Daily Republic: Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Suisun council hears from candidates, community IN

QUEST TO FILL VACANCY

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SUISUN CITY — The City Council worked late into the night Tuesday to trim the list of six candidates for the vacant council seat to three, and possibly appoint someone to fill the post.

That process was still taking place at press time.

The candidates are Anthony Adams, Herbert Dardon, Katrina Garcia, Steven Olry, Amit Pal and Jonathan Richardson.

Garcia was a candidate in the

November election but did not win either of the available seats. But as a candidate in November she received an automatic pass to the final six. She is also a member of the city’s Public Safety and Emergency Management Committee.

Adams was appointed in 2019 to fill a council vacancy created by then-Councilwoman Lori Wilson’s election as mayor, but lost his bid for election. Richardson in November lost his seat on the Fairfield-Suisun School District’s governing board. He is a state peace officer and businessman. Orly

serves on the city’s Public Safety and Emergency Management Committee and on the Environment and Climate Committee. Pal is a former planning commissioner. Dardon works in telecommunications for Verizon Wireless.

There were 12 candidates who applied. One withdrew, and the council last week pared that list to the six semifinalists. The plan Tuesday was to cut that number in half and potentially appoint one.

The vacancy was created when Councilwoman Alma Hernandez was elected in November as mayor.

Mudslides have closed roads to Mix, Gates canyons

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FAIRFIELD — Roads into Mix and Gates canyons will remain closed for an extended period of time due to landslides.

“We continue to deal with impacts from the storms even though we have blue skies,” acting Office of Emergency Services Manager Robyn Rains told the Solano County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

She said the focus is on recovery, and to keep a close watch on reclamation district levees hit by the recent King tides, which describe high lunar tides, in this case, 3 to 4 feet high.

The board was told there were more than 300 areas posted for flooding during the storms, more than 30 roads were closed at the height

of the event, and the county experienced 34 mudslides.

“If you see the slides (at the canyons), they are pretty nasty,” said Matt Tuggle, engineering manager for the county.

The staff said they were pretty happy with the cooperation among jurisdictions, especially the state and railroad when it came to clearing debris from Suisun Creek.

However, Tuggle suggested the county may need to reach some agreements with those agencies so more preventive work is done in anticipation of larger storm events.

Rains also told the board the county has yet to qualify for federal relief funding, adding the county does not know what criteria it needs to meet because the Federal Emergency Management Agency does not publish its damage thresholds.

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors on Tuesday approved $6 million in federal pandemic relief funding – $4 million previously approved for broadband and digital equity projects, and $2 million as

bridge funding for seven nonprofits.

Supervisors Erin Hannigan and Mitch Mashburn wanted the county to look at other funding sources to help those nonprofits that were not selected, but could be forced to shut down without some kind of funding.

One of those could be Opportunity House. Executive Director Colleen Berumen told the board the organization – currently housing 24 individuals, nine of whom are children – may have to shut its doors at the end of June.

County Administrator Bill Emlen said his staff

is already discussing possible options given that 12 of the 19 applicants who went to the review panel were not selected, but the need remains great. The requests more than tripled the amount available.

Hannigan also noted an effort has to be

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The U.S. Justice Department and eight states sued Alphabet Inc.’s Google, calling for the break up of the search giant’s ad-technology business over alleged illegal monopolization of the digital advertising market.

“The lawsuit we have filed today seeks to hold Google to account for what we allege are its longstanding monopolies in digital advertising technologies that content creators use to sell ads and advertisers use to buy

ads on the open Internet,” said the Justice Department’s antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter in a news conference Tuesday announcing the suit.

New York, California and Virginia were among the states that signed on to the complaint, which was filed in federal court in Virginia.

Google said in blog post that the lawsuit “attempts to pick winners and losers in the highly competitive advertising technology sector. The case “largely duplicates an unfounded lawsuit by the Texas

State reeling from mass shootings: ‘Too much bloodshed’

As mourners were gathering Monday evening for a candlelight vigil in Monterey Park for 11 people killed by a gunman at a dance studio, word spread of another mass shooting in Half Moon Bay.

Siu Fong, a Monterey Park retiree who volunteers at the Langley Senior Center, knew two of the victims of that shooting. With another spasm of violence less than two days later, she was left wondering: What is happening in California?

“I would say there

needs to be a little bit more gun control,” she said. “Of course, a lot of people say they need guns to protect themselves, but the thing is, maybe they need stronger background checks. I don’t want people going to gun shops to get guns.”

California is reeling from three mass shootings carried out in one week.

Six people were found fatally shot inside a home in Goshen on Jan. 16 in a case police believe could be tied to organized crime.

On Saturday night, 72-year-old Huu Can Tran walked into the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in

Monterey Park and opened fire, killing 11. He then went to a second dance club in Alhambra but was disarmed. Police think jealousy over a personal dispute might have been the motive in the attack

but emphasize that the investigation is continuing. Tran carried a 9 mm MAC-10 when he walked into the Monterey Park dance hall about 10:20 p.m. Saturday and began spraying bullets as frightened

patrons ducked for cover. Authorities recovered at least 42 spent shell casings from the scene.

Then Monday afternoon, seven more people were killed in two shootings in Half Moon Bay that

authorities say are connected. A 67-year-old man is suspected of opening fire at two rural farms about a mile apart, shooting some of the victims in front of

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Members of the community show their support for Katrina Garcia at the Suisun City Council meeting, Tuesday.

How effective are tracking, ability-grouping students?

Iwrote in my last column about the challenges of comparing the academic knowledge, skills and abilities of American public school students with their international counterparts in advanced countries.

Among the many factors that help to explain differences in student achievement between nations, one in particular caught my eye – student tracking. Several nations continue to track students according to ability level throughout much of their public school experience.

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math) and is designed to provide developmentally appropriate instruction to students who are either behind grade level performance standards or who are capable of more advanced instruction.

Germany provides an interesting example. It is one of several countries with a long history of tracking students from an early age. While there are variations in tracking practices among the German federal states, the formal characteristics of academic tracking are similar.

frequently in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to the growing number of immigrant children who often possessed limited English language skills or limited academic preparation in their home countries. The intent was to provide immigrant children with the basic skills needed to become productive workers in an industrial economy.

ciated with their school and experience peer group stigma.

But overall, how effective are tracking and ability grouping? A large-scale study by University of Munich researchers found that tracking primary grade students has negative effects on the performance of low-ability students but positive (yet small) effects for high-ability students.

teacher’s ability to:

n Create and sustain a positive, “can-do,” classroom culture that stimulates critical and creative thinking.

n Carefully and regularly diagnose the learning needs of every student.

To better understand tracking practices and their effects, I reviewed several researchbased articles on tracking and ability grouping and found that in practice these terms are often conflated. Typically, when students are tracked by ability level they are assigned to different classes or to a particular school, often with substantially different curricula. In contrast, ability grouping occurs within individual classrooms (most commonly reading and

Starting in the fourth grade, the most intellectually able students are assigned to a school called a “Gymnasium,” with the primary goal of attending a top-ranked German university. Average students are assigned to “Realschules” that prepare students for midlevel white-collar vocations. Finally, the least academically able students are tracked into “Hauptschules,” which are typically aimed at preparing students for the trades and blue-collar jobs.

Tracking was used quite

However, tracking in America has faded over time. Critics, like UCLA professor Jeannie Oaks, argued that “grouping students by ability, no matter how it is done, inevitably separates students by characteristics that are correlated statistically with measures of ability, including race, ethnicity, native language and class.” Moreover, Oakes maintained that teachers can develop different expectations for tracked groups of low and high performing students, which can both foster and amplify biases related to a student’s intellectual potential. In addition, lower track students are more likely to lack confidence as learners, become increasingly disasso-

A dog fell into California floodwaters;

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Emilie Brill chased Seamus after the 1-yearold Australian shepherd slipped her grasp during their walk, zipped ahead in a “joy run” and got swept away by a nor mally dormant canal that had been supercharged into a “raging” river by California’s record-break ing rainfall.

But even at a sprint, Brill couldn’t run as fast as the water carried Seamus. Watching her dog disappear downstream, she didn’t know whether she would ever see him again.

Brill, 37, called 911, the start of an hour-long scramble to rescue her pooch – one that would involve an Apple AirTag tracking device, firefighters and a homeless man confused about the barking that suddenly echoed throughout his encampment.

Jan. 16 started out as a day of respite for Brill and other Loma Linda, Calif., residents. For three weeks, an unrelenting series of storms had pummeled California, unleashing 32 trillion gallons of water upon the state and hurricane-force wind gusts that hit 160 mph in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The storms left millions without power, caused more than a billion dollars in damage and killed at least 20 people, including a 5-year-old boy.

In the Brills’ household, the punishing weather meant that Seamus, their

Australian shepherd who normally requires multiple walks a day, was cooped up at home. Brill and her husband tried to burn off some of his excess energy by giving him chew toys and letting him play in the backyard with his younger sister, a rescue mutt named Topaz. But as the storms continued, Seamus’s energy built up.

Jan. 16, the first clear day they’d had in a while, gave Brill a chance to leash up the two dogs and get out of the house. When they were over a mile into the walk, Brill was fiddling with Seamus’s leash when she lost her grip and he broke free. He bolted ahead for about 10 seconds, wriggled through a hole in a fence and scrambled down a slope toward a concrete basin that is normally dry or, at most, carries a trickle.

“But it was raging, which he had never really seen before,” Brill said.

The swift-moving

waters carried Seamus downstream. Brill raced down a bike path with Topaz trying to keep pace as she called 911 just before 12:30 p.m. Then she called her husband, who hopped in his car and started driving toward Brill.

He intercepted her where the bike path meets a road. Together, they headed toward a spot where they thought the current might ease up, allowing Seamus to get back to land. That’s when Brill got an update from the Apple AirTag affixed to Seamus’s collar. The “Find My” app she’d been using to keep tabs on the tracking device was showing he was about a mile downstream from where he’d first plunged into the water. They headed that way.

What Brill didn’t know was that Seamus had escaped the water by climbing into a drain pipe at that location. Darrell Smith, a homeless man who’d set up camp on the bike path next to the basin underneath an Interstate 10 overpass, had heard Seamus barking. But as the dog floated down the channel, Smith lost sight of Seamus, and the barking stopped.

Then he spotted him in the drain pipe through a grate – Seamus was some 10 feet below the bike path. He called to the dog to keep him from venturing back into the floodwaters and flagged down the San Bernardino firefighters responding to Brill’s 911 call. Firefight-

Moreover, students who were first tracked in primary school showed no significant achievement gains when compared to students who were first tracked in secondary school.

Similar results in a recent study published in the American Journal of Education found that American “students who are lower grouped for reading instruction, learn substantially less, and higher grouped students learn slightly more compared to students in classrooms that do not practice grouping.”

Nevertheless, assessing the effectiveness of tracking and ability grouping remains an elusive quest. As is so often the case with instructional practices, effective outcomes generally come down to the

ers climbed down, pulled Seamus out and drove him to the address on his tag. When no one answered, they called the listed phone number. Brill answered as she and her husband headed toward the last location given by the Find My app – Smith’s camp.

Brill said the AirTag’s role in finding Seamus was fairly minor. Firefighters were searching for the dog because of her 911 call, and thanks to Smith, they had already found him by the time the tracking device gave Brill and her husband

n Craft developmentally appropriate classroom activities that include multiple instructional methods to reach students with different learning modalities.

n Hold high expectations for every student.

n Give students opportunities to move in and out of ability groups and/or academic tracks as their academic performance evolves.

n Conduct ongoing formative assessments designed to keep track of student learning development and adjust teaching strategies accordingly.

Stephen Davis is a career educator who writes a column that publishes every other Wednesday in the Daily Republic. Reach him by email at stephendavis71@gmail.com.

a fix on Seamus’s location. But, she added, it did allow her to connect with Smith, something that probably wouldn’t have happened if she’d gone straight home to meet the firefighters and a newly rescued Seamus. And she’s glad she did meet him. Even though Brill knew Seamus was safe, she said she was still racked by adrenaline when she first encountered Smith, something he quickly picked up on.

“He just took one look at me, and he just gave me a hug,” Brill said.

Brill said she asked Smith whether there was anything she could get him to help him get through the stormy winter. She went to Costco and, based on Smith’s request, bought him and others at his camp four queen-size fleece blankets, 20 pairs of socks, sweatshirts, undershirts and nonperishable foods like trail mix, granola bars and protein bars. Then she went home, made a lasagna and delivered that to their camp to ensure they had a hot meal.

San Bernardino County Fire Protection District photo Seamus, a 1-year-old Australian shepherd, at the bottom of a storm drain in San Bernardino.

Giant real estate investment firm leaves Solano board miffed

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FAIRFIELD — The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday expressed their displeasure with an East Coast-based company for its response to concerns raised by a cell tower project in rural Vacaville.

Solano County supervisors continued an appeal by Daniel Schwartz of a Planning Commission decision that would allow New Cingular Wireless to locate 15 antennas on an existing 111-foot lattice tower once used for a Doppler operation. The project also includes a 296-square-foot lease area for equipment within an existing compound on Gates Canyon Road, about 1,000 feet south of the Mount Vaca peak, within the Watershed and Conservation “W-160” Zoning District.

But the reason for the continuance has little to do with Cingular or its associated company, AT&T, but rather the owner of the property and tower: American Tower Corp., with headquarters in Boston. In fact, the project was viewed as a benefit to the county for emergency operations and other private interests.

However, the board made it clear it wants a company representative to appear at the new hearing Feb. 28 to explain, as a couple of supervisors stated, why it is “unwilling” to work with its neighbor and county on a possible road maintenance agreement.

The board even discussed the possibility of turning the disconnected

private roadway into a county-maintained road.

Vasquez also hinted the decision on the project could depend on ATC’s response, though he was addressing the AT&T representative at the time.

Schwartz’s dispute is multifaceted to include road maintenance, an ATC retaining wall he says is on his property, and what he believes was ATC’s failure to take the tower down within a year after the previous Doppler use ended.

County staff does not agree with that assessment, arguing the permit goes with the land and is still active, which launched Supervisor Monica Brown into leveling her frustration with the county issuing permits without a sunset or renewal date to address future issues that may arise. This permit was issued in 2004.

Supervisor Wanda Williams also used the situation to ask whether the county should develop a plan to deal with properties that have a fuel source, such as propane tanks or the diesel-fueled backup generator proposed with the Verizon project, as part of its fire response.

She is told the fire agencies are aware of these locations in the fire areas, but she wondered if there might be a more proactive step to be taken so these fuel sources do not contribute to or expand a fire event.

Verizon plans to have the generator in a concrete structure, the board was told.

Kaiser opens neonatal ICU at Vaca hospital

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VACAVILLE — It is not all that surprising for something new to be delivered on the third floor of Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center.

In fact, the third-floor Labor and Delivery unit welcomes more than 1,300 babies each year.

Monday, however, the unit and hospital staff, along with Mayor John Carli, cut the “cord” in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new six-bed neonatal intensive care unit for those newborns who need additional medical support.

“This new unit allows us to deliver neonatal care in Vacaville to babies that need the extra support and care,” Cheri Stagg, chief nurse executive at the medical center and a 25-year nursing veteran in Solano County, said in a

phone interview.

Until now, higher-risk deliveries were handled at other Kaiser facilities.

