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• SacBee: 'Urgency and panic': Inside Gov. Gavin Newsom's rush to buy coronavirus gear
• LAT $: California pays $3.30 per coronavirus mask with China deal
• AP: California to get $247M refund as masks face delivery delay
• LAT $: Chinese firm will reimburse California $247.5 million in controversial mask deal, contract shows
• SacBee: Federal certification 'delayed' for the N95 masks California ordered from China
• Justice Department investigates Blue Flame Medical after claims that it failed to provide masks to Maryland
• CalM: Newsom welcomes 'new partners' in coronavirus supply deals: federal investigators
• NYT: Coronavirus Masks and Testing Kits: Firm Set Up by G.O.P. Operatives Under Scrutiny
• California Wires Mask Dealer Half A Billion Dollars, Then Claws It Back: LAist
• SFC: Bay Area support for shelter-in-place runs deep, for many reasons
• LAT $: Bay Area to keep stay-at-home order even as Newsom eases rules
• SJMN: Drive-through graduations, celebrations forbidden in Santa Clara County
• SJMN: California hit daily high of new coronavirus cases. It may not be as bad as it sounds
• CG: Yuba County Sheriff Questions CA State Alcoholic Beverage Control Closing Down Bars in Newly Re-Opened Rural County
• SacBee: California regulators descend on Yuba and Sutter as coronavirus battle with Newsom heats up
• CalM: Wanted: Health care workers. Wait! Never mind
• LAT $: New law allows tenants to sue landlords over violating L.A. restrictions on evictions
• LADN: L.A. City Council votes to freeze rent hikes for a year at rent-controlled units
• SFC: Uber layoffs, following Lyft, Airbnb, add to SF economic pain
• Reason: Coronavirus Has Devastated Uber and Lyft's Business. Now California Is Suing Them.
• SFC: State court allows Newsom's $75M coronavirus aid for undocumented
• AP: California governor expands health coverage in virus cases
• SacBee: These 30 local restaurants will be paid to feed Sacramento's low-income seniors
• OCReg: State approves Newport Beach's plan to open city beaches for limited access
• VOC: Coronavirus: City Beaches Get State's OK to Reopen Coastal Access, While Other Beaches Remain Closed
• LAT $: How coronavirus outbreak upended the entire U.S. food system
• CalM: California's essential workers to get benefit of the doubt if they contract COVID
• SacBee: Customers return to first California mall to reopen with coronavirus precautions
• OCReg: Knott's Berry Farm owner says its theme parks could be closed through end of 2020
• AP: California governor to reveal guidelines for reopening
• AP: Reopening plan has big changes for California restaurants
• AP: Golden Gate Fields to resume live horse racing on May 14
• CalM: Legislators vote to close school spending loophole
• SacBee: Tom McClintock doesn't think masks should be mandatory: 'People are very courteous'
• LAT $: L.A. weighs requiring masks when people leave their homes
• LAT $: Coronavirus: Masks will be mandatory at LAX beginning Monday
• LAT $: Masks will be mandatory at LAX and on city buses beginning Monday
• CG: No Justice Yet for Republican Assembly Candidate Falsely Accused of Sexual Harassment During 2018 Election
• LAT $: Former Rep. Duncan Hunter, prosecutors ask court to delay start of his prison sentence
• LADN: Temperatures at tail end of heat wave set records in some Southern California spots
• CapWkly: Pandemic raises stakes on sports gambling measure
• SacBee: Property tax relief announced as coronavirus hits California budgets
• SacBee: Native American tribes are suing the Trump administration over coronavirus aid. Here's why
• SacBee: Another Amazon warehouse employee tests positive for coronavirus in Sacramento
• SDUT: First ICE detainee dies from COVID-19 after being hospitalized from Otay Mesa Detention Center
• VOSD: Small Cities Left Out of CARES Act Hope the County Is Feeling Generous
• VOSD: City Council Afraid of Spending - and Not Spending - Massive Federal Relief Check
• OCReg: Judge orders O.C. company to stop selling unapproved hand sanitizer products, FDA warns competitor
• SacBee: 'Truly problematic.' Hand sanitizer ingestions surge during coronavirus pandemic
• OCReg: California's misguided crackdown on Uber and Lyft comes at the worst possible time
• OCReg: Partisan Democrats are obviously holding Joe Biden to a different standard
• CG: State Legislature Continues Its Assault On Local Zoning Decisions
• OCReg: A hasty hearing on a constitutional amendment that would overturn Prop. 209
• FH: Uber and Lyft Fight over AB 5 will be resolved in November
• CalM: Commentary: High court weighs timely pension case
• SacBee: How eligible Sacramento City Unified students can receive 6 months of free internet
• SacBee: 'It is time.' Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones calls for coronavirus lockdown to end
• SFC: SF's new plan on Tenderloin confronts staggering number: 285% jump in tents
• SFC: Fired Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick files whistleblower complaint
• SFC: Walk-up site opens in East Oakland with free coronavirus testing
• LAT $: Coronavirus: Lockdowns, oil slump, prison closing hit Taft
• FresBee: Fresno rally had protest signs, MAGA hats and shutdown anger - but protesters were peaceful
• FresBee: Fresno County civil courthouse to close due to coronavirus concerns
• Stanislaus County reports two more deaths to coronavirus, bringing total to 17
• LAT $: SoCalGas union leader threatened protest despite coronavirus
• VCStar $: Oxnard council takes away bulk of treasurer duties
• VCStar $: Coronavirus: County surpasses 600 cases Wednesday
• FH: Garcetti Keeps his Balance on a Tight Rope
• LADN: L.A. Mayor Garcetti says city will join county Friday in reopening florists, bookstores and other retail shops
• LAT $: After criticism, L.A. County supervisors to allow real-time public comment at its meetings
• VOC: OC Supervisors Split on Coronavirus Business Reopening But County Officials Say They Will Follow Gov. Newsom's Orders
• OCReg: Coronavirus: More than 40,000 tested, 131 new cases in Orange County as of May 6
• SBSun: San Bernardino County sees 3 more coronavirus deaths, 103 more cases
• SBSun: San Bernardino County houses about 200 homeless people during coronavirus crisis
• SBSun: Former San Bernardino County Supervisor Dennis Hansberger dies
• PE: Riverside County's homeless population climbs 5%
• PE: Riverside County coronavirus cases rise to 4,672; deaths now at 186
• PE: After criticism, Riverside County coronavirus economic recovery group adding new voices
• SDUT: Are San Diego's retail stores actually reopening Friday?
• SDUT: Editorial: All colleges can learn from UC San Diego's embrace of mass coronavirus testing
• SDUT: Editorial: Tense incidents in Santee, Ocean Beach demand unified responses
• SDUT: Live updates: Officials report 159 new COVID-19 cases, eight additional deaths
• SDUT: San Diego County unemployment estimated at 27%

Sincerely,