Daily Republic: Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023

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FAIRFIELD — A 48-bed permanent supportive housing project on Broadway Street in Vallejo will get the final $3 million it needs for construction funding, plus $1.05 million for furnishings and short-term staffing.

The project, along with $2 million toward a 125-bed navigation center in Vallejo, were described as critical to battle the largest homeless problem in the county.

The Solano County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday followed the recommendations of the newly organized CAP Solano in approving those two projects and two others for federal American Rescue Plan Act pandemic relief dollars. All created places where the home-

less or at-risk residents can be placed.

“I have to say: I saw something amazing, something that I’ve never seen before,” Supervisor Mitch Mashburn said about a recent meeting of the CAP Solano board, for which he is the chairman.

What he was talking about was a consensus on project priorities during which the elected city council and county board members put their own jurisdictional needs aside in favor of the projects that will create the most shelter, transitional and other housing.

The supervisors had more difficulty in finding that connectivity.

Mashburn, despite supporting the project sitting on the CAP

Solano board, voted with Supervisor John Vasquez against the full funding of the supportive housing project, and voted against the full funding for the navigation center. While a final vote on actual funding approval will come Feb. 28 – which will take four votes to pass – the board also supported $800,000 to Shelter Solano to complete its commercial kitchen and some maintenance needs at its location on Beck Avenue in Fairfield. Another $300,000, which had been earmarked for the kitchen project when the facility was Mission Solano, will be added to the total. When that project is completed,

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County will be getting a new winery, and apparently, a new “good neighbor policy.”

The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday denied the appeal of a November Planning Commission decision to approve a use permit for E&C Winery, which will sit on 70 acres at the corner of Rockville and Russell roads.

At full build out, the winery could produce up to 500,000 gallons of wine – one of the largest in Suisun Valley. It will be a “custom crush” facility, which will allow small- and medium-sized winemakers to bring their grapes to E&C for processing.

The Rockville Homeowners Association had appealed the Planning Commission decision based on a host of concerns – all but one falling to the wayside after

meeting with project owner Derrick Lum, a fourth-generation farmer in the valley.

The meeting was facilitated by 3rd District Supervisor Wanda Williams. Esther Pryor, the president of the association, told the supervisors that after meeting with Lum the only real issue left to deal with is the impact the winery and corresponding special events will have on area traffic.

“The county needs to further study the traffic flow,” Pryor said. Pryor and others who supported the appeal are less concerned about the immediate impacts from the winery, which has a first-phase production volume of up to 125,000 gallons.

Their concerns are more about the cumulative effects the project, along with the seven existing wineries and several other large projects

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WASHINGTON — In a State of the Union address that began as a bipartisan appeal, President Biden appeared combative and feisty at times as he sparred with Republicans over his legislative record, the federal deficit and border security.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., at one point tried to quiet hecklers who shouted as the president called on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform and help him address border security.

Biden, who spoke for roughly an hour, sought to reassure Americans that he has repaired the economic damage wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic. He reminded his critics that he has repeatedly defied predictions that he would be unable to work across the aisle.

“I don’t want to ruin your reputation,” Biden quipped to McCarthy early in his speech, “but I look forward to working with you.”

The president has yet to announce whether he’s officially running for reelection, but aides say he’ll make a decision in the coming weeks. His prime-time speech before a divided Congress and millions of Americans was an opportunity to celebrate the legislation he has signed, explain his efforts to curb inflation and lay out his vision for the next two years

The address was also an opportunity for Biden to soft-launch his all but certain 2024 campaign, reaffirming his pitch that he’s a steady hand who’s built his career on bipartisanship.

“We’re often told that

FAIRFIELD — The City Council on Tuesday approved the 2023-31 Housing Element, a section in the General Plan that defines the strategy to meet housing needs at all income levels. That includes an inventory of existing housing stock and areas of the city available for housing.

“One of the fundamental parts of the Housing Element is the Regional Housing Needs Assessment,” said Alison Moore, a consultant with Dyett & Bhatia, which helped put the document together. Work began about a year ago.

The document will now go to the state Department of Housing and Community Development for certification.

The agency has 60 days to make a determination, but had already sent the city a letter outlining certain areas of concern after a preliminary review.

David Feinstein, the interim director for Community Development, did not specify those areas but said the comments were largely about putting in more metrics to track information.

The city was allocated 3,069 housing units within its Regional Housing Needs Assessment allocation, of which 792 have to be for very low incomes, or less than 50% of the city’s average median income of $54,350; 464 units for low income of 50% to 80% of the median income ($54,350 and $86,960); 539 units for moderate income of 80% to 120%

Kansas family’s dog went missing eight years ago

It just turned up in Idaho

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WICHITA, Kan. —

Nicolle Leon left for work one morning in 2015.

When she returned to her Wichita home later that day, the family’s dog, a beagle named Roscoe, was gone.

“He went missing,” Leon said. “We looked everywhere for him.”

Roscoe was a year old when he went missing.

The family searched for him, with Leon calling the shelter daily for months. She didn’t understand how he could have gotten out of the fenced yard.

“There was no sign of the gate being open, you know, and no holes that were dug up,” Leon said.

For the next eight years, the family went on without knowing what had happened to their beloved dog.

Then Leon got a phone call just before midnight on Jan. 11.

She was out of town on a work trip in Texas and woke up to news that Roscoe had been found, 1400 miles away.

“They said hey, ‘We found your dog,’ ” Leon said. “My first thought was that one of my dogs that I have now had gotten out.”

Leon did not recognize the address the person had given her. The caller later said the address was in Caldwell, Idaho, which is roughly about 1,400 miles away from Wichita.

Leon dismissed the idea that the dog was hers until she asked for a description.

“She says it’s a beagle and I immediately jumped up,” Leon said.

“Are you kidding me?”

Roscoe had been found on a street in Caldwell by a woman who turned him in to the West Valley Humane Society. Two other women, Shae DeBerry and Katherine Miller, got involved in getting Roscoe home, Leon told an Eagle reporter.

Miller, a member of the lost and found pets of Caldwell, Idaho Facebook group, had just bought a microchip scanner and scanned Roscoe’s chip.

Dashboard days are here again

January is the time of year when California school districts and schools share their “dashboard data” to school boards and the public.

“Dashboard? What’s a dashboard?” In a nutshell, it’s a set of rating scales developed by the California Department of Education that describe how schools and districts performed on a variety of state and local accountability measures during the prior academic year.

The dashboard is a key component of the Local Control Funding Formula law passed in 2013, is aligned with measures required under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act and has become a central feature of California’s School Accountability Act (1999).

Dashboard data are organized by six state-level performance indicators and five local indicators. State level indicators are reported by both school districts and schools. They include:

n Academic performance indicators.

n English learner progress.

n Chronic absenteeism.

n Graduation rate.

n Suspension rate.

n College and career factors.

Local indicators are reported by individual schools and include:

“This dog has been missing for 6-7 years,” Miller said on the group’s Facebook page.

Days later and after getting in contact with Leon, DeBerry arranged for Roscoe to finally go home.

“Friday, Jan. 13th I loaded little Roscoe into a transport van for his big send off to his family,” DeBerry said in a post about Roscoe in the Facebook group.

Roscoe arrived in Wichita the morning of Jan. 15.

“I wondered, ‘like, is he going to recognize us?’

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Leon said. “When he got out of that transport van, he was so excited and wagging his tail. He jumped all over my kids.”

Although she is happy to have the now 9-year-old Roscoe back home, Leon is curious about where he was all those years.

“My first reaction was if there was an owner who was taking care of him all this time,” Leon said. “It’s sad because we missed out on eight years with him.”

Leon’s kids, Alani and and Alex, were young when Roscoe went missing. They now are 17 and 14. Roscoe joined a family of two other dogs at his old home.

“They [kids] are so happy to have him back.” Leon said. “It feels good to have him and take care of him for the rest of his life.”

n Basic services and conditions.

n Implementation of state academic standards.

n Parent and family engagement.

n School climate (safety, connectedness).

n Access to a broad course of study. Without question, the dashboard is a carefully conceived and useful tool that distills and quantifies (into simple metrics) informa-

tion derived from a wide range of variables related to school and student performance. It provides a quick and easy taxonomy of key factors that shape school quality. However, the dashboard’s limited portrait of school and student performance factors is based on an implicit assumption that each indicator is ultimately controlled by the school.

But here’s the rub. Schools can control only so much.

According to David Berliner of Arizona State University, public school students in America spend about 1,150 waking hours a year in school versus about 4,700 more waking hours per year in their families and neighborhoods. For most children, out-of-school factors and experiences have a disproportionate influence on what they learn about the world, themselves, their attitudes and values, and their social environments. Several studies reveal most of the inequality among student cognitive skills and behavior comes from family and neighborhood sources rather than schools.

This is not to say schools don’t play a vital role in the cognitive, emotional and social development of children. They certainly do, but the relative effects on student learning by such factors as teacher qualities, curriculum, instruction, school leadership and school functions and systems can vary dramatically across school districts, schools and communities. There is absolutely no question students’ test scores, graduation rates, suspension rates and absenteeism can be hugely affected by out-of-school-factors.

To shed a brighter light on this, Berliner describes how out-ofschool-factors can “infiltrate” the

day-to-day lives of schoolchildren and will directly and/or indirectly effect dashboard indicators. What follows are five brief examples:

n Low child birth weight is associated with cognitive and behavior problems among schoolage children. Typically, children from low income and/or minority families are most susceptible. In our greater Bay Area, 25% of all children under the age of 18 live in low income households and 7% had low birth weights.

n A disproportionately high percentage of low income and minority children have no medical coverage, which, of course, adversely affects attendance, academic performance and behavior.

n Similarly, a disproportionately high percentage of low income and minority children are “food insecure” and are undernourished. Undernourished children are more likely to suffer cognitive challenges and other health problems. Meals provided by schools do not compensate for this.

n Low income families are especially hard hit by family violence, abuse and economic stress that can negatively affect the emotional health and academic performance of children.

n The neighborhood culture and peer influences bear heavily on children and their values, attitudes and success in schools.

Finally, school quality rating systems (like the dashboard) do not take into account the most important quality indicator of all: student learning growth. Ultimately, it’s not how much you know that matters most; it’s how much you’ve grown. 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.

Courtesy of Nicolle Leon/TNS Roscoe, a 9-year-old beagle, has been reunited with his Wichita family after being missing for eight years.

Supervisors continue local emergency for winter storms

FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors on Tuesday adopted a resolution that continues the 2023 Proclamation of Local Emergency in response to winter storms.

The emergency was declared Jan. 9 when Lake Curry threatened to spill over, causing an evacuation warning for residents who live within a quartermile of Suisun Creek.

Later, an evacuation order was issued for the Mix Canyon and Gates Canyon roads area, above where the roads were determined to be unsafe for use. Both are under repair, but could take several weeks to complete.

“Recovery efforts from the storms are in the initial stages and will be ongoing for some time. Additionally, continuation of flows from the watersheds that

drain into the Delta can take weeks to pass through the system. Therefore, the full extent of impacts to the Delta region will not be known until water levels return to normal, which is not expected until early February,” the staff report to the board states.

The action was part of the board consent agenda. There were no comments.

In other action, the board:

n Recognized Carmen Cruz-Bradshaw, health assistant, upon her retirement from the Department of Health and Social Services, Public Health Division, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Bureau, after 33 years with Solano County.

n Recognized Wanda Escalante, health assistant, upon her retirement from the Department of Health and Social

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Weekend collision leaves Fairfield motorcyclist hurt

FAIRFIELD — An

18-year-old motorcyclist involved in a Sunday traffic collision as of Monday afternoon remained in critical condition at a local hospital, the Police Department reported.

The young Fairfield man was injured after his off-road dirt bike collided with a Nissan Sentra at the intersection of Cement Hill Road and Peppertree Drive. Police on Monday said he was stable.

The incident took place about 8:20 p.m., the Fairfield Police Department reported. Cement Hill Road was closed

Fairfield-born math coaching center has

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FAIRFIELD —

Mayleah Cheatham rather enjoyed school, but over time found she was struggling with math. She just didn’t get it.

until 10:30 p.m.

Police reported the motorcycle was traveling west on Cement Hill at a high rate of speed and without lights. The Sentra, traveling east, had stopped at the intersection and was turning left into Laurel Creek Park and collided with the bike, which had driven through the stop sign at the intersection. The motorcyclist was thrown about 25 feet from his bike, the police reported.

A witness told police that the motorcyclist was driving “recklessly,” the police said.

There were two occupants inside the Nissan. Neither was injured.

First 5 Solano has early childhood grants available

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FAIRFIELD — Nonprofits and other organizations that address the needs of Solano County children 0 to 5, their parents or caregivers, and/or service providers are eligible for grants up to $20,000 from First 5 Solano.

There is $160,000 available, the county reported. “A child’s early years hold the key to their

success,” Solano County Supervisor Erin Hannigan, a First 5 Solano commissioner, said in a statement. “Investing in early childhood development means funding programs and innovative strategies for children from birth to age 5 that strengthen families, improve the quality of early learning environments, and promote prevention and early

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When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, her mother, Rachel Cheatham, was forced into the role of a home teacher and realized her daughter needed more help than she could offer, even with the help of her son, Marquis Simon.

The Fairfield family last fall found Miracle Math Coaching in the Raley’s Plaza on North Texas Street.

“When I came here and interviewed with them, just by talking to (Mayleah) and testing her, they thought they could take her to a new level,” Rachel Cheatham said.

Now Mayleah, 11, is performing well above her sixth-grade mathematics level, and her mother knows why: The individual attention the center can provide to her daughter.

But Deanna Hurn, the center’s founder, said the

reason for any student’s success goes far beyond the personal tutoring and teaching.

It is founded in what Hurn calls “brain-based learning,” and knowing students learn in different ways, and there are a host of ways to activate the

brain’s learning capacity, focus and retention.

What started as a homebased business 15 years ago, and with a downtown presence for about 10 years, is an expanding enterprise Hurn hopes will include expansion across the nation and grow into international opportunities.

And when Hurn talks about expansion, she does not see a bunch of brick-and-mortar centers popping up, but rather the expansion of her onlineand technology-based development centers.

Hurn, in 2021, was named one of the Top 100 Visionaries in Education by The Global Forum for Education and Learning, and gave the keynote address at its international

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Dodd introduces legislation to add protections against in-car camera uses

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FAIRFIELD — Sen.

Bill Dodd has announced new legislation that would “notify drivers when images are gathered by in-vehicle cameras and prohibit their sale to third parties or for advertising purposes.”

“Increasingly in society today, we find ourselves being recorded or surveilled with no idea how the images are being

used,” Dodd, D-Napa, said in a statement. “This erosion of privacy is now happening inside our own cars. My bill would prevent the unwanted taking of video by invehicle cameras and give the consumer more control over their personal information.”

Existing law offers some protections but gaps remain.

“In response, Senate Bill 296 would place restrictions on the retention and transfer of video recordings from in-vehicle cameras. Under provisions of the bill, consumers would not have to take action to prevent their in-vehicle video record-

ings from being collected without their permission or knowledge. And the bill would not prevent the use of cameras for traffic safety,” the statement said. The bill is supported by Consumer Federation of California. It is expected to be heard in committee next month.

“Consumers should

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Deanna Hurn, founder of Miracle Math Coaching, demonstrates a smartboard at the center in Fairfield, Monday.

Brianna Archilla, K-8 academic coach, sits in the lobby at Miracle Math Coaching in Fairfield, Monday.

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Garden club talk highlights plant differences

FAIRFIELD — Fairfield Garden Club members will hear a presentation Feb. 15 from Betsy Buxton, a Solano County Master Gardener.

To the horticulturist, the terms bulbs, tubers, rhizomes and corms all have distinct meanings. But when gardeners are speaking casually, they often fail to make a distinction between them. What flowers and plants come from these?

Buxton will explain the meanings between them and what their growing needs are.

The meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Adult Recreation Center, 1200 Civic Center Drive.

For more information, call Mary Colridge at 707-330-9920.

Land-use panel set to review short-term rentals

FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Land Use and Transportation Committee will review the short-term vacation house rentals enforcement provisions, and the Williamson Act rules revisions when it meets at 2 p.m. Thursday.

