored four runs in the first five innings and held East Nicolaus to one in that stretch for a 4-1 edge. But a five-run sixth inning by the Spartans put the game away. Vacaville’s season came to a close at 29-3 overall. The Bulldogs were coming off Saturday’s 7-1 loss to Whitney in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II championship game at Sacramento State but earned an at-large bid for NorCals.

East Nicolaus upped its record to 29-1-1 overall. The Spartans went 14-0 for the Sacramento Valley championship. They will move on to a matchup with Notre Dame of Salinas at home Thursday.

Aubrie Gibson led the Lady Bulldogs with two hits. Laila Dean had a double and drove in a run. Jordan Munn pushed across two runs. Makayla Freshour, Hayden Kyne and Paige Witte also had hits.

Vacaville lost its season opener before rattling off 29 straight wins during the season, including a 15-0 record for first place in the Monticello Empire League. Unfortunately for the Lady Bulldogs, they lost their last two and had the season come to an abrupt end.

Scholtens has made four appearances on the mound for the Chicago White Sox. On Saturday in Detroit, he pitched 4 2/3 innings, allowing four hits, two earned runs and two walks to go with three strikeouts. Scholtens threw five innings against Cleveland Monday,

May 22 and also had two outings in April at Minnesota and at Pittsburgh.

"I'm ready to pitch whenever, however, they need me to," he recently told LaMond Pope of the Chicago Tribune. "Whatever they need me to do, I'll be ready to fulfill that role."

Scholtens got his chance when the White Sox put starter Mike Clevinger on the injured list. He had previously been in Triple-A Charlotte.

The former Mustang has pitched in 160 career minor league games and started 111 of them. His record is 29-41 with

a 4.25 ERA to go with 647 strikeouts. Scholtens played collegiate baseball at Wright State in Ohio before being a ninth-round pick of the San Diego Padres in the 2016 MLB Amateur Draft.

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Georgia Tech men’s tennis doubles team, Andres Martin and Marcus McDaniel (Kimme Charter), concluded their impressive run at the NCAA Championships after they fell to Texas, the reigning national doubles champion.

Despite losing in the semifinals, both Martin

and the Vacaville native McDaniel have been named All-Americans for their stellar performances during the tournament. The two juniors are the first Tech doubles pair to advance to the semifinals since Kevin King and Juan Spir in 2011.

During their run in the NCAA Doubles Championships, Martin and McDaniel’s victories were against two top 10 teams (Michigan State, No. 10; Michigan, No. 7) and the No. 19 team in the nation from Vanderbilt. The Tech duo was ranked 30th before the tournament.

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Motivation from within pushes Heat to mile-high reality of Finals

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DENVER — To appreciate the totality of the Miami Heat’s accomplishment in advancing to the NBA Finals as a No. 8 seed is to appreciate the simplicity.

Nothing manufactured, just the drive to turn an uneven season into this circuitous path to Thursday’s Game 1 of NBA Finals against the Denver Nuggets at Ball Arena.

For the Boston Celtics, the Eastern Conference finals stood as a study in motivational tactics without an ultimate payoff, from rookie coach Joe Mazzulla’s infatuation

with the Boston-based Ben Affleck film “The Town,” to a team Topgolf outing in Miami after falling behind the Heat 3-0 in

the best-of-seven series, to this week’s viewing of “Four Days in October,” the documentary detailing the Boston Red Sox come-

back from a 3-0 deficit to win the American League championship series in 2004 over the New York Yankees. Great theater. No payoff. Instead, it was a 103-84 Heat victory Monday night in Game 7 at TD Garden. A victory that came after the Heat’s devastating 104-103 loss Saturday at Kaseya Center, when Celtics guard Derrick White scored the winning basket with one-tenth of a second remaining. In a previous Heat era, such a loss might have had then-Heat coach and current Heat

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What made GM great also brought about his Warriors exit

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The Golden State Warriors can’t replace Bob Myers.

Sure, someone else will succeed him as the Warriors’ president of basketball operations — the head honcho in the front office. And perhaps that person can match Myers’ team-building aptitude.

But no matter how smart, qualified, and affable that person (or persons) might be, they

won’t come close to matching the soft skills Myers brought to his job.

It was those soft skills that helped build a dynasty. It’s those same skills that are behind Myers’ exit on Tuesday.

Myers is tired. Can you blame him?

He has spent the last decade-plus building the Warriors into the greatest sports dynasty of the 21st century and the most valuable sports franchise in the world. The Warriors – the one-time laughingstock – became

the organization that all others, no matter the sport, want to emulate.

Myers did that with people skills.

Sure, Myers made some great trades and acquired some outstanding players during his time in charge, but his day-to-day job was to manage personalities on a team that boasted many in a league that sows constant conflict – a team that has been at the center of the NBA universe since 2015.

Myers, a former agent,

can smooth over even the most jagged-edged of scenarios. He did it time and time again over the last 11 years.

But you can only do that for so long before you wear yourself out.

The Mark Jackson saga. Draymond Green’s NBA Finals suspension. Signing Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant’s final season. Going from five straight NBA Finals to the NBA’s worst record. Green’s punch of Jordan Poole. The Andrew Wiggins “situation.”

Oh yeah, there was a worldwide pandemic in there, too.

Myers was constantly tested, yet his soft skills never hardened. In a league full of egos, he was truly egoless.

But now he has to look out for himself. This past season, in particular, was brutal for the Dubs’ chief conciliator. Green’s practice punch of Poole, followed by video leaking cast a pall on the entire season. Warriors coach Steve Kerr said earlier this

month that the punch impacted the “trust” that is so vital to winning well into the playoffs.

Add to that Myers’ trade of James Wiseman to the Detroit Pistons –a big move, politically, among the Warriors’ brain trust; the return of Gary Payton II, who turned out to be more injured than the Portland Trail Blazers disclosed; and Wiggins leaving the team for two months and you had a hot, spiraling

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Jesse Scholtens takes a break during a spring training workout at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Ariz, in February.

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Head coach Erik Spoelstra of the Heat speaks after defeating the Celtics 103-84 in game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals at TD Garden in Boston, Monday.

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Son wants to bring 11 people for a visit; my home can’t handle it

Dear Annie: My oldest son is 43. He lives in another state. He has a girlfriend that he lives with. They are serious but not married, but they do plan to get married. The girlfriend has four children, ages 22, 21, 14 and 12.

