Newsom issues 10 p.m. curfew COVID; California water supply tainted
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Newsom orders curfew in purple-tiered counties
Starting Saturday and increasing by way of Dec. 21, Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered all purple-tiered counties (currently 41 of the state’s 58) to shutter non-essential work, gatherings and movement between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. amid a sudden and speedy surge of COVID-19 circumstances.
In the final 10 days, new each daycoronavirus circumstances have doubled throughout California, hitting the 1 million-case mark because it did so. More than 18,000 have died from the virus.
In some locations, sufferers are testing constructive for each COVID-19 and influenza, the Visalia Times-Delta has reported. But Redding’s police chief and different legislation enforcement officers have mentioned they do not plan to implement the curfew.
The state has blamed the rise in circumstances primarily on individuals who have grown fatigued dealing with the virus and have ignored public well being warnings to not socialize with family and friends members. Those warnings have been extra forceful upfront of Thanksgiving subsequent week.
“The virus is spreading at a pace we haven’t seen since the start of this pandemic and the next several days and weeks will be critical to stop the surge. We are sounding the alarm,” mentioned Newsom. “It is crucial that we act to decrease transmission and slow hospitalizations before the death count surges. We’ve done it before and we must do it again.”
“We may need to take more stringent actions if we are unable to flatten the curve quickly,” said California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly. “Taking these hard, temporary actions now could help prevent future shutdowns.”
The order doesn’t apply to people experiencing homelessness or important employees. Wondering should you can go to the grocery retailer or stroll your canine after 10 p.m.? Check out our extensive Q&A concerning the curfew.
With Thanksgiving quick approaching, The Desert Sun has recommendations for how to safely celebrate the holiday. Long story, quick: get examined, preserve it small and preserve it native.
Monterey County DA will not cost Biden sexual assault accuser with perjury
Despite discovering that the girl who accused President-elect Joe Biden of sexual assault didn’t inform the reality about her credentials below oath, the Monterey County District Attorney has declined to charge her with perjury.
Earlier this 12 months, Tara Reade accused Biden of assaulting her whereas she labored as an aide for him on the U.S. Capitol in 1993. She served as an professional witness for the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office between 2006 and 2019 in home violence circumstances.
She misled the court docket about her schooling and whether or not she had taken the California Bar examination, mentioned Berkley Brannon, chief assistant DA.
Prosecutors have declined to cost her as a result of they do not have sufficient proof she knowingly deceived the court docket or that her testimonies would have affected the trial outcomes, he mentioned.
Stockton mayor who championed guaranteed-income pilot program concedes election
Michael Tubbs, the Stockton mayor who gained nationwide consideration after beginning a privately funded program to provide poor individuals $500 a month in assured revenue, conceded that he misplaced his bid for reelection Wednesday to Republican Kevin Lincoln, the Stockton Record reported.
Four years after profitable his seat with greater than 70% of the vote, Tubbs misplaced by greater than 10 proportion factors. Wednesday, the Democrat was down greater than 12,000 votes, with fewer than 12,000 votes left to be counted.
In 2019 Tubbs began the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED), a program that gave 125 Stockton residents $500 a month for 2 years. Recipients may spend the cash nonetheless they wished. Since SEED’s inception, mayors in 25 different cities have pledged to begin their very own assured revenue packages.
Police-led coaching on ‘crime-free housing’ disproportionately focused Black and Latino renters
The L.A. Times investigated “crime-free housing” in additional than a thousand cities throughout the nation and located the gathering of insurance policies was routinely was used to exclude Black and Latino renters from communities.
The packages fluctuate by jurisdiction however are aimed toward empowering landlords to evict or exclude tenants who’ve had brushes with legislation enforcement. The journalists discovered a sample: As Black individuals and Latinos moved to the suburbs in the hunt for safer neighborhoods and cheaper housing, crime-free housing insurance policies usually got here quickly after. In the Golden State at least 147 cities and counties have adopted these insurance policies.
Crime-free housing coaching manuals referred to criminals as “weeds” and “the two-legged urban predator.”
The libraries that formed an L.A.-grown sci-fi legend
The L.A. Times has revealed a visual exploration of the native libraries, bus routes and bookstores that formed science fiction author Octavia E. Butler’s works. The first science fiction author to obtain the MacArthur Fellowship, Butler revealed 15 books spanning a number of collection in addition to quick tales, essays and speeches. Butler, who died in 2006, received each the Hugo and the Nebula a number of instances for her contributions to the style.
In 2020, her “prophetic” works resembling “Kindred” have taken on new which means for readers, speeding to the highest of the bestseller record and bookclub studying lists.
The scrolling visuals embrace copies of bus passes, pages from her each day planner (a few of which simply say in all-caps, “WRITE,”) and photographs of her e book slips from the general public library.
Other Golden State tales of observe
- The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office has launched a device known as Copwatch, believed to be among the many first within the nation that permits the general public to go looking police information of misconduct, shootings, civil fits and sure complaints, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.
- The Associated Press reported California’s unemployment company opened up an unknown variety of individuals to potential identification theft this 12 months when it despatched out 38 million items of mail that contained Social Security numbers, a state audit discovered.
- “Forever chemicals” that trigger most cancers have tainted almost 200 ingesting water wells within the state examined over the previous 12 months, CalMatters reported. These industrial chemical compounds have been linked to most cancers and different critical well being situations.
A lighter observe
Last, however not least, Monterey County resident Brian Mack ‘relished’ snapping a shot of the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile because it made its approach throughout Big Sur’s well-known Bixby Bridge. Mack shared it in a local Facebook group to aBUNdant reward.
In California is a roundup of stories from throughout USA Today community newsrooms. Also contributing: L.A. Times, San Francisco Chronicle, CalMatters and The Associated Press.
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