Daily Republic: Wednesday, July 26, 2023

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$750,000, 10-year forgivable construction loan from Solano County will allow the Solano Land Trust to continue its trail and other work at the Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space Park.

“We were stalled for a lack of funding, so this will get us going again,” Nicole Braddock, executive director of the land trust, said after the board action on Tuesday.

The loan funds come from the Accumulated Capital Outlay Fund.

There are 12 miles

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County supervisors on Tuesday approved pay raises for the elected department heads, some top department officials and their own district aides.

Supervisor Wanda Williams was absent.

The monthly salaries for the elected department heads will be:

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of trails planned for the park, including a 0.6-mile all-person trail that takes visitors to a grand view of Suisun Valley. “I’ve been out there with people who are 95. We rest along the way, but were were able to get to the top,” Braddock told the board. It is wheelchair accessible.

A quarter-acre area is also set aside from the rest of the park. Picnic and other amenities are planned, too. There will be interactive signage and connections to the native populations that once called the area home.

Braddock also said she was excited to have

the county as a partner in operating the open space park.

To that end, the board approved a contract with Solano Land Trust to provide park operations in support of public access to Patwino park through 2033. The county would be reimbursed for operation and maintenance activities.

Two new Parks & Recreation vehicles for the park were approved, as was the hiring of another ranger for the Park Services.

Patwino joins Lynch Canyon as open space parks for the county, which also operates three

regional parks: Lake Solano, Sandy Beach and Belden’s Landing.

Single day parking fee is $5 at the open space parks and $8 at the regional parks. Annual passes specifically for open space or regional parks are available, as well as passes for all the county parks.

The board established a new fee for autos with horse trailers within the open space parks, which goes into effect on Jan. 1.

Golden Bear Pass holders get free access to the county parks, as well as the more than

Phyllis Taynton: from the current $17,785.18 to $19,551.35. Annual salary would be $234,616.20.

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Glenn Zook: from the current $17,785.18 to $19,042.56. Annual salary would be $228,510.72.

n District Attorney Krishna Abrams: from the current $22,246.98 to $22,961.56. Annual salary would be $275,538.72.

n Sheriff-Coroner Tom Ferrara: from the current $21,772.66 to $22,208.11. Annual salary would be $266,497.32.

n Treasurer/Tax Collector/County Clerk Charles Lomeli: from the current $17,107.38 to $18,577.87. Annual salary would be $222,934.44.

The monthly pay ranges would increase for the assistant auditorcontroller ($13,193.74 to $16,037.07); for the chief

deputy district attorney and chief deputy public defender ($16,728.65 to $20,333.78); for the public defender ($18,679.27 to $22,704.77); and for the undersheriff ($16,564.64 to $20,134.42).

“The approximate fiscal impact for (fiscal year) 2023-24 of modifying the salary range for the auditor-controller, assessor/recorder, district attorney, public

UPS, Teamsters reach labor contract deal, averting strike

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UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have reached a deal on a new labor contract to avert a massive strike.

The two sides announced the tentative agreement for a new five-year contract Tuesday, just a week before the union’s strike deadline. The Teamsters union said the new contract deal comes with higher wages, more full-time

jobs and protections for workers.

“Rank-and-file UPS Teamsters sacrificed everything to get this country through a pandemic and enabled UPS to reap record-setting profits,” Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said in a written statement.

Pay for the tens of thousands of part-time UPS workers who handle packages

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detective from the Fairfield Police Department’s Special Victims Unit has been assigned to a 1991 case where a young girl went missing from her westside home. The assignment was made after a retired pastor, David Zandstra, who served at Fairfield Christian Reformed Church from 1990 to 2005, was recently arrested in connection with a 1975 murder of an 8-year-girl in Pennsylvania.

Amanda “Nikki” Campbell was last seen on Dec. 27, 1991. She reportedly left on her bicycle to visit a friend’s house around the corner but never arrived.

Later that evening her bicycle was found a few blocks from her home. Dogs tracked her scent from Larchmont

Drive to Oliver Road, to the drive-through at a nearby McDonald’s restaurant on Travis Boulevard, then east on Travis Boulevard to the westbound Interstate 80 on-ramp. It was then lost. Authorities believe she was pulled into a vehicle, probably at the intersection of Larchmont Drive and Salisbury Drive. “The Fairfield Police Department was made aware of the case developments in Pennsylvania when the media began inquiring about a possible connection to the Amanda Campbell case,” said Fairfield Police PIO Jennifer Brantley in an email.

“Since that time, our research has led us to believe the suspect, David Zandstra, did indeed live in the Fairfield area around the time Amanda

Arrest in cold case revives case of Amanda Campbell, kidnapped in 1991 Federal court blocks Biden rule limiting asylum for migrants

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LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in Oakland on Tuesday blocked a Biden administration rule that limits migrants’ access to asylum at the southern border, casting doubt on the future of a key policy aimed at limiting crossings.

The order from federal Judge Jon S. Tigar, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, won’t take effect for two weeks. The Biden administration quickly appealed the ruling to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and asked Tigar to stay his order while the higher court considers the matter.

If the administration is unsuccessful in the 9th Circuit, it could appeal to

the U.S. Supreme Court. The policy, which restricts access to asylum for migrants who come through a third country on their way to the U.S. without applying for protections, is the centerpiece of the Biden administration’s efforts to reduce the number of migrants crossing without authorization each month.

Tigar said Tuesday that the rule was “contrary to law” because it presumed that people who crossed the southern border were ineligible for asylum. Biden administration officials have said in court declarations that without the policy, border crossings will increase, straining government

Phil Prince, center, joins cheers at a recent International Brotherhood of Teamsters rally in Atlanta.

Schools can resemble ‘organized Anarchies’

I’m often asked to explain how public schools really work and what’s being done about issues like underachieving students, school safety, union politics, bad schools versus good schools, personnel problems, etc.

Such questions are almost limitless. But there are two perspectives that shape questions like these – from the outside looking in (having limited experience with schools) and from the inside looking out (having deep experiences with schools). It is particularly difficult trying to explain to “outsiders” how things get done in schools, and who has the power to make things happen.

The first thing to understand is that there can be huge differences in the way important decisions are made within a school, between schools, and between schools and school districts. The type of school also matters (e.g., elementary, secondary, inner city, suburban, rural, etc.). When it comes to

what gets done, how it gets done, and who does it, there is no single pathway, strategy, or management model. There is no such thing as “one-size-fitsall” when it comes to addressing complex issues or problems.

The second thing for people to understand is that schools are in the business of developing people, not products or services. Schools are social enterprises, and while they were fashioned around organizational patterns and frameworks that emerged during the industrial revolution, they don’t always operate according to traditional “command and control” or topdown management theories. In my experience schools often resemble what Stanford organizational studies professor James March described over 50 years ago as “organized anarchies.” Organized anarchies are complex organizations where the preferences, values, skills, needs and motivations of stakeholders (e.g., teachers,

parents, staff, board members) are often in flux or inconsistent.

Organizational “technologies” (e.g., instructional methods, standard operating procedures, workplace rules and policies, etc.) are not always equally well understood (or followed) by all stakeholders, and the time and effort stakeholders give to particular problems or issues will vary widely.

Common assumptions about management control or coordination over major decisions about people or activities in a school don’t always match reality. While principals are key “players,” they must also become masters of improvisational management (sometimes described as “juggling beanbags”).

Schools can be like threedimensional chess games, and they often function as both loosely and tightly coupled entities. For example, in a loosely coupled high school, different academic departments act as quasi-independent enterprises. The math department and the PE department have little in common in terms of their fun-

Does Barbie’s pink look fake? It may be Earth’s oldest organic color

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The old-school Barbie world was filled with unrealistic representations: physically impossible body proportions, extremely high heel arches and an amazingly ostentatious house (probably hard to afford even if she was a doctor, astrophysicist and the president all at once). To tie it all together, everything was splattered with pink.

But the use of pink might be one of the more realistic, earthly elements in Barbie world. In fact, bright pink is one of the oldest preserved colors of a living organism on the Earth, and a common color in nature. But what is responsible for the cheery color?

Pink can sometimes seem unnatural because it’s not part of the light spectrum, like the colors in a rainbow that appears after a storm. It’s an extraspectral color created through a mixture of colors, but that doesn’t mean it’s rare for nature to generate. (Side note: Blue is one of the least common colors in plants and animals, partly because there isn’t a true blue color pigment in nature and it is due to the bending of light. Perhaps blue would have been a better color choice for a fabricated Barbie world.)

Beyond the Barbie biosphere, pink shows up around our planet because of certain molecules.

Outside of green, pink is

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a highly common color in flowers. One class of molecules called anthocyanins can give flowers their pink color, depending on the acidity of the soil.

There are other pigments that cause colors in the red family, such as batelains, which produce the red color in beets or carnations, but “most pinks [in flowers] are caused by the red-producing anthocyanins,” said botanist Elizabeth Wells.

“The more genes present for red-producing anthocyanins, the darker the reds will be, ranging from intense pure red to faint pink,” said Wells, a professor at George Washington University. “When there are fewer genes, the color will be less intense and give rise to pink. In some plants there may be variations from cell to cell as to the number of genes producing red, so the color might not be uniform throughout the tissue.”

Another class called carotenoids, which are yellow, orange and red pigments, can paint some animals pink. Carotenoids are synthesized in micro-

algae, which are eaten by animals such as shrimp and flamingos. Penguins also eat krill that feed on microalgae. Penguins are not pink, but their poo is.

But while Barbie may be 60 years old, her signature pink color dates back 1.1 billion years ago –making it the oldest color in the geologic record.

A study from 2018 suggested that pink was the first color of life on Earth, showing up in ancient rocks under the Sahara desert. Colorful organic pigments can degrade over time, but scientists extracted bits of bright pink in the marine black shales in Mauritania, West Africa.

The pink pigments came from the chlorophyll of fossilized cyanobacteria, a blue-green algae that once inhabited an ancient ocean in the Taoudeni Basin in Mauritania. The pigments were originally dark green, but the chlorophyll fossilized over thousands of years into a class of molecules called porphyrins.

Porphyrins, explained Jochen Brocks, an author of the 2018 study, are complex ring-like molecules that contain a magnesium atom at the center. Once the molecule dies, the magnesium pops out and leaves a hole in the center. Nature quickly fills the hole with a more stable atom, such as nickel (giving a blood-red color) or vanadium (inducing purple).

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damental “technologies” and knowledge frameworks. The typical day for teachers is laser focused on the particular needs of students, and is not always directly related to broader school-wide goals or administrative operations.

On the other hand, schools can be tightly coupled when decision making systems relating to resource allocations, personnel decisions, curriculum, or school-wide activities are interdependent and coordinated (e.g., when shared decision-making systems are established between administrators, teachers and parents).

In every school, decisions are deeply influenced by power dynamics. For example, a principal who decides to hire a new math teacher would be foolish not to involve and consider input from other math teachers. A newly hired probationary teacher would be foolish not to involve and consider input from his/her mentor teacher. Likewise, a principal would be foolish not to involve and consider input from district office supervisors before chang-

ing personnel procedures, etc. Power dynamics also include skillfully navigating shifting demands by parent organizations, community groups, and state or federal education policy makers. Principals who ignore or are insensitive to complex power dynamics do so at their own peril.

The biggest challenge to school principals is how to facilitate effective decisions under ambiguous and politically contentious circumstances. In such complex and fluid situations, “satisficing” is often the best a principal can hope for. Solutions to difficult problems are often made on the basis of the first-best-option rather than the optimal option.

Managing “organized anarchies” can feel like riding downhill on a mountain bike with wobbly wheels, loosely fastened handlebars, and squeaky brakes.

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.

Angulo named to Spring 2023 Dean’s List

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FAIRFIELD — Guadalupe Angulo of Fairfield was named to the spring 2023 Dean’s List at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas.

Angulo is a Junior Politics major.

He earned a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher to be eligible for the Dean’s List. Do you have some good news to share? Send it to Susan Hiland at shiland@ dailyrepublic.net. Be sure to include Good News in the subject line.

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Carolyn Van Houten/ The Washington Post Colorful flamingos are at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.

Strip mall fire causes about $100,000 in damage

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield and Suisun City Fire Departments each battled a blaze Sunday evening.

Just before 10 p.m., Fairfield firefighters responded to a commercial fire in the 1300 block of Oliver Road, which became a secondalarm situation with all seven units from Fairfield on scene, as well as one mutual-aid engine from Vacaville.

Solano unemployment up for second straight month; local jobs up, too

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano unemployment rate neared 5% in June, the second straight month the jobless rate increased in the county despite the number of local jobs being on the rise, too.

The rate was 4.7%, up from 4.3% in May, and up from 4.2% in April, the Labor Market Information Division of the state Employment Development Department reported.

The rate in June 2022 was 4%, the EDD reported.

The rate increased despite the continued growth in local job

growth during 2023, with 144,800 Solano County jobs in June compared to 144,100 in May, 143,300 in April, 141,900 in March and 141,800 in February.

There were 142,500 local jobs listed for June 2022, the EDD reported.

The monthly job report showed the civilian workforce at 200,900, down from 201,600 in May, and down from 201,700 in April.

