Daily Republic: Friday, June 16, 2023

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County endorses two fentanyl bills, rejects a third

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Board of Supervisors supports leg islation that would create the Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force, and another that would add fentanyl to the tracking and reporting duties of the State Threat Assessment Center.

The board, however, rejected a third fentanylrelated bill that would have added years to sentences and fines.

“I think it will be used to put more black and brown people in jail,”

Fair opens with salute to agriculture, fun for all

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VALLEJO — The 2023 Solano County Fair kicked off Thursday with free admission and an emphasis on agriculture, combining Ag Day with the annual event.

A bevy of organizations – such as California Ag in the Classroom, Elmira 4-H, the local food bank, Pleasants Valley 4-H and the Community Animal Response Team – joined the Solano County Ag Department, the Solano County Farm Bureau. Vacaville FFA and Sustainable Solano were on hand.

The firsts guests were greeted by rabbits, goats and other farm animals along the entrance. Fairgoers were free to pet the critters.

Exposistion Hall was filed with a variety of activities including the chance to touch a real cow hide, a place to gather toy eggs in a plastic basket and play chess with a large plastic set.

Jackie Cordero, 19 months, was at his first fair and played a giant light-bright game. “He’s a big fan

of the animals,” said his mother Mandy Cordero. The petting zoo would most likely follow, then a visit with the goats.

The family was visiting from southern California.

Tammie LeBar, of Vallejo,

walked through McCormack Hall, home of the winning jams, quilts, photographs, paintings and more. She estimated she has been going the fair 15-20 years, before Covid-19 closed it down in 2020.

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Supervisor Wanda Williams said of Assembly

Bill 701, echoing similar equity issues raised by Supervisor Erin Hannigan, who likened it to the war on drugs and the disparity of punishment for crack cocaine.

Hannigan sits on the Legislative Committee with Supervisor Monica Brown. They could not come up with a consensus on a recommendation to the board.

Brown said she

brought it to the committee’s attention because fentanyl is killing a lot of people. She joined the full board in opposing the bill.

Existing law imposes an additional term, and authorizes a trial court to impose a fine if a person is convicted of possessing for sale, or purchasing for purposes of sale, a certain weight of a substance containing heroin, cocaine base and cocaine. This bill adds fentanyl to the list.

Supervisor Mitch Mashburn also opposed the bill, arguing that local jails are not equipped

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MIAMI — When a federal magistrate judge imposed a “special condition” on Donald Trump’s bond that he could not communicate with witnesses in his classified documents case in Miami, the former president’s defense attorney objected and said that it would be “unworkable” because

some of them still interact with Trump every day.

But defense attorney Todd Blanche was not just referring to Secret Service agents and Trump personnel, including one potential witness, co-defendant Walt Nauta, a former White House aide who still works for Trump as an assistant at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. Blanche

also briefly alluded to an unnamed lawyer still employed by Trump.

“One of the key witnesses that we know is still the president’s lawyer,” Blanche said Tuesday in Miami federal court, without naming the attorney. “So a special condition that President Trump cannot communicate with his lawyer, obviously doesn’t work,

respectfully, your honor.”

At Tuesday’s arraignment, Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman ruled as a condition that Trump and Nauta cannot communicate with witnesses about the case, asking the Justice Department’s special counsel to create a list of people who might testify at trial. The

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WASHINGTON –—

The U.S. and Iran are close to an informal understanding under which Tehran would free American prisoners and eventually limit its nuclear program, people familiar with the matter said.

Negotiations through intermediaries in Oman and on the sidelines of United Nations meetings led to an initial agreement for Iran to free U.S. prisoners, while the U.S. would release payments owed to the Islamic Republic that were frozen by sanctions, according to officials with knowledge the talks.

Diplomats are also pushing Iran to voluntarily limit its uranium-enrichment levels and boost its cooperation with international monitors in return for allowances to ship more crude, said one person familiar with the Iranian position.

“There is some diplo-

Iran inch toward understanding aimed at easing tensions

macy in play,” said Mark Fitzpatrick, a former U.S. State Department official, who was in Vienna this week to meet with diplomats assigned to the International Atomic Energy Agency. “There will at least be a cease-fire put in place, they won’t escalate more.”

The developments mark the best signs of progress between the two global rivals in several months, and follow heightened tensions over Iran’s nuclear program after a drop in international examinations and the detection of uranium particles just below weapons grade. But they’re also politically perilous for President Joe Biden, who will face severe blowback from Republicans, and even some Democrats, if he cuts even an informal deal with Iran heading into an election year.

The first stage of the plan is already in train, with the U.S. making

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Goats compete in the All Creatures Barnyard Races at the Solano County Fair at the Fairgrounds in Vallejo, Thursday.

Amanda Jones, 4, of Vallejo makes a giant bubble at the Solano County Fair at the Fairgrounds in Vallejo, Thursday.

LP Flashback: Heatwave’s ‘Too Hot to Handle’

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My family moved to Fairfield in June of 1976 and I experienced 100-plus-degree weather for the first time. It was astonishing to me that people could function when it was that hot. Of course people from Vacaville who came here were putting on fur coats and enjoying the refreshingly cool breeze (that as a bonus also didn’t smell like onions).

In 1977 the hottest day of the year was 105 on July 30. On Memorial Day weekend that year, pop/disco/funk band Heatwave’s debut album “Too Hot to Handle” was released. The cover featured a painting of a 33⅓ RPM record album melting on the sidewalk, which could have been North Texas Street.

Heatwave formed in 1975 and if rockers Grand Funk could sing “We’re An American Band,” Heatwave could’ve made a danceable version called “We’re An International Band.” The group featured Americans Johnnie Wilder Jr. (lead and background vocals) and Keith Wilder (lead and background vocals); Englishmen Rod Temperton (keyboards) and Roy Carter (guitar); Swiss Mario Mantese (bass); Czechoslovak Ernest “Bilbo” Berger (drums); and Jamaican Eric Johns (drums, percussion).

Rod Temperton was a songwriting machine. In addition to creating some of Heatwave’s best known tunes on their debut, he also wrote ones for their follow-up “Central Heating” including “The Groove Line” and “Star of a Story” as well as later hits like

Temperton lent his songcrafting talents to the repertoire of numerous other artists penning popular tunes like “Thriller,” “Off the Wall” and “Rock with You” for Michael Jackson; “Give Me the Night” and “Love

X Love” for George Benson; and the No.

1 hit song “Baby, Come to Me” for Patti Austin and James Ingram, among many others.

When the needle hits the groove on “Too Hot to Handle” the funky title song kicks it off with style and sets the tonedanceable rhythm coupled with tight harmonies.

The theme of the next song, “Boogie Nights,” is similar to “Night Fever” by the Bee Gees or “I Love the Nightlife” by Alicia Bridges or a gazillion other songs that were being released at the height of the disco era: living in the moment and celebrating life on the dance floor.

Using the word “boogie” in the title of a dance song in the 1970s was a tad overdone. I mean, there was “Boogie Wonderland”(Earth Wind & Fire and The Emotions), “Boogie Oogie Oogie” (A Taste of Honey), “Blame it on the Boogie” (The Jacksons), “Boogie Shoes” and “I’m Your Boogie Man” (KC and the Sunshine Band), “Boogie on Reggae Woman” (Stevie Wonder), “Boogie Fever” (The Sylvers), “Get Up and Boogie” (Silver Convention) and “Boogie Child” (Bee Gees), just to name a few.

What set Heatwave’s popular single apart from its many boogie brethren was its delivery. It starts out with a luscious harp played by a member of the London Symphony Orchestra and then layers on some dreamy vocals singing the song

infectious groove.

The mid-tempo slow burner “Ain’t No Half Steppin’” follows and it is a strong album cut with synthesizers and nice tight harmonies.

Next up is the Lovers’ National Anthem, “Always and Forever.” For weddings, proms and many other events, to get couples on the floor you played Heatwave’s slow jam to end all slow jams. The single version that was played on the radio, a little over three minutes long, was awesome, but the over six minute album version was the one you wanted to hear when you were cuddlin’ your significant other when the lights were low.

It’s Johnny Wilder Jr.’s finest vocal performance where he takes the listener on a beautiful journey including brief excursions into the love stratosphere with some breathtaking falsetto.

Now, the song is a wonderful, classic testament to the power of love and so I wanted to know more about its creation. What I found make me chuckle. According to Wikipedia, Alan Kirk, a Yorkshire musician with Jimmy James and the Vagabonds who toured with Heatwave in the mid1970s, remembered: “ ‘Always and Forever’ was written on a Wurlitzer piano at the side of a pile of pungent washing – sorry to disappoint all the romantics.”

Flipping the disc over, it’s time to dance again as side two starts with the funkified “Super Soul Sister” that is accentuated by pleasing percussion including liberal use of a vibraslap (maybe most famously known as that rattling sound at the beginning of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train”).

Next up is the beautifully delicate falsetto tune “All You Do is Dial” about how a loved one could erase the horrors of a bad day by reaching out to them by phone. And yes, in 1977 we dialed.

What follows is the love song “Lay It On Me” and I’ve always liked the tasty drum fills throughout. Now some may say these are “filler” tunes meaning throwaway songs just meant to fill the space in-between hit singles, but in my view they are finely crafted songs that very much hold their own.

“Sho’ Nuff Must Be Luv” is one of those songs that kinda creeps in and gives you a hug as it paints a picture:

“Driving round in the night, tried to pick up a station

Just to hear the DJ, playin our dedication

Blowin’ kisses down the telephone line

Just simple things that blow my mind away

And puts magic inside my day

Girl it sho’nuff must be love, it’s got to be

Sho’nuff must be love, it’s heavenly with you.”

The album closer “Beat Your Booty” is not as memorable as others, but ends the

disc on a high note and with humor. Like many others I can definitely relate to my parents telling me that if I didn’t straighten up they would “beat your booty if you ain’t been doin’ your duty.”

Heatwave had lots of success, but had their share of tragedy, too. While watching YouTube videos of the group performing songs from their first album and witnessing the high energy dancing they often added, I remembered what happened to singer Johnnie Wilder Jr. On February 24, 1979, a dump truck broadsided Wilder’s car and paralyzed him from the neck down.

While doctors initially only gave him a week to live, he stubbornly survived, was hospitalized for over a year and lived for 27 years after the accident. Wilder continued to record with Heatwave and later released two a cappella gospel albums “My Goal” and “One More Day.”

“Too Hot to Handle” is one of those albums that I have had on 8-track, vinyl, cassette, compact disc and now streaming and I savor it from start to finish whenever I pull it out.

Fairfield freelance humor columnist and accidental local historian Tony Wade writes two weekly columns – “ The Last Laugh” on Mondays and “Back in the Day” on Fridays. Wade is also the author of The History Press books “Growing Up In Fairfield, California,” “Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California,” the upcoming book “Armijo High School: Fairfield, California” and hosts the Channel 26 government access TV show “Local Legends.”

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Lake Berryessa makes Visit California’s list of 16 lakes to see

75 degrees in summer.

Residents sought for city committees, youth commission

FAIRFIELD — The city of Fairfield is accepting applications to fill two seats on the Rockville Hills Regional Park Citizen Advisory Committee with a term ending on Dec. 31, 2027.

Mayor Cat Moy will appoint the board members with the approval of the City Council.

Applications are available at the City Clerk’s Office at Fairfield City Hall, 1000 Webster Street, fourth floor. Request one by mail or email by contacting Deputy City Clerk Esther Beavers at (707) 428-7402 or estherbeavers@fairfield.ca.gov.

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cations may be submitted via mail, email, or in person. Contact Richard Vasquez at (707) 428-7051 or rvasquez@ fairfield.ca.gov.

The deadline is 5 p.m. July 14. There are also seven seats open for a new Landscape Oversight Committee (one representative from each district and one seat at-large). The term begins Aug. 1 and ends June 30, 2028.

Recruitment for the Youth Commission is ongoing. Applicants must be between the ages of 13 and 21 and reside in Fairfield.

Email cityclerk@ fairfield.ca.gov or call (707) 428-7402 for more information or visit fairfield.ca.gov/seats.

FAIRFIELD — Ber-

ryessa is among 16 lakes that Visit California says is a must-go to destination this summer.

Clear Lake also made the list.

“Few things are as relaxing as time spent on the water, whether you’re sending up rooster tails on a wakeboard or water skis, savoring the quiet of an early-morning paddle, reeling in a rainbow trout, or jumping into a chilly alpine lake,” the independent promotional agency stated in its monthly online

publication.

Visit California linked the location of Berryessa to its proximity to Napa County wineries, but with no mention to Solano County options such as the Suisun Valley. “Less than an hour from Napa Valley’s wineries, you can swim in solar-heated water,” Visit California said about Lake Berryessa. “Hugged by the oak-dotted Vaca Mountains, the 23-mile-long lake has quiet coves for kayakers, stand-up paddleboarders, swimmers, and sunbathers, and the water warms up to a pleasant

“For high-velocity boating, head to the main body of the lake to rev your engine and churn up a big wake. Rent a Jet Ski, Waverunner, or wakeboard or water-ski boat from Lake Berryessa Boat & Jet Ski Rentals, Markley Cove Resort or Pleasure Coive Marina.

“Lake County’s bounty of vineyards and tasting rooms,” however, was a selling point for going to Clear Lake.

The other five Northern California lakes highlighted by Visit California are Shasta,

Housing specialist James announces candidacy for District 1 supervisor

FAIRFIELD –

The vice chairwoman of the Vallejo Housing and Community Development Commission has announced her candidacy for the District 1 supervisor’s seat.

Cassandra James made the announcement Thursday, just one week after Supervisor Erin Hannigan announced she would not be seeking a fourth term on the county board.

“We need more leaders in Solano County who walk the talk on matters that impact the community on housing affordability, economic well-being, and community safety. This is why I’ve faithfully devoted my entire career to working within our community to turn lives around and build stronger communities,” James said in announcing her candidacy.

“I’m running for Solano County supervisor because I know our community can thrive with my leadership and can-do attitude,” James said in the statement.

The primary election is in March, and if a runoff is necessary, the general election is in November.

James serves as the senior community development specialist in the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. Her focus is on securing emergency rental assistance for low-income residents to prevent homelessness.

She also also vice president of the Solano-Napa Chapter of Black Women Organized for Political Action and serves on the Solano County Democratic Central Committee. She previously served on the Solano County Redistricting Advisory Committee in 2021, representing District

1, the African American Community Policing Relations Board and the League of Women Voters of Solano County, her candidate announcement said.

“I love Solano County, I love Vallejo. My boys were born and are being raised here, and it is so important that they grow up in a community where all things are possible, and their dreams can be achieved,” James said. “I strongly believe the same is true for you and your loved ones. I know how to work with others, advocate for resources, and respond to unforeseen public emergencies. With my leadership, we will secure pathways to funding that enhance our city services, build homes people can afford, and address the root causes of violence while improving public safety.”

James is the first person to officially announce a run for the county post. Hannigan said that her district representative, and former Vallejo councilman, Michael Wilson has expressed a desire for the post.

Originally from San Francisco, James moved to Vallejo more than 12 years ago and co-owns a home with her partner, grandmother and two sons. She holds three associate’s degrees from City College of San Francisco: Arts and Humanities, Social Justice and Behavioral Science; and earned a bachelor’s degree in Politics, Economics, Policy and Law at Mills College, her campaign biography states.

To learn more about James’ campaign, go to https://www.elect cassandrajames.com.

Whiskeytown, Donner, Tahoe and Folsom. The lakes in Central California listed are Bass, Sabrina, San Luis, Nacimiento and Cachuma. The Southern California lakes highlighted are Pyramid, Big Bear, Elsinore and Murray.

The article also points readers to becoming with boating, fishing and other regulations and requirements by going to https://californiaboatercard.com/, https:// dbw.parks.ca.gov/?page_ id=28711 and the state Department of Fish & Wildlife website.

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People lounge on the beach and swim at the Oak Shores area of Lake Berryessa, July 10, 2020.

Local students earn scholarships from Friends of the Dixon May Fair

DIXON — The Friends of the Dixon May Fair has awarded a total of $15,500 in its Donnie and Tootie Huffman Scholarship Program to four college students majoring in agriculture.

Public Safety Academy showcases ‘Frontiers of History’ experience

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FAIRFIELD

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Public Safety Academy

proudly announced the grand opening of its new museum, offering an exciting and educational experience for students, families and community members to explore the “Frontiers of History.”

Located in the Public Safety Academy library, the museum featured

interactive exhibits, artifacts, and information from various historical periods and regions around the world. With the theme “Frontiers of History,” the museum aimed to highlight pivotal revolutions, technological advancements, human rights movements, and other significant historical breakthroughs that have shaped the future.

The museum was organized by the sophomore and junior classes, who

took pride in creating and curating the exhibits. The students also acted as tour guides during the event, sharing their knowledge and insights with visitors.

Visitors to the museum encountered a variety of exhibits, offering different perspectives on history. They could test their knowledge of famous revolutionaries, participate in creating their own protest signs, and witness a Lego replica of a print-

ing press in action.

Angel Molinero, a junior at PSA, reflected on his experience, stating, “I was thrilled to be part of this museum project. Designing and presenting an exhibit allowed me to delve deep into the history that I’m passionate about. I also really enjoyed working together with my classmates to make this museum a success.”

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FAIRFIELD — As Independence Day nears the City of Fairfield reminds residents all fireworks, even those designated “safe and sane” are prohibited in the city of Fairfield.

The sale, use or discharge of any fireworks is a violation of the City Code and State Law.

Safe and sane fireworks are sold in Suisun City. Hours are noon to 9 p.m. June 28 and 9 a.m. to 9.m.

June 29 through July 4.

Fire Marshal Jose Colin said the administrative citations involving illegal fireworks in Suisun City are: Use, discharge, or sale of dangerous “illegal” fireworks (within 12-month period).

First offense: $500, second offense is $750; third is $1,000.

The city also has a

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VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Museum Guild 35th Annual Children’s Party will be in August this year.

The event will be on Aug. 3 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the Museum courtyard, 213 Buck Ave.

The Vacaville Museum began the event in 1985 but the Covid issue curtailed it for four years.

The children always have a wonderful time, enjoying take home crafts, clowns, face painting and interactions with various characters. Police and firefighters, along with their vehicles, will also be present, if not needed elsewhere.

The party is sponsored by the Vacaville Firefighters, IAFF Local #3501, is geared toward ages 3-9, with at least 1 adult required per 5 children. Please bring your own bag for carrying the day’s crafts and treasures, and there are no stroll-

Social Host Liability code for allowing the unlawful ignition, use, discharge or display of any “illegal” fireworks on one’s property or event. If they are a tenant,

the citation will be mailed directly to property owner.

The first offense is $1,000; the second, $1,500; third $2,000, within a 12-month period.

Suisun City hosts a free Independence Day event, including fireworks. The fun begins at 11 a.m. Find more information at https://www.suisun.com.

The scholarship program was named the Donnie and Tootie Huffman Scholarship Program earlier this year in honor of its founding president and treasurer. Including this year, the Friends have awarded a total of $248,750 in college scholarships since 2000, announced Carrie Hamel of Dixon, the scholarship chair.

Sam Esperson, a 2022 graduate of Rio Vista High School and a student at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, received the top award, the newly created $5,000 Donnie Huffman Scholarship.