The new unit will allow “babies born after 34 weeks that may need intermediate care or shortterm respiratory support,” to get the care they need in Vacaville.

It also provides the

medical center the flexibility to return babies to Vacaville who may initially need even more intensive care, but now can be cared for closer to home.

Planning for the unit started about two years ago, but it was basically known this day would come from the time the facility opened in November 2013.

Lower Putah Creek topic for committee

SUISUN CITY — Max Stevenson, the streamkeeper for the Lower Putah Creek Coordinating Committee and the Solano County Water Agency, will speak Wednesday to the Suisun City Environment and Climate Committee.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. via Zoom.

Also on the agenda is a discussion on developing a document on ways residents can make a difference when it comes to climate and the environment.

Access to the meeting is available at https://zoom. us/join. The Meeting ID is 844 9550 4564. Access is also available by calling 707-438-1720.

CAO gets contract extension, no raise

FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors on Tuesday extended Bill Emlen’s contract as top adminis trator to March 27, 2024, a year beyond his current agreement.

Board Chairman John Vasquez made the announcement after an afternoon closed session.

The extension does not include a pay raise, Emlen confirmed.

“We have continued to evaluate the services we need as we have grown and as the community has grown,” Stagg said.

The space the unit occupies was set aside for this purpose.

Kaiser Permanente had qualified nurses for the unit on staff. However, additional staff members have been added. The number of nurses needed depends on how many babies in the unit and the kind of medical support they need.

Generally, Stagg said, the unit will be staffed with three to four nurses.

“It’s a great day and we are excited,” she said.

In addition to Stagg, Darryl Curry, interim senior vice president and area manager for Kaiser Permanente Napa Solano, and Dr. Chris Walker, physician in chief for Kaiser Permanente Napa Solano, also spoke at the event.

Solano County Supervisors looks to add administrative penalties to

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FAIRFIELD — A third code violation of event or short-term vacation rental permits could cost those property owners $5,000 under new violation penalties introduced Tuesday by the Solano County Board of Supervisors.

The general areas are broken down as building permits, event permits, short-term rentals and a

catch-all category for all other county codes.

The ordinance was described as “another tool” in the county’s toolbox to enforce its codes, but does not eliminate other options such as abatement, permit revocation and taking property owners to court.

The stiffest penalties are placed on short-term vacation rental permits, with a first-time violation costing $1,500. A second violation would be

$3,000. A third violation would be $5,000.

A first violation of a building permit violation would be $130. A second violation would be $700 and $1,300 for a third violation. The charges are $150, $700 and $5,000 for event permit violations, and all other code violations would have penalties of $100, $200 and $500 for the first, second and third violations, respectively.

When asked why the first violation fee was so

Solano to run special election for Benicia Trustee Area 5

FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors on Tuesday set April 11 for a special election to fill the vacant Trustee Area 5 seat on the Benicia School District board.

The action allows the county Registrar of Voters to conduct the election.

The district board had appointed Ariana Martinez to fill the vacancy after no one ran for the post in the November election. The three others considered for the appointed, however, filed a petition arguing there was a conflict of interest and contended the board

intentionally kept active parents from serving on the board, nepotism, collusion and failure to disclose that Martinez, who holds a master’s degree in social work, is the daughter of the executive assistant to the superintendent.

Legal counsel to the board reported the appointment did not violate any district policy, so the petitioners then took the next steps to trigger the special election, which, according to the county Registrar of Voters, will cost the school district $61,455.

The Trustee Area 5 term ends after the 2026 general election.

In a related matter,

the Board of Supervisors approved billing school districts, the Solano and Yolo county offices of education and the Solano and San Joaquin Delta community college districts a total of $471,083.71 to reimburse the county’s costs for putting on the Nov. 3 election.

The total for the Fairfield-Suisun School District is about $183,464; for Travis School District the cost is about $46,083; and for Vacaville School District, the share is about $151,547, county documents state.

The other cost shares include the Solano

low, Terry Schmidtbauer, director of the Department of Resource Management, said the idea is to try to bring the individuals into compliance without too harsh of a punishment.

A lot of the discussion morphed into where noise violations fall into the ordinance outline.

Schmidtbauer said his staff has already started talking about “dusting off” past noise efforts and trying to develop a new noise ordinance that can

deal with neighbor disputes, but would focus largely on public events.

Board members said the penalties would have to be sufficient enough so someone who is making thousands of dollars on an event can be convinced to obey the rules. A $75 to $150 citation is not going to be enough, they said.

Chairman John Vasquez also emphasized the need to protect agricultural rights.

VALLEJO—Genealogy

Society of Vallejo-Benicia members will hear a talk on “General Vallejo and City of Vallejo History” at the group’s next meeting.

This in-person session will begin at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 2 at 734 Marin St.

The speaker is Brendan Riley, who was raised in Vallejo and had a 39-year career as a writer and editor with The Associated Press. In

retirement, he returned to his hometown and has produced two books focusing on the history of Vallejo, Mare Island and other areas of Solano County. He writes a “Solano Chronicles” history column for the Vallejo TimesHerald and has served on the boards of the Vallejo and Mare Island museums.

Riley also has spent many years researching his own family history.

Dr. Chris Walker speaks at an opening event for a new neonatal intensive care unit at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Vacaville, Monday.

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Nurse Melodie Martin, right, and Cheri Stagg, chief nurse executive, show off a new isolette after the opening of a new neonatal intensive care unit at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Vacaville, Monday.

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County agrees to fund half of courtrelated transportation pilot program Vallejo part of upcoming USPS job fair

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to allocate an additional $50,000 in Transportation Development Act funds toward a pilot program for jurors, litigants and justiceinvolved individuals who need transportation assistance.

The $50,000 raises the total of program funding to $1.045 million, through June 30, 2025, which the Solano Transportation Authority uses to serve low-income, older adults, people with disabilities, veterans and now the court-related individuals.

Solano County Superior Court Presiding Judge Wendy G. Getty in September sent a letter requesting transportation assistance though the Equitable Access to Justice Pilot Program. The request includes a match commitment from the courts.

In other action, the board:

n Approved a revenue contract with the Fairfield Police Department for the Department of General

Services-Fleet Management Division to provide fueling services for an initial six-month period ending June 30, with the option to extend for one year starting July 1 and ending June 30, 2024. The county will charge the city for fuel based on daily rack cost (plus or minus any discounts), and a 12% administrative overhead charge for an average of 13,000 gallons per month for the life of the contract.

n Approved a $1.6 million appropriation in the Department of Information Technology from fiscal year 2022-23 Salary Savings to Professional Services; and authorized the chief information officer to utilize the funds to execute work agreements with approved contractors.

n Approved a $50,000 contract amendment with Solano Family and Children’s Services, for a total contract of $950,000, to provide additional developmental screenings through the Help Me Grow Solano program for a term ending June 30.

n Accepted a $1.608 million third-round Homeless Housing Assis-

tance and Prevention Round grant from the California Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council for supportive housing services to assist behavioral health clients; affirmed approval of a first agreement with the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, as administered by the California Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, for an initial allocation of $321,569; and approved a second agreement with the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, as administered by the California Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, for the final allocation of $1.286 million through Dec. 31, 2026.

n Approved a $3 million contract amendment with Crestwood Behavioral Health Inc., for a total contract of $9.64 million, to provide intensive psychiatric services through June 30.

n Approve a $74,844 contract amendment with SEP Technology LLC, for a total contract amount of $149,688, to continue to provide Accela (software

for permitting, licensing, code enforcement and service request management) support and enhancement services, and to extend the contract to July 26.

n Authorized the director of the Department of Resource Management to solicit bids, award and execute up to $4.2 million or various Public Works construction projects and $550,000 in supporting consultant services contracts to begin during the 2023 construction season.

n Approved the Planning Commission’s recommendation to rezone 5.2 acres, located at 7181 Shelton Lane, just north of Vacaville, from Rural Residential, minimum 5-acre lots, to Rural Residential, minimum 2.5-acre lots.

The applicant is Scott Seibel. The rezone brings the property into compliance with three current residences, one a converted shop that must get a building permit before the subdivision approved by the zoning administrator and the rezone by the supervisors become official.

Genealogist Gorrell talks church records at Solano County Genealogy Society

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VACAVILLE — Genealogical speaker Lisa Gorrell will present “Researching Religious and Church Records” at the next meeting of the Solano County Genealogical Society.

The virtual presentation begins 11 a.m. Feb. 4.

Census and court records are great places to look when researching your family, but don’t forget to check church records, too – even if you think your ancestor did not attend church. Church records can be a

rich source of information about family members, providing names, dates and relationships, and many records from churches and religious organizations predate civil records.

Gorrell has been researching family histories for more than 30 years. She is a certified genealogist; a graduate of the ProGen program and an alumna of many genealogical institutes. Her areas of expertise include southern states and Texas; California, Montana and Oregon; 18th and 19thcentury German research; and 18th and 19th-century

Swedish research. Gorrell has served on boards of several genealogical societies and is currently the recording secretary with the Contra Costa County Historical Society, where she volunteers at their archives in Martinez.

She is also a founding member and instructor of the new online Applied Genealogy Institute (https://appliedgen. institute).

She writes about her family on two blogs:

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He will talk about Gen. Mariano Vallejo and city of Vallejo’s history.

GroupCalifornia historian H.H. Bancroft once wrote that Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was not “strict in his relations with women.” Today’s researchers have provided the details: Vallejo fathered five chil-

21 years with Solano County.

dren with women other than his wife, with whom he had 16 children. Vallejo’s relationships reflected a socially stratified, maledominated machismo culture of his time. It’s an understatement to say

Feb. 5, 2027.

“Mam-ma’s Southern Family” at http://mam-massouthernfamily. blogspot.com/ and “My Trails into the Past” at http://mytrailsintothepast. blogspot.com.

Guests are welcome to attend this free event. If interested, send an email the society at scgs@scgsca.org no later than 4 p.m. Feb. 3, and request an invitation.

More information on society activities may be found on the society’s webpage at scgsca.org.

genealogists have a challenging time sorting out his family tree.

This meeting will not be on Zoom. Masks are encouraged but not required. All are welcome to this free event.

worked in Florida.

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County Office of Education ($1,068); Yolo County Office of Education ($489); Solano Community College District ($1,068); and the San Joaquin Delta Community College District ($71).

The other school district shares are: Benicia ($889); Dixon ($38,729); River Delta ($880); Vallejo City ($44,175); and Winters ($2,121).

In other action, the board:

n Recognized former Supervisor James P. Spering upon his retirement from Solano County after 16 years as the 3rd District representative and 20 years as mayor of Suisun City.

n Recognized former Assessor-Recorder Marc C. Tonnesen upon his retirement after more than 34 years with Solano County, including more than 19 years as the elected assessor-recorder.

n Recognized Caroline Pierson, an office assistant with the Department of Resource Management, upon her retirement after

n Recognized Eva Rivera, clerical operations supervisor for the Department of Resource Management, upon her retirement after 13 years with Solano County.

n Reappointed Marcy Savala as a trustee on the Silveyville Cemetery District, representing the 4th District, for a term to end

n Reappointed Spencer Bei and Eric Schene to fill expired terms on the board of directors of the Dixon Resource Conservation District, with new terms to end Nov. 27, 2026.

n Was introduced to Roger Robinson, the county’s new assistant director of Health and Social Services. He arrives from Nebraska, but also had

n Was reintroduced to Emily Combs, a former county employee who left and served as Fairfield’s finance director and returns to the county administration as the budget officer.

n Recognized February as Civil Grand Jury Awareness Month in Solano County.

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VALLEJO — The Napa Street post office in Vallejo is one of 14 sites for a USPS job fair Thursday.

The U.S. Postal Service is holding a statewide #USPSCoast2Career job fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at more than 77 locations across the California Coast –including 14 described as in the East Bay.

“There is no better time than now to join the Postal Service. We’re looking for employees with an eye on the future to help deliver an essential service across

the East Bay,” District Manager Jagdeep Grewal said in a statement. “This is an opportunity to deliver in your own community and build a career that touches the lives of the American public.”

The postal service has an immediate need for the following positions to be filled:

n Mail processing: Clerks and mail handlers.

n Delivery: City and rural carriers.

n Transportation: Tractor trailer operators.

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Providena G. Cruz

Providena (Dina) passed away peacefully after a short illness at Fairfield Post-Acute Rehab on December 22, 2022, surrounded by her loving family members.

She was born on February 18, 1935, in Barrigada, Guam to her parents, Jesus and Concepcion Gogue.

She was the second daughter of eleven siblings.

She graduated from George Washington High School, Mong Mong, Guam in 1955.

She married the love of her life, Francisco Quitugua Cruz, on December 15, 1955, at the age of 20 and toge ther they had five children.

She was a longstanding parishioner of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church and an active member of the Lay Carmelite Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the Young Ladies Institute #125 organization in the parish. She enjoyed volunteering to visit the sick/homebound and truly enjoyed the company of her family, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and friends.

A rosary will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 2700 Dover Ave., Fairfield, Calif., followed by a Funeral Mass at 11:00 a.m. Burial services will be at Fairmont Memorial Park, 1901 Union Ave., Fairfield, California.

Arrangements are under the direction of Bryan-Baker Funeral Home, 1850 W. Texas St., Fairfield, CA 94533.

Natalie Anna Sheppie

Natalie passed away peacefully on January 8, 2023 surrounded by her family Natalie was a Centenarian and lived an amazing 104 ½ years. She was born in Schenectady, NY in 1918 and lived there for 40 years before moving with family to San Francisco. She was strong and survived two pandemics (the Spanish Flu in 1918 & the Coronavirus in 2020).

Natalie celebrated 60 years of marriage to her beloved husband and had three children, two grandsons and one great granddaughter. She worked at SF Crocker Bank in Operations and retired after 15 years. Natalie was a gifted writer and story-teller and loved journaling. She was known for her love of Christmas… always gathering the family together each year and celebrating the season at her home with lavish holiday décor, food, drink and gifts. Natalie will be remembered for her longevity and fortitude as the strong matriarch of the family…for her amazing strength of character, for her spirituality, for her joy of life, for the many prayers and rosaries and masses she sponsored through the church for the less fortunate …and most of all, for her great influence on family and for her love of family

Natalie is preceded in death by her husband Edward Sr. (passed in 2002), by her parents Anna & Joseph Polejka, sister Clara Califano half-brother Michael Lesczyck, daughter-in-law Shelly Sheppie, brothers-in-law Ted & George Sheppie, sisters-in-law Alfreda Cichy Sophie Weber, Irene Rock, Virginia Sacco, and niece Diane Masucci.

Natalie is survived by her three children Lindalyn (Dave), Edward Jr., and Mark (Karen), her two grandsons Brian Phillips and Jonathan Sheppie (Jessica), and one great granddaughter, Charlotte Helene Sheppie, and many nieces and nephews.

Natalie will be lovingly remembered and greatly missed by her family every day.

A private committal and interment will be held at the Fairmont Memorial Ceme te ry in Fairfield, Ca. A Celebra tion o f Life will be held at a l at er d at e. Visit Br yan Braker website at www.Br yanBraker.com.