There were 191,500 local residents employed in June, which down from the May total of 192,900 and down from April’s total of 193,200.

The number of locals seeking unemployment benefits jumped from 8,700 in May to 9,400, the

EDD reported. The April count was 8,500.

The biggest job gains were in the Leisure and Hospitality sector, which went from 16,600 jobs in May to 17,400 in June, the EDD reported. Construction added 200 jobs, there were 200 more local government jobs, half in education, while the farm sector and manufacturing each added 100 jobs.

There were losses across most of the other job categories, with the Private Education and Health Services sector down 300 jobs and retail down 100, the EDD reported.

The state’s jobless rate was reported at 4.9%

in June, up from 4.5% in May. It was 4.3% in April and 4.1% in June 2022. The national rate was at 3.8% in June, up from 3.4% in May and 3.1% in April. The June 2022 rate was 3.8%, the EDD reported.

Solano ranked 24th among the state’s 58 counties, with the lowest unemployment rate found in San Mateo County at 3.1 %, and the highest rate, 16.9%, in Imperial County, the EDD reported.

Solano had the highest rate among the nine Bay Area counties. The next closest were Alameda and Contra Costa counties, each at 4.2%, the EDD reported.

The fire was contained to the exterior void spaces, facia boards and roof to the rear of the building. There was minor damage to the interior of two of the businesses in the strip mall.

The construction features of a strip mall were challenging to firefighters. There are many

void spaces and, generally, the attic is common, or open above all businesses. It was important for firefighters to make quick access to the attic to contain and prevent the fire from spreading to the next-door occupancies in the building, firefighters said. The cause of the fire appears to be electrical in nature. The damage is estimated at $100,000 to the building and there were no injuries reported. Suisun fire crews, overnight, handled a quarter-acre vegetation fire in the area of West and Sacramento streets. It was a moderate to rapid rate of spread with no structures threatened. Crews were able to make a quick attack, preventing the spread of the fire. Fairfield Fire Engine 39 provided station coverage.

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FAIRFIELD — Construction on all-way stop is set to begin Tuesday at Vanden and Canon roads.

It’s expected to be in place by Aug. 9. Drivers will be required to make a complete stop when traveling north or southbound on Vanden Road.

Once the stop is installed, motorists can expect an approximate 500-foot (80 second) back-up in the southern direction and 800-foot (3 minute) back-up in the northern direction along Vanden Road during peak times.

The city of Fairfield has been working with Union Pacific Railroad, Capital Corridor Joint Power Authority, California Public Utilities Commission, Travis Air Force Base, Solano County, and the city of Vacaville to improve vehicular and railroad safety at the intersection.

Digital displays will be posted. Roadway striping is planned Aug. 7 to 9. Vanden Road is often

used as a backroad to access the Leisure Town area of Vacaville. Canon

Road offers access to the Travis Air Force Base north gate.

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Suisun City Firefighters respond to a vegetation fire near West and Sacramento streets, Sunday.

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Bids to go out for Benicia, McCormack roadwork

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FAIRFIELD — Work on nine Solano County road projects, including Phase 1 improvements to Benicia Road and Phase 2 improvements to McCormack Road, will soon go out to bid for contractors.

County sends out call for residents 100 or older

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County is asking residents to help in identifying centenarians for recognition at the 17th annual Centenarian Commemoration Celebration.

The celebration has been called “the best thing” the supervisors do each year.

Anyone who is, or who knows someone, 100 or older, or who will turn 100 before the end of the 2023 calendar year, are asked to notify the county.

“For the past 16 years, the Solano County Board of Supervisors has recognized

and honored centenarians by hosting a celebration for them during a Board of Supervisors meeting. The commemoration serves to capture and share the stories of some of Solano County’s oldest residents, while bringing attention to some of the issues facing the senior population,” the county administration said in a statement.

“This year, as part of the commemoration event, the board will receive a video presentation of Solano County’s centenarians, sharing stories from their amazing lives. The board has hired a professional videographer who will come to your home

(or place of your choosing) to conduct the video interview. Information collected at the interviews will also be included as part of a commemorative yearbook, distributed to all Centenarians shortly after the commemoration event. Centenarians who wish not to conduct an interview are still encouraged to submit information, including a biography and photographs to help tell their life story,” the statement said.

To date, the board has honored more than 225 centenarians in Solano County. Two centenarians reached super-centenarian status, 110 or older: Marie West in 2011 and Reta

Wills in 2021.

To contact the county, send an email to centenar ian@solanocounty.com, or call 707-784-3004. The deadline is Septe. 4. Please include name, address, phone number and best contact email address.

No date for the event has been set.

The celebration has typically been held in the fall, and until the pandemic, had been an in-person celebration in the board chamber. The last few years have been virtual events with videos of the honorees shown during the meetings.

Solano officials promise to clean up county driver procedures

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FAIRFIELD — General Services, Sheriff’s Office and Heath & Social Services officials said they are taking steps to improve regulatory oversight of employees driving county vehicles.

A 2022-23 Solano County civil grand report stated that the county had been exposed to “significant risk and potential liability” due to 76 errors discovered on forms needed for approval to drive county vehicles.

“The fact that 76 forms lacked proper approval presents significant risk and potential liability for the county,” the grand jury wrote in the June 30 report.

There are more than 1,200 employees authorized to drive a county vehicle: 497 in the Department of Health & Social Services; 274 in the Sheriff’s Office; and 130 in the Probation Department. The next closest is 67 in General Services.

General Services Director Megan Greve, Sheriff Tom Ferrara and Health & Social Services Director Gerald Huber each agreed with the grand jury findings and recommendations and indicated in their responses that steps are being taken, or will be in the coming weeks, to correct the problems.

The grand jury essentially issued three findings and corresponding recommendations:

n FINDING 1A –County of Solano Authorized to Drive a Vehicle On County Business forms are not accurately completed or approved as required. Review of form attributes revealed a variety of 139 documentary exceptions.

n FINDING 1B – California Department of Motor Vehicle Employer Pull Notice Program Form INF 1101 titled Authorization For Release Of Driver Record Information forms are not accurately completed or approved as required. Review of form attributes revealed a variety of 137 documentary exceptions.

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TIONS (For both 1A & 1B):

1. All applicable county departments must be provided with a copy of the current Fleet Management list entitled Authorized to Fuel County Vehicles and a current list from the A-Check system (EPN database). Once obtained the two lists must be reconciled against each other and appropriate updates must be made as necessary.

2. The county must perform a full review of all department driver authorization forms on file for proper completion, approval, and filing. Moreover, each applicable county department must obtain any missing information and approval signatures.

3. The county must compare the names on the two lists (number one recommendation) obtained and make appropriate correction entries as necessary to the applicable Fleet and DMV system databases.

n FINDING 2 – The controls associated with required approval reviews and updates to fuel county vehicles list revealed weaknesses. Review of a sample of 125 employee’s forms found 108 had deficiencies resulting in an

86.4 percent exception rate. Annual department reviews for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the driver authorization and EPN enrollment are not effective and present risk and potential liability to the county.

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TION 2 – Perform a Driver Authorization and Driver Performance Policy process review. The County Administrator’s Office engage the Audit Division of the Auditor Controller’s Office to accomplish this review. Scope of the review could include: Determine if there is a single source report to reflect current employees authorized to drive in the service of the county; Validate what procedures should be required during the annual department review and ensure they are properly documented; Verify proof of automobile liability insurance

The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, with Supervisor Wanda Williams absent, authorized the Department of Resource Management to solicit bids, award and execute up to $4.75 million for various Public Works construction projects.

It also authorized $435,000 in supporting consultant services contracts for projects planned for the 2023-24 fiscal year, and included in the Public Works Capital Improvement Plan.

The $4.75 million primary projects are:

n Benicia Road: Complete Streets Phase 1 –$2.05 million.

n McCormack Road Improvement Project Phase 2 – $2.45 million.

n On-Call Guardrail Repair Project –$250,000.

The $435,000 supporting consultant contract list is for engineering structural and electrical consultant services ($100,000); environmental consultant services ($120,000); geotechnical and materials engineering consultant services ($100,000); stormwater/hydrology consultant services ($50,000); design training consultant services to inform staff on using computer-aided drafting for complex road projects, ($15,000); and

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OBITUARIES

Russell Sheppard

With broken hearts, we are sad to announce the passing of Russell Har vey Sheppard on July 5, 2023 with friends and family by his side. He was born on February 22, 1936 in Richmond, CA. He graduated from Ripon High School in 1954 and joined the Air Force shortly after. While stationed in Thailand, he met the love of his life, Joan LaVerne Willson, on the 4th floor of the US embassy. They married in 1961 in Bangkok. Their love traveled the world during his 22 year career. He served in Vietnam from 1969-1970 and was awarded the bronze star. He retired as SMSGT at TAFB in 1976 and set roots down in Suisun City. In 1998 he retired from both Anheuser-Busch and the Suisun City fire department as a v olunteer assistant fir e chief after 23 years.

He joins the love of his life, Joan, who we lost in 2014, and his son Timothy “Shep,” who passed in 2005.

He is survived by his daughter, Cynthia Sheppard; granddaughters Meagan Gilbert and Michelle (Greg ) Boam; great-grandchildren Indie and Dax; sister, Arlene Floodman; brother Lee Sheppard; the Marciel cousins: Greg and Sabrina, Larr y and Lauri, and Keila and Fabian.

We would like to thank the staff of Vaca Valley & a special thank you to his cardiologist Dr. Mark Villanon at North Bay. This last year with Papa was a true gift.

A military service is scheduled for Tuesday, July 25, 2023, at 1:15 p.m. at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon, CA.

Anselmo Cano va Jr.

Anselmo was born in Thomasson, CA. and remained a lifelong resident of Solano County. His family moved to Fairfield in 1932. He attended local schools and graduated from Armijo High School with the class of ’43. He honorably served three years in the Pacific with the US Navy in WWII. He married Betheleen Jane Vig in 1950 and they would have one son, Randy. He was a mechanic at Travis part owner of Jo-Ran Health Foods and eventually joined CHP- Motor Carrier at the Cordelia scales. He retired after 25 years serving in the field, headquarters in Sacramento and as a Field Supervisor in Oakland. In retirement he enjoyed family, travel, volunteering Sons of Italy and his church family at Trinity Lutheran. He was predeceased by his loving wife of 63 years in 2013. His volunteering and community involvement continued for many years. He passed away in Carmichael, CA after a short illness. He is survived by his son Randy Canova. Funeral services will be held August 1 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 2075 Dover Ave, Fairfield. Viewing will be held at 9:30 a.m. and the service at 10:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations to Trinity Lutheran Church, Sons of Italy (Northern Solano Lodge #2534) or Disabled American Veterans would be appreciated. Arrangements entrusted to Bryan Braker Funeral Home, Fairfield You may sign the guestbook at www.bryanbraker.com

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Solano County Supervisor John Vasquez interviews Dorothy Pennycott during the 12th Annual Centenarian

Celebration, in the board chambers, Sept. 25, 2018. The county is getting ready for the 17th celebration.

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2023 Solano Explorer/Cadet Academy grads honored County board recognizes importance of breastfeeding

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday recognized August as National Breastfeeding Month.

“National Breastfeeding Month 2023 celebrates the theme of “This is Our Why” with four key areas of focus, one for each week of the month,” the staff report to the board states.

“Week one observes World Breastfeeding Week from August 1-7, with the theme of ‘Enabling Breastfeeding – Making a Difference for Working Parents’ that focuses on breastfeeding and returning to employment/work after childbirth. The United States continues the celebration with week two designated as Indigenous Breastfeeding Week, week three as Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Week, and week four as Black Breastfeeding Week,” the report states. “Efforts will focus on communities who are disproportionately impacted by lower breastfeeding rates and there

will be an emphasis on working families.”

Supervisor Erin Hannigan presented the resolution. Supervisor Wanda Williams was absent.

“Breastmilk is the cornerstone of child health as it provides essential, irreplaceable nutrition for a child’s growth and development and is a key element in the wellbeing of every child, giving them an equitable and optimal start in life, particularly among impoverished and vulnerable groups,” the resolution states.

The resolution also emphasized the need to provide mothers in-work time and facilities. Solano County has a policy in place.

The sixth annual Donor Milk Drive will be held Aug. 17 in the multipurpose room at 2101 Courage Drive in Fairfield. Informational events also are being held at various farmers markets.

In other action, the board:

n Recognized Adopt Anita A. Zarco, accountant-auditor III in the See Board, Page A6

FAIRFIELD — Several youths participated in, and completed, the 2023 Solano Explorer/ Cadet Academy, the Fairfield Police Department announced on Monday.

The training was topped off with a graduation ceremony celebrating the cadets who successfully completed the rigorous academy.

Hosted by the Vacaville Police Department at Vaca Peña Middle School, the academy was four days of classroom and hands-on learning.

The Explorers and cadets endured a simulation of what a police academy would be like, should they choose to pursue a career as an officer in the future – including sleeping overnight at the facility.

Topics covered included defensive tactics, traffic stops/DUIs, officer down, building searches, less lethal munitions, tactical medicine and active killer response. Most classes incorporated practical scenarios

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that the participants had to work through individually and/or as a team in order to succeed.

In addition to the classes were morning personal task sessions, drill/ceremony, and a K9 demonstration.