Bridget de Flores, a 2023 graduate of Rio Vista High School, and who plans to attend either Chico State or Cal Poly, won the $4,000 JoAn Giannoni Scholarship. Giannoni, of Dixon, is a founding member, and inaugural secretary and scholarship chair of the Friends of the Fair.

Natalie Victorine, a 2021 graduate of Dixon High School and a student at Cal Poly, won the $,3500 Ester Armstrong Scholarship. The award memorializes fair industry veteran Ester Armstrong of Rockville, a former director of the California Division of Fairs and Expositions who served as interim CEO of the Dixon May Fair from 2006-2009. She died in May 2009 of cancer.

Molly Feins, a

2021 graduate of Vacaville High School and a student at Cal Poly, won the newly established $3,000 Joe Gates Memorial Scholarship. Gates, a Rio Vista resident and longtime auctioneer of the Dixon May Fair’s Junior Livestock Auction. Gates, a victim of COVID, died in February 2021.

The Friends, an all-volunteer, serviceoriented organization, is the fundraising arm of the fair. They raise funds through the sale of beverages at the four-day fair and donate the proceeds for building and grounds improvements, along with exhibitor awards and college scholarships.

In 2024, the Friends plan to fund a total of nine scholarships in two categories: four-year college (four recipients) and twoyear community college, the Jack Hopkins Scholarship at $1,500 and two $1,000 scholarships.

The scholarship committee, chaired by Hamel, also includes Tootie Huffman, Kathy Keatley Garvey and Linda Molina, all of Vacaville, and Marty Scrivens and Alisa Ramirez, both of Dixon.

The Friends’ Plaza at the Dixon May Fair was dedicated May 5, 2022, in honor of legendary volunteer Donnie Huffman of Vacaville, founding president of the Friends, and the longtime members. The Huffmans, tireless volunteers and supporters of agriculture for more than three decades, celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary on April 16, 2023.

More information on the scholarship application rules is available on the Friends of the Fair Facebook site at https://www. facebook.com/Friend softheDixonMayFair.

ers allowed. Tickets go on sale June 22, are $3.00 per person, including adults, and may be purchased at the Museum during Gallery open hours, Thursdays – Saturdays, between 1 to 4:30 p.m. Ring the door-

bell during Museum office hours, Tuesday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sales are cash or check only and no tickets will be sold on the day of the event. The cost includes popcorn and a hot dog lunch. We will not turn

any child away because of parental inability to purchase a ticket. Financial assistance with the purchase of tickets is available. For further information call 707-447-4513.

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fireworks in Fairfield, sales of safe and sane permitted in Suisun

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Public Safety Academy students enjoying the exhibits at its museum, “Exploring the Frontiers of History.”

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic file (2022) Fireworks are for sale at a fireworks stand along Marina Boulevard in Suisun City, June 30, 2022.

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Marika Polanshek pets an alpaca from the Ahh... Sweet Alpacas, alpaca farm, at the Vacaville Museum Guild Children’s’ Party, August 9, 2018.

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TOP: Natalie Victorine, a 2021 graduate of Dixon High School and a student at Cal Poly, won the $3500 Ester Armstrong Scholarship.

LEFT: Molly Feins, a 2021 graduate of Vacaville High School and a student at Cal Poly, won the newly established $3000 Joe Gates Memorial Scholarship. BOTTOM RIGHT: Auctioneer Joe Gates of Rio Vista is memorialized in a Friends of the Fair scholarship.

Silicon Valley tech executive weighs US Senate bid

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Silicon Valley executive Lexi Reese, a Democrat, announced Thursday that she is considering running for the seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

“As a working mom, I’ve spent my career in nonprofits and at technology and financial services businesses — working to help create economic opportunity for women and small businesses. I want to put that expertise to work on behalf of working Californians to make lives easier for everyone in our state,” Reese said in a press release. “Our great state is at a tipping point, and I believe we need leaders with a different perspective to get us on the right track.”

Reese, 48, previously worked at Google, Facebook, American Express and other tech companies. It’s unclear if Reese is wealthy enough to selffund a campaign if she chooses that route.

Reps. Adam Schiff of Burbank, Katie Porter of Irvine and Barbara Lee of Oakland are the top Democrats seeking the seat, while attorney Eric Early and veteran James Bradley are the most well-known Republicans. Former baseball legend Steve Garvey is

Record wet winter inflicted more than

million in damage to state’s parks

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also considering a run. While some are more prominent than others, none of the candidates who are officially in the race are strongly wellknown statewide.

Reese, who did not respond to a request for comment, does not appear to have run for elected office previously. She has made a handful of small donations to Democrats, including for former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s unsuccessful 2022 gubernatorial effort, President Joe Biden’s winning 2020 campaign and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s unsuccessful 2020 White House bid, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

When she was chief operating officer at Gusto, a payroll provider, Reese outlined her guiding principles or “blueprint” in an article on the website of Silicon Valley startup Coda.

Reese’s “best days,” she wrote, include “being around and meeting people that are smart, generous, kind, and teach me something.”

And, Reese wrote, if people want “to get the best from me ... call my BS — when I don’t practice what I preach on leadership, call me out. Real bummer if my say/ do ratio is off.”

Oakldale man arrested after video allegedly shows him encouraging two juveniles to fight

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An Oakdale youth football coach was arrested Wednesday after allegedly being captured on video encouraging two juveniles to fight each other as at least 10 other boys watched. The fight occurred sometime in the past week in the backyard of a residence somewhere in Oakdale, according to Oakdale police. The boys appear to be teenagers, and some of the spectators even younger.

Police Chief Jerry Ramar said the video was brought to the attention of police Tuesday night and the department received multiple tips about it.

“I am extremely disappointed and disturbed by the video,” he said. “This doesn’t represent the community of Oakdale.”

During the one-minute, 32-second video obtained by The Bee, the suspect repeatedly eggs on one of the boys, even directing him in how to fight.

“Don’t throw that lazyass kick again, bud,” the suspect tells a boy after he attempts to kick the other boy with his left leg.

“Jab, jab,” he says, and the boy, wearing black shorts, starts throwing punches at the other boy, who’s wearing patterned shorts.

The boys wrestle to the ground, where the boy in black shorts gets on top of the other boy and pummels him as the suspect instructs, “Square up, square up.”

The boy in black shorts appears to hit the other boy several dozen times in the back, head and torso.

The punches slow and the boy in the black shorts starts to get off the other boy.

“Nah, nah ... hey, give it to him, give it to him,”

LOS ANGELES — California’s historic wet winter inflicted at least $210 million in damage to the state’s parks during storms in January and March, with a popular state beach near Santa Cruz accounting for nearly half of that damage, according to a state report submitted to federal officials.

The damage estimate was included in a report submitted by the California Department of Parks and Recreation to the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of the state’s efforts to get federal aid to make repairs to the parks.

Of the state’s 280 parks, 85 were listed in the report, which estimated the damage from January storms alone was $187 million. Another storm event in March resulted in at least $23 million in damage, but that estimate is expected to rise.

Among the stormdamaged parks, 15 had estimates of more than $1 million in damage each, with the highest numbers concentrated on the central coast.

Seacliff State Beach, near Santa Cruz, suffered more than $100 million in damage after storms battered its pier in January, according to the report.

In addition to destroying the pier, January

storms “destroyed nearly all of the seawall and much of the fill material on which the campground was built,” state parks wrote in February. “Much of the underground utilities were lost to the sea, as was the parking lot pavement.”

California endured 31 atmospheric river storms this winter, one of the wettest and coldest in recorded history. Storms killed people, stranded others and damaged infrastructure. Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument in San Luis Obispo County saw more than $19 million in damage, and Santa Barbara County’s El

Capitan State Beach had nearly $12 million.

At Hearst Castle, rain caused flooding and downed power lines, leading the monument to close in mid-January, according to The San Luis Obispo Tribune. At El Capitan, storms damaged waterlines, some of which still await repair, according to the state parks’ website.

“State Parks has already completed some of the repairs,” said Jorge Moreno, a spokesman for California State Parks, including “debris cleanup, emergency repairs or protecting structures.”

“The department is taking a phase approach on

projects that require longterm repairs with some work potentially taking up to five years,” he said.

It is unclear when FEMA will respond to the state’s report, and what funding might be allocated for park repairs. The list of January damages will be updated as the parks department continues to assess and repair, according to Moreno.

“FEMA has not yet closed the event and additional counties are still being declared,” Moreno said, adding that a similarly detailed list of damaged parks will become available once the event is closed.

the suspect instructs, pushing him back toward the other boy, who is still on the ground. “Let him back up and then take him back down again.”

When the boy in the patterned shorts gets up, the boy in the black shorts yells, “You done?”

“Nah, he aint,” says the suspect. “No breaks.”

The video is filled with expletives, and the suspect and several of the minors repeatedly use the N-word.

“How does one of our community members who is supposed to be mentoring our kids talk like that?” Ramar said.

The suspect, identified as 33-year-old Oakdale resident Joshua Troxell, is a football coach for the Oakdale Stampede, according to police. It’s unknown if the boys who were fighting or any of the spectators were part of his team, and the organization could not immediately be reached for comment.

Troxell was arrested Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of felony child endangerment.

The penal code he was arrested under apples to people who, “under circumstances or conditions likely to produce great bodily harm or death, willfully causes or permits any child to suffer, or inflicts thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or having the care or custody of any child, willfully causes or permits the person or health of that child to be injured, or willfully causes or permits that child to be placed in a situation where his or her person or health is endangered.”

One of the boys in the fight had minor injuries.

Troxell has not yet

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California lawmakers met their June 15 deadline Thursday and passed a state budget bill that includes provisions to bail out transit agencies facing a “fiscal cliff” with federal Covid-19 aid running out – and ensures state lawmakers will get their paychecks.

Now the question is whether Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose $306.5 billion proposed total budget unveiled in May didn’t include a transit bailout, will sign on. Lawmakers are optimistic something can be negotiated over the next few weeks before the new fiscal year begins in July.

“I say in the next 12 days transportation will stay there,” said Sen. Dave Cortese, a Democrat representing San Jose. Newsom’s office had no response Thursday. But on Monday, a day after lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly reached accord over their budget bill, the governor’s office said “we recognize the role transit plays in the state and have welcomed conversations with the Legislature on the subject.”

“Although the state faces a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, the governor’s team is steadily working with the legislature and remains optimistic that a deal can be reached to provide support for transit statewide,” Newsom’s office said in a statement Monday.

The governor’s office added that “accountability will be a critical part of any deal, and local transportation officials must thoroughly assess their operations and take steps to reform and stabilize their programs in the long run while continuing to meet the needs of their ridership in the near-term.”

This year’s budget is a stark reversal from a year ago, when California was enjoying an unprecedented $97.5 billion surplus. By January, the state was facing a projected $22.3 billion deficit,

and by May that had ballooned to $31.5 billion, forcing Newsom and fellow Democrats who control the legislature to dial back the spending.

Transit agencies have laid out a host of doomsday cuts they’d have to make if ridership and revenues don’t improve. BART earlier this month said without the state money, the transit agency will have to run trains only once an hour, cut service on weekends and after 9 p.m. on weeknights, reduce service to San Francisco International and Oakland International airports, close stations and even shut down some lines.

BART’s board last week adopted a $5.1 billion two-year budget with a $93 million deficit in 2025 that also calls for raising fares 11% over two years. The agency said late Monday that it is hopeful the funding will help address the $93 million budget deficit, although details of how much money BART might receive and how those funds will be distributed have yet to be determined.

AC Transit has said numerous local bus lines would have to be reduced or discontinued. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said it would cut back to pandemic-era service levels with frequency reductions starting

on bus lines 2, 6 and 21.

Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, has led a group of 35 lawmakers and 19 members of the state’s congressional delegation in supporting a transit bailout, arguing the vital public service shouldn’t suffer because of a pandemic beyond the agencies’ control.

The legislative budget deal for transit restores $2 billion in transportation infrastructure funding that was on the chopping block if revenues are as low as Newsom’s budget office expects. That money would be available for transit operations at local transportation authorities’ discretion.

The deal also would allow local transit agencies to prop up their operating budgets over the next three years by diverting $1.1 billion in cap-and-trade funds that are supposed to be used for zero-emission buses to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2040.

Wiener’s office said Thursday that although the governor has yet to signal approval, response has been more about small details so they were optimistic something could be worked out that would ease transit agencies immediate woes. Wiener’s office noted that the approved budget bill still would only provide about half the operations money transit

agencies need.

Cortese said the budget bill approved Thursday restores the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program funding which the governor had reduced by $2 billion. That money will provide for the longplanned BART extension to downtown San Jose, and also will provide money that can help fund transit operations.

Cortese said lawmakers have been in intense negotiations with the governor’s representatives, and he expected those to continue over the next 12 days to reach an agreement. He said the governor has an extensive package of infrastructure funding priorities of his own – water projects, electric power grid improvements, plants for processing lithium, a key rechargeable battery ingredient – that will be a bargaining chip.

While there’s been no agreement on the give and take yet, one thing lawmakers and the governor’s office do agree on is reaching accord before July, Cortese said.

“There’s legislative meetings going on daily on this,” Cortese said. “This transportation money we’re talking about is a pretty doable bargain for exchange because we haven’t signed off on his infrastructure package.”

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Don Lawson, with Granite Construction company, watches as excavators tear down the pier at Seacliff State Beach in Aptos, March 27, 2023.

Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group file A passenger waits to enter the BART train at the Milpitas BART station on Friday, June, 9, 2023, in Milpitas.

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Starting this month, 10 sensors placed in hilly areas east of Oakland, will be monitoring the air for signs of wildfires. The sensors, which can detect and measure gas, particulate matter and heat, are intended to help more quickly identify, locate and track blazes that could threaten the city.

With wildfires expected to increase in frequency and intensity, officials in fire-prone areas such as California and Oregon are testing out early detecting systems that promise to catch fires before they turn into raging infernos that endanger lives, homes and critical infrastructure.

While fire managers have been using satellite imaging and cameras to spot wildfires for years, that technology has gotten sharper and is part of a growing tool kit that now also includes artificial intelligence, drones and sensors.

“The sensors help level the playing field, if you will, between us and the devastating fire,” said Reginald Freeman, who until recently was Oakland’s fire chief. “We can be notified immediately. We could deploy our personnel and equipment immediately, which obviously increases the probability of lives and property being saved.”

Sensors and other types of early detection technology could be particularly important for catching fires that occur in remote areas, where they can often go unnoticed until they become much bigger.

“Fires that start in urban areas are easily spotted by someone, but who is monitoring the wilderness areas?” said Ankita Mohapatra, an assistant professor at California State University at Fullerton who published a review of wildfire early detection technologies in 2022.

But Michael Pavolonis, the Wildland Fire Program manager at NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, said reliably detecting wildfires early will probably require more than sensors alone.

“Every technology and technique has strengths and limitations,” Pavolonis said. “There isn’t a single technique that can solve this problem.”

How do fire detection sensors work?

In California, the state’s fire agency, Cal Fire, is pilot-testing “ultra-early” wildfire detection sensors. Meanwhile, in neighboring Oregon, officials deployed two types of sensing technologies this year.

N5 Sensors, the Rockville, Md., company that provided sensors to the Oakland Fire Department, said it is working with four utilities around the country, as well as stakeholders in eight states and has two engagements in Canada.

Some sensors, like those deployed by Cal Fire, are designed to detect fires that just ignited or are in their early stages and to alert firefighters. They measure various gases, temperature, humidity and air pressure, and come “with built-in artificial intelligence to reliably detect a fire and avoid false positives,” according to Dryad, the German company behind the technology.

Certain types of sensors could also be used to more accurately

predict where fires might happen based on the data they collect, said Zhaodan Kong, an associate professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department at the University of California at Davis. This information can be combined with knowledge about other factors that contribute to fire risk, such as the location of power lines, said Kong, who is researching technology for wildfire prediction and detection.

An inexpensive firefighting solution?

Catching wildfires early could not only save lives, but may also prevent millions of dollars in losses, experts say. The wildfire that devastated Oakland in 1991, for instance, killed 25 people and cost an estimated $3.9 billion in present-day dollars.

Networks of sensors can be simple to set up and generally inexpensive to run and maintain compared with the other types of wildfire detection technology, such as camera towers and drone fleets, Mohapatra said.

Depending on their function, individual sensors could range in cost from less than $10 to about $200 each, Kong said. He noted that a node, which includes multiple sensors and other technology, could cost about $1,000.

But he and other experts say one concern is the accuracy of readings. If sensors are too sensitive, that may lead to a number of false alerts, or they could not be sensitive enough and fail to detect some fires, Kong said, adding many of the sensing technologies for early detection of wildfires are still being developed and tested.

A layered approach

Reliably detecting wildfires early will probably require a combination of different technologies working together, experts say.

“The odds of a single technology coming along and solving the entire problem are not zero, but they’re not great - at least not in the near future,” said Cristina Davis, a professor at UC Davis.

Satellites, for example, can scan vast swaths of terrain and quickly produce images that can be monitored by AI to identify potential blazes. That has enabled fires to be detected “within the first 10, 20, 30 minutes of ignition,” Pavolonis said.

But satellites can have limits to their coverage and might not be able to identify very small fires, Mohapatra said. Cameras, which are often installed in towers, can more closely monitor conditions on the ground, but setting up these networks is typically an “immense initial cost,” she added.

And sensors, though often cheaper, can be hard to place in certain types of terrain, such as rocky areas at high altitudes, which typically aren’t easily accessible. Other locations might be inaccessible because they are on protected lands, Mohapatra said.

So, ideally, she said, there should be “multiple layers of monitoring that are fail-safe.” For example, after sensors detect a fire in its early stages, uncrewed aerial vehicles with cameras could be deployed to monitor the fire while satellites are repositioned to identify other hot spots and predict where the fire could spread.

California officials urged to help

migrants flown to Sacramento secure visas for crime victims

More than four dozen immigrant rights groups sent a letter Wednesday to California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, urging him to help 36 migrants who were flown to Sacramento by Florida contractors secure visas to remain in the U.S.

The news comes as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he had sent a busload of migrants to Los Angeles, saying in a news release that “border towns remain overwhelmed.”

The 42 migrants, including eight children, arrived at Union Station on Wednesday afternoon. Texas and Arizona leaders have bused thousands of migrants to Democratic strongholds since last year.

Bonta demanded records Wednesday from Florida authorities that could shed light on the decisions that led to the transport of those migrants, which he has called a manipulative political stunt. The attorney general’s office is conducting an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the transport and evaluating potential criminal or civil action if those orchestrating the trip are found to have misled migrants or violated laws against kidnapping.

“We need to understand the circumstances that led to the implementation of this operation – which was apparently paid for by Florida taxpayer dollars – and the decisions and directives that led to this questionable act,” Bonta said in a statement. “The information gathered will be crucial in determining whether the law has been violated and, if so, what subsequent steps are required to prevent such disregard for human rights from recurring.”

On June 2 and 5, two groups of migrants from Venezuela and Colombia were driven from El Paso, Texas, to New Mexico and then flown to Sacramento. Those arriv-

ing June 2 were left at the door of the Catholic Diocese with documents from Florida’s “Voluntary Migrant Transport Program.” Florida officials pushed back on the allegation that migrants were misled or transported against their will.

