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• AP: California's unemployment rate soars, but worst yet to come
• CalM: What comes next for California cities? Deficits, bailouts and long recoveries
• LAT $: California is in a 'pandemic-induced recession,' Newsom says
• VOC: Economic Pain and Frustration Grow in Orange County Under Stay Home Orders
• FresBee: Coronavirus updates: Unemployment, job losses mounting; Fresno County budget takes a hit
• Coronavirus Update: 2,269,145 Cases and 155,190 Deaths
• Reuters: U.S. coronavirus death toll passes 35,000, cases top 700,000
• SJMN: Gov. Newsom: California sees 'worst 24-hour period since this virus attacked people'
• AP: California tops 1,000 coronavirus deaths as economy tumbles
• SFC: SF attorney sues over coronavirus ban on religious gatherings
• VCStar $: Pastor, rabbi demand county rescind parts of virus order
• SacBee: Placerville leaders want coronavirus order lifted - including the recovering vice mayor
• LADN: LA to dispatch 'street medical teams' to test homeless for coronavirus
• AP: California struggles to slow COVID-19 among homeless
• LADN: Lawndale and Bell Gardens aim to impede efforts to house homeless, LA County contends
• SJMN: Bay Area homeless shelters struggle to prevent next coronavirus outbreak
• CG: Bill to Reduce California Rents by 25% Using Coronavirus Crisis as Opportunity to Erode Property Rights
• AP: Business, labor, politics have role in California task force
• SFC: Tom Steyer, four ex-California governors to advise Newsom
• SacBee: Tom McClintock doesn't fault coronavirus for economic destruction. Here's who he blames
• AP: California county offers virus testing to all who seek it
• LAT $: Boom times for cannabis businesses as Californians, in a pandemic fog, isolate indoors
• OCReg: Music industry, lawmakers, unions agree on revamp to AB5
• CG: Musicians and Music Professionals to Receive AB 5 Exemption
• VOC: Some Orange County Residents Defy Stay-at-home Orders With Protests in Huntington Beach, San Clemente
• OCReg: Scores of people gather in Huntington Beach to protest coronavirus stay-at-home orders
• LAT $: 'Live Free or Die': Protesters march against California stay-at-home rules in Huntington Beach
• AP: California's attorney general defends virus shutdowns
• LADN: 450,000-plus apply for L.A.'s Angeleno debit cards to help make it through coronavirus crisis
• LAT $: Coronavirus infections could be much more widespread than believed, California study suggests
• CG: Stanford University Random Sampling Test Shows Coronavirus More Widespread and Less Deadly Than 'Experts' Claimed
• LAT $: L.A. Surge Hospital will help aid coronavirus pandemic
• Fewer Patients Visiting Urgent Cares, Emergency Departments During Pandemic | KPBS
• SJMN: California hospitals warned to brace for surge if coronavirus social distancing measures lifted
• SDUT: Hospital ship Mercy crew to move off ship after several test positive for coronavirus
• VOSD: Sacramento Report: Coronavirus Hearing Highlights Budget (and Tech) Challenges to Come
• SacBee: California car dealers are essential businesses during the pandemic. But customers stay away
• SDUT: Federal prosecutors, FBI to discuss COVID-19 scams in 'telephone town hall' with AARP members
• CalM: Cut farmworker pay during the crisis? Don't do it, California growers say
• FresBee: Farming, ranching industries to get financial aid amid coronavirus pandemic
• Reason: Governments Splurged on Stadiums and Luxury Hotels Before Coronavirus Shut Them All Down
• SFC: California Democrats who flipped seats in 2018 have plenty of cash for 2020
• SFC: Progressive group spending $5M to boost turnout among voters of color
• SFC: Principal threatened to call ICE on undocumented parent. She sued, lost
• SFC: Kamala Harris 'would be honored' to be Joe Biden's running mate
• OCReg: Will COVID-19 force planners to rethink their love of density?
• OCReg: California must invest in its future during coronavirus crisis
• FH: Let's Stick to One Election at a Time
• OCReg: Governments can't plan economy's reopening
• SDUT: Editorial: California lawmakers should be allowed to work remotely during coronavirus crisis
• FH: The Tax Question
• OCReg: Rethink jail policy during, and after, coronavirus pandemic
• SacBee: Coronavirus crisis may mean more cuts to Sacramento school district's already battered budget
• SFC: Huge SF-based medical provider offers coronavirus tests to everyone
• SJMN: Coronavirus: Bay Area seniors, vulnerable people can get help with shopping, errands
• SFC: San Francisco Mayor London Breed orders residents to wear masks
• SJMN: More than 48,000 already infected with COVID-19 in Santa Clara County, Stanford study estimates
• FresBee: Nearly 40 Fresno County low-level juvenile offenders set free to slow coronavirus spread
• FresBee: Fresno County DA going after looters during coronavirus emergency, charges 3 suspects
• FresBee: By the numbers: Coronavirus in the San Joaquin Valley
• FresBee: Fresno County now has more than 300 coronavirus cases. Leaders release data for ethnicity
• Coronavirus cases rapidly increase in Stanislaus County. Here's the latest city count.
• CalCoast: Lompoc prison inmate dies from coronavirus
• CalCoast: Have coronavirus cases peaked in San Luis Obispo County?
• VCStar $: County-run parks reopen in time for the weekend
• LAT $: Less than half of L.A. County residents still have jobs amid economic upheaval
• LADN: Coronavirus pushes LA Times to close Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader, La Cañada Sun
• VOC: High Pay for Disneyland Area Resort Promotion Group, Visit Anaheim, Called Out in Email Memo From Anaheim City Manager After City Bailout
• VOC: OC Expects to Receive $540 Million-Plus in Coronavirus Response Money From Feds
• OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County has 1,501 confirmed cases and 28 deaths as of April 17
• PE: San Bernardino County reports 8 more coronavirus deaths, 64 more cases
• SBSun: 16 deaths, 103 cases of coronavirus now reported at Yucaipa nursing home
• SBSun: Coronavirus put 22,400 Inland Empire people out of work in March
• PE: Any Riverside County resident can now get coronavirus test, no symptoms necessary
• PE: Riverside County coronavirus cases now at 2,457; deaths rise to 69
• PE: Riverside, San Bernardino counties change course, allow drive-up worship
• PE: Judge demands better Riverside County plan to protect inmates from coronavirus
• SDUT: Live updates: 7 more dead of COVID-19; county leaders begin charting economic path forward
• SDUT: Editorial: San Diego County should publicly list senior care facilities with COVID-19 cases
• VOSD: VOSD Podcast: What to Watch for as the Budget Moves Forward
• SDUT: Column: COVID-19 crisis may put $900 million housing bond in jeopardy
• SDUT: State, county, city form task forces to reopen economy

Sincerely,