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Happy Sunday! My fridge is bare and the air quality index suggests that it is safe to go to farmers market, masked of course because of that other thing that is still out there. So, I'm hoping to get over to the market when it opens at 8 and also have wishes that the street tacos at Our Lady of Guadalupe will return today. Of course, I still have the Thai beef curry in my Instant Pot that I wrote about yesterday. My doctor, however, would note that there's nothing green in that pot and I really need to start a Whole 30 after eating like crap for the last few months and gaining my COVID+19. (Well, I haven't stepped on the scale...) ...back from farmers market and I found that Our Lady of Guadalupe tacos and other food are now available on a parking lot behind the church adjacent to the school's soccer field. On the soccer field, you will find the Spanish-language church's services! I only found it because I heard music coming from behind the church. #2020 While the Buddhist Church of Sacramento remains virtual, I'm looking forward to some blessed tacos of my selection of a variety of proteins most of you may not have tried as well as a mangonada from the street vendor on 7th/T. While the other five or so vendors haven't come back (some likely returned to south of the border while others I know have other employment and it's just not worth it), the mangonada guy (occasionally with his sister) keeps showing up, regardless of smoke or temperature. I call him the mangonada guy, but he also has esquité (street corn in a cup), chipas con salsa, etc. I really don't know his entire menu. You sort of just have to try to ask the quite affable guy in Spanglish. Come to think of it, I really should ask for his name. I know where he comes from but not his name. How inconsiderate of me. America. I love it. And I love Mexíco, obviously. Meanwhile, if you haven't seen the RBG documentary on CNN and missed it last night (as if you were at the movies or a concert or dining in a fine restaurant), it will be on again tonight at 7pm PDT. I'm working on a podcast with law professors to talk about the legacy of RBG and what happens next to be recorded this week. I'll be short today since I have so many other projects beyond restocking my fridge. MONEY MATTERS: highlights of filings from yesterday's daily reports. These do not include regular contributions to candidates or significant in-kind expenditures from the political parties, which are primarily for mail. Legislative races - independent expenditures
COVID-19: -The numbers: 77 more Californians reportedly lost their lives to COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the total to 14,987. The usual caveat about weekend reporting applies, with lower numbers reported over the weekend and higher numbers midweek. The 14-day average positivity rate statewide is 3.3%. WILDFIRES: -The numbers: 26 fatalities have been tallied and 6,546 structures destroyed or damaged in the Caliifornia fires. Five of the state's 20 largest fires in California history have occurred in 2020, with 3,472,947 acres burned. (The acreage number is updated occasionally and not daily like the individual fires. Here are the five biggest currently burning:
-Bobcat Fire: When people think of Los Angeles County, they rarely remember that the county has wide expanses of open space, reaching north through the Angeles National Forest to the Antelope Valley cities of Lancaster and Palmdale. The LAT's Alex Wigglesworth and Louis Sahagun report that the Bobcat Fire, burning through that area in between the metropolis and high-desert cities is nearing 100,000 acres.
EDD: The LAT's Patrick McGreevy writes on the report of a "strike team" appointed by Governor Newsom to look at the state's Employment Development Department, and it ain't pretty.
I guess now is not the time to complain about the ugly peeling paint on the sign for the agency on a post on 7th and N which I walk by frequently. Meanwhile, I haven't heard a response about the fraud case where somebody was using my name at my dad's house, where I last lived 26 years ago. Meanwhile, in The Bee, Adam Ashton reports that EDD is halting new unemployment claims for two weeks for a staff and technology reboot.
Hmmm...can folks ask for a two-week pause in rent and mortgage payments? Anyway, Ashton continues...
Congrats to Governor Newsom and others for tackling this monster. TURNOUT: In the Times, Melanie Mason and Mark Z. Barabak note that while the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will likely drive voter turnout, it's unclear if it will help one side more than another.
cakeday and classifieds after the jump...
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