Deborah Lee Cruz

Deborah (Debbie) passed away peacefully after a short illness at her home on December 23, 2022, surrounded by her loving family Debbie was born on April 30, 1965 in Sacramento, CA to parents; Walter Glenn and Karen Glenn. She was the only daughter of 3 children. She graduated from Benicia High School, Benicia, CA in 1983. She was involved in Job’s Daughters and the Vacaville high school band. She worked as a manager for over a decade at Vacaville Foster Freeze and last worked for FSUSD at Armijo where she appreciated and loved her work family.

She married the love of her life, Francis G. Cruz on April 10, 1999 and together they raised three sons.

She was a devoted wife and mother. She truly enjoyed the company of her family, grandchildren, and friends. She loved going out with Francis and friends while dancing the night away. She was a huge fan of birthdays, holidays, limousines, hotel stays, room service, reality TV and Santa Cruz. She was a hopeless romantic and will be missed by many who loved her!

She leaves behind her loving husband of 23 years, Francis; three sons, Parker (Gabriella) Rike, Cameron and Michael; granddaughters, Aver y and Evelyn; mother, Karen Wolff; stepfather, Robert Wolff; siblings, William (Teresa) Glenn and Tyler (Tiffany) Glenn; brothers-in-law, Paul (Tricia), James (Cindy) and Jesse; sister-in-law, Mary (Joseph) Tydingco

She was preceded in death by her father, Walter Glenn; parents-in-law, Francisco Q. Cruz and Providena G. Cruz; and grandson, Liam Vega-Rike.

A viewing will be held from 10:15 to 11:00 a.m. with a rosary at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 26, 2023, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 2700 Dover Ave., Fairfield, Calif., followed by a Funeral Mass at 11:00 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the American Cancer Society.

Arrangements are under the direction of Fairfield Funeral Home, 1750 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fairfield, CA 94533.

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Solano County Home & Garden Show coming to Dixon in March

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DIXON — The Solano County Home & Garden Show is scheduled March 25-26 at the Dixon May Fair site.

Meet home improvement specialists, and arts and craft vendors with custom jewelry, pens, baskets, soaps, Tupperware, Scentsy, furniture, personal defense, yard decor and more in one location during the two-day event.

Also learn about learn the bees at Mike & Niki’s Honey Company booth.

“Enjoy a unique shopping experience with local artisans. See the variety of arts and crafts with custom gifts and

home decor items. Our home improvement specialists offer a wide range of products and services on upgrades, repairs for heating and air, solar, kitchen and bathroom, plaster, doors and windows, screen, flooring, alarms, electrical and more,” organizers said.

The show runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. General admission is $8, with a discount coupon available online. Tickets are $5 for seniors and military personnel, and children 12 or younger get in free.

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1 dead, 4 shot in Oakland

3 others hurt fleeing scene

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OAKLAND — An 18-year-old man died and four other people were wounded Monday after a shooting in an East Oakland gas station where a music video was being filmed, authorities said.

The 18-year-old, who died after arriving at an area hospital, was identified Tuesday as Mario Navarro.

None of the wounds suffered by the others was considered to be lifethreatening, authorities said. The injured victims were being treated at several East Bay hospitals; all were said to be in stable condition.

Those who were shot included one female and four males, ranging in age from 19 to 56, with most being in their late teens and early 20s, authorities said. Some live in Oakland, while addresses listed for the others include San Leandro, Livermore, South San Francisco, Vallejo and San Jose.

their buildings were struck by gunfire.

The shooting happened just before 6:10 p.m. at a Valero gas station in the 5900 block of MacArthur Boulevard at Seminary Avenue.

the danger and focus it brings on people who are trying to live their lives.

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Applicants will be guided through the entire online application process by USPS staff, hear from real employees and submit their applications in real time for positions posted on www. usps.com/careers.

Applicants must be at least 18, or 16 with a high school diploma or GED.

All applicants must be able to pass drug screening and a criminal background investigation. Some positions require an exam. Any position that has a driving requirement will also require a valid driver’s license and clean DMV two-year driving history. Citizenship or permanent resident status of five years is required.

The Vallejo Post Office is located at 2635 Napa St.

A driver and passengers were injured after they were involved in a solo vehicle accident while they were fleeing the scene, Oakland police Acting Chief Darren Allison said at a news conference Tuesday.

An Oakland police spokeswoman said Monday night that investigators had found that eight people were struck by gunfire. However, Allison said at his news conference that the actual number of people struck by bullets was five.

Of the four people injured, Allison said only one remained hospitalized as of midday Tuesday. Three owners of recent businesses reported that

Police responding to ShotSpotter activations found no victims at the scene but soon received reports of multiple people managing to obtain their own transportation to hospitals for treatment.

Dozens of shell casings, including those from a lowcaliber weapon and a rifle, were found at the scene, Allison said. Police believe there was more than one shooter who opened fire on a group gathered at the station to film a music video.

At the Tuesday news conference, Allison said that the shooting was being investigated as a targeted incident. Allison said the department had a “good sense on the involved parties, as far as groups and gangs. We’re not prepared to release it at this time.”

Tuesday morning, residents in the area decried the violence and the both

“This right here is an underserved neighborhood. This is the only time we get any kind of attention – when something crazy happens,” said Jerald W. Vallan Sr., an architectural designer and longtime Millsmont resident who owns a storefront business across the street from the gas station.

The glass door to Vallan’s shop showed a crack around a hole created when a bullet pierced it during the shooting. He found the shell casing from the bullet inside his store Tuesday morning and called OPD for a crime scene technician to collect it.

Police were recovering surveillance-camera footage at the scene. Evidence technicians had taped off the station’s parking area and pumps late Monday, with dozens of yellow evidence markers scattered across the pavement.

Two witnesses, including one who identified himself as the gas station’s owner but declined

to give his name, told the Bay Area News Group that it appeared that several people had been filming a music video shortly before gunfire broke out. Police did not comment directly on what preceded the shooting, but did ask for anyone with “video pertaining to the incident” to contact investigators.

The killing is the sixth homicide investigated by Oakland police this year.

Police had investigated nine homicides within the city at this same point in 2022.

Monday’s shooting is only one of several mass shootings in Oakland in recent memory. A mass shooting is generally defined as a single incident with four or more victims.

Last year, Oakland had at least two such shootings.

In November, two Berkeley brothers, ages 15 and 17, were fatally shot at a North Oakland house party where two others were also wounded. A shooting in September in East Oakland left four people wounded, but all survived.

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The solano County Home & Garden show featured 83 vendors at the Dixon Fairgrounds, March 26, 2022.

Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group/TNS oakland police investigate a shooting and homicide at the Valero gas station on seminary avenue at Macarthur Boulevard in oakland, Monday.

Classified documents found at Pence’s Indiana home

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A lawyer for former Vice President Mike Pence found 12 classified documents in a search of his Indiana home in the latest development related to the handling of secret information by officials.

Pence quickly moved to notify authorities and handed over the documents unearthed in the search, which was launched after similar searches turned up classified materials at President Joe Biden’s home and office.

“A small number of documents bearing classified markings . . . were inadvertently boxed and transported to the personal home of the former Vice President at the end of the last Administration,” Pence’s lawyer, Greg Jacob,

told the National Archives in a letter last week.

Jacob said Pence, who is considering a 2024 presidential run, had no idea the documents were stored at his home and is cooperating fully with an investigation.

“Pence was unaware of the existence of sensitive or classified documents at his personal residence,” Jacob said.

The FBI and the Justice Department’s National Security Division have launched a review of the documents and how they ended up in Pence’s home in Carmel, Indiana.

The discovery mirrors the recent discovery of several sets of documents at an office once used by Biden before his return to the White House and his home in Wilmington, Delaware.

Special counsel Robert Hur

HALF MOON BAY SHOOTING

Docs: Suspected gunman previously threatened to suffocate, hack the head of roommate

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The man accused of fatally gunning down seven people and wounding an eighth in dual workplace massacres across the popular tourist community of Half Moon Bay threatened to suffocate and use a knife to split open the head of a South Bay restaurant coworker a decade ago, court records obtained Tuesday by the Bay Area News Group show.

Chunli Zhao, the 66-year-old shooting suspect, made those threats in March 2013 after quitting his restaurant job, according to a civil harassment restraining order his former roommate and coworker filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court.

In a sworn court declaration, the roommate said Zhao “took a pillow and started to cover my face and suffocate me” after being told he’d have to go to the restaurant to pick up his final paycheck. Zhao, in response, “said to me, today I am going to kill you,” according to the court petition.

Two days later, Zhao asked if he could return to work and said, “if this can’t be done, this would be a bigger problem, which will not be good/pleasant for everyone,” the petition reads. “This seemed to be a threat to me and the restaurant I work at.”

The former roommate –at the time Zhao lived in San Jose – also wrote in the court papers that Zhao warned he would “use a kitchen knife to split my head” if he could not return to the job.

The restraining order declaration is among some of the details that began to paint a picture of Zhao, who authorities said worked at Mountain Mushroom Farm, the location of the first shooting Monday afternoon.

“All of the evidence we have points to this being an instance of workplace violence,” San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said at a press conference.

Of the eight victims, seven were men and one a woman, the sheriff’s office said. It is not yet clear if the people shot were his intended victims, officials said, or if Zhao said anything to them during the attack.

Zhao was arrested in a sheriff’s substation parking lot at about 4:40 p.m. Monday when a deputy noticed him sitting inside his car and ordered him out of the vehicle. He emerged with his hands in

the air, prompting deputies to take him to the ground before handcuffing him and leading him into the substation.

On dramatic video captured at the substation, Zhao could be seen being walked inside the building, wearing a red long-sleeved shirt, a grey vest, blue jeans and a white ball cap.

Zhao appeared to be acting alone in the shootings, the sheriff’s office said, although further details about a possible motivation for the bloodshed remained scant Tuesday morning as investigators continued to piece together evidence in the case.

District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said he expected Zhao to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon.

The anticipated charges against Zhao, which are expected to be filed formally Wednesday morning, include seven counts of murder, one count of attempted murder, multiple counts of special circumstances and gun charges, Wagstaffe said.

His connection to Concord Farms, where the second shooting spree happened, remains unclear.

The owner of Concord Farms told the Bay Area News Group late Monday evening she did not recognize the name of the alleged gunman. Three employees of the decadesold mushroom farm died in the shooting spree, including a manager who had spent 27 years at the business, said the owner, who asked not to be named.

“This kind of thing should never happen, no matter where,” she said. “They are innocent. Nobody knows why this happened – why this guy came to our farm.”

The owners of Mountain Mushroom farm, where the violence began at about 2:20 p.m. Monday afternoon, could not immediately be reached for comment. Four people died there, and another person was hospitalized with lifethreatening injuries.

Kati McHugh, who described herself as a member of the local agricultural community, was at the sheriff’s substation awaiting a news conference when Zhao was taken into custody. His arrival caught her by surprise.

“He was quiet,” said McHugh, adding that she hoped Zhao came to turn himself in. “He didn’t react much when he was taken down and it all happened pretty calmly.”

has been appointed to investigate the Biden documents.

The Pence and Biden finds are different from the case involving former President Donald Trump, who took hundreds of classified documents to his Florida home when he left the White House in 2021.

Trump resisted efforts to retrieve the documents and defied a subpoena for their return.

A federal judge authorized a search of Mar-a-Lago, which turned up about 300 classified documents.

Special counsel Jack Smith is investigating the Trump document issue as well as Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the plot to overturn his election loss to Biden.

US expected to send Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine

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WASHINGTON — Putting aside resistance from the Pentagon and elsewhere, the Biden administration is planning to announce a decision to send Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine, officials said Tuesday.

The tanks, long sought by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, would provide the heaviest weaponry yet among the billions of dollars in military aid Washington has sent to Ukraine to help repel a brutal Russian invasion.

But given the sophistication, complexity and firepower of the tanks, it could be months or even more than a year before they reach the battlefield and Ukrainian fighters are trained to use the equipment.

Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, in a nod to objections from Defense Department officials, said the Abrams tank was a major asset in

combat, but not one that is easy to operate.

The tank “is a very capable battlefield platform,” he said Tuesday, adding, “it’s also very complex capability.”

“And so, like anything that we’re providing to Ukraine, we want to ensure that they have the ability to maintain it, sustain it, to train on it.”

He emphasized he was not announcing a decision to supply the tanks “at this time,” an official position repeated at the White House and State Department.

As recently as last week, Colin Kahl, the undersecretary for defense policy, said the Pentagon was not prepared to send Abrams tanks to Ukraine, saying that in addition to the difficulty maneuvering them, the machines have gasguzzling jet engines that are expensive to fuel.

Pentagon leadership, he told reporters, “has been very focused on . . . not providing the Ukrai-

nians systems they can’t repair, they can’t sustain, and that they, over the long term, can’t afford, because it’s not helpful.”

But U.S. officials are also keen to send a political message to Germany, which has been reluctant to provide its own Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine unless the U.S. also offers tanks.

Germany may be softening its position, born of decades of an official postWorld War II position of pacifism. And Poland, for example, has Leopard tanks it would like to ship to Ukraine, but has sought permission from Germany to do so.

In recent days, however, Poland has suggested it would send the tanks with or without German authorization.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Sunday that her country would no longer object.

The Leopard pales in comparison to the Abrams, U.S. officials say, but would be easier to

operate initially on European terrain, where it has long-term experience.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, whose aides say has been deeply involved in finding ways to boost Ukraine, met early Tuesday with representatives of the Group of Seven of the world’s most advanced economies to discuss Russian destruction of Ukraine’s electrical grid, heating, water and other energy sources.

They did not publicly mention tanks or other weapons, and State Department spokesman Ned Price declined to confirm a decision on the Abrams.

“Needless to say, this is an ongoing conversation, and it is a conversation that allows us to be responsive to the needs of our Ukrainian partners,” Price said in a briefing with reporters when asked if a decision had been made.

He said that the amount

Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight

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“Annihilation” is less than two minutes away.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which has been monitoring how close humanity is to global catastrophe and its own destruction since 1947, set its Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight – up from 100 seconds – on Tuesday.

It represents the closest the clock has ever been to midnight since its introduction at the start of the nuclear weapons age. The last time change, attributed to the slow response to climate change, was in 2020.

Rachel Bronson, the president and CEO of the Bulletin, said the new time was “largely, though not exclusively, because of the mounting dangers in the war in Ukraine.”

“We are living in a time of unprecedented danger, and the Doomsday Clock time reflects that reality. Ninety seconds to midnight is the closest the clock has ever been set to midnight, and it’s a decision our experts do not take lightly,” Bronson said.

The Bulletin’s science and security board and its sponsors, which include 10 Nobel laureates, set the time every year, but

the clock has changed a number of times in the last 75 years. In 1949, it was set at three minutes to midnight after the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear bomb test. The time fell all the way to 17 minutes to midnight after the Cold War ended in 1991.

“Russia’s war on Ukraine has raised profound questions about how states interact, eroding norms of international conduct that underpin successful responses to a variety of global risks,” the Bulletin said in a statement. “And worst of all, Russia’s thinly veiled threats to use nuclear

weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict – by accident, intention, or miscalculation – is a terrible risk.”

“The possibility that the conflict could spin out of anyone’s control remains high.”

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded by Albert Einstein and a group of University of Chicago scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project in 1945.

“The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe caused by manmade technologies,” the group’s website reads.

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Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/TNS file Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a fireside chat at the Ezell Recreation Center at The Villages in Wildwood, Fla., Jan. 10. Pence was at The Villages for a book signing event for his recently published book, “So Help Me God.”