Vertol Systems Co, the contractor that facilitated the transport, also coordinated similar flights for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that took dozens of Venezuelan migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., last year.

The migrants flown to Sacramento told officials they were promised someone would help them find work. At the Catholic Diocese, two men said they would return but drove off, leaving the migrants behind, Bonta said.

Migrants who were recruited for the trip but didn’t go told The Times that the contractors were aggressively insistent. One woman said the contractor told her she would have her immigration court date changed if she agreed to go to L.A.

Bonta sent two public records requests to DeSantis’ office seeking communications, instructions and records between

Florida officials and private entities involved in the transports, including bids submitted in response to a request for proposal published May 8 by Florida’s Division of Emergency Management for a migrant transportation program.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom sparred with Fox News Host Sean Hannity on Monday night, telling him: “I sat down with these migrants. I talked to every single one of them. They were lied to. They were misled.”

The California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, which has provided legal support to the migrants flown to Sacramento, was among the lead signatories asking Bonta to provide migrants who have cooperated with his investigation a certification that would make them eligible to apply for a U visa.

The status was designated by Congress to e ncourage immigrant victims to report serious crimes and cooperate with law enforcement. Applicants face a yearslong backlog, but certain applicants can receive deportation protection and work permits while they wait.

Kidnapping and human

trafficking are among the qualifying crimes for a U visa. Bonta’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the letter. “These individuals are not only just a problem that was foisted upon us, but they are victims of misconduct,” said Marcus Tang, citizenship and immigration project director at CRLAF. “They are at the center of this massive political debate and it’s not fair to them that this happened. They deserve dignity and protection.”

Tang said it’s not guaranteed that every one of the affected migrants would apply for a U visa or receive one. Some might also qualify for asylum, he said, and limited legal resources make it difficult to pursue multiple options. But obtaining a certification at least offers them the option, he said –and gives state leaders a chance to provide humanitarian support. Bonta wouldn’t be the first to offer such a benefit.

After 49 migrants were flown to Martha’s Vineyard last September, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office in Texas signed U visa certifications for all of them.

Trinity County will pay $7 million to settle

brought by couple stabbed assisting Sheriff

Los A ngeLes Times

“Help me,” the caller repeatedly whispered to the 911 dispatcher before hanging up.

Sheriff’s Cpl. Ronald Whitman knew the call came from a woman who lived near an airstrip in the rural California town of Kettenpom, about two hours away from the nearest Trinity County sheriff’s station. But instead of sending a deputy to her home, Whitman called the woman’s neighbors.

Norma and James Gund lived on a small horse ranch about a quarter mile away. Whitman asked the couple if they could check on their neighbor, Kristine Constantino, who they had seen only a handful of times.

Whitman didn’t tell the couple that Constantino asked for help and would not pick up the phone when a dispatcher tried to call her back, according to court records. He gave Norma Gund his cellphone number and asked her to call him after they checked on Constantino.

“‘There’s a big storm coming. That’s probably what this is all about. It’s probably no big deal,’” Norma Gund recalled Whitman telling her over the phone, according to an interview with FOX 11 News.

James Gund waited in the truck while Norma went inside their neighbor’s house, according to court records. Inside, she found Constantino, 32, and her boyfriend, Christopher “Sky” Richardson,

26, bound on the floor and bloodied. Their assailant then attacked Norma Gund, slicing her throat, hitting an artery and her windpipe, according to court records. He continued to cut and shock her with a stun gun.

James Gund heard his wife’s screams, ran inside the house and confronted her assailant. He told his wife to run, and she jumped into their truck and drove off to get help, according to court records. During a struggle, the attacker also cut James Gund’s throat, but Gund was able to wrestle the knife away and escape. As he was leaving, he saw the man drive away.

The assailant, later identified as Tomas Pitagoras Gouverneur, 32, died in a car crash on Highway

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hurt as badly, according to court records.

“We will be living with this for the rest of our lives, but knowing we were finally vindicated helps,” Norma Gund said in a statement through her attorney. She said “almost every day something reminds me of the attack. But I will survive. It’s going to take baby steps.”

101 in Medocino County while trying to flee from police on the day of the attack, March 13, 2011, authorities said. Sheriff’s officials said Gouverneur was responsible for killing Constantino and Richardson and for the attacks of the Gunds.

Last month, Trinity County agreed to pay $7 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the Gunds, who alleged that they were misled by Whitman and the Sheriff’s Department about the danger they might be facing when asked to check on their neighbor.

Norma Gund, who was 49 at the time, spent several days in a Sacramento hospital for her injuries, but she and her husband survived their wounds. James Gund was also treated at the hospital, but he was not

The Gunds sued Trinity County for negligence in state court. They filed a second lawsuit in federal court, claiming their constitutional rights were violated under the statecreated danger doctrine, which is when a state actor, such as a law enforcement officer, creates a dangerous situation that results in injury.

Sheriff’s office officials and Trinity County administrative staff did not respond to requests for comment.

Benjamin Mainzer, the Gunds’ attorney, said that Trinity County has not implemented any policy changes since the couple were attacked. It’s unclear if Whitman still works for the Sheriff’s Department.

The Gunds’ case made it all the way to the California Supreme Court, which ruled that the Gund’s state courts claims were limited to workers compensation benefits and while they did not rule in their favor, they were allowed to pursue their federal suit. After 12 years of legal battles, the county finally agreed to settle the couple’s lawsuit on May 15.

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Migrants who have been processed by U.S Border Patrol and have been released from their center, are given assistance from the Regional Center for Border Health to relocate to areas outside of Yuma, on May 12, 2023, in Somerton, Arizona.

How sensors could help catch wildfires before they spread

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An aerial view shows the remoteness of Jim and Norma Gund’s home in Kettenpom, where the couple suffered major injuries after responding to a Trinity County sheriff’s office request for a welfare check on a neighbor and were attacked by an assailant.

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State politicians deciding state budget without knowing tax returns

Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders are flying blind as they attempt to fashion a new state budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. They know the state faces a multi-billiondollar deficit that the budget will attempt to close – at least on paper – but they really don’t know how big it could be because they don’t really know how much revenue the state’s tax system will generate.

Not only have revenues stagnated over the last year, thanks to gyrations in the stock market and the larger economy, but the unprecedented sixmonth delay in the deadline for filing federal and state income tax returns creates even more uncertainty about how much money politicians have to spend.

Newsom picked a number – a guess, really – and declared in May that the state has a $31.5 billion deficit to close. The Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek, then declared that revenues would fall short of Newsom’s assumption and raised the projected deficit by several billion dollars.

This week, legislative leaders published their joint version of the budget, planning to pass it on Thursday to meet the constitutional deadline. It uses Newsom’s more optimistic revenue projection, rather than Petek’s, and would boost spending from $306.5 billion in Newsom’s budget to $311.7 billion.

After this week’s pro forma budget action – essentially a drill to protect legislators’ pay from being docked if the June 15 deadline was ignored – Newsom and legislative leaders will finalize a revised version.

However, whatever they adopt as a “final” budget will not be truly final, given the vast uncertainty over revenues, and additional revisions could continue for months.

There are some genuine differences to be resolved, along with the macro issue of potentially chronic deficits in the remainder of Newsom’s second and last term as governor.

One of the highest profile conflicts is whether the state will give local transit systems the billions of dollars they say they need to avoid a “fiscal cliff” that would compel cutbacks in service or fare increases. Newsom’s budget provides virtually nothing new for transit systems, while the legislative budget would give them $5.1 billion over the next few years – a major factor in the Legislature’s markedly higher overall spending.

Another biggie is the demand of local governments for billions of dollars in ongoing aid to support homelessness programs –something that neither Newsom nor the Legislature is willing, so far, to provide. Newsom has been critical of what he calls lackluster efforts by local officials while they say they need dependable streams of revenue to be more effective.

Underscoring this year’s wrangling over budget details is the prospect of chronic fiscal problems in future years.

In a recent report on the state’s fiscal issues, Petek projected that continuing the spending in Newsom’s 2023-24 budget to the following year would cost $30 billion more for the two-year period. Moreover, Petek projected annual deficits averaging $18 billion over the next three years.

“This means that, if the Legislature adopts the governor’s May revision proposals, the state very likely will face more budget problems over the next few years,” Petek warned.

Since the Legislature want to spend billions more than Newsom seeks, its version would increase projected shortfalls even more.

Finally, all of the deficit-ridden budget scenarios floating around the Capitol assume that the state does not experience a recession, which some economists believe is still possible as the Federal Reserve System raises interest rates to battle inflation.

Even a moderate recession would decrease revenues by tens of billions of dollars and quickly exhaust the state’s “rainy day” reserves.

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.

Sizing up Ukraine’s response hard in fog of war

Daniel DePetris CHICAGO TRIBUNE

After months of speculation about when Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive will begin, we now have an answer: right now. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, many of them trained at military bases in Europe and outfitted with heavy Western armor, are now launching simultaneous operations at several points along the 600-milelong front line in the country’s east and south. “Counteroffensive and defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed during a news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last weekend. “At what stage, I will not say in detail.”

How well those operations are going is difficult to say in the fog of war, when conflicting information causes one to doom-spiral for accuracy. Success, or the lack thereof, depends on whom you ask. The Ukrainians have claimed successes in four small villages in the Donetsk region; whereas, the Russians are triumphantly touting their stiff resistance and publishing photos of destroyed German tanks. The United Kingdom’s Defense Ministry, which publishes daily assessments of the fighting, wrote on Saturday that Ukrainian performance has been uneven depending on which area of the front is being examined. The only thing that is certain in these early days is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley’s observation last week: “This will be a back-and-forth fight for a considerable length of time.”

Everything else is a mystery. This includes what “success” actually looks like. Even on this fundamental question, the answer depends on who is being asked. For the Ukrainians, success is straightforward: complete, total military victory over the aggressors. This translates into every Russian boot off every square inch of Ukrainian land, including areas of the country like Crimea that Russian forces have controlled for nearly a decade. Zelenskyy has been unequivocal on this

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point. Whereas Kyiv may have been willing to discuss Russia’s territorial claims, however unjustified they were, at the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian government’s position has hardened considerably as the fighting has gone on. Look no further than Zelenskyy’s 10-point peace proposal, which equates to a list of surrender terms for Moscow.

Ukraine’s partners in the West, however, likely have a different definition of what success entails. Kyiv may be aiming for the sky, but countries that have been backfilling Ukraine’s war effort with tens of billi ons of dollars in defensive equipment view those aims as pie-in-the-sky ambitions that are nice to think about but difficult to realize practically. While President Joe Biden remains publicly effusive to the Ukrainians and deferential to Kyiv’s wants and desires, U.S. officials are nevertheless highly skeptical the Ukrainians can reclaim all of their land and deal Russia an unequivocal military defeat. This has less to do with the Ukrainian army’s talent and capability — the Ukrainians have defied the expectations of pretty much every military analyst on the planet — and more about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s willingness to keep pouring men and resources into the war.

For Ukraine, victory on the battlefield is the only acceptable outcome; for Putin, defeat is not an option. The result of this equation is a long war that could drag on for years.

Which leads to yet another question: Are the U.S. and its NATO allies prepared to maintain the present rate of military assistance to Kyiv for years on end? The U.S. alone has provided about $40 billion in military aid to Kyiv, or an average of $2.5 billion every month, since the first Russian missiles slammed into Ukrainian targets about 16 months ago. The pace of assistance has stretched the U.S. defense industrial complex and has reduced the U.S. military’s own stocks, so much so that the Pentagon has asked Congress to appropriate more than $30 billion to refill its munitions stockpile. It will take five years for the U.S. to replace

its arsenal of Javelin anti-tank missiles and 13 years to replace all the Stinger missiles sent to Ukraine.

Is the Biden administration, and any subsequent administration, able to keep this up for years and years? And if the answer is “yes,” then what other national defense priorities will Washington de-emphasize? To date, there is little evidence U.S. officials have pondered these questions, let alone debated them.

Speaking of queries, here’s another one: What if Ukraine’s counteroffensive does make significant headway and the Russians are forced to withdraw from some of the territory they now control?

How could this possibly be a bad thing? Well, because nobody can be absolutely certain how Putin would react. Actions have consequences foreseen and unforeseen. We may all like to think Putin would hear the news, finally conclude that his entire war effort was a self-inflicted wound of epic proportions and give the order to withdraw to save himself from further embarrassment.

But that’s the absolute best-case scenario, and policymakers can’t afford to base their plans on rosy assumptions. It’s more likely Putin would double down on his pursuit to maintain whatever land his forces control and, over time, attempt to reclaim the territory that was lost. Nothing in Putin’s disposition over the previous 16 months points to a man who will back down when confronted with the prospect of defeat. If anything, the opposite has occurred: Putin has mobilized hundreds of thousands of additional men and ordered the systematic bombardment of Ukraine’s power sources, and he was perhaps culpable in the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.

For those in the middle of it, the counteroffensive will be hell on earth. For those of us trying to make sense of it, clear-cut answers are in short supply.

How Dallas’ mayor turned the tide on crime

Karen Tumulty WASHINGTON POST

The tribulations that have swept America’s big cities over the past few years have been nearly biblical in scale: a pandemic, racial strife, rising homelessness, a surge in violent crime. Which is why municipal elections across the map – in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, among others – have been especially contentious and ideological. Dallas, however, stands as an exception. Last month, Democratic Mayor Eric Johnson, 47, cruised unopposed to a second term, marking the first time that had happened here since 1967. (The last mayor to be reelected without an opponent was a towering figure in city history whose name, by weird coincidence, was . . . Erik Jonsson.)

In a recent poll by the Garin Hart Yang Research Group, Johnson’s approval rating stood at a gravitydefying 77 percent, with 54 percent saying their city is headed in the right direction.

Johnson’s is a remarkable personal story: a precocious kid from a rough West Dallas neighborhood whose drive and intelligence so impressed his firstgrade teacher that she helped wangle a scholarship for him at an elite private school, where he thrived. He went on to earn three Ivy League degrees.

Returning home, he served nearly a decade in the state House of Representatives as a progressive Democrat, known for championing civil rights. He led a successful campaign to remove an offensive and historically inaccurate plaque asserting that the Civil War was “not a rebellion, nor was its underlying cause to sustain slavery” from the wall near his office in the state Capitol.

Johnson was expected to run for Congress at some point, but surprised pretty much everyone by making a late entry instead into a nine-candidate, nonpartisan mayoral race in 2019. With support from the city’s powerful business community – notably billionaire oilman and major Republican donor Ray Hunt, who was so dazzled by Johnson the first time they met that he decided on the spot to back him – he beat a veteran city council member in the runoff.

Yet in his early days as mayor, few would have predicted that Johnson would have a glide path to reelection. “His political skills were not as well-

honed as you might like,” says Southern Methodist University political scientist Cal Jillson. “His first two years were very rocky.” He clashed with members of the city council, and even took the highly unorthodox step of endorsing some of their opponents in the 2021 election. The city’s second Black mayor, he waged a campaign to fire the city’s first Black female police chief, U. Reneé Hall, who on her way out pronounced herself “offended” and “exhausted” by Johnson’s attacks. His battles with city manager T.C. Broadnax – whose office, under Dallas’s system of government, holds more day-to-day governing power than the mayor’s – were epic.

What explains Johnson’s success amid all this was one issue: his unbending stance on crime.

When Johnson took office, violent crime was rising in Dallas to levels not seen since the 1990s. “And then it got even worse once the pandemic hit,” Johnson told me. “I think it actually required a slightly different skill set than what is normally required. And that skill set really revolves mostly around a certain amount of conviction around some principles and being willing to hold the line on some things and withstand some direct hits politically.”

Those political hits came during the racial reckoning that followed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020. As in other cities, there were calls in Dallas to “defund the police,” and the city council was considering trimming the budget by cutting police overtime by $7 million.

Johnson not only opposed the idea but made a counterproposal to boost the number of officers on the street – and to pay for it by reducing what he called the “bloated salaries” of the highest-paid city officials instead. “#DefundtheBureaucracy,” he tweeted. Black Lives Matter protesters marched on his house multiple times. And the city council resoundingly voted down his salarycut proposal.

Still, Johnson believes he made his point. “The defund the police movement, despite what people in some cases now want to pretend like was happening at the time, there are people now who want to pretend like that wasn’t actually a real thing. It was a very real thing,” he told me. “And if we’re just being honest about it, my fellow mayors, a lot of them across the country

bowed to that political pressure and decided to make across-the-board cuts to their police departments.”

Johnson also demanded a more aggressive strategy for combating violent crime – which was delivered by his new police chief, Eddie Garcia, who took over the department in early 2021. Parts of it involved tactics such as deploying “violence interrupters” to resolve street-level conflicts and guide those who need them to social services, and cleaning up blighted areas, such as trash-filled vacant lots and dilapidated buildings, where crime can breed.

The plan that Garcia developed, working with criminologists at the University of Texas at San Antonio, also refocused policing in Dallas on “hot spots.” They divided the city into 101,000 “microgrids” – areas roughly the size of two football fields sideby-side – and discovered that crime was heavily concentrated in relatively few – an apartment complex here or a nightclub parking lot there. Just 50 of these hot spots accounted for almost 10 percent of violent street crime in Dallas.

These high-risk areas were where the department sent police cars to sit with their emergency lights on or where 10-officer crime-response teams were dispatched.

This approach can be polarizing, given that hot spots tend to be in communities of color. But statistics suggest it is working. Of the nation’s largest cities, Dallas appears to be the only one to buck the trend of rising crime; in each of the past two years, statistics for murders, rapes and aggravated assaults have gone down.

Skeptics will note that crime numbers are volatile, and that different jurisdictions collect them differently, making comparisons across cities imprecise. And in the early months of this year, the tally in one category – homicides – has ticked up again in Dallas.

But Johnson, who obsesses about data, says he is confident that the trend is real, and that it is holding. “I’m either the luckiest mayor in the United States,” he said, “or this stuff actually works.”

Karen Tumulty is a deputy opinion editor and columnist covering national politics. She joined The Washington Post in 2010 from Time magazine and has also worked at the Los Angeles Times.

Daniel DePetris is a fellow at Defense Priorities and a foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune.

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Dear Annie: I’ve been friends with “Jessie” for several years, but lately, I’ve been feeling like the friendship is one-sided. I’m always the one reaching out, making plans and putting in the effort. Jessie has been responding to my texts with one-word answers, if at all.

I value our friendship a lot, but I’m starting to question whether she feels the same way. How can I address this issue without seeming needy? Should I confront her or let it go and just hope it changes back to what it was like before? Any guidance would be appreciated. – Friendship on Uneven Ground

Dear Uneven Ground: Friendships are not transactional. There are naturally times when one friend gives more than the other. Perhaps Jessie is going through a difficult season of life and simply doesn’t have the capacity to initiate contact.

Reach out to her; tell her that she has felt distant recently and that you miss her; and gently ask how

she is doing. If she brushes you off, and if the blatant imbalance in your relationship continues, then perhaps your friendship has run its course. Not everyone who comes into your life is meant to stay forever; that doesn’t mean you can’t treasure your friendship for what it was.

Dear Annie: My sister passed away last week at the young age of 63. She was cremated and had served in the military. We had a small military service for her, and at her service, there were a few bunches of flowers sent to the funeral home, only three to be exact. Two were sent to the funeral home from my nephew’s company that he works for, and one was sent from an aunt and uncle. After the services, my aunt and uncle asked if they could have their flowers back!