The explorers and cadets, who hailed from around Solano County, received more than 40 hours of instructional training.

Fairfield Police Explorer Kylee Lamica was voted by agency advisers as “Top Cadet”

and a 10-ton load limit restriction on Allendale Road from Hartley Road to Timm Road.

of the academy, and Fairfield Police Detective T. Brownridge earned the vote from the cadets as “Most Inspirational” adviser.

Participating agencies included police departments from Vacaville, Fairfield, Sacramento, Rio Vista, Benicia and Antioch and the Solano County Sheriff’s Department.

Prospective Explorers are typically 14 to 21 years old and looking for a career in law enforcement (e.g., officers, dispatchers, community service officers,

crime scene investigators, etc.) and/or are searching for extended and dedicated volunteer time (for job experience). Learn more about the requirements for the program and access the application at www.fair field.ca.gov/government/ city-departments/police/ police-explorers-program. Questions and completed applications may be emailed to Officer Terence Brownridge at tbrownridge@fairfield. ca.gov.

Driver

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From Page A4 coverage at the required levels and maintenance of current California vehicle registration and license plates on privately owned or leased vehicles driven on county business; Verify once an authorized driver

leaves County employment or assignment the driver’s name is deleted from the EPN program; Examine documented responsibility workflows for revocation and/or suspension of driving privileges. There appears to be conflicting instructions on whom is ultimately responsible via multiple handoff instructions.

road safety outreach consultant services ($50,000).

In other action, the board:

n Approved traffic orders establishing a 35 mph speed limit on Suisun Valley Road, for about a half-mile from the Napa/Solano County line; one new stop sign and six new yield signs at highway-rail crossings on the Western Railway Museum railroad line;

n Approved a $4 million contract with K & H Integrated Print Solutions Inc. of Everett, Washington, for election material printing, finishing and mailing through Dec. 31, 2024; and approved a $464,530 contract with Valley Relocation and Storage of Northern California Inc. for voter equipment transport from Aug. 1 through Dec. 31, 2024.

n Approved a $156,000 contract with GlideFast

Consulting, of Waltham, Massachusetts, for Remote Administration Professional Services to support the ServiceNow IT Service Management platform through June 28, 2024.

n Approved a $2.82 million contract with Pacific Clinics, of Fairfield, to provide community-based countywide mobile crisis services through June 30, 2024, funded with Mental Health Services Act Prevention and Early Intervention funds.

n Approved a $2.2 million revenue contract

with the California Department of Aging to provide Napa/Solano Area Agency on Aging nutrition services to older adults through March 31, 2029.

n Approved nine Health and Social Services, Behavioral Health Division fiscal year 2023-24 contracts, reflecting the state’s implementation of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal Payment Reform initiative. The total is $7.23 million, plus individual client service agreements effective July 1, 2023.

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Participants in the 2023 Solano Explorer/Cadet Academy stand at attention at Vaca Peña Middle School as their instructors prepare to put them through their paces.

Rowland Freedom Center hosts car show

VACAVILLE — The Rowland Freedom Center will host a “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” car show in September.

Classic and modern hot rods and aircraft that date back to the first World War, and expansive model train sets at this educational exhibit will all be on hand.

The event will be on Sept. 16 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Nut Tree Airport, 300 County Airport Road, Vacaville.

This is open to any type of car, motorcycle or military vehicle.

Tickets are $5 for ages 12 and up, children 5-12 are $5 and those younger than 5 are free.

For more information, visit rowland freedomcenter.org.

Garamendi to be at Dodd’s

office open house

FAIRFIELD — State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, will host an open house Aug. 2 at his Vallejo district office with U.S. Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove.

The event will be from 5 to 7 p.m.

The office is located at 420 Virginia St., Suite 1C.

For more information, call 707551-2389 or send email to gethsemane. moss@sen.ca.gov.

Bring out your Barbie gear for Skate Night

VACAVILLE — Don your best Barbie outfit for Barbie Skate Night, 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The event is hosted by the 707 Skate Squad. It will be held at Cannon Station Park, 1044 Opal Drive.

All ages and skill levels welcome. Protective gear is highly encouraged.

For more information, visit www.facebook. com/707skatesquad.

Church hosting fundraiser for SPCA

VACAVILLE — Unity of the Valley will host a fundraising yard sale in September to help the Solano SPCA.

Check out gently used items in good condition for the home, garden and more from 8 a.m. to noon Sept. 2 at 350 N. Orchard Ave., Vacaville.

A free beverage will be provided for shoppers.

The proceeds will go to benefit the SPCA and Unity of the Valley Spiritual Center Fourth Friday Feed for the Homeless.

Admission is free.

For more information, visit unityvacaville.org.

Suisun climate panel seeks volunteers

Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

SUISUN CITY —

Suisun City is seeking applications from residents interested in serving on city commissions and committees.

All candidates need to be Suisun City residents.

The Environment & Climate Community Advisory Committee is a seven-member board with each member appointed by a member of the council, with the mayor having two appointments. The chair and seventh member will be a current City Council member appointed by the mayor. The vice chair will be selected by vote of the members of the committee annually.

Vacaville’s Play 4 All Park gets funded to expand parking

VACAVILLE — The city council voted unanimously Tuesday to give a one-time cash infusion for parking expansion at the Play 4 All Park. The requested amount is not to exceed $340,000.

The park is designed for children of all abilities, it was an immediate hit. Additional parking was planned for Phase 2.

Last month staff from Parks and Recreation, Community Develop -

Lawyer says schizophrenia fueled accused Davis killer

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WOODLAND — Carlos Reales Dominguez is severely mentally ill, his defense attorney told jurors Tuesday in Woodland. He heard voices, lost weight and withdrew from friends, his former girlfriend told those same jurors from the witness stand.

“He said the devil was talking to him in his dreams. There were multiple occasions where he’d say that,” Caley Gallardo, his former girlfriend, testified. Gallardo thought he had a mental illness but said Reales Dominguez “was not very receptive to that at all.”

As family members of the two men the 20-yearold former UC Davis sophomore is accused of killing at knifepoint looked on, Reales Dominguez’s defense depicted a man plunging ever deeper into mental crisis, a deadly

dive they say has left him accused of two murders and a bloody attempt at a third killing.

The first day of Reales Domiguez’s competency hearing began Tuesday in Yolo Superior Court. His guilt or innocence is not in question, Yolo Superior Court Samuel McAdam repeatedly admonished. The question, more than two months after the knife rampage that stunned Davis this spring, is whether Reales Dominguez is mentally fit to stand trial.

No, Yolo County deputy public defender Daniel Hutchinson said in his opening statement. The presumed diagnosis: schizophrenia.

“Carlos Dominguez is severely mentally ill. ... The evidence will show that Carlos Dominguez has schizophrenia – symptoms that take away what he once had,” Hutchinson said.

As a shackled Reales Dominguez sat silently

at the defendant’s table, Hutchinson did not mention the deadly Davis attacks but depicted the former student’s deterioration from solidly built, social, athletic student to the unshaven, unwashed, incoherent inmate forced to take antipsychotic medication now in Yolo County custody.

“He is physically and mentally deteriorating every day,” Hutchinson said.

Yolo prosecutor Chris Van de Hoek was not convinced.

“The starting line is competence,” Van de Hoek said. Reales Dominguez is “toying with the system,” he said, duping his doctors and therapists and capable of “making decisions based on what is going on around him.”

Van de Hoek also questioned what he characterized as defense experts’ view of Reales

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ment, the City Attorney’s Office, and Public Works met with representatives of Play 4 All Park Inc. to address the need for additional parking. The Parks and Recreation Department identified that Park Development Impact Fees in the requested amount are available and eligible for use in the completion of the parking lot.

The project will be put out to bid. Once the project is awarded to a contractor, it’s estimated it will take three to four weeks to complete.

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Auditor-Controller’s Office, upon her retirement after 25 years with Solano County.

n Agreed to have the registrar of voters conduct the Davis Joint Unified School District Trustee Area 5 special election on Nov. 7.

n Approved a 15-year, $1.87 million lease-purchase agreement with Community Leasing Partners to fund a replacement vehicle constructed by Golden State Fire Apparatus for the Solano County Interagency Hazardous Materials Team.

n Authorized a Quitclaim Deed for 0.44 acres of public right of way near Red Top and West Cordelia roads to California.

The Citywide Beautification Advisory Committee has seven members appointed by the mayor and each council member. The chair and vice chair will be selected by vote of the members of the committee annually.

The Housing Authority Tenant Commissioners is the governing board of the Housing Authority and consists of the five city council members and two tenant commissioners. Tenant commissioners must be tenants of the Housing Authority and at least one tenant commissioner must be over 62. Committee membership will be for two years, expiring March 31 on

Streamed candidate forum set for Vaca schools Trustee Area 4

Daily Republic Staff

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VACAVILLE — A livestreamed candidate forum for the Vacaville Unified School District Trustee Area 4 special election is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday.

“All three candidates – Lindsay Kelly, Michael Martin and Dave McCallum – are expected to take part in the forum, which will be moderated by Nolan Sullivan and Ciana Vasquez Pimentel. Questions will be posed by adults and students who live in the school dis-

trict,” organizers said in a statement.

Kelly is an insurance claims adjuster. Martin is a real estate broker. McCallum is a broadcaster.

The forum can be accessed via the host, Vacaville Peoples Forum, Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ vvpeoplesforum.

The special election will be held Sept. 12.

Ballots will be sent to Area 4 voters starting next month and can be mailed in or dropped off after Aug. 14 at the Solano

County Registrar of Voters office, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield, or at the Nut Tree Airport in Vacaville.

The school board had initially appointed McCallum, a former school board trustee, to replace Cecil Conley, who resigned. However, a protest petition was filed with the Solano County Office of Education to force the special election.

More information about the election is available at www.solanocounty.com/ civicax/filebank/blob dload.aspx?blobid=41200.

n Approve of a subrecipient agreement with the Vacaville Housing Authority to continue administering the Solano County Housing Authority’s Section 8 Housing Assistance payments, Family Self Sufficiency, and other Section 8 related programs for an initial three-year term with an option to extend for an additional three years upon mutual concurrence of the parties.

n Approved a $170,000 agreement with the Fairfield Suisun Sewer District for the Department of Resource Management to provide water pollution prevention inspections on the district’s behalf through June 30, 2028.

n Rejected a $1,200 tax refund claim by David Thacker. The taxes were special assessments levied by the city of Fairfield, the staff report states.

President: Suzanne Ng www.SICentralSolano.com

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A replica B-17 bomber hangs over the zip line in honor of Morry and Betty Wasserman, longtime Vacaville travel agents, at the Play 4 All Park in Vacaville, March 21, 2022.

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a pick up truck to a Class 8 Big Rig. Our team of Technician’s have over 150 years combined repair and diagnostic experience. We treat your vehicle like it is ours. There is no job too big or small, we invite them all.

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Drake says fan has ‘some serious life evaluating to do’ after throwing a vape

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Another day, another musician who gets something thrown at them while performing.

The latest victim –Drake.

At a recent show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the Canadian rapper stopped his performance to call out a fan who tossed a vape at him mid-set.

“Did you throw a vape up here? Come on,” Drake told the Thursday night crowd. “Hey … Who threw this? Who threw the vape?”

Video of the interaction was shared on the New York City venue’s official Instagram account with a caption reading, “Reminder: You cannot vape at Barclays Center.”

He then proceeded to question the vapethrower’s concert-going

etiquette and personal life decisions.

“There’s no way you’re taking life seriously if you think I’m gonna pick this vape up and vape with you at the f– Barclays Center,” the “Passionfruit” artist said as he kicked around the vape. “You got some real life evaluating to do, throwing this f– lemon-mint vape up here, thinking I’m about to vape with you at the Barclays.”

Earlier this month, Drake was midway through a rendition of Ginuwine’s “So Anxious” when a cellphone flew out of the crowd at Chicago’s United Center and smacked him in the wrist. The “God’s Plan” singer kept performing, uninjured, if not confused as to why someone would throw an object at him mid-show.

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CALMATTERS COMMENTARY

Budget deficits could plague state for years

The $310.8 billion 2023-24 state budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in June purports to bridge a projected $31.7 billion general fund deficit caused primarily by a downturn in revenues, particularly all-important income taxes. However, a closer examination of its “solutions” reveals that scarcely a quarter –$8.1 billion – is actual reduction in spending. The remaining $23.6 billion are various accounting maneuvers often used to cover shortfalls, such as shifting expenditures from the general fund to other funds ($9.3 billion), delaying some spending to future years ($7.9 billion), and borrowing money that must be repaid later.

Taken as a whole, the budget assumes that the 2023-24 deficit is just a short-term annoyance that will disappear as revenues resume growth. That approach relieved Newsom and legislators from having to make harder choices on spending reductions, which would have been particularly traumatic given the expansionist mindset of the dominant Democrats.

A couple of weeks after he signed the budget, however, Newsom’s Department of Finance quietly released a multi-year budget forecast that projects stagnant tax revenues for the remainder of the governor’s second term and a string of operating deficits even with no growth in spending.

More ominously, the forecast sees those gaps between projected income and outgo growing –hitting $14.3 billion by 2026-27 – even if the state’s economy doesn’t lapse into recession.

The Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek, believes that revenues in this fiscal year alone will fall short of the Newsom administration’s estimates by $11 billion, meaning the red ink would continue to flow even with the so-called solutions adopted by legislators and the governor.

Moreover, Petek sees baseline spending – what’s required by current law – being $10 billion over the administration’s forecast by 2026-27 which, if true, would sharply increase the $14.3 billion 2026-27 deficit in the administration’s forecast.

Given the administration’s forecast and Petek’s gloomier income and outgo projections, the 2023-24 budget’s politically expedient decision to avoid deep spending cuts could turn out to be a fiscal disaster.

With his first term interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, Newsom clearly wants his second to build his legacy, perhaps one that will propel a bid for the White House circa 2028, notwithstanding his denials of presidential ambitions.

Newsom wants to be known as a governor who wrought universal medical care, educational services stretching from cradle to adulthood, an end to the state’s highest-in-thenation level of homelessness, a revolution in mental health care, and measurable reduction in the nation’s highest rate of family poverty.

The Legislature’s left-leaning Democrats want everything Newsom wants and more, but the wish lists would cost untold billions of extra dollars.

The bottom-line question, therefore, is how could Newsom and legislators get what they want over the next three years if they can’t even pay for what they’ve already adopted?

There are four potential other solutions: tap into $37.8 billion in reserves meant to be used only when recession strikes, cover deficits by borrowing even more money from special funds or outside lenders, raise taxes, or reduce actual spending.

There’s some sentiment in the Legislature to use reserves to preserve current levels of spending, and some support for increasing taxes, particularly income or wealth taxes on the state’s richest residents.

Newsom has opposed both, which is the underlying reason the budget he signed in June has so many gimmicks. There’s also substantial support for issuing bonds to pay for programmatic expansions, and Newsom buys into that approach, at least partially.

How about setting aside dreams of remaking California into an American version of Sweden and keeping spending within available revenues? That’s the least popular option within the Capitol but it might be what real-world economics dictate.

CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.

Hunter Biden judge should blow the whistle

My interest in the federal sentencing guidelines goes back more than 40 years, and I consider it a worthwhile expenditure of time, because the system embodies a sincere struggle by Congress and the courts to make real the promise of equal justice under the law.

Judge George MacKinnon, one of two members of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for whom I clerked, was the first chairman of the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Even after the Supreme Court removed the “mandatory” character from the guidelines in a 2005 opinion, the framework remains extremely relevant to all sentencing decisions – though plea agreements entered into between federal prosecutors and defendants are beyond their reach.

Mostly. On rare occasions, a federal judge charged with reviewing a plea agreement will reject the terms of the agreement. In a number of such cases, the disparity between the guidelines and the agreed punishment is so great that it catalyzes the decision. The terms must pass the judicial sniff test.

Hunter Biden’s doozy of a plea deal over tax and gun charges is ripe for rejection.

If U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika of Delaware needs a role model for judicial independence when she handles the Biden deal, she might look to Judge Emmett Sullivan’s action not long ago in the case against Trump-era national security adviser Michael Flynn. Sullivan tossed out an agreement by then-Attorney General William P. Barr and the Justice Depart-

ment to drop its prosecution in an extraordinary circus soon short-circuited by a pardon for Flynn from President Donald Trump. A judge should respect the judgment of prosecutors, but the gavel is not a rubber stamp.

Biden’s checkered life is not on the docket in Delaware. His proposed plea bargain is. Extraordinarily lenient, the deal – if blessed by Noreika – ought to earn a significant bonus to Biden’s lawyers.

U.S. Attorney David Weiss recommends probation for “failure to pay taxes,” two misdemeanor counts, related to income that President Biden’s son received in 2017 and 2018, plus pretrial diversion to deal with the gun charge. “He will likely avoid jail time if Noreika signs off on the deal,” ABC News concluded.

Put aside various charges that prosecutors might have filed but instead bargained away. Feeding just the charges before the court into the sentencing guidelines produces a prison term of at least two years and three months. The guidelines take a dim view of tax-fraud cases: “The criminal tax laws are designed to protect the public interest in preserving the integrity of the nation’s tax system,” the commission has explained. “Criminal tax prosecutions serve to punish the violator and promote respect for the tax laws. Because of the limited number of tax prosecutions relative to the estimated incidence of such violations, deterring others from violating the tax laws is a primary consideration.”

Two whistleblowers testified in Congress last week that the IRS recommended – and the Justice Department’s Tax Division con-

curred – that Hunter Biden be charged with felonies in connection with tax years 2014, 2018 and 2019. By my calculations, the guidelines peg such behavior at Offense Level 18 (i.e., damages greater than $250,000 but less than $550,000) and recommended imprisonment of 27 to 33 months). Instead, Biden is dealing with misdemeanor tax violations that carry a potential imprisonment up to 1 year and a fine not to exceed $25,000. So the president’s son has already been the beneficiary of considerable lenience.

Bargaining away even token jail time on the tax charges goes beyond lenience into outright unfairness, as does putting the gun charge out of the judge’s review if she accepts the proposal. Thus, if Noreika signs off on this odoriferous deal, the result will undercut the very promise of equal justice that sentencing guidelines were created to safeguard. It is well-settled that a judge is not to second-guess prosecutorial discretion except under unusual circumstances. But Noreika, like the judge in the Flynn proceedings, is not a potted plant.

At a minimum, she should summon Attorney General Merrick Garland or another senior Justice Department official to explain how this agreement is conceivably in the public interest. Even better would be to send the parties back to the negotiating table to reach an agreement that won’t cause even “sweetheart deals” to blush.

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

It’s simple – peddling children for sex is serious

Aclassic line from a baseball movie aptly characterizes a bonehead play committed by some Democratic state legislators.

What happened in the California state Assembly truly was a bush-league error.

In the 1988 film “Bull Durham” – arguably the best baseball movie ever made – an exasperated minor league manager heatedly lectures his inept team: “Baseball is a simple game. You throw the ball. You catch the ball. You hit the ball.

“You got it?”

Similarly, the hardball game of lawmaking can be simple. Not always, but sometimes.

For example: If a pimp is peddling children for sex – supplying kids for pedophiles – it’s a serious crime.

No “ifs” or “buts.”

You got it, Democrats?

And “simple” doesn’t necessarily mean simplistic. Often it’s synonymous with common sense.

It’s real world truth and practicality, even if it doesn’t fit snugly into someone’s handbook of abstract ideology.

Fortunately for Democrats, Gov. Gavin Newsom and new Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas of rural Hollister in San Benito County recognized sound policy and read the political playing field. They saved their party from a potentially costly public backlash.

Here’s what I’m grousing about:

Two months ago, the heavily Democratic state Senate unanimously passed a Republican legislator’s bill, SB 14, to stiffen penalties for repeat sex trafficking of minors.

Sex trafficking now is considered a non-serious felony. SB 14 would officially designate it as “serious” when children are peddled.

The significance of labeling a felony “serious” is that it subjects the criminal to California’s “three strikes” law, which can substantially lengthen prison time for repeat offenders.

The bill was such a no-brainer that all 40 senators voted for it. In fact, both parties agreed not to even bother with a floor debate and rollcall vote. The measure was placed on what’s called the “consent calendar,” the soft landing place for bipartisan bills that are so noncontroversial dozens are routinely passed simultaneously en masse.

That was made possible because the author, Sen. Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield), compromised with Democrats and amended the bill to apply only to trafficking of kids under 18. Originally, she wanted to apply the stiffer sentences to all sex trafficking, regardless of the victims’ ages.

Next stop: The Assembly Public Safety Committee. And that’s where the bill appeared to die until the chairman, Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), got a wake-up call from Newsom, Rivas and many angry voters. For years, that committee has been a deathbed for sentence-stiffening bills. Recent examples: A measure increasing the penalty for raping a developmentally disabled minor. Another for fentanyl dealers if the user is seriously injured by the drug.

Opponents of stiffer sentencing tend to be inflexibly adhered to the principle that increased prison time is wrong because it can overcrowd the lockups – and do so disproportionately with people of color.

They fly the flag of criminal justice reform, refusing to accept the notion that reform can be achieved while still acknowledging – for example – that career pimps should pay a higher price for their evil and not be free to prey on children.

“I’ve heard the opposition about Black Californians being disproportionately harmed by three strikes,” Odessa Perkins of Bakersfield told the Assembly committee last week.

“But I am here to say I was molested and raped repeatedly by Black and white men and even some women. So it does not matter the race. What matters is saving our children. Traffickers are getting out of jail early and reoffending, continuing the horrific cycle of abuse and depravity.”

Perkins, who is Black, testified that she was victimized beginning as a small child: “Being touched, groomed. Then I started being made to have sex with a grown man, then … with a lot of quote-unquote ‘uncles.’ Then I was trafficked to the highest bidder – drug dealers. But now what you see is a survivor.”

Democratic committee members were not swayed. They ducked a vote. The bill needed five “yes” votes to move on and received only two

from the panel’s lone Republicans.

“Felony stupid,” says Democratic political consultant Steve Maviglio. “Voters get outraged when the [crime punishment] pendulum swings too far the other way and politicians become too lenient. Right now people are on edge.”

“Some of these folks, their moral compass is off base,” Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper told me, referring to his former colleagues in the Legislature. “This bill was an easy one.”

Before being elected sheriff, Cooper was a moderate Democratic assemblyman who tried to push several crime bills and, he says, couldn’t even get a committee hearing.

“In the current Legislature,” he asserts, “victims’ issues don’t matter.”

Sex trafficking matters to Newsom. The governor called Grove to express his disappointment. And he phoned Rivas to urge that the speaker intervene. At a Democratic caucus meeting, Rivas declared that the embarrassing situation needed to be fixed.

The Public Safety Committee quickly backpedaled. In a meeting that lasted only an eyelash, the panel voted 6 to 0 to resurrect the bill and send it to the Appropriations Committee.

Jones-Sawyer voted for the measure the second time. But he says it still needs an amendment to assure that victims forced to help traffickers aren’t subject to the stiffer sentences.

Grove told me she has amended the bill enough. “Forty senators didn’t think it needed more amendments,” she says.

Jones-Sawyer also notes that sex traffickers of minors already can receive sentences of 15 years to life if there’s force, coercion or violence. But that’s often difficult to prove, the bill’s advocates contend.

“It’s unfathomable to me that in California we don’t call trafficking of children a serious felony,” says retired Alameda County Dist. Atty. Nancy O’Malley, a Democrat.

“People are shocked. That’s why legislators got the pushback.”

Like baseball, politics basically is a simple game. When there’s too much voter pushback, you lose.

columnist George Skelton has covered government and politics for nearly 60 years and for The Los Angeles Times since 1974.

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Crime logs

FairField

SUNDAY, JULY 23

12:15 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2900 block of PEABODY ROAD

8:21 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1000 block of WEBSTER STREET

9:20 a.m. — Forgery, 100 block of MANCHESTER DRIVE

9:42 a.m. — Vandalism, 1300 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

10:24 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2300 block of DIGERUD DRIVE

11:17 a.m. — Reckless driver, 2100 block of CORMORANT

DRIVE

12:30 p.m. — Brandishing a

weapon, 1400 block of WEST

TEXAS STREET

1:28 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1000 block of JEFFERSON STREET

1:37 p.m. — Shooting into a dwelling, 3100 block of OLYMPIC

ROAD

1:53 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS

STREET

2:06 p.m. — Vandalism, 2300

block of WALTERS ROAD

2:10 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1400 block of GATEWAY

BOULEVARD

3 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 2300 block of AUTO MALL PARKWAY

3:32 p.m. — Arson, 2700 block of VISTA ALTA

4:06 p.m. — Battery, 3200 block of CHERRY VALLEY DRIVE

4:53 p.m. — Trespassing, 3200

block of PALOMINO CIRCLE

7:12 p.m. — Trespassing, 2200

block of BRIGHTON COURT

8:19 p.m. — Trespassing, 1500

block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

10:58 p.m. — Trespassing, 1400

block of WOOLNER AVENUE

MONDAY, JULY 24

6:27 a.m. — Residential burglary, 2400 block of PEACH

TREE DRIVE

7:07 a.m. — Commercial

burglary, 200 block of EAST

ATLANTIC AVENUE

8:29 a.m. — Vandalism, 900

block of EAST TRAVIS

BOULEVARD

9:01 a.m. — Vehicle theft, FIFTH STREET

Campbell went missing.

“A detective from the Special Victim’s Unit has been assigned to the case for follow up. Further details will be provided after detectives had had an opportunity to investigate and speak with the involved allied agencies in Pennsylvania and Georgia.”

In December 1992, a year after Nikki’s disappearance, the Fairfield Police Department named Timothy Bindner their “prime suspect” and searched his home. Believing that his reputation had been unfairly tarnished by department’s handling of the investigation, he sued and won a $90,000 settlement for defamation against the Fairfield police.

Young adults who grew up with Zandstra as their pastor are “shocked,” said Sarah Vucurevich, a Vacaville resident. She said some of her friends had to do a double-take when they saw news of Zandstra’s arrest online.