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U.S. soldiers assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division move to their battle position in an Abrams M1 tank during an exercise in Germany, in 2016. The United States is

expected to send Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine to aid in its battle against Russia. The tanks would provide the heaviest weapons yet in military aid from Washington.

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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ leads Oscar nominations with 11

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Genre-blending sci-fi action hit “Everything Everywhere All at Once” scored a leading 11 Oscar nominations – best picture, director, original screenplay, editing, costume, score, song, supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan, supporting actress for both Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu, and (a career-first) lead actress for Michelle Yeoh.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed nominations for the 95th Academy Awards on Tuesday, where A24’s multiverse-hopping awards darling earned more nominations than any other film.

Netflix’s war epic “All Quiet on the Western Front” and Search-

light Pictures’ dark comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” tied for the second-most number of nods with nine piece.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert aka Daniels each nabbed three Oscar nominations, for original screenplay, director and best picture as producers alongside Jonathan Wang.

Costume designer Shirley Kurata, composer Son Lux and editor Paul Rogers also earned noms, as did songwriters Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski for song nominee “This Is a Life.”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” followed an unlikely path to awards glory. Debuting last March after making its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival.

Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis

Dilbert Scott Adams

Baby Blues Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

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SATURDAY, JAN. 21

4:08 a.m. — Robbery, TABOR AVENUE 8:43 a.m. — Grand theft, 1400 block of WOOLNER AVENUE 10:07 a.m. — Vandalism, 200 block of BEGONIA BOULEVARD 10:49 a.m. — Vandalism, 200 block of BEGONIA BOULEVARD 11:24 a.m. — Trespassing, 300 block of CHADBOURNE ROAD 1:15 p.m. — Reckless driver, SANTA MONICA STREET 4:22 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1000 block of CHATSWOOD COURT 5:35 p.m. — Reckless driver, WESTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 5:43 p.m. — Drunken driver, WESTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 7:30 p.m. — Reckless driver, WESTBOUND HIGHWAY 12 SUNDAY, JAN. 22 4:37 a.m. — Reckless driver, 2000 block of CADENASSO DRIVE

7:48 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1300 block of PHOENIX DRIVE 9:08 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1300 block of PHOENIX DRIVE 10:28 a.m. — Vandalism, 1200 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 11:10 a.m. — Vandalism, 500 block of MARIGOLD DRIVE 11:41 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2800 block of MANKAS BOULEVARD 11:49 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 100 block of ALASKA AVENUE 11:58 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2400 block of CEMENT HILL ROAD 12:39 p.m. — Battery, 1700 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 2:26 p.m. — Robbery, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 2:41 p.m. — Reckless driver, DICKSON HILL ROAD 2:45 p.m. — Vandalism, 4000 block of CAMELBACK DRIVE 4:17 p.m. — Vandalism, 5000 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 4:21 p.m. — Trespassing, 700 block of JACKSON STREET 6:36 p.m. — Grand theft, 1700 block of AUTUMN MEADOW DRIVE 6:49 p.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 7:19 p.m. — Battery, 1200 block of TABOR AVENUE 7:50 p.m. — Trespassing, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 8:16 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 2100 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 8:19 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2200 block of OLDER PLACE 9:29 p.m. — Battery, 1400 block of UNION AVENUE 11:18 p.m. — Trespassing, 1500 block of PHOENIX DRIVE 11:38 p.m. — Shots fired, PACIFIC AVENUE

MONDAY, JAN. 23 2:34 a.m. — Vandalism, TEXAS STREET 6:12 a.m. — Battery, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 8:09 a.m. — Vandalism, 2700 block of GERANIUM COURT 9:11 a.m. — Vandalism, 2700 block of GERANIUM COURT 9:11 a.m. — Vandalism, 1300 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 9:21 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 2300 block of COURAGE DRIVE 9:36 a.m. — Vandalism, 2700 block of GERANIUM COURT 10:10 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 300 block of PACIFIC AVENUE 10:50 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1400 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:23 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 200 block of EAST ATLANTIC AVENUE 12:27 p.m. — Forgery, 5100 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 12:48 p.m. — Vandalism, 200 block of LARKSPUR LANE 1 p.m. — Vandalism, 1100 block of SPRUCE WAY 1:46 p.m. — Trespassing, 300 block of TULIP STREET 2:05 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2000 block of ORIOLE COURT 3:10 p.m. — Reckless driver, 4400 block of CENTRAL WAY 3:48 p.m. — Trespassing, 2200 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 4:39 p.m. — Vandalism, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 5:09 p.m. — Battery, 1500 block of MONROE STREET 5:23 p.m. — Battery, 1100 block of CIVIC CENTER DRIVE 10 p.m. — Drunken driver, BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 10:01 p.m. — Trespassing, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 10:22 p.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, CLAY BANK ROAD 10:30 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 900 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 10:46 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 11:12 p.m. — Battery, 1500 block of PHOENIX DRIVE 11:49 p.m. — Trespassing, 2100 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

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SATURDAY, JAN. 21 10:10 a.m. — Vandalism, 200 block of RAILROAD AVENUE 8:03 p.m. — Fraud, 1200 block of ANDERSON DRIVE SUNDAY, JAN. 22 4:40 p.m. — Assault, 100 block of MAIN STREET MONDAY, JAN. 23 7:17 a.m. — Fraud, 500 block of MARINA CENTER 12:41 p.m. — Robbery, 100 block of SUNSET AVENUE

children who lived nearby and had recently been released from school. The shooting suspect, identified as Chunli Zhao, was believed to work at one of the farms. Police have not revealed a motive in those shootings.

“Tragedy upon tragedy,” Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was visiting Monterey Park on Monday, said of the two attacks.

California has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, and there has been talk of even more restrictions in the wake of the latest violence.

Data suggest the rules have made a difference. As the Los Angeles Times reported last year, in 2005, California had almost the same rate of deaths from guns as Florida or Texas, with California reporting 9.5 firearms deaths per 100,000 people that year, Florida reporting 10 and Texas 11, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Since then, California repeatedly has tightened its gun laws, while Florida and Texas have moved in the opposite direction.

Still, the continuing mass killings have many searching for answers.

“This is tragic on multiple levels,” San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa said. Noting that the victims in the Half Moon Bay shootings were Chinese farmworkers, he said it was “horrific that it’s a Lunar New Year (and) you have people massacred both in Monterey Park and in the Half Moon Bay area. We should be celebrating, but instead we find ourselves – because of gun violence – burying innocent people.”

Some are calling for tighter gun laws.

“We are sickened by today’s tragedy in Half Moon Bay. The scourge of gun violence has sadly hit home,” San Mateo County Supervisor Dave Pine said in a statement.

“We have not even had time to grieve for those lost in the terrible shooting in Monterey Park. Gun violence must stop. The state of California has among the strictest gun laws in the United States, which we have strengthened through local action here, but more must be done,” he said. “The status quo cannot be tolerated.”

Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, lamented the scale of violence to hit California in such a short time.

“Two hours ago, I joined my colleagues on the Capitol steps for a vigil for the victims of the shooting in Monterey Park,” he said on Twitter. “Before we’ve even had a chance to mourn them, there is yet another mass shooting – this time in Half Moon Bay. In my district.”

Speaking to reporters Monday before the Half Moon Bay shooting made news, Newsom talked

about what California has achieved on gun control.

“The success is demonstrable. It’s overwhelming, that our gun safety laws save lives.

And you see leadership here back in 1967, when the modern gun rights movement was launched, then by Ronald Reagan, you saw it with the assault weapons ban in California 1989, led again by California senator in 1994.

California will continue to lead red flag laws, background checks, waiting periods across the spectrum,” he said.

But the governor noted that people who want to avoid California gun laws can simply go to a state with lesser regulations, buy weapons and bring them back.

One question is what other laws California can enact.

One new law that took effect Jan. 1 gives residents and state visitors new powers to threaten the gun industry.

SB 1327 authorizes anyone other than state or local government officials to sue people who violate the California’s laws against the manufacture, distribution or

sale of assault weapons, ghost guns and other banned firearms.

Lawsuits also could be brought against gun dealers who violate the state’s law against selling or transferring weapons (besides hunting rifles) to anyone younger than 21.

Last year, California legislators failed to pass a bill that would have strengthened the state’s concealed-carry law that Newsom and Democratic leaders crafted in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that expanded a person’s right to carry firearms outside the home.

It remains unclear how the guns used in the three latest mass shootings were acquired.

At the memorial in Monterey Park, many said they came to honor the victims and turn to others for comfort.

“There’s something about being with others who feel just as sad as you do,” said Enrique Hernandez, who had arrived on a bicycle. “You don’t feel so alone.”

When he heard about the Half Moon Bay shootings, he added: “Too much bloodshed.”

made to improve foundation funding in the county – the lowest per capita in the Bay Area at about $16 per person.

The board approved the American Rescue Plan Act funding for the broadband projects Aug. 23, with $2.2 million going “to support development of expanded broadband fiber and/or wireless infrastructure to (more than) a dozen areas of unincorporated Solano County.”

The county will work with internet service providers to leverage the funding with other sources to cover costs of building new infrastructure.

Another $1.8 million is going to “support improving digital equity in Solano County through the development of a “Solano Connected” Coalition.”

The coalition will be supported by a Digital Equity Program Management

Team to connect more Solano County residents to broadband services, assist in device availability, digital literacy training and a residents awareness campaign for programs to access low-cost internet. The project will provide small grants to local nonprofits with direct involvement with unserved county populations.

In a separate action, the supervisors divided $2 million among these organizations:

n $350,000 to Planned Parenthood Northern California to expand its Community Health Worker Program, behavioral health and telehealth services, and increase access to essential services, medications and supplies for patients and health center staff in their Solano County locations.

n $350,000 to Children’s Network of Solano County to support the Family Strengthening Fund to provide immediate basic needs support

for a minimum of 169 families in crisis, preventing homelessness and loss of services such as water, gas and electric so the family can focus on stabilizing and strengthening their economic situation to avoid crisis in the future.

n $350,000 to Seneca Family of Agencies to support intensive outpatient behavioral health counseling programs for foster youth and families at risk of involvement in the child welfare system.

n $350,000 to National Alliance on Mental Illness of Solano County to provide peer case management to a minimum of 52 clients in Mental Health Diversion who do not have Medi-Cal coverage and would not be eligible for peer case management through the county.

n $326,308 to Victor Community Support Services Inc. to support its Comprehensive Assessment Research and Evaluation (CARE) Clinic, an intensive, early assess-

ment and intervention program for children 3 to 6 and their caregivers.

The CARE Clinic runs four cohorts per year, four hours a day, five days a week, for 10 weeks.

n $136,846 to Shelter Solano Inc. to fund eight community-accessible shelter beds with a full range of wrap-around services designed to help participants find permanent housing and progress toward self sufficiency. Services provided will include three meals per day, safe housing accommodations, housing-focused case management, housing navigation, employment services, benefits eligibility support and links to community resources.

n $136,846 to Faith Food Fridays to improve and expand current services and programs to better serve Solano Community members experiencing hunger and to address the underlying reasons for hunger.

Attorney General, much of which was recently dismissed by a federal court.

DOJ is doubling down on a flawed argument that would slow innovation, raise advertising fees, and make it harder for thousands of small businesses and publishers to grow.”

Alphabet extended declines on the news, dropping as much as 2.5% to touch a session low.

The stock slid 23% in the 12 months ended Monday, underperforming the Nasdaq 100 Index.

“No matter the industry and no matter the company, the Justice Department will vigorously enforce our antitrust laws,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said during the press conference.

The lawsuit represents the Biden administration’s first major case challenging the power of one of the nation’s largest tech companies, following through on a probe that began under former President Donald Trump. It also marks one of the few times the Justice Department has called for the breakup of a major company since it dismantled the Bell telecom system in the 1980s.

Google is the dominant player in the $278.6 billion U.S. digital-ad market, controlling most of the technology used to buy, sell and serve online advertising. The Justice Department said Google’s dominance allows it to keep at least $0.30 out of every dollar advertisers spend through its online advertising tools. A resolution in the case could be years away.

“Google’s pervasive power over the entire ad

tech industry has been questioned by its own digital advertising executives,” according to the complaint. “The analogy would be if Goldman or Citibank owned the NYSE.”

The lawsuit marks the DOJ’s second antitrust suit against Google and the fifth major case in the U.S. challenging the company’s business practices.

State attorneys general have filed three separate suits against Google, alleging it dominates the markets for online search, advertising technology and apps on the Android mobile platform in violation of antitrust laws.

DOJ antitrust chief Kanter said during the news conference that Google engaged in 15 years of anticompetitive conduct, including a “pattern of acquisitions to obtain market dominance.”

Those include the 2007 acquisition of online

advertising giant DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, which the Justice Department is now seeking to unwind, the 2010 deal to buy Invite Media for $81 million and the 2011 purchase of AdMeld for $400 million.

The Justice Department’s complaint also seeks damages from Google for allegedly overcharging federal government agencies, such as the U.S. Army, that purchased online ads. The agency said the U.S. government has spent more than $100 million on online display advertising since 2019, but the complaint didn’t indicate how much the Justice Department is seeking to recoup.

The allegations in the DOJ’s suit mirror those brought by attorneys general in 16 states plus Puerto Rico in 2020. That lawsuit is pending in New York federal court.

The Mountain View,

California-based company is No. 1 in the $626.9 billion global digital ad market, according to 2023 estimates by research firm EMarketer, with the U.S. representing the biggest piece. Alphabet’s ad operations are expected to bring in $73.8 billion in U.S. digital ad revenue in 2023. Most of that, $58.50 billion, comes from Google’s search advertising business. The remaining $15.29 billion is from display ads. Google runs an ad-buying service for marketers and an ad-selling one for publishers, as well as a trading exchange where both sides complete transactions in lightning-fast auctions.

These exchanges operate like online stocktrading platforms with an automated bidding process. Competitors and publishers have complained that Google leverages parts of this

vast network, like its ad exchange, to benefit other areas and kneecap rivals.

Google alone is expected to generate some $65.7 billion in digital ad revenue in the U.S. this year, representing about 26.5% of the market, while YouTube represents another 2.9%, according to EMarketer.

The company’s market share has slipped from a high of 37.4% of U.S. digital ad spending in 2015, according to EMarketer.

Google argues that the market for online advertising is a crowded and competitive one. In court filings and congressional testimony, the company has noted its rivals include other major players in the ad tech market such as Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

The case is U.S. v Google, 23-cv-108, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria).

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Mourners take part in a vigil for the victims of a mass shooting at the Star Dance Studio in Monterey Park, Monday.

Hawley will introduce bill to ban TikTok nationwide

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WASHINGTON —

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley said Tuesday he will introduce a bill to ban the app TikTok in the United States.

McCarthy bans Schiff, Swalwell from Intelligence Committee

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But experts warn that the amount of data being collected by ByteDance, the Beijing-based company that owns TikTok, could be used by the Chinese Communist Party. FBI

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday rejected fellow California Reps. Adam B. Schiff and Eric Swalwell from continuing to serve on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

The denial follows through on McCarthy’s pledge to remove Schiff, D-Calif, and Swalwell, D-Calif, from the panel in retaliation for a move by Democrats – and some Republicans – in the last Congress to to strip GOP firebrand Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., of their committee assignments.