I was appalled and caught off guard. My question is, was it OK for them to ask for their flowers back?! I always thought when you sent flowers to a funeral home, it was supposed to be a gift to the family. I’m

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ARIES (March 21-April 19).

An exchange of practical knowledge happens that you’ll build on later. Take notes, stick to the business and try not to get distracted by emotional content, which will come and go like weather. Focus on using resources well and you’ll succeed.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You have a soft spot for someone, and it will remain so unless it gets leaned on too much, in which case it’s only natural to develop layers of protection. Employ distancing and other tactics to prevent yourself from getting calloused.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

The universe will flow blessings to you, though it might need a reminder to open that tap. The nudge to give is a grateful heart. Acknowledge what’s good around you.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Perfectionism is dangerous – it misses deadlines and thwarts progress. Make your work excellent, then toss it to the world for feedback. Accept the first version as a starting point.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’re a real boss when it comes to taking control and owning your decisions. But you also know it’s just not practical or fun to have that level of discipline all the time. Let loose and enjoy tonight.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

With all things social, you have the magic touch. People feel good around you and you’ve a talent for entertaining and helping others. More highlights: You’ll be awarded and asked to give a speech. You’ll have the willpower and perseverance to carry through on a long-term challenge. You’ll be in charge of large sums.

Sagittarius and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 4, 10, 15 and 27.

Avoid overthinking. Make a plan and move through it quickly, leaving no room for doubt. Simplicity and momentum go hand in hand. Tune out the noise. This is a signal-only kind of day.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

You fantasize about lifestyle and aesthetic upgrades. Put work into it now and you’ll soon be on your way. This is all doable. Friends and family will be there to lend ideas and support, but you have to ask.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Your water sign energy can take many forms. You can be warm and relaxing, or steamy in a cinematic way. You can boil, flow or freeze. Don’t let

just lost for words. How should I address this? Or should I just let it go? I have never asked for flowers back from any funeral I have sent flowers to. – Sincerely Appalled Dear Appalled: You’re not alone; I, too, am surprised by your aunt and uncle’s request. Sending flowers to loved ones who are grieving is a standard way to express sympathy and offer comfort after experiencing a loss. To ask for them back following the service seems insincere and, frankly, tacky. While I can’t imagine a particularly good reason for them to ask this of you, I’d advise that the path of least resistance is your best way forward. I hope you took one of the other two flower arrangements home with you, as a token of your sister’s service instead. If she were still with us, I think she’d probably agree it’s not worth fighting over either.

I am so sorry for your loss. Wishing you nothing but peace as you heal during this most difficult time.

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your form be dictated by external weather. Choose your own temperature.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Discussions are not stories, monologues or instructions. The volley of conversation is a test of curiosity and intelligence. Pay attention to who passes this test. Pseudo-conversationalists think that the opposite of talking is waiting.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Each time you make a decision that works out, it enforces your trust in yourself. But things don’t have to go your way to build your confidence, as long as you feel good about how you handle them.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). There’s a kind of safety in fear, but it’s not very fun to enact since fear leads to cowering and hiding. For a more adventurous experience, seek the safety found in preparation and a good defense.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There are those who go through hard times and those who define themselves through suffering. Either way, you’re happy to help where you can. And when you can’t, put space between you to avoid being dragged down by a litany of grievances.

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today’s deal, which was drawn to my attention by Steve Conrad of Manhasset, Long Island.

The deal occurred during the 2021 trial to select the United States open teams for the world championships. At the other table, North-South stopped in three spades and made it exactly. There was more at stake when Kevin Bathurst (North) and John Hurd (South) were almost pushed into game by West’s two-club opening, which showed six or more clubs and 10-15 high-card points. West led the diamond ace and shifted to the heart 10. Hurd won with his ace and played his club. When West did not split his honors, dummy’s 10 forced out East’s ace (not that that mattered, as you will soon see).

A COUP EN PASSANT GAVE THE 12TH TRICK

Charles Jencks said, “Modern architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt-Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.”

Did you know that? I didn’t.

However, I do know about the coup in

After East shifted to a trump, declarer won with his ace and crossruffed the minors for four tricks. Then came the spade king, a heart to the king and the heart queen (on which declarer discarded the diamond 10). With two cards remaining, South led dummy’s club king. If East had ruffed high, Hurd would have thrown his last diamond. When East ruffed low, Hurd overruffed for his 10th trick. It was a textbook coup en passant. The 7 IMPs gained were in a losing cause, but it was double elimination. Tune in tomorrow.

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A COUP EN PASSANT GAVE THE 12TH TRICK Charles Jencks said, “Modern architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt-Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.”

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Three 6 Mafia rapper Gangsta Boo’s cause of death revealed

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Gangsta Boo, the Memphis-area rapper best known as a member of Three 6 Mafia, died earlier this year from an accidental overdose, her autopsy confirmed.

The beloved hip hop artist, whose real name was Lola Mitchell, consumed a lethal cocktail of fentanyl, cocaine, and alcohol prior to her death, Fox 13 reported. She was found unresponsive at a home in Memphis on New Year’s Day around 2:00 p.m. and pronounced dead on the scene. She was 43.

Musicians and fans alike flocked to social media in wake of her shocking death, all of them remembering her as a pioneer for women rappers.

“I normally don’t post screenshots but the fact that she reached out to me before anybody else had a clue who I was… she always supported me & the girls way back before we blew up,” fellow Memphis rapper Glorilla wrote. “A REAL LEGEND there will never be another Gangsta Boo.”

Kicking off her career in the late ‘90s, Gangsta Boo was one of few female rap artists in the game. She quickly became popular and shot to fame after connecting with Lord Infamous, Crunchy Black and Koopsta Knicca to form “Three 6 Mafia.” She was featured on the first six of the group’s studio albums – including their 1995 debut “Mystic Stylez,” – before leaving in the early 2000s.

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“I am glad they have it back,” she said.

“We are here to look at the sights and get great food,” she said, hoping to get her hands on at least a hamburger or hot dog. A turkey leg was also on her list.

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3:42 p.m. — Vandalism, 1400 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

4:06 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

5:05 p.m. — Battery, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD

5:21 p.m. — Vandalism, 2000 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

6:50 p.m. — Drunken driving, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

7:51 p.m.—Trespassing, 400

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7:57 p.m. — Trespassing, 1900

block of WEST TEXAS STREET

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8:44 p.m. — Robbery, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

8:05 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 500 block of TABOR AVENUE

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2:28 a.m. — Trespassing, 700 block of OREGON STREET

3:24 a.m. — Trespassing, 1200 block of BROADWAY STREET

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substantial arrangements to waive sanctions that prohibited Iraq from paying about $2.7 billion owed to Tehran for natural-gas shipments. A similar waiver is expected for South Korea, which owes Iran $7 billion for oil purchases. In return, at least three U.S. prisoners will be freed.

The detainees’ release will happen within the following days or weeks, according to the officials. Iran’s top diplomat has been suggesting since March that the two countries were on the cusp of a prisoner exchange.

Asked about the diplomacy on Wednesday, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller declined to discuss the status of Americans being held by Iran and denied any nuclear deal was in the works.

‘Rumors about a nuclear deal, interim or otherwise, are false and misleading,” Miller said. “Our position on the question has not changed. We believe our number one policy is ensuring that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon. So of course, we’ve been

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11:30 a.m. — Residential burglary, 1500 block of RAYBURN

A short distance away, the Hassan family was admiring the art created by Nadim and his sister Sumaya.

Both are home schooled.

Nadim, a secondgrader, did a pencil sketch of a hummingbird.

It was originally intended as a birthday gift for his mother. He entered it in the fair, earning a first place.

When the fair is over, his mother gets her belated birthday gift.

Sumaya, a sixthgrader, did a picture of a butterfly. It was inspired by a visit the California Academy of Sciences, where some butterflies were emerging.

In the livestock area, Mary Schiada, of Benica, snapped a picture of Madeline Wilson’s goat, Royal Ruby, being milked. “It was the first

I’ve seen a goat being milked,” she said. Goats are her favorite farm animal, she said.

They are special to Madeline, too. Royal Ruby is now 2. Madeline has has raised the animal since she was 8-weeks-old, bottle feeding it twice a day until it reached 4 months.

At one point, the Wilson family had 57 animal babies on their Dixon property. That number is now about 32, all younger than a year.

“She’s got a good personality,” Madeline said of Royal Ruby.

A member of the Vaca Valley Grange, Madeline also raises sheep, chickens and rabbits, to name a few.

A short distance away, all ages enjoyed the Barnyard Races featuring goats, sheep and pigs. Audience participation was key as each section of seating had a cheerleader to encourage the animal wearing the same color scarf as the cheerleader’s pom pom. This year’s theme is “Celebrate Solano.” The fair runs through Sunday. Pride will be cele-

brated Saturday as the fair has partnered with Out at the Fair, a group that celebrates diversity and inclusiveness in a fun and festive atmosphere.

Attendees are welcome to don their Pride wear. A group photo is planned at 5 p.m. in front of McCormack Hall.

A Juneteenth flag and Pride flag are being flown. Hours are noon to 10 p.m. through Sunday. Find more information at https://www. scfair.com/2023-solanocounty-fair.

to handle the long-sentence inmates the state has already forced them to accept as part of realignment, adding AB 701 would only add to that pressure.

The bill passed the Assembly and is being considered by the Senate.

Assembly Bill 33 would create the task force, which would “collect data on fentanyl abuse

in California, evaluate approaches to increase public awareness, and be co-chaired by the attorney general and surgeon general, or their designees,” the staff report to the board states.

Assembly Bill 474 “would declare the State Threat Assessment Center serve as California’s information-sharing clearinghouse of strategic threat analysis, as designated by the governor, and make findings and declarations related to drug trafficking, includ-

ing cooperation with state and local officials to illuminate, disrupt, degrade and dismantle criminal networks that traffic opioid drugs that pose a threat to California, including Fentanyl,” the staff report states.

Both bills have passed the Assembly and are being considered by the Senate. The supervisors voted to support the legislation.

The board also supported legislation that will allow the county to increase the administra-

tion fees to recover costs incurred by the Sealer of Weights and Measures, though the increase will not cover all costs.

The supervisors also changed its opposition to a bill that would have eliminated time limits for the commencement of actions for the recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual assault. New language eliminates revival of prior claims and applies only to “incidents after January 2024.” The county’s position is now neutral.

watching Iran’s enrichment activities.”

Miller defended the sanctions waiver allowing Iraq to pay Iran for electricity imports, saying such exceptions had been granted since 2018 and that the money goes to restricted accounts where it can only be used to pay for humanitarian or other non-sanctioned transactions.

“These are approved in every case on a case-bycase basis by the United States, only for humanitarian purposes,” Miller said.

The South Korea funds would face similar restrictions, and the transfer would take place in Switzerland, according to another person familiar with the discussions who asked not to be identified discussing private conversations. The money would be held in Qatari banks, they said.

Even that exchange will open the Biden administration up to criticism from skeptics of Iran, who point to its recent crackdown on human-rights protests, plots to assassinate former U.S. government officials, accusations that it continues to flaunt U.S. sanctions, and what the Biden administration calls deepening support for Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.

unidentified lawyer for Trump is Evan Corcoran, who is certain to be on the government’s witness list for trial because of his role in gathering classified documents at Mar-a-Lago for a federal grand jury subpoena issued in May 2022, legal experts said. The reason: Corcoran was already ordered by a federal judge to testify in March before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., after the judge found that special counsel Jack Smith had presented sufficient evidence to establish that Trump committed a crime through his attorneys, an exception to the privileged communications between them, according to published reports.

“He’s an extremely important witness because his representations to the government were predicated on what he was told by his client, Donald Trump,” said Miami criminal defense attorney Dennis Kainen, who is a past president of the Miami-Dade Bar Association and former member of the Florida Bar Board of Governors.

“To the extent that the government has to prove criminal intent by Donald Trump, it is a good way to do that through the direct words of a defendant as told to his lawyer.

“It’s going to be hard for Donald Trump to walk that back. It is direct knowledge of what Trump said and knew about the classified documents.”

Corcoran, a former federal prosecutor turned defense attorney in the Washington, D.C., area, was representing the former president when the Justice Department and FBI demanded that Trump turn over classified documents that he had moved from the

White House to Mara-Lago. Corcoran, who testified before the grand jury in March, is identified as “Attorney 1” in the indictment charging Trump with willfully retaining national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act, conspiring to obstruct justice and making a false statement in connection with the government’s subpoena for records.

There is likely to be an intense battle over Corcoran’s testifying as a witness for the government in the Trump documents case, which is being tried in South Florida because the 37-count indictment returned against him was ultimately voted on by a federal grand jury in Miami.

Typically, lawyers cannot be compelled to testify or produce evidence against a client in a grand jury or at trial. But in rare cases, judges can require such testimony if there is evidence that a client’s communication with their lawyers was done purposely to further a crime or a fraud. In the law, it is known as the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege. While the privilege belongs to Trump, in this instance, if the former president was using his lawyer, Corcoran, to withhold classified documents from the U.S. government,

then Corcoran would no longer be bound from testifying about that part of his privileged communications with Trump.

“The defense is going to move to exclude his testimony based on attorney-client privilege,” said Kainen, who represents white-collar defendants.

“A judge has already ruled on that issue as it relates to Corcoran testifying before the grand jury. The government (prosecutors) relied on this witness’ testimony for the grand jury and indictment. But the government now needs to call this witness for trial and the defense will certainly file a motion in limine (an early request that his testimony be excluded) as a violation of attorney-client privilege.”

In the obstruction conspiracy count, Trump is accused of misleading Attorney 1 – Corcoran – who represented the former president as the lawyer tried to compile classified documents at Mar-a-Lago for the subpoena a year ago. At Trump’s direction, Nauta assisted the former president in this task by moving 64 boxes including some classified documents from a storage room to Trump’s residence and then brought back only 30 of those boxes to the storage room, according to the indict-

ment. On June 2, 2022, Attorney 1 checked the boxes in the storage room and found 38 classified records and set those aside in a folder to turn over to federal investigators.

After Attorney 1 finished sealing the folder with the documents, Nauta took the lawyer to meet with Trump in the dining room at Mar-aLago, the indictment said. After the lawyer confirmed his search of the boxes in the storage area, Trump said to him: “Did you find anything? ... Is it bad? Good?”

Trump and Attorney 1 discussed what to do with the folder and whether the lawyer should bring them to his hotel and put them in a safe, the indictment said.

“During that conversation, Trump made a plucking motion, as memorialized by Trump Attorney 1,” the indictment said. “He made a funny motion as though –well okay why don’t you take them with you to your hotel and if there’s anything really bad in there, like, you know, pluck it out,” Attorney 1 memorialized the conversation, as noted in the indictment. “And that was the motion that he made. He didn’t say that.”

Nevada governor OKs A’s path to Vegas

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo has signed a bill granting $380 million to the Oakland A’s to help build the team’s planned ballpark in Las Vegas.

Lombardo, a Republican, signed the bill a day after both houses of the Nevada Legislature approved its language with a slew of community benefits and financial commitments promised by the A’s in order to

secure the votes.

“This is an incredible opportunity to bring the A’s to Nevada, and this legislation reflects months of negotiations between the team, the state, the county, and the league,” Lombardo said in a statement. “Las Vegas’ position as a global sports desti-

nation is only growing, and Major League Baseball is another tremendous asset for the city.”

The bill’s passage clears the way for Oakland’s last major professional sports franchise to leave town and marks a significant milestone in the team’s decades-long search for a new stadium.

“We are excited about Southern Nevada’s dynamic and vibrant sports scene, and we look forward to becoming a valued community member

through jobs, economic development, and the quality of life and civic pride of a Major League Baseball team,” the A’s said in a statement, which did not mention Oakland.

The $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark would be the smallest in Major League Baseball and is expected to be constructed over the next half-decade.

The A’s lease at the Oakland Coliseum – where it owns half the property rights – runs through 2024, and team officials

Solano women’s basketball trio of standouts to play at next level

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ROCKVILLE —

Three members of Matt Borchert’s Solano Community College women’s basketball team signed national letters-of-intent with four-year colleges Wednesday, featuring destinations from nearby Angwin to Midway, Kentucky, and all the way to Quincy, Massachusetts.

Forward Dominique

Eaglin is taking her game to Pacific Union College in Angwin, guard Jaslyn Woods will go to Kentucky to play at Midway University and forward Theresa McCarver will head to

Massachusetts and join the squad at Eastern Nazarene College.

“Matt has done a great job with this program, helping athletes move on to the next chapter in their lives,” Solano athletic director Erik Visser said. “They will look back one day and be grateful for the chance they had at Solano and will say it was all worth it.”

Eaglin could make an immediate impact for the Pioneers after averaging 8.8 points per game and 6.0 rebounds. Pacific Union women’s basketball coach Jordan Greenwell was at the signing, along with members of his staff.

“The adult that she has become in phenomenal,” Borchert said, choking back tears. “She’s a great player, rebounder and an enforcer.”

Eaglin showed extra perseverance after having been a Vanden High School graduate in 2020 and having to wade through the Covid-19 pandemic before closing out her Solano career in the spring of 2023.

Eaglin said the offer from Pacific Union College was a good fit because she can compute to Angwin, study Sociology as planned and play basketball “I haven’t always felt

this confident,” she said. “I feel like I can now go out and dominate.”

Woods was not only a first-team All-Bay Valley Conference selection, she earned the team award as Player of the Year. Woods averaged 9.2 points per game, 5.8 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.75 steals. She will be playing for former Vacaville High School girls basketball coach and Vacaville Christian boys basketball coach Chris Minner, who is now at Midway.

“They are very excited to have a player of Jaslyn’s caliber,” Borchert said.

Nick Bosa compares his new 49ers teammate Javon Hargrave to elite

SANTA CLARA —

Nick Bosa jumped early.

He couldn’t contain his excitement. With the 49ers still a month away from training camp, Bosa and the team have already started making bold statements about how good the defensive line should be this season.

Before minicamp ended last week, Bosa compared newly signed defensive tackle Javon Hargrave to two of the game’s best in Aaron Donald and Chris Jones.

“People don’t really know how good he is overall,” Bosa said of Hargrave. “He’s not talked about – he might be, I don’t know – but I feel he isn’t quite talked about

in the Aaron Donald, top echelon, Chris Jones (tier of player). But I feel he played like that last year and throughout his career. So having him and Arik [Armstead] inside should be pretty fun.”

Hargrave, a former

Philadelphia Eagle who signed a four-year, $81million contract to join the 49ers this season, has been consistently improving during his time in the NFL.

Last season he had a career-high in most

categories, totaling 37 tackles – 10 for a loss –while collecting 11 sacks and 16 quarterback hits as part of a brute Eagles defensive line that finished with 70 sacks, 15 more than any other team.

Bosa’s comparison wasn’t far off: Hargrave’s numbers last year were close to those put up by Donald during his last full season in 2021, when he had 12.5 sacks, 38 tackles, 19 tackles for a loss and 25 quarterback hits.

Hargrave smiled when told about the comparison.

“That’s big, who he is and for him to think like that,” said the 30-year-old defensive tackle. “That’s what we strive for in this league, to put that work in, try to be the best we can be,”

have looked into a small minorleague ballpark elsewhere in Nevada while the Vegas ballpark is being built.