Additionally, General Plan text amendments related to wind turbines and habitat issues, as well as what was termed other “cleanup items” are on the agenda, as well as the emergency ag pass program, which allows farmers and ranchers to get back onto their evacuated properties during times of disaster.

The committee, comprised of Supervisors John Vasquez and Mitch Mashburn, is set to meet in Room 6003 on the sixth floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield.

Civil Service panel set to consider annual report

FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Civil Service Commission will consider adoption of its annual report when it meets at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The commission meets in the Board of Supervisors chamber on the first floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield.

Also on the agenda is consideration of moving the chief district attorney investigator into a different employee representation unit, still represented by the Law Enforcement Management Association, and to add the classes of accountant (entry, journey, senior), accounting clerk (I, II), Office Assistant II, Mental Health clinician, Social Services worker and Social Worker (I, II) within the Probation Department.

Travis reps to present update of zone study

FAIRFIELD — Travis Air Force Base representatives will present to the Solano County Airport Land Use Commission an update on the 2009 Airport Installation Compatibility Use Zone Study.

Planning Commission to review apartment, industrial projects

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FAIRFIELD — A request to change the General Plan designation at 5253 Business Center Drive and the draft environmental impact report for the Green Valley

3 Apartments project go before the Fairfield Planning Commission on Wednesday. Eastbourne Investments LTD has requested to change the General

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Plan designation for the Business Center Drive property from Highway and Regional Commercial to Industrial Business Park, and to change the zoning designation from Office CommercialNorth Cordelia Overlay, to Industrial Business Park, the commission agenda states. “No new development is proposed,” the agenda states. The Green Valley Apartments project

calls for 185 apartments and 332 vehicle parking spaces on 5.78 acres of undeveloped property at 4840 Business Center Drive. Spanos Corp. is the applicant. The apartments will range from studios to three-bedroom/two-bathroom units in a four-story building. Vehicle parking will be in a two-story parking garage, with surface parking around the perimeter of the site. A two-story clubhouse,

directors to consider priority

development grant applications

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SUISUN CITY — The Solano Transportation Authority will consider submitting a Priority Production Area grant for $750,000 for the Moving Solano Forward Economic Plan.

A $200,000 grant application to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission also will be considered for Fairfield and Suisun City implementing their respective Priority Development Area plans around the Solano Rail Hub.

Priority Production Areas are approved by the Association of Bay Area Governments and

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The commission meets at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Board of Supervisors chamber on the first floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. conference of educators in Dubai in February 2022.

Grants available to support theater arts programs in Vaca

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VACAVILLE — Grants

totaling $150,000 are available to support the regrowth of the arts community.

The Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre and the city are accepting applications for the arts grants “intended to provide VPAT rental clients with financial assistance to help cover production costs,” the city said in a statement.

“The subsidy will be awarded to qualifying applicants on a first-come, first-served basis as funding allows or until the expiration of the grant in December 2024, whichever occurs first,” the statement said.

An applicant may be awarded up to two Vacaville Performing Arts

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Theatre Arts Grants within one fiscal year, July 1 to June 30, but must be used for separate rentals/events. Applications cannot be combined. All grant candidates must utilize a Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre-provided estimate of theater fees as a basis for the requested amount.

Submissions from forprofit and/or non-Solano County resident organizations will be given lower priority than those from nonprofit and/or Solano County resident organizations.

To receive an application or for more information, contact Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre Theatre Manager Rachel Morgan at 707-469-4015 or rachel@vpat.net.

of service as a volunteer for NorthBay Health Hospice and Bereavement Program.

must be zoned primarily for industrial uses. Priority Development Areas are for new homes, jobs and community amenities but located close to transportation hubs such as bus and train outlets.

The Solano Transportation Authority board also will consider authorizing letters of support for Benicia’s Priority Production Area grant request for the Benicia Port Plan and East Fifth Street Infrastructure Master Plan. The board meets at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the boardroom of the Solano Transportation Authority Office, 423 Main St., in Suisun City. One Bay Area Grant

she and geometry were such mortal enemies.

“I also had trouble with reading comprehension, so I had to read things over and over again,” Hurn said.

agreements with Benicia, Fairfield, Vallejo and Solano County also are on the agenda, as is the 2023 Solano County Congestion Management Program update.

Additionally, the directors will consider the one-year Equitable Access to Justice Pilot Program, including a $50,000 Uber contract to help jurors, litigants and justice-involved individuals who need transportation assistance. The county has already agreed to pay $50,000 toward the program as well.

pool and spa area, central courtyard and a dog run also are part of the development proposal.

“This study session will provide the commission and the public with an overview of the draft EIR, including its conclusions regarding environmental impacts,” the staff report to the commission states.

The commission meets at 6 p.m. in the council chamber at City Hall, 1000 Webster St.

Vacaville Visitor Guide now available

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VACAVILLE —

Visit Vacaville’s annual Visitor Guide has hit the shelves of the Vacaville Visitor Center in the Nut Tree Plaza.

The 2023 guide “offers a calendar of annual and seasonal celebrations and events, and insights into favorite local eateries and experiences, as well as suggested itineraries for day trips and short-term stays in Vacaville,” the organization said.

The free guides also are available at Vacaville hotels, at local attractions, the Downtown Vacaville

A complete agenda is available at https://sta.ca.gov/ meetings-agendas. See Guide, Page A5

give to students is a big part of it, but quickly points to the collaboration within the Miracle Math programs as a big reason for the success.

Hurn opened at her current hybrid learning location in April, a place students can be connected virtually and in-person. The soft opening was originally scheduled for March 2020, on the same day Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down public schools and much of the state.

Hurn laughs a bit at clients who think she was so prepared for the pandemic shutdown, but in truth, she was just ready for different ways for students to learn.

There are about 60 current students, some in Montana and Louisiana.

Most are school-age, but some are adults, too. She helps airman at Travis Air Force Base improve their Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery scores so they can qualify for better positions. She has professional men and women looking to understand and speak analytics better.

Hurn’s own “ah-ha moment” came while she was a high school sophomore and wondering why

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It was then she began her journey to understand why, and started to delve into different learning systems, and eventually a bachelor’s degree in statistical science from the University of California, Santa Barbara – a course of study for which she spent a great deal of time studying neuroscience.

She also has a certificate in early education from UC Berkeley.

“It’s not that you can’t learn it; it’s how you learn it,” Hurn said.

Hurn employs a dozen coaches. Each gets a lead instructor who works with them as they develop and adjust to each individual student’s needs.

Rebecca Berge of Claremont was a middle school teacher for several years when she changed professions. She is now a project manager working with government contracts, but never lost her love of teaching. So she signed on with Miracle Math.

She agrees the individual attention she can

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n Recognized Martha Sandoval, with the Assessor-Recorder’s Office, as Employee of the Month for March.

n Recognized Lynn Gallagher for her 35 years

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identification of health problems that can impact learning later on.”

n Approved a $500 contribution from the 5th District general fund account to benefit the Sudie M. Smith Foundation Inc.

n Appointed Carol Dunne to the Alcohol Drug Advisory Board as the 1st District representative through Feb. 8, 2027.

n Appointed Steve Thomas as trustee for

no’s mission to promote, support and improve the lives of young children, their families and their communities. Applicants will

n Appointed Anthony Vaccarella, Terrance C. Connolly and Michael D. Lewis as directors of the Suisun Resource Conservation District through Nov. 27, 2026.

From Page A3 Services, Public Health Division, Women, Infants and Children Program, after more than 21 years with Solano County.

n Appointed Chris Huxsoll as business representative to the Workforce Development Board of Solano County through Feb. 6, 2027.

tion, including the request for applications, letter of intent and the application form, go to www. first5solano.com and click on the current opportunities for funding tab, or contact Juanita Morales, First 5 Solano Program Manager at 707784-1339 or jsmorales @solanocounty.com.

From Page A3 know if their cars have inward facing cameras that may be recording them and their passengers, and auto companies should not be able to use these videos without a consumer’s clear consent,” Robert Herrell, executive director of the Consumer Federation of California, said in a statement. “AB 296 would make California the first state in the country to give consumers meaningful control over these types of invehicle cameras.”

“It’s also very personalized . . . the planning that is done with each individual student,” Berge said.

Brianna Archilla works with special education students at Miracle Math.

She has an associate degree in elementary teaching and is working on her bachelor’s degree at California State University, Sacramento, in liberal studies with a focus on multicultural and bilingual studies.

“The advantage here is taking the time to (know) the students and learning how they learn,” Archilla said.

She said she had to learn more about cognitive systems and how students learn and interact.

That collaboration starts when the student and family comes to Miracle Math, the meet-and-greet with spe-

cialists like Alex Sanchez of Vacaville, who is a student services coordinator who completes the evaluation and testing; all of which leads to an action plan developed for the students. Technology is front and center to all of it.

“We always want to show them something that is new so they can use the technology,” Hurn said.

That is why, Hurn said, it is so important for her work to be linked closely with the schools and libraries and nonprofits and other places to make sure all students can have access.

She takes her message on the road to speak at conferences.

Ask Hurn where she wants to be in five years and she ventures to say how great it would be if they could reach 1 million students.

The city of Fairfield recognized Hurn in 2022 as an Entrepreneurial Hero.

Anita McCloskey

Anita Lynn McCloskey, born in Oakland, CA on October 11, 1946, passed away on January 19th, 2023 in Vacaville, CA.

Anita always wanted to be a Mom, and then she became a Grandma, and a Great Grandma. As she would say, God

be in our hearts.

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Vacaville Museum Guild dinner, tea fundraiser returns

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VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Museum Guild’s Dinner for 8 and Tea for 12 fundraiser is back.

Win tickets for a complete dinner party for eight with your favorite guests, or a garden tea for 12 with your most engaging friends.

These dinners and teas have become memorable celebrations for the lucky winners, according to event organizers. Two winners will be drawn, one for each of the following:

n Dinner for 8: Starting with cocktails at the Morales home on Buck Avenue, the winner and guests will be treated a sumptuous dinner.

n Tea for 12: Be prepared to enjoy a lovely afternoon tea for up to 12 guests in the garden of Catherine Cherry on Buck Avenue.

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Business Improvement District office, City Hall, the Vacaville Chamber of Commerce, and at the Travis Air Force Base Visitor Center and Military and Family Readiness Center.

“We eagerly await the public release of our Visitor Guide each year,” Melyssa Reeves, Visit Vacaville president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. “We find that no matter how many times you have visited this city – or how long you have lived here – there is always something new to discover, or a fresh way to explore a favorite activity.”

The guides also may be found at visitvacaville.com.

Caltrans unveils mascot for zone safety campaign

Tickets are available Feb. 15 to March 30 and may be purchased from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at the Vacaville Museum, 213 Buck Ave., or ring the doorbell during office hours, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.

Tickets may also be purchased online. Visit the website at vacavillemuseum.org and click on News or Events. Online/ credit card tickets will be $26 and tickets purchased with cash or check will be $25.

Winning tickets will be drawn at 3:30 p.m. March 31 in the lobby of the Vacaville Museum. Winners will be notified by phone. The first winner will select one of the events and the second winner will receive the remaining event.

For more information, call the museum office at 707-447-4513.

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FAIRFIELD — The California Department of Transportation and state Office of Traffic Safety have unveiled Safety Sam as their new safety cone mascot.

“The name was selected in a statewide student contest and is part of the campaign to expand public safety awareness to protect highway workers throughout the state,” Caltrans said in its announcement.

Miller Ruiz, a student at Huntington Christian School in Huntington Beach, came up with the name. There were nearly 2,000 entries submitted by K-12 students across the state. Miller will receive a number of gifts, including a laptop and a $500 gift card.

The mascot will educate Californians on the importance of moving over a lane or slowing

down when they see his orange friends and highway workers.

“Caltrans makes safety priority number one, and safety cones are critical to

let drivers know when and where highway workers are on the road,” Caltrans Director Tony Tavares said in the statement.

“Including young people in our safety awareness campaigns helps us raise the awareness of both the next generation and current drivers, and we’re excited to make Safety Sam the face of the important work being done to keep our highway workers and the traveling public safe.”

Nearly 7,000 work-zone crashes occurred on California roadways in 2020, resulting in more than 3,000 injuries and nearly 100 fatalities, Caltrans reports. Nationally, drivers and passengers account for 85% of people killed in work zones. For more information on Caltrans and Office of Traffic Safety initiatives, visit beworkzonealert. com and gosafelyca.org.

LA County passes gun control measures

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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a series of gun control measures Tuesday on the heels of last month’s mass shooting in Monterey Park, just 8 miles away from the boardroom.

The package included roughly half a dozen measures aimed at curbing fatal shootings within the county. Most will need to go through additional vetting before they become county law.

Only two ordinances discussed Tuesday are expected to take effect soon. One would prohibit

the sale of .50 caliber handguns – firearms with half-inch-thick bullets – in unincorpo-

rated L.A. County. The second would prohibit carrying firearms on county property, which includes

beaches, parks and buildings – even if the person has a concealed carry permit. There is an exception for law enforcement.

The board will take a final vote on the motion, authored by Supervisors Janice Hahn and Hilda Solis, in two weeks.

“Here we are: Facing a gun violence epidemic that continues to devastate our communities,” Hahn said. “Today we’re taking steps forward in our fight against gun violence.”

Several other measures related to gun reform discussed Tuesday will take more time to implement.

The county is working on zoning restrictions that

would enact a 1,000-foot buffer zone between gun stores and “child safety zones,” which Hahn defined in the meeting as places where children gather, such as playgrounds. The county is also considering an ordinance that would enhance regulations for gun dealers, including requirements that they maintain security cameras and keep a finger print log.

These regulations would apply only to gun dealers in unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County.

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The California Department of Transportation and state Office of Traffic Safety have unveiled Safety Sam as their new safety cone mascot.

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Law enforcement officials secure and investigate the scene where a gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park last month.

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trees that died spiked last year

Drought is mainly to blame

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LOS ANGELES — Roughly

36.3 million dead trees were counted across California last year, a dramatic increase from previous years that experts are blaming on drought, insects and disease, according to a report by the U.S. Forest Service.

The same survey last year counted 9.5 million dead trees in the state, but the effects of the dramatic tree die off this year are more severe and spread across a wider range, according to the report released Tuesday.

The aerial report paints a bleak picture of a state ravaged by drought, disease and insects that feed and nest in thirsty trees. From mid-July to early October, researchers surveyed nearly 40 million acres including federal, state and private land. They found dead trees spread across 2.6 million acres.

True fir trees were hardest hit, with 3 million dead Douglas-fir trees counted across 190,000 acres, primarily in the central Sierra Nevada Range. There were just 170,000 dead trees counted across 18,000 acres the previous year, with this year’s numbers representing a 1,650% increase, according to the report authors.

There were 15 million dead red fir trees counted across 890,000 acres and another 12 million white fir counted across 1.5 million acres. Both represented considerable increases to the previous year’s

findings and were grouped mainly around the Northern California city of Redding, including the Shasta-Trinity National Forest and surrounding areas.

Drought conditions have exacerbated disease and insect infestations.

Overcrowded forests choked with dead trees and abnormally high temperatures have also played a key role in the increased mortality, according to forest officials.

In 2016, at the heights of a historic drought in California, federal and state agencies counted nearly 62 million dead trees. The following year saw a drop to 27 million dead trees and by 2019 surveyors counted 15 million dead trees.

The primary cause is the state’s multi-year drought.

Roughly 80% of the state experienced severe drought conditions at the start of the year, according to the U.S.

Drought Monitor. Thanks to a series of winter rain storms the latest data shows that figure has dropped to just 32%.

But forest officials say that despite all that rain, the increase in dead trees will continue to be a problem for years to come as rain levels continue to remain low.

Forest management will play a key role in how the state responds to tree mortality, according to officials.

“Forest health is a top priority for the Forest Service,” Jennifer Eberlein, regional forester with the U.S. Forest Service for the Pacific Southwest region, said in a statement.

The agency’s 10-year plan to tackle the problem will include removing dead and dying trees in areas where they pose the most risk to the surrounding communities.

Northern California saw several deadly, fast-moving

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also asked the county’s lawyers Tuesday to start drafting three separate ordinances aimed at keeping guns solely in the hands of those who know how to use them. One would require gun stores within the county to prominently display warning signs stating that having a gun in the home increases the “risk of suicide, homicide, death during domestic disputes and unintentional deaths to children.”