“He never once made me feel discomfort, and he was always so good with the kids,” Vucurevich wrote. “We had a moment during every service called Kids of the Kingdom where

9:46 a.m. — Forgery, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

11:12 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1400 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

11:18 a.m. — Vandalism, 800 block of TAYLOR STREET

12:22 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1300 block of PHOENIX DRIVE

1:16 p.m. — Trespassing, 2300 block of FAIRFIELD AVENUE

1:27 p.m. — Residential burglary, 1700 block of HIGHLAND CIRCLE

1:46 p.m. — Reckless driver, VINTAGE VALLEY DRIVE

2:02 p.m. — Trespassing, 3500 block of SPRINGFIELD DRIVE

3:01 p.m. — Residential burglary, 4500 block of CORDELIA ROAD

3:39 p.m. — Forgery, 4700 block of ANTELOPE CIRCLE

3:47 p.m. — Forgery, 2000 block of THRUSH WAY

5:38 p.m. — Arson, 2500 block of GULF DRIVE

5:44 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

6:13 p.m. — Trespassing, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

8:08 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1800 block of INDIANA STREET

8:53 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

11:25 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 2100 block of GREENFIELD DRIVE

SuiSun City

SUNDAY,

inside warehouses was a sticking point in the talks. The deal reached Monday would give current part-time workers raises to at least $21 per hour immediately, according to the Teamsters. The deal is not yet final, and the union’s members are expected to vote on it next month.

UPS CEO Carol Tomé issued a statement saying “Together we reached a win-win-win agreement on the issues that are important to Teamsters leadership, our employees and to UPS and our customers.”

“This agreement continues to reward UPS’s full- and part-time employees with industry-leading pay and benefits while retaining the flexibility we need to stay competitive, serve our customers and keep our business strong,” Tomé said.

‘We kept firm’

The Teamsters current labor contract extends through July 31, and the union had threatened to strike Aug. 1 if it did not have a new contract agreement by that time.

Teamsters General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman said in a written statement that UPS “came dangerously close” to a strike, “but we kept firm on our demands.”

The Teamsters have more than 340,000 members at UPS, making it the largest private collective bargaining agreement in North America.

The union’s members voted last month to authorize a strike if negotiations failed to reach an agreement. Union leaders then ratcheted up pressure in the negotiations, pushing for faster prog-

ress in the talks. A strike would have crippled shipping across the country, affecting millions of deliveries a day and damaging UPS’s reputation with customers.

For Clay and Valerie Oliver, owners of Oliver Farm Artisan Oils, UPS is more than a shipping company: it’s a trusted relationship. Their location in the South Georgia town of Pitts means that their shipping options are limited, and they rely on UPS and the U.S. Postal Service.

They recently shared a note in their email newsletter, encouraging customers to order ahead to avoid shipping delays. Valerie Oliver said they were “praying” a deal would be struck before the contract’s expiration.

Last week amid fears of a strike, Georgia Crafted owner Erin Zwigart said that planning for alternate shipping methods was a “big headache.” Zwigart depends on UPS for the delivery of 97% of her sales. However, she said that the local business owners she’d spoken with seemed to be “holding out,” in anticipation that a deal would be struck.

Ratification

The next step is for the union’s 176 local leaders to meet July 31 to review the tentative agreement. If they recommend it for a ratification vote, UPS rank-and-file members will vote electronically on the deal Aug. 3-22.

O’Brien, the Teamsters leader, has worked to maintain broad support among members on the UPS negotiations, after years past in which the Teamsters had divided into factions.

The current Teamsters labor contract failed to get a majority vote five years ago. Yet the union still deemed the deal ratified because of a provision in

its governing principles. That angered O’Brien, who criticized that contract and eventually ran for General President of the Teamsters and pledged to win big gains in the next round of contract talks with UPS.

O’Brien told his members during a briefing earlier this month that once a tentative agreement was reached and recommended by union local leaders, “We will work until the contract is ratified.”

“In the event it doesn’t get ratified, then we will put UPS, or UPS will put themselves on strike,” he said.

Some union members had sought higher pay raises for part-time workers, to $25 an hour starting wages, while Teamsters leadership had publicly committed to pushing for a starting rate of at least $20 an hour.

The contract ratification vote will indicate the breadth of support for O’Brien, the Teamsters and the new deal. O’Brien has pushed for unity among his members.

UPS has been losing some business to competitors, including FedEx, as customers worried about how they would move their goods if there is a strike.

Tomé also said in April that the company had a pipeline of potential business worth more than $6 billion, but that it was “hard to sell into... because of that Teamsters negotiation.”

“But we are going to go hard at it once we have that handshake deal,” Tomé said. “We’ve got to win faster, and we will win faster when the uncertainty is behind us” of the Teamsters negotiations.

UPS-Teamsters tentative agreement

The International

Brotherhood of Teamsters released details on terms in the tentative agreement for a new labor contract at UPS:

n Current part-time workers would get raises to at least $21 per hour immediately. New parttime hires would start at $21 per hour and advance to $23 per hour.

n Full-time delivery drivers would get wage increases to an average top rate of $49 per hour.

n Existing full-time and part-time workers would get raises of $2.75 per hour this year, and $7.50 more per hour over the length of the contract.

n UPS’s use of seasonal workers would be limited to only five weeks from November to December, and would give priority to part-timer workers to deliver packages using their own vehicles with schedules of least eight hours.

n Creation of 7,500 full-time Teamster jobs at UPS, in addition to filling 22,500 open positions to allow more chances for part-timers to get fulltime jobs.

The contract would also include previouslyannounced tentative agreements reached during negotiations that started in April, including equipping new trucks with air conditioning, ending a two-tier pay system by reclassifying workers in a lower-wage tier as regular package car drivers, stopping required overtime on a day they aren’t scheduled to work and establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a full holiday.

Next steps

The union’s 176 local leaders are expected to meet July 31 to review the tentative agreement. If they recommend it for a ratification vote, UPS rank-and-file members will vote electronically on the deal Aug. 3-22.

we’d gather at his feet and he would read us a bible story before sending us off to Sunday school.”

Zandstra also met oneon-one in his office with some of the youths for devotional studies, she said. “There was no discomfort,” she wrote. “He made us all feel welcomed.”

Now, 83, Zandstra is a Georgia resident. According to Jack Stollsteimer, the Delaware County district attorney, troopers went to Georgia and interviewed him, and he admitted he killed Gretchen Harrington and lied about it for 48 years.

Zandstra faces charges of criminal homicide, first-, second- and third-degree murder, kidnapping a minor and a related count.

Harrington was walking to bible camp in August 1975, and officials said Zandstra picked her up, took her to a secluded spot and killed her. She was the daughter of a Presbyterian minister and his wife and disappeared in mid-August 1975. Her remains were found two months later.

DNA from the defendant will be compared to material from open cases in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, authorities said.

Stollsteimer said new information from an unnamed friend of the victim led state police to travel to Georgia and interview Zandstra.

resources. In June, crossings at the border were at their lowest level in more than two years.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said in an emailed statement Tuesday that the agency “strongly” disagrees with the ruling and is “confident” that the rule is lawful.

“To be clear, because the district court temporarily stayed its decision, today’s ruling does not change anything immediately,” he added. “It does not limit our ability to deliver consequences for unlawful entry. Do not believe the lies of smugglers.”

The rule targets people who enter the U.S. without authorization. Government officials have encouraged migrants to instead use a Customs and Border Protection app called CBP One to schedule an appointment at a port of entry. U.S. officials have also advertised a system that allows migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti

and Nicaragua to apply for entry into the U.S. provided they have a financial sponsor and can pass security checks.

Tigar said that applying for asylum on the way to the southern border is not feasible for many migrants. He added that waiting in Mexico for appointments at a port of entry was similarly difficult.

“Because CBP One access is limited to central and northern Mexico, asylum seekers must remain in these areas until they successfully secure an appointment,” he wrote. “The record suggests that migrants waiting in Mexico are at serious risk of violence.”

In 2019, Tigar blocked the Trump administration’s version of the policy. The Supreme Court later stayed that order. Advocates for immigrants have blasted the Biden administration’s asylum limits, labeling them as nothing more than a return to former President Trump’s strict policies.

The legal challenge to Biden’s policy was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Immigrant Justice Center

and the UC Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies in May, when the policy went into place. The groups celebrated Tigar’s ruling on Tuesday.

Biden administration officials have said that the policy is intended to discourage unauthorized migration and encourage people to seek alternatives.

“As intended, the rule has significantly reduced screen-in rates for noncitizens encountered along the (U.S.-Mexico border),” Blas Nuñez-Neto, a senior Homeland Security official, wrote in the filing. “The decline in encounters at the U.S. border, and entries into the Darién Gap, show that the application of consequences as a result of the rule’s implementation is disincentivizing noncitizens from pursuing irregular migration and incentivizing them to use safe and orderly pathways.”

Nuñez-Neto said in the late June declaration that there were 104,000 migrants in northern Mexico and that many appeared to be “waiting to see whether the strengthened consequences

associated with the rule’s implementation are real.”

Data from his filing appeared to confirm that the policy had significantly lowered the share of migrants at the southern border who crossed into the U.S. and were allowed to apply for asylum.

In their request to stay Tigar’s order pending appeal, government attorneys said that his ruling undermined “efforts taken to prevent an expected increase in encounters at the southwest border following the termination of the Title 42,” referring to the public health measure that allowed border agents to quickly turn away migrants at the border before it was discontinued on May 11.

The policy Tigar deemed unlawful helps prevent a “potentially significant increase in encounters at the southwest border, which would overwhelm the immigration system, incentivize human smuggling, lead to extreme overcrowding in border facilities” and undermine agencies’ ability to manage the immigration system, the government’s attorneys argued.

defender, sheriff, treasurer tax collector/county clerk, assistant auditorcontroller, chief deputy district attorney, chief deputy public defender and undersheriff as recommended is approximately $251,000,” the staff

report to the board states. Supervisor Mitch Mashburn noted why he thought the pay raises were justified, pointing to the surveys of comparable counties that was conducted, but also the workload specific to Solano County departments.

He used the Sheriff’s Office as the primary example, again noting that the county sheriff, unlike

ance, and is intended for state-verified recipients of CalWorks or Supplemental Security Income, or those 62 (or older and single) with incomes below $1,564 (per) month, or $2,106 (per) month

some jurisdictions, also is in charge of the jails, court security and the coroner’s division.

The board aides will see their paychecks increase to a range between $6,770.16 to $8,229.17 per month. The cost to the county, including benefit adjustments, will be about $80,000 in 2023-24. For aides in Districts 1, 3 and 5, they will see the $150 monthly

(and) married-combined.

In related actions, the board, transferred $418,293 in the Parks and Recreation budget for operations at Patwino for 2023-24, and transferred $87,000 in the General

mileage allowance, approved with the budget in June, rescinded.

Supervisor Erin Hannigan also asked the board to consider changing the formal title of board aide. She suggested district representative, but thought the aides should be consulted first. The matter will come back at a future meeting.

Services Fleet Management Division budget for purchase of the two new vehicles.

Supervisor Wanda Williams, who used to work for the land trust, was absent.

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Dominguez’s mental state.

“He’s incompetent to stand trial, but competent to stand as his own attorney. He’s incompetent to stand trial, but competent to make decisions about his medication.”

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every odd numbered year, and determined based on the specific committee and confirmed by the full city council.

Interested residents are encouraged to apply by submitting an applica-

allegedly stabbed to death 50-year-old Davis resident David Breaux and 20-year-old UC Davis student Karim Abou Najm at city parks, then stabbed and seriously injured 64-year-old unhoused woman Kimberlee Guillory as she slept in a Davis encampment.

The defendant faces two counts of murder and one of attempted murder in the attacks.

tion form to the city clerk stating qualifications and objectives for desiring to be become a member of a commission or committee. Applications are being received until appointments are made, which could be as early as Aug. 8.

Application forms are available at https://www. suisun.com/government/ citizen-governance

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49ers clear Purdy for training camp – but in what capacity?

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SANTA CLARA — Brock is back, or at least he has crossed a key hurdle as 49ers training camp opened Tuesday.

Nearly 20 weeks after surgery to repair his throwing elbow, Purdy received medical clearance and skirted the Physically Unable To Perform (PUP) list.

“Brock’s cleared and ready to go,” general manager John Lynch said. “He’s been cleared. He’s going to be without restrictions. Having said that, we’re sticking to and adhering to a plan. He got after it the last couple days and we

Earthquakes add forward Akinola on loan from Toronto

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The Earthquakes fortified their roster Tuesday by adding forward Ayo Akinola for the stretch run of the season.

Akinola, 23, arrives from Toronto FC via loan for the rest of the season in exchange for a 2023 international player roster slot. The Quakes will have the option to buy the rest of Akinola’s contract – which runs through 2024 – after the season.

The deal appears to be a move aimed at solidifying a playoff spot for the Quakes, who currently sit in sixth place in the Western Conference with 32 points. The Leagues Cup competition began Sunday with a 2-0 loss to Portland, and they play Liga MX’s Tigres on Sunday in the group stage. They resume MLS season play Aug. 20 against Vancouver.

Akinola is a “dynamic attacker with the

strength, pace and finishing ability to impact any match,” Earthquakes GM Chris Leitch said in the team’s statement announcing the move.