With a commitment by Nevada to a large sum of public money, the A’s have made it past perhaps its most difficult obstacle to relocation.

Three-quarters of the other Major League Baseball franchise owners must approve the move, and the newly passed legislation must also withstand any legal challenges by Nevada residents.

Record rounds of 62 help kick start US Open in Los Angeles

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LOS ANGELES — Sunshine and celebrities accompany L.A sports spectacles. Attending the Rose Bowl under blue skies, watching the Dodgers in shirt sleeves on a summer evening, rooting for the Lakers along with actors and entertainers. Those images endure and recur.

The first day of the U.S. Open at the L.A. Country Club offered neither. It drizzled in the morning and remained overcast. Celebrities are famously unwelcome at LACC, and none were prominent Thursday even as paying customers.

Instead, the U.S. Open provided record golf. Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele both shot morning rounds of 62, tying the mark for low round in a major with Branden Grace of South Africa, who shot a 62 at the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.

In addition, Fowler and Schauffele broke the record for lowest round at a U.S. Open that had stood for 50 years – Johnny Miller’s 63 at Oakmont in

1973. LACC, like Royal Birkdale, is a par 70; Oakmont is a par 71.

Golfers were nearly unanimous in their praise and expectation of difficulty during practice rounds at the LACC North Course, but Fowler and Schauffele slayed it, holding a five-stroke lead over a cluster of golfers at three under as the afternoon groups teed off.

“The sun didn’t come out and it was misting this morning, so I’d say the greens held a little bit more moisture than anticipated for myself at least,” Schauffele said. “It made the greens sort of that much more of a hole-able speed, and then coming into greens you’re able to pull some wedges back.”

Schauffele’s group teed off 22 minutes after Fowler’s group, and both began with the back nine. “Got off to a nice start making three on No. 10 and just never really thought about a score or necessarily what I was trying to do out there,” Fowler said.

Fowler, from Murrieta, and Schauffele, from San Diego, have

District 53 TOCs begin for local Little Leaguers

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FAIRFIELD — The

District 53 Tournament of Championships begins

Friday and Saturday for area Little League teams in the major and minor divisions.

Tri-Valley (Giants) will host Suisun (Integrity Pest in the sponsor) Saturday in a major division matchup at 10 a.m. American Canyon will play at Benicia (Angels) at 1 p.m. Saturday. Team names are listed for those leagues that provided them.

Sonoma and Fairfield Atlantic (Diamondbacks) have first round byes. Both squads will begin competition at 5:30 p.m.

Monday. The championship game is slated for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, site to be determined.

There are three minor division openers

Friday night at 5:30 p.m. Tri-Valley (A’s) will be at Benicia (Brewers), American Canyon hosts Suisun (Cast Iron is the sponsor) and Fairfield Atlantic (Rockies) will play at Sonoma.

Yountville has the opening bye and will begin play Sunday at 1 p.m. The major championship game will be held Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.

District 53 All-Star

Tournaments also begins this weekend

The Intermediate 50/70 Division begins play Saturday at American Canyon. The 8-9-10 all-stars will begin June 24 at Sonoma. The 9-10-11 teams will begin June 24 at Napa Little League. The 10-11-12 all-stars will begin July 1 at American Canyon. Junior Division competition

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49ers defensive lineman Javon Hargrave takes part in a veteran mini-camp session in Santa Clara, June 7.

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Dominique Eaglin, from left, Jaslyn Woods and Theresa McCarver sign national letters-of-intent with four-year colleges as Solano Community College women’s head basketball coach Matt Borchert looks on Wednesday.

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Friday’s TV sports

Baseball College World Series

• Oral Roberts vs. TCU, ESPN, 11 a.m.

• Virginia vs. Florida, ESPN, 4 p.m.

MLB

• Philadelphia vs. Oakland, NBCSCA, 6:40 p.m.

• San Francisco vs. L.A. Dodgers, NBCSBA, 7:10 p.m.

Golf • U.S. Open, USA, 10 a.m.

• LPGA, Meijer Classic, GOLF, Noon.

• U.S. Open, 3, 5 p.m.

MMA

Professional Fighters League

• Deljia vs. Greene, ESPN, 7 p.m.

Motorsports

• F-1, Canada Grand Prix, Practice, ESPN2, 10:25 a.m. and 1:55 p.m.

Soccer

UEFA Euro • Malta vs. England, FS1, 11:45 a.m.

Saturday’s TV sports

Baseball College World Series

• Stanford vs. Wake Forest, ESPN, 11 a.m.

• Tennessee vs. LSU, ESPN, 4 p.m.

MLB

• Philadelphia vs. Oakland, NBCSCA, 1:07 p.m.

• L.A. Angels vs. Kansas City, FS1, 1:10 p.m.

• San Francisco vs. L.A. Dodgers, NBCSBA, 6:10 p.m.

• Cleveland vs. Arizona, FS1, 7:10 p.m.

Basketball WNBA

• Dallas vs. Seattle, 5, 13, 11 a.m.

Football

USFL

• New Jersey vs. Pittsburgh, USA, 10 a.m.

• Memphis vs. Birmingham, 2, 40, 1 p.m.

Golf

• U.S. Open, 3, 10 a.m.

• LPGA, Meijer Classic, GOLF, Noon.

Lacrosse

PLL

• Archers LC vs. Chaos LC, ESPN, 9 a.m.

Motorsports

• F-1, Canada Grand Prix, Practice, ESPN2, 9:25 a.m.

• F-1 Canada Grand Prix, Qualifying, ESPN2, 12:55 p.m.

• ARCA Menards Series, Berlin, FS1, 5 p.m.

Soccer

UEFA Euro

• Lithuania vs. Bulgaria, FS1, 6 a.m.

• Norway vs. Scotland, FS1, 9 a.m.

MLS

• New York FCvs. Columbus, 5, 13, 12:30 p.m.

UFC

• UFC Live, ESPN2, 9 a.m.

• UFC Live, ESPN2, 12:30 p.m.

• UFC Fight Night Prelims, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

• Fight Night, ESPN, 7 p.m.

Report: Kings have explored deal for Wizards star Bradley Beal

JaSon a ndeRSon THE SACRAMENTO BEE

SACRAMENTO —

Kings general manager Monte McNair will explore all possibilities in the NBA draft, trades and free agency in an effort to build on this season’s success.

One possibility could be a trade involving Bradley Beal.

The Kings are among the teams that have engaged the Washington Wizards in trade talks for Beal, sources told The Athletic’s Shams Charania and Sam Amick.

According to The Athletic, it is believed Beal would consider waiving his no-trade clause to come to Sacramento, but currently there does not appear to be a clear path to a deal.

Beal is a three-time All-Star who will turn 30 on June 28. The 6-foot4, 207-pound shooting guard has averaged 22.1 points, 4.1 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.1 steals over 11 seasons with the Wizards since coming out of Florida as the No. 3 pick in the 2012 NBA draft. He was an All-NBA Third Team selection in 2021.

Beal is entering the second year of a five-year, $251 million contract. He is owed $46.7 million

Vacaville coach proud of ‘reverse boycott’ by fans he helped initiate

Shayna Rubin THE MERCURY NEWS

OAKLAND— Every one of the 27,759 fans at the A’s reverse boycott was on the same page. Literally.

A cheer card created by grassroots organizers and passed out to fans roaming the Oakland Coliseum gave directions for how the night’s protest would go. A “sell the team” chant when the first batter steps up to the plate in the top of an inning and a “stay in Oakland” one for the first batter of the bottom inning.

In the fifth inning, everyone was to stand up in silence to honor the 55 years the A’s have been in Oakland before erupting into another “sell the team” chorus. That’s when Stu Clary, standing up from his seat in the sixth row of Section 230, couldn’t help but smile.

Clary, after all, started all this.

“I am,” he said. “I am kind of proud.”

The idea of a reverse boycott came to him months ago. He and his fellow A’s fans online were incensed by the commissioner, team owner John Fisher and his lobbyists’ claims that the A’s must relocate to Las Vegas because Oakland fans just didn’t care about the team anymore. Not just a lie, but a manipulative one, fans will cry; more than anything A’s fans want it known that Fisher is the reason they stopped showing.

If they could dream a little, they’d want him to sell the team to an owner that will give a diehard fanbase reason to return again.

So Clary came up with a plan: Let everyone know the powers that be are

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liars. And, boy, did they.

What better way to show A’s fans exist, and care, than to show up when the ballpark is typically desolate? In a Tweet on April 13, Clary suggested every fan show up for a mundane Tuesday night game against the Tampa Bay Rays. Two months later, thanks to independent fan groups, his Tweet turned to reality.

The near 28,000 that showed was the most at an A’s home game since they drew 33,654 against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Aug. 7, 2018.

“You did this, man, you did this,” another fan and fellow high school baseball coach said to Clary in passing. But Clary had to keep perspective.

“People are acting like I parted the Red Sea,” he said. “We just needed a day. People wanted this.”

Even before the reverse boycott began, Clary began to confront the scary part. When the party’s over, things get real.

Hours before Tuesday’s game, senators in the Nevada Legislature approved funding for the A’s to build a new ballpark

there. It marked one step closer to Oakland losing their team.

And while Fisher might see the A’s relocation as a vehicle for his personal gain, fans see it as kidnapping the community they’ve hardly lived without. This protest isn’t just about calling out lies or changing minds. It’s one last cry from a fan base coming to grips with having a part of them unceremoniously ripped away.

Everyone at the Clary family tailgate stays connected through the A’s. His son is there, along with his college baseball teammate, who both love the A’s. As do his parents, who bonded with the Clary family over teaching and Oakland A’s baseball. Stu’s lifelong friend Randy Carson got into the A’s because of Stu — both went to the 1987 All-Star Game at the Coliseum. Another lifelong friend Brad Rupert, the baseball coach at Shasta College, drove down from Redding on Tuesday to support.

But the tone isn’t sad yet, the crew has already pre-mourned the loss. The constant threat of relo-

cation, failed ballpark proposals and decades of cheap ownership hardened them. And maybe a little denial, too.

“It just hasn’t sunk in yet,” said Kim Clary, Stu’s wife. But, Tuesday, she allowed herself to reminisce.

The Coliseum is known as a sewage-filled, rundown dump. For fans, that’s all overblown; it’s a home away from home. For the Clary family’s two sons, Gordy and Tom, it was like a backyard miles away from home in Vacaville. They played catch in the parking lot before games. The boys idolized Jason Giambi and once talked for weeks about the time the hours spent waiting in line in the rain to meet him paid off with a fist pump.

A photo of Gordy standing next to Scott Hatteburg during a Little League national anthem appearance at the Coliseum hangs in their family home. For a moment, Stu starts to mourn.

“This is what I’ll miss most,” he said as he watched family and friends devour his homemade potato salad, pork and beans and chicken wings, ZZ Top’s “Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers” blasting over their portable speaker. “My kids will have kids one day. And this is being ripped away from them.”

Some that pass by see and recognize Clary, sitting on the back of his truck, and come to say hi.

“Oh, man,” Kim said. “This is just like old times.”

After the game, the group meets back at the truck for some beers before going home.

next season. He will make $50.2 million in 2024-25 and $53.7 million in 2025-26. He has a player option for $57.1 million in 2026-27.

Beal played al 82 games for the Wizards in 2017-18 and 201819, but over the past four seasons he was limited to 57, 60, 40 and 50 games due to a variety of injuries.

Beal averaged 23.2 points, 3.9 rebounds and 5.4 assists last season while shooting 50.6% from the field and 36.5% from 3-point range. He would join with All-NBA Third Team point guard De’Aaron Fox to form one of the best backcourts in the NBA if the Kings can find a way to acquire him.

Matching Beal’s massive salary would be difficult for the Kings. They could include Kevin Huerter ($15.7 million), Richaun Holmes ($12 million) and draft capital in a deal, but they would still be well short of the $46.7 million Beal will earn next season.

Sacramento might need to include some combination of Malik Monk ($9.9 million), Keegan Murray ($8.4 million), Davion Mitchell ($5 million) or Harrison Barnes in a sign-andtrade agreement.

Warriors assistant coach Jama Mahlalela is reportedly returning to Toronto to take a job as the Raptors lead assistant.

Mahlalela is a developmental guru who’s been lauded for his abilities to simplify complex analytics to help better players. The 42-year-old will be joined by Wizards assistant Pat Delany as being a top assistants on Darko Rajakovic’s staff, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Thursday afternoon.

Mahlalela has worked the last two seasons with the Warriors playing a role in helping evolve players, including Andrew Wigginsand Gary Payton II, into key contributors on a championship-winning team. He served as the head coach for the Warriors’ summer league team in Las Vegas last summer and handled the team’s rotations while also overseeing its player development structure this season.

Before joining ahead of the 2021-22 season, Mahlalela was the head coach of Toronto’s G League affiliate for two seasons and spent seven seasons with the Raptors, serving as an assistant coach and director of player development.

Mahlalela played five years at the University of British Columbia. He later took an assistant job at the University of Toronto.

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Oakland A’s fan Stu Clary, left, was one of the main organizers of the “Reverse Boycott” event at the Coliseum in Oakland, Tuesday. The crowd of close to 27,759 was the largest for an A’s game this season.

‘The Last Dance’ started a flood of sports docs that hasn’t run dry

GreG Braxton

LOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES — Even compared to the overall growth spurt that’s come to TV with the rise of streaming, documentaries about sports are the gifts that keep on winning.

Over the decades, spurred by their popularity with viewers and frequent critical acclaim, TV networks churned out a steady stream of feature documentaries and docuseries exploring major milestones, historical events and leading figures such as Muhammad Ali and Babe Ruth, represented by titles such as HBO’s “When It Was a Game,” ESPN’s “30 for 30” series, Showtime’s “Kobe Bryant’s Muse” and Oscar winner “O.J.: Made in America.”

But that was before “The Last Dance.”

Aided by pandemic shutdowns and the absence of live sports, the epic ESPN/Netflix co-production, centered on enigmatic superstar Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dynasty of the 1990s, premiered in April 2020 and swiftly became a bona fide blockbuster. The 10-part series enticed millions of sports fans and non-sports fans alike with its mix of never-before-seen footage, over-the top personalities and thrilling action, all set against a backdrop of social change. And in the process, it created a ripple effect for sports stories on TV that’s still being felt.

“That really jolted the industry,” said former HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg. “It came along at the perfect time during the pandemic when people needed something to watch. I think it also triggered [to] the streamers and networks that this is a great form of storytelling.”

“The Last Dance” has been followed by an explosion of sports documentaries, particularly on streaming, embracing a kaleidoscopic range of platforms, personalities and subject matter: On top of perennial fly-on-the-wall glimpses of NFL training camp and the Stanley Cup finals have been projects about the personal and professional struggles of Tiger Woods and Naomi Osaka; blow-by-blow, season-long accounts of the Formula 1 championship and a struggling soccer club; and intimate portraits of Tom Brady, Bubba Wallace,

Derek Jeter, Steph Curry, John McEnroe and numerous others that highlight not only their achievements, but also their lives off the field or court.

A torrent of projects has even centered on just one team. The Los Angeles Lakers played a key part in three docuseries and one scripted drama –Apple TV+’s “They Call Me Magic,” HBO’s “Shaq,” Hulu’s “Legacy: The True Story of the L.A. Lakers” and HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” –in 2022 alone. The second season of “Winning Time” is due this year. (Yet another Laker, LeBron James, is the subject of “Shooting Stars,” a dramatization of the future Hall of Famer’s origin story that premiered earlier this month on Peacock.)

And with the streaming wars continuing to heat up and the ongoing writers’ strike creating pressure for unscripted content to fill the gap, the onslaught of sports documentaries shows no signs of subsiding.

Serena Williams, who has already been profiled in several documentaries, recently announced that she will be the subject of a new ESPN documentary. Netflix will premiere a documentary about soccer superstar David Beckham, who will also be part of an upcoming Prime Video docuseries about the Manchester United soccer team’s historic 1998-99 season, in which it won three of the sport’s biggest trophies in a 10-day span.

The boom in sports fare has begun to raise questions, though, among some figures prominent in the genre. Are there too many sports documentaries in the pipeline for a project

PGA and LIV draws Senate investigation

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WASHINGTON — Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden notified top officials with the PGA Tour that he’s opening a wide-ranging probe into the PGA’s surprise tie-up with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

The Senate panel’s investigation adds to widening scrutiny of the pact. The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation of the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said Thursday the combination raises questions about foreign investment in US real estate that could be adjacent to military facilities and sensitive manufacturing businesses, executive compensation for PGA Tour officials and whether the PGA Tour should maintain its taxexempt status.

“The PGA Tour’s involvement with PIF raises significant questions about whether organizations that tie themselves to an authoritarian regime that has continually undermined the rule of law should continue to enjoy tax-exempt status in the United States,” Wyden said in a letter to PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan IV and Chairman Ed Herlihy.

Wyden said he plans to introduce separate legislation revoking the Saudi PIF’s special tax exemption, which

like “The Last Dance” to break through — or for fans to be able to keep up?

“There absolutely is a danger of oversaturation,” said Showtime Sports President Stephen Espinoza. “At this point, it’s becoming harder and harder to distinguish yourself, to be fresh and original.”

Greenburg, who now heads his own production company, which produced the recent Netflix documentary “Bill Russell: Legend,” said that while the genre is “too rich with too many great stories” to run out of material, documentaries need a “unique point of view, and not fall into the danger of telling the same story over and over.”

Award-winning documentarian Marina Zenovich, whose extensive resume includes 2020’s “Lance,” about controversial cyclist Lance Armstrong, added: “Is the field of sports documentaries oversaturated? Yes. But there is an audience for it.”

Zenovich said she is not surprised that the sports documentary genre has blossomed. Her first sportsrelated project was 2014’s “Fantastic Lies” for “30 for 30,” which reported on the case of three members of Duke University’s lacrosse team who were falsely accused of rape.

“When I was there, I realized, ‘Oh my God, there are so many good stories in sports,” she said in an interview last month. “They can be so compelling, and with all the content [needs] from streamers and others, it’s become a whole business.”

She added, “Audiences in this day and age want documentaries on true crime, celebrity and sports. They don’t want politics. They want to get

lost and remember what their favorite athlete did or what their rivals did. They are craving for athletes to be open and real, to show their humanity and faults.”

And the more sports programming there is, the more fans have flocked to it. Series that follow pro or college teams through an entire season have sparked an appetite for more extensive examinations of athletes and their personalities.

Espinoza, of Showtime Sports, said “Fans now expect that kind of coverage.”

Another factor that has fueled interest in sportsthemed fare, according to experts, is an increased commitment to exploring sports through the lens of social justice or other issues that reflect the state of the country. “The Last Dance” and “O.J.: Made in America,” which depicted how race, celebrity and the broader culture shaped the rise and fall of former football great O.J. Simpson, set a new standard that other projects have been determined to match.

“It’s about providing a different context,” Greenburg said. “Otherwise, it’s not worth doing.” The Bill Russell project, he maintained, explored issues about race “that are still very relevant today. It showed the fierce struggle for civil rights.”

Espinoza echoed that sentiment: “It’s not about telling sports stories for the sake of telling sports stories. It’s about seeing how we can illuminate the human condition, societal issues and cultural developments.”