The second would require guns kept at home to be safely stored in a locked container or disabled by using a trigger lock. And the third would require gun owners to have liability insurance. County leaders say they hope insurance would require gun owners to take classes on how to safely use and store guns.

The motion kick-starting these ordinances was authored by Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Solis.

Horvath said the push for safer storage of guns hit close to home. She said someone she’d played with as a child lost his life after playing with a gun that his parents kept in an unlocked closet.

wildfires in 2022 including the Mosquito Fire in Placer County and the McKinney Fire in Siskiyou County. Northern California also saw more dead trees than any other parts of the state.

The number of homes and other structures that have been burned in the Western United States has increased over the last 11 years when compared with the previous decade, according to a study published earlier this month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science-Nexus. There was a nearly 250% increase in homes and structures destroyed, while wildfires became significantly more destructive over the last decade, according to the study’s findings.

The primary takeaway is that more homes and outbuildings were destroyed in California by human-caused fires over a 22-year period.

Stacey Moseley, a volunteer with the California chapter of Moms Demand Action, said that of everything passed Tuesday, she believed the storage measure would have the largest impact. She said her husband survived an accidental shooting in a home when he was a child.

“If we can keep guns out of the hands of people who are not supposed to have them – either through theft or a child that finds it in a closet – we can save lives,” Moseley said.

But Steven Lamb, an Altadena resident and former council member, said he found the board’s package – notably the gun safety storage measure –“outrageous.” Lamb, who said he has owned a century-old .22 single shot Remington since he was 7, wanted easy access to his gun.

“It makes the gun useless for its intended purpose, which is to protect you,” he said.

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California’s yearslong drought has dropped the water level at Shasta Lake, as seen in September, and has caused the loss of millions of trees.

Judge refuses to sign off on new bail terms reached between Bankman-Fried, feds

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Manhattan judge rejected a request Tuesday from embattled crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried to modify the conditions of his $250 million bail.

Lawyers for the onetime golden boy of digital currency wrote Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday to say they agreed with the feds allowing him to use Zoom, WhatsApp, FaceTime and send text messages while under house arrest. But Kaplan declined to sign off on that agreement and told the parties they must appear in court Thursday.

Prosecutors on Jan. 27 asked Kaplan to bar Bankman-Fried from using encrypted messaging apps or contacting any current or former employees of his former trading platform FTX or hedge fund Alameda. The request came after the feds learned that while under house arrest, he contacted a witness with firsthand incriminating information about him, according to court documents.

“I would really love to reconnect and see if there’s a way for us to have a constructive relationship, use each other as resources when possible, or at least vet things with each other,” Bankman-Fried wrote in a Jan. 15 message on Signal, court papers say.

Prosecutors said communications in which Bankman-Fried sought to “improve his relationship” with potential witnesses could discourage people from testifying against him when the case goes to trial later this year.

Witnesses have told

Mother arraigned in deaths of her 3 children

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the feds that BankmanFried directed that FTX and Alameda’s Slack and Signal channels automatically delete every 30 days, according to legal documents.

Caroline Ellison –the Alameda CEO who pleaded guilty to criminal tax fraud charges in December and is cooperating against her former flame – told prosecutors he discouraged keeping paper trails to make it harder for authorities to build a case, court records state.

Bankman-Fried, who has earned comparisons to the late Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, has pleaded not guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy charges alleging he siphoned investors’ money from FTX, the world’s second-largest crypto trading platform, to his hedge fund Alameda. According to the feds, up to 1 million people lost money through the scam.

The 30-year-old is also charged with laundering stolen funds through political and charitable donations to Republicans and Democrats. He also faces civil charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Bankman-Fried’s reputation went up in smoke after Alameda’s balance sheets were leaked and revealed an $8 billion hole in its accounts. Once valued at more than $30 billion, FTX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Nov. 11. Prosecutors have already confiscated almost $700 million tied to the fraud case.

Bankman-Fried’s lawyers did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

BOSTON — The Duxbury mother accused of strangling her three children to death used exercise ropes to allegedly kill the kids as her husband “begged them to breathe” after discovering their bodies in the basement, a prosecutor said at today’s arraignment.

“She killed the kids!” husband Patrick Clancy cried out at the scene the evening of Jan. 24, Plymouth Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague said.

The prosecutor asked that the mom, Lindsay Clancy, be held without bail – adding that soon after the 32-year-old woke up at the hospital she wrote on a whiteboard: “Do I need an attorney?”

Sprague also said Lindsay Clancy used mapping software to track how long it would take her husband to run errands she sent him on that evening –including a trip to a nearby CVS for stool softener for kids and take-out dinner.

That dinner, the prosecutor added, was called in by Lindsay Clancy to ThreeV Restaurant in nearby Plymouth, where she ordered a Mediterranean power bowl for her, scallop and pork belly risotto for him.

He arrived at the CVS at 5:32 p.m. and ThreeV at 5:54 p.m. and headed back home “within a minute” with the food, Sprague said.

“When he arrived home,” she added, “the first thing he noticed was the silence.”

A bedroom door was locked; there was blood on the floor upstairs; and then Patrick Clancy found his wife on the ground outside, her cuts no longer bleeding.

“What did you do?” he asked her, Sprague said.

“Where are the kids?” he added.

“In the basement,” the mom said.

“Guys?” the dad called out, Sprague said. That’s

when he found them with exercise ropes still around each of their necks.

The prosecutor then spelled out how notebooks and journals on her phone, a trip to the pediatrician that day, and her spelling out precisely the dinner choices and medicine to buy showed a suspect in control.

Sprague said Lindsay Clancy “killed the kids because she heard a voice and had ‘a moment of psychosis.’” When her husband asked “what voices” Sprague said she responded that she “heard a man’s voice telling her to kill the kids and kill herself because it was her last chance.”

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington pushed back saying his client is a “paraplegic” – paralyzed from the waist down – who “can’t walk” after jumping out a second-floor window that night and who was pumped full of drugs as she coped with postpartum complications after the birth of her third child.

Reddington added the onetime labor nurse now needs someone in the hospital room “24/7” out of “concern she will commit suicide.”

Reddington is asking she be sent to Spaulding

Rehab with a GPS, if the court orders more safeguards. The prosecution sought an alternative, Shattuck Hospital in JP.

At that, Reddington groaned and threw up his hands calling Shattuck “dismal and dank . . . like something out of Iran.”

Judge John Canavan ordered that Clancy be held at the unnamed hospital she’s at now and said she will “likely” be sent to Spaulding Rehab once she is cleared by her doctors to do so. But, he added, she needs to keep receiving mental health care and is due back in court May 2 – a date that will probably be moot once the case is bumped up to superior court.

The mom was arraigned in Plymouth District Court on two counts of juvenile murder and three counts each of strangulation or suffocation and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Clancy appeared for the hearing over the internet teleconferencing client Zoom from a hospital bed. The horrific tragedy at the home at 47 Summer St. in Duxbury was discovered when Patrick Clancy called 911 at 6:11 p.m. Jan 24 to report that his wife had tried to commit suicide.

More officers may be disciplined in Nichols case

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More Memphis police officers could be disciplined over the death of Tyre Nichols, the city’s chief legal officer said.

Speaking during a Memphis City Council meeting on Tuesday, Jennifer Sink said seven additional officers will soon receive a “statement

of charges” for policy violations. The announcement follows an internal employment investigation by the Memphis Police Department, local television WREG-TV reported. It means that a total of 13 police employees are or have been under investigation. Six of them have

already been terminated – including five who were criminally charged with second-degree murder in connection to Nichols’ death.

On Friday, a sixth officer was fired in connection with the violent arrest of the 29-year-old Black man, who was brutally beaten after a traffic stop on Jan. 7.

The seven additional officers, who haven’t been named, will receive a document notifying them of possible violations. That will be followed by a hearing and a written decision, Sink told CNN.

Their identities will only be revealed after that hearing, which Sink believes could be held as early as next week.

That information will be uploaded to a city website once it’s available.

The final round of the statement of charges should be sent to all officers by the end of this week, she said.

They will then have at least 96 hours before a hearing is scheduled.

Two children, Cora, 5, and Dawson, 3, would be pronounced dead that night at area hospitals. A third, 7-month-old Callan, was flown to Children’s in Boston and would succumb to his injuries early on Jan. 27.

Reddington has said Lindsay Clancy had been prescribed an “unbelievable” amount of medication that “were turning her into a zombie.”

He said Tuesday holding her without bail is an “inhumane order” for a woman in her condition.

“She was so bad she turned herself into McClean Hosptial,” Reddington added, rattling off all the drugs she was on. “This is really a tragedy, this case.”

A GoFundMe drive organized to help Patrick Clancy “pay for medical bills, funeral services, and legal help” in the wake of the tragedy has sailed past its goal of $1 million to reach $1,052,540 by 5 p.m. Tuesday.

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A woman lays flowers down at a makeshift memorial in front of 47 Summer St. in Duxbury, Massachusetts, Jan. 26. Lindsay Clancy, 32, has been charged with killing her three children.

Capitol community mourns 2 veterans of state politics

Governors, legislators and other political figures cycle through the state Capitol constantly, but behind that constant turnover lies a more or less permanent cadre of men and women who provide vital continuity.

Senior bureaucrats and legislative staffers and veteran lobbyists for thousands of interest groups are the custodians of institutional knowledge. While politicians preen and plot their next career moves, they do the real work of drafting legislation and administrative regulations, ironing out conflicts – if they can – and setting the stage for public unveilings by their bosses.

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By happenstance, two of the longest-serving members of the cadre died last week within hours of each other. Their passing represents, in a sense, the end of an era when Capitol politics were less about ideological dog whistles and more about camaraderie and practicality.

Allan Zaremberg, who headed the California Chamber of Commerce for 23 years, and Rex Hime, who represented the California Business Properties Association for 37 years, both stepped down in 2021, but enjoyed only a few months of retirement before succumbing to ill health.

Both men began their political careers as Republican political aides in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the two political parties were virtually tied in terms of political clout.

Zaremberg was an attorney in the Department of Justice when his boss, George Deukmejian, was elected governor in 1982. He joined the new administration and became one of its legislative liaisons, and continued in that role for Deukmejian’s successor, Pete Wilson, before he moved to the Chamber of Commerce about 30 years ago. Zaremberg took over as president and CEO in 1998.

Hime, also a lawyer, worked in Ronald Reagan’s administration before becoming a top aide to Mike Curb after his election as lieutenant governor in 1978. He also had been a senior legislative staffer before joining the California Business Properties Association – the political arm of the commercial real estate industry – in the mid-1980s.

When the two shifted from being political staffers into lobbying for business interests, they could rely on their Republican connections, particularly in the governor’s suite, to help them protect their clients’ interests. During the last two decades of their careers, however, the GOP’s clout nosedived into irrelevance while Democrats became dominant, making their jobs infinitely more difficult.

They were forced into defensive mode, fending off efforts by their ideological rivals to enact laws and regulations that business considered to be burdensome or injurious. But both largely succeeded. They picked their fights carefully, cultivated pro-business Democrats and, most of all, maintained their own credibility as honest brokers for the interests they represented.

One of Zaremberg’s most effective tools was the chamber’s annual list of “job killer” bills the business community considered onerous, a tactic initiated by his predecessor as CEO, Kirk West. In the quarter-century since it began, roughly 90% of the bills receiving the epithet either died in the Legislature, usually without formal votes, were amended enough to escape the list, or were vetoed by governors.

Both men also took leading rolls in bipartisan campaigns for statewide ballot measures.

Hime, who served a stint on the University of California’s Board of Regents, was a leading figure in promoting several bond issues for school and college construction.

Zaremberg and the chamber were major players in passing Senate Bill 1, a 2017 gas tax increase to fix deteriorating roads and highways – that most prominent Republicans opposed – and in gaining voter approval when the measure was challenged via a 2018 ballot measure.

Since their deaths, Zaremberg and Hime have been widely praised as nice guys who pursued their clients’ interests with good humor and credibility. The plaudits are richly deserved. CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.

On May 21, 1796, Ona Judge, Martha Washington’s 22-year-old enslaved personal assistant, escaped from George and Martha Washington’s mansion while they ate supper. Judge had been a slave since she was a child.

George Washington put ads in newspapers seeking her return. He could’ve used the Fugitive Slave Act, which he’d signed into law years earlier, but didn’t want the attention. An intermediary tried to negotiate Ona’s return saying she’d return if George agreed to free her upon his and Martha’s death.

George bluntly refused.

After his presidency, George reached out to a friend asking him to seize Ona and any children she had and bring them back. But they never caught her and Ona Judge lived the rest of her days a free Black woman.

Struggling with knowing the institution of slavery was wrong, Washington freed his slaves upon his death.

It’s a shame that some teachers in various red states might be afraid of teaching this interesting portion of American history for fear of running afoul of one of the poisonous anticritical race theory laws. Some of these laws prohibit teaching anything that causes “discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress” on account of an individual’s race.

Florida’s Department of Education recently rejected an Advanced

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Placement course on African American studies because they objected to the inclusion of studies on the Black Lives Matter movement, the reparations movement and Black queer history. So instead they added “Black conservatism.” Really? They substitute suspected woke stuff with right-wing wokeness?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his right-wing allies aren’t interested in education. Their argument isn’t with so-called critical race theory. It’s with critical thinking. They’re interested in indoctrinating Florida’s youth, steering them away from minority issues, hiding LGBTQ issues and hoping to steer them toward a MAGA future.

This is a well-worn GOP playbook. Identify a problem which isn’t really a problem and then add on so-called “solutions” that advance a rightwing agenda. They’ve done it with “voter fraud,” an issue that’s been investigated and has been found to have a mere fraction more credibility than the Tooth Fairy, the Loch Ness Monster and George Santos. Years ago, Texas GOPers tried to “solve” the “problem” of voter fraud by introducing voter ID. In their disingenuous solution, they deemed college IDs not valid for voting while an NRA ID sufficed. Really? DeSantis often says Florida is where wokeness goes to die. Perhaps he should amend that to, “Florida is where woke goes to die and bigotry goes to live.”

There is plenty of Black history that is inspiring, captivating, heartwarming and illuminating. But let’s fact it, there’s some history that is painful, horrible and inconsistent with our professed values as a nation. Some of it may make students uncomfortable and psychologically distressed. That’s normal.

The Holocaust is unpleasant to learn about but we must.

Today’s GOP is saying white students are too fragile to learn their history and the classroom must provide a safe space from hearing about slavery, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement, bussing, and Black Lives Matter. After all, they wouldn’t want them to become critical race thinkers instead of accepting whatever conspiratorial MAGA mish-mash is injected into their brains via right-wing media.

The story I began this column with isn’t so we can cancel George Washington or deem the United States an irredeemably racist country. No, it shows the foibles of a great leader. It embodies in a man the nation’s struggle with race. It is who we’ve been.

I’d rather learn about the real George Washington rather than what the GOP wants: a mythical cherry tree chopping infallible hero. You don’t make America great again by coddling its students. Peace.

Kelvin Wade, a writer and former Fairfield resident, lives in Sacramento. Reach him at kelvinjwade @outlook.com.

Housing lawsuit about more than income

Families and individuals, particularly those with low incomes, are increasingly being left behind in a housing marketplace where racial and income discrimination run rampant. Last month, the state of California filed a lawsuit that might just pave the way for ensuring equitable access to housing for all Americans.

Earlier in January, California’s Civil Rights Department filed its first-ever lawsuit under the state’s 2020 prohibition against what’s known as source of income discrimination: the practice of refusing to rent to a tenant just because they use a housing voucher or other form of nontraditional income to pay rent.

The suit alleges two Sacramento landlords served their tenant, Alysia Gonsalves, with an eviction notice, saying they would no longer rent to people who use what’s known as a Housing Choice Voucher – a federal program that helps pay rent for more than 2 million households nationwide. According to the department, when Gonsalves rightly pushed back, the landlords threatened violence, hurled racial slurs, locked her out of her home and destroyed her belongings.

For half a century, federal law has banned housing discrimination based on race, religion or membership in other protected classes. This is a cornerstone of civil rights litigation meant to address years of systemic discrimination in housing.