My son wants to come visit. He has two kids. One is 18 years old (adopted through a previous marriage), and one is 7 years old (biological daughter from another marriage).

The problem is that he wants to visit with nine people, and we have a vacation rental for our business that can accommodate only four people. We have a septic tank system here.

We really are worried about so many people staying here. I asked if he could come visit

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

There's a game of "who done it?" today. The innocent can become rattled under questioning and seem guilty. And if the guilty people are seasoned, they can fool you with their calm. It will be better to acquit all than to accuse the wrong person.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

Your quick and confident answers are like a breath of fresh air. You don't leave others gasping for your decision. And one of the reasons people like and trust you is that once you make up your mind, you tend to stick to it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

You don't understand the ones who show up just to get a paycheck. That's not you. You want to enjoy the work and the people you work with. It's a thrill to get things right, as you will several times today.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

You're the star of a fairy tale today. You won't find it too difficult to elude wolves, trolls or giants, but watch out for the candy houses. Avoiding monsters is easier than resisting sweet temptation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

You'll watch someone deftly handle the task that has you shaking in your boots. Eventually, experience will lead you to master the things you fear, just as it always has. For assurance, just look at all you're already adept at!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Trust in your own solution-finding system, refined through past dilemmas. You'll run a

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without the adult children who don’t live at home. He got really offended. He said they would be coming as a family on vacation. We like doing things together to stay close as a family. He said he does not mind cramming everyone into the guest house.

Sleeping on the beds, couches, recliner and floor. We kind of do mind. He does not understand septic systems and the problems that can arise, even though I told him.

He said if he can’t bring everyone, then he probably won’t come visit much. Or if they stay at a hotel, we won’t see them much because the kids sleep in late and they would be gone on outings a lot of the time.

Also, lots of food and drinks

Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday

Your cosmic birthday gift is a showcase for your many talents and relationships that reveal new depths of your personality. More highlights: exploring new avenues of knowledge and expanding your mind in exciting ways, family bonding and the attainment of a personal expectation that provides profound gratification. Libra and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 2, 10, 6 and 12.

tight ship today. The crew respects your logical orders and believes in your ability to get everyone to the intended destination.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

The ability and willingness to adapt must be exercised or it will go away. This is why you're willing to adjust to new things, even absurd things. It's better than the sameness that can lead to numbness, complacency or stagnation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

You see challenge as an opportunity for growth rather than an insurmountable obstacle. Remain adaptable and open to new experiences and opportunities.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Abilities and intelligence can be developed through dedication and

of some sort will be needed. That’s 11 people total. I could afford it, but still. What do I say or do about this? — Sad Mama

Dear Sad Mama: Of course you are sad. No one likes to feel used. You are being very generous opening up your house, and your son is being unreasonable. He is acting spoiled and using your grandchildren as bait so that he can get his way. It’s simply not right. Hold firm to four people max at the house, and if you are feeling generous, then maybe you could help financially with the hotel close by.

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hard work. They can also be developed through avoiding responsibility and seeking an easier way. Keep an open mind. There's a lot that's not worth doing. What's the smart, efficient way?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). The playwright Moliere said, "Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." He must not have been a fig lover. Sweetness doesn't always have to take a long time. You should at least see signs of it early on in a process or relationship.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). There's a dreamy feel to the day as you notice details that don't quite make sense, seem vividly strange or vaguely unreal. An earth sign will be your touchstone.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

As long as you're the one telling it, the story may as well be kind to you. This is especially true regarding stories you tell yourself. You've been too hard on yourself lately. Is there a more empowering version?

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Colin Farrell applies Gemini versatility to his art, playing a wide range of roles from heroes to sensitive romantics to jokesters, criminals and villains. In the film "Dead Man Down," the Gemini star played a professional hitman and a kind, friendly neighbor. He was born when Mars was in Leo, the sign of the entertainer. Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

Word Sleuth

Crossword by Phillip Alder

Bridge

occasionally you must be flexible in your thinking. You must be as imaginative as the scientist, refusing to follow the textbook’s rigid rules.

On lead against three no-trump, you have K-Q-J-10-9 in a suit. You lead the king, right? Well, most of the time you will, and usually you will be right –but not always.

When South opened with one no-trump, West decided not to overcall. Perhaps you agree; perhaps you don’t.

When North raised straight to game, West was delighted he had passed. The spade king appeared on the table with almost indecent haste. However, equally quickly South won with the ace, tested both minors and claimed 11 tricks: one spade, five diamonds and five clubs.

“You’ve got the heart ace and king, partner?” asked East rhetorically. “We can take the first five heart tricks.”

“But look at my spade suit,” replied West.

THE AUTOMATIC OR THE PRAGMATIC

The robot believes that this is the best of all possible worlds. The scientist fears it is. (This is a variation on the old joke about the optimist and the pessimist.) When playing bridge, as a rule your analysis should be like the robot’s: cold and logical, relentlessly working toward finding the right bid or play, but

“It’s true,” conceded East, “that it looks tempting. However, once you’ve dislodged declarer’s ace, you need only one entry, not two. How can it cost anything to start with a top heart? If the suit looks unpromising, you can switch at trick two to the spade king. Here, though, I would drop the jack under your lead, and you know that we can run the suit.”

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THE AUTOMATIC OR THE PRAGMATIC

The robot believes that this is the best of all possible worlds. The scientist fears it is. (This is a variation on the old joke about the optimist and the pessimist.)

When playing bridge, as a rule your analysis should be like the robot’s: cold and logical, relentlessly working toward finding the right bid or play, but

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9, with no repeats. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box. Solution, tips and computer program at www.sudoku.com

Difficulty level: GOLD

Yesterday’s solution:

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Annie Lane

Dear Annie

Natasha Lyonne wants to grow old with her ‘Poker Face’ role

Glenn Whipp LOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES — Natasha

Lyonne is laying her (credit) cards on the table, along with her Nicorette and Tea Tree Therapy mint toothpicks. We’re sitting in the back house of the Studio City office she shares with producing partner Maya Rudolph, and this emptying of pockets came as a response to talk of her moving, part time at least, to L.A.