He pointed to Showtime’s 2020 film “Bad Hombres,” about Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos, a professional minor league binational baseball team that played half of its home games in Texas during the 2019 baseball season. Said Espinoza: “It was a look at immigration through the eyes of baseball.”

Because of the crush of sports fare, he said Showtime has set out to distinguish its slate with “high-end, visually appealing, theatrical projects that are sophisticated and complex.”

For all the pressures of increased competition, though, Zenovich said the sports documentary trend is unlikely to slow anytime soon.

And, she added, “I want to make more of them.”

Catholic group to protest ‘Sisters’ at Dodger Stadium before Pride Night

ChuCk SChilken

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religious organization that calls the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence “godless” and “Christmocking” plans for thousands to gather at Dodger Stadium on Friday to protest the Dodgers honoring the longtime charity organization made up of queer nuns often in drag.

Catholics for Catholics, an organizer behind the protest, says it wants to express its feelings on the matter in person and on the Dodgers’ Pride Night, but it wants the event to be “peaceful” and “prayerful.”

Catholics for Catholics announced a “prayerful procession” from 3 to 7 p.m., ahead of Friday’s 7:10 p.m. start of the Dodgers’ game against the San Francisco Giants.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are slated to receive the Community Hero Award during a pregame ceremony as part of the Dodgers’ Pride Night festivities.

“All are welcome to join this event in reparation for the offenses committed against our Lord Jesus Christ and against all Christians by the ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,’ ” an article on the Catholics for Catholics website reads.

“CHRISTIANS unite in prayerful response to Dodgers’ godless decision to honor blasphemous, Christ-mocking ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,’ ” reads a flier for the procession.

Attendees for the procession are told to gather at Parking Lot 13 outside of Dodger Stadium,

where “limited free parking” will be available. It is not clear where the march will go from there or if the group plans to enter the stadium itself or disrupt any of the planned activities. The Dodgers did not immediately respond to questions on how this might affect fans attempting to park and attend the game.

According to the article on its website, Catholics for Catholics expect “thousands of Catholics, Christians, and people of faith” to be on hand for the procession.

“We DO NOT recommend bringing children,” the article reads. “While there will be police, we do anticipate hostility from protestors.”

In the article, Catholics for Catholics encourages attendees to bring posters to the protest, “but have messages be Christ-centered. ... DO NOT bring posters with political images or messages.”

A flier for the procession states, “This is a peaceful Christian event.”

Catholics for Catholics did not immediately respond to questions for this story. The article on its website mentions America Needs Fatima, Catholic Vote and Church Militant as some of the fellow organizers for the event. None of those groups responded to questions.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a satirical performance and activist organization that describes itself as “a leading-edge Order of queer and trans nuns,” is known for raising awareness and money for LGBTQ causes and providing comfort.

New NCAA president calls for uniform NIL contracts

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ORLANDO, Fla. — As a lifelong politician, Charlie Baker knows the importance of remaining connected to your constituents. So during his first 100 days as president of the NCAA, Baker traveled around the country, visiting as many college conferences as possible.

letes rights to earn money from legitimate NIL deals,” Baker said. “Unfortunately, when this issue unfolded several years ago, the NCAA didn’t get something done. I believe that was a mistake, and now we need to adapt.”

applies to “certain types of investment income by foreign governments and sovereign wealth funds.” That could impact the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, which Wyden said has an estimated value of more than $600 billion.

In the letter, Wyden requested more information about the financial structure of the combination and the extent of investment by Saudi-owned entities. That includes a “detailed description” of the role of the entity’s new chairman, Yasir Al Rumayyan, who is currently governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Wyden also asked for detailed information about the location of PGAtour-owned real estate to examine possible national security considerations.

The senator said he has “serious concerns” about deals proposed as part of any tie-up that could “benefit the already lavishly-compensated officers and employees of the PGA Tour.” He noted that 19 officers and staff already make more than $1 million a year, including Monahan whose annual compensation has reached $14 million.

During these visits, he would gauge the pulse of the college athletics community, gathering as much information as possible.

Baker was the keynote speaker at the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Convention in Orlando this week. In front of a standingroom-only crowd, the former Governor of Massachusetts addressed several challenges facing the NCAA, including Name, Image and Likeness (NIL).

“I took the job because I think college sports are uniquely an American treasure,” Baker told the group. “They’re hugely exciting for fans of all ages and from every walk of life, but they also changed the game for hundreds of thousands of student-athletes every year.”

“It’s a complicated time in college sports. Some might call it a pivotable time.”

NIL remains one of the top concerns among college officials and Baker made it clear he supports athletes making money off their name, image and likeness.

“No matter where we go on this issue, the NCAA, schools or Congress, we cannot and will not impede student-ath-

Baker said less than half of the 21,000 athletes who entered the transfer portal last year didn’t wind up signing with another school. He credits that fact to the idea that many of those athletes were chasing NIL deals that didn’t materialize.

“One of the greatest tragedies of that is the impact it has on student-athletes and families who don’t know what to believe or who they can trust,” he added.

According to Baker, the answer is a uniform standard NIL contract that would help provide athletes with a better understanding of the current marketplace and help provide some transparency.

“It needs to be a fundamental part of what we do next with that and shedding some sunlight on shady deals,” he added.

With most states enacting their own NIL laws, the lines between what can and cannot be done have been blurred. Baker believes federal legislation is the only answer to providing unanimity. He was among a group of college administrators to meet with federal lawmakers earlier this month to discuss legislation for NIL. The NCAA has been pushing for a national bill to supersede a patchwork of state laws and provide federal guidance.

“Obviously getting Congress to act is an immensely difficult challenge,” Baker said.

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Michael Jordan holds up six fingers for each Chicago Bulls championship as he addresses the crowd at the Petrillo Music Shell at Grant Park in Chicago after the 1998 title.

Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images/TNS file(2021) Members of Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence participate in the I Cant Breathe - Silent March for Justice in front of the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, March 7, 2021.

Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images/TNS file Buggies ride past team signage ahead of day one of the LIV Golf Invitational - Singapore at Sentosa Golf Club in April.

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Last we saw Hemsworth’s Tyler Rake, the black ops mercenary with a talent for rescuing – sorry, extracting –people out of bad situations, he was battered and bleeding and plunging from a bridge to a watery grave.

If you forgot any of that in the intervening years, a recap of the final sequence is helpfully recycled in the opening moments of “Extraction 2: The Dentist Will See You Now.” (I kid! Bodies take a beating, but not a pearly white is busted out of place.)

The original ends with a brief postscript: The rescued teenage son of a drug lord is reacclimating to life when, suddenly, a hazy Tyler-shaped figure appears in the distance, suggesting he survived that terrible fall after all and is now paying the kid a visit. The new movie retcons that – didn’t happen, folks! – and instead picks up with our man washed up ashore somewhere, not long after plummeting from the bridge, and he’s airlifted out. There’s some recuperating in a hospital, and then early retirement to a cabin in the Australian woods.

Tyler is a man so sad and alone that when his partner-in-extraction (Golshifteh Farahani) gives him a ride to his new abode, she notes with considerable pity that the contents of his life fit into no more than a shoe box. “Maybe it’s time to change that,” she says. (I dunno, seems environmentally friendly to me.)

His restless solo existence is interrupted when Idris Elba stops by as a high-end recruiter of sorts, hoping to pull Tyler back in for One Last Job. Tyler is going to say yes. This is inevitable. But first we must go through the motions: “Why don’t you go back and tell whoever sent you I’m not interested,” he tells Elba’s fixer. Pul-ease, of course he’s interested.

The extractees this time are his sister-in-law and her two kids, living in a Georgian prison (that would be Georgia, the country) while her husband serves out a sentence relating to the billion-dollar heroin and weapons empire he runs with his equally brutal Euro-gangster of a brother. The husband wants his nearest and dearest with him on the inside, where

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he can keep an eye on them. Not a great place to raise a family, though. So the guy’s wife goes behind his back to secure an escape with her kids, which requires Tyler’s expertise.

“Job starts in six weeks,” says Elba’s swaggering mystery man. “If all goes well and you don’t get caught or shot in the face, I’ll meet you on the other side and give you a kiss. Failing that, it’s been a pleasure.”

Cue the training montage, as Tyler gets mission-ready by stacking big rocks and chopping wood. His muscles bulging again, he and his team gear up for “Prison Break: Georgia.”

Armed to the teeth, Tyler’s arrival on the grounds is announced with a single guitar chord, but things go left almost immediately and it becomes one man against a melee as Tyler guides his clients through the labyrinth to safety. I’m not kidding when I say at one point he throws punches while his fists are aflame, which suggests some intriguing ideas for another sequel: “Extraction 3: Fists of Fire.”

The prison sequence is pretty compelling, as these things go. Midway through, Tyler is clobbered on the head and everything goes silent except for muted buzzing as the concussion sets in. Doesn’t stop him, though. Is this the testosterone-infused version of “nevertheless, she persisted”?

Though based on a graphic novel, both movies have the feel of a first person shooter video game. Hemsworth’s physical stature does a lot of the heavy lifting, literally and otherwise, but Tyler is not a character so much as an avatar.

He’s in this line of work for the money, but also, he cares Even so, he has no discernible personality and the flat psuedoquips sprinkled throughout the script barely register as banter. “These men are killers,”

he’s warned. “Yeah? So am

I.” That rhetorical tic returns again and again. Bad guy: “I’m going to enjoy killing you.” Tyler: “Yeah? Get in line.” Oh, he’s also multilingual! “Since when do you speak Georgian?”

“Since always.”

“Extraction 2″ is written by Joe Russo (who also cowrote the original) and about half of the film’s dialogue is “Arggggh!” – it’s an aria of argggghs – and the other half might as well be the fast fashion of dialogue, made with little craft or care. Director Sam Hargrave knows his action but doesn’t have much flair for humor, though it does sneak in here and there, including his own cameo as a gravedigger, which functions as a silent, blink-or-you’ll-miss-it one-man performance of Rosencrantz or Guildenstern, take your pick.

Less an original movie than an assemblage of ideas pulled from other movies, “Extraction 2″ includes a car chase that’s meant to look as if it was shot in a single take, with the camera swooping in and out vehicles in a style reminiscent of a (better) scene from “Children of Men.” Later, Tyler will find himself dangling from a beam, like Ethan Hunt in “Mission: Impossible,” off the top of a skyscraper. Mid-hang, he’s shot through the back of his hand –that’s got to hurt! – but he never loses his grip. A gunshot wound as stigmata. Subtle!

At the hour-twenty mark you might find yourself thinking: There’s 30 minutes left in this thing? Well, yes. There is. Go back in the kitchen and make more popcorn, I guess. The movie’s thwack-thwack-thwackping! gunfire sound effects budget must have rivaled Hemsworth’s fee. And I appreciate the blunt, violent wit of the climax, shot from overhead as Tyler permanently silences his nemesis as they lie side-by-side on a church floor in a pool of their own blood.

Weeks after the first “Extraction” premiered on Netflix, it was anointed the streamer’s most-watched original movie. I don’t know if the sequel will match that, but there’s no reason it shouldn’t. It’s actually the better movie of the two.

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reached the USA2 final. Down by 10 IMPs with 15 boards to be played, they outscored their opponents by 54 IMPs to 4. This was board 110 of 120.

At the other table, North was much more cautious, raising one spade to four spades. Here, Kranyak used fourth-suit game-forcing before supporting spades to show slam interest. After four control-bids and Roman Key Card Blackwood, Wolpert was in six spades.

West led an imaginative heart queen after his partner’s lead-directing double. Declarer won with dummy’s ace and played a low club, East winning with his ace and trying to cash the heart king. South ruffed, drew three rounds of trumps ending on the board and led the diamond jack. Who had the king?

THE REPECHAGE GOT THEM HOME

In the 2021 open trial, Warren Spector, Kevin Bathurst, John Hurd, John Kranyak and Gavin Wolpert lost the USA1 final to Nick Nickell, Ralph Katz, Eric Greco, Geoff Hampson, Bobby Levin and Steve Weinstein. However, they played on and

If it were East, declarer would need it to be at most tripleton, but if West had the royal, third or fourth would be fine. So Wolpert won with his diamond ace and ran the diamond queen, discarding a heart from the board when West did not cover. Six spades made gave the Spector team 13 IMPs on the board.

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In the 2021 open trial, Warren Spector, Kevin Bathurst, John Hurd, John Kranyak and Gavin Wolpert lost the USA1 final to Nick Nickell, Ralph

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follow-up to the 2020 hyperviolent Chris Hemsworth Netflix action thriller, “Extraction 2″ is a cinematic diversion that asks: Would you like to see a man’s hand split down the middle? Ripped apart in a way that has you thinking: Now there’s a “live long and prosper” salute gone very wrong. Well, pal, have I got a movie for you.Chris Hemsworth is back as Tyler Rake, mercenary for hire and extractor extraordinaire, in “Extraction 2.”

Spacey claims people are ‘ready to hire me’ ahead of London sexual offense trial

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Kevin Spacey says he’s ready to return to the spotlight as he prepares to stand trial in London later this month for 12 sexual offense charges.

The embattled “House of Cards” star spoke about the possibility of a comeback in a recent interview with Zeit Magazine, published more than seven months after a New York jury ruled that Spacey did not molest actor Anthony Rapp in the ’80s.

“The moment scrutiny is applied, these things fall apart,” he said. “That’s what happened in the Rapp trial, and that’s what will happen in this case.”

At the center of the trial, which begins June 28, are allegations from 2001 to 2013 by four men who claim the actor sexually assaulted them. Two of the men alleged they engaged in non-consensual sex with Spacey, who served as the artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre in London from 2004 to 2015.

Spacey pleaded not guilty to seven sexual offense charges relating to one man’s accusations in January, according to multiple reports.

In the Zeit interview –his first since shying away from the public eye as allegations surfaced in 2017 – Spacey said he’s “still processing” the downfall of his career.

Amid the growing sexual assault claims, Spacey was removed from TV and film projects and dropped by publicists, managers and agencies. Opportu-

nities dried up, making the actor feel like he was “back at the beginning of my career, when nobody wanted me.”

“The media have done their best to turn me into a monster,” he said elsewhere in the interview. “But from the people, I have seen nothing but affection.”

Spacey was speaking with Zeit while on a break from doing voice work for the upcoming thriller “Control,” directed by Gene Fallaize. He initially passed on the project, but accepted a part after his New York acquittal.

“Control” is among the several projects the twotime Oscar winner has taken on in recent years. The “American Beauty” star also appeared in the films “Billionaire Boys Club” (2018) and “The Man Who Drew God” (2022).

Spacey, determined to keep working despite the claims against him, also spent his time away from Hollywood writing scripts for theater pieces and short films. The actor says that he is aware some creators “are very afraid” to collaborate with him, but is confident other artists may pave the way for a comeback.

“I know that there are people right now who are ready to hire me the moment I am cleared of these charges in London,” he said. “The second that happens, they’re ready to move forward.”

He added: “In 10 years, [the allegations] won’t mean anything. My work will live longer than I will, and that’s what will be remembered.”

NOTICETOCREDITOR'SOFBULKSALEANDOFINTENTIONTOTRANSFER

ALCOHOLICBEVERAGELICENSE (UCCSec.6101etseq.andB&P24073etseq.)

ESCROW#0126020506

NOTICEISHEREBYGIVENthatabulksaleofassetsandatransferofalcoholicbeveragelicenseisabouttobemade.Thename(s)andbusinessaddress(es)oftheseller(s) is/are:JorgeRicardoLopezCuevas&YanethDiaz,900WTexasStreet,Fairfield,CA 94533

DoingBusinessas:ElCaracol

Allotherbusinessname(s)andaddress(es)usedbytheseller(s)withinthepastthree years,asstatedbytheseller(s),is/are:(ifnone,sostate)NONE

ThelocationinCaliforniaofthechiefexecutiveofficeoftheselleris:SAME

Thename(s)andbusinessaddressofthebuyer(s)is/are:Sabor-MexFoodLLC900W TexasStreet,Fairfield,CA94533

Theassetsbeingsoldaregenerallydescribedas:furniture,fixtures,equipment,inventory,andliquorlicense

Andarelocatedat:900WTexasStreet,Fairfield,CA94533

Thekindoflicensetobetransferredis:#41-625295 issuedforthepremiseslocatedat:900WTexasStreet,Fairfield,CA94533RESS

Theanticipateddateofthebulksale/transferisJuly6,2023anduponapprovalbyDepartmentofAlcoholicBeverageControlattheofficeofOLDREPUBLICTITLECOMPANYlocatedat1000BurnettAvenue,Suite400,Concord,CA94520,EscrowHolder. Theamountofthepurchasepriceorconsiderationinconnectionwiththetransferoft he licenseandbusiness,includingestimatedinventoryis$60,000.00

IthasbeenagreedbetweentheSeller/LicenseeandtheintendedBuyer/Transferee,as requiredbySec24703oftheBusinessandProfessionsCode,thattheconsiderationfor thetransferofthebusinessandlicenseistobepaidonlyafterthetransferhasbeenapprovedbytheDepartmentofAlcoholicBeverageControl.

MEGHANM.AVILA,ESQ.SBN:296966

CELAYALAW 1455FIRSTSTREET,#216 NAPA,CALIFORNIA94559

707-492-3112 meghan@celayalaw.com

AttorneyforKarenR.Korinetz

NOTICETOCREDITORS

OFTHEESTATEOF ZOILADELCARMENRAMOS

DECEDENT

NOTICETOCREDITORS

SUPERIORCOURTOFCALIFORNIA

COUNTYOF

_________SOLANO________

Noticeisherebygiventothecreditorsand contingentcreditorsoftheabove-named decedent,thatallpersonshavingclaims againstthedecedentarerequired tofile themwiththeSuperiorCourtat,theFamilyLawDivision,600UnionAvenueFairfield,CA94533andmailacopytoKaren R.Korinetz,trusteeoftheRamosFamily Trust,datedJanuary7,2022,whereinthe decedentwasthesettlor,at3041Kaiser Drive#FSantaClara,CA95051withinthe lateroffourmonthsafterJune16,2023 (thedateofthefirstpublicationofnoticeto creditors)or,ifnoticeismailedorpersonallydeliveredtoyou,60daysafterthedate thisnotice ismailedorpersonallydeliveredtoyou.Aclaimformmaybeobtainedfromthecourtclerk.Foryourprotections,youareencouragedtofileyour claimbycertifiedmail,withreturnreceipt requested.