Unfortunately, as Gonsalves’ story shows, source-of-income discrimination is all too often a proxy for racial discrimination. Well over half of Black and Latino households in this country rent compared to a quarter

of white households. Sixtyfive percent of all voucher holders are people of color, according to federal data.

Although California –along with 20 other states, the District of Columbia and some 100 local governments – has legally banned source-of-income discrimination, people with vouchers and others who pay rent with nontraditional income are still being illegally denied a place to live.

Normally such acts would merely be intolerable. But with the state and, indeed, the country in the throes of an affordable housing crisis, such discrimination only makes the shortage more acute for Californians statewide. And nationwide, despite a slowdown in rent hikes, housing costs are still at historic highs, wage growth isn’t keeping up and millions are struggling to find or merely maintain a roof over their heads.

It is no surprise then that the movement to ban source-of-income discrimination is gaining steam, helping ensure housing voucher programs are actually administered consistently and successfully. And the bans have been relatively effective. A 2018 Urban Institute study found landlords in areas with sourceof-income protections rejected tenants with vouchers around half as often as landlords in places without them.

But any policy that lacks enforcement will fail to make progress toward ending housing discrimination.

To be fair, the challenge with enforcing income discrimination bans is widespread. New York City has some of the strongest source-ofincome protections in the country, but the city is struggling to ade-

quately staff its enforcement efforts.

That’s why California’s lawsuit is so critical. It not only shows a commitment to the law, but also suggests we need to direct even more funding to the Civil Rights Department to support greater enforcement. And Californians should keep the pressure on our policymakers to follow this path because income discrimination only worsens our statewide housing crisis.

Landlords also need to help with education. Many housing providers nationwide do not understand discrimination protection laws or have yet to realize the potential of renting to households with a source of guaranteed income. If landlords don’t understand the law or have little to no experience renting to residents with vouchers, stereotypes, misinformation and inequities remain persistent and unchallenged.

Of course, the broader solution would be for Congress to pass a federal ban on source-of-income discrimination and put dollars behind enforcement. This would eliminate any confusion among landlords and tenants alike about the rules around accepting vouchers.

California faces an unprecedented crisis, unable to affordably house millions of people. A failure of enforcement effectively limits our use of federal funding and sidelines families from housing opportunities. It only makes our shortage more acute.

It’s good to see the Civil Rights Department take action. Hopefully it’s the first of more crackdowns to prevent housing discrimination.

Jacqueline Waggoner is president of the solutions division of the affordable housing nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners.

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Crime logs

FairField

MONDAY, FEB. 6

4:02 a.m. — Prowler, 2200 block of CUNNINGHAM DRIVE

9:01 a.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND AIR BASE PARKWAY

9:14 a.m. — Forgery, 200 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

9:22 a.m. — Trespassing, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD

9:33 a.m. — Vandalism, 2300 block of MALIBU COURT

9:36 a.m. — Battery, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

9:43 a.m. — Grand theft, MANUEL CAMPOS PARKWAY

9:45 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 200 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE

10:36 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 3900 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

10:43 a.m. — Forgery, 1400 block of MINNESOTA STREET

10:55 a.m. — Vandalism, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE

11:06 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 800 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 11:24 a.m. — Forgery, 1000 block of WEBSTER STREET

11:32 a.m. — Vandalism, 500 block of CARPENTER STREET

12:22 p.m. — Forgery, 1300 block of WASHINGTON STREET

Democrats and Republicans can’t work together.

But over these past two years, we proved the cynics and the naysayers wrong,” he told the House chamber. “To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there is no reason we can’t work together in this new Congress.”

The speech also offered Biden, who turned 80 in November, a chance to convince voters and members of his own party that he is able to endure another four years.

planned trip to Beijing in protest.

of SAN DIEGO STREET

4:38 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

4:47 p.m. — Reckless driver, CEMENT HILL ROAD

5:17 p.m. — Residential burglary, 3700 block of LYON ROAD 9:31 p.m. — Battery, 2500 block of HILBORN ROAD

10:10 p.m. — Shots fired, 1600 block of EXETER COURT

SUNDAY, FEB. 5

3:08 a.m. — Reckless driver, DOVER AVENUE

7:09 a.m. — Grand theft, 2100 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

7:45 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 2000 block of WALTERS ROAD

8:15 a.m. — Grand theft, 5000 block of BUSINESS CENTER

DRIVE

8:47 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

9:25 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 4700 block of CANYON HILLS

DRIVE

10:49 a.m. — Hit-and-run

property damage, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

12:50 p.m. — Reckless driver, LOPES ROAD

1:37 p.m. — Reckless driver, BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

2 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2500

block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

3:09 p.m. — Vandalism, 4300

block of THE MASTERS DRIVE

3:22 p.m. — Drunken driver, 200

block of PITTMAN ROAD

3:25 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 700

block of GLACIER WAY

3:38 p.m. — Shots fired, 4900

block of VANDEN ROAD

4:14 p.m. — Embezzlement, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

5:03 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD

5:40 p.m. — Forgery, 200 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD

7:52 p.m. — Drunken driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80

it will allow the shelter to open 60 more beds, taking the total to 130. The kitchen also will support a culinary job training program.

Supervisor Wanda Williams dissented. She favored $1.9 million going to the project.

The final action was for $381,000 for the purchase of a Vacaville home to serve as an eight-bed transitional residence for those 18 to 24. It was supported unanimously.

The approvals leave $3.33 million from the

12:42 p.m. — Commercial burglary, 300 block of CHADBOURNE ROAD

12:43 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

1 p.m. — Grand theft, 5100 block of AMBERWOOD CIRCLE

1:27 p.m. — Forgery, 1000 block of WEBSTER STREET

1:28 p.m. — Forgery, 1000 block of WEBSTER STREET

1:41 p.m. — Vandalism, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

1:53 p.m. — Grand theft, 4700 block of CANYON HILLS DRIVE

2:03 p.m. — Reckless driver, 2900 block of CAMROSE AVENUE

2:18 p.m. — Residential burglary, 900 block of COVENTRY LANE

2:54 p.m. — Trespassing, 1900 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

4:06 p.m. — Forgery, 500 block of LOCH LOMOND WAY

4:08 p.m. — Forgery, 1600 block of RICHARDS COURT

5:56 p.m. — Robbery, 4300 block of CENTRAL PLACE

7:42 p.m. — Trespassing, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD

p.m. — Reckless driver, OPAL COURT

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SATURDAY, FEB. 4

p.m. — Trespassing, WEST STREET / CORDELIA STREET

p.m. — Reckless driver, RAILROAD AVENUE / MARINA BOULEVARD

FEB. 5 6:43 p.m. — Shots fired, SUNSET AVENUE / RAILROAD AVENUE

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$86.9 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds the county was awarded. What the board will do with those funds also will be discussed at the Feb. 28 meeting.

Mashburn favors giving NorthBay Health a large slice, and the rest going to a program to support small farmers and ranchers who struggled through the pandemic. Vasquez also supports funds going toward agricultural needs and county-based businesses.

Opportunity House and other projects that were not funded in past allocations could also get some consideration.

But the public is pessimistic about the country’s future and the prospect of a second Biden term. About three-quarters of U.S. adults say the country is not headed in the right direction, compared with a quarter who say things are on the right track, an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released Monday found. Just 37% of Democrats said they want Biden to seek a second term, a notable drop from the 52% who said the same in the run-up to the midterm elections in November.

A State of the Union address “is an impossible speech to give for any president,” said William Howell, an American politics professor at the University of Chicago. “It’s a speech that has to politically attend to a lot of competing claims and it comes at a time when there’s acute uncertainty about the state of the world and the state of the economy.”

Biden navigated both old and new challenges in his remarks, appealing to Western allies and the American public to stand united behind Ukraine as Russia’s invasion lurches into a second year. He renewed calls for Congress to pass a longsought police reform bill following the brutal police killing of a Black man in Memphis and repeated a plea to reinstate an assault weapons ban in the wake of a pair of mass shootings in California.

“There’s no words to describe the heartbreak and grief of losing a child, but imagine what it’s like to lose a child at the hands of the law,” Biden said. “Equal protection under the law; that’s the covenant we have with each other in America.”

Biden saved some of his sharpest rhetoric for China after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon that swept across U.S. airspace. China has maintained the balloon was a research vessel being used for meteorological investigation and that it accidentally drifted into U.S. airspace. But the episode damaged the already fragile relationship between the two superpowers and Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed a

“Make no mistake: as we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did,” he said.

The president also called for a cap on insulin costs for privately insured patients and urged lawmakers to close the coverage gap in GOP-led states that have refused to accept billions of dollars in federal money to expand Medicaid to more poor and middle-class people.

The majority of the president’s speech focused on amplifying his economic message as he looks to ensure Americans feel the impact of his policies. The president urged Congress to pass a minimum tax on billionaires and proposed new guidance that would require most federal infrastructure projects to use construction materials made in the U.S.

“Reward work, not just wealth,” Biden said. “Because no billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a school teacher or a firefighter.”

Biden pointed to January labor data that showed employers added more than half a million jobs while the unemployment rate fell to 3.4% – the lowest in more than half a century – as evidence that his plan is working and his policies have helped tame inflation.

Despite recent job gains and indicators that inflation is abating, recent surveys show the public remains largely downbeat about Biden’s job performance. The president’s approval rating remains stubbornly at 42%, largely unchanged from when he last delivered his first State of the Union a year ago (41%).

Since he took office, Biden has urged members of his party to apply the lessons learned from the Obama years by effectively communicating their achievements to voters – a strategy he said his former boss was hesitant to use after the passage of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

But the Biden White House has also struggled to convince voters that he’s delivered on his promise to make their lives easier. A Washington PostABC News poll released

from reaching those goals.

The goals are:

Monday found 62% of Americans say Biden has not accomplished “very much” or “little or nothing” during his first two years in office, compared with 36% who say he accomplished “a great deal” or “a good amount.”

One of the biggest threats to Biden’s economic record was seated behind him on the dais: McCarthy is locked in a standoff with Biden over the federal deficit and has refused to raise the debt limit unless the president commits to unspecified cuts on future spending. If the two leaders are unable to reach a deal, the U.S. would default on its debt, rattling financial markets and wreaking economic havoc.

Biden’s bipartisan tone shifted as he attacked some Republicans for wanting to “sunset” Medicare and Social Security every five years. The comments drew Republican jeers, with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., rising to call Biden a liar.

“That was part of the deal, guys. Look it up,” he said as he veered from scripted remarks. “If anyone tries to cut Social Security, I will stop them. And if anyone tries to cut Medicare, I will stop them. I will not allow them to be taken away. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.”

But he avoided the political rhetoric that defined his midterm campaign message in which he attacked “MAGA Republicans” who he said were a threat to democracy. Instead, he appealed to Congress to work together on four bipartisan goals: fighting cancer, improving veteran’s healthcare, combating the opioid crisis and ensuring access to mental health care.

Though Biden may run the risk of looking out of touch with voters’ economic anxiety, any State of the Union address is an important moment “to be pretty aggressive about telling the positive story, said Michael Waldman, a chief speechwriter for former President Bill Clinton who worked on four State of the Union and two inaugural addresses.

“The public often doesn’t believe good news,” Waldman said, noting that “public perception often lags pretty far behind reality.”

Most presidents face

of housing and the city’s neighborhoods.

a divided Congress after their first midterm election. But in Biden’s case, November’s elections were not much of a rebuke of his administration. Democrats kept losses in the House to well below the historic average and gained a seat in the Senate. The president’s party also won two governorships and control of four more state legislative chambers.

White House officials say one reason for that outcome was Biden’s ability to draw a clear distinction with former President Donald Trump and right-wing Republicans who support him.

House Republicans, who have vowed to be a roadblock during Biden’s remaining time in office, are ramping up their own investigations of the president, his administration and his family. The president is also facing a special counsel investigation into whether he mishandled classified documents. GOP members who have raised eyebrows in recent months will provide the visual contrast the president will be looking for, Waldman said.

“Presidents are very aware of how every word and every comma will be used – who’s going to cheer, who’s going to scowl,” Waldman said. “Every time the camera pans to George Santos or Marjorie Taylor Greene is a win. He’s got some foils to play off against.”

The audience included visible reminders of policy goals that have remained out of reach for Democrats. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have called on Congress to renew talks on intractable issues including gun safety, police accountability and immigration.

He repeated those appeals while standing before RowVaughn and Rodney Wells, the mother and stepfather of Tyre Nichols, who was fatally beaten by five Memphis police officers, Brandon Tsay, who disarmed the Monterey Park gunman as he entered a second dance club, listened as Biden challenged lawmakers to enact stricter gun control measures. “He saved lives. It’s time we do the same as well,” Biden said of Tsay. “Ban assault weapons once and for all.”

General Plan, which is also being updated.

of the median income ($86,960 to $130,440); and 1,274 units for above-moderate income of greater than 120% of the median income ($130,440 or more).

The Housing Element includes goals in a framework for how Fairfield will address housing needs and constraints from 2023-31. Constraints are obstacles that will prevent the city

that are in the pipeline, will have on the roadways. The board, led by Supervisor Erin Hanni-

n Provide a variety of housing opportunities for all income groups throughout the city, including different housing types, unit sizes, design, amenities, locations and tenure.

n Increase the production of housing affordable to lower-income households – including extremely low income households – and moderate-income households to meet housing needs.

n Improve and conserve the existing supply

gan, took up the discussion, arguing the county needs to be forward-thinking and address the issue before it does become a real problem. What also came out of the discussion was Williams’ proposal to develop

n Support fair housing and create and promote housing opportunities for people with special needs – including those experiencing homelessness, farmworkers, seniors and Travis Air Force Base personnel, among others.

n Promote energy conservation and sustainable development.

Councilwoman K. Patrice Williams asked if road infrastructure is considered a constraint, but was told that is addressed in other parts of the

a good neighbor policy, perhaps similar to the one in Suisun City, where project developers must meet with neighbors and other concerned interests to work out any differences before the project gets to a contentious point.

The only speakers during the public hearing were two Cordelia Villages residents who did not object to the Housing Element, per se, but reiterated concerns about how more and more housing projects are permitted before the lack of public services – such as public parks, retail and grocery needs – and traffic congestion are being addressed.

“All we see is housing and no relief for our traffic problems,” Nora Dizon said.

Williams was told by Planning Manager Allan Calder that the staff is already working on just such as policy, though Williams did not want the policy to encourage cooperation, but rather require it.

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President Joe Biden speaks during a State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.

Crews race to find survivors in Turkey, Syria

Quake death toll now exceeds 6,000

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ISTANBUL — As temperatures dipped below freezing, rescue crews raced Tuesday to free those trapped under the thousands of buildings that collapsed in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that rocked southern Turkey and northern Syria, even as the death toll rose past 6,000.

Rescue workers scrabbled frantically at mounds of rubble, alert for the cries of still-conscious survivors. Aftershocks, including a strong jolt of magnitude 5.7 on Tuesday, added to the difficulty and fear. Trained emergency personnel and heavy equipment were in short supply as affected areas waited for domestic and international aid to arrive, held up in some cases by harsh weather conditions that snarled airports.

The full scale of the devastation left by the massive temblor – one of the most powerful to hit the region in more than a century – still has yet to become clear.

But on Tuesday evening, Turkey’s disaster management agency said that at least 4,500 people had died. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier that more than 22,000 others were injured, and he declared a threemonth state of emergency in 10 provinces affected by the earthquake.

In Syria, which has been racked by a 12-year civil war, officials were quoted in state media as saying that 812 people had died since Monday in areas controlled by the government of President Bashar Assad. In opposition-held enclaves of northwest Syria, the White Helmets,

a civil defense volunteer group, said the number of dead exceeded 790, adding that it was likely an underestimate.

The World Health Organization warned that a staggering 23 million people, 1.4 million of them children, could be exposed to the elements. “It’s now a race against time,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general. “Every minute, every hour that passes, the chances of finding survivors alive diminishes.”

In Gaziantep, a provincial Turkish capital close to the quake’s epicenter, rescue crews searched through the rock-strewn remains of one of the city’s many leveled buildings, shouting for silence from onlookers. A crew member sat atop a concrete slab that had once been the building’s roof, pressing his ear to the masonry to pick up sounds of distress beneath the wreckage.

In the crowd, some people lifted their heads, others bowed them, as they strained to listen as one.

Minutes passed.

