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• Irvine offers free masks to encourage residents to cover up

  09-08-2020 22:58
  
  To make it easier for residents to comply with local face covering rules, Irvine gave away boxes of disposable masks to residents at a drive-up event on Saturday, Aug. 8, at the Civic Center.
  Donated by developer FivePoint Holdings, the masks handed out on Saturday were the city’s latest salvo intended to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the community. City officials recently gave 100,000 masks to the Irvine Unified School District for students and staff, and they plan to provide mask
  
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• Where does Gov. Gavin Newsom stand on split roll?

  09-08-2020 21:00
  
  Former Gov. Jerry Brown often said that he subscribed to the “canoe theory of politics” — paddle a little to the left, a little to the right and then glide down the middle. He deployed that strategy through many of the crises he had to manage. From this conservative’s perspective, he did a lot more paddling on the left than the right, which might explain why his administration often appeared to be going in circles.
  Nonetheless, interests representing the private sector at
  
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• Angels bracing for tough homestand against A’s and Dodgers

  09-08-2020 20:18
  
  The Angels, who have gotten off to a slow start, are about to face a tough test.
  This week the Angels will have a six-game homestand including three games against the Oakland A’s and three against the Dodgers.
  The A’s took an eight-game winning streak and an 11-4 record into Sunday’s game, and the Dodgers were off to a 10-5 start.
  “I’m looking forward to playing both of those teams, I really am,” Maddon said before Sunday’s game. “I do believe that
  
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• MORNING WRAP: La Canada HS grad Collin Morikawa chases PGA title, and more on Lakers, Clippers

  09-08-2020 17:12
  
  The Morning Wrap shares the day’s top five stories from our reporters at the Southern California Newspaper Group … And have everything delivered to you in our daily newsletters
  SUNDAY, AUG. 9
  ONE: Could local golfer Collin Morikawa, who graduated at La Canada High School and went on to play at Cal, win the PGA championship? Morikawa shot a 65 on Saturday and is among the leaders heading into Sunday’s final round, columnist Jim Alexander reports.
  Up Next: Sunday’s final r
  
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• These independent Southern California book publishers reveal how they’re handling the pandemic

  09-08-2020 17:01
  
  When the COVID-19 pandemic hit earlier this year and stay-at-home orders went into effect in cities worldwide, it left people with more time read, but it also created a slew of dilemmas for the publishing industry.
  Release dates for new books were rescheduled. Restrictions on travel and large gatherings lead to the cancellation of in-store events and book festivals. Bookstores closed, their existence hanging in a precarious state as weeks passed as they waited to re-open.
  For independent publish
  
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• You land a windfall of money. Now what?

  09-08-2020 17:00
  
  While sitting in an important meeting, you receive a text message from your spouse requesting you call them as soon as possible. You call and learn that your spouse just won a substantial amount of money in the state lottery. A dream come true!
  Many emotions quickly surface, including excitement, relief, fear, and concern — all of which are overwhelming. Thinking of this new money suddenly makes you feel wealthy.
  You may be a lucky recipient of a lottery, but you could also receive a windf
  
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• Prop. 16 threatens California’s commitment to equality: Ward Connerly

  09-08-2020 16:02
  
  In matters of race, it is extraordinarily difficult to write about the topic of race without calling upon one’s personal experience, and our personal experiences shape and give life to the policies which we embrace.
  In my case, life began in the Deep South — Leesville, Louisiana — in 1939, where the “one-drop rule” reigned supreme. Segregation based on the color of my skin was the social and legal metric that governed my life during my earliest years. Having once be
  
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• This is the time for innovation and reform of education

  09-08-2020 16:00
  
  The latest pawn being played by political special interests to leverage their power amid a global pandemic reaping death and economic destruction on millions of Americans is none other than our schools. Both Republicans and Democrats have begun circling over the pandemic’s carnage, creating fear and taking every opportunity to persuade a weary American electorate of the righteousness of their platforms and candidates. Among the most powerful political players in this cynical effort are the
  
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• Questions, answers about upcoming school year, distance learning

  09-08-2020 16:00
  
  Public education is kicking back into gear this month, but for most students in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties the phrase “back to school” will be a euphemism. Throughout the region, distance learning and closed classrooms will be the norms until health conditions improve.
  With that in mind, here’s a brief guide to some of the questions parents and students might have about the upcoming school year.
  Q: Can my kid go to school?
  Probably not, at least
  
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• As school starts, anxiety and excitement build for Online 2.0

