Dear John,

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• SFC: Enforcing health orders: Thousands of complaints, few citations
• SacBee: Coronavirus updates: Sacramento County nears 7,000 infections; El Dorado's first COVID-19 death
• SJMN: Coronavirus: Southern California continues to lead state in new COVID-19 cases
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• FresBee: California could reinstate affirmative action. Here's what that means for hiring
• FresBee: AP says it will capitalize Black but not white
• SJMN: The Bay Area seniors who are left behind by a telehealth tech divide
• SJMN: Faced with calls to defund police, some Bay Area cities weigh radical changes to law enforcement
• SJMN: Marin parents seek 'micro-pods' to share homeschool, distance learning duties
• CG: Los Angeles Times Deems 'Looting' Verboten and Racist
• SacBee: Big CA union joins strike for Black lives + What affirmative action means in CA + Celebrating suffrage
• SJMN: How 'defunding' the police could reframe the Bay Area's homelessness crisis
• LAT $: California weighs steep new fines to combat illegal cannabis sellers
• SJMN: Trying to buy a freezer? National appliance shortage has many on waiting lists
• LAT $: Wanted: Poll workers willing to turn out on election day amid coronavirus crisis
• LAT $: Essential Politics: California needs $28 billion in taxes by the end of July
• OCReg: NFL players plead with league to address health, safety concerns
• SDUT: After recovery, COVID patients sometimes face stigma from disease
• LAT $: UC Berkeley has a poor reputation among Black students. It's trying to change that
• PE: Prop. 13 is working, reject Prop. 15: Jon Coupal and Ernest Dronenburg
• NR: Shootings Spike in Poorest Neighborhoods When Cops Pull Back | National Review
• FH: Help small businesses recover by pausing the annual minimum wage hike
• SDUT: Warrant details shooting of fleeing detainee that led to murder charge for San Diego deputy
• SacBee: Rocklin church defies California Gov. Gavin Newsom's order by holding indoor service
• SacBee: Coronavirus updates: Elk Grove seniors facility reports outbreak, UOP goes online for fall
• SacBee: Black Lives Matter plans protest to demand the removal of Sacramento's city manager
• SacBee: Sacramento tells teams not to gather on Land Park's fields, but players still show up
• SFC: Coronavirus live updates: Nearly 800 Santa Rosa hospital workers to go on strike
• SFC: Bay Area's contact tracers struggle amid coronavirus surge
• SFC: Bay Area of 2050 will be more crowded - planners want to make it more equitable
• SJMN: Coronavirus, racial justice drove this Bay Area safety net veteran out of retirement to oversee Medi-Cal
• SFC: Lawmakers: Proposed change to Caltrain ballot measure could bankrupt it
• SFC: BART's new South Bay stations have grand ambitions - and mixed results
• SJMN: Property shopping spree widens at choice Mountain View sites
• SJMN: Black Lives Matter rally draws counterprotesters in Los Gatos
• FresBee: Backyard homes could stem the state's housing crisis. In Fresno, most can't afford to build them
• FresBee: Inside Fresno County Jail during coronavirus pandemic: 'It's sad and it's scary'
• Coronavirus update, July 20: Stanislaus County single-day positivity rate drops below 10%
• BakCal: Kern Public Health: 719 new coronavirus cases recorded Sunday
• FresBee: Does City of Fresno's new COVID-19 policy on infected workers apply to county workers?
• LADN: L.A. County leader seeks widespread anti-racist strategy
• LADN: Pasadena reports its youngest person to die from coronavirus
• LADN: Coronavirus spreading to younger population in LA County
• LAT $: L.A. County continues dangerous coronavirus surge as Garcetti warns of new restrictions
• OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reports 415 new cases as of July 19
• PE: Inland contact tracers struggle to get cooperation from coronavirus patients
• PE: 206 new coronavirus cases reported in San Bernardino County as of July 19
• SDUT: As COVID-19 cases rise in Coronado, enforcement does not
• SDUT: San Diego County logs 625 new cases, six more COVID-19 deaths

Sincerely,