Nothing. That doleful scene was replicated across the region Tuesday. There were some heartening successes – about 8,000 people have been rescued so far in Turkey, Erdogan said –but the sheer scale of the task facing emergency responders is daunting, compounded by the frigid temperatures, inclement weather and the hundreds of aftershocks.

“Now, on the second day, the disaster is revealing itself to be larger than we first thought,” said Ammar Selmo, a volunteer with the White Helmets.

The organization has become a fixture in rebelheld parts of war-torn Syria for more than a decade, with crews in white hard hats known for running into still-smoldering husks of bombed buildings to fish out survivors. But the earthquake’s aftermath is unprecedented for the group, Selmo said.

“We’re always ready to respond, but normally it’s three or four homes we have to deal with. Now there are 400, with hundreds of families under the

ground,” he said, adding that his organization is short of “vehicles, fuel and money.” The harsh weather conditions that have battered the region for weeks are hampering the rescue efforts and the arrival of assistance promised by a host of countries, including Britain, members of the European Union, India, Pakistan, Qatar, South Korea and the U.S. Los Angeles County is sending dozens of specially trained firefighters; Fairfax County in Virginia is also dispatching a crew.

Even Greece, which has strained relations with Turkey, said it would send a military transport aircraft with rescue dogs.

Nations were less forthcoming with offers of assistance to Syria, whether because of downgraded relations with Assad’s government or because of U.S. and EU sanctions that have kept donors away. Russia and Iran, staunch allies of the Syrian government, have sent hundreds of troops and engineering specialists to assist rescue efforts.

In the Turkish city of Antakya, the capital of Hatay province, resident Nurgul Atay told The Associated Press that she could hear her mother’s cries from beneath the rubble of a flattened building. But she and others were unable to reach the trapped woman by themselves, and trained rescue crews and heavy equipment were unavailable.

“If only we could lift the concrete slab, we’d be able to reach her,” Atay said. “My mother is 70 years old. She won’t be able to withstand this for long.”

Along with rescue crews, medical facilities have been overwhelmed as well, and also subject to the disruption and tension of aftershocks. That’s especially true on the Syrian side of the border, where the merciless civil war has hollowed out many of the country’s institutions and

much of its infrastructure.

The rebel-held northern regions, backed by Turkish forces, are home to millions of Syrians displaced by the war, who are now experiencing even greater misery. The area has relied on routes through southern Turkey for goods and supplies. The United Nations has for years dispatched aid via those routes rather than through the Syrian capital, Damascus.

But the earthquake has upended those arrangements. Madevi Sun-Suon, spokesperson for the U.N.’s humanitarian agency, said aid would be disrupted because of the damaged roads.

“We are exploring all avenues to reach people in need and conducting assessments on feasibility,” Sun-Suon told CNN. “We do have aid, but this road issue is a big challenge.”

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Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who died in the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, close to the quake’s epicentre, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s southeast, Tuesday.

Russia’s latest information war tactic: Spoofing foreign media

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The Russian government is supporting operations that impersonate international media outlets as part of its dis information campaigns, which have become more sophisticated and active since its invasion of Ukraine, according to a European Union study.

Print and TV media are the most frequent targets of Moscow’s impersonation, with magazines seeing their entire style copied by Russian actors to give legitimacy to the content, in particular when targeting Ukraine, said a report on foreign information manipulation published Tuesday by the E.U.’s External Action Service.

The study cited four incidents where fake cover pages imitating the visual style of European satirical magazines were created to attack Ukraine and Presi-

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outlets, the report said.

“This war is not only conducted on the battlefield by the soldiers, it is waged in the information space trying to win the hearts and minds of the people,” E.U. foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a speech Tuesday. “We have plenty of evidence that Russia is behind coordinated attempts to manipulate public debates in open societies.”

dent Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Two videos imitated Al Jazeera and Euronews, claiming that Ukrainian football fans were detained in Doha because of Nazi behavior during the World Cup, and that a German auction house was going to destroy Russian artworks. The content was rapidly picked up and amplified by channels attributed to Russian state-linked

The E.U. is struggling to counter Russian disinformation efforts, which officials have said is aimed at undermining the bloc’s unity in supporting Ukraine. As part of its efforts, the E.U. required major social media platforms to prepare reports on their efforts to comply with the bloc’s new code on disinformation, which will be released Thursday. Several commissioners in Brussels have been particularly critical of Twitter Inc’s new owner Elon Musk.

“I am concerned about the fact that Twitter fired a vast amount of staff in Europe, I understand also those who deal with disinformation,” European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said in prepared remarks Tuesday. “If you want to effectively detect and take action against disinformation and propaganda, this requires resources. Especially in the context of Russian disinformation warfare.”

In the study released Tuesday, the E.U. agency analyzed a sample of 100 information manipulation cases between October and December. With 60 cases linked to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Moscow’s aim is to distract audiences, deflect blame or direct attention to different topics, the report found.

Borrell likened the current actors behind information manipulation to Joseph Goe-

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bbels, Adolf Hitler’s chief propagandist, but with a lot more powerful capacity of multiplying lies at the “speed of light, reaching everyone everywhere.”

The report also found that Russian diplomatic channels are an integral part of information manipulation incidents, while China also uses diplomatic channels, mostly targeting the U.S. The sample data set also indicates that there is some cooperation between Russian and Chinese information manipulation efforts. In one example, manipulation seen in Chinese networks, amplified by Chinese diplomatic accounts and statecontrolled channels, traveled to Russian networks for reuse and redistribution. Chinese state outlets and diplomats, meanwhile, amplified material that originated from the Russian information manipulation ecosystem.

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A man watches coverage of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine displayed on televisions in Kolkata, Feb. 24, 2022.

ALUMNI UPDATE

M att Miller

MMILLER@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — Cal gymnasts haven’t lost a match this season. The winning streak continued last week with a 197.600-196.800 win over Arizona State thanks to performances by a pair of graduates from the DreamXtreme GymnasticsCenter in Vacaville.

Sophomore Maddie Williams (Vacaville) was first in the uneven bars for the Bears with a score of 9.975. She receiving a perfect 10 from one of the judges. It was the second best score ever on the bars for Cal and was her third straight win in the event. Williams was also third in the vault (9.875).

Senior Neveah DeSouza (Fairfield) was second overall in the all-around with a score of 39.550. DeSouza also tied for first in the vault (9.925).

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Cal heads to Corvallis on Friday night to take on Oregon State. The Bears are 9-0 this season and now just one win shy of matching their best start since going 10-0 in 2015.

Women’s gymnastics

Freshmen Ariana DeSouza (Fairfield, Dream XTreme) and Madelyn Gomez (Dixon, Dream Xtreme) helped AlaskaAnchorage to its first gymnastics win of the season, a 193.700192.275 triumph at the Alaska Airlines Center over visiting William & Mary. DeSouza tied for first in the floor competition (9.825) and Gomez was third (9.675).

Junior Jaudai Lopes (Buckingham, Dream Xtreme) finished second in the all-around (38.525) and second in the vault (9.850) as San Jose State

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Cal gymnasts unbeaten as local athletes shine bright Armijo wrestlers earn 3 titles at league tourney

Daily r epublic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

VACAVILLE —

Armijo High School wrestlers came away with three titles Saturday during the Monticello Empire League tournament.

Kendrick Salcedo won the heavyweight title in the boys competition. This corrects inaccurate information that was previously reported in Sunday's Daily Republic sports section.

Grace Marcado (106) and Mia Cruz (189) won titles in the girls competition.

Armijo had four second-place finishers.

Christopher Franco (160), Jorge Nunez (132) and Jonathan Puga-Pacheco (138) all took second in the boys tournament. Karissa McDaniel (101) was a second-place finisher

Warriors win against OKC reveals a silver lining to Curry’s absence

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BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SAN FRANCISCO —

In theory, Steph Curry’s extended absence could send this Warriors season tumbling into lottery team land.

By Draymond Green’s calculation, Curry generates around 60 points of the Warriors’ offense on a nightly basis between his scoring, passing and opposing team mistakes he can generate. That kind of production can’t be replaced, and the 28-26 Warriors are a bad losing streak away from the Western Conference’s

cellar and a win streak away from a top five seed. An unideal time to be without your best player.

But the Warriors’ 141-114 win over Oklahoma City on Monday night revealed a hidden benefit to Curry’s absence.

Without Curry, the Warriors absolutely have to play mistake-free, locked-in basketball. They have to play within themselves and by self-imposed rules that become a luxury when Curry plays.

Lack of focus has kept the Warriors stuck in the middle of the pack. Now they have to focus.

“With Steph, you don’t have to be so on, if that makes sense,” Green said. “You can let the game take its path and then you can settle the game down. But for the most part you can just let the game take its path and play off Steph.”

Curry’s magic is his ability to erase deficits within a matter of minutes and will the Warriors to wins. Without that luxurious safety net, his teammates have to take special care of leads.

“Steve always calls it organized chaos when Steph is out there, and we don’t have that when

Steph is out so we have to stay organized,” Green said. “It’s hard to have those laws when Steph is here because he can just bail us out and when he’s not it’s much tougher to do that.”

If the Warriors can replicate their Monday night performance, they may be able to position themselves well in a jam-packed Western Conference upon Curry’s return from a leg sprain (which is yet to be determined).

Klay Thompson did his part to make up for

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among the girls. Leonardo Gonzalez (126) and Justice Grimmit (182) were also third-place finishers as the Armijo boys were fourth overall as a team.

Wood boys, girls fare well at meet

VACAVILLE — Will

C. Wood High School wrestlers competed at the Monticello Empire League championships over the weekend and turned in strong performances.

The Will C. Wood boys were led by Vaea Salt, who pinned his Vacaville opponent in the first round Saturday afternoon and earned the Larry Nelson Outstanding Wrestler award. Joining Salt at the top

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Report: 49ers ready to hire Steve Wilks as new defensive coordinator

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The 49ers are going outside the organization to replace DeMeco Ryans as defensive coordinator.

Coaching veteran Steve Wilks will become the 49ers third defensive coordinator in four seasons, according to NFL Media reports Tuesday. The hire has yet to be confirmed by the 49ers.

Wilks, 53, was hired as interim head coach in place of the fired Matt Rhule last season for the Carolina Panthers after serving as the defensive passing game coordinator and secondary coach.

The 49ers reportedly interviewed Washington

defensive backs coach Chris Harris last week and were also considering internal candidates including defensive sec-

ondary coach Cory Undlin.

Wilks was elevated one day after Carolina lost at home, 37-15, to the 49ers, leaving the Panthers

with a 1-4 record. Carolina went 6-6 the rest of the season to finish 7-10. Wilks was considered for the head coaching job that instead went to Frank Reich.

Carolina’s level of play improved and the Panthers began running the ball with more consistency after a blockbuster trade that sent star running back Christian McCaffrey to the 49ers for second-, third- and fourthround draft picks in the upcoming draft and a fifth-rounder next season.

“The sun rose this morning and by the grace of God so did I,” Wilks said in a statement posted

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Meier scores in overtime as Sharks rally to shock Lightning

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Timo Meier scored at the 2:19 mark of overtime to lift the San Jose Sharks to a 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena on Tuesday.

On a Sharks rush, Meier took a pass from Erik Karlsson and beat Lightning goalie Brian Elliott for his second goal of the game and 30th of the season, as San Jose improved to 4-11 in games this season that have gone past regulation time.

Scott Harrington scored his second goal of the season at the 3:08 mark of the third period, as

his slap shot from inside the blue line went off Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and past Elliott to tie the game 3-3.

Karlsson and Meier also scored power-play goals for the Sharks, who were playing their first game since Jan. 28 when they beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-4.

The Sharks allowed a goal to Ross Colton and two to Brayden Point in the first period as they fell into a 3-1 hole against the Lightning, which, before Tuesday, had not lost a game this season when it has owned a lead after 20 minutes.

But after Karlsson’s first period power play goal, which

came shortly after a Tomas Hertl faceoff win in the Tampa Bay zone, Meier added his own goal on the man advantage with 3:37 left in the second period.

After Hertl won another faceoff in the Lightning’s zone, Meier took a pass from Alexander Barabanov and beat Elliott for his 29th goal of the season.

The Sharks were outshot 17-7 in the first period with goalie Kaapo Kahkonen making 14 saves, including 12 at even strength. But the Sharks allowed just five shots in the second period when they successfully killed three minor penalties. Kahkonen finished with

34 saves on Tuesday.

The comeback was an unlikely one for the Sharks.

Not only was San Jose 2-20-2 this season in games where it trailed before the third period, but Tampa Bay was riding a 12-game home winning streak. The Lightning was also 20-0-0 in games this season where they led after one period.

The Sharks were coming off a nine-day break. Kahkonen made 37 saves to earn what was just his sixth win this season, and on Tuesday, he won consecutive starts for the first time this season. The San Jose Sharks’ win

came after a selloff continued Sunday as they dealt defenseman Jaycob Megna to the Seattle Kraken for a 2023 fourth-round draft pick.

The Kraken held two fourthround draft picks for this year, with the second one acquired on July 27, 2021, from the Colorado Avalanche for defenseman Kurtis MacDermid. Per the terms of the trade with the Sharks, the Kraken will need to decide by June 15 – less than two weeks before the NHL draft – which one of the two fourth-rounder picks they will send to San Jose.

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Steve Wilks of the Carolina Panthers looks on against the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore in November 2022 when he was interim head coach.

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Golden State Warriors’ Klay Thompson (11) celebrates a 3-point basket in the second quarter of their NBA game against the Oklahoma City Thunder at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Monday night.

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Wednesday’s TV sports

Basketball College Men

• Iowa State at West Virginia, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

• Florida at Alabama, ESPN2, 6 p.m.

NBA

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

• Sacramento at Houston, NBCSCA (Vacaville and Rio VIsta), 5 p.m.

• Dallas at L.A. Clippers, ESPN, 7 p.m.

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

Hockey NHL

• Minnesota at Dallas, TNT, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday’s TV sports

Basketball College Men

• Iowa at Purdue, ESPN, 4 p.m.

• San Francisco at Gonzaga, ESPN, 6 p.m.

• Loyola-Marymount at Saint Mary’s, NBCSBA, 7 p.m.

• USC at Oregon, ESPN2, 8 p.m.

College Women

• Stanford at Arizona, ESPN, 6:30 p.m.

NBA

• Chicago at Brooklyn, TNT, 4:30 p.m.

• Milwaukee at L.A. Lakers, TNT, 7 p.m.

Football

• NFL Honors awards show, 3, 6 p.m.

Golf PGA

WM Phoenix Open, GOLF, 12:30 p.m.

Champions

Trophy Hassan II, GOLF, 5 p.m.

Hockey NHL

Colorado at

What retiring racing star Kevin Harvick tells us about Tom Brady

M att Baker TAMPA BAY TIMES

Though NASCAR star Kevin Harvick doesn’t know exactly what Tom Brady has experienced since announcing his retirement last week, Harvick surely can relate to what the former Bucs quarterback has been thinking and feeling.

Harvick, like Brady, is a champion and an obvious future Hall of Famer. Though his performance has started to slip, he’s a postseason fixture who’s still good enough to win. He’s also a father with outside business opportunities and interests (including a future as a Fox broadcaster).

Unlike Brady, Harvick has had three-plus weeks to process the emotions since declaring this season will be his last.

Kings welcome back De’Aaron Fox after birth of baby Reign

Jason a nderson THE SACRAMENTO BEE Kings point guard

De’Aaron Fox officially announced the arrival of his newborn son as he returned to Sacramento’s starting lineup for Monday’s game against the Houston Rockets.

Kings coach Mike Brown, All-Star center Domantas Sabonis and longtime friend Malik Monk expressed happiness for Fox and his wife, former UCLA, Texas Tech and Cal point guard Recee Caldwell, who welcomed baby Reign into the world on Friday.

“We’re extremely happy,” Brown said. “You can feel how excited, how proud he is to be a father, because, obviously, before Reign was born, whenever you talk about it, you just feel a different energy coming from him and the smile on his face and him having the chain with Reign’s name on it.

“They’re going to be terrific, terrific, terrific parents. Reign’s a lucky little fella to have them as parents. We’re excited to welcome Foxy and Recee’s little son to our family.”