Lyonne holds up her driver’s license, emphasizing it was issued by the state of New York, and when I study the photo for a beat too long, she points at the picture and says, “Just because I look like s— right now doesn’t mean that’s not what I look like, Glenn. Do I come out on tour with you and say, ‘Hey, Mr. Danzig, how come you don’t always look like you do when you’re on stage?’ Do you hear this, Root Beer?”

Root Beer, Lyonne’s longtime Maltipoo BFF, barks, sounding a note of disapproval. Lyonne and I met about 20 minutes ago and from the moment we laid eyes on each other, she’s been calling me Glenn Danzig, though there’s precious little overlap between the heavy metal icon and myself. But Lyonne likes to free-associate. Thoughts tumble forth, heavy on references to ‘70s movies, Elliott Gould, Bob Fosse, John Cassavetes and possibly becoming a cyborg one day. That she quit smoking for the first time in her life a few weeks ago isn’t necessarily helping her focus, she notes.

“It’s confusing, you know what I mean?” Lyonne says, comparing giving up nicotine to kicking heroin many years ago. “It seems like the stakes are much lower and yet arguably for your health, they might be even higher now.

“I should become an addiction specialist,” she continues. “I think I am. Like when you’re a junkie, you’re kicking dope all the time, so it’s an ongoing

nightmare. Like, I strongly don’t recommend heroin. There’s one takeaway you can get from this conversation. And quitting cigarettes is weird as hell. But it seemed like a good window to try. On set, I behave like a young Bob Fosse. And when I say ‘young,’ I mean ‘middle-aged.’ I mean ‘almost dead’ Bob Fosse.” She pauses. “Listen, I could start up again at any time. But I’m not getting any younger, and I’d like to still be making ‘Poker Face’ when I’m old and just sort of shuffling around, you know? So why not try?”

Who doesn’t want to see Lyonne making “Poker Face” well into her golden years?

Every generation needs its version of Peter Falk’s Lt. Columbo, and Lyonne staked an early claim to that title with the first season of her terrific mystery-thriller series, which debuted earlier this year on Peacock. Lyonne plays Charlie Cale, a woman possessing a superpower – she always knows when people are lying. Circumstances force her to move from town to town where she uses her intuition to solve crimes. Each self-contained episode delivers a new homicide (you really don’t want Charlie showing up where you live), along with a different set of guest stars – the likes of Nick Nolte, Chloë Sevigny, Hong Chau and Joseph Gordon-Levitt among them.

Rian Johnson, no stranger to mysteries with his “Knives Out” movies, created “Poker Face” as a showcase for Lyonne. The two met through Johnson’s wife, film historian Karina Longworth.

Lyonne loves Longworth’s “You Must Remember This” podcast and, years ago, wanted to adapt the episode focused on Lena Horne and Paul Robeson and the Hollywood blacklist into a project. It never got off the ground, but the friendship endured, leading to her connection with Johnson. He had been toying with the idea of a caseof-the-week TV show, and in

Lyonne, he believed he had an actor that audiences would love to hang with on a weekly basis.

“You need to find somebody who genuinely has that spark of charisma on screen and that’s a rare coin,” Johnson says by phone, mentioning Falk and James Garner in “The Rockford Files.” “When I saw Natasha in [the Netflix series] ‘Russian Doll,’ it clicked for me. That effortless charisma just comes across on the screen.

“I think the way two people click creatively has as much to do with how they’re different as how they’re the same,” Johnson continues. “And our temperaments fall into a peanut butter and chocolate situation. She’s not the person you see on screen, but her brain operates at a much higher frequency than mine.”

Is it a frequency that only Root Beer can hear? Possibly. Johnson says he could only watch and marvel when Lyonne directed and starred in the standout “Poker Face” episode “The Orpheus Syndrome,” a macabre slice of horror that doubled as a love letter to Oscar-winning VFX artist Phil Tippett and also featured Lyonne running around in a horse costume. Sometimes when actors direct themselves, they’ll lament the multitasking and perhaps scale back their screen time. Lyonne, Johnson says, embraced the overload because “her brain needs that.”

“She’s into puzzles and word games and she’ll do, like, eight of them at once,” Johnson says.

“She has an endless capacity to keep multiple plates spinning. Not even capacity. It’s a need. I heard David Mamet say this, that writers write for the same reason beavers cut wood – to stop their teeth from aching. That’s Natasha and life.”

When I ask Lyonne what she’s currently working on – and remember, this is what she calls her down time – she says she’s writing a few TV shows, writing some movies with friends, reworking a movie script.

HAMLET ASKS THE KEY QUESTION

To win, or not to win: That is the question. Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of an outrageous ruff, or to win too soon and flounder in a sea of troubles.

Well, Hamlet might have said that had he lived a few hundred years later. However, often a deal comes down to

the key decision: to win an early trick with an ace, or to withhold that ace for later in the play. What is your feeling about today’s deal? How should South plan the play in six hearts after West leads the club king?

Please don’t ask me why North bid three clubs rather than two hearts. Or why South overlooked his five-card diamond suit. Or how he knew to pass over six hearts. I’m just reporting the facts. Still, the final contract, with West unable to attack diamonds profitably, was reasonable.

South, though, matched the eccentric bidding with some subpar play. He won the first trick with dummy’s club ace and discarded a diamond from hand. He continued with a heart to his ace and another trump. West’s discard was a blow. When East won with the heart queen, he led a club to West’s queen: down one.

Declarer should have anticipated this danger. The correct start was to play low from the dummy and to ruff in hand with the heart ace. Then South continues with a heart to dummy’s king and the heart jack. With the club ace still in the dummy, everything is under control. East’s trumps can be drawn, and the spade suit cashed in peace.

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Difficulty level: BRONZE

Yesterday’s solution:

HAMLET ASKS THE KEY

QUESTION

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9, with no repeats. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box. Solution, tips and computer program at www.sudoku.com

To win, or not to win: That is the question. Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of an outrageous ruff, or to win too soon and flounder in a sea of troubles.

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Natasha Lyonne stars in “Poker Face.”

Bridge

Crossword by Phillip Alder

Bridge

CALMATTERS COMMENTARY COMMENTARY

How will state deal with budget deficits that seem here to stay?

Alittle more than two weeks remain before the June 15 constitutional deadline for enacting a 2023-24 state budget.