McCarthy has also vowed to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Communist Party and large social media companies. While he has also signed on to anti-trust legislation in the hopes of breaking up monopolies in tech companies, he’s been particularly aggressive in his opposition to TikTok.

The app, which boasts more than 1 billion users across the globe, is known for its short videos and powerful algorithm that helps people discover new content. It is popular among younger Americans and has helped grow the careers of influencers and celebrities.

President Joe Biden dropped the ban.

Last month, however, the app was banned from federal government devices when a previous bill sponsored by Hawley was included in the federal government’s $1.7 trillion spending bill. Hawley did not support the bill, which was signed into law by Biden.

At least 15 states have also attempted to ban the app from government devices.

A spokesman for TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Under House rule, the speaker has the unilateral authority to keep Schiff and Swalwell off the highprofile select intelligence panel. Removing Omar from a standing committee will require a full floor vote.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., urged McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) over the weekend “to honor past practice of the House of Representatives and our mutual interest in working together for the good of the American people” by accepting his recommen-

the Biden family.

dations for Schiff to serve as the panel’s ranking member and Swalwell to retain his membership.

Jeffries said that removing Greene and Gosar from their committees was no “precedent or justification” for removing Schiff and Swalwell.

Greene was removed in February 2021 following a backlash over comments she made before taking office expressing support for baseless conspiracy theories and appearing to endorse violence against Democratic lawmakers. She later distanced herself from the comments

Gosar faced a similar punishment in November 2021 after posting, and later deleting, a cartoon video with his face superimposed on a character who kills someone with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, D-N.Y., face and wields swords against President Biden.

McCarthy said removing Schiff, the lead manager during the first impeachment of President Trump, is justified because Schiff “lied” to the public about certain details related to a whistleblower report that triggered the investigation, and dismissed emails found on a laptop allegedly owned by Hunter Biden as a Russian ploy.

McCarthy has argued that Swalwell couldn’t get a security clearance in the private sector follow-

with U.S. aid to Ukraine.

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of military aid provided by the U.S. and Europe since Russia invaded nearly a year ago was “staggering.” The Pentagon and other countries’ defense operations have gradually ratcheted up the kind of weapons sent, from shoulder-fired antitank javelin missiles to, most recently, the sophisticated Patriot air defense system.

But tanks were a new line to cross, with some U.S. officials worried at the sight – if the Ukrainians were ill-prepared – of destroyed and disabled Abrams crippled in the battlefield and being hauled away by the Russians. And other officials predicted, accurately, that Moscow would be furious at what it would label another “escalation” by the West.

Yet they have also been confronted by increasingly dire conditions in Ukraine, where Russian forces have bombarded apartment complexes and civilian infrastructure as a winter freeze settles in.

In another development in Ukraine on Tuesday, at least nine senior govern ment officials, including a deputy defense minis ter, were fired or forced to resign as part of a cor ruption scandal. Zelenskyy was elected in 2019 in a landslide on pledges to eradicate rampant cor ruption that has long plagued Ukraine.

Some of the allegations have to do with mishandled wartime supplies, Ukrainian officials said, but U.S. officials said they were not yet aware of specific malfeasance involving U.S.-sourced material.

Corruption has had a sometimes curious role in Ukrainian history. When he was vice president, Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor whom the European Union accused of refusing to investigate

corruption cases. Later, then-President Donald Trump and his associates accused the Zelenskyy government of widespread corruption when it refused to help him dig up dirt on

Currently, some Republican members of Congress, along with several Democrats, have demanded better accountability and transparency

The Pentagon has insisted that checks and controls are already in place.

ing a report that he was targeted by a suspected Chinese spy, with whom he later cut ties.

In separate letters to the Steering and Policy Committee earlier this month, Schiff and Swalwell maintained that McCarthy has no basis for removing any Democrats from committees and said he shouldn’t do so based on “smears and falsehoods” or “fabricated stories or political revenge.”

But there’s little Democrats can do to reverse his decision.

On Monday, McCarthy said he would add Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., to the Intelligence committee.

The two party leaders reached agreement over the weekend on committee ratios for the new Congress, and the Republican Steering Committee last week selected Greene and Gosar to serve on the Oversight and Accountability Committee. Greene will also have a seat on the Homeland Security Committee, while Gosar will sit on the Natural Resources Committee.

HAWLEY

Giant iceberg breaks off from Antarctica

But not due to climate change

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There’s a new iceberg off the coast of Antarctica. The yet-to-be-named, 600-square-mile iceberg broke away from the nearly 500-foot-thick Brunt Ice Shelf on Sunday during a particularly high tide known as a spring tide, according to a news release issued by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

The calving event is “part of the natural behaviour of the Brunt Ice Shelf” and “not linked to climate change,” BAS glaciologist Dominic Hodgson said in the news release.

Satellite imagery captured the break, which

occurred about 10 years after satellite monitoring detected growth in a previously dormant crack in the ice known as Chasm-1, and almost two years after a slightly smaller iceberg named A74 separated from the same ice shelf.

A chasm is a crack in the ice shelf that extends all the way from the surface to the ocean underneath, while an ice shelf is a floating piece of ice that extends from glaciers formed on land.

Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, wrote in an email that while the iceberg “is a huge mass of ice, about

500 billion tons . . . it is far from being the largest iceberg ever seen, which rivaled Long Island.”

The calving event is not expected to affect the BAS’s Halley Research Station, which was relocated further inland in 2016 as a precaution after Chasm-1 began to grow.

However, “the new fracture puts the base within about 10 miles of the ocean, and new cracking could occur over the next few years, forcing another expensive move of the station,” Scambos wrote. The new iceberg is expected to follow a similar path to that of A74 into the Weddell Sea and will be named by the U.S. National Ice Center.

Unlike some previous

icebergs and collapsed ice shelves that have been linked to climate change, the BAS press release said the break is a “natural process” and there is “no evidence that climate change has played a significant role.”

Rather, the chasm started to grow due to “stresses building up . . . because of the natural

growth of the ice shelf,” said Hilmar Gudmundsson, a glaciology researcher at Northumbria University, in a 2019 BBC story.

Scambos compares the calving of the iceberg to a chisel on a board of wood.

“In this case the chisel was a small island called ‘MacDonald Ice Rise,’” Scambos wrote. “The ice was driven against this

rocky seamount by ice flow, forcing it to split and eventually break off the floating ice shelf.”

“These large iceberg calvings, sometimes as large as a small state, are spectacular. But they’re just part of how Antarctica’s ice sheet works,” Scambos said. “Most of the time they have nothing to do with climate change.”

Welcome to Alejandro’s Taqueria!

Located in Downtown Fairfield, Alejandro’s Taqueria offers a large variety of authentic Mexican dishes. Breakfast includes: Huevos Rancheros, Huevos con Chorizo ahd Huevos con Jamon. Their daily lunch special includes a choice of one of the following: Taco, Tostada, Chile Relleno, Enchilada or Tamale with rice and beans. Dinner Plates include traditional dishes such as: Carne Asada, Chile Verde, Pastor or Carnitas. Also available is Mariscos/Seafood ranging from Fajitas de Camaron, Coctel de Camaron, Caldo de Camaron and Mojarra and much much more!

In addition Burritos, Tostadas, Super Nachos, Chimichanga, Tortas, Quesadilas and Flautas are also included in their menu.

Saturday and Sundays; Birria (BBQ Goat) and Menudo is served.

49ers’ Omenihu arrested day after big win

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SANTA CLARA — Charles Omenihu’s career-best season with the 49ers took a turn Monday when the defensive lineman was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic violence.

A 49ers spokesman said the team is “in the process of gathering more information,” with no indication whether Omenihu’s arrest will impact his availability for Sunday’s NFC Championship Game in Philadelphia.

Omenihu was booked into Santa Clara County jail and

released on bail after police responded to his Santana Row home at 4:39 p.m. Monday.

The 49ers’ players, aside from film review with their position coaches, had that day off following Sunday’s 19-12 playoff win over the Dallas Cowboys at Levi’s Stadium.

Omenihu sustained an oblique injury early in Sunday’s game, and, after being examined in the locker room, he returned to total 15 snaps in his role as a versatile defensive lineman. Coach Kyle Shanahan, in Monday morning’s conference call with reporters, listed Omenihu as “day to day,”

with the expectation he plays for the No. 2-seeded 49ers against the top-seed Eagles.

As for what transpired later Monday, police say a woman told them Omenihu is her boyfriend and that he “pushed her to the ground during an argument.” She complained of arm pain, but officers “did not observe any visible physical injuries” and she declined medical attention, according to a police news release.

Omenihu, 25, has had no other off-field incidents since joining the 49ers last season in a trade from the Houston Texans.

Authorities said the results of an ongoing investigation will be presented to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office for evaluation of possible charges. No additional details were released. Because the alleged offense is a misdemeanor, and Omenihu is out of custody, there is no strict deadline for when charges would have to be filed.

An NFL spokesman did not immediately return a message regarding Omenihu’s arrest and whether he faces a potential suspension.

Omenihu has played a key

role in one of the NFL’s best defensive-line rotations. He’s played in every game this season, battling through a knee issue at times and producing a career-high 4 ½ sacks in the regular season. In the 49ers’ wild-card win over the Seattle Seahawks, he had two sacks, one of which resulted in a fumble, and he overcame a second-quarter nerve stinger issue.

If the 49ers or the NFL keep Omenihu out of Sunday’s NFC Championship Game, a potential replacement is Drake Jackson,

DeSouza, Williams help Cal secure win in gymnastics

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FAIRFIELD — A gutsy final rotation for the California women’s gymnastics team helped the Bears win their first Pac-12 meet of the season over host Arizona on Friday, and two Solano County athletes were front and center.

The Bears managed to top the Wildcats 196.400-196.100.

Forget two timelines, the Warriors are living dual realities this season

Dieter kurtenbach BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

We’re well past the halfway point of the regular season, and the Warriors can’t figure out what kind of team they are.

When he was asked about his concern level for the Warriors last week, Golden State wing Klay Thompson was nearly offended by the question.

“None. Zero. Just get us [to the playoffs] healthy . . . hopefully with a good seed,” he said.

Thompson is not alone – or unjustified – in being confident about this team.

But when Warriors coach Steve Kerr was asked why the Dubs couldn’t close out Sunday’s game against the Nets, he provided an opposite answer.

“We’re 23 and 24 for a reason,” Kerr said. “We’re not good enough, yet, to close games.”

“We got what we deserved.”

Kerr is right, too.

So is this a great team that’s simply not applying itself, or is it an inexperienced team that needs to learn how to win?

The Dubs clearly hold

both beliefs.

And they might not be wrong to do that.

The Dubs are exactly where they want to be this season.

The Dubs are woefully underachieving this season.

Both things can be separately true at the same time.

But as the Warriors try to discover themselves this season, one truth persists above all others:

“We’re a different team than we were last year,” Steph Curry said upon his return from injury on Jan. 11.

Red Wings’ OT goal sends Sharks to third straight loss on road trip

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DETROIT — The San Jose Sharks remained winless on their road trip, as Andrew Copp scored 25 seconds into overtime to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 3-2 at Little Caesars Arena on Tuesday.

Sharks goalie James Reimer made 27 saves in regulation time and three more in overtime before Copp’s goal, as the Sharks fell to 0-2-1 on their five-game road trip that concludes with games against Carolina on Friday and Pittsburgh on Saturday before their bye week begins.

The Sharks (14-25-9)

began the trip with losses to Columbus and Boston on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

The Sharks and Red Wings were tied 2-2 after the first two periods as Erik Karlsson assisted

on even-strength goals by Timo Meier and Logan Couture.

Meier scored his 28th of the season at the 7:58 mark of the second period. His first shot after he received a pass from Karlsson was stopped by Detroit goalie Ville Husso, but he collected the rebound, skated around the Red Wings’ net, and scored on a wraparound try, giving him his fourth goal in five games.

The Sharks were down 2-1 late in the second period before they sent a flurry of pucks toward Husso. After a Karlsson shot attempt was blocked,

Cal swept the all-around podium with senior Nevaeh DeSouza (39.425) taking the title. DeSouza is a Fairfield resident and an alum of the DreamXtreme gymnastics center in Vacaville.

Sophomore Maddie Williams, from Vacaville and the DreamXtreme, tied for the title in the uneven bars by notching a 9.950, which tied her for the third-highest score in program history. It was also a career-high performance for Williams.

DeSouza came up big for her team, tying for the

vault title with a seasonhigh tying 9.850. She and two teammates tied for third in the floor exercise with scores of 9.850. That score matched a season high for DeSouza and it was enough to keep Cal ahead by 0.05 points heading into the final rotation of the night. Williams matched her career high in the balanced beam with a 9.900 and tied for second in the event.

After opening the season with threestraight road trips and seven victories, Cal will make its debut at Haas Pavilion in Berkeley at 2 p.m. Saturday against Stanford. Here’s how other area products did at fouryear colleges:

Women’s gymnastics

Jaudai Lopes, a junior from Buckingham Charter and the Dream Xtreme

Thompson powers Vanden boys basketball to showcase win

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FAIRFIELD — Tyler Thompson hit six 3-pointers and finished with a team-high 30 points for Vanden High School’s boys basketball team team in a 55-50 win over Redondo Union at the Crush of the Valley Basketball Showcase on Saturday night at Contra Costa College in San Pablo.

Sterling McClanahan added 10 points as the Vikings improved to 14-8 overall.

Vanden trailed 35-33 after three quarters before finishing strong with a 22-15 edge in the final period. The Vikings were able to make some big free throws down the

stretch to pull away for the victory.

The Vikings were scheduled to resume Monticello Empire League action Tuesday night at home against Armijo.

Armijo High boys lose to Vallejo

FAIRFIELD — The Armijo High School boys basketball team had a nonleague game Saturday night at Vallejo during which the Royals fell to the Red Hawks 52-34.

Marcel Longmire led Armijo with 10 points and Isreal Legree added nine. Trevor Morse and Kimani Barker were

Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group/TNS Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr talks to a referee during a game against the Brooklyn Nets at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Sunday. The Warriors continue to search for an identity this season.

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Detroit Red Wings

goaltender Ville Husso (35) keeps his eye on the puck as the San Jose Sharks’ Nico Sturm (7) tries to make a play under pressure from forward Joe Veleno (90) during the first period in Detroit, Tuesday.

CALENDAR

Wednesday’s TV sports

Basketball College Men

• South Carolina at Florida, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

•Texas A&M at Auburn, ESPN2, 6 p.m.

NBA

• Brooklyn at Philadelphia, ESPN, 4:30 p.m.

• Memphis at Golden State, NBCSBA (Fairfield and Suisun City), ESPN, 7 p.m.

• Toronto at Sacramento, NBCSCA (Vacaville and Rio Vista), 7 p.m.

Golf PGA

• Farmers Insurance Open, GOLF, Noon.

Hockey

• N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, TNT, 4 p.m.

• Columbus at Edmonton, TNT, 6:30 p.m.

Tennis

• Australian Open, Women’s Semifinals, ESPN, 12:30 a.m. (Thursday).

Thursday’s TV sports

Basketball College Men

• SMU at Memphis, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

• UCLA at USC, ESPN2, 6 p.m.

College Women

• Connecticut vs. Tennessee, ESPN, 5 p.m.

NBA

• N.Y. Knicks at Boston, TNT, 4:30 p.m.