Fox had 16 points, four rebounds, eight assists and two steals in a 140-120 victory over the Rockets at Toyota Center in Houston. He returned after missing losses to the Indiana Pacers and New Orleans Pelicanswhile away from the team for

four days due to personal reasons.

There was widespread speculation that Fox was away due to the birth of his son, but there was no conformation from Fox or the Kings until Monday.

Fox told The Sacramento Bee baby Reign was born Friday at a hospital in Houston, saying mother and baby are in good health. Fox noted his son was born on Feb. 3, 2023.

“We got 2/3/23,” Fox said. “That’s fire.”

Michael Jordan made No. 23 an iconic figure in the NBA.

The baby narrowly missed sharing a Feb. 4 birthday with Monk, who befriended Fox on the youth basketball circuit and later teamed with him at Kentucky.

“It’s perfect,” Monk said. “That’s perfect, man, because they’re always going to remember. They’re always going to remember and I’m always going to remember that (we were) in Sac together when they had their kid.”

Monk reunited with Fox last summer when he signed with the Kings as a free agent.

“It’s crazy, especially (because) I was in college with him, and just years and years on, it’s crazy,” Monk said. “It’s just like my brother, man, that I’ve known forever, so just a happy experience.”

“I’m in a really good spot,” Harvick said during a recent Zoom session with Florida reporters. “That’s where I wanted to be from a personal standpoint – to be in a good spot with my family, to be in a good spot with my team, to be in a good spot with people that I’ve raced for, to be in a good spot with NASCAR. . . .

“It’s been a lot of relief to be able to get it all out there.”

Conversations about his eventual retirement started five years ago, but Harvick and his family began discussing it more seriously over the last year and a half. In his announcement, he said there’s still “absolutely nothing else in the world” he likes more than going to a racetrack. And few have been better there than Harvick.

He rose to the top Cup

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of the podium in the girls division were Sophia Villoria (101), Levi Crabtree (116), Casey Fuller (126) and Josie Mays (132).

Joining these champions for the Wood boys at this week's Sac-Joaquin Section Divisional Tournament will be Tim Ahn (108, third place), Bradley Belli-Bell (115, fourth place), Elias De Los Reyes (122, fourth place), Andres Maldonado (128, second place), Ismael Villoria (147, second place), Andre Sandoval (154, fourth place), Adam Arvizu (162, fourth place), Jakob Fish (172, third place) and Isaiah Howard (184, second place).

The girls will be joined by their league runner-ups Djesire Emerson, Madison Devalle and Tianna Nguyen at the Girls Northern Regional this weekend at Natomas. Both the Wildcats and

Series in 2001, taking a spot at Richard Childress Racing after Dale Earnhardt’s death. Seven months later, an injury to the Patriots’ Drew Bledsoe gave Brady his first career start.

Since earning a first victory in his third Cup race, Harvick has won every major Cup event: the Daytona 500, the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte (twice), the Southern 500 at Darlington (also twice), the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis (three times) and the 2014 series championship. His 60 career wins are tied with Kyle Busch for ninth in series history. Somehow, 29 of those victories came after he turned 40.

But after a strong 2020 season – sound familiar, Bucs fans? – Harvick’s results have regressed with only two more victories since. He made the playoffs both years but was bounced in the first round last season.

At the same time,

Lady Cats will look to finish in the top eight of their respective weight class this coming weekend to qualify for the Sac Joaquin Masters Tournament in Stockton.

College

Solano baseball can't slow Cabrillo

ROCKVILLE — The Solano Community College baseball team lost Tuesday afternoon to Cabrillo 9-5 in Aptos. The Falcons managed 10 hits but made three errors and pitchers rendered 15 hits en route to the nine runs. Solano fell to 2-4 overall.

Victor Vega, Ryan Mitchell and Alex Gaela had two hits apiece. Mitchell and Gaela drove in runs. James Larson had a hit and drove in three of Solano's five runs. Miles Meadows, Conner Ross and Kevin Parker also singled. Nick Kamubulu, Dillon

Harvick was being pulled in other directions. He has a 10-year-old son, Keelan (who races go-karts all over the world), and a 5-yearold daughter, Piper. He also has a sports marketing firm, KHI Management, and recently bought the late-model racing series, the CARS Tour.

“In the end, it was about my kids and wife and where we were at,” Harvick said. “And the timing just made a lot of sense.”

Announcing his decision started a wave of new work – sorting through everything from sponsorships and team personnel to paint schemes. His goal was to do it all as professionally as possible and to get everything out of the way before the beginning of his final season.

And make no mistake: Harvick says this will be his final season. There will be no one-off Cup races. The Feb. 19 Daytona 500 will be his last. He has spent two

Nosrati, Jacob Reguera and Dylan Trammell all pitched for Solano.

The Falcons will play at 2 p.m. Thursday at Diablo Valley College.

Girls Soccer Armijo, Vanden play to 1-1 draw

FAIRFIELD — The Armijo High School girls soccer team played Vanden to a 1-1 draw Monday night at Brownlee Field.

Vanden scored first to take a 1-0 lead when Sophia Montano converted a shot off an assist from Breanna Davis. Armijo's Lesly Mendoza fed a through ball in the 75th minute to Fabiola Cisneros who carried the ball on a breakaway goal to net the equalizer.

Armijo is 3-10-1 overall and 1-7-1 in Monticello Empire League matches. The Royals close out the regular season Wednesday with a home match against Fairfield.

decades shouldering the responsibility that comes with being a top-tier competitor in a series with the shortest offseason of any major American sport. He’s looking forward to spending a Monday without dwelling on how his car ran the day before.

“Whatever else I race will be because I want to race it and have fun with it,” Harvick said. “To be able to sit in the back of the trailer and drink a beer when I’m done like I’ve watched Dale (Earnhardt Jr.) do and enjoyed so much.”

Harvick has already gotten a small taste of what his post-NASCAR life will be like. He recently spent two weeks out of the country watching his son race and completely disconnected from the outside world – so much so that he didn’t find out about that other big sports retirement until a day later.

“I’m catching up,” Harvick said.

Vanden is 7-4-2 overall and 4-3-2 in the MEL. The Vikings are currently in third place behind leagueleading Vacaville (8-0-1) and Rodriguez (7-1-1). Vanden closes out its regular season Wednesday at Rodriguez.

Boys basketball Morris, Armijo sinks

St. Vincent de Paul

FAIRFIELD — Trevor Morris had a game-high 31 points and pulled down 15 rebounds as the Armijo High School boys basketball team won a nonleague game Monday night 46-39 over St. Vincent de Paul in Petaluma.

Morris also added three blocks and three steals. Nine of his 15 rebounds came at the offensive end. Armijo improved to 3-20 overall. The Royals were scheduled to play Tuesday night at home against Vanden.

Chris Graythen/Getty Images/TNS Kevin Harvick, driver of the No. 4 Busch Light Ford, looks on during qualifying for the NASCAR Clash at the Coliseum at Los Angeles Coliseum in Los Angeles, Saturday.

2 Black QBs starting in Super Bowl is important

BenJaMin HocHM an ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

You want to be what you can see.

In the early 2010s, an impressionable teenager named Tré Moore watched numerous St. Louis high school quarterbacks who were Black.

“It means a lot to younger guys when you see Black quarterbacks doing special things,” said Moore, who named Glenn Bradford (Lutheran North), Kahlid Hagens (MaplewoodRichmond Heights) and Mike Glass (Hazelwood Central), among others. “It’s really inspiring. It just gives you a vote of validation and confidence to keep pushing and working — and maybe you can do that, as well.”

So, he did.

Moore became the starting quarterback at John Burroughs (lost in the state title game in 2014) and then at Yale. On Saturday, as Moore described the inspiration and the motivation, it put in perspective the bigness of this year’s Super Bowl.

On Sunday, both teams will start a Black quarterback for the first time in Super Bowl history.

And it’s cool to think about how many Black kids will watch this game and want to be what they can see.

It’s also incredible to think that it took until the 57th Super Bowl to get to this point.

For whoever says this shouldn’t be a big deal – or says:

COMMENTARY

“Why should a quarterback’s race matter because a good player is a good player?” – the reality is that many Black athletes didn’t get the opportunity to play quarterback in the first place. In a column for Andscape, the great William C. Rhoden wrote about Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes and Philadelphia’s Jalen Hurts: “What’s equally significant – and tied to the milestone of two Black quarterbacks facing off – is that Hurts will be the first run-pass option (RPO)-style quarterback since Cam Newton to reach the Super Bowl. In a copycat league like the NFL, Hurts’ ascent could escalate the flow of super-athletic Black quarterbacks into the NFL.

“In the past, these athletes – the Lamar Jacksons, the Jalen Hurtses – were routinely switched to wide receiver and defensive back. Those days may be over. Indeed, the great athlete will be sought out to play quarterback.”

So, yeah, this Super Bowl matchup is significant. And yes, of course, hopefully we get to a point where we don’t have to point out the race of the Super Bowl quarterbacks – because that will mean it’s become commonplace for Black quarterbacks to thrive in the National Football League. So far, seven Black quarterbacks have started in the Super Bowl, beginning,

famously, with Doug Williams of world-champion Washington in the 1987 season. The St. Louis Rams defeated Tennessee and Steve McNair in the 1999 season. There has been Donovan McNabb and Colin Kaepernick on the losing side of a Super Bowl and Russell Wilson and Mahomes on the winning side.

“It shows a young kid that – it can be done,” said Chris Cotton, a Black quarterback who started for DeSmet this past season.

“Another thing, too – you hear that a typical Black quarterback is a runner. But you look at these two quarterbacks in the Super

Bowl now, they’re two of the best passers in the NFL. These are dudes who throw the ball. . . .

“And Russell Wilson, he’d take over games with his mind. And it was my freshman year when Lamar Jackson had that crazy year.”

Indeed, Baltimore’s Jackson was stupendous in 2019, the season he won the MVP. That was the year that a camera picked up a memorable midgame conversation between Jackson and coach John Harbaugh of the Ravens.

Harbaugh: “Most quarterbacks worry about their stats.”

Jackson: “I’m worried about my team, coach.”

Harbaugh: “Well, you’re a leader, that’s why they love you. . . . I love you, too. I love the way you play. You don’t flinch, you just attack. All you do is attack.”

Jackson: “It’s all I know.”

Harbaugh: “You changed the game, man. Do you know how many little kids in this country are going to be wearing No. 8 playing quarterback for the next 20 years?”

These players are changing stereotypes.

These players are changing the game.

“It shows definitely how far the game has come,” Moore said. “Tradition quarterbacks, when you think of quarterback, is like tall and predominantly, probably white quarterback who stands in the pocket and throws the ball. . . . So it’s cool for the game. When you’re sitting at home, watching with your family and somebody can tell their son — you can be that guy one day. It’s cool for just a representation in general and just opening the game to different people and inspiring kids to grow up and represent something bigger than yourself, whether it be football or an organization or your family.”

As for Moore, he’s beginning law school at Washington University next fall. And Cotton is headed to play quarterback in college at Central State in Ohio.

Eagles’ Lane Johnson draws on his mother’s strength

Lane Johnson stands in the middle of his “Bro Barn,” hooked up to an ARPWave machine like some modern-day Bionic Man, except wires are attached to pads around his core rather than his upper body.

“I feel like I have a lightning bolt going through my hips,” Johnson says, explaining the sensation.

The Eagles tackle is three days removed from playing through a torn groin tendon for a second straight game and he’s receiving treatment for the injury under the supervision of personal trainer Gabe Rangel.

The ARP – acronym for accelerated recovery performance – uses a lowvoltage electrical current to stimulate the nervous system and reduce scar tissue. Johnson is connected to the machine for only 15 minutes, but as Rangel increases the frequency, his breathing becomes heavier.

The Friday before the NFC championship game, they reached 67 out of a maximum of 100 on the gauge.

“Let’s go to 70,” Johnson says 11 days before the Eagles play in Super Bowl LVII.

Through incremental knee lifts, the 6-foot-6, 325-pounder is upright, but wobbling as the seconds tick down.

“See how it’s pulling him in different directions,” Rangel said, “and he’s trying to stay centered?”

There’s discomfort, but it’s momentary, and he feels more nimble afterward. The 32-year-old is still freakishly athletic. But it takes a certain amount of mental strength to endure the ARP therapy, Johnson later explained, and to a greater extent, playing through his current injury.

It can be cliche to glorify athletes who continue on despite physical duress. Johnson has overcome various setbacks in his 10-year NFL career. But it may be his persistence in the face of mental health struggles, and an openness in doing so, that has spoken most to his resiliency.

And as he attempts to play through injury yet again and win a second championship, adding to the Hall of Fame-caliber resume he’s building, his toughness is unquestioned,

if not its origins. Like his father’s height and his mother’s light hair, he and others say he gets it from his parents.

“All three of them . . . . his mom, his dad and him, they’re all the same,” Rangel said. “They won’t show you any of their [struggles]. His mom – she has a don’t-feel-sorryfor-me attitude. She’s like, ‘I’m fine.’ His dad’s the same way.

“They all come at [hardship] with the same mindset. That’s what I’ve noticed from afar.”

Johnson’s father, David, recently had a new pacemaker implanted into his chest and acted like he was going in for a routine checkup, according to Rangel. His mother, Ray Ann Carpentier, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma six months ago, but hasn’t slowed down since.

“You hear stage IV and you’re like, ‘Oh, that’s close to death,’” Carpentier said. “But after research and getting some second opinions, it’s more of an autoimmune type of cancer. And it’s something I will die with, not of. I’ve just maintained a very optimistic attitude towards it.

“It’s almost like I don’t have it.”

Initially, Carpentier was told the cancer would need to be treated. But when Johnson found out in October, he enlisted the Eagles and others for help and flew her up to Penn Medicine for a second opinion about a month later.

“I was concerned because they said stage IV and she needed chemo,” Johnson said. “It was a big deal and there was an initial scare. But it wasn’t as bad as we originally thought.” Still, there was angst.

Johnson’s off-field issues have been a reminder that behind the 30 straight games without allowing a sack, and a tendency from some to view professional athletes merely as a source of entertainment, there should be more humanity extended to these modernday gladiators.

Like anyone with familial relationships or otherwise, Johnson sometimes has outside forces – like the ARP machine – working against him. That he can exist on an island in pass protection and seemingly always remained disciplined –despite whatever may be going on in his life – is a testament to his fortitude.

But it’s always a mental grind.

“It’s mortal combat every weekend,” he said.

Johnson has had a whirlwind last few years, from the breakup of his marriage to his nearly quitting football after he left the Eagles in October 2021. Carpentier offered some tough love at the time, which led to a brief falling out. But they eventually reconnected, and even though she didn’t initially tell her son about her diagnosis, it has since brought them closer together.

“And that’s one reason I didn’t want Lane to know,” Carpentier said. “I didn’t want it to be a pity party.

‘Oh, Mom’s diagnosed with cancer’ and blah, blah, blah. But it ended up all working out and kind of got us all in the same frame of mind of how short life can be and don’t take things for granted.”

Darkest moments

Johnson’s parents weren’t exactly athletes growing up, but they were physical people. David was a bull rider and could have gone pro, according to Lane, but fatherhood

took precedence. He competed through collapsed lungs and other injuries, his son said.

“The bull-riding culture is very similar to football,” Johnson said. “Guys don’t die in football like they do bull riding. But there are so many guys riding with injuries like torn groins. It’s almost like part of the gig.”

Johnson was named after Lane Frost, the Texas bull rider who died in competition 10 months before he was born. His story became the movie “8 Seconds.” David Johnson shifted to construction work for the highway department.

Carpentier, an only child like Lane, was into ballet until she was 18. She liked the lessons, she said, but “put me on the stage and I would freeze up.” Johnson’s parents divorced when he was young, but they co-parented through whatever travails life presented.

“We’ve both been through the road of hard knocks,” Carpentier said. “We’re physical people. We’ve both done physical, hard work our whole life. My father is that type of person. We just don’t let stuff get us down. Sometimes you have jobs to do and bills to pay, and you just work through it.

“And Lane grew up with that mentality.”

Carpentier said she cleaned houses and mowed lawns to put herself through college as she raised Lane. A social worker in the criminal justice system, she was essentially a therapist for inmates, many of whom she said experienced mental breakdowns.

