Vital California: The surge and the dimmer switch – Los Angeles Times
1July 2020
Good early morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter.
It's Wednesday, July
1, and I'm writing from Los Angeles. Newsletter The stories shaping California Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent 6 days
a week. You might sometimes get marketing content from the Los Angeles Times. California tape-recorded a new grim milestone on Tuesday, as the state passed 6,000 coronavirus-related deaths. Majority of those deaths have actually been in Los Angeles County. [See also:”The pandemic's toll: Lives lost in California” in the Los Angeles Times] Advertisement
The record-shattering number of new
cases tape-recorded Monday– more than 8,000– marked the third time in eight days that the state had actually broken a record of new day-to-day cases.In a strange reversal of fortunes, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that anybody traveling to his state from California will be asked to self-quarantine for 14 days. Cuomo's incoming-traveler self-quarantine order likewise uses to visitors from 15 other states that have seen recent spikes.The pandemic surged brutally through New York City and state earlier in the year, with the city becoming an international location of the break out in the spring. But while New York's total death toll still far surpasses that of California, the coronavirus now appears to be mostly under control there. On Sunday, Cuomo announced that New York had its lowest single-day death toll considering that March 15, while hospitalizations also continued to drop. The percentage of COVID-19 tests that returned favorable Tuesday in New York was simply 1%, an amount that has actually shrunk even as the state has actually evaluated tens of thousands more people since the spring. In California, the average rate of positive cases has actually grown to 5.6%in the last 2 weeks, with a sharper dive of 5.9%over 7 days.(For recommendation, the population of New York City is a bit more than two times that of Los Angeles, while California's total population is approximately double that of New York state.
.”And now, here's what's occurring throughout California: The Los Angeles Board of Education has actually approved an immediate 35%cut to its school police, a decrease of $25 million, in reaction to weeks of
protests by trainee activists and neighborhood groups who had required the removal of the department. Los Angeles TimesAdvertisement Protests
over police cruelty and criminal
justice reform magnify the race for L.A. district attorney. The fight between Jackie Lacey and George Gascón is already being impacted by the fallout of national calls to alter American policing, as a variety of powerful politicians are being pressured to rescind their support of Lacey in favor of her more reform-minded opposition. Los Angeles Times L.A. STORIES Prolific comedy legend Carl Reiner is dead at 98. Reiner developed”The Dick Van Dyke Show
“and directed hit moviessuch as”Oh, God!” and”The Jerk.”
Los Angeles Times Carl Reiner, the legendary author, director and actor, photographed in 2009 at his Beverly Hills house.( Al Seib/ Los Angeles Times )The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences opened its doors to 819 new members on Tuesday. It also revealed that it has exceeded its objective, embeded in early 2016 in the wake of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, of doubling the variety of women and people from underrepresented ethnic/racial neighborhoods in the group by 2020. The new class of members consists of Awkwafina, Olivia Wilde, Lakeith Stanfield and Cynthia Erivo.
Los Angeles Times Advertisement HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT Keep In Mind the Aliso Canyon catastrophe? SoCalGas just tried to postpone security tests. The business mentioned the COVID-19 pandemic, however state officials denied the demand.
“West Fresno neighborhood activist Maria Else passed away last week of”natural medical complications.” Fresno Bee A 25-year-old male who was shot by San Diego police over the weekend has actually died.
The shooting of Leonardo Ibarra, who police say intended a gun before they opened fire, has actually drawn intense analysis amid regional and national demonstrations decrying cops cruelty and racial oppression.
More weather condition is here. Advertisement AND FINALLY Today's California memory originates from Frank L. Tobe: Before the Beverly Center was conceived, there was a little theme park on the corner of La Cienega and Beverly boulevards with a merry-go-round, horse trips for kids (like me) and a fantastic hamburger stand: Dave's Taxi Burger. An oval onion roll with mustard, relish and a likewise oblong, really good-smelling hamburger. My father took me for lunch there most Saturdays, and we both loved it. I never ever knew why it was called a Taxi Burger. I asked Dave if that was his last name … It wasn't. Anyone understand why?
