Dear John,

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• AP: Amid ashes, California governor fires away on climate change
• CalM: 'Debate is over,' California's governor says. 'This is a climate damn emergency.'
• AP: California governor signs bill changing sex offender law
• AP: Crews battling California fires head to devastated areas
• FresBee: Creek Fire containment stays at 6% while growing to 182,225 acres
• SDUT: Valley fire 55 percent contained; evacuation orders, warnings, road closures lifted
• SDUT: California's staggering fire toll: A record 3 million acres, and it's still early
• AP: Arizona Guard helicopters go to fight California wildfires
• AP: 'There was no fighting this fire,' California survivor says
• SJMN: 'What are we going to be left with?': Lives and homes destroyed as North Complex Fire burned through Berry Creek
• SFC: 'Do not let your guard down': Blazes grow to historic proportions, as worst looms
• SacBee: Creek Fire forces hikers into 'Mordor' smoke and across Sierra, including a boy and dog
• SacBee: Gavin Newsom backs 'split roll' initiative to raise property tax on large businesses
• CalM: As Newsom weighs reparations bill, a scholar has a word of caution for California
• AP: New California law helps former inmate firefighters get jobs
• CG: BREAKING: Gov. Newsom Signs Bill That Expunges Records Of Ex-Con Wildfire Fighters
• LADN: In L.A. County, don't expect elementary schools to reopen before November
• AP: Man freed after spending 19 years in California prison
• CalM: Democratic squabbling doomed California's 'Year of housing production.' What will happen in 2021?
• SJMN: After threat of injunction, Santa Clara church backs away from indoor services
• Reason: The COVID-19 Pandemic Keeps Proving Deadly to Liberty
• SFC: UC appeals judge's prohibition on SAT, ACT scores in admissions
• CG: Gov. Newsom Signs Bill Changing DMV Disability License Plates Requirements For Veterans
• VOSD: Sacramento Report: Bipartisan Support for a Special Session
• LAT $: Pasadena chief names officer who fatally shot Anthony McClain; autopsy shows victim was struck twice
• SacBee: Thousands of 17-year-olds could vote in California primaries if initiative passes, study says
• SFC: Ninth Circuit judges in dissent on gun ownership by ex-mental patients
• LAT $: LAPD says man pointed rifle during argument at Trump rally
• LAT $: Deputies in riot gear surround peaceful news conference related to Kizzee shooting
• LADN: Even amid pandemic, L.A. County residents found ways to recall 9/11
• SacBee: Chinese researcher released on bail as prosecutor seeks to return her to custody
• FH: More Local Tax Initiatives on the Horizon
• OCReg: 'War on suburbs' is more about politics than reality
• OCReg: Taxing and spending on this fall's California ballot
• SacBee: CalPERS must strengthen rules to prevent conflicts of interest and sudden resignations
• OCReg: My suggestions on some of the California ballot issues
• FH: Would The End of Trump Mean the End of Newsom?
• FH: Environmentalists Destroyed California's Forests
• SacBee: Yes, masks are still required in Placer County: What a new COVID-19 order means for residents
• SacBee: Sacramento yoga studio restarts indoor classes in defiance of COVID-19 health order
• SFC: Very unhealthy air blankets Bay Area as historic wildfires spread noxious smoke
• SFC: SF to open indoor hair and nail salons, gyms and hotels next week
• SFC: Feds fine UC Berkeley $2.35 million for failing to disclose crimes properly
• FresBee: High-speed rail junction near Chowchilla, connecting to Gilroy, approved. What's next?
• As names emerge, Newsom could take time filling Stanislaus County Supervisors seat
• Hear the candidates: Modesto City Council District 3 candidates discuss the issues
• Turlock considers allowing industrial hemp businesses. What would rules permit?
• FresBee: KKK member's name will be removed from Fresno City College baseball park
• CalCoast: San Miguel CSD bookkeeper sentenced to jail for embezzlement
• SFC: Santa Cruz County fires left no time for warnings: 'The only evacuation notice we got was a wall of fire'
• VCStar $: County hits critically dry mark early this year
• VCStar $: Second round of testing at jail nets 16 new COVID-19 cases
• VCStar $: Wildfire smoke prompts local air quality alert
• LAT $: L.A. Mayor Garcetti tells managers to begin preparing for a 'potential layoff scenario'
• LAT $: LAPD will refer incident in which firefighter punched restrained detainee to D.A.
• OCReg: Los Angeles-Orange County rent hikes take biggest tumble in 10 years
• OCReg: Westminster School board mulls a second election-related investigation
• OCReg: Santa Ana rolls out coronavirus help to neighborhoods
• SBSun: 1 hospitalized in road-rage shooting on 210 Freeway in San Bernardino
• PE: Riverside County coronavirus hospitalizations drop below one-third of peak
• SDUT: San Diego tourism industry update: 'We're in a deep depression'
• SDUT: Should San Diego have suspended parking violations for another month?
• SDUT: Gloria says city should investigate leaked, doctored document in NBC7's retracted story
• VOSD: Special Emergency Podcast: Ash Street, Ash Street, a Story Goes Down
• SDUT: SANDAG takes no action on proposed political donation policy

Sincerely,