Dear John,

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• LAT $: California officials rolling back reopenings as coronavirus surge creates new crisis
• SacBee: Northern California counties prepare to go after coronavirus health order violators
• FresBee: Clovis restaurants cited by state officials for allowing indoor dining
• AP: California virus deaths top 7,000 as case numbers climb too
• LAT $: The inside story of how California failed mass coronavirus testing
• CalM: Hit or miss: Californians describe vastly different COVID-19 testing experiences
• SFC: Coronavirus live updates: As state monitoring list swells, only two Bay Area counties are not on it
• SFC: As Bay Area cases surge, focus on Alameda County intensifies
• FresBee: As California jobs become available again, what will change with unemployment benefits?
• CG: L.A. Teachers Union Says Schools Can't Reopen Unless Charter Schools Shut Down and Police are Defunded
• SFC: Santa Clara-area school district delays return to classrooms
• California teachers fight back against pressure to reopen schools
• SJMN: Reopen Bay Are schools? Online learning was a fail, coronavirus is surging, time's running out
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• LAT $: Bankruptcy forced this California city to defund police. Here's how it changed public safety
• KQED: Are California Police Departments Quietly Backing Away from Predictive Policing?
• OCReg: Investigators: Mission San Gabriel fire probe yields no 'aha moment'
• AP: Mass celebrated after fire damages centuries-old church
• CalM: Should the state investigate local police shootings? California rethinks its resistance
• Should The State Investigate Local Police Shootings? California Rethinks Its Resistance - capradio.org
• SBSun: 'I Am You': Black San Bernardino deputies ask critics to look beyond uniform
• OCReg: In wake of Floyd killing, police in Orange County talk reform
• SFC: Hundreds march peacefully in Martinez in major BLM demonstration
• LAT $: Protesters rally in Bay Area city where Black Lives Matter mural was painted over
• SFC: Two more San Quentin prisoners die from COVID-19
• SDUT: Bill co-authored by Sen. Brian Jones would undercut insurance-rate protections, critics say
• SDUT: Reporter's Notebook: Assemblywoman Shirley Weber on George Floyd and police reform
• AP: 21 injured in fire aboard ship at Naval Base San Diego
• AP: California now allows nursing home visits, but few happen
• SacBee: In a California manufactured home park, seniors asked to sign leases that may outlive them
• LAT $: L.A.'s corruption probe involves developers, a councilman - and his 80-year-old mom
• AP: Chatham announces plan to buy newspaper publisher McClatchy
• LADN: Hospital chaplains fill role of surrogate family members during times of isolation, depression, death
• LADN: Admissions scandal: Couple paid $250,000 to have daughter admitted as a fake USC volleyball recruit
• OCReg: When the state becomes the pusher
• NR: America's Founding
• NR: On George Washington
• NR: On Thomas Jefferson
• NR: On Abraham Lincoln
• CG: California AG Lawsuit
• NR: The Exceptional First American Century
• CalM: Will California's schools reopen their doors?
• SacBee: Goodbye, cubicle culture. Sacramento employers look to keep workers at home - maybe forever
• SFC: Tumlin was seen as SF's transit savior. Now he faces a leadership test
• SFC: 13 steps to SF becoming a car-free city
• SJMN: Teachers named in San Jose Catholic school sex investigation kept working as Bay Area educators for years
• FresBee: Kings County adds 52 more coronavirus cases, closes in on 3,000 total
• Good judgment, unforced errors; grading Stanislaus leadership in the coronavirus crisis
• CalCoast: Arroyo Grande eyeing increases in taxes and fines to fill shortages
• VCStar $: Brush fire in Simi Vally Sunday afternoon
• LAT $: L.A. to start taking applications Monday for $103 million renters relief program
• LAT $: Los Angeles County records 3,322 new coronavirus cases and 18 deaths
• LADN: LA County reports 3,322 more coronavirvus cases, 18 deaths
• OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 814 new cases and 2 new deaths as of July 12
• VOC: OC Board of Education Panel Calls for a Fall Return to Classes with No Masks or Distancing
• SBSun: 2 more deaths, 131 new coronavirus cases reported in San Bernardino County
• SBSun: Men's rights activist fatally shot in front of home in San Bernardino Mountains
• SBSun: Was lifting mask orders a mistake in Riverside, San Bernardino counties?
• VOSD: Black San Diegans Received a Quarter of All Coronavirus-Related Citations
• SDUT: Some San Diego charter schools received millions of dollars in paycheck protection loans
• SDUT: Rodriguez announces run for Oceanside mayor

Sincerely,