MeghanM.Avila,Esq.May24,2023

DR#00063902

Published:June16,21,23,2023

PUBLICHEARINGNOTICE PLANNINGCOMMISSION

NOTICEISHEREBYGIVENTHATTHEPLANNINGCOMMISSIONOFTHECITYOF FAIRFIELDwillholdapublichearingonthefollowingitem:

GREENVALLEY3APARTMENTS–GeneralPlanAmendment(GPA2021-001),Zone Change(ZC2021-003),DevelopmentReview(DR2021-013),andEnvironmentalReview (ER2021-036).ApublichearingontherequestbyNicolasRuhlofTheSpanosCorporationforamultifamilyresidentialdevelopmentinvolving185apartmentson5.78acres of undevelopedlandintheGreenValleyCorporateParkat4840BusinessCenterDrive (APN:0148-540-350).Theapartmentswillbesitedwithinasinglebuildingwithanapproximateareaof204,144squarefeetandaheightof49feetatfourstories.Theproject requiresCityCouncilapprovalofaGeneralPlanAmendmentfromBusinessandIndustrialParktoVeryHighDensityResidentialandaZoneChangefromIndustrialBusiness Park–NorthCordeliaOverlay(IBP–NC)DistricttoResidential,VeryHighDensity–NorthCordeliaOverlay(RVH–NC)District.AnEnvironmentalImpactreport(EIR)has beenpreparedfortheprojecttocomplywiththeCaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityAct (CEQA)requirements.(Planner:JonathanAtkinson,707-428-7387 jatkinson@fairfield.ca.gov)

NOTICEISHEREBYFURTHERGIVENTHATsaidpublichearingwillbeheldonWEDNESDAY,JUNE28,2023,beginningat6:00p.m.intheCouncilChambers,1000WebsterStreet,orthepublicmayjointhemeetingviaZoomat https://fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/87687427555?pwd=cjFUemtROWFWelN5Q3VpcW8vcHZNQT09orbyPhoneat(408)638-0968.WebinarID:87687427555Passcode : 7074287440atwhichtimeandplaceanyandallpersonsinterestedinsaidmattersmay appearandbeheard.Ifyouchallengeanyoftheabove-citeditemsincourt,youmaybe limitedtoraisingonlythoseissuesyouorsomeoneelseraisedatthepublichearingdescribedinthisnotice,orinwrittencorrespondencedeliveredtotheCommunityDevelopmentDepartmentat,orpriortothepublichearing.Anypartyaggrievedoraffectedbya decisionordeterminationbythePlannin gCommissionintheadministrationoftheCity’s DevelopmentRegulationsmayfileanappealwithin14businessdaysofthedecisionor determinationusingtheappealformavailablefromtheCommunityDevelopmentDepartment.Tofileanappeal,completetheformandsubmititwiththeappropriatefeetoCommunityDevelopmentDepartment,1000WebsterStreet,2ndFloor,Fairfield,CA94533 nolaterthan14businessdaysfromthedateofthishearing.Postmarkswillbeaccepted Foradditionalinformation,pleasecontacttheCommunityDevelopmentDepartment,City Hall,2ndFloor,orphone707-428-7440.

TheCityofFairfielddoesnotdiscriminateagainstanyindividualwithadisability.City publicationswillbemadeavailableuponrequestintheappropriateformattopersonswith adisability.Ifyouneedanaccommodationtoattendorparticipateinthismeetingdueto adisability,pleasecontactCindyGarcia,AdministrativeAssistant, at707-428-7452,cgarcia@fairfield.ca.gov,inadvanceofthemeeting.

DR#00064056 Published:June16,2023

paredpursuanttotheCaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityAct(CEQA),California PublicResourcesCodesections21000,etseq.,andtheCEQAGuidelines,Title14oftheCaliforniaCodeofRegulationssections15000,etseq.DWR,astheprojectproponent,willbe theleadagencyinaccordancewithCEQA.

CommentPeriod:The31-daypubliccommentperiod,beginsonJune16,2023,andends onJuly17,2023.

PurposeoftheNoticeofPreparation:Thepurposeofanoticeofpreparation(NOP)isto notifyresponsibleandtrusteeagenciesinvolvedinapprovingo rfundingaproject,theOfficeofPlanningandResearch,andinterestedpartiesthatanEIRwillbeprepared.The NOPprovidesinformationabouttheproposedprojectanditspotentialenvironmentalimpactstoallowrecipientstheopportunitytoprovideameaningfulresponserelatedtothe scopeandcontentoftheEIR.

ProjectDescription:DWRisseekingapprovaloflong-termoperationsoftheSWPfacilitiesintheSacramento-SanJoaquinDelta(Delta),SuisunMarsh,andSuisunBaytocontinuetoprovidewatersupplyforagricultural,municipal,andindustrialuses,alongwith theadditionalbenefitstorecreationandtheenvironmentincompliancewithallapplicablelawsandregulations,includingcontractualobligations.TheCEQAprojectencompassestheSacramentoRiverfromtheFeatherRiverconfluencetotheDeltaandthe SWPwaterdiversion,storage,andconveyancefacilitiesintheDelta,SuisunMarsh,and SuisunBay.SWPoperationswillbecoordinatedwithDWR’simplementationoftheVoluntaryAgreements,analternativeimplementationapproachforsatisfyingtherevised StateWaterResourcesControlBoard’sBay-DeltaWaterQualityControlPlan,including flowstosatisfylegalobligationsunderbothendangeredspecieslawsandtheVoluntary AgreementsshouldtheVoluntaryAgreementsbeadoptedbytheStateWaterResources ControlBoard.Consideringotherongoingreg ulatoryprocesses,theprojectwillprovidea frameworkforfutureprojectsinvolvingSWPoperationstocomeonline.TheEIRwillevaluatepotentialimpactsassociatedwithlong-termoperationsoftheSWPincluding:

•Updatedoperatingcriteria,includingoperationsofSWPfacilitiesintheDeltasuchas pumps,theSuisunMarshSalinityControlGates,andtheNorthBayAqueduct.

•Measuresthatmaybeadoptedtoavoid,minimize,ormitigateimpactstolistedspecies resultingfromSWPlong-termoperations.

Nonewinfrastructurefacilitiesareincludedintheproposedprojectandlong-termSWP operationswouldnotchangeDWR’swaterrightsorimpactthewaterrightsofanyother legaluserofwater.

PotentialEnvironmentalEffects:TheEIRwillcontainadetaileddiscussionofthepotentialimpactstothefollowingresourcecategories.Astheproposedprojectandalternativesarerefinedandanalysesperformed,additionalresourcecategories,asidentifiedin AppendixGoftheStateCEQAGuidelines,maybeidentifiedforevaluationwithinthe EIR.

•BiologicalResources:Fisheriesandaquaticresources:Long-termoperationswillpotentiallyhaveeffectsonfish,includingCESAandESAlistedspecies.OperationsaffecthydrodynamicconditionsintheDelta,which,inturn,couldaffecthabitatsuitability,entrainment,foodsupply,predation,migration,andotherfactorsthatcouldinfluencesurvival andreproductionofseveralspecial-statusfishspecies.

•SurfaceWaterHydrology:Changesinoperationscouldaffectsurfacewaterhydrologyin theDeltaanditstributaries,floodplains,andreservoirswithintheEIRprojectarea.

•SurfaceWaterQuality:ChangesinoperationscouldaffectwaterqualityofsurfacewatersintheprojectareaandwillbeaddressedintheEIR.TheSWPwillcontinuetomeet allregulatoryrequirements,includingcompliancewithwaterrightsdecisionD-1641.

•TribalCulturalResources:DWRwillcoordinatewithinterestedtribestoascertainifthere aretribalculturalresourcesthatcouldbeaffectedbytheproject.

•OtherCEQADiscussions,whichincludediscussionofcumulativeimpacts,growthinducement,climatechangeandresiliency,andenvironmentaljustice. PublicScopingMeeting:Apublicscopingmeetingwillbeheldtoinforminterestedparties abouttheproposedprojectandtosolicitinputonthescopeandcontentoftheEIR.The virtualmeetingwillbeheldviaZoomonJune27,2023,11:30a.m.–1:30p.m.Themeetinglinkishttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89067984085.Thecall-innumberis1-877-8535247.TheMeetingID:89067984085.

CommentSubmissionandDocumentAvailability

Commentswillbeacceptedfora31-daypubliccommentperiod,beginningonJune16, 2023,andendingonJuly17,2023.DocumentsareavailablefromChrisWilkinson.Writtenororalcommentsmaybesubmittedatthepublicscopingmeetings,orwrittencommentsmaybesenttoChrisWilkinson,EnvironmentalProgramManager,DivisionofIntegratedScienceandEngineering,DepartmentofWaterResources,P.O.942836,Sacramento,CA94236-0001.Writtencommentsmaybeemailedto SWPDeltaOps@water.ca.gov.Writtencommentsshouldincludeyourname/organization, address,andcontactinformation,andthenameforacontactpersoninyourorganization ifapplicable.Pleasenotethatyourcommentinitsentiretycouldbemadepubliclyavailableatanytime. DR#00064024

Published:June16,2023

Trustee'sSaleNo.23-100114Attentionrecorder:Thefollowingreferencetoanattached summaryisonlyapplicabletonotice(s)mailedtothetrustorpercivilcode2923.3(c)(1). Note:ThereisasummaryoftheinformationinthisdocumentattachedNoticeof Trustee'sSaleYouareindefaultunderadeedoftrustdated12/13/2021.Unlessyoutake actiontoprotectyourproperty,itmaybesoldatapublicsale.Ifyouneedanexplanation ofthenatureoftheproceedingsagainstyou,youshouldcontactalawyer.OnJune29, 2023at9:30a.m..,C&HTrustDeedService,asdulyappointedorsubstitutedTrustee, underthecertainDeedofTrustexecutedbyVictorLamontJuddandChristineThuy Judd,husbandandwifeasjointtenantsasTrustor,tosecureobligationsinfavorofthe ReoGroup,Inc.,aCaliforniacorporationasBeneficiary,recordedon12/30/21asInstrumentNo.2021-00132869,inBookxxx,PagexxxofOfficialRecordsintheofficeofth e CountyRecorderofSolanoCounty,California.Willsellatpublicauctiontothehighest bidderforcash,orcashier'scheck,(payableatthetimeofsaleinlawfulmoneyofthe UnitedStatesbycash,acashier'scheckdrawnbyastateornationalbank,astateorfederalcreditunion,orastateorfederalsavingsandloanassociation,orsavingsbankspecifiedinsection5102oftheFinancialCodeandauthorizedtobusinessinthisstate)AtAt thefrontentrancetotheCityH allbuildinglocatedat555SantaClaraSt.,Vallejo,California,allright,titleandinterestconveyedtoandnowheldbyitundersaidDeedofTrustin andtothefollowingdescribedrealpropertysituatedintheaforesaidCountyandState,to wit:AsmorefullydescribedinsaiddeedoftrustThestreetaddressorothercommon designationoftheabove-describedpropertyispurportedtobe1099ScottStreetFairfield, California94553Assessor'sParcelNo.0037-060-260 TheundersignedTrusteedisclaimsanyliabilityforanyincorrectnessofthestreetaddressand/orothercommondesignation,ifany,shownhereinabove.Saidsalewillbemade,butwithoutcovenantorwarranty,expressorimplied,regardingtitle,possession,orencumbrances,topaytheremainingprincipalsumofthenote(s)securedbysaidDeedofTrust,withinterestthereon, asprovidedinsaidnote(s),advances,ifany,underthetermsoftheDeedofTrust,esti matedfees,chargesandexpensesofthetrusteeandofthetrustscreatedbysaidDeedof Trust,towit:Saidpropertyisbeingsoldfortheexpresspurposeofpayingtheobligations securedbysaidDeedofTrust,includingfeesandexpensesofsale.Thetotalamountof theunpaidprincipalbalance,interestthereon,togetherwithreasonableestimatedcosts, expensesandadvancesatthetimeoftheinitialpublicationoftheNoticeofTrustee's Saleisestimatedtobe$389,411.66.ThebeneficiaryundersaidDeedofTrustheretoforeexecutedanddeliveredtotheundersignedawrittenDeclarationofDefaultandDemandforSale,andawrittenNoticeofDefaultandElectiontoSell.Theundersigned Trustee,orpredecessorTrustee,hascausedsaidNoticeofDefaultandElectiontoSellto berecordedinthecountywheretherealpropertyislocatedandmorethanthreemonths haveelapsedsincesuchrecordation.Noticetopotentialbidders:Ifyo uareconsidering biddingonthispropertylien,youshouldunderstandthattherearerisksinvolvedinbiddingatatrusteeauction.Youwillbebiddingonalien,notonthepropertyitself.Placing thehighestbidatatrusteeauctiondoesnotautomaticallyentitleyoutofreeandclear ownershipoftheproperty.Youshouldalsobeawarethatthelienbeingauctionedoffmay beajuniorlien.Ifyouarethehighestbidderattheauction,youareormayberesponsibleforpaying offallliensseniortothelienbeingauctionedoff,beforeyoucanreceive cleartitletotheproperty.Youareencouragedtoinvestigatetheexistence,priority,and sizeofoutstandingliensthatmayexistonthispropertybycontactingthecounty recorder'sofficeoratitleinsurancecompany,eitherofwhichmaychargeyouafeefor thisinformation.Ifyouconsulteitheroftheseresources,youshouldbeawarethatthe samelendermayholdmorethanonemortgageordeedo ftrustontheproperty.Noticeto propertyowner:Thesaledateshownonthisnoticeofsalemaybepostponedoneor moretimesbythemortgagee,beneficiary,trustee,oracourt,pursuanttoSection2924g oftheCaliforniaCivilCode.Thelawrequiresthatinformationabouttrusteesalepostponementsbemadeavailabletoyouandtothepublic,asacourtesytothosenotpresent atthesale.Ifyouwishtolearnwhetheryoursaledatehasbeenpostponed,and,ifapplicable,the rescheduledtimeanddateforthesaleofthisproperty,youmaycall (949)860-9155forinformationregardingthetrustee'ssaleorvisitthisinternetwebsite, www.chtrustdeed.comforinformationregardingthesaleofthisproperty,usingthefile numberassignedtothiscase23-100114.Informationaboutpostponementsthatarevery shortindurationorthatoccurcloseintimetothescheduledsalemaynotimmediatelybe reflectedinthetelephoneinformationoronth eInternetWebsite.Thebestwaytoverify postponementinformationistoattendthescheduledsale.Noticetotenant:Youmay havearighttopurchasethispropertyafterthetrusteeauctionpursuanttoSection2924m oftheCaliforniaCivilCode.Ifyouarean"eligibletenantbuyer,"youcanpurchasethe propertyifyoumatchthelastandhighestbidplacedatthetrusteeauction.Ifyouarean "eligiblebidder,"youmaybeabletopurchasethepropertyifyouexceedthelastand highestbidplacedatthetrusteeauction.Therearethreestepstoexercisingthisrightof purchase.First,48hoursafterthedateofthetrusteesale,youcancall(949)305-8901, orvisitthisinternetwebsite,www.chtrustdeed.com,usingthefilenumberassignedtothis case23-100114tofindthedateonwhichthetrustee'ssalewasheld,theamountofthe lastandhighestbid,andtheaddressofthetrustee.Second,youmustsendawrittennoticeofintenttoplaceabidsothatthetrusteereceivesitnomorethan15daysafterthe trustee'ssale.Third,youmustsubmitabidsothatthetrusteereceivesitnomorethan45 daysafterthetrustee'ssale.Ifyouthinkyoumayqualifyasan"eligibletenantbuyer"or "eligiblebidder,"youshouldconsidercontactinganattorneyorappropriaterealestate professionalimmediatelyforadviceregardingthispotentialrighttopurchase.Pleasetake noticethatiftheTrusteeisunabletoconveytitle foranyreason,thesuccessfulbidder's soleandexclusiveremedyshallbereturnofmoniespaidtotheTrustee,andthesuccessfulbiddershallhavenofurtherrecourse.Further,iftheforeclosuresaleissetaside foranyreason,thePurchaseratthesaleshallbeentitledonlytoareturnofthedeposit paidandshallhavenofurtherrecourseorremedyagainsttheMortgagor,Mortgagee,or Trusteeherein.Ifyouhavepreviouslybeendischargedinbankruptcy,youmayhave beenreleasedofpersonalliabilityforthisloaninwhichcasethisnoticeisintendedtoexercisethenoteholdersrightsagainsttherealpropertyonly.Asrequiredbylaw,youare notifiedthatanegativecreditreportingmaybesubmittedtoacreditreportagencyifyou failtofulfillthetermsofyourcreditobligation.ForTrustee'ssaledates,bidsandpostponementinformation,pleasecall(949)860-9155orvisitwww.chtrustdeed.com.Forany otherinquiries,includinglitigationorbankruptcymatters,pleasecall(949)305-8901or fax(949)305-8406.Dated:May31,2023C&HTrustDeedService,asSuccessorTrust-

tingentcreditors,andpersonswhomay otherwisebeinterestedinthewillorestate,orboth,of: Partap Singh APetitionforProbatehasbeenfiledby: Gulrez Singh intheSuperiorCourtofCalifornia,County of: Solano ThePetitionforProbaterequeststhat: Gulrez Singh beappointedaspersonalrepresentative toadministerthee stateofthedecedent. Thepetitionrequeststhedecedent'swill andcodicils,ifany,beadmittedtoprobate.Thewillandanycodicilsareavailableforexaminationinthefilekeptbythe court. ThepetitionrequestsauthoritytoadministertheestateundertheIndependentAdministrationofEstatesAct.(Thisauthority willallowthepersonalrepresentativeto takemanyactionswithoutobtainingcourt approval.Beforetakingcertainveryimportantactions,h owever,thepersonal representativewillberequiredtogivenoticetointerestedpersonsunlessthey havewaivednoticeorconsentedtothe proposedaction.)Theindependentadministrationauthoritywillbegrantedunless aninterestedpersonfilesanobjectionto thepetitionandshowsgoodcausewhy thecourtshouldnotgranttheauthority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

DATE: July 3, 2023 TIME: 8:30 am Dept. 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano County 600 Union Avenue 600 Union Avenue Fairfield, 94533

If you object tothegrantingofthepetition,youshouldappearatthehearingand stateyourobjectionsorfilewrittenobjectionswiththecourtbeforethehearing. Yourappearancemaybeinpersonorby yourattorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, youmustfileyourclaimwiththecourtand mailacopytothepersonalrepresentative appointedbythecourtwithinthe later of either(1)four months fromthedateof firstissuanceofletterstoageneralpersonalrepresentative,asdefinedinsection58(b)oftheCaliforniaProbateCode, or(2) 60 days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanoticeunder section9052oftheCaliforniaProbate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may wantto consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court.Ifyouareapersoninterestedinthe estate,youmayfilewiththecourtaRequestforSpecialNotice(formDE-154)of thefilingofaninventoryandappraisalof estateassetsorofanypetitionoraccount asprovidedinProbateCodesection 1250.ARequestforSpecialNoticeformis availablefromthecourtclerk.

