Dear John,

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• LADN: LAPD getting bonuses and raises during coronavirus budget crisis
• CG: Assembly Holds Rare Committee to Directly Question Newsom Officials
• CalM: Assembly to Newsom: Don't count on feds to rescue California from deep budget cuts
• AP: California Assembly slams governor's proposed budget cuts
• CalM: Blind spot: Lobbying behind California coronavirus contracts can stay secret
• SacBee: Placer pushes governor to be first California county to reopen movie theaters, gyms
• SJMN: Gov. Newsom: Hair salons, barbershops can reopen, but not necessarily in Bay Area
• AP: California rules for reopening barbershops, hair salons.
• OCReg: Disneyland and other California theme parks can reopen in Stage 3, state says
• CG: California Department of Health Releases New In-Store Retail Guidelines
• SDUT: 'Longhairs' rejoice, barbershops, salons can reopen with social distancing
• SDUT: SeaWorld, Legoland and other attractions prepare to reopen, targeting July 1
• CG: Carve-Outs or Voter Initiative: What Will Fix AB5?
• VOC: OC Supervisors Deem Churches Essential, Sheriff Won't Enforce Mask Requirements or Church Restrictions
• FresBee: Churches must limit service to 100, California says. But Fresno pastors say that's not enough
• AP: California lays out pandemic rules for church reopenings
• SacBee: Republicans join in fight to overturn California Gov. Gavin Newsom's mail-in ballot order
• SFC: Trump pushes aggressive GOP campaign against California mail voting
• SFC: Newsom wants environment rules eased to convert hotels to homeless housing
• SFC: SF homeless deaths soar - and officials say it's not due to COVID-19
• SFC: SF mayor's texts with police chief rile up some homelessness advocates
• SFC: Cal/OSHA sees 30% increase in complaints about workplace safety
• LAT $: 'Silent spreaders' become a bigger risk as California reopens
• AP: Police to acknowledge press protections after disputed raid
• AP: PG&E nears end of bankruptcy amid persisting safety worries
• VOSD: San Diego May Have to Pay SDG&E Millions for Natural Gas it Doesn't Want
• AP: Big Oil loses appeal, climate suits go to California courts
• AP: US closes probes into 3 senators over their stock trades
• LAT $: Feinstein cleared by Justice Department in husband's stock trades
• AP: California sues over sex misconduct on 'Criminal Minds' set
• PE: Courts soon to emerge from coronavirus restrictions, reopening in a new reality
• SBSun: LA, San Bernardino counties to resume transferring jail inmates to state prisons
• LAT $: As inmate deaths and infections rise, Chino, Avenal prisons will test all employees for coronavirus
• SacBee: Judge moves Devin Nunes' Washington Post lawsuit. It's his second court setback in one week
• FH: Trial by Zoom Jury?
• FH: Legislation Advances Allowing Sleeping, Hostile and Unintelligible Jurors
• OCReg: Newsom's tacky bluffs impede coronavirus recovery
• FH: California's Deficit Requires that CALPERS, STRS Pensioners Pay Their Share
• CalM: Commentary: The SF-LA economic gap is growing wider
• OCReg: Upholding and continuing William Lyon's legacy
• SacBee: Census 2020 resumes in Northern California with home drop-offs and social distancing
• SacBee: It's 'budget dust.' Paradise calls out Gov. Newsom on proposal to rescind Camp Fire funds
• SacBee: Stevante Clark appears in court for domestic violence charges
• SacBee: Sacramento City Council to vote on $2 million summer learning program for kids
• SFC: Fisherman's Wharf fire a 'disaster' that will devastate city's seafood industry
• SJMN: Santa Clara County said it needed 700 contact tracers. It has hired 50
• SJMN: Coronavirus: Santa Clara County, San Jose extend eviction moratoriums
• SFC: This is how they died: Santa Clara Co. releases data on every COVID-19 death
• FresBee: 'We deserve a little more.' Central Valley students protest high school graduation ceremonies
• VCStar $: Ventura County coronavirus cases pass 1,000
• AP: Los Angeles County reopens in-person shopping, worship
• LAT $: L.A. County allows churches, stores, pools, drive-in theaters to reopen with restrictions
• LADN: In LA County pandemic milestone, in-store sales and worship services can open again
• OCReg: Sheriff Don Barnes sends letter to San Clemente questioning city contract after protest
• VOC: Irvine Cancels Plans for Coronavirus Drive-Thru Testing, Cites Concerns With Contractor's Performance
• VOC: Orange County Public Health Officials Under Fire Over Mask Order
• VOC: Orange County Supervisors Vote To Distribute $75 Million to Small Businesses
• OCReg: Coronavirus: An estimated 1,995 have recovered, 110 new cases in Orange County as of May 26
• SBSun: San Bernardino County sees 202 more coronavirus cases, but no new deaths
• PE: Riverside County now has 7,139 coronavirus cases; deaths rise to 303
• CG: San Diego City Attorney Elliott and Union Tribune Editorial Board Team Up to Defeat Voters
• SDUT: Live updates: Protest outside Sheriff Gore's San Diego home urges no evictions
• VOSD: San Diego Unified Responds to Contractors' Records Requests - and Little Else
• SDUT: City to open motel for homeless families during pandemic

Sincerely,