  09-08-2020 16:00
  
  Every new school year – for students, teachers and parents alike – starts with a mix of hope and nerves. But there’s never been anything like the anxiety coming with the start of the 2020-21 school year.
  With coronavirus not yet under control, Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered that most schools statewide start the academic year as online-only operations.
  And many families fear a repeat of what they saw in spring, when the pandemic forced schools to switch, almost instantly, from tr
  
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• The right shouldn’t completely dismiss the BLM movement

  09-08-2020 15:58
  
  As a general rule, I’m allergic to slogans. Not because slogans are innately terrible, but because repeating them often becomes more or less the extent of debates on what are often legitimately important matters.
  Take for example the fight over “Black Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter.”
  Both slogans are, on their own and isolated from the contexts in which they are used, perfectly agreeable and non-exclusive.
  Black lives matter if all lives matter and just because
  
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• California’s employers need equitable work standards

  09-08-2020 15:55
  
  Our lives have changed. Amid a pandemic, good health is inextricably linked to workers safely getting back to work, customers safely returning to shops, patrons to restaurants and children to school. Face coverings, distancing, cleansing have all worked to bring down infections in other countries, and folks here are beginning to take the protocols seriously so that some sense of normalcy will return.
  Every day California’s Legislature and governor consider bills and executive orders to pro
  
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• Senior Living: What seniors can expect as their new normal in a post-vaccine world

  09-08-2020 15:00
  
  By Bruce Horovitz
  Contributing writer, Kaiser Health News
  Imagine this scenario, perhaps a year or two in the future: An effective vaccine for the coronavirus is routinely available and the world is moving forward. Life, however, will likely never be the same — particularly for people over 60.
  That is the conclusion of geriatric medical doctors, aging experts, futurists and industry specialists. In the aftermath of the pandemic, experts have said, everything will change, from the way older
  
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• Radiation releases from San Onofre into Pacific Ocean: Reason for health concerns?

  09-08-2020 15:00
  
  For more than 50 years, wastewater with traces of radioactivity has been regularly released into the ocean a mile offshore from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
  These “liquid batch releases” are regulated by, and reported to, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and details are available in NRC records. But those records are a bit inscrutable to folks without engineering degrees.
  Construction on an expansion of Wheeler North man-made reef about a mile offshore from San Clemen
  
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• Are California police officers trained enough and in the right things?

  09-08-2020 15:00
  
  Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a four-part series that will examine policing in California following George Floyd’s killing and subsequent protests and calls for widespread reform. Part 1 examined how potential officers are selected. Part 2 explores how police officers are trained.
  While the killing of George Floyd has prompted widespread criticism of law enforcement around the country and calls for defunding police, some critics have pointed to officer training as
  
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• Del Mar horse racing consensus picks for Sunday, Aug. 9

  09-08-2020 10:04
  
  The consensus box of picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Sunday, August 9 for racing at Del Mar.
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  Related Articles Del Mar: Thrilling win for Weston continues his recent success Whicker: Tiz the Law keeps giving orders, runs away with Travers Stakes Del Mar horse racing consensus picks for Saturday, Aug. 8 As Ke
  
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• Del Mar: Thrilling win for Weston continues his recent success

  09-08-2020 06:53
  
  Drayden Van Dyke guides Weston to the winner’s circle after their victory in the Best Pal Stakes on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. (Benoit Photo)
  Weston and jockey Drayden Van Dyke, left, overpower Girther with Ricardo Gonzalez, right, to win the Best Pal Stakes on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. (Benoit Photo)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsDrayden Van Dyke guides Weston to the winner’s circle after their victory in the Best Pal Stake
  
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• Alexander: Former Cal star Collin Morikawa is in the hunt on final day

  09-08-2020 06:41
  
  Under normal conditions, maybe Collin Morikawa would have a home course advantage, or at least home gallery advantage, going into Sunday’s final round of the PGA Championship on San Francisco’s TPC Harding Park layout.
  Morikawa was a four-time All-American and Pac-12 player of the year at Cal, just across the Bay Bridge. He’d played Harding Park maybe 10 to 15 times before, so he knows the layout, knows where the clubhouse and driving range are, and doesn’t need direction
  
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• Dodgers fall to Giants, most hits don’t fall against Johnny Cueto

  09-08-2020 06:38
  
  San Francisco Giants’ Mike Yastrzemski, right, heads to third after hitting a solo home run as Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw stands on the mound during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
  Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw winds up during the first inning of the team’s baseball game against the San Francisco Giants on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Te
  
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• Dodgers’ Edwin Rios began breakout with Barry Larkin in his corner

  09-08-2020 06:11
  
  LOS ANGELES – Baseball is a fishbowl industry. The degrees of separation between a Hall of Famer and an unranked prospect are smaller than you might imagine.
  Dodgers infielder Edwin Rios was a first-year pro, working out at Tom Shaw’s performance camp at the Disney Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando, Florida in 2015. That same year, Barry Larkin merged his baseball camp with Shaw’s. Rios has been working out with Larkin ever since.
  Boxing is a hallmark of Larkin’s tr
  
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• Is tanking playing a role in determining the Lakers’ playoff opponent?