Johnson was an outgoing child, Carpentier said. He begged her to play football and she finally relented. But basketball was his preferred sport until he realized that football would open more doors. It was around that time, late in his senior year at Groveton High, that Johnson first experienced symptoms of anxiety.

He kept it secret for years. His mother knew something was awry and Johnson eventually clued her in. But there was only so much she could do.

“When he was at his darkest moments, I was scared to death for my child in many ways,” Carpentier said. “I knew he was struggling. As a

mother, especially working in the mental health field, for me to not be able to go in and fix it because he’s a grown man, it was tough.”

Johnson had managed, with therapy and antidepressants, to key depression at bay. But an ankle injury that lingered over three-plus seasons, and was still bothering him after surgery, had him in a very dark place at the beginning of the 2021 season.

He was also experiencing withdrawal symptoms – vomiting, internal pain, and insomnia – while trying to wean himself off Paxil. Johnson didn’t show up for the Week 4 Chiefs game, instead driving to Crescent, Okla., where his father runs his ranch.

Carpentier met him there and offered “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” advice, which she said upset Johnson.

“He completely shut down, which he’s done in the past,” Carpentier said. “When he’s hurting, he just wants to avoid everything. He gets it from me. I can be the same way. I need to work through this myself. I just want to be left alone.

“So I got a good dose of my own medicine.”

Mind focused

Johnson eventually reconsidered his retirement plans and was coaxed back to Philadelphia. He resumed his appointments with his therapist and the regular dose of his antidepressant and was back at right tackle after missing three games.

He picked up where he left off and since returning has been named All-Pro –second team last season, first team this season – in consecutive years for the first time in his career. But on Christmas Eve, he suffered a core muscle injury and an MRI two days later revealed that he tore one of his three abductors.

Surgery would likely end his season, even if the Eagles went to the Super Bowl. Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa missed eight weeks after having the procedure last season. William Meyers, the noted core muscle physician based at the Navy Yard, told Johnson that he had only known of NHL players who played through the injury.

But Rangel found out that Cam Jordan had done

so over the Saints’ final five games of the 2019 season. Johnson reached out to the defensive end he often faced.

“He was like, ‘Good luck. It’s just going to hurt pretty much like [bleep],’ ” Johnson said. “Even if he didn’t give me great advice, just knowing he went through that [bleep], gave me confidence.

“I was like, ‘Well, God damn, if he can do it, I can do it.’ ”

Johnson couldn’t do further damage because “it tore off the bone and is hanging,” per Rangel. There was the chance he could tear one of the others because of compensation, but not any more percentage-wise than he would playing normally.

Still, Johnson said he was skeptical when he returned from a two-game absence for the divisional playoff vs. the New York Giants. Carpentier, who had flown up for the game, observed her son in the hours before the prime-time game.

“He was kind of being a little anti-social sitting playing Sudoku,” she said. “And I said, ‘Don’t you want to take a nap or something?’ And he was like, ‘Could you take a nap if you knew somebody was going to try and kill you when you’re injured?’

“And I was like, ‘I’m just asking you a simple question.’ And he was like, ‘No, this Sudoku keeps my mind focused.’ ”

Rangel, a Marine veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, watched from the stands at Lincoln Financial Field and questioned how long Johnson would last when he was clearly ailing after blocking the few bull rushes.

But after the initial stretch, he locked into a zone and finished another game without allowing a pressure as the Eagles coasted by the Giants. The NFC championship would pit Johnson against 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa, and that caused its own trepidation, but he said he felt better heading into the game.

Jalen Hurts was rarely touched while the Eagles knocked out both San Francisco quarterbacks in another blowout victory. The offensive line would not escape without further injury. Guard Landon Dickerson left with a

Mitchell Leff/Getty Images/TNS (Left Image)

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In this composite image a comparison has been made between quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) of the Philadelphia Eagles, left, and quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) of the Kansas City Chiefs, right. They will meet in Super Bowl LVII on Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

Monica Herndon/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS file (2022) Philadelphia Eagles offensive tackle Lane Johnson leaves the field a game against the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, in November 2022.

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Readers react to letter about dealing with difficult siblings

Dear Readers: The letter “Calling It Quits” about coping with an unreasonable sibling –who the parents insist must be placated –generated an intense response from readers. Here are two interesting examples:

Dear Annie: I love your column and agree with you most of the time, but you really struck out on your response to “Calling It Quits.”

I grew up being made to apologize to a sibling to keep the peace, even though my parents agreed they were wrong. My sibling was physically, verbally and mentally abusive to me from a young age. They weren’t satisfied until I was reduced to tears and made to feel like an inferior human being. Many of these incidents were carried out in public. This carried on into adulthood. I was not the only person subjected to this abuse. I witnessed this sibling’s spouses and chil-

dren being subjected to the same treatment.

I love this sibling, but for my own mental health, I had to severely limit contact.

I had to walk away from this toxic situation and maintain my boundaries with no apologies. You deserve to be respected. — Been There, Done That

Dear Been There, Done

That: If walking away from the situation is what made you feel the most respected and happiest, then by all means walk away. But if your goal is to have contact with your sibling and repair the relationship, then some form of compromise and understanding has to happen.

Dear Annie: You gave excellent advice to the mother of two brothers who haven’t spoken in years. My brother also hasn’t spoken to me in years except to verbally abuse or attempt to intimidate me. My mother tells me to be quiet and not say any-

Horoscopes by Holiday Mathis

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

This is a lucky day if you know what to do with it. You’ll approach your work with a buoyant, playful spirit. You’ll be a friend and make a friend. You’ll strive with great enthusiasm and tremendous devotion to get it right.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

Listen hard and you might get the words without the meaning. Listen soft and you’ll get another understanding. Let your mind go fuzzy and feel the emotion that’s being expressed.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

It doesn’t matter if the goods have to do with your personal gifts or what you have to offer in the world of business. The same rules of salesmanship apply. Provide a solution to the other person’s problem and you’re in.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). There are aspects of living that make you feel alone in the world, but you also consider solitude to be a natural and tolerable state. To comfortably and independently stand is a key part of being a mature human.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The best relationships grow naturally as you interact in the world together. New relationships are part of your experience now. This will be built through steady gains. Don’t try too hard in the opening stages. Pace yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Love doesn’t envy, nor does it

Today’s birthday

35, 19 and 38.

6, 2,

boast. You may feel like you’re competing with another for the attention of your love or potential love, and that’s because you are! What kind of game will you play?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Tonight, someone needs your compassion and your instruction. You’ve just completed the lesson this person is going into. Being a guide will reinforce all you’ve learned.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Who said learning must be difficult? Sometimes it’s one joy after another. Because you’re open-minded and always seeking your own development, you’ll learn a lesson without pain or inconvenience.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Between the emotional weather and the actual weather, you’ll deal with the elements. Energy Saving Tip:

thing back to him. It varies if, when and how he speaks to the other sisters. He hasn’t spoken to me at all since our father died, except to argue and literally get in my face at the funeral home over the choice of pallbearers. He then called my daughter – not me – to apologize for this. He refuses to come to any family gatherings, at anyone’s house, so luckily I see him rarely. I can’t do anything about his poor attitude, and I will stick up for myself when attacked. But I am hurt when my mother continues to defend our brother’s behavior over us. — Hurting

Dear Hurting: I am sorry that you and your brother have not been able to come to a peaceful understanding. Keep trying. Sometimes it just takes one kind olive branch to build a whole tree.

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

Try to see things from the other person’s point of view before you jump to a conclusion.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). This is a day to be proactive. Self-assigned tasks are lucky for your confidence and later for your bank account. Also, discuss the financial end of a deal right up front to avoid wasting time.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Love manifests in thought, word and action, and if it doesn’t, it’s not love. You’ll be inspired to look for and strive for spiritual generosity, which requires special effort to both give and receive.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

You expect certain things to be lovely and other things to be difficult. You take on difficult things because it’s worth it. You’ll condition yourself for duty. This is the way to avoid resentment and pain, too.

CELEBRITY PROFILES:

Whether it’s through a Taylor Swift lyric, an annual festival or an ever-growing popular Instagram account, the spirit of James Dean is perpetually celebrated. Aquarius is ruled by Uranus, the planet of revolution, secret power and rebellion, which makes Dean a fitting icon for the sign. The “Rebel Without a Cause” was the embodiment of his generation, rejecting the mores of earlier generations and striking out to find a purpose of his own.

Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

Bridge

Crossword by Phillip Alder

no-trump. Your partner leads his fourth-highest heart, dummy tables two low and you are looking at A-J-x. How would you plan the defense?

Right – normally you win with the ace and return the jack, hoping partner’s suit is long and strong enough that you can take the first five tricks. But in the fresh variety of bridge, uncertainties creep in. Sometimes that isn’t the correct play – as in today’s deal. If East wins the first trick with the heart ace and returns the jack, South just ducks. He wins the third heart with the king, takes the diamond finesse and soon claims an overtrick.

THERE MAY BE VARIETY IN SIMILARITY

Some 400 years ago, Richard Barnfield, who was an English poet, described the main reason why bridge has retained its popularity: “Nothing more certain than uncertainties; Fortune is full of fresh variety; Constant in nothing but inconstancy.”

You are defending against three

However, East quickly counted the points. He knew declarer had 15-17, there were 15 in the dummy and he had 8 in his own hand. This left at most 2 for West. He couldn’t have the heart king – but maybe he had the queen. So East played the heart jack at trick one. If psychic, South would have ducked. But he was afraid that West had led from ace-queen-fifth of hearts. Then, if South ducked, he would lose the first five tricks. So South won with the king and took the diamond finesse. However, it lost, and East continued with the heart ace and another heart. Despite having a combined 30 points, South went down one.

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2/7/23

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

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Difficulty level: SILVER

Kenny Loggins says ‘this is it’ with final tour

Tribune ConTenT AgenCy

ATLANTA — Kenny Loggins said that “this is it” to touring after this year.

“It’s been an amazing journey since starting with Jimmy Messina in 1971, and I’m fortunate to have had such a long touring career,” Loggins said in a statement last month. “I don’t see this as the end of my professional career, but certainly a halt to the grind of major touring.”

Unlike Ozzy Osborne, who last week said he was physically unable to tour anymore, 75-yearold Loggins said this wasn’t a health-related decision. “After spending a lifetime on the road, I

want to have more time at home,” he said.

He also promised that this tour will be heavily focused on the big songs like “Danger Zone,” “Footloose,” “Whenever I Call You Friend,” “I’m Alright,” “Celebrate Me Home” and “Heart to Heart.”

“I’ll be playing songs that I feel sum up the emotional story of my music,” Loggins says. “This will include 90 percent of the hits and 10 or so percent of the deeper cuts.” Loggins, who recently wrote a memoir “Still Alright” that came out last year, has been riding the wave of yacht rock love to the point that Atlanta’s own Yacht Rock Revue will be opening for him.

Pickles Brian Crane

Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis

Dilbert Scott Adams

Baby Blues Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Baldo Hector Cantú

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Trevor Noah led viewers through the 2023 Grammys in its star-studded return to Los Angeles on Sunday.

After the pandemic upended the previous two ceremonies, and last year’s event relocated to the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, the awards show took over the Crypto.com Arena, its usual home, in front of a full, live audience.The ceremony was packed with historic moments, from Beyoncé’s big record-setting moment, to Kim Petras scoring a trailblazing win for queer history, to hip-hop getting its due with a 50th anniversary tribute. Here are six standout moments from the Grammys’ return to L.A.

Beyoncé breaks record for most Grammys ever

It’s official: Beyoncé is the Grammy G.O.A.T.

With her win for dance/ electronic music album (“Renaissance”), the singer set a new record for the most Grammy wins ever with 32 victories. The record was previously set by orchestra conductor Georg Solti. The audience gave Beyoncé a standing ovation after “Late Late Show” host James Corden presented the award.

“Thank you so much. I’m trying not to be too emotional,” the “Break My Soul” artist said during her tearful acceptance speech, pausing to take a deep breath and holding back tears. “I’m trying to just receive this night.”

She later thanked the queer community “for your love and for inventing this genre,” a nod to the indelible influence of house music on the album. Although her “Renaissance” was considered a front-runner for album of the year, Harry Styles took home the award for “Harry’s House.”

Kim Petras makes history for transgender community

Petras also blazed a trail Sunday as the first transgender woman to win the Grammy for pop duo/group performance.

The singer shared the prize with Sam Smith for their smashhit collaboration, “Unholy.” During her speech, Petras spoke about the importance of the groundbreaking moment and paid tribute to her late friend, Sophie, a Scottish-born music producer who was a pioneer for the trans community.

Sophie, whose full name was Sophie Xeon, died in January 2021 after she fell from the balcony of an Athens apartment in Greece.

“I just want to thank all the incredible transgender legends before me who’ve kicked these doors open for me so I could be here tonight – Sophie, especially,” Petras said. “My friend

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Bonnie Raitt accepts the award for Americana performance onstage at the Grammy pre-telecast in Los Angeles, Sunday.

who passed away two years ago told me this would happen and always believed in me. Thank you so much for your inspiration, Sophie.”

Hip-hop greats unite for 50th birthday celebration

In 1989, the Recording Academy didn’t televise the first Grammy Award for rap music. A host of rappers, including LL Cool J, Salt-N-Pepa and DJ Jazzy Jeff, boycotted the show in protest.

More than three decades later, hip-hop took center stage at the 2023 ceremony with a 13-minute performance to celebrate the genre’s 50th anniversary.

Generations of hip-hop greats – from Run-DMC to Nelly and Ice-T to Lil Baby – hit the stage on a tour through the genre’s history. Busta Rhymes fired off his rapid-fire verse from “Look at Me Now,” while Method Man’s bars got Jay-Z joining in from the crowd.

The most electric performances came from its female rappers, with Salt-N-Pepa tearing up “My Mic Sounds Nice,” Queen Latifah bringing the crowd to its feet with “U.N.I.T.Y.” and then Missy Elliott getting the whole room shaking with a frenetic rendition of “Lose Control.”

Bad Bunny takes the Grammys to the Caribbean Latino superstar and cultural icon Bad Bunny, dressed in a white T-shirt and dad jeans, opened the ceremony with a Caribbean one-two punch of a Grammys performance.

Backed by a folk dance group from his native Puerto Rico, he entered the room to the rumble of bomba percussions, kicking off with a track from his Grammy-winning album “Un Verano Sin Ti,” a fight song titled “El Apagón,” or “The Blackout.”

His performance included a bleeped-out word, “cabrón,” which is a slang term that

roughly translates to “badass.” He then regaled the crowd – and even got Taylor Swift out of her seat to dance! – with his explosive mambo track, “Despues de la Playa.”

Bad Bunny later won the Grammy for música urbana album for “Un Verano Sin Ti.”

Bonnie Raitt is ‘surprised’ by upset win for song of the year

Raitt’s jaw dropped when she took song of the year with “Just Like That,” hardly the most popular contender in a field that also included songs by Lizzo, Harry Styles, Adele and Beyoncé.

Although somewhat of an upset, the legendary singer has been a Grammys darling for decades – amassing 13 wins and dozens of nominations.

She appeared stunned when she won the prize and got a standing ovation from the crowd. During her acceptance speech, she paid tribute to renowned folk musician John Prine, who died in April 2020 of Covid-19 complications.

The In Memoriam segment cues the waterworks

In the middle of music’s biggest party of the year, the Crypto.com Arena fell silent for somber tribute performances to musical artists who died in 2022.

Kacey Musgraves sang “Coal Miner’s Daughter” for country queen Loretta Lynn. Quavo, who was backed by Christian singing group Maverick City Music, performed “Without You” for his nephew, Takeoff of rap group Migos, who was killed in a shooting in Houston.

And Raitt, Sheryl Crow, and Mick Fleetwood performed “Songbird” for Christine McVie, one of Fleetwood Mac’s longtime members, who died in November. Fleetwood also spoke with The Times on the red carpet about his band’s future without McVie.

Bridge

six hearts. South wins with his bare ace and cashes the heart ace, getting the bad news. Do you wish to declare or defend?

South opened with a strong, artificial and forcing two clubs. After hearts were agreed, two control-bids followed. Then South, unable to find out about all three key queens, bid what he thought he could make.