It’s as certain as anything in politics can be that the Legislature will pass something it calls a budget. If lawmakers missed the deadline, they could lose their paychecks.

It’s equally certain that whatever they enact will not be the final plan for the 2023-24 fiscal year that begins July 1. Due to declines in revenue, the state faces not only a multi-billion-dollar deficit in the forthcoming year but the likelihood of continuing gaps for several years thereafter.

There is, moreover, neither consensus on the scope of the deficit nor agreement on how the governor and legislators respond. Meanwhile, those in the Capitol are besieged by pleas by those with stakes in the budget to protect their projects and programs and demands for even greater allocations.

When Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced his first version of the budget in January, he said the state had a $22.5 deficit, and then increased the shortfall by another $9 billion in the revised budget proposal this month.

Immediately, however, the Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek, told his bosses that it’s really $34.5 billion and, more ominously, declared that the state faces continuing deficits averaging $18 billion for several more years.

It is, in the parlance of fiscal mavens, a “structural deficit,” meaning it’s baked into the state’s finances regardless of underlying economic conditions. All of the competing versions of the state’s fiscal situation also assume that California does not experience a recession in the near future.

Were a recession to strike, the deficits could grow by tens of billions of dollars because California’s revenue system is dangerously dependent on taxing the incomes of the state’s wealthiest residents, as Newsom’s budget acknowledges.

“California’s progressive tax system, where nearly half of all personal income tax in the state is paid by the top 1% of earners, has contributed to extreme budget volatility over the years,” the May revision says. “Maintaining budget stability requires longterm planning in the face of these revenue fluctuations.”

In light of that statement and Petek’s rather gloomy long-term projections, will Newsom and the Legislature respond responsibly? Or will they take the easy way out, paper over the current deficit with creative bookkeeping and backdoor borrowing, and ignore the structural deficit until it becomes a crisis?

Newsom’s budget is essentially a shortterm response, dipping the usual bag of fiscal tricks to produce a budget that would be balanced on paper – assuming his deficit estimate of $31.5 is accurate.

Both Senate and the Assembly leaderships have adopted budget frameworks that purport to protect vital services but differ in approach. The Assembly’s version would reshuffle appropriations while the Senate’s would cover the gap by raising corporate income taxes, arguing that a tax hike would merely recapture money large corporations gained from the Trump-era federal tax overhaul. Although Newsom immediately rejected a corporate tax increase, if the deficit is as wide and chronic as Petek projects, budget stakeholders will intensify their demands for tax increases of some kind.

In recent elections, California voters have rejected proposed increases in property taxes and personal income taxes on the wealthy. Newsom opposed the income tax increase, is now opposing the Senate’s proposed corporate tax, and also has rejected periodic bills to impose a wealth tax.

“A wealth tax is not part of the conversation,” Newsom said of this year’s version. “Wealth taxes are going nowhere in California.”

This year’s budget dance will kick off a political tussle over spending and taxes that will likely continue for the remainder of Newsom’s governorship.

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.

The race for the Republican presidential nomination, once a two-man battle between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is getting more crowded.

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the Senate’s only Black Republican and a favorite of many GOP donors, declared his candidacy last week. A few nights later, DeSantis belatedly made his own candidacy official in a chaotic Twitter event. That brought the number of major candidates to six, and more may join soon.

Trump holds a commanding position in the polls, but he is attracting serious rivals who think he can be beaten. Over a yearlong campaign, plenty can change: Eight years ago, at this point in the 2016 contest, Trump was the favorite of only 4% of GOP voters.

The growing number of entrants is good news for the front-runner, who benefits from facing fragmented opposition as he did in 2016. But it’s also good news for Republican voters, who are not only getting more candidates to choose from, but also more ideas about their party’s post-Trump future — even though that may not arrive until 2028.

“Are we going to continue to be a populist party as Trump has pushed, or are we going to move back to being a more conservative party?”

GOP strategist Alex Conant said of the primary.

To no one’s surprise, Trump is offering four more years of the grievance-fueled politics that gave him his first term. He has promised supporters: “For those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”

As president, Trump broke with Republican doctrine on Social Security and Medicare, promising never to cut the benefits. On free trade, he declared himself “a tariff man,” and on foreign policy, he criticized traditional alliances and cozied up to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

But he stuck with traditional GOP policies on other issues including lower taxes, even for the wealthy; lighter environmental and safety regulations on businesses; and tougher restrictions on abortion.

Trump’s rivals have embraced most of his policies, but with variations that fall into three rough categories:

Trump 2.0: DeSantis has offered a hard-edged version of Trumpism that focuses on “culture war” issues, denouncing what he calls “the woke mind virus.”

He endorsed a state law banning abortion after six weeks, a measure Trump suggested was “too harsh.”

He has championed laws banning gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors and classroom instruction about sexual orientation.

And he has attacked the Walt Disney Co. over its political positions, a battle Trump derided as ill-advised.

The growing number of entrants is good news for the front-runner, who benefits from facing fragmented opposition as he did in 2016. But it’s also good news for Republican voters, who are not only getting more candidates to choose from, but also more ideas about their party’s post-Trump future — even though that may not arrive until 2028.

— Trump Light: Scott, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and former Vice President Mike Pence (who hasn’t formally announced) are promoting mostly Trumpian policies, too, but in a kinder, gentler tone.

Scott is the clearest example, calling for a return to the optimistic big-tent conservatism perfected by Ronald Reagan more than a generation ago.

Republicans must decide between “grievance and greatness,” the senator said in his announcement last week.

“We need a president who persuades not just our friends and our base,” he said. “We have to have a compassion for people who don’t agree with us.”

Unlike Trump and DeSantis, Scott, Haley and Pence have all called for a strong U.S. commitment to NATO and Ukraine.

— Trump Critics: Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and current New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu are this pack’s leading renegades. All three are thoroughgoing conservatives, but all have condemned Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

“Donald Trump has a moral responsibility for what happened on Jan. 6,” said Hutchinson, the only one of the three who has announced his candidacy. “Whenever you look at what he wants to do as president, it’s more about getting even with his political enemies than leading our country.”

Christie has called Trump “a puppet of Putin.”

