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• SacBee: California's COVID-19 tracking system failed. This is what is being done to fix it
• SDUT: California's public health director resigns amid questions about coronavirus test data
• SJMN: California's top public health official leaves job five months into COVID-19 pandemic
• SFC: California's inaccurate coronavirus count: 'We will hold people accountable'
• LAT $: California's public health director resigns amid questions about coronavirus test data
• LAT $: An all-star economic task force is advising Newsom during the pandemic. Little is known about its work
• OCReg: Where does Gov. Gavin Newsom stand on split roll?
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• SJMN: Coronavirus: Over 6,000 new cases reported Saturday after fourth-deadliest day on record
• LAT $: As COVID-19 cases surge, patients are dying at a lower rate. Here's why
• AP: States on hook for billions under Trump's unemployment plan
• SFC: California cuts off coronavirus aid to two cities that refuse to shut down
• SFC: California executions on hold, but coronavirus killing San Quentin inmates
• FresBee: First San Quentin guard, 4th death row inmate from Sacramento dies from COVID-19
• SJMN: As universities change plans for a coronavirus-affected fall, students scramble
• FresBee: UC schools to require flu shots for all students, staff
• SFC: California's elementary-school reopening rules may favor private schools, charters
• OCReg: As school starts, anxiety and excitement build for Online 2.0
• LAT $: This California school is open, 'learning as we go.' Is it a model or a mistake?
• LAT $: Amid COVID-19, California releases some inmates doing time for murder. Advocates push to free more
• SDUT: Campaign fund-raising all but flat for state insurance commissioner
• LAT $: 'Horrible sequence of mistakes': How bullet train contractors botched a bridge project
• SacBee: California has spent $43 million suing the Trump administration. It's paying off, officials say
• FresBee: Fresno Congressman TJ Cox's Yosemite trip won't be investigated by Interior inspector general
• PE: Many evacuation warnings canceled for Apple fire, now at 42% containment
• SJMN: Santa Clara County: Firefighters partially contain Metcalf, Uvas fires
• FresBee: Firefighters crank up fight against wildfire in national forest near Pine Flat Lake
• BakCal: Stagecoach Fire: 7,760 acres burned, 57 percent contained Sunday
• PE: California's immense pension dilemma
• FH: CalPERS' Effort to Become a Lender Takes Curious Turn with Sudden CIO Resignation
• OCReg: California's employers need equitable work standards
• NR: At Converse College, One Professor Asserts His Conscience against Political Correctness
• AmerSpec: Coronavirus Relief: Deregulate Lawyers and End the State-Enforced Legal Monopoly
• FH: Has the Legislature Reduced Its Bill Load?
• PE: Vote No on Prop. 14, a costly, unnecessary bond measure
• OCReg: Prop. 16 threatens California's commitment to equality: Ward Connerly
• SacBee: 10,000 dead of coronavirus in California. 100 dead in its capital. How did we get here?
• SacBee: Down goes the dome: Important weather radar in Davis undergoing repairs
• LAT $: Latino workers bear brunt of second wave of COVID-19 in ritzy Marin County
• SFC: Understaffed sheriff leaning in to OT. One deputy boosted pay to $445,000
• SFC: Developers tried to build at this site for years. Now 1,100 homes are on cusp of approval
• SFC: UCSF study: Few SF firefighters have coronavirus antibodies
• SJMN: They said it: Trouble brewing in Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office
• SJMN: San Jose in a quandary over unauthorized 'Black Lives Matter' street art
• SJMN: Two Santa Clara County courthouses to stay closed indefinitely
• SJMN: San Jose: Man rams through security gate at main jail
• SJMN: Monterey revisiting legalizing cannabis dispensaries
• BakCal: Councilman wants to do more about nuisance properties that damage neighborhoods
• Hundreds line McHenry in Modesto to show support for law enforcement
• SLTrib: Who will fill vacant SLO County board seat following Adam Hill's death?
• SLTrib: Plan could send 70 oil trucks a day along SLO County's border - if SB County approves
• SLTrib: 'It's a challenge.' Here's how SLO County's coronavirus contact tracers work
• VCStar $: Oxnard struck with Brown Act violation warning
• LAT $: With L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar arrested and suspended, who's in charge in his district?
• LAT $: L.A. County reports more than 1,700 new coronavirus cases, many among younger people
• LADN: Hopeful trend line endures as LA County's coronavirus hospitalizations drop to 1,568
• LAT $: Thousands of online listings are violating L.A.'s new short-term rental law
• LADN: Valley restaurants team up, head outdoors to fight coronavirus slump
• OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reports 565 new cases and 6 new deaths as of Aug. 9
• PE: San Bernardino County coronavirus deaths up to 546 as state releases data backlog
• PE: Riverside County lost at least 100,500 jobs due to coronavirus, study concludes
• SDUT: North River Farms files second suit to stop Oceanside ballot measure
• SDUT: Hundreds gather to worship, protest closure of churches amid pandemic
• SDUT: San Diego's 1.8 million registered voters should expect to receive mail-in ballots in October

Sincerely,