• Dallas at Phoenix, TNT, 7 p.m.

Golf PGA

• Farmers Insurance Open, GOLF, Noon.

Tennis

Australian Open, Men’s Semifinals, ESPN, 7:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. (Friday).

Scoreboard

BASKETBALL NBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 35 14 714 Philadelphia 30 16 652 3½ Brooklyn 29 17 630 4½ New York 26 23 531 9 Toronto 21 27 438 13½ Central Division W L Pct GB Milwaukee 30 17 638 Cleveland 29 20 592 2 Indiana 24 25 490 7 Chicago 22 25 468 8 Detroit 12 37 245 19 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 27 22 551 Atlanta 24 24 500 2½ Washington 20 26 435 5½ Orlando 18 29 383 8 Charlotte 13 35 271 13½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division W L Pct GB Denver 34 14 708 Utah 25 25 500 10 Minnesota 24 25 490 10½ Oklahoma City 23 24 489 10½ Portland 22 25 468 11½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB SACRAMENTO 27 19 587 L.A. CLippers 25 24 510 3½ Phoenix 24 24 500 4 GOLDEN STATE 23 24 489 4½ L.A. Lakers 22 25 468 5½ Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 31 16 660 New Orleans 26 22 542 5½ Dallas 25 23 521 6½ San Antonio 14 33 298 17

Report: A’s add Aguilar for his potential power

Laurence MiedeM a BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

OAKLAND — The A’s added another low-risk, potential high-reward power option to the mix for spring training by reportedly reaching a $3 million, one-year deal with former All-Star first baseman Jesús Aguilar.

Aguilar, 33, was a National League All-Star in 2018 with the Milwaukee Brewers, when he hit a career-high 35 home runs with 108 RBI and slashed .274/.352/.539, and could go a long way in helping the A’s create more pop after a 102-loss 2022 season that was historically one of the worst offenses in franchise history.

News of the agreement, which isn’t final until Aguilar passes his physical, was first reported by Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle.

The A’s first workout of spring training is Feb. 15 in Mesa, Arizona.

Agular, on the surface, figures to slide right into the heart of the A’s lineup. He has by far the most experience of a crowded group of first base/designated hitter candidates that includes returners Seth Brown, Jordan Diaz, Dermis Garcia and Jonah Bride as well as fellow newcomers Ryan Noda (A Rule 5 pick), former Twins prospect Brent Rooker (claimed off waivers) and former Diamondbacks prospect Kevin Cron (signed to a minor-league deal).

Aguilar, a nine-year veteran, has averaged

17 home runs his past three full seasons (he hit eight during the Covid19-shortened 2020) for the Brewers, Rays, Marlins and Orioles. He ended last season with the Orioles, where he hit .224 with one home run in 51 plate appearances after being released by the Marlins in August. He batted just .236 with a .286 on-base percentage with Miami, but did slug 15 home runs in 456 plate appearances.

The A’s made a similar move last winter in their search for inexpensive power hitters when they signed veteran first baseman Eric Thames to a minor league deal, although the Santa Clara native never played with the A’s and was released after playing 22 games at Triple-A Las Vegas.

This is the sixth organization for Aguilar, who made his big league debut with Cleveland in 2014. He was claimed off waivers by the Brewers after the 2016 season and blossomed into one of the most dangerous right-handed hitters in the National League. Aguilar hit 51 home runs in 2017-18, slashing .271/.344/.527.

He hasn’t reached that kind of consistency since, but remains a power threat. The A’s could certainly use more thump on a team that hit just 137 home runs (only Washington, Cleveland and Detroit hit fewer.)

It was only five seasons ago that Aguilar earned a spot on the AllStar team and in the Home Run Derby.

N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 4 p.m. Carolina at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Columbus at Edmonton, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver at Seattle, 7 p.m. Thursday’s Games Boston at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m. Detroit at Montreal, 4 p.m. Pittsburgh at Washington, 4 p.m. Buffalo at Winnipeg, 5 p.m. New Jersey at Nashville, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Anaheim at Colorado, 6 p.m. Chicago at Calgary, 6 p.m. St. Louis at Arizona, 6 p.m.

FOOTBALL

NFL

Wild-Card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 14 SAN FRANCISCO 41, Seattle 23 Jacksonville 31, L.A. Chargers 30 Sunday, Jan. 15 Buffalo 34, Miami 31 N.Y. Giants 31, Minnesota 24 Cincinnati 24, Baltimore 17 Monday, Jan. 16 Dallas 31, Tampa Bay 14 Division Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 21 Kansas City 27, Jacksonville 20 Philadelphia 38, N.Y. Giants 7 Sunday, Jan. 22

SAN FRANCISCO 19, Dallas 12 Cincinnati 27, Buffalo 10

AFC/NFC Championships Sunday’s Games Cincinnati at Kansas City, 3:30 p.m.

Chicago at Vancouver, (N) Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Islanders at Ottawa, 4 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO at Philadelphia, Noon. Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 12

AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 3:30 p.m.

No Bay Area headliner for this week’s skating championships

Shayna rubin BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SAN JOSE — The Bay Area has a long and rich history of figure skating stars from Peggy Fleming and Kristi Yamaguchi to Brian Boitano and Rudy Galindo. But when the US. National Figure Skating Championships begin this week in San Jose, the most recognizable local name will be the event site.

Gracie Gold will grace the ice at SAP Center, continuing her come back from a mental health pause. Olympic bronze medalist Bradie Tennell will compete for her second Olympic run. Other top attractions include Ilia Malinin, the 18-year-old dubbed the “Quad God” after becoming the skater in history to land a quad axel in competition; Isabeau Levito, the 15-year-old phenom and 2022 Junior World champion and the 2018 U.S. Champion pair Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier.

It’s unusual not to have a Bay Area name on the marquee, but as Yamaguchi, the 1992 Olympic gold medalist from Hayward, points out: “It’s unusual that the Bay Area has produced such a legacy of Olympic team skaters.”

You’d have figured Alysa Liu to be here this week, but the Richmond teen abruptly retired after the 2022 Olympics. Karen Chen, the Fremont native who won silver as part of Team USA in 2022, hasn’t participated in recent events as she focuses on her studies at Cornell University. Vincent Zhou, an Olympian born in San Jose and reared in Palo Alto, is studying at Brown Uni-

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nursing injuries and unavailable in the game, while Kaiba Washington was on a recruiting trip for football.

Armijo fell to 2-14 overall. The Royals were scheduled to play Tuesday night at Vanden.

Wrestling Vacaville dominates Puma Classic

VACAVILLE — Qusai Marini was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler and one of nine Vacaville High School wrestlers to win individual titles Saturday as the Bulldogs finished first as a team at the Puma Classic in

versity.

Still, she will be around all week, as will Yamaguchi and Boitano.

“That’s kind of the best part about making it big in skating is the fact that the community here is so big and everyone is really cheering for each other,” Edmonds said.

Edmonds grew up competing next to fellow Olympians such as Chen and Zhou, but has always been inspired by the area’s long lineage of figure skating greats. And she didn’t have to just watch old YouTube clips to get close to her fellow Bay Area skaters; Fleming, Yamaguchi, Boitano and Galindo were always around, watching her compete.

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Elijah Almarinez, Isaac Padilla, Arjun Nagra, Carson Howell, Caleb Borchers, Brady Wright, Jai Guerra and Pablo Lopez all won weight titles. Wyatt Sandoval (second), Landen Borchers (third), Ben Giangrosso (third) and Ayden Ducharme (fourth) also medaled.

Vacaville closes out the Monticello Empire League wrestling season Wednesday with a matchup against Will C. Wood.

Will C. Wood strong at 3 tournaments

VACAVILLE — Will C. Wood High School wrestlers had a busy Saturday of competition with many Wildcats finishing on the medal stand.

The varsity boys were at the San Ramon Invitational. Wood’s Vaea Salt

Galindo was Edmonds’ choreographer from 2014 until her retirement. And she credits advice Boitano gave her to help land her signature combo, the triple Lutz triple toe, after competition when she was 11: No matter how you land, you have to do it.

In other words, Edmonds said, under immense pressure of competition, you have to be able to land any jump. A simple concept for the observer, but a mental and physical hurdle for skaters. It was just one instance in which Edmonds felt the special bond that comes with being a Bay Areaborn skater.

“It stuck with me and inspired me to know that these skating greats knew who I was,” she said. “I knew I was from their area, and they were cheering me on.”

Perhaps Edmonds, or one of the others, will be

was second at his fourth tournament of the year.

Joining Salt on the podium were Isaiah Howard (fifth), Andres Maldonado (fifth) and Tim Ahn (seventh).

Next up for the varsity boys will be a match with cross-town rival Vacaville on Wednesday at Will C. Wood.

The Lady Cats traveled to the Lady Eagle Invite in Loomis. Levi Crabtree was a tournament championship, avenging a loss from the prior week.

Joining her this week with medals were Sophia Villoria (third) and Josie Mays (third).

The junior varsity boys were also at Del Oro where four of the Wildcats placed.

Ben Cabral (fourth place), Kevon Restauro (fourth), Tristan Cox (sixth) and Matt Stone (sixth) were the top finishers.

that person for a young San Francisco’s Dinh Tran, a two-time U.S. junior silver medalist, will be competing here. San Jose’s Anthony Ponomarenko, son of Olympic champion pair Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, will compete with longtime partner Christina Carreira.. Oakland native Mark Sadusky, 22, partners with Nica Digerness for senior pairs competition. Nina Ouellette of San Francisco will compete as a pair with Rique Newby-Estrella.

For junior skaters between the ages 13 and 19, the Bay Area will be represented by Alameda’s Daniil Murzin and San Jose’s Sherry Zhang.

Edmunds, who postretirement started a podcast focused on the world of figure skating, highlighted a few Bay Area natives not competing to keep an eye on. Mia Kalin, a 14-year-old figure skater from Oakland, competes for Team USA but won’t participate in Nationals.

Olympic hopeful Kate Wang, a 17-year-old Lowell High School student from San Francisco, won’t compete due to injury. But she’s a skater worth watching in future competition as the Olympics approach.

“Yeah, we don’t have big names competing like Karen Chen and Vincent Zhou and Alysa Liu competing,” Yamaguchi said. “But I have no doubt we could see some junior and senior skaters on their way up in the next few years.”

And next time the nationals come here – this is the third time in 12 years –perhaps the Bay Area will return to its rightful place on the marquee.

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Solano women roll against Mission

ROCKVILLE — The Solano Community College women’s basketball team rolled to an easy 68-34 nonconference win Monday night over visiting Mission.

Scoring runs of 18-2 in the second quarter and 21-10 in the final period put the game away.

The Falcons improved to 13-8 overall. It was the first of three games this week as Solano returns to the Bay Valley Conference schedule Wednesday night at Laney and follows it up with a game Friday at Marin.

Dominique Eaglin and Aliya Hayes had 12 points apiece for Solano. Jade Dickson, Genesis ErnieHamilton and Ella Gervasoni all had eight.

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Jesus Aguilar in 2015 when he was in the Cleveland farm system.

Polina Edmunds, a 2014 Olympian who grew up in San Jose and attended Santa Clara University, retired from competition at the onset of the pandemic.

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Olympic ice skater Bradie Tennell, left, speaks with her coach, Denise Myers, during practice at the Twin Rinks Ice Pavilion in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Jan. 29, 2018.

Would ‘wealth taxes’ bring big bucks or spur exodus?

Would imposing “wealth taxes” on the richest Californians generate a cornucopia of revenues to fill gaps in the state budget, particularly for services to the poor? Or would such levies, added to income taxes that are already the nation’s highest, persuade more wealthy Californians to abandon the state, a la Elon Musk?

California voters could pose those questions if newly introduced wealth tax legislation makes it through the Capitol, including a signature from Gov. Gavin Newsom, and appears on next year’s ballot.

A phalanx of left-leaning legislators, led by Assemblyman Alex Lee, a San Jose Democrat, introduced the new measures – a bill and a constitutional amendment –as part of a nationwide drive by progressives for wealth taxes in California and other blue states. They hope that imposing wealth taxes at the state level would spur a national tax.

Lee and other advocates cite a 2021 ProPublica article that detailed how very wealthy Americans use loopholes in the federal tax system to avoid paying billions of dollars in income taxes. “This is all in the spirit of making those who are not paying their fair share pay what they owe,” Lee said.

There’s an ironic element to that contention in California. By happenstance, the wealth tax measures were introduced three days after the New Yorker magazine published an article about a lawsuit alleging that two daughters of Gordon Getty, a San Francisco billionaire who is Newsom’s close friend and financial patron, used shell trusts based in Nevada to avoid paying millions of dollars in California income taxes on earnings from money Getty gave them.

Lee’s measure, Assembly Bill 259, contains elaborate language aimed at preventing rich taxpayers from dodging wealth taxes, which would be initially imposed on those with at least a billion dollars in net assets – 1.5% each year – and later be extended to those with more that $50 million at 1%.

The taxes would be levied on worldwide assets, would hit wealthy taxpayers even if they left the state, and hefty penalties would be imposed for underpaying.

The first question is whether Lee’s new bill has any better chance of winning legislative approval than his previous version, which never got to first base. There are huge Democratic majorities in both legislative houses, far more than two-thirds, but many Democrats are leery of voting for new taxes.

A key element is whether Newsom, who is personally quite wealthy thanks to the PlumpJack wine and restaurant business he founded with seed money from Getty’s trust, would support such a measure.

Newsom has hinted he’s concerned about an exodus of wealthy taxpayers, who already provide a huge share of the state’s revenues. Last year, he opposed a ballot measure, Proposition 30, which would have hiked taxes on millionaires to support efforts to counter climate change.

For the first time, wealthy Californians actively opposed the measure, having remained passive when previous tax-therich propositions were placed before voters, and with Newsom’s added opposition, voters rejected it.

Even if the wealth taxes pass the Legislature, voter approval of the constitutional amendment is problematic. With potentially billions of dollars at stake, a lavishly financed opposition campaign is certain, meaning proponents – particularly public employee unions – would have to commit big bucks as well.

Moreover, another measure to hike income taxes on the wealthy is already ticketed for the 2024 ballot. Its advocates, who want more money for pandemic readiness, stayed off the 2022 ballot to avoid conflict with Proposition 30.

It’s another test for an old saying about Californians’ attitudes on taxes: “Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax the fellow behind the tree.”

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Next 9/11 might come from Mexico, Pompeo says

As bad as news from the U.S. southern border has been lately, Mike Pompeo warns it might get much, much worse. His insights as secretary of state and CIA director during the Trump administration are causing him to warn of the possibility of another 9/11 — this time arising from chaotic regions of Mexico.

Pompeo sounds the alarm in his new memoir, “Never Give An Inch.”

For some reviewers, the most timely content will likely be Pompeo’s denunciation of the double standard that applies when it comes to handling classified material. Written before the drip-drip-drip of President Joe Biden’s documents scandal –“Garage-gate,” anyone? – the text foresees the lengths to which many in the media would go to minimize the offenses of a Democrat compared with former president Donald Trump.

Let’s hope Pompeo is not as prescient about the lawless regions of Mexico. “Every American should know that today, the United States faces significant ungoverned spaces close to places such as El Paso, Phoenix and San Diego,” Pompeo writes. “Significant parts of Mexico are no longer policed by the central government,” he adds. “There are entire well-armed militia forces – the private armies of Mexican criminal syndicates – that impose their gangland rule without government interference.”