All three appear way out of step with their party’s voters, and they barely register in the polls. In a CBS News survey last month, 61% of Republican voters said they wanted a candidate who affirms their belief that Trump won in 2020.

But even if these renegades go nowhere in the polls, they could play a significant role in the election.

As DeSantis, Scott, Haley and Pence have hesitated to confront Trump directly —even when it came to his readiness to violate the Constitution when he sought to overturn the 2020 election — they’ve steered themselves into a Catch-22: They want to displace the former president as their party’s leader, but they don’t want to alienate his followers.

That leaves them arguing that they would make better nominees than Trump, but unable to explain precisely why — a hard way to make a sale.

It’s the same dilemma the GOP faced in 2016, when a stage full of candidates hoped Trump’s candidacy would fail without anyone pushing.

That won’t happen. If the frontrunner is to be taken down, someone will have to do it. Hutchinson, Christie and Sununu appear willing to try.

For that, they deserve a measure of admiration whether you agree with their views or not.

It will be a thankless mission with little prospect of success and a guarantee of abuse. But it may also be an event too rarely seen in a presidential campaign: a decision to put principle before ambition.

Doyle McManus is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Readers may send him email at doyle.mcmanus@ latimes.com.

Flight of affluent taxpayers catches up with New York

New York has been losing people to other states for a while. But something new happened during the pandemic: The people who left had higher incomes than those who stayed behind – much higher.

The 2020-21 numbers here were released in late April by the Internal Revenue Service. They sort taxpayers by whether and where they moved between filing their taxes in 2020 and filing them in 2021; the adjusted gross incomes are for the 2020 tax year. It has been two years since May 17, 2021 – that year’s belated income tax filing deadline – and a lot has changed. But New York has continued to lose population, and if the trend depicted above were to continue, even in less extreme form, it would be disastrous for the finances of a state that relies on income taxes paid by those making $200,000 or more a year for almost half its revenue. (That is, before the pandemic in 2019, personal income taxes accounted for 65% of state revenue, and those making $200,000 or more paid 71% of the income taxes. )

That the loss of affluent taxpayers didn’t lead to disaster during the pandemic mainly had to do with how much the prices of stocks, houses and other assets rose in 2020 and 2021. New York is one of the country’s richest states; many residents own valuable assets or have incomes that rise with asset prices or both. As a result, while the number of taxpayers with incomes of $1 million or more who left the state jumped in 2020 and 2021, the number who stayed grew even more. Now the market tide has gone out, sending income tax revenue plum-

meting nationwide – that’s the main reason we’re having a debt-ceiling showdown in Washington now instead of in the fall, as originally expected. In an indication that many affluent taxpayers have in fact left the state and stayed away, New York’s personal income tax receipts have fallen even faster and are now below their 2019 level.

Adjust for the high inflation of the past couple of years, and New York’s predicament becomes clearer and more dire. Federal individual income tax revenue is down a lot since last summer but is still 15% higher in real terms than before the pandemic. New York’s personal income tax revenue is almost 17% lower.

Why do people leave New York?

In 2020, it was pretty obvious – New York City was for a time the epicenter of a global pandemic, and after that the state as a whole remained more cautious about COVID-19 than many places to the west and south, resulting in steeper job losses and a slower recovery. More generally, it can get pretty cold in New York and, outside of the New York City metropolitan area, the state hasn’t exactly been a land of opportunity in recent decades.

Inside the New York City metro area, the cost of living is high, and taxes are high statewide – the highest in the country, in fact, with the right-leaning Tax Foundation putting New York’s 2022 state and local tax burden (state and local taxes paid by a state’s residents divided by that state’s share of net national product) at 15.9%.

New York’s taxes are also somewhat regressive, with the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimating that those making less than

$19,400 as of 2015 in New York faced a slightly higher overall state and local tax rate than those making more than $780,000, with rates the highest for those making $60,900 to $107,600.

The role of taxes in driving interstate migration is often exaggerated, but it’s not nothing. In a couple of recent papers, Joshua Rauh of the Stanford Graduate School of Business has shown that the percentage of very-high-income taxpayers leaving California jumped in the wake of (1) a 2013 increase in the state’s top income tax rate, (2) the 2017 Tax Cuts and Job Act’s curtailing of state and local tax deductions and (3) the pandemic. Still, that’s not many people, and for years those leaving California and New York have been mainly lowerand middle-income residents for whom expensive housing and other cost-of-living issues probably played a bigger role than tax rates per se.

In New York, the initial pandemic exodus was led by those who could afford to leave quickly and could work remotely. The composition seems to have shifted since then, with affluent Manhattan gaining population from mid-2021 to mid-2022, according to Census Bureau estimates, and the state’s poorest county, the Bronx, losing the biggest percentage of population. (The recent New York Times analysis showing an accelerating exodus of college graduates from the New York City metro area relies on different Census numbers that aren’t available yet for 2022.) New York has been finding all sorts of different ways to drive away all sorts of different people – and it looks as if that’s about to start seriously hampering the state’s ability to pay its bills. Justin Fox is a

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Who run the world? Beyoncé, of course.

Earlier this month, the megastar embarked on her five-month Renaissance world tour.

In January, the “Break My Soul” hit-maker unveiled dates for her first solo tour in more than six years. Named after her Grammy-winning seventh studio album, Beyoncé’s highly anticipated Renaissance tour launched May 11 in Stockholm and is set to conclude Sept. 27 in New Orleans.

“Y’all make me so happy,” the “Cuff It” singer said during opening night at Stockholm’s Friends Arena.

“I see familiar faces, people that flew from very, very far to come see the first show tonight. Y’all could be anywhere in the world, but you chose to be here with me. And I’m here with you, and I love you, and I’m so filled with gratitude.”

Before tickets even went on sale, Ticketmaster reported that demand for the Renaissance tour had “drastically” exceeded supply. According to Beyoncé’s website, the majority of her upcoming shows have sold out — prompting some dedicated members of the Bey Hive to travel to other countries and continents just to see their queen.

Beyoncé’s 37-song set list spans her entire two-decade career. The three-hour show includes all 16 tracks from “Renaissance,” as well as classics such as “Dangerously in Love” and “Run the World (Girls).” While on the road, the 41-year-old entertainer has continued to dazzle concertgoers with frequent costume changes and elaborate production designs featuring silver moon rovers and an inflatable horse.