  09-08-2020 05:46
  
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — As a season winds down, not even the NBA bubble can keep out talk of tanking.
  It’s been the talk of the Disney campus as the race for the Western eight seed — also known as the Lakers’ first-round opponent — has been heating up. Their opponents, with playoffs already clinched, have shown a disinterest in forcing them to earn wins.
  On Thursday night, the Nuggets played their starters short minutes in the fourth quarter in a loss to the Trail
  
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• We need more liberty, less politics: Richard Boddie

  09-08-2020 04:30
  
  Back in 1990 when I was running to become the 1992 nominee for president as the Libertarian Party candidate, and again when I actually ran for the Senate in California against Dianne Feinstein and John Seymour in 1992, and then against “DiFi” again and Michael Huffington in 1994, reporters would often ask me, “How many Libertarians are there”?
  My late friend and mentor David Bergland, the 1984 Libertarian Party presidential candidate, used to often tell reporters, “
  
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• Trump allows some unemployment pay, defers payroll tax

  09-08-2020 04:11
  
  By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ZEKE MILLER
  BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Seizing the power of his podium and his pen, President Donald Trump on Saturday bypassed the nation’s lawmakers as he claimed the authority to defer payroll taxes and replace an expired unemployment benefit with a lower amount after negotiations with Congress on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.
  At his private country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump signed executive orders to act where Congress hasn’t. Not on
  
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• Slumping Angels hitters come up empty in support of Patrick Sandoval

  09-08-2020 04:07
  
  Patrick Sandoval delivered the best outing of his young big league career and the Angels struggling hitters wasted it.
  Sandoval gave up two runs in six innings in the Angels’ 2-0 loss to the Rangers on Saturday in Arlington, Texas. It was the first time in his 11 big league starts the 23-year-old had lasted longer than five innings.
  The Angels didn’t support him with even a single run, getting blanked for five innings by Kolby Allard, who gave up just two hits.
  The Angels, whose offe
  
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• Raising taxes won’t cure what ails California

  09-08-2020 03:48
  
  A coalition of Democratic state lawmakers and liberal activists is touting new bill that attempts to deal with the state’s falling revenues caused by the coronavirus-related shutdowns. Assembly Bill 1253 is not really a new approach, of course, but the oldest one in the progressive playbook: boosting tax rates on the highest earners.
  This “Tax the Rich!” plan, as its backers themselves call it, would raise the state’s highest-in-the-nation income-tax rate to a mind-boggli
  
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• Coronavirus state tracker: Hospitalizations in California continue to decline; 6,060 new cases and 144 new deaths reported as of Saturday

  09-08-2020 03:43
  
  California reported 6,956 hospitalizations, 321 fewer than Friday, bringing the total number of hospitalizations in the state below 7,000 for the first time since early July, as of Saturday. This marks the fourth day in a row that hospitalizations have been down.
  California had 6,060 new cases and 144 new deaths bringing the number of total cases to 554,048 and deaths to 10,315, according to unofficial counts from county websites on Saturday.The state’s breakdown of cases by age is as foll
  
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• Election integrity will be put to the test in California this November

  09-08-2020 03:41
  
  New York City tried to make voting easier, and the result was chaos.
  City elections officials were overwhelmed with a flood of vote-by-mail ballots, more than 400,000, or ten times the usual number in a primary. Many ballot envelopes came in without the required postmarks.
  That problem may have been caused by processing errors at the post office. The envelopes provided to voters to return their ballots were postage-paid, which may have led to incorrect handling and missing postmarks.
  Late Monday
  
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• Coronavirus: Orange County reports 322 new cases and 16 new deaths as of Aug. 8

  09-08-2020 03:31
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 322 new cases of the coronavirus, as of Saturday, Aug. 8, bringing the county’s cumulative total of positive tests to 39,076 cases.
  The agency noted that the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange has been experiencing issues with the application that receives test reports from laboratories and then sends them to CalREDIE.  The California Department of Public Health is trying to resolve the issue, which may be resulting in a lo
  