American audiences of the TV series “Breaking Bad” or the novels of Don Winslow have a sense of the Mexican cartels but not necessarily an understanding of the real-world threat they pose to the United States.

Already, overdose deaths and addiction related to fentanyl and other

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opioids is a crisis that claims hundreds of American lives every week. There were more than 107,000 overdose deaths in 2021 and, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, “drug traffickers are increasingly mixing fentynal with other types of drugs – in powder and pill form – in an effort to drive addiction and attract repeat buyers,” according to DEA Administrator Anne Milgram.

Precursor chemicals to fentanyl are thought to be manufactured primarily in China, but the manufacture of the drug overwhelmingly occurs in the “ungoverned spaces” of Mexico.

That’s not the only threat, however. “My assessment is that Mexico as a safe haven and launching point for terror operations inside the United States is a serious possibility within the next 10 years,” Pompeo concludes.

He’s not alone in these thoughts. Republican Reps. Dan Crenshaw (Tex.) and Michael Waltz (Fla.) are Special Operations forces veterans of the war that became necessary when similarly lawless regions of Afghanistan became home base for al-Qaida. They’ve introduced a congressional Authorization for the Use of Military Force against the Mexican drug cartels. The proposed AUMF would give the president “authority to use all necessary and appropriate force” to strike at the nine cartels named in the resolution.

Crenshaw and Waltz are no batty backbenchers. They are serious thinkers about national security who believe conditions are so dangerous that a military response might be necessary. Pompeo would no doubt vote for such a resolution were he still a member of the House representing Kansas.

Pompeo reminds his readers that Trump saw this coming when he mused about “flying drones into Mexico to take out the cartels with missiles.” The criticism was predictably harsh. “Leftists at CNN and MSNBC prattled on about how this would violate Mexican sovereignty,” Pompeo writes, “which they seemed to care about more than our own.” Like anyone paying attention to facts and not just personalities, Pompeo knows the threats posed by border lawlessness go far beyond the numbers of migrants passing through from Central American countries.

But don’t imagine this will be easy. The deeper the United States was drawn into Afghanistan, the murkier the lines became between our enemies and our allies. We don’t want to find ourselves years from now sending our fighters to knock down one cartel after another, only to realize that we’re doing the dirty work for their competitors. As long as demand for drugs in the United States remains high, bad and dangerous people will be drawn into the extraordinarily profitable world of international narcotics trafficking.

America’s need to control its southern border – and the Biden administration’s failure to do so – will be a defining part of the 2024 election. Bound up in that conversation will be fentanyl and terrorism, as well as refugees and undocumented arrivals. To borrow a phrase from the summer of 2001, the lights are blinking red. We can’t say we weren’t warned.

Hugh Hewitt is a nationally syndicated radio host on the Salem Radio Network. He is also a professor at Chapman University School of Law, where he has taught constitutional law since 1996.

Taxpayers fund trips for board,

Each April 15, we taxpayers dutifully pay taxes to fund our federal, state and local governments. In addition to our taxes, parents generously provide supplies for their respective schools and classrooms to supplement what teachers spend in order to create a warm, welcoming environment that is conducive to a positive educational experience. Community organizations and the private sector also contribute additional supplies that include books and backpacks to students in need.

How fortunate we are to live in a community filled with overwhelming generosity.

If that isn’t contribution enough, parents also fund their students’ field trips, because “. . . There is not a specific amount set aside in the district budget for field trips. Field trips are typically paid for from school site budgets or by PTOS, PTA, Booster Clubs . . . as there is no additional field trip funding in the transportation’s budget.” This begs the question, where does the buck stop when it comes to transportation budgets at the Fairfield-Suisun School District?

When I inquired on behalf of my constituents, I was informed that “Cordelia Hills’ PTO funds one field trip per classroom.” When a specific class wanted to take an additional field trip, parent volunteers were asked to transport their children. So, in addition to funding field trips, many parents, in order to give their children educational experiences and opportunities outside of the classroom during school hours, may have to take time off from work to transport their children to and from said field trips.

district – not students

I would imagine “time off” may entail earned sick leave or vacation leave at the employees’ expense resulting in a loss of productivity, paying for substitutes or hiring temporary employees at the employers’ expense.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there is more than $2 million in savings beyond the 3%the district is required to keep in reserves for emergencies. Districts often caution that 3% covers only one month’s worth of expenses. To be clear, in the event that a district is in such dire straits, it likely would not be unique; if so, it may be due to gross negligence on its part. An additional $2 million would have no impact.

To not have a designated budget for field trips and not have additional funding in the transportation budget for field trips is quite confounding. What is clear, however, is there are sufficient funds for board members and district personnel field trips.

As a board member, I would like to personally thank taxpayers for funding our field trips. In December, you paid for board members as well as district staff, transportation, lodging, meals, attendance and participation at the annual California School Board Association Conference and Trade Show in San Diego. Much of the conference focused on how school boards collaborate and supervise our one employee: the superintendent. Having been on the Facilities subcommittee, I found the breakout session on Equity in Facilities illuminating and informative. Other breakout sessions, including how to hire a superintendent, and presentations on the benefits of community schools,

were also instructive.

Student board members from throughout the state had opportunities to network while participating in orientation sessions as well as breakout sessions on student advocacy. The trade show portion of the conference included a plethora of law firms, contractors, as well as a smattering of student-centered vendors promoting their services and products. Two, in particular, which stood out for me were “multilingual picture books” offering digital books that translate content into multiple languages, as well as a program called, “Capturing Kids’ Hearts.”

Two weeks later you paid for me to attend the Council of Urban Boards of Education conference in Florida where I also learned from enlightening presentations including “The Science of Reading,” among other sessions on how to best serve our students. Both conferences were educational, insightful and instructive, which will better inform my decisionmaking as a trustee.

The two conferences I and my colleagues attended, both of which have contributed to my education as your representative, cost you roughly $15,000, the equivalent of approximately 10 field trips including transportation. Thank you, again, taxpayers, for paying for our field trips and for the extra time and funds you parents provide for your own students’ field trips.

Ana Petero, a resident of Fairfield, is a trustee with the Fairfield-Suisun School District. This column represents her own views and not those of the school board.

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Aftermath of dating a narcissist

Dear Annie: After dating a guy who turned out to be a narcissist, my question is, how can I heal? I’ve tried everything, and I’ve even felt like I’m over it and I’m OK, but then I have my days. It’s like grieving.

I fell in love with this man, and feel like I let my guard down way too soon, only to be disappointed. Yes, he pursued me heavily, and it’s like after supporting me through nursing school, by the time it was close to my graduating, he started to become distant. I am so depressed off and on. I feel like I lost my best friend. What would you suggest?

I’m no longer interested; plus, he has moved on. This is so not like me to let something like this get to me or have me feeling down. I feel like I lost myself just simply trying to understand, and then I tell

myself that he served his purpose in my life, and if it was meant to be, it would have been. How do I heal, and how do I get over this heartbreak? I never in my life thought I would allow someone access to me and not see this coming or notice the red flags. Please help. — Brokenhearted Dear Brokenhearted: You have no control over how your ex-boyfriend treated you, but you have total control over how you respond to it. If he was a true narcissist, he was not your best friend. He might have pretended to be your best friend, but that is not a true, authentic friend. He probably is incapable at this point in his life of being a true friend to anyone because he is not a friend to himself.

Allow yourself time to grieve your relationship. It is under-

Horoscopes

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Determination, hot-headedness and the swift and fierce instinct of a warrior’s charge -it wouldn’t be ideal to live these associations every day, but an attractive and exciting vitality pulses through even your mundane moments.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). People don’t have to aim for personal growth to achieve it. Typically, growth is a side effect of the struggle to get to a goal. You’ve earned your selfimprovement and you’re on your way to another big one.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Time will be on your side, but only after you’ve done the groundwork. Time will be honored by your calendar markings and other gestures of respect such as plans that make the most of your minutes.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). It takes effort to learn the particulars of a culture, the manners of a land and the etiquette of particular situations. This education is an investment in relationships and will repay you with interest.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’re out to win friends, fans, customers and hearts. Lean into charm-school basics like picking the right topics for small talk and learning people’s names. Simple practices done well allow you to shine.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Though there are no guarantees in life, there are certainly varying degrees of risk, and you’re not in the mood to take any more than is necessary

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday

Your work for the common good leads to your own flourishing. Collaborations delight you. Together you’ll solve problems from the technical to the emotional and behavioral. Most things are made better because of your knack for picking good people.

Other highlights: musical nights, wilderness and a short, lucrative journey. Taurus and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 44, 48, 20 and 16.

today. This is intelligence at work. You’ll see the most direct way to your goal.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Imagination turns your elastic heart and mind into a time machine. It’s commonly believed that every moment is nonrecoverable. You challenge the premise, defying physics, flying to worlds to work out the past or future in new ways.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You directed some energy into worry – understandable for the circumstance you were in. But you’re not there any longer. Redirect it all into action or into deciding on the next action.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’re undaunted by difficulty and feel confident in your ability to either do the job or learn something and then do the job. If

standable. It is OK to get sad off and on. Keep doing things for yourself that made you happy before him. Stay close to family and friends, and lean on them for comfort. There is strength in vulnerability. The sooner you recognize that, the sooner you will be able to move through the sadness.

Once you have some distance and time away from the relationship, try to get curious and ask yourself what you liked and didn’t like in the relationship so that you can learn from the old relationship what you don’t want in your new relationship. And don’t rule out talking to a good therapist. At the very least, you will stop beating yourself up for not spotting this guy’s personality earlier.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

you can’t figure it out, you’ll find the person who already has and get help.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Though unproductive, when tension is high, it’s not uncommon to react emotionally to minuscule disruption. Emotional triggers are like light switches. Something very small can trigger a lot, depending on how it’s wired.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). You’ll direct negative energy into positive things. The energy either gets absorbed, dissipates or provides an interesting contrast; it’s the spice, the kick, the bite in the recipe of a day.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Shadows are not things, only the evidence of things. You can’t change a shadow by moving it; you must move the light or whatever is blocking it. You’ll bring illumination to the scene by focusing on what really matters.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Alicia Keys recently dropped a new album “Santa Baby” and some new videos, too. The singer, songwriter, record producer and occasional actress was born when the sun, Mercury and Mars were all in Aquarius. This configuration aligns intention, communication systems and passion into one melodic arrow shot from her heart straight into the listener’s. Natal moon, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto are all in Libra, the sign of harmony.

Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

Bridge

by Phillip Alder

values are minimal, in no-trump when you have points to spare for your contract and all suits well held.

The advantage of the suit contract is that – hopefully – you exercise trump control. The plus in no-trump is that you may have another source of tricks available when a bad trump break would kill the suit contract.

In the auction of this deal from a duplicate, four clubs and four diamonds were control-bids. South used Roman Key Card Blackwood to learn that the spade queen was missing. He then did well to select six no-trump as the final contract.

Almost every South was in six spades. Most of them were nervous that the opening heart lead was a singleton, so they immediately cashed the spade ace. Now there were two unavoidable trump losers.

THE QUANDARY STILL CAUSES UNCERTAINTY

It is a question that has been asked at least a zillion times: You have an eight- or nine-card major-suit fit but two balanced hands; when should you play in no-trump and when in the major?

There is no simple answer, but in general you play in the suit when your

Sudoku

In six no-trump, there was no risk of a ruff, so the declarer could try a safety play in spades. After winning trick one, he led a low spade toward dummy and, when West played the five, he inserted the 10. Here, the spade 10 took the trick, and declarer claimed, conceding one spade trick to West. If the spade 10 had lost, the two extant spades would have fallen under the king and ace. South’s contract was assured.

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THE QUANDARY STILL CAUSES UNCERTAINTY

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9, with no repeats. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box. Solution, tips and computer program at www.sudoku.com

It is a question that has been asked at least a zillion times: You have an eight- or nine-card major-suit fit but two balanced hands; when should you play in no-trump and when in the major?

There is no simple answer, but in general you play in the suit when your

Annie Lane Dear Annie

Hunters contend with the spread of pythons throughout the Everglades on “Swamp People: Serpent Invasion.”

Peele’s ‘Nope’ is shut out of 2023 Oscar nominations despite buzz and acclaim

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LOS ANGELES — Despite dazzling critics and dominating the domestic box office, Jordan Peele’s “Nope” didn’t receive any Oscar nominations this year.

The acclaimed science-fiction thriller was among the most glaring snubs of the 2023 Oscar nominations, which were announced Tuesday morning.

Leading up to the nominations announcement, Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang predicted that “Nope” might land a nomination for original screenplay, while awards expert Glenn Whipp posited that the suspenseful blockbuster would have an outside shot at scoring a nod for visual effects.

“Nope” co-stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer also generated some early awards buzz for their powerful turns as siblings who discover a mysterious flying saucer hovering ominously over their family ranch. And Palmer – who has been charming audiences since her breakout performance as a child spelling prodigy in 2006’s “Akeelah and the Bee” –won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for supporting actress in December.

“You can savor the prickles of comic tension between [siblings] O.J. and Em, and appreciate how Kaluuya’s and Palmer’s initially clashing rhythms – his slow and dour, hers fast and excitable – gradually come to complement each other as their characters join forces,” Chang wrote in his review of “Nope.”

When it hit theaters in July, Peele’s highly anticipated follow-up to “Get Out” (2017) and “Us” (2019) earned overwhelmingly positive reviews and received an 83% fresh rating on review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. Plus, it ranked No. 5 on Metacritic’s tally of 2022 films most frequently included on critics’ year-end top 10 lists.

The invisible-monster flick also opened at No. 1 in the United States and Canada with an impressive $44 million –securing a hat trick for

Peele, whose first three feature films have all debuted atop the domestic box office.

It’s easy to understand why some critics expected “Nope” to collect an Oscar nomination for original screenplay. For starters, Peele is no stranger to the category: His debut feature film, “Get Out,” won the coveted prize in 2018.

And though box office success doesn’t always translate to Oscar glory, it’s worth noting that “Nope” was the second-highest-grossing domestic release of 2022 not adapted from another work or tied to an existing franchise, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore.

In the United States and Canada, the Universal Pictures title racked up a whopping $171.5 million – second only to Warner Bros.’ “Elvis” when you exclude entries from Marvel, DC and other corporate machines that tend to monopolize the box office.

“The learned viewing habits of the pandemic, which prioritize convenience over curiosity, now seem to suspend themselves only when a big event picture – or a Marvel movie, which at this point can scarcely be considered an event – comes along,” Chang wrote in his yearend reflection.

“Some industry finger-waggers gleefully blamed these flops on Hollywood’s allegedly progressive agenda, which doesn’t quite explain the success of a racially inclusive, politically conscious thriller like ‘Nope,’ one of the few original hits released by a major studio this year. But then, Jordan Peele is in the business of avoiding – and defying – easily digestible narratives, which is very much to his credit.”

The 95th Academy Awards will take place March 12 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The ceremony is scheduled to air live on ABC.

Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis

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Baby Blues Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Baldo Hector Cantú and Carlos Castellanos

Cronenberg’s son continues heritage of film freakdom with ‘Infinity Pool’

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Infinity pools are built as optical illusions, where water seemingly has no boundary, slipping into nothingness, bleeding into the horizon. There could be no better title for Brandon Cronenberg’s latest identity crisis-as-body horror film, “Infinity Pool,” which arrives hot on the heels of 2020’s “Possessor.” Set at a high-end all-inclusive resort in the fictional country of Li Tolqa (it was shot on location in Croatia and Hungary), “Infinity Pool” is larger in scope than its predecessor, the narrative grander, sharper, funnier and more wickedly perverse.

This is Cronenberg’s “Eyes Wide Shut” by way of “The White Lotus”; it is in conversation with “Triangle of Sadness,” but it also seems to be a deeply personal film about an artist confronting his insecurities and finding a transformation, of sorts, in pure abandon and submission. It’s a biting satire of wealth, an inspection of the power dynamics inherent in colonial tourism, and an indictment of the bad behavior that money not only enables, but engenders. But most of all, it cements Cronenberg as one of our greatest cinematic freaks, much like his father, the great David Cronenberg. With regard to that relationship, “Infinity Pool” is also rife with anxieties about being an artist with familial connections to industry.

The propulsive narrative and queasy, off-kilter camerawork by cinematographer Karim Hussain combine to create the sensation of being sucked down into a surreal whirlpool, entering a world that’s off-balance, almost tilted, as if we’re on a ship. The cool color palette denies the beauty of the location, and all the compositions list to the left. The close-ups are extreme, and the shallow depth of field has

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Hussain racking focus between the characters constantly, underlining the dissonance between our protagonist and his wife.

Alexander Skarsgård plays

James Foster, a writer with an inferiority complex. Having published one novel, he’s on vacation with his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman), the publisher’s daughter, looking for something to combat his writer’s block. Inspiration, or something like that, walks into his life in the form of Gabi (Mia Goth), a fan of his book, she claims, and soon the couple are dining, dancing and escaping the heavily fortified resort compound for a beach picnic with Gabi and her husband Alban (Jalil Lespert).

While James is tipsily navigating their illegally rented convertible back to the resort, the headlights malfunction, and he hits and kills a local farmer, triggering his descent into the unique and dystopian legal process of the impoverished, religious and conservative Li Tolqa. He’s sentenced to die for his hit-and-run, ordered to be executed by the man’s young son. But for a hefty fee, the police can create his “double” or a clone, to be killed instead. Would he prefer to be executed? The only catch? He has to watch.

Choosing the double seems the only choice, but it’s the one that sends James spiraling down a rabbit hole, falling in with Gabi and Alban’s crowd, all of whom have been doubled before, escaping accountability and consequences with their money. The new lease on life

emboldens them to act out, deriving as much hedonistic pleasure from a home invasion as they do a drug-fueled orgy.

At the center of this kaleidoscopic wormhole of dangerously dark delight is Gabi, played by 2022’s reigning scream queen Mia Goth (“X,” “Pearl”), who is as ferocious and fearless as she is funny. Gabi morphs from fawning fangirl to seductive sexpot to sadistic prankster and bully, dominating and humiliating the hapless himbo James with relish, and her signature siren screech. It’s the kind of performance only Goth could pull off, intentionally campy but so fully committed that it tips over the edge into terrifying.

This feels like a quintessential follow-up to a breakthrough film – a project about writer’s block, horrible rich people and losing one’s identity over and over again, only finding peace in submitting to powerful forces beyond one’s control. Whether James is a good writer doesn’t seem to matter, and if he finds himself again is unclear, but Cronenberg sure has fun pouring blood and bodily fluids on the problem and seeing how far he can push boundaries. If you’re willing to surf on the wonderfully weird and wild wavelength of “Infinity Pool” it is indeed a singular, and unforgettable, ride.

Bridge

by Phillip Alder

champion came up to me and asked me how I had made six hearts. She couldn’t see it. Do you?

In the bidding, West had promised at least 5-5 in the minors, but then he led a supposedly fourth-highest diamond two. East won with his ace and shifted to a club. What would you have done from there?

West’s Unusual Two No-trump showed at least 5-5 in the minors. Using the convention with 4-6 distribution isn’t recommended, but duplicate players have a habit of ignoring the textbook in competitive situations. I believed partner must have a decent hand to bid three spades. I bid what I thought – hoped – I could make. I was confident that if West had had a spade void, he would have led his highest diamond spot as a suit-preference signal. However, West might well be void in hearts. So, I won with the club ace, crossed to the board with a spade and called for the heart nine.

TEN THOUSAND AND COUNTING

My byline first appeared on this column on April 1, 1991. That makes this my 10,000th column! Therefore, please excuse my showing you one of my favorite deals. It occurred during a Friday evening session at the Beverly Bridge Club in New York City. Afterward, a world

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Holding the 10 and the eight, East saw no harm in covering the nine with the 10, but he soon learned the error of his way. I won with my ace, crossed back to dummy with another spade, finessed the heart seven, drew trumps and claimed. My club losers went on dummy’s spade winners. If East had withheld the heart 10, I would have put up an honor, of course, and gone down.

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program, finished third in the all-around for San Jose State in a meet last week at Air Force, scoring 39.050 points. Lopes was second in the vault, ninth in the uneven bars, tied for ninth in the balanced beam and tied for second in the floor exercise.

Men’s basketball

Senior guard Jordan Adams (Vacaville, Solano) helped William Jessup to a pair of victories. Adams had five points and one assist in a 94-88 overtime win over Hope International. He had nine points and one assist in a 92-78 win over San Diego Christian.

Senior guard Braxton Adderly (Rodriguez, Napa Valley) scored two points and had two rebounds, four assists and one steal for Cal Maritime in a 70-65 loss to Simpson. Adderly had seven points, two rebounds and one steal in a 61-53 win over UC Merced.

Sophomore guard Jeremiah Jones (Salesian, Vacaville resident) had four points for Stanislaus State to go with one rebound, one assist and three steals in a 67-63 loss to San Francisco State.

Jones also had four rebounds, two assists and one steal in an 80-74 loss to Cal State Monterey Bay.

Senior forward Jay Nagle (Will C. Wood) helped Idaho State to a 65-51 win over Sacramento State with four points, one rebound, one assist and one blocked shot. Nagle had seven points, three rebounds, one assist and one steal in a 72-65 loss to Portland State.

Junior forward Landon Seaman (Will C. Wood) contributed 10 points, seven rebounds and one blocked shot to Menlo in a 68-63 loss to San Diego Christian. He had 17 points and two rebounds in an 85-80 loss to Hope International.

Senior guard Dunnell Stafford (Solano) contributed three points, three rebounds, one assist and one steal to Fort Lewis in a 75-68 loss to Colorado Mesa. Stafford had four points, five rebounds and two assists in a 79-63 win over Westminster.

Junior guard Ricky Hamilton-Holland (Will C. Wood) and senior guardforward Sterlan Thomas (Vacaville, Solano) saw action in a pair of losses for Pacific Union College. Hamilton-Holland had 12 points, 10 rebounds and one blocked shot in an 88-48 loss to UC Merced.

Thomas added four points, two rebounds, one assist and one blocked shot.

Thomas went for 16 points with one rebound and one

assist in an 86-66 loss to Simpson. Hamilton-Holland had three points, one rebound and one assist in that game.

Women’s basketball Sophomore forward Joia Armstrong (Vanden) and junior guard Ashmeen Sran (St. Patrick-St. Vincent, Solano) played in a win and a loss for Stanislaus State. Armstrong had eight points, 10 rebounds, three assists and two blocked shots in a 74-59 win over San Francisco State. Sran had two points and an assist. Armstrong had two points, two rebounds, two assists, one blocked shot and one steal in a 93-63 loss to Cal State Monterey Bay. Sran had two assists in that game.

Junior forward Milia Gibson (Rodriguez) scored nine points for Mississippi Valley State in a 71-57 loss to Grambling State, and also had six rebounds and one assist. Gibson had four points, two rebounds, one assist, one steal and one blocked shot in a 74-43 loss to Southern.

Senior forward Taimane Lesa-Hardee (Salesian, Fairfield resident) had six points, one rebound and one assist for San Francisco State in a 74-59 loss to Stanislaus State. Lesa-Hardee had six points, five rebounds and two assists in a 74-59 loss to Chico State.

Senior guard Myli Martinez (Vanden) and freshman guard Jiana Creswell (Vanden) helped Chico State picked up a couple of wins. Martinez had 13 points, three rebounds, six assists and three steals in an 82-46 win over Cal State Monterey Bay. Creswell had two points, one rebound and one assist. Martinez scored six points to go with six rebounds, two assists and one steal in a 74-59 win over San Francisco State. Creswell saw limited action.

Freshman guard Kiki Roberts (Vanden) scored four points and had a steal for Eastern New Mexico in a 73-67 win over Texas A&M International. Roberts had four points, six rebounds, one assist and one blocked shot in a 50-48 loss to Texas A&M-Kingsville.

Freshman guard Camryn Washington (Rodriguez) scored four points and had an assist in a 72-62 loss by Cal State East Bay to Cal State San Marcos. Washington scored two points in an 80-59 loss to Cal State Los Angeles.

Wrestling

Junior Lawrenz Saenz (Vacaville) lost a 7-3 decision at 141 pounds, though Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo came away with a stunning 19-18 win over Arizona State.

No Hall of Fame call for Jeff Kent

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SAN FRANCISCO — In his 10th and final appearance on the writers’ ballot, former San Francisco Giants second baseman Jeff Kent failed again to make it into the Baseball Hall of Fame, joining onetime teammate Barry Bonds, who came off the ballot one year earlier.

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Kent, 54, is one of the top offensive second baseman in MLB history, with 377 career home runs, most by a player who spent at least twothirds of his career at second base and 76 more than Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby. He had a career .290 average, was a fivetime All-Star and won the 2000 NL MVP award. His vote total went up sig-

nificantly, from 32.7% to 46.5%, but remained well short of the 75% threshold for enshrinement.

“The voting over the years has been too much of a head-scratching embarrassment,” Kent said via text. “Baseball is losing a couple generations of great players that were the best in their era because a couple nonvoting stat folks keep

lence – you can’t even call them all wins – are being diluted by critical moments of low-IQ basketball.

For a team that built a dynasty on the back of on-court smarts, it’s a jarring way to lose games.

And while this new team is unquestionably talented, it lacks an identity – core basics it can count upon at all times.

“We’re capable, but it’s a matter of execution and being able to sustain it,” Curry said. “There’s another level to get to that we haven’t gotten [to] in terms of putting together a full 48 minutes.”

And for whatever reason, this team is now really testing the limits of the benefit of the doubt the Dubs’ four previous titles provided.

At some point, they need to put together more than a few “full 48s” to compare it to the NBA’s best teams this season.

So far, we’ve seen that best in spurts: Last week’s near-win over the Celtics, the Christmas win over the Grizzlies. a December win over Boston at Chase Center.

But those moments of excel-

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their top draft pick last year who hasn’t suited up in four of the past five games as a healthy scratch. Jackson had three sacks in his first six games, and he made a fourth-quarter interception in the Jan. 1 win at the Las Vegas Raiders.

Omenihu, a 2019 fifth-round draft pick by the Texans, is making $2.5 million this season. He is slated to become a free agent in March for the first time in his career.

The 49ers acquired him for a sixth-round pick on Nov. 2, 2021, and although he did not have a sack in that regular season with either the Texans (six

Perhaps last year taught the Warriors the wrong lesson. They started exceptionally strong and then struggled for months going into the playoffs.

Then the playoffs started, and the Warriors were world-beaters again. Their reputation preceded them in the playoffs, giving them a significant leg up in every series they played.

But that reputation is lapping the actual team right now.

Perhaps if the Western Conference were better, the Warriors would try harder. The Dubs might be in 10th place in the West standings – good for a spot in the play-in tournament – but they’re one game back of a true playoff spot and three games back of a seed that would provide them home-court advantage in the first round.

comparing those players to players already voted in from generations past and are influencing the votes. It’s unfair to the best players in their own era and those already voted in, in my opinion.”

Former Phillies and Cardinals third baseman Scott Rolen, the only player voted in Tuesday, won eight Gold Gloves in his career.

There won’t be any external incentive. The Warriors’ pride needs to force the team to play better. And the Dubs’ pride seems pretty pliable.

The Warriors’ highs might be the league’s best, but Golden State’s bad far outweighs its good this season. It will take more than a big win or two to change that.

And the team is running out of time to put together the kind of run that affirms its summer plans.

First, they were unbothered to find their best ball before Christmas. Then it became Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. The team has 35 games left in the regular season, with eight coming before the trade deadline and 11 before the All-Star Game.

This team needs to stretch together a couple of weeks of good basketball. Right now, it can’t stack positions.

It’s not crunch time – where only one reality can survive – quite yet, but it’s approaching fast.

to relieve starting defensive ends Nick Bosa and Samson Ebukam, but Omenihu also lined up on the inside next to them on third-down or passingdown situations.

Defensive line coach Kris Kocurek has pushed Omenihu to tap into length, power, hands and quickness.

That showed up in Sunday’s opening series as he was credited with a quarterback hit on Dak Prescott’s thirddown incompletion to end the drive.

games) or 49ers (nine games), he had 1 1/2 sacks in their wild-card win last year against his hometown Dallas Cowboys.

Omenihu was born in Houston and played for Rowlett High School (about 30 minutes outside of Dallas) and at the Uni-

versity of Texas before the Houston Texans used a fifth-round pick on him in 2019. He had three sacks as a rookie and four the following season.

He’s flourished this season, not only in terms of sacks but also with his versatility. He’s been used

“Coming into OTAs this year, that’s when I figured out what works best for me,” Omenihu said last week. “Then, just over time, with continued reps and preparation and studying myself and other guys here, I understood how I should maneuver and play in this system.”

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Couture, stationed to the left of the net, batted the rebound past Husso with 6.9 seconds left in the period for his 17th goal of the season.

Karlsson now has 49 assists and 64 points in 49 games this season.

Reimer, making his fourth start in the last five games, had 17 saves in the first two periods.

In five starts this month, Reimer before Tuesday had a 1-3-1 record in five games this month. But in those five games, Reimer had a .891 save percentage, a slight improvement from last season when he had a .879 save percentage in six games.

Sharks winger Kevin Labanc had seven shot attempts in the first two periods Tuesday as he played his first game since Jan. 13, when the Sharks were blasted 7-1 by Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers.

After that loss, Labanc,

sharks27, sat out the Sharks’ next game against the New Jersey Devils three days later, as he was replaced on the second line by Mikey Eyssimont.

Labanc was also scratched for games against Dallas, Columbus, and Boston, and the Sharks went 1-2-1 in his absence –outscored 16-11 in those four games and going a combined 2-for-9 with the man advantage.

It was the most consecutive healthy scratches Labanc has had in the NHL since his pro career began in 2016.

“I’m still part of the team,” Labanc said last week. “I know that I can put the puck in the net and I know I can help the team win.”

Labanc, who has 10 goals and 25 points in 43 games this season, started Tuesday’s game with familiar linemates Tomas Hertl and Meier.

The Sharks (14-25-9) scratched forwards Jonah Gadjovich and Evgeny Svechnikov and defenseman Scott Harrington.

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t h e 49ers’ Charles o m enihu (92) reacts after being defeated by the Los Angeles rams in the NFC championship game at soFi stadium in Inglewood, Jan. 30, 2022.