The forward has appeared in 14 games in 2023, starting four games, and has taken 11 shots but hasn’t registered a goal or an assist. He has appeared in 78 games total over six seasons with Toronto.

Akinola, a Detroit native, first signed with Toronto FC as a homegrown player and qualifies for a U22 Initiative roster slot.

He played in the U.S. national team system, making his debut at the senior level in 2020 before making a one-time switch to Canada in 2021. He played with the Canadian team in the CONCACAF Gold Cup earlier this month.

The loan comes just a day after the Quakes signed striker Cristian Espinoza, their All-Star, to a deal through the 2025 season.

If not Shohei, then who? 10 non-Ohtani trade targets that could upgrade SF

Giants’ roster

Evan WEbECk

BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

Will they or won’t they?

It’s the question that will dominate baseball for the next week leading up to next Tuesday’s 3 p.m. PT trade deadline.

If the Angels are willing to trade Shohei Ohtani, the Giants should exhaust every organizational resource available to make that deal happen. He’s doing things the game has never seen before, instantly adds an ace and a middleof-the-order bat to any contender and, with international television rights and advertising, is a cash cow.

For those reasons, Ohtani likely isn’t going anywhere. The Angels’ postseason odds are slim (13.6% per FanGraphs), but they are still closer to playoff position this late into the season than any time since they signed Ohtani.

That means the Giants will likely have to wait until this off-

season, when 30 teams will commence in the free-agent pursuit of a lifetime, expected to end in the richest contract ever signed by an athlete in any of North America’s four major pro sports leagues. In the meantime, however, there are ways for Farhan Zaidi to upgrade the Giants’ roster. According to insider Jim Bowden at The Athletic, the club is shopping for shortstops and frontline starting pitching, echoing Zaidi’s on-therecord comments since the All-Star break.

Justin Verlander, Mets: The first name linked to the Giants this deadline, via MLB Network insider Jon Morosi, the 40-yearold, three-time Cy Young winner has to top the list. While Verlander’s season was delayed by a shoulder strain, he has returned to form of late with a 1.74 ERA over his past five starts. Guaranteed $86.7 million

upped his pitch count. We believe in that plan.

“... The great news is that Brock worked his tail off and is ready to go.”

Coach Kyle Shanahan said the Purdy will take first-team reps when he is practicing, adding: “He won’t go three days in a row.”

Purdy threw on Tuesday, will take Wednesday off, then participate in Thursday and Friday sessions. Going on PUP would have prevented him from practicing and limited him to individual conditioning on the side amid his rehabilitation efforts. Players can come off the PUP list at any time,

or the team can stash them there for the first six weeks of the season if they remain on PUP through the preseason.

Keeping Purdy off PUP signals that (a.) his recovery remains on track to potentially start the Sept. 10 season opener in Pittsburgh, and, (b.) he can resume his role as the starting quarterback, the job that saw him win eight games before his elbow injury in the NFC Championship Game loss in Philadelphia.

Purdy’s immediate predecessor, Jimmy Garoppolo, avoided the PUP list when he reported

The secret to U.S. women’s success?

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LOS ANGELES TIMES AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Early in her career with the national team, Alex Morgan found herself sharing a hotel room with Abby Wambach, who was then the secondleading scorer in U.S. soccer history. As Morgan gushed over her roommate’s achievements, Wambach held up a hand to quiet her.

“You need to do better,” she said.

Fast forward 11 years. Wambach has long since retired and Morgan is the leading scorer on a U.S. team chasing a third consecutive World Cup title. And now she’s one of the experienced players issuing the challenges.

“If something’s hard, or a younger player is like, ‘Oh, I don’t want to stay out there,’ they remind us that that’s what it takes. This is what this environment is,” Sophia Smith said of the veterans.

Smith proved a fast learner,

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scoring two goals and assisting on a third in her World Cup debut Saturday, then crediting her teammates for that performance.

If the team is defined by its long run of success, it’s been built on a culture of selflessness passed down from generation to generation like a relay baton, beginning with Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, Michelle Akers and Kristine Lilly, the leaders at the first World Cup in 1991, to Morgan, Megan Rapinoe and Lindsey Horan, the leaders at this one.

And it didn’t happen by accident.

“We had lots of discussions with the younger players about what we stand for, the ‘we’ being greater than the ‘me,’ the power of sisterhood,” Foudy said. “A big part of what we do is about pushing for offfield progress while also pushing us all to be better on the field.”

Imparting that philosophy has become particularly important this summer since the team in New Zealand includes six women with

fewer than 20 appearances for the U.S. and a record 14 who had never played in a World Cup.

“In the first camp, that leadership [made] sure players understand what’s expected of them in regard to being a professional, training at max capacity,” said Briana Scurry, who played on four World Cup teams, the first three alongside Foudy and Hamm. “They are expected to understand the culture of the team as well, that we fight for each other. We expect greatness and you’re expected to be a team player, which means doing your part like picking up pinnies after training or having all your stuff [ready].”

Scurry said her initiation to the team came moments before her first game in 1994 when captain Carla Overbeck walked up to her, put her hands on her shoulders, looked her in the eyes and said “You deserve to be here.”

women fight for workers everywhere

The U.S. national women’s soccer team is worth watching, not only as the favorites to win this year’s Women’s World Cup. They’re also at the forefront of a struggle for better treatment of workers – one that extends far beyond sports, and that is far from over.

Team USA has earned the rare distinction of getting paid as much as their country’s male team, an achievement that inspired legislation ensuring that all athletes representing the country internationally receive equal pay and benefits. Yet this is more than a heartwarming story about women’s progress. It should draw global attention to a stark reality: how soccer federations, and employers more broadly, continue to actively and deliberately

wield power to keep workers paid less and treated worse, for their own benefit.

At least a third of the teams playing in the World Cup are in active dispute with the governing institutions for soccer in their countries. For example:

n England’s Lionesses are fighting for bonuses based on how far they advance, which FIFA announced that all World Cup players would receive. Their country’s federation has denied them such performance-related pay, despite standing to gain commercially from their success.

n Australia’s Matildas are protesting FIFA’s two tiers of pay and working conditions, which force women to fight for basic benefits, like not having to do their own laundry or playing on turf.

n Last year, 15 senior players quit Spain’s La Roja over their coach’s approach to management and team culture. Their federation yielded nothing, and now three of them are playing in the cup alongside teammates who either didn’t support or eagerly replaced the protesters.

n Canada, the reigning Olympic champions, are fighting mismanagement and its myriad effects on pay and morale. When they tried to refuse matches earlier this year, they were forced to play under threat of legal action. Their federation lacks basic transparency and is cutting budgets and investment, even as the team performs better than ever.

The athletes’ woes should sound familiar to workers throughout the economy, regardless of gender. Screenwriters and actors

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Sophia Smith, left, of USA celebrates with teammate Lindsey Horan, right, after scoring her team’s first goal during the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia &

New Zealand 2023 Group E match between USA and Vietnam at Eden Park, in Auckland/Tamaki Makaurau, New Zealand, Saturday.

Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group file San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) warms up before the start of their NFL game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Jan. 8.

49er’s McCaffrey revs up for historic season

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toward rewarding second contracts.

Katie Ledecky ties

Michael Phelps for most individual golds at swimming’s Worlds

Dave SheInIn THE WASHINGTON POST

By the last few lengths of the women’s 1,500meter freestyle Tuesday at the World Aquatic Championships, Katie Ledecky was swimming against only the clock and the ghost of her younger self. In the pool in Fukuoka, Japan, her massive lead over seven world-class opponents had grown so wide, she had crisscrossed the field, a wrong-way driver in the middle of an eightlane highway. But shortly after touching in 15 minutes 26.27 seconds, as she hung on the wall and waited for the others to finish, Ledecky threw her right fist into the water. Her victory Tuesday added to her gold medal haul and brought with it a piece of history, but for Ledecky, her time rep-

resented the thing that matters most, the thing that keeps her in the pool at age 26: progress.

The win, by more than 17 seconds over silver medalist Simona Quadarella of Italy (15:43.31), brought the 15th individual gold medal of Ledecky’s career at Worlds, tying Michael Phelps for the most in history. And it was her 20th gold overall (including relays), which trails only Phelps (26). She will have one more chance to break the tie with Phelps for individual golds on Saturday in the 800 freestyle, in which she will be the overwhelming favorite, plus an additional chance for gold in Thursday’s 4 x 200 free relay.

But what had Ledecky punching the water Tuesday was the time on

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SANTA CLARA — Christian McCaffrey’s first training camp with the 49ers could be a springboard toward franchise history, as well as NFL milestones.

McCaffrey signed an extension with Carolina in 2020; he restructured in April to free up $8.5 million this year as an up-front bonus, and essentially he’s making $12 million over each of the next three seasons.

the 49ers need him to hog the ball, not with a supporting cast offering Brandon Aiyuk, Deebo Samuel and George Kittle.

“Everybody knows where our head is at, from the top down,” McCaffrey said at spring workouts. “We know what we want to accomplish and where we want to go.”

The 49ers report to camp today among the NFC favorites to reach the Super Bowl. Individually, he’s just as strong a candidate for the NFL record book.

McCaffrey instantly proved himself an offensive catalyst last season, when the Stanford product returned to the Bay Area in an October trade from Carolina. He spiked Kyle Shanahan’s offense with more multi-dimensional flavor, in a traditionally run-oriented scheme that suddenly piled up points any way possible.

Appreciative of his time in Carolina, McCaffrey came to the 49ers as a perfect fit.

When you commit to a team, you’re part of something that’s bigger than yourself,” McCaffrey said in May. “In hindsight, I firmly believe it’s the best thing that ever happened to me.”

McCaffrey reportedly participated in a Saturday conference call with the NFL’s other star running backs regarding teams’ thriftiness

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With his receiving ability, McCaffrey needs only 42 catches to surpass 49ers legend Roger Craig’s total of 483 for most by a running back in his first seven seasons. McCaffrey is 224 receiving yards shy of reaching the 4,000-yards-in-seven-years club with Craig (4,241) and Marshall Faulk (4,682).

When it comes to any numbers chase, though, everyone must be wondering if McCaffrey can amass 1,000 yards both receiving and rushing, like he did in 2019 to join Craig (1995) and Faulk (1999) as 1K/1K members.

Maybe the 49ers just want him to become their first 1,000-yard rusher since Frank Gore in 2014.

McCaffrey’s 11-game output last regular season for them: a team-high 746 yards with six touchdowns and at a clip of 4.7 yards per carry.

McCaffrey’s production and how he works for it has made him a locker room leader.

“Just a very impressive human being,” quarterback Trey Lance said in May. “Some people call him a ‘Little (Nick) Bosa,’ just the way he’s just so meticulous with his routine and how he takes care of his body.”

McCaffrey Mania doesn’t mean

The 49ers have not had a running back repeat as their single-season rushing leader since 2017, so that’s an obvious reminder that productive feet abound in their backfield.

In this camp, with McCaffrey firmly entrenched as RB1, any uncertainty centers around his understudies.

Elijah Mitchell is envisioned as a fabulous complement, when healthy. He did not take part in June minicamp, and he played just five games last season (plus two in the playoffs). With 963 yards as a 2021 rookie, Mitchell needs to get through camp unscathed to shake last year’s woes.

A year ago, Jordan Mason beat out fellow rookie Ty Davis-Price for the No. 3 role, which actually is a misnomer considering Mason essentially got more action because of his special teams ability.

If Davis-Price can run with more authority and show better receiving hands, then that’ll boost his roster bid. Otherwise, he could be the odd man out, as was the case last year with Trey Sermon, who was a 2021 third-round draft pick that got waived after the exhibition season.

As with any Shanahan-coached team, undrafted rookies will get a fair shot to win a spot, with Khalan Laborn and Ronald Awatt being this year’s contestants.

are striking over residuals for streaming rights, which accrue almost entirely to management and owners. Teamsters at UPS have authorized a strike unless their next contract eliminates a two-tier wage system. Starbucks has a long track record of punishing, firing and replacing workers who attempt to unionize.

Nurses across the U.S. have been reduced to striking over mismanagement and dangerous caseloads, despite their heroic efforts to save lives during the Covid-19 pandemic.

All these struggles are fundamentally about power – something the members of the U.S. women’s soccer team understand too well. Almost every one of them has played under a coach who was later fired for abusive, exploitative or sexually coercive behavior. An investigation by former acting attorney general Sally Yates found that the National

Women’s Soccer League and U.S. Soccer knowingly ignored sexual and emotional abuse, that coaches fired for such misconduct were rehired by other teams, and that players were dropped from rosters when they came forward for help and protection. The Yates report has spurred investigations into youth leagues, where many of the guilty coaches got their start. No doubt, the U.S. national team has changed the world for women. They’ve waged a successful fight for pay and recognition while inspiring girls everywhere to dream big and play hard. But casting this as a women’s victory is selling them short. They and others remain engaged in a much bigger battle, taking on monopolistic entities with almost total control over worker outcomes and shocking disregard for their financial, physical and mental well-being. It’s a battle that won’t end even if equal pay is achieved.

Kathryn Anne Edwards is a labor economist and independent policy consultant.