Here’s a sampling of viral moments from the tour so far.

Beyoncé pays tribute to Tina Turner

During her May 26 concert in Paris, Beyoncé took a moment to honor legendary performer Tina Turner, who

died May 24 following a long illness. The “Proud Mary” and “What’s Love Got to Do With It” singer was 83.

“If you’re a fan of mine, you’re a fan of Tina Turner,” Beyoncé told the crowd in France.

“I wouldn’t be on this stage without Tina Turner. So I want you guys to just scream so she can feel your love. I feel so blessed that I was alive to witness her brilliance.”

This wasn’t the first time Bey has paid homage to the queen of rock and roll. In 2005, the Destiny’s Child breakout performed a showstopping tribute to Turner at the Kennedy Center Honors before joining her musical hero onstage for a duet of “Proud Mary” at the 50th Grammy Awards.

Shortly after Turner’s death was announced, Beyoncé said in a statement on her website that she was “so grateful for [her] inspiration and all the ways [she] paved the way.”

Blue Ivy steals the show

The audience erupted in cheers on May 26 when Beyoncé brought out her 11-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy, to dance with her onstage in Paris.

Dressed in a shiny silver costume and trendy sunglasses, the eldest child of Beyoncé and Jay-Z didn’t miss a beat while performing the choreography for “My Power” and “Black Parade” alongside her mom and the professional backup dancers.

After the show, Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Lawson, had a proud-grandma moment on Instagram –where she shared a video of the crowd chanting Blue Ivy’s name at the end of her surprise performance.

Celebrities abound

The United States leg of Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour isn’t scheduled to begin until July – but several American celebrities have already traveled abroad to see their fellow entertainer in Europe.

Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis

Candorville Darrin Bell

Baby Blues Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Baldo Hector Cantú and Carlos Castellanos

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Eagles rookie draws inspiration from Medal of Honor

Jeff McLane

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Daris Steen had been dating his future wife, Samantha, for months before he realized her father was Sgt. Rodney M. Davis.

That they were even having dinner at his Los Angeles home all those years ago was unexpected because she had stayed away from men who served in the military. But when Steen started talking about his time in the U.S. Marine Corps and pointed to his ribbons hung on a nearby wall, Samantha spoke up.

“She was looking at the wall and she says, ‘My father has the Congress Honor Medal. He served in the Marines, too,’” Steen said. “And I said, ‘The Congress what?

He got the Congressional Medal of Honor?’ And she says, ‘Yes.’ And I says, ‘Wait a minute, what’s your father’s name?’ And she says, ‘Rodney Davis.’ I said, ‘You mean Sgt. Rodney Davis, the ... USS Davis?’

“She’s like, ‘Yes.’”

Steen, by coincidence, served in the same unit – the 5th Marines – and lodged in the same billet that Davis had. Every time he walked into the Hall of Honor of his regiment, there was Davis’ picture. Steen had to know the name of every Medal of Honor recipient in the Hall if he was to be promoted.

But he had never, to that point, made the connection to Samantha.

“I didn’t have a history of dating men in the military, so it was almost something maybe that I avoided because of my history and experience,” she said. “That was definitely unexpected.”

Samantha Steen (nee Davis) was only 13 months

old when her father was killed in action in Vietnam. But she knows the story of how he died from the numerous accounts she has heard or read since: Davis, at the age of 25, jumped on a grenade to save five fellow Marines during a firefight on Sept. 6, 1967.

“I understood what he did and that he was a hero,” Samantha said recently. “What he did was selfless. There was a great pride and honor that I had that he did that. But on the other hand, I did miss my father a lot. I had great uncles and aunts ... and my mom was the best.

“But every little girl wants her dad.”

Tyler Steen said he was around 5 when he first heard about his heroic grandfather. But it wasn’t until he was 11, when he and two younger brothers traveled with their parents to Seattle to board the first U.S. Navy warship to be named after a Black Medal of Honor recipient, that he started to understand the sacrifice Davis made – like the many who

were remembered this Memorial Day.

“I didn’t know the magnitude of it until I got to go on the ship and meet the crew,” said Steen, who was drafted by the Eagles last month. “And then I started to realize what he meant to people in the military. That’s when I started to change my perspective and see what kind of hero he was.”

Steen’s family history wasn’t likely mentioned in predraft scouting reports. Those write-ups are focused more on football – like the Alabama offensive lineman’s ability to bend, or his nasty onfield disposition, or that he would likely have to transition from tackle to guard in the NFL.

But the Eagles were certainly aware of his background, and more important, how his parents used their experiences in raising Tyler. While the Steens didn’t encourage their sons to follow a path into the military, they did instill in them the discipline Daris said he got

from his decade-plus in the Marines.

Some characteristics are learned, some are inherent. Samantha said she has often wondered what could have compelled her father to act so courageously. But through her mother and her father’s parents, siblings and friends, she has heard countless stories about his protective nature growing up in Macon, Georgia.

Daris Steen said Davis’ eldest brother, Gordon, also told him tales of how he would shield his two younger brothers and sister from the injustices of living in the Jim Crow South.

“I remember hearing a story when he went into a store and they had to go in the back of the store, he made them wait outside so they didn’t have to deal with that,” Daris said. “He had issues where he didn’t want to sit in the back of the bus.”

And yet, when that grenade landed in a trench 8,000 miles away from a segregated America, and

the five other Marines within range were white, Davis didn’t stop to think about the inequities he endured at home before giving his life. It’s a lesson the Steens said they have imparted to their sons.

“In life, sometimes you have to make difficult decisions. And we’ve always stressed that to our boys,” Daris said. “And sometimes those difficult decisions have to be made in a split second, like the situation with her father. In talking to her uncles, he didn’t all of a sudden wake up that morning and have that courage later that night.

“He clearly always had that courage if he was prepared for the situation to save those Marines.”

A level of discipline

Daris joined the Marines in 1985, about 25 years after Samantha’s father enlisted fresh out of high school. He said he was naturally drawn to the armed forces. He had relatives who served, including an uncle he said was one of the Corps’ first rescue divers, and lived in Pensacola, Fla., where Marine and Navy flight schools are based.

Including his time in the reserves and inactive duty, Daris spent 11 years in the Corps and toward the end of his military career met his future wife. Despite her father’s past, Samantha said she didn’t know much about the Marines when they started dating.