After the first two tricks, South was tempted to concede. However, then he saw that he had a faint chance. At trick three, he led a low club and finessed dummy’s 10 – it held! He ruffed a spade in hand, led another low club and finessed dummy’s jack successfully. He ruffed a second spade. Now declarer led the club king to dummy’s ace and ruffed the last spade.

Finally, South played the ace, king and three of diamonds. East had to ruff the last of these and play away from his heart Q-10 into South’s K-J.

AIMING FOR A RISE ISN’T ALWAYS BAD

We are all too well aware of the constancy of increases. Increases in prices, taxes, population, homelessness, extinct species. The list increases increasingly. However, sometimes, at the bridge table, a rise is necessary for success – as in today’s deal.

West leads the spade king against

So did you opt to declare? Wrong! On the second round of clubs, West should rise with the queen. This kills the vital third dummy entry for the trump reduction and endplay. However, if you switch the club jack and queen, the contract is makeable via a first-round finesse of dummy’s club 10 – unless West’s opening lead is a club!

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Actress Viola Davis is now a member of perhaps the most exclusive clubs in Hollywood: EGOT winners.

The 57-year-old actress earned the coveted designationgained by winning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony - at the 65th Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony on Sunday when she took home her Grammy, the last piece of the puzzle, for performance of an audiobook. She won for reading her memoir “Finding Me.”

In doing so, she became the 18th person - and third Black womanto ever achieve the honor.

“I just EGOT!” Davis shouted as she accepted the award.

Davis began her work in theater, but her career has spanned from Shondaland to the DC Comics universe (where she played Amanda Waller in both “Suicide Squad” films and “Black Adam”).

Her journey to the EGOT started in earnest in 2001, when she won the Tony for best featured actress for her role as Tonya in the play “King Hedley II,” which examined the life of Black Americans throughout the twentieth century. But she really became a household name with her Emmy-winning role of Annalise Keating in Shonda Rhimes’s “How to Get Away with Murder,” which made her the first Black woman to win in the lead actress drama category.

She later won the Academy Award for best supporting actress in 2017 for her role as Rose Maxson in “Fences,” where she acted alongside Denzel Washington as his impassioned wife.

The famous acronym was coined by “Miami Vice” actor Philip Michael Thomas in 1984, who stated his (sadly, unfulfilled) desire to win all four awards within five years. The EGOT-less actor later tried to backtrack his statements, claiming EGOT stood for “Energy, Growth, Opportunity, and Talent” in an interview with the Miami Herald.

The term wouldn’t gain traction in the mainstream until NBC’s “30 Rock” made it into a bit circa 2009. Fictional

eccentric comedian Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), perhaps the least likely candidate for the honor, aspired to this lofty goal after encountering Thomas’ bejeweled EGOT necklace, and its relevance exploded from there.

Technically, composer Richard Rodgers became the first EGOT winner in 1962, more than two decades before the term was actually coined. In the ensuing six decades, seventeen more followed. Here’s the full list:

n Richard Rodgers

n Helen Hayes

n Rita Moreno

n John Gielgud

n Audrey Hepburn

n Marvin Hamlisch

n Jonathan Tunick

n Mel Brooks

n Mike Nichols

n Whoopi Goldberg

n Scott Rudin

n Robert Lopez

n Andrew Lloyd Webber

n Tim Rice

n John Legend

n Alan Menken

n Jennifer Hudson

n Viola Davis Goldberg became the first Black EGOT winner in 2002, with Legend and Hudson soon following. Hudson tweeted her support of Davis, writing “Congratulations to a living LEGEND.

Time to celebrate !!!”

Congratulations poured in from across the internet, with praises coming from such disparate sources as tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who referred to Davis as her “hero” to Rep. David N. Cicilline (D-R.I.) who called the honor a “much deserved achievement for an incredible talent.”

“Finding Me,” Davis’ memoir that cinched her EGOT status, “plunges into her childhood trauma.” The book punctuates Davis’ lofty accomplishments as well as the racism, generational abuse, sexual assault and poverty she survived.

“The process and artistry of piecing together a human being completely different from you was the equivalent of being otherworldly,” wrote Davis. “It also has the power to heal the broken. All that was inside me that I couldn’t work out in my life, I could channel it all in my work and no one would be the wiser.”

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Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis

Dilbert Scott Adams

Baby Blues Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

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The king’s niece (Kathryn Grayson) catches the eye of a rebel poet in “The Vagabond King.”

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Alumni

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defeated host UC Davis 196.300-195.450.

Freshman Amelia Moneymaker (Del Oro, Dream Xtreme) was third in the floor exercise (9.900) for UC Davis in its loss to San Jose State.

Men’s basketball

Senior forward Jay Nagle (Will C. Wood) had one of his most productive games of the season. He had 15 points, five rebounds and two assists for Idaho State in a 75-70 win over Northern Arizona. Nagle also had seven points, six rebounds, two assists and one blocked shot in a 72-71 double-overtime loss to Weber State.

Junior guard Ricky Hamilton-Holland (Will C. Wood) scored in double figures for Pacific Union College in two straight games. He had 12 points, seven rebounds, one assist and two steals in a 74-67 win over Park University, Gilbert. Hamilton-Holland also had 17 points, three rebounds, one assist and two steals in an 84-71 loss to Embry-Riddle.

Senior guard/forward

Sterlen Thomas (Vacaville, Solano) was right alongside Hamilton-Holland.

Thomas scored 17 points to go with six rebounds and three steals in the win over Park. He had nine points, 12 rebounds, three assists and one steal in the loss to Embry-Riddle.

Senior guard Braxton Adderly (Rodriguez/Napa Valley) helped Cal Maritime pick up a couple of wins over Arizona schools. Adderly had 12 points, two rebounds and two assists as the Keelhaulers beat Benedictine Mesa 77-74. He had eight points, four rebounds, four assists and two steals in a 70-59 win over Park University, Gilbert.

Sophomore guard

Jeremiah Jones (Salesian, Vacaville resident) helped Stanislaus State to an 86-71 win over Cal Poly Humboldt with eight points, three rebounds, two assists and two steals. Jones also had eight points, one rebound and two assists in an 81-78 loss to Sonoma State.

Senior guard Jordan Adams (Vacaville, Solano) saw action but did not score for William Jessup in a 76-73 win over Menlo.

Junior forward Landon Seaman (Will C. Wood) saw action for Menlo in the loss to Jessup and finished with nine points, one rebound and one steal.

Senior guard Dunnell Stafford (Solano) scored nine points for Fort Lewis and had one rebound and one steal in a 68-65 win over Colorado State, Pueblo.

Women’s basketball

Senior guard Myli Martinez (Vanden) helped Chico State beat Sonoma State 71-67 with seven points, two rebounds, four assists and two steals. Martinez also had six points in a 74-66 win over Cal Poly Humboldt.

Freshman guard Jiana Creswell (Vanden) saw action alongside Martinez for Chico State in the win over Cal Poly Humboldt but did not score.

Freshman guard Kiki Roberts (Vanden) contributed to a pair of wins for Eastern New Mexico. Roberts had seven points, nine rebounds, one assist and two steals as the Greyhounds defeated Midwestern State 71-67. She had three points, six rebounds and one assist in a 60-48 win over Cameron.

Freshman Camryn Washington (Rodriguez) scored four points to go with a rebound and an assist for Cal State East Bay in a 58-46 win over Cal Poly Pomona. Washington also had two points in a 59-58 win over Cal State San Bernardino.

Sophomore forward

Joia Armstrong (Vanden)

saw action for Stanislaus State. She had six points, nine rebounds, two assists and one steal in a 61-45 loss to Cal Poly Humboldt. Armstrong also had seven points, nine rebounds, one assist, four steals and two blocked shots in a 66-48 loss to Sonoma State.

Junior guard Ashmeen Sran (St. Patrick-St. Vincent, Solano) is also at Stanislaus State. Sran had one rebound for the Lady Warriors in the loss to Sonoma State.

Junior forward Milia Gibson (Rodriguez) contributed nine points and a rebound for Mississippi Valley State in an 85-63 loss to Jackson State.

Senior guard Taimane Lesa-Hardee (Salesian, Fairfield resident) had five points, five rebounds, one assist and one steal for San Francisco State in a 64-54 loss to Cal State Los Angeles. She had four points, three rebounds and three steals in a 62-42 loss to Cal State San Marcos.

Men’s tennis

Junior Marcus McDaniel (Kimme Charter) earned a win in singles and another in doubles for Georgia Tech in a 6-1 win over Georgia State. He did the same against Auburn but the Yellow Jackets lost that match 5-2.

Sophomore Zachery Lim (Rodriguez) had wins in singles and doubles for Penn in a 7-0 victory over Navy.

Wrestling

Junior Lawrenz Saenz (Vacaville) picked up a 5-3 overtime win in his weight class, scoring a takedown 42 seconds into the extra period, and Cal Poly beat Cal State Bakersfield 22-12. He also scored a win by major decision in a 25-10 team win over Little Rock.

Softball

Senior outfielder Ashley Miller (Fairfield) and freshman utility player Madeline Moorhead (Will C. Wood) saw action for Simpson in a pair of games. Miller had a walk in a 4-2 loss to Vanguard. Moorhead was a pinchrunner and Miller had two hits and scored a run in a 9-4 win in the second game.

Freshman catcher

Alexus Sorenson (Will C. Wood) saw action in three games for Academy of Arts. The team went 1-3 in a four game stretch that featured games against William Jessup, Saint Martin’s and Sonoma State.

Sophomore infielder Destiny Harris (Vanden) scored a run and played third base for La Sierra in a 4-3 win over San Diego Christian.

Graduate student

Megan Massa (Rodriguez) had five hits and scored three runs as the leadoff hitter for Concordia-Irvine while playing six games over four days against Western Washington, Cal State San Bernardino, Colorado Mesa, Western Oregon and Cal State Monterey Bay. Massa and her team went 5-1 in that stretch.

Freshman outfielder Mia Santos (Vanden) saw action for Chico State in a 3-2 loss to Montana, Billings and had a hit in a 6-4 win over Biola.

Baseball

Sophomore starting right-hander Tanner Fonoti (Rodriguez, Napa Valley) picked up his first win of the season as Sonoma State defeated Academy of Arts 6-4. He worked four innings, allowed one hit, gave up no earned runs, struck out three and walked one.

Sophomore outfielder Brandon Huerter (Napa, Solano) had two walks in the leadoff position for the Seawolves and scored a run.

49ers

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on Twitter after Reich got the job. “I’m disappointed but not defeated. Many people aren’t built for this but I know what it means to persevere and see it through.”

Wilks wished good luck to Reich, but that sentiment was not shared by his attorney Douglas Wigdor.

“We are shocked and disturbed that after the incredible job coach Wilks did as the interim coach, including bringing the team back into playoff contention and garnering the support of the players and fans that he was passed over for the head coach position by (owner) David Tepper,” Wigdor posted on Twitter. “There is a legitimate race problem in the NFL, and we can assure you that we will have more to say in the

Warriors

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coming days.”

In taking over the 49ers’ defense, Wilks will coordinate a unit that finished the 2022 season giving up the fewest yards (300.6) and points (16.3) of any team in the NFL.

The 49ers have Pro Bowl players at all three levels in edge rusher Nick Bosa, inside linebacker Fred Warner and safety Talanoa Hufanga. Also on hand are established defensive tackle Arik Armstead, linebacker Dre Greenlaw and cornerback Charvarius Ward, signed as a free agent a year ago.

Wilks can be expected to operate much like Robert Saleh and Ryans in terms of defensive philosophy.

“I’m trying to get something where we don’t have to turn much over,” Shanahan said at the 49ers’ season-ending press conference on Feb. 1. “I would love to keep our same staff, so I’m going to talk to some guys on our staff. I’m

Curry’s scoring, hitting 12 3-pointers in a 42-point game. Seven of those 3s came in the first half.

“It felt great, but what felt better was the 43 team assists we had and only 16 turnovers,” Thompson said. “That was the indicator of how the night went, it has to be the most we had all season and the ball was humming. When we do that, we’re our best.

I’m a huge beneficiary of when the ball is moving. What the naysayers say, that’s fine, but we have a lot of guys who are greedy and we’re not going to quit because our best player is out.”

Twelve of those 43 assists came from Jordan Poole, who had what coach Steve Kerr said was Poole’s best game of the year. He’s getting defended like Curry and starting to play like Curry with the ball in his hand. That meant seeking out

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hyperextended elbow.

He plans to wear a brace in the Super Bowl and play.

“I’ve had my fair share of stuff this year and, no offense, I don’t tell you [reporters] about it,” Dickerson

going to talk to some guys outside our staff and hopefully whichever way we go, it’s someone who can work with who we have and what we’ve accomplished here.

“I love the scheme that we run and I feel the foundation with have on the D-line, at linebacker, at corner at safety, I think our players fit very well in it too. I’m hoping to find someone wo fits with us personality-wise and scheme-wise.”

It remains to be seen what the makeup will be of the rest of the coaching staff and whether Ryans will hire any 49ers assistants to be on his staff in Houston. According to NBC affiliate KPRC2 in Houston, Kris Kocurek will remain with the 49ers as defensive line coach.

Given what happened to Wilks’ predecessors, the 49ers’ opportunity could lead to a third shot at being a head coach as Saleh was hired by the Jets following the 2020 season and

Thompson and his teammates and letting scoring opportunities come to him; he was thinking fast, but played slower and didn’t force feed passes or over-dribble and turn the ball over.

“He had four turnovers but three of them was understanding what was going on in the game and trying to get Klay shots,” Green said. “So realistically he had one turnover and 13 assists. I thought he played an incredible game on both sides of the ball.”

Poole’s favorite assist: Off an offensive rebound, Poole had a heads-up pass to Kevon Looney under the basket Looney scored an easy dunk off. In that split second, Josh Giddey was in no-man’s land on defense, Poole and Looney were on the same page.

“That happened twice this year already,” Poole said. “Loon missed the first one and JaMychal (Green) missed the second one, but today Loon caught it.”

Poole finished with 21 points and was a team-high plus-28 in his

said Thursday when asked to share the mentality of playing through injury. “I don’t need sympathy. I don’t need an article. You get to a point where you ask, ‘Why are you in the NFL? Why do you play football?’

“In college, I had a lot of setbacks. And I just found that I love this game way too much. The only way I’m not going to be on the field is if I’m dead or I’m

Ryans last week by the Houston Texans. Wilks has coached in the NFL since 2006, when he joined the Chicago Bears as a defensive backs coach. Wilks also coached defensive backs with the Chargers (2009-11) and Carolina (2012-14) before becoming an assistant head coach to Ron Rivera and later defensive coordinator through 2017. Saddled with a quarterback in Josh Rosen who was on his way out, Arizona went 3-13 and Wilks was fired after one season as the Cardinals hired Kliff Kingsbury as head coach to install an offense for quarterback Kyler Murray, the first overall pick in the draft. Wilks was hired as defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns in 2018 in the one-year reign of Freddie Kitchens. He sat out 2020 and was defensive coordinator for Missouri in 2021 before being hired by Rhule in Carolina in 2022.

29 minutes. Andrew Wiggins had the team’s second-highest plusminus with plus-25 – his best game since he returned from an adductor strain and illness on Jan. 7.

Wiggins’ 18 points, four assists and three rebounds don’t stand out, but he played some of his best defense of the entire year and helped hold Oklahoma City star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to 20 points on 6-of-16 shooting.

Kerr called the win a “blast” to watch. A season defined by late blown leads, shaky wins and ugly losses, the Warriors managed to beat a contending playoff team by a substantial margin. If they can keep that focus, not only will they survive without Curry, but perhaps be able to escape mediocrity when he returns.

“You either understand that now and play that way or we’ll lose,” Green said. “We want to make sure to leave this team in a better position we were in when Steph went out. That’s the goal.”

in a wheelchair.”

Enjoying it

Carpentier didn’t attend last Sunday’s game, but she watched from her home in Huntsville, Texas.

“I told Lane, ‘You made Bosa look like a rag doll,’ ” Carpentier said.

The Monday prior, Johnson took his mother to Penn for an appointment with her oncologist, Elise

Chong. Carpentier, who retired 2 ½ years ago, said she has no symptoms from her marginal zone lymphoma, and won’t need to return to Philly for a follow-up until August.

In the meantime, she’s eating healthier, being active, and reducing stress, partly under Johnson’s care.

“Lane is so much into health,” Carpentier said.