Marcus Stroman, Cubs: If San Francisco is, in fact, shopping at the top of the pitching market, there’s no reason to think that wouldn’t include the right-handed sinkerballer, who has previously expressed admiration for the organization and is

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to camps in 2019 and ’21, when he was coming off knee and shoulder surgeries, respectively.

However the 49ers eventually work Purdy into practice, they’ll likely open with Trey Lance and Sam Darnold taking the majority of reps, with Brandon Allen also throwing to their cadre of receivers.

Wednesday marks their

putting together a career year (10-7, 3.09 ERA). The Giants love home run suppression, and no pitcher has been better at keeping the ball in the yard this year (0.5 HR/9). Paired with Logan Webb and Alex Cobb, the Giants could roll out a playoff rotation consisting of the top three ground-ball pitchers in the majors. The downside is that if things go south, Stroman possesses a $21 million player option for 2024.

Tony Kemp, A’s: Versatile, upbeat and girl dad pals with former Vanderbilt teammate Mike Yastrzemski. What’s not to like?

Tim Anderson, White Sox: Bet on the track record or recent performance? A career .759 OPS

first practice of camp, though full-contact drills can’t begin until Sunday.

Swelling from Purdy’s torn ulnar collateral ligament required him to delay surgery until March 10. Less than 12 weeks later, he began a throwing program with a standard football, which figured to serve as the midway point of his recovery.

Even if Purdy has a setback or needs more time to get fully healthy, the NFL’s short-term injured reserve list affords them that ability to side-

entering this season earned him a spot on Team USA’s WBC roster and makes him potentially the most impactful middle infield bat on the market. But still awaiting his first home run, 2023 has been by far the worst season of his career (.564 OPS), fueled by a league-high 64.1% ground-ball rate, 11 percentage points above his career average. Paul DeJong, Cardinals: The inverse of Anderson in that 2023 has been a resurgence, with his best OPS (.728) since being named an All-Star in 2019. Both players are primarily shortstops, though Anderson has logged time at second base more recently than DeJong. He played there in the WBC; DeJong has 21 career

line him four games, nearly the time a PUP stint would demand.

Here is more on Purdy’s medical chart:

March 31: Wearing a hinged elbow brace, Purdy tells Fox Sports 910-AM in Phoenix: “Out in public, it looks like I have a robotic arm.” He conducts rangeof-motion exercises and strength training with physical therapist Keith Kocher in Gilbert, Arizona.

April 17: Purdy joins 49ers teammates at their Santa Clara headquarters for the start of the off-

games at second, only one since his rookie season. DeJong comes with a $12.5 million club option for 2024 (and another for 2025), potentially giving the Giants a low-risk insurance plan at shortstop if Marco Luciano, Casey Schmitt or Tyler Fitzgerald isn’t ready to seize the job.

From Page B1 through next season, Verlander alone would push the Giants over the luxury tax threshold, as would an equally attractive alternative option in Max Scherzer. Both are proven playoff pitchers, though each would also have to waive their notrade clause.

Matt Duffy, Royals: Received arguably the loudest cheers of the afternoon when he was introduced – as a member of the visiting team – before the Giants’ home opener. Duffy earned a spot in fans’ hearts as a rookie during their 2014 World Series run. Almost a decade later, could he fill a hole on their roster as a backup infielder as they try to make it back to the postseason for only

season program, which mainly consists of meetings and conditioning the first few weeks.

April 21: Purdy draws a loud ovation while attending a San Francisco Giants game, prompting him to not only stand and wave to the crowd, but to also show impressive mobility with his arm while exchanging high-fives with a fan.

May 29: Barely

11 weeks out of surgery, Purdy begins a throwing program, signaling his recovery is perhaps a week ahead of schedule. “We’re

the second time since?

Cody Bellinger, Cubs: An attractive option, given his resurgence this season in Chicago. According to a source, though, the former Dodgers outfielder had no interest in remaining in the NL West during his free agency this offseason. The Giants are more in the market for a right-handed outfield bat, anyway. So, how about …

Mark Canha, Mets: With Mitch Haniger out for another month at least, Canha would help re-balance the Giants’ outfield.

Mike Yastrzemski (.530) and Michael Conforto (.599) have OPS figures south of .600 against left-handed pitching this year but have been playing nearly every day. A San

incredibly encouraged by that,” Lynch said two days later on SiriusXM NFL Radio. “He’s hitting all his marks and that doesn’t surprise us, because he’s putting in all the work.”

May 31: Purdy executes his second throwing session. “I saw him moving around, throwing it a little bit,” wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk said. “I haven’t caught with him. But, yeah, I talked to him and he’s the same old Brock. He’s doing good.”

June 26: Purdy heads to Jacksonville, Fla., to

Jose native and Berkeley alum, Canha spent his entire life in the Bay Area until leaving the A’s to sign with the Mets in free agency in 2022. That deal includes an $11.5 million club option for 2024.

Paul Goldschmidt or Nolan Arenado, Cardinals: If you can’t beat ’em, trade for ’em? It would either be a dream scenario or a nightmare for Giants fans to see either of the club’s two biggest menaces for the past decade suit up in orange and black. It’s a real possibility St. Louis sells off one or both of its star corner infielders, but probably less likely it’s to the Giants, who are pretty well-off at first and third.

throw under the guidance of private quarterbacks coach Will Hewlett and orthopedic specialist Tom Gormely, who worked with him before last year’s draft in which Purdy famously was the 262nd and final pick.

July 25: The 49ers clear Purdy, presumably after a physical and conditioning test, meaning he can partake in practices and avoid the Physically Unable To Perform List.

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San Francisco 49ers’ Christian McCaffrey (23) rushes against the Philadelphia Eagles in the third quarter of the NFC Championship Game, at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jan. 29.

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Elderly parents feel the sting of supporting daughter’s family

Dear Annie: My husband and I have a 34-year-old daughter who has lived with us all her life (except for maybe a year). She brought her freeloading boyfriend in. I had cancer at the time and they didn’t even bother to do anything, so she ended up pregnant.

Annie Lane

I kicked her boyfriend out of the house after finding out he couldn’t even take her to the hospital to have his baby. The baby brought such joy to our lives, but she works at a very parttime job, doesn’t help around the house and stays in her room while we watch the boy. She wanted to get him a dog, so we helped her. If we were to ask her to leave, we would worry about our grandson.

She is getting along by not paying rent or buying food, and she has both of us, and her son’s other grandma, for free babysitters. This is going on while his dad is in rehab. We even pay some of her other bills when she can’t.

I’m disabled, so we get my check, and my husband works very hard to support the four of us. How can we get her to leave without her taking her son completely away from us? — Broken Mom

Dear Broken Mom: If you teach a man to fish, he has

dinner for life, but if you give him a fish, he only has dinner for one night. Your daughter and her boyfriend are only having the fish handed to them and it is not doing anyone any favors. But you are in a tough situation because you love your grandson and don’t want your daughter to take him away.

The truth is that your daughter sounds like she is hurting. It can’t feel good to just sit in her room all day while her parents play with her son. She might be suffering from depression. She needs help and support, not judgment. You began your letter by calling your grandson’s father a freeloader. While it might seem like that is what he is doing, he is also suffering from addiction and is trying to get help in rehab. That type of judgment doesn’t help anyone, especially your grandson.

You and your husband should have calm conversations with your daughter to set up boundaries for her living at your house, or leaving, but staying on good terms so you can continue to see your grandson.

Dear Annie: My wife was fed up over a pair of cutoff shorts that I wore all the time. In fact, I had worn them so many times that the patches had patches. The only original parts left were

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ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Your aim to improve an environment can be approached from many angles. The work you do to an aesthetic will contribute to the emotional and practical sides, too. Wherever you apply your ideas, they will have a positive impact.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

Self-awareness gives you insight into the human condition we all share. Despite your uniqueness, you have similar patterns of behavior, motivation and thought to the people around you. To find out what they want, ask your own heart.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

Deconstruction is a method of learning. You’ll take a thing apart to get a comprehensive understanding of how it works. There’s a risk you won’t be able to put it back together, but you’ll have the knowledge to build anew.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

You prefer not to care, and say you don’t care, but you find yourself thinking about a thing for days on end, so... you care. The feeling will drive you to act, and action will lead to improvement.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

You’re paying attention. Nothing will get by you. You’ll see potential trouble and fix it before it’s a problem. You’ll

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recognize fleeting opportunity and seize it. You’ll ask the astute question that cracks open the vault where the gold is.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It doesn’t seem like space should be a hard thing to make or give, but it really can be in an environment filled with things and people competing for room. What would it take to get more freedom to stretch?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

It’s a day of meaningful contributions. These are costly, which is partly why they matter. The expense may not have been financial. Keep in mind that dollars are sometimes the least valuable currency to exchange.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Someone is helping you navigate today. Without this person you would still find your way,

the belt line and around the zipper. It took three days for them to dry after washing. We were not struggling, and I could and did wear “decent” clothing when we went anywhere.

My wife knew that there was a lot more sentimental value to those shorts than clothing need. But the time came when she could no longer stand to see them, on or off me. She threw them out. It was time. I could not have done it. I was sad but not heartbroken. Now, I ask when something gets too worn, “repair or rag bin?” It keeps our rag bin full enough and keeps me from embarrassing my wife, when out or when home.

“Fed Up,” who wrote that she was frustrated about her husband’s wardrobe, needs to find a quiet time to have a discussion about where her husband’s head is at. Then, together, they can find a dress code that suits them both. — No Longer Raggedy Andy

Dear No Longer Raggedy Andy: I love the fact that you worked together as a partnership with your wife to come up with a solution as to what to do with your clothing with holes in it. Teamwork frequently works better when trying to solve problems in domestic life.

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though it would likely take you longer and the journey wouldn’t be nearly as fun. The appreciation you show helps keeps a good thing going.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You can’t tell how a choice will ultimately play out. Though you’re not in total control of your evolution, don’t doubt for a second your ability to change what you want to change. You’ll apply yourself and you’ll do it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The past will get some sorting. Some memories will be stashed in the “forgive and forget” drawer of your heart while other memories will be kept on your heart’s mantel, where they can be celebrated on the regular.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Trustworthy people around will have you feeling relaxed and flexible. It won’t all go to plan, but you don’t mind being thrown for a loop because, with people you enjoy, the ride is fun.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your perspective matters more than you think today. If you see the scene as “good,” you’ll organize the elements to the best of your ability to make sure that “good” is what it becomes.

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Word Sleuth

Crossword by Phillip Alder

Bridge

If you are on lead, evaluate as many possibilities as you can.

In the auction, South’s jump to four spades was a superaccept, showing four spades, a maximum and a doubleton somewhere.

How did South proceed after West led the heart three?

Declarer saw a potential loser in each suit. He was faced with various finesses. He needed at least one to work, but which to take when?

South captured East’s heart king with the ace and, not wishing to open up another suit, exited with his last heart. When the defenders, equally cagey, played a third round, declarer ruffed, cashed his spade ace and played another spade. West, not wishing to help South, stepped in with his king and exited with his remaining trump. East discarded two hearts. What did declarer do now?

THE BRAIN IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS

In the final analysis, either your cerebral pathways produce the right thoughts, or they don’t. In the auction, consider each possible action as you ascend the bidding ladder, starting with pass and, if legal, double or redouble. In the card play, if you are following suit, consider all the cards you have available.

He had two winning lines: a diamond to the queen, or run the diamond jack. If the finesse had lost, South would have needed diamonds 3-3 or the club finesse working. However, when the finesse (surprisingly) won, South established a club trick on which to discard dummy’s diamond loser. There were other ways home, but one declarer, after winning trick seven with his diamond queen, cashed the diamond ace and played another diamond. Now he lost one trick in each suit.

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THE BRAIN IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS In the final analysis, either your cerebral pathways produce the right thoughts, or they don’t. In the auction, consider each possible action as you ascend the bidding ladder, starting with Bridge Here’s how to work it: WORD SLEUTH ANSWER

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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‘House of the Dragon’ is still shooting amid strikes

Here’s why, according to George R.R. Martin

Los A ngeLes Times

As long as a Targaryen sits on the Iron Throne – and is played by an Equity U.K. actor – HBO will have some “Game of Thrones”-related programming on its schedule. Or so it would appear.

Indeed, the network has continued shooting Season 2 of its hit series “The House of the Dragon” amid the labor strikes by two of Hollywood’s unions. Why? Because the scripts for the “Game of Thrones” prequel were completed before the Writers Guild of America began its strike on May 2. And the actors on the TV series are part of a British actors union, not the on-strike actors’ union SAG-AFTRA.

The clarifications came by way of “A Song of Ice and Fire” author George R.R. Martin, who shared the updates about the TV adaptation in a recent entry on his “Not a Blog” blog. He also got candid about his outlook on the “long and bitter” labor strikes currently disrupting the film and TV industries.

“One of the few shows [s]till shooting is HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, as you may have read. That’s true,” he wrote Saturday. “I am told the second season is half done. ALL of the scripts had been finished months before the WGA strike began. No writing has been done since, to the best of my knowledge.”

The sprawling series is also mostly shot in London, with some sets in Wales, Spain and other locales, he said, which is part of the reason filming has continued.