Her mother, Judy Davis, returned her and her older sister, Nicky, from London, where they were based, to America after her father died. Judy eventually went to college at Fort Valley State, not far from Macon where Rodney grew up, and moved to Cal-

ifornia with her daughters. Samantha became an attorney and now practices law in South Florida where the Steens have raised their three sons, Tyler, Blake, and Dylan. They’ve run a tight ship.

“The Marine Corps requires a high level of discipline. And me and Samantha – we’ve pushed that on our sons,” Daris said. “You know, on Saturdays there’s no sleeping past 10 [a.m.]. No video games during the week. We made strict requirements about grade point averages.

“If your grades were great, you had the freedom of your video games on weekends and other things like that. But if you had a C, you lost your privileges.”

Tyler didn’t cause much consternation. He was an A student and as the eldest was mature at a young age, his parents said. But when he transferred from a charter school to St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale, Florida — a football powerhouse that produced NFL players like Michael Irvin and the Bosa brothers, Joey and Nick — there were challenges.

“When he started, I said, ‘Look, I’m not going to be the one getting you up every morning, making sure you’re ready to get out of this house on time. I will take you there and I will make sure you get there on time. But you’re the one who has the responsibility of getting up, getting yourself together, and making sure your grades are right,’” Samantha said.

“That was all on him.”

Tyler did well enough in both academics and athletics to attend Vanderbilt. He transferred to Alabama as a graduate student and started the entire 2022 season at left tackle.

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Eagles offensive lineman Tyler Steen speaks to the media ahead of a rookie minicamp at the NovaCare Complex in early May.

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Wednesday’s TV sports

Baseball

MLB

• Atlanta vs.Oakland, NBCSCA, 12:37 p.m.

• Pittsburgh vs. San Francisco, NBCSBA, 12:45 p.m.

Golf College

• NCAA Team Match Play Championship, GOLF, 2 p.m.

Soccer

MLS

• Atlanta vs.New England, FS1, 4 p.m.

CONCACAF

• Club Leon vs. Los Angeles, FS1, 7 p.m.

Thursday’s TV sports

Baseball

MLB • L.A. Angels vs. Houston, FS1, 5:10 p.m.

Basketball

NBA Finals

• Miami vs. Denver, 7, 10, 5:30 p.m.

Golf • LPGA, Mizuho Americas Open, GOLF, 8 a.m.

• PGA, The Memorial, GOLF, 11 a.m.

Softball

Women’s College World Series

• Alabama vs. Tennessee, ESPN, 9 a.m.

• Stanford vs. Oklahoma, ESPN, 11:30 a.m.

• Oklahoma State vs. Florida State, ESPN, 4 p.m.

• Utah vs. Washington, ESPN, 6:30 p.m.

US soccer has new interim coach for men’s national team

K evin Baxter

LOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES — B.J.

Callaghan will coach the men’s national team during this summer’s CONCACAF Nations League and Gold Cup tournaments, replacing Anthony Hudson, who has served as the team’s interim manager since January.

Callaghan has served with the USMNT since 2019, joining the program as the strategy analyst before being elevated to an assistant coach. He is the longest-serving member of the technical staff.

The U.S. has been without a full-time manager since Gregg Berhalter’s contract expired following last year’s World Cup in Qatar, where the team reached the round of 16. Berhalter remains a candidate for the permanent job which Matt Crocker, the team’s sporting director, said he hopes to fill by the end of the summer.

Callaghan will call up his first roster in the next week ahead of the Nations League semifinals June 15 in Las Vegas.

“I understand the responsibility of the job and am honored to have the opportunity to build upon

Vanden

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Alumni

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Senior right-hander Aaron Rund (Will C. Wood) earned first-team all-Big South Conference honors for Campbell University before delivering the Camels a second straight conference championship.

Rund has primarily pitched in long relief for the Camels but has been dominant in the 51.1 innings of work he did on the mound prior to the conference tournament. He had an overall ERA of 4.21, but it is only 1.93 in his six appearances against conference opponents.

His best outing of the season might have come Sunday when Campbell beat USC Upstate 3-2 for the conference title. Rund picked up his fifth win of the year, allowed just four hits over five innings with no earned runs, walking one and striking out one. The Camels are headed to the Columbia, South Caro-

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mess of a season.

Kerr stole a line from one of his mentors, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, that’s no doubt on Myers’ mind as he walks away from his childhood team and his dream job:

“Fill your cup.”

lina Regional. The Vacaville resident was second on the team in strikeouts (63) prior to the tournament and the only reliever listed among the Big South's top 10 in that category. Seventeen of his 18 appearances have lasted at least two innings.

Rund leads the team with five saves.

Redshirt junior first baseman Hunter Dorraugh (Vacaville) was named second-team all-Mountain West Conference for champion San Jose State before having an incredible conference tournament last weekend.

Dorrough had 10 hits as the Spartans won four of five teams, drove in six runs, hit three home runs and also doubled. The Spartans avenged a defeat to Air Force in the 2022 championship game by beating the Falcons 12-9 Sunday. It's San Jose State's first MWC title in program history and earned the Spartans a berth in the NCAA

regionals for the first time since 2002. San Jose State opens Friday against regional host Stanford.

Dorraugh was tied for seventh in conference with 17 doubles heading into the tournament. He was also second on the team in slugging percentage (.521) and in on-base percentage (.427).

The former Bulldog was Player of the Week in February when he batted .615 over a threegame series against Loyola Marymount.

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Junior right hander Tanner Fonoti (Rodriguez) was named to the second team of the D2CCA All-West Region Team. He was also recently an honorable mention on the NCBWA squad.

Fonoti is the first Sonoma State player to earn multiple all-region selections since 2014. The 6-foot-4 right-hander proved to been of the best pitchers in the California Collegiate Athletic

Association the final two months of the season.

Fonoti finished with a 2.43 ERA (second in CCAA) and a 6-3 overall record. He had four wins as the Seawolves went 7-1 in their final eight games. Fonoti pitched five complete games, earned four wins, three shutouts in the final stretch and was conference Player of the Week after throwing a 2-hitter against Cal State Los Angeles. n n n

The Mount Olive University women's 4x100 team, featuring senior Jaiden Moody (Vanden) placed seventh in their heat and 13th overall in the preliminaries of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Colorado State University, Pueblo.

