Dear John,

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• FRBlog: Having COVID
• FresBee: Trump declares California wildfires a major disaster, promising aid despite previous threats
• AP: In just a week, wildfires burn 1 million acres in California
• Update: SCU Lightning Fire continues to grow, now state's second largest
• SacBee: Interactive map: See where the wildfires are burning across California
• LAT $: The fight to save one Northern California town from a fiery monster
• SacBee: LNU wildfire updates: 'Weather is not in our favor' as Cal Fire fights 'extreme' behavior
• LADN: Ranch2 fire above Azusa is 49% contained, and firefighters are being diverted to Northern California
• SJMN: 'I don't want to leave': Hope and trepidation as firefighters make small gains against Santa Cruz, Healdsburg fires
• FresBee: Update: Fire near Giant Sequoia National Monument has doubled in size
• SFC: 'A freaking war zone': Bay Area wildfires rage as fire threat poised to rise
• SJMN: 'Here we go again.' Battle-weary California wine country fights yet another fire
• AP: Changing weather prompts more fire fears in California
• SJMN: 'You just got to keep living life:' In Sonoma County, taking out the trash, getting ice cream and waiting for disaster
• SJMN: Evacuation warnings issued for parts of Santa Clara, Alameda counties
• LADN: Residents whose homes were burned in Lake fire are escorted back to 'salvage what you can'
• FresBee: Christian private school sets up defense fund to fight Fresno County COVID-19 orders
• SBSun: 'Ignore' Trump, Pelosi says, as House debates postal funds
• SDUT: San Diegans join in nationwide rallies supporting Postal Service amid cuts
• FresBee: Blue Lives Matter as hundreds march in support of law enforcement
• SFC: What if 'nothing ever goes back to normal'? Depression, anxiety mount in Bay Area
• 'The Worst Is Not Behind Us': California Wildfires Continue To Burn
• SJMN: Hey, California: With wildfires, blackouts, bloody protests, pandemic, could 2020 get any worse?
• SFC: Bad things keep piling on - when is enough enough in the Bay Area?
• LAT $: With less money and more risk, waves of child-care providers call it quits
• LAT $: Prop. 209's affirmative action ban drove down Black and Latino UC enrollment and wages, study finds
• LAT $: A loophole is allowing thousands of California students to use pandemic-shuttered classrooms
• SacBee: California's Delta tunnel project inches forward - and just got a $15.9 billion price tag
• AP: Trump ordered to pay $44,100 in Stormy Daniels legal fees
• SFC: California approved for $300 a week in extra unemployment benefits
• VCStar $: Families want Borderline records withheld
• AP: Report: Police officer 1 of several shot in mobile home park
• SacBee: Rancho Cordova cop critically wounded in shootout with gunman who killed woman in mobile home
• Coronavirus death, nursing home outbreak in Calaveras County, officials announce
• Reason: Why Does Hollywood Hate Real Estate Developers?
• NR: The Democratic Convention Skipped over the Biden-Harris Agenda
• SFC: Willie Brown: Time to ditch the old-fashioned political convention
• OCReg: California needs a party that stands for common sense: Tom Campbell
• CalM: California gambles with stopgap legislation
• NR: No, Joe, the U.S. Isn't the Worst Country on Coronavirus
• CG: Incompatible Activities in Local Government Employment
• SacBee: Sacramento voters put activist Katie Valenzuela on the inside. Here's how she plans to govern
• SacBee: The latest on Sac City Unified Schools money: The district may run out by February 2021
• SacBee: Coronavirus infections reach 15,000 in Sacramento County, new death in Placer County
• SFC: San Francisco supervisor tests positive for the coronavirus
• SFC: Unhealthy air over most of Bay Area with no end in sight for smoke
• FresBee: Should Fresno housing board edit its minutes? This national group has an opinion
• Stanislaus County unemployment falls. Here's one economist's prediction about recovery
• LADN: LA County's coronavirus infection numbers skewing younger again
• OCReg: Orange County school districts start looking at possibility of return to in-person instruction
• OCReg: Coronavirus: 493 new cases, 14 new deaths in Orange County on Aug. 22
• PE: Riverside County to start accepting school reopening waivers next week
• PE: Riverside County coronavirus hospitalizations are lowest since June 15
• SBSun: San Bernardino County reports 62 coronavirus deaths Saturday
• SBSun: These 18 San Bernardino County schools are seeking waivers to reopen
• SDUT: Developer credits could increase San Diego housing bond's burden on ordinary taxpayers
• SDUT: Pandemic, race protests could shape battle for San Diego City Council District 3
• VOSD: Politics Report: A Poll and a Court Ruling in Key Council Race

Sincerely,