Dear John,

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• FRBlog: Betrayal at the Supreme Court
• CG: Sacramento: Typical of Poorly Run Blue-Mayor Cities
• AP: Thousands remain evacuated from Southern California wildfire
• SFC: Fire forces evacuations in Colusa County
• CalCoast: Evacuations ordered, Pond Fire burns 1550 acres and two structures
• PE: Apple fire in Riverside, San Bernardino counties at more than 20,000 acres, 5% containment
• SacBee: Evacuations ordered for 1,000-acre fire in Colusa County, smaller blaze on Nevada state line
• VCStar $: Brush fire slows traffic over the Grapevine1:02 AM EDT Aug 3, 2020
• AP: Los Angeles protesters demand rent cancellation amid virus
• SacBee: Black Lives Matter protesters march from Chavez Plaza to Sacramento police station
• SBSun: 9 arrested, deputy assaulted at Yucaipa protest during 'volatile situation'
• LAT $: Protests at Mayor Garcetti's home continue after arrest of demonstrators
• Saturday Headlines
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• SDUT: Church leaders see following health order as part of faith
• SacBee: Eviction ban to end in California. And a crisis looms if lawmakers don't act
• OCReg: Coronavirus state tracker: Hospitalizations up first time in six days, 4,669 new cases and 41 new deaths
• SBSun: 4 months into pandemic, turnaround times for reliable coronavirus tests are still an issue
• LAT $: O.C. hair salons adjust to work with coronavirus guidelines
• SFC: Empty towers. Quiet streets. Struggling cafes. Will downtown SF ever boom again?
• Governor Newsom announces more indoor business closures for many California counties
• AP: Marines halt search for 8 missing troops, all presumed dead
• AP: California judge denies bail for researcher over China ties
• SDUT: Remote work, child care, mask enforcement: COVID-19 is re-writing employment law
• SFC: What's in a name? Everything, unhappy California initiative backers say as they sue state
• SFC: Here's how much money is flowing into California ballot campaigns
• OCReg: In the wake of George Floyd, a question looms: Who should be an officer?
• LAT $: Some autopsies remain secret for years or decades. Families of those killed by police want that changed.
• OCReg: The VeepStakes: South L.A. Rep. Karen Bass inching closer to becoming Joe Biden's VP pick
• SJMN: San Quentin: Protesters demand action as coronavirus outbreak continues at prison; another inmate dies Sunday from COVID-19
• HJTA: AG Becerra can't be trusted when naming props
• NR: It's Time for Action on COVID Liability
• CalM: Two mayors seek more authority
• CapWkly: The California Network
• SFC: Stanford, Cal football players among group threatening boycott of 'reckless' season
• SFC: SF's Tenderloin to receive wider pedestrian areas, play spaces
• SFC: San Francisco dining is going mobile. Get ready for the street food revolution - SFChronicle.com
• SJMN: San Jose to create a 'quiet zone' to stop trains from blaring horns at night
• SJMN: Activists, artists paint San Jose mural to honor lives of homeless residents
• FresBee: Fresno County adds 365 COVID-19 cases, extending string of big increases since mid-July
• Coronavirus Update, Aug. 2: Stanislaus County reports 6 deaths as cases surge past 9,000
• Coronavirus update, Aug. 1: Stanislaus has first day without a death since July 19
• Stanislaus County touts efforts to control COVID-19 outbreak after a brutal July
• CalCoast: Tilting at windmills and Paso Robles garbage rates
• LAT $: Coronavirus hospitalizations drop in L.A., Orange counties
• LAT $: Instagram accounts recount racism at L.A.'s elite private schools
• LAT $: Manhattan Beach was once home to Black beachgoers, but the city ran them out. Now it faces a reckoning
• LADN: Decade of rent hikes end in L.A., Orange counties
• OCReg: Drive-through communion, online sermons: Venerable Tustin church adapts to pandemic
• OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reports 558 new cases and 2 new deaths as of Aug. 2
• SBSun: 284 new coronavirus cases reported in San Bernardino County
• PE: Death row inmate from Riverside County dies of apparent COVID-19 complications
• PE: Riverside County small businesses get $28.5 million in coronavirus relief aid
• SDUT: Former Palomar College president alleged race, gender discrimination in complaint
• SDUT: Convention Center shelter sees progress in housing homeless

Sincerely,