Mount Olive ran a time of 45.69 seconds which set a new conference and school record.

The top nine teams advanced to the finals of the championships.

the progress this group has made the last four years,” Callaghan said in a statement. “Together we have built a strong culture and a great understanding of how we want to play and we expect to continue to build on that progress.

“Our goal is clear: defend both of our CONCACAF titles.”

The U.S. won both tournaments under Berhalter, who has the best winning percentage of any permanent manager in USMNT history.

Before joining the national team, Callaghan, 41, worked with the Philadelphia Union seven years, first with the Union Academy, then five years as a first team assistant coach to Jim Curtin. He played four seasons at Ursinus College and served as an assistant at Villanova.

Hudson, who took over for Berhalter as U.S. Soccer investigated, and cleared, Berhalter of any wrongdoing related to a 1991 domestic abuse incident, was 2-1-2 in his brief stint as manager. That stay included a Nations League win over El Salvador and a 1-1 draw with Mexico.

Hudson is leaving the national team for a new coaching opportunity.

per game, 5.9 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 3.9 steals. Those numbers could have even been higher if not for so many lopsided wins.

It means that when you’re away from basketball, you not only physically rest, but you do things that bring you positivity and joy. You reset mentally, so when you reengage with the grind, you can give it all you have to give.

After 11 years as the man in charge of the Warriors’ basketball operations – a role that became a 365-day-a-year job where focus on you never relents – it’s time for Myers to fill his cup.

He told ESPN on Tuesday that he doesn’t know what’s next. I believe him.

But because of his success with the Warriors, he can do whatever he wants. The shame is that whatever likely won’t be around here.

Media? He’d be great at it. He’s already pretty

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President Pat Riley dunking his head in a tub of water to exemplify every last breath. It might have had Heat coach Erik Spoelstra citing “Band of Brothers” or distributing pertinent literature, as he often does.

This time, it simply was the trust that a team that had come so far from an uneven 44-38 regular season had the fortitude, comportment, resilience to see the process through to the league’s ultimate stage.

“I think,” Spoelstra said ahead of turning his attention to the Nuggets,

good, in his opening foray: a podcast with ESPN called “Lead By Example.” Big business? That could offer even more money than the Warriors, even though ownership reportedly offered him pieces of the team to keep him.

And if Myers wants to return to an NBA front office after a sabbatical, he’ll have offers from a third of the league. The Clippers might even keep their president of basket-

“when you have such an intimate relationship with a locker room and they have it with each other, the staff has it with them, they have it with the staff, sometimes it’s just whatever’s raw, whatever’s real at that time.”

So no fiery speech after Saturday’s heartbreak.

Instead, Spoelstra counted on fire within.

“We have a bunch of guys that just love competition,” he said. “Just drop us off anywhere and compete for it – put ourselves out there, open to all the criticism and everything. But hey, it’s got to happen between these four lines. We don’t care what the rest of the world is saying. We don’t

ball operations job open for the next season in an effort to lure him to the Southland, where he lived and worked during his agency days.

I don’t expect Myers to do much of anything for a while, though. Instead of worrying about the NBA Draft or playing politics at Summer League, Myers will be spending the summer with his wife and three daughters. Pretty good gig.

And whether Myers’

care who is criticizing who. You’ve got to line up between these four lines and let’s figure this out.

“I think that’s the nature of this team that I think a lot of people respect, because we’ve had our fair share of setbacks and disappointments, frustration, but we just keep on picking ourselves up and getting on to the next fight.”

Just raw and real.

“I know the work that we all put into it, so I know what we’re capable of,” said forward Jimmy Butler, awarded the Larry Bird Trophy as MVP of the East finals. “Nobody is satisfied. We haven’t done anything. We don’t play just to win the Eastern

vacated power is vested to Warriors CEO Joe Lacob’s son Kirk Lacob, current vice president of basketball operations Mike Dunleavy Jr., or a combination of them and others, it’s impossible to predict how significant Myers’ exit will be to the health of Warriors’ operation. And it’s impossible to imagine anyone doing the job any better.

Conference; we play to win the whole thing.”

Where fear could have factored, with none of the previous 150 teams going up 3-0 in a best-of-seven NBA series losing, center Bam Adebayo said the Heat instead saw destiny.

“Going into the series, we thought we were going to Game 7, anyway,” he said, the Heat realistic from the outset of the postseason of who they were and what would be needed. “But you know, things work out different. Stuff happens and we end up in a Game 7, like everybody thought it was going to happen.

“Biggest thing for us, I feel like we never quit.” had three athletes moving on in Aniya Lawson (Cal State Monterey Bay), Samanie Simmons (Northern Colorado) and Kaliyah Jackson (Jackson State).

Boys basketball standout Edric Dennis is headed for Cal Poly Pomona. DJ Andersen of the Vanden baseball team will head to Concordia University. Both those athletes were unable to attend Tuesday’s event.

Martin was MEL’s Back of the Year and the emotional leader of Vanden’s defense on the football field. The senior helped rack up 106 tackles.

Jackson is the threetime MEL Player of the Year and was selected first-team on maxprep. com’s All-Sac Joaquin Section squad. Jackson averaged 20.4 points

Wright was also force inside for the Vikings and averaged 8.9 points per game and 9.1 rebounds.

Harris averaged 7.1 points per game and 4.3 rebounds.

Spencer was first-team all-MEL with 141 kills, 92 service aces, 24 blocks and a team-high 244 digs.

King was also all-MEL and finished with 49 kills, 84 aces, 186 digs and 282 assists.

Gibson, The MEL’s Player of the Year in softball, batted .508 with 24 runs scored, 33 hits, 15 RBIs, five doubles and a triple. Lawson had a .373 batting average with 18 runs scored, 22 hits, 11 RBIs, eight doubles, one triple and a home run. Simmons hit .349 with 17 hits, 13 RBI, two doubles and a home run.

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Dieter Kurtenbach is a sports columnist for the Bay Area News Group.

Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group/TNS file (2022) Golden State Warriors General Manager Bob Myers waves his hand with the NBA Championship rings during the Championship Parade on Market Street in San Francisco in June 2022.