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• Whicker: Tiz the Law keeps giving orders, runs away with Travers Stakes

  09-08-2020 03:01
  
  Uncle Chuck, the latest to emerge from Bob Baffert’s speed factory, put together a solid mile at the Travers Stakes on Saturday.
  However, the race was scheduled for a mile and a quarter.
  By the time it dawned on Uncle Chuck, Tiz the Law demonstrated why it’s foolish to put a quarter, or a dime, on anybody else’s chances to win the Kentucky Derby.
  As Luis Saez desperately whipped Uncle Chuck like Keith Moon whacking the drums on “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” Manny
  
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• TJ Warren, Pacers send Lakers to 3rd consecutive loss

  09-08-2020 02:46
  
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Lakers’ last few games in the bubble have lacked pep, feeling very like trudging, necessary steps to the start of the playoffs.
  On Saturday, there was some postseason energy injected into their evening – even though the Lakers still faltered, losing their third game in a row, 116-111 to the Indiana Pacers.
  They ultimately could not withstand another unbelievable night from T.J. Warren, the Pacers forward who has suddenly burst through in the bubble
  
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• Lakers continue to struggle to find playoff form, falling to Pacers for third straight loss

  09-08-2020 02:46
  
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Through six games in the NBA bubble, it rarely has ever felt that the Lakers’ stars have aligned.
  Even on nights when defense has won them games, their shooting has been cold. On nights when Anthony Davis has looked unstoppable, LeBron James has taken his time to warm up. And two games before the playoffs begin, the Lakers don’t have many more chances to get every part firing at once, in sync — and it probably won’t happen before a seri
  
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• Sparks’ Seimone Augustus faces former team Minnesota Lynx for the first time

  09-08-2020 01:57
  
  It’s a matchup that, a season ago, no one saw coming: Seimone Augustus vs. the Minnesota Lynx.
  Augustus is a Spark now, having sent shockwaves through the WNBA in February when she signed with her her longtime rival, a sharp change of course after she played all 14 of her previous seasons in Minnesota.
  A smooth, 6-foot guard from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Augustus won four championships as a member of the Lynx, became an eight-time All-Star and a six-time selection to an All-WNBA team.
  She b
  
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• Landry Shamet gets going in Clippers’ win over Portland

  09-08-2020 00:51
  
  The chirping between the teams’ stars will take up most of the oxygen when it comes to the retelling of the Clippers’ 122-117 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday, but some on-court performances spoke loudly too.
  Landry Shamet isn’t the type of guy to crow about anything, but he’d be permitted, if he wanted, after busting out of a slump, turning in 19 points in 33 minutes on 6-for-12 shooting.
  Before Saturday, Shamet hadn’t scored so many points in a
  
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• Rams DT A’Shawn Robinson sidelined with ‘non-football’ injury

  09-08-2020 00:27
  
  New Rams defensive tackle A’Shawn Robinson will miss at least part of training camp with an injury.
  The team said it placed Robinson on the “active/non-football injury” list Monday with an injury sustained before camp began Monday, Aug. 3.
  The injury wasn’t described. Coach Sean McVay is expected to address the matter Sunday in his next scheduled video-stream chat with reporters.
  Robinson, 25, signed with the Rams in March after four years with the Detroit Lions, and has
  
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• Angels’ Hansel Robles and his fastball might be missing the fans

  09-08-2020 00:14
  
  It turns out that Hansel Robles’ fastball may have been a victim of the pandemic.
  Indirectly anyway.
  Angels pitching coach Mickey Callaway said Saturday that he believes the demoted closer’s issues mostly are from losing some of velocity on his fastball, which is the result of reduced adrenaline pitching in empty ballparks.
  “We’re trying to figure out how to how to really get him pumped up during the game,” Callaway said. “He’s a guy that feeds off the a
  
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• A six-week solution: Confined to quarters

  09-08-2020 00:00
  
  Texans speak colorfully. I once had an East Texas-born editor who, whenever faced with some bureaucratic hurdle she didn’t look forward to leaping, would drawl, “I’d rather be pecked to death by ducks” than deal with whatever paperwork or other pettiness that stood in her way.
  Americans in general, and not just Tejanos, hate to sweat the details. We are especially resistant to ministerial red tape rolled out by government — sorry, guv’mint. Unlike, say, Italia
  
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