Petitioner:GulrezSingh

54WillottaDrive,Fairfield,SolanoCounty, California,UnitedStates,94534 +17078005924 DR#00063903

Published:June9,12,16,2023

Toallheirs,beneficiaries,creditors,contingentcreditors,andpersonswhomay otherwisebeinterestedinthewillorestate,orboth,of:

Estate of Donald M. Glenn APetitionforProbatehasbeenfiledby: Todd Glenn intheSuperiorCourtofCalifornia,County of: Solano ThePetitionforProbaterequeststhat: beappointedaspersonalrepresentative toadministerth eestateofthedecedent. Thepetitionrequeststhedecedent'swill andcodicils,ifany,beadmittedtoprobate.Thewillandanycodicilsareavailableforexaminationinthefilekeptbythe court. ThepetitionrequestsauthoritytoadministertheestateundertheIndependentAdministrationofEstatesAct.(Thisauthority willallowthepersonalrepresentativeto takemanyactionswithoutobtainingcourt approval.Beforetakingcertainveryimportantactions ,however,thepersonal representativewillberequiredtogivenoticetointerestedpersonsunlessthey havewaivednoticeorconsentedtothe proposedaction.)Theindependentadministrationauthoritywillbegrantedunless aninterestedpersonfilesanobjectionto thepetitionandshowsgoodcausewhy thecourtshouldnotgranttheauthority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

DATE: June 30, 2023 TIME: 8:30 a.m. Dept. 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano 600 Union Avenue 600 Union Avenue Fairfield, 94533 Fairfield Branch - Hall of Justice

If you object tothegrantingofthepetition,youshouldappearatthehearingand stateyourobjectionsorfilewrittenobjectionswiththecourtbeforethehearing. Yourappearancemaybeinpersonorby yourattorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, youmustfileyourclaimwiththecourtand mailacopytothepersonalrepresentative appointedbythecourtwithinthe later of either(1)four months fromthedateof firstissuanceofletterstoageneralpersonalrepresentative,asdefinedinsection58(b)oftheCaliforniaProbateCode, or(2) 60 days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanoticeunder section9052oftheCaliforniaProbate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may wantto consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court.Ifyouareapersoninterestedinthe estate,youmayfilewiththecourtaRequestforSpecialNotice(formDE-154)of thefilingofaninventoryandappraisalof estateassetsorofanypetitionoraccount asprovidedinProbateCodesection 1250.ARequestforSpecialNoticeformis availablefromthecourtclerk. Attorney forPetitioner: OsbyDavis LawOfficeofOsbyDavis 410TuolumneStreet Vallejo,CA94590 707-644-7424 DR#00063869 Published:June9,12,16,2023

NOTICE OF IMPENDING POWER TO SELL TAX-DEFAULTED PROPERTY

Pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code sections 3691 and 3692.4, the following conditions will, by operation of law, subject real property to the tax collector’s power to sell:

• All property for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for five or more years.

• All nonresidential commercial property for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for three or more years.

• Any property the tax collector has received a request to bring the property to the next scheduled tax sale from a person or entity that has a nuisance abatement lien recorded against the property and for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for three or more years.

• Any property that has been identified and requested for purchase by a city, county, city and county, or nonprofit organization to serve the public benefit by providing housing or services directly related to low-income persons and for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for three or more years.

Note: The power to sell schedule for nonresidential commercial property is three or more years of tax default status, unless the county adopts, by ordinance or resolution, the five-year tax default schedule. The parcels listed herein meet one or more of the conditions listed above and thus, will become subject to the tax collector’s power to sell on July 1, 2023, at 12:01 a.m., by operation of law. The tax collector’s power to sell will arise unless the property is either redeemed or made subject to an installment plan of redemption initiated as provided by law prior to close of business on the last business day in June. The right to an installment plan terminates on the last business day in June, and after that date the entire balance due must be paid in full to prevent sale of the property at a tax sale.

The right of redemption survives the property becoming subject to the power to sell, but it terminates at close of business on the last business day prior to the date of the tax sale by the tax collector. All information concerning redemption or the initiation of an installment plan of redemption will be furnished, upon request, by Charles Lomeli, Solano County Treasurer-Tax Collector-County Clerk, at 675 Texas Street, Suite 1900, Fairfield, California, 94533 (707) 784-7485.

The amount to redeem, including all penalties and fees, as of June 2023, is shown between the parcel number and the name of the assessee.

PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION

The Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN), when used to describe property in this list, refers to the assessor’s map book, the map page, the block on the map, if applicable, and the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The assessor’s maps and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the assessor’s office.

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1306 & 1308 NORTH TEXAS STREET FAIRFIELD 94534 0034122110 45,239.27 707 MOTORS LLC 2021, 2023 & 2025 NORTH TEXAS STREET FAIRFIELD 94533

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Live Nation says customers will no longer see surprise ticket fees

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Live events and ticketing companies are taking steps to no longer surprise customers with fees at checkout and instead include those fees upfront in the total price.

The White House, Live Nation and SeatGeek announced the voluntary moves Thursday morning. President Biden met later in the afternoon with officials from those companies, as well as representatives from ticketing companies that had been using transparent, or “all-in,” pricing for years.

Adding fees toward the end of a purchase can be deceptive and harmful to consumers, experts say. In his State of the Union address in February, Biden called them out as “junk fees.”

Sitting with officials from SeatGeek, Live Nation and other companies Thursday, Biden again took aim at the practice, describing the fees as “hidden charges that companies sneak into your bill to make you pay more without you really knowing it initially.”

“Junk fees are not a matter for the wealthy very much, but they’re a matter for working folks like the homes I grew up in,” he added. “And they can add hundreds of dollars a month and make it harder for families to pay their bills. I think it’s just wrong.”

The changes announced Thursday do not mean that companies will eliminate the surcharges, but simply that the fees will be made clear to the consumer. It would apply only to tickets sold at the 200-plus

venues owned by Live Nation – which is owned by the same company that controls Ticketmaster – but not necessarily to every ticket offered by Ticketmaster.

Ticketmaster has said in the past that it controls only some of the fees it charges consumers, such as labor and technology costs, while other fees go toward venues and their expenses. When asked by The Washington Post for clarification on Thursday, Ticketmaster implied in a statement that it could only implement all-in pricing for all of its tickets if it has the cooperation of every venue it works with.

“Ticketmaster will make this tool available to all its venue clients across the United States if they want to adopt the all-in experience,” it said.

Ticketmaster’s meltdown in November, when its site broke down amid a rush for Taylor Swift tickets, sparked a wave of state and federal legislation that would require Ticketmaster and other companies to implement all-in pricing. Those fees can total an estimated 27 percent of the ticket price, according to a 2018 report by the Government Accountability Office.

“Live Nation is proud to provide fans with a better ticket buying experience,” Tom See, president of Venue Nation, Live Nation’s venue division, said in a statement.

For its part, SeatGeek, a rival ticketing company, will roll out “product features” that will make ticket prices more transparent, according to the White House. The company already featured the option to include fees upfront, but at the White House’s request, the company agreed to make the feature more prominent throughout the purchasing process, a SeatGeek spokesman said.

“For far too long, fans have lacked important consumer protections that other industries take for granted,” SeatGeek chief executive Jack Groetzinger said in a statement.

“Fans want to understand the full cost of their purchase, with no deception or surprises along the way.”

Surcharges do not just apply in the live events industry. They appear when consumers purchase airline tickets and hotel rooms, for example, and can be charged by banks and cellphone providers. To that end, the Biden administration is

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calling for more transparent pricing from airlines, banks, and cable and internet providers. Another effort that Biden is backing is a bill in Congress termed the “Junk Fee Prevention Act” that would require companies to display fees upfront and reduce excessive fees.

Mixed results

While companies and lawmakers alike praise all-in pricing as transparent, it has been difficult for companies to implement by themselves.

For example, some earlier efforts were “not always embraced at the same time, in the same way,” said John Healy, managing director and equity research analyst at Northcoast Research. A company offering all-in pricing by itself might be “penalized because consumers were thinking that their ticket is going to be much more expensive on that format,” he added.

In other words, no ticketing company wanted it to appear that their prices were higher than their competitors.

In 2014, StubHub learned the hard way when it experimented with all-in pricing, the Wall Street Journal reported. A few months into the shift, it saw customers moving to other ticketing sites because StubHub’s tickets appeared more expensive.

Less than two years later, the company reversed course, hiding its fees until later in the purchasing process while giving customers an option to see the full price upfront via a tool on its site, the Journal reported.

The stock rally driven by the exuberance surrounding artificial intelligence is widening beyond the tech industry, defying naysayers and raising concern about an overbought market.

Mounting bets that the Federal Reserve will end its tightening cycle sooner rather than later to prevent a recession added fuel to the equity advance, with the S&P 500 topping 4,400 and rising for a sixth straight day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average extended its advance from a September low to almost 20%, while the Nasdaq 100 closed at its highest since March 2022.

Microsoft, which has unveiled a procession of AI-based products in recent months, climbed to a record. Lennar led a rally in home builders on a bullish outlook. Restaurant chain Cava Group soared in its trading debut. Delta Air Lines climbed for a 15th straight session as its board voted to restart the quarterly dividend. A gauge of U.S.listed Chinese stocks jumped with Beijing seen rolling out more stimulus to help the economy.

Wall Street’s fervor will face a big test on Friday as a massive amount of options contracts tied to stocks and indexes are set to mature. The event, known as OpEx, typically obliges traders to either roll over existing positions or start new ones. That usually involves portfolio adjustments that lead to a spike in volume and sudden price swings.

Equities continued to gain traction after the U.S. benchmark crossed the bull-market threshold last week, surging more than 20% from its October

low. Traders kept piling into stocks even after the S&P 500’s 14-day relative strength index topped 70 - which is seen by some traders as one indication of an overbought market.

“U.S. stocks have defied skeptics and rallied this year in the face of bank collapses, constant fears of a recession, and what’s expected to be a slowdown in corporate profits,” said Arthur Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley Wealth. “For our part, we assume that inflation will look better in the second half.”

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Market breadth has improved notably, with multiple sectors exhibiting stronger relative strength trends, according to Dan Wantrobski at Janney Montgomery Scott.

“All this being said, our concern grows that leadership areas like the Nasdaq 100 index and S&P 500 remain very overbought/extended on a short-term basis,” wrote Wantrobski. “While we understand that overbought conditions such as these can last for some time, we also understand that historical data illustrates they cannot be sustained indefinitely.”

Wantrobski says there’s still a “high probability” of a pullback ahead as we move beyond June.

In fact, the rally in equities faces a fresh threat over the next few weeks with the world’s biggest money managers set to unload as much as $150 billion of stocks. JPMorgan Chase projects real-money portfolios will tilt back in favor of bonds to meet allocation targets, in the largest rebalancing flows to the asset class since the fourth quarter of 2021.

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to the following businesses for supporting literacy in Solano County by being a sponsor in the Daily Republic’s “Newspapers In Education” program. NIE provides sponsored newspapers for teachers in Solano County to use as an educational resource in the classroom.

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Joe Berchtold of Live Nation Entertainment and Jack Groetzinger of SeatGeek testify during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January.

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Rickie Fowler reacts to his putt on the ninth green during the first round of the U.S. Open at The Los Angeles Country Club, Thursday.

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never won a major. Fowler led the 2017 U.S. open at Erin Hills after a firstround 65 but finished tied for fifth. Schauffele is the only player to finish in the top 20 of the last five majors, and a tie for 10th at the Masters two months ago was his best.

A key for Fowler was leading the field with 4.73 strokes gained putting. His game on the greens has improved significantly since changing to a putter used by his caddie, Ricky Romano, early this year.

“This week is off to a good start, but there’s still plenty of golf to be played,” Fowler said. “It’s going to be tough tomorrow afternoon. But at least I got out of the gate and we’re off to, like I said, a good start.”

Schauffele was equally subdued about the sig-

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starts June 25 at St. Helena High School.

Expos play Roseburg, Oregon, to a 3-3 tie

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Expos played host Roseburg, Oregon, to a 3-3 tie after eight innings

Wednesday night.

Fairfield scored a tying run in the top of the seventh inning but the teams went through eight innings and could not break the stalemate. The local American Legion baseball team is now 24-6-1 and it now embarks on its trip through the Northwest.

Blake Bozzini had a pair of doubles for the Expos.

Noah Rodda doubled and singled. Drew Carrington also doubled and Isaiah Pazmino added two hits.

Jace Parkinson had a hit and drove in two runs.

Bryce Alcantara and DJ Andersen also had hits.

Trevor Morse threw three-hit baseball over six innings and had six strikeouts. Jackson Kolakoski pitched the final two innings and had five strikeouts.

Skateboarding competition will be in Vallejo Saturday

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Woods said it was a good fit because she was looking for a “new challenge and a change of environment.”

She added, “I love the atmosphere and the coach.”

McCarver has never been to Massachusetts — Quincy is near Boston — and she looks forward to moving on after Solano helped her “get my love of the game back.”

“We had Theresa for one season and we were ecstatic to have her,” Borchert said. “She’s a great player and a great teammate who can get points and rebounds, and is willing to dive all over the floor.”

McCarver averaged

points per game and

rebounds in her short

nificance of tying the record. After all, Grace set the record in the third round of the Open yet finished tied for sixth, eight strokes behind winner Jordan Spieth. Oddly, 38 rounds of 63 have been recorded in majors.

“I mean, I don’t know ... it’s literally just the first day of a tournament,” Schauffele said. “I’m anticipating the sun to come out just as much as every West Coast person out here. I’m thinking the course is going to firm up a little bit.”

Elsewhere, Scottie Scheffler, Bryson DeChambeau, S.W. Kim and Paul Barjon finished threeunder par. Max Homa of Valencia was one of four golfers at four under.

Matthieu Pavon and Sam Burns shot holes-inone on the three-par No. 15, putting spin on wedge shots from 124 yards that hit the tiny, peninsulashaped green long and curled back into the cup. Pavon doffed his cap.

ippine Cultural Committee, in collaboration with the Greater Vallejo Recreation District, will host the Second Annual Skateboard Competition at Wardlaw Skate Park, Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The competition is the second and final event of the 2023 Vallejo Pista Sa Nayon celebration, which held its signature Filipino Cultural event at the Mare Island Coal Sheds, June 3. Last year’s inaugural Skateboard Competition drew 20 competitors and an audience of more than 100, and organizers are expecting a bigger turnout this year.

“This competition came to exist last year from the vision of Maddox VillaCarlos, 15, one of our Philippine Cultural Committee youth,” said event organizer Jennie Mojica in a press release. “We supported his vision and got to work. We pulled in older generations of skaters, who are partnering and mentoring for a second year.

We believe it will become an annual summer event for Vallejo.”

Judged competition will be held in PIG (Berrics Rules), Skate Challenge, Line Competition and Tricks (highest ollie, longest manual, kick flips, and more.). Same-day registration will begin at 10 a.m. The free event will also feature guest skaters, music, giveaways, competition prizes and more.

stint with the Falcons.

“I’m excited to go back there,” said McCarver, whose only visit came via Zoom. “I like the environment of the team, the college and how everybody is with each other.”

Solano was 19-10 overall this season and went 12-2 in the Bay Valley Conference. The Falcons lost to Lassen 57-52 in the first round of the NorCal tournament. The college also honored the team for having the best overall grade point average among all the teams on campus.

“This is one of those days that makes it worth it for all of us,” Visser said.

“This team exemplifies excellence in academics, athletics, was involved in the community and showed good character.

It’s a compliment to these three for their grit and perseverance.”

Nuggets fans revel in city’s first basketball championship parade

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DENVER — Nikola Jokic, the 7-foot Serbian drafted during a Taco Bell commercial nine years ago, smiled bashfully as he stood on stage Thursday in front of Denver City Hall.

In front of him stood throngs of adoring fans clad in worn-out jerseys, a visual timeline of beloved Denver Nuggets players who could never quite get over the hump: Carmelo Anthony and Dikembe Mutombo, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and Nick Van Exel.

As the star center took the microphone, fans broke out in “MVP! MVP!” chants, pumping their fists.

“You know that (I) told (you) that I don’t want to stay (for the) parade,” Jokic said, “but I (expletive) want to stay (for the) parade.”

The crowd, which stretched all the way across Civic Center to the Colorado State Capitol, roared.

“This is amazing,” the two-time NBA MVP continued. “We’re all gonna remember this our whole life.”

The short speech from the famously modest basketball savant capped a delirious day in downtown Denver that was 47 years in the making. Hundreds of thousands of fans from across the Centennial State whooped and hollered, chanted

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Hargrave said he had never met Bosa before signing with the 49ers, but the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year has been “real humble… just talking to me and welcoming me in, trying to help me catch up on things. It’s kind of like a family.”

Still, it’s hard to shake the feeling that the 49ers have been thinking a lot about their NFC Championship loss to the Eagles since the 31-7 defeat in

and screamed as their beloved Nuggets paraded through the Mile High City, celebrating the first championship in franchise history. Fans began lining up in the early hours Thursday outside Union Station, sporting signs and championship hats. Nick Walsh rolled up his sleeve to show a tattoo of ’70s-era mascot Maxie the Miner — proof that he’s a true die-hard. The former college basketball player has been a fan since the late ’90s, when Raef LaFrentz and Antonio McDyess ruled the court. Former center Marcus Camby became his mentor after Walsh attended his basketball camp, with the NBA All-Star paying for his housing at Division II

January. Several players commented this week about how it was tough to play without a quarterback after Brock Purdy and Josh Johnson got knocked out of the game due to injuries.

Last month, Deebo Samuel told Complex Sports the Eagles are the most hated team right now and the 49ers “lost because we played with 10 people.”

Hargrave, now on the other side, said he hasn’t talked to anyone about that game.

“I’m on this side now so I don’t need to speak

Hastings College.

“I love our team, dude,” Walsh said, noting that he’d never seen this much Nuggets gear in his life. “People enjoy being here — you don’t see that often.”

Nearby, a group of elementary-aged schoolchildren could hardly stand still as they waited for the parade to begin. The cohort watched every game together from the same house. After the Nuggets clinched the title on Monday, the kids drove around in the car with their parents, chanting out of the windows.

“People loved us,” said Johnny Goode, who just finished fourth grade at Denver’s Brown Elementary.

Billie Flickinger came to the festivities with her daughter and two grand-

on that anymore,” he said.

With Hargrave on the interior, the 49ers strengthened a group that was already among the most feared defensive lines in football alongside the Eagles, Cowboys and Chiefs.

“Everything we do starts up front,” said new defensive coordinator Steve Wilks, adding that the organization, from ownership down, has emphasized the line. “We made that commitment … to try to assemble the best defensive line in the league, so with him being here, Bosa being here, you

children. The 73-year-old has lived in Colorado for 50 years – three more than the Nuggets’ titleless NBA tenure. She and her husband refused to miss a playoff game, even watching one from the emergency room as he waited on stitches.

Standing among the jubilant crowd, Flickinger thought back to the decades of futility.

“It’s a miracle,” the Broomfield resident said. As the floats neared, children hopped on parents’ shoulders, craning their necks to see the stars. Fans stood on metal fences and leaned out downtown windows. Every so often, the crowd burst into “Let’s go Nuggets!” chants.

Christian Braun, the precocious rookie from Kansas, smiled widely from atop a fire truck, proudly holding a WWE championship belt. Supermascot Rocky threw goodies into the masses.

Aaron Gordon, the indispensable defensive cog, soaked in the adulation, a cigar hanging out of his mouth. He pointed to his ring finger, where the championship jewelry soon will go, as the crowd screamed “AG! AG!”

Next to him, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope pumped his fist, his floral shirt fully unbuttoned.

Coach Michael Malone fully embraced Thursday’s festivities, rocking a flat-brim championship hat and dark sunglasses.

talk about [Javon] Kinlaw, Arik, Drake [Jackson], I’m excited about what we can do up front this year.”

Bosa, too, is setting expectations high with Hargrave in the fold.

“I’m super excited,” he said. “We’ve been watching tape on him the past few years in Philly and I think every time we watch him, [defensive line coach Kris Kocurek] raves about him. We think of him as one of the best interior guys in the league, especially rushing the passer, and to have him on our side is going to be a huge addition for us.”

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Reflected in the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy, Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic (15) rides on top of a fire truck with his daughter, Ognjena, during the team’s championship parade in Denver, Thursday.