“The actors are members of the British union, Equity, not SAGAFTRA, and though Equity strongly supports their American cousins (they have a big rally planned to show that support), British law forbids them from staging a sympathy strike. If they walk, they have no protection against being fired for breach of contract, or even sued,” Martin wrote, adding that he was shocked to hear that.

“One of the two major UK political parties, Labour, has its

roots in the trade union movement,” he wrote. “How in the world could they have allowed such anti-labor regulations to be enacted? Seems to me that Labour Party really needs to do a better job of protecting the right to strike.”

The Emmy winner also said that his “overall deal” with HBO was suspended June 1, but that he still has “plenty to do.”

“These strikes are not really about name writers or producers or showrunners, most of whom are fine; we’re striking for the entrylevel writers, the story editors, the students hoping to break in, the actor who has four lines, the guy working his first staff job who dreams of creating his own show one day, as I did back in the 80s.”

HBO previously announced that production on Season 2 had kicked off at the U.K.’s Leavesden Studios in April with members of the “original family as well as new talents on both sides of the camera.”

The new season is set to premiere sometime next year. The production hasn’t been interrupted by either strike because scripts were done long before the writers’ walkout started, a person familiar with the production but not authorized to speak about it told The Times. And, as Variety reported earlier this month, production on “House of the Dragon” was not affected by the SAG-AFTRA strike because it is an Equity UK contract production.

The British labor union has declared its “unwavering solidarity” with SAG-AFTRA

and its members, stating earlier this month that it would support them “by all lawful means.”

However, due to existing laws in the U.K., the union directed SAG-AFTRA members currently working under an Equity UK collective bargaining agreement to continue to report to work as usual.

Representatives for HBO’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, declined to comment when reached Monday by The Times.

Meanwhile, SAGAFTRA has been granting waivers, or exemptions, to a select group of independent films and TV shows that are not affiliated with the major studios and streaming giants.

The waivers, granted to projects unaffiliated with members of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, give SAGAFTRA members the ability to work without violating the strike or crossing picket lines. The exempted projects must follow guidelines that the guild has proposed in bargaining with the studios, and the deal is good until the union and AMPTP –which includes Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBC/Universal, Paramount and Amazon – agree on and ratify a new contract.

Martin, who joined the WGA in 1986 and has been through several strikes with the union, said that the studios are not even talking with the WGA and that negotiations have been shut down since May when the writers’ strike started. Deadline reported last week that the studio

would hold out until October before coming back to the bargaining table with the WGA.

“[T]his year’s strike is the most important of my lifetime. An unnamed producer was quoted last week saying the AMPTP strategy was to stand fast until the writers started losing their homes and apartments, which gives you a hint of what we’re facing,” he wrote. “But we ARE facing it. I have never seen such unity in the Guilds; the strike authorization votes for both SAG and WGA were as close to unanimous as we are ever likely to see.

“No one can be certain where we go from here, but I have a bad feeling that this strike will be long and bitter. It may get as bad as the infamous 1985 strike, though I hope not,” he said.

The 74-year-old also shared an update about his progress on the long-delayed “The Winds of Winter,” the seventh novel in his protracted “Ice and Fire” book series, assuring fans that he has made “steady progress.”

“Not as fast as I would like, certainly not as fast as you would like… but progress nonetheless,” Martin wrote. “It keeps me out of trouble.”

He also said that the second season of his AMC crime drama “Dark Winds” also wrapped before either strike began and will drop on July 30. However, actors and writers will not be participating in any promotion, and the New York and L.A. premieres have both been canceled, he added.

Crossword by Phillip

Bridge

one reason or another.

COVER THEIR HANDS, UNCOVER YOUR PLAY

Bridge is a tough game because the textbook approach does not work all of the time. It can be difficult to spot the exceptional deals. Today, let’s look at one of the earliest play techniques a beginner is taught -- a finesse. Normally you take one, hoping it will win and gain you a trick. However, there are times when you shouldn’t take a finesse, for

Alder

Armed with that helpful hint, how should South play in four spades after West leads the heart six?

What would you have bid with that South hand over one heart? The original South hoped both to buy a useful dummy and to shut out the opponents. He succeeded on both scores. If he had bid only one spade, a modern West would have made a preemptive jump to three hearts, getting to the nine-trick level with nine trumps. Then North might have squeezed out three spades, but even if he had passed, South would have rebid three spades, and then North would have raised.

When the deal was originally played, South won the first trick with the heart ace and immediately took the spade finesse, running his queen. When that lost to the king, the declarer could not avoid losing one spade, one diamond and two clubs.

Rather than commit himself immediately, South should lead the diamond king at trick two. When that is won by West, it marks the spade king in East’s hand; otherwise, where are the values for his opening bid?

Winning the return, South should lead the spade queen (tempting a cover from West, just in case) and put up dummy’s ace. When the king drops, declarer is home.

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Sudoku by Wayne Gould

Bridge

Difficulty level:

Yesterday’s solution:

repeated in any row, column or box. Solution, tips and computer program at www.sudoku.com

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Olivia Cooke and Emma D’Arcy in “House of The Dragon.”

Los A ngeLes Times

LOS ANGELES — It’s the phrase of the summer for cinephiles, movie stars and extremely online people alike: “Barbenheimer.”

The same-day release of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” starring Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., has led to the double-feature phenomenon that packed movie theaters all weekend. While some celebs are enjoying both movies back-to-back, others are picking clear favorites.

Tom Cruise, whose “Mission: ImpossibleDead Reckoning Part One” hit theaters earlier this month, showed his support for both films when he shared a photo of himself with “Mission: Impossible” director Christopher McQuarrie showing off movie tickets and posters for “Barbie,” “Oppenheimer” and Harrison Ford’s June 30 release, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”

“This summer is full of amazing movies to see in theaters,” he tweeted late last month alongside the photos, taken at screenings. “Congratulations, Harrison Ford, on 40 years of Indy and one of the most iconic characters in history. I love a double feature, and it doesn’t get more explosive (or more pink) than one with Oppenheimer and Barbie.”

Robbie and Gerwig followed suit and posed last month in front of the movie posters for “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and “Oppenheimer” with the caption, “Mission: Accepted!”

Selena Gomez celebrated her 31st birthday over the weekend. From the looks of it, the “Wolves” singer rented out a private theater and invited her pink- and feather-clad friends to join her for a “Barbie” showing. Gomez shared several photos of the extravaganza on Insta-

gram with the caption, “On Wednesdays we wear pink.”

Quentin Tarantino, who worked with Robbie on “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” was spotted in Los Angeles sharing the love not only between both “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” but also between two neighboring theaters.

In a photograph tweeted by KQED correspondent Saul Gonzalez, the filmmaker is seen theater-hopping in Westwood with director Roger Avary, his “Pulp Fiction” co-writer and co-host on the pair’s “Video Archives” podcast. After seeing “Oppenheimer” at the Westwood Village theater, Tarantino darted across the street and purchased a ticket to see “Barbie” at the Bruin Theatre, the caption said.

Amy Schumer, who was originally set to play Barbie but left an earlier version of the project in 2017, shared a photo Monday on Instagram of herself wearing a straw hat and holding a popsicle, joking that she had “really enjoyed” both films, “but I think I should have played Emily Blunts role. Do better Hollywood.” Blunt portrayed Kitty, the alcoholic wife of Cillian Murphy’s title character.

Although it’s not clear whether Camila Cabello and Beyoncé caught a showing of “Oppenheimer” or “Barbie,” the two paid homage to the hot films of summer in their own way. Queen Bey channeled Barbie’s pink look with an Acne Studios ensemble during her Minneapolis show on the Thursday before the film’s opening. She paired metallic baby-pink mini shorts with a bustier, an oversize jacket and sparkling thigh-high boots.

“Havana” singer Cabello shared a photo of herself in a killer black gown on Instagram with the caption, “I’m giving Oppenheimer.”

And on Sunday, pop star Kesha shared a TikTok of herself jamming out to Charli XCX’s “Speed Drive” from “Barbie: The Album” with the caption, “hot song.”

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Scurry pitched shutouts in her first two starts and went on to have one of the greatest careers by a goalkeeper in international soccer history.

“Little things like that, that’s what leadership does,” she said.

What makes this all work is the fact the concepts Foudy developed and Wambach, Morgan and Horan inherited are enforced not by the coaches but in the locker room, where putting on the uniform is seen not just as a reward, but also as the acceptance of rules and obligations.

“It’s positive affirmations. It’s strive to set a new standard, strive to be the best version of yourself and drive this team to being the best,” said Aly Wagner, who played in two World Cups and won two Olympic gold medals in a 10-year career with the team. “There’s a standard of representing the crest. And when that doesn’t happen, the beauty of the culture is that we can have those difficult conversations.”

Which is exactly what happened during Wagner’s second World Cup in 2007 when goalkeeper Hope Solo told a reporter coach Greg Ryan made a mistake when he started Scurry over her in a 4-0 loss to Brazil. Hours later, after Lilly, the team captain, called her into a meeting with six veterans, Solo was suspended – by the players, not the coach – and told she had to call Foudy to apologize for tarnishing the reputation she had built with the team.

“There’s a code of excellence and, more importantly, team above self that we follow with the national team,” said Wagner, now a Fox Sports analyst. “That’s the expectation and you respect it.”

Rapinoe, who is playing in her fourth World Cup, also was baptized into the team philosophy by Lilly, who appeared in 354 games for the U.S., more than any player, male or female, in history.

“We were running and I’m sure I was not doing well. So I started complaining about how hard it was,” Rapinoe remembered. “She looked me dead in my face. ‘It’s hard for everyone.’

“Always showing up

and giving everything you have and demanding that of your teammates, that all of us are in this together, that’s one of the biggest lessons. Just learning how to be a champion every single time you pull on the shirt and every single practice and every single session that you have on your own, that’s why this team is successful.”

Wambach was still a teenager when she learned the lesson she passed on to Morgan. On a visit to the team’s training base in Chula Vista, she was struck by a 5-by-7-inch picture taped next to the exit. The photo showed the Norwegian team celebrating after beating the U.S. in the 1995 World Cup semifinals and it was placed near the door so it was the last thing the players saw before hitting the practice field each day. The team, Wambach quickly understood, wasn’t fueled by the thrill of victory. Its motivation was to never again taste the agony of defeat. So she made sure that Morgan understood her job was not to applaud Wambach, but to surpass her.

But if the team’s only legacy came from collecting wins and trophies, what

was it really accomplishing? That too was part of the ethos the Foudy-Hamm generation established when, in 1999, many of the players became the first to push U.S. Soccer for equal pay and working conditions, a battle the team finally won last year. Not surprisingly, Cindy Parlow Cone, the federation president who got that deal done, also played alongside Foudy and Hamm in two World Cups.

“There’s never going to be a day that we can just show up and focus on soccer because there are so many things, both sport and not sport-related, that we’re going to feel some responsibility to help shift or to correct,” said Becky Sauerbrunn, the team’s longtime captain who missed this World Cup with a foot injury.

“You learn pretty quickly when you get in with the senior national team that you have to be excellent at what you do, but that you also have the second obligation to make the most of your platform with this team. We know that we never would have been at this spot had it not been for all the work all these other generations of women have done.”

CALENDAR

Wednesday’s TV sports

Baseball MLB

• Atlanta vs. Boston, ESPN, 4:10 p.m.

• Oakland vs. San Francisco, NBCSBA, NBCSCA, 6:45 p.m.

Soccer International Friendly

• Manchester United vs. Real Madrid, 2, 40, 5:30 p.m.

Leagues Cup

• UANL Tigres vs. Portland, FS1, 8 p.m.

Women’s World Cup

• Canada vs. Ireland, FS1, 5 a.m.

• USA vs. Netherlands, 2, 40, 6 p.m.

• Portugal vs. Vietnam, FS1, 12:30 a.m. (Thursday).

Thursday’s TV sports

Motorsports

• Superstar Racing Experience, ESPN, 6 p.m.

Soccer International Friendly

• San Diego vs. Borussia Dortmund, ESPN2, 7:30 p.m.

Leagues Cup

• Club America vs. St. Louis, FS1, 7 p.m.

Women’s World Cup

• Australia vs. Nigeria, FS1, 3 a.m.

• Argentina vs. South Africa, FS1, 5 p.m.

• England vs. Denmark, FS1, 1:30 a.m. (Friday).

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the scoreboard. Though Ledecky already owned the 15 fastest times in history in the 1,500 free, she hadn’t been this fast in more have five years, since setting the world record in 2018 at 15:20.48.

Two years ago, in winning gold at the Tokyo Olympics, she was more than 11 seconds slower than her time Tuesday.

It was the latest bit of evidence that her move from Stanford to coach Anthony Nesty’s pro group at the University of Florida shortly after Tokyo was the best thing she could have done.

“I’m just really enjoying swimming right now,” Ledecky said in Japan.

“Especially the distance events. I feel like I’m getting better each time I swim. That’s what you want to see - you want to see improvement. And that’s been my biggest goal over the last couple of years.”

Ledecky’s gold was one of two on the day with Team USA, with veteran Ryan Murphy winning the men’s 100meter backstroke in 52.22 seconds.

More than a decade into her international career, Ledecky no longer swims the individual 200 free, an event in which she won gold at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and she is no longer the best in the world in the 400, having taken silver behind Australia’s Ariarne Titmus at that distance earlier in this meet.