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It's finally here, that Friday you've been waiting for. Like many of you, I'm pretty exhausted after the week. If I come across this afternoon before sending This Week in Nooner, I'll included later today. Meanwhile, I am up early to iron my shorts with a forecast high of 74 at Nooner Intergalactic Homequarters with the possibility of 80 by Sunday. If I had an iron, I would be breaking it out for my shorts. There are no NCAA basketball games and my bracket was broken last weekend, so a long walk after writing is fully appropriate. Of course, the warmer weather means that I won't be wearing my Oregon Ducks sweatshirt as my friend Matt Rexroad (and many others) root for USC on Sunday. Of course, Nooner friend state senator Jim Battin will be part of our quack attack! I may just find one of those hedge my capital-area bracket and we'll be rooting for the Ducks tomorrow. Yeah, I'm just trying to be above my year of '72 in rankings of the pool. Yup, I'm right there with Jim for the Beavers tomorrow and the Ducks on Sunday. Sorry, Matt Rexroad, but the Nooner Global HQ will be a Quack Attack on Sunday. Whether or not, the games provide for my weekly with my mom in Portland Sunday afternoon. COVID-19, several policy topics, cakeday, and new classifieds after the jump... COVID-19: California reported an additional 258 deaths yesterday for a total of 57,930 since the pandemic began. -vaccines: Remember that in many cases, vaccines are being reserved for second doses (of Moderna and Pfizer). The following data, from the daily CDPH press release, may be delayed by reporting.
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-tiers for fears: As a reminder, any county must remain at a tier for three weeks before progressing to a less-restrictive tier, even if the metrics continue to improve. Lots of the changes yesterday, and here's where the counties stand.
HOUSING: The LAT's Steve Lopez writes that the sweep can be pointed at the failure of Los Angeles's leaders:
HOMELESS: In the LAT, a team reports:
Hopefully the cops used a Russian accent when arresting Queally.
The rules for such hotels statewide include a curfew and prohibition of alcohol and drugs.
The LAT's Steve Lopez writes that the sweep can be pointed at the failure of Los Angeles's leaders: We all know by now that with roughly 60,000 unsheltered people in Los Angeles County, there are no quick or easy answers. That’s because at the macro level, we’ve built an economy, a housing market and a society that guarantee extremes of wealth and poverty, winners and losers, palaces and pup tents. But a public park on the edge of downtown Los Angeles never should have been allowed to become an encampment — or a political flashpoint over the conflicting rights and interests of the housed and the unhoused. It happened because of an epic failure of leadership. And, on a smaller scale, dozens of similar dramas are playing out across the region. Meanwhile, during a walk yesterday, I saw that folks who have been sheltering under the W-X in Sacramento have mostly moved to very large encampments along W Street. I'm sure there are other spots, but that was my walking path. I don't have a solution. We have folks refusing to accept a vaccine on one end and those experiencing homelessness on the other end. Both are free government benefits in most cases, but lots of folks who refuse it regardless of ideology. MISSING SHIPPING: Things aren't looking great for breaking the ship-jam in the Suez Canal. As of this writing, the Ever Given owned by Taiwan-based Evergreen, is still stuck on it's ends mostly perpendicularly in the Suez Canal. They are literally talking about lifting containers by helicopter one-by-one to reduce the weight of the 50,000-ton megacontainer. While this is not the usual traffic that arrives at the west coast of the United States, it will certainly affect prices imported here. NPR reports:
Don't wait for that ginormous teevee that you've bought for the March Madness. It's really just a sign of over-reliance of overseas demand, writes Peter S. Goodman in the NYT:
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