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Conservative talk show host Larry Elder, 69, issued a brief statement Wednesday night saying he was seriously considering entering the race and would announce his decision early next week. His entry into the race would give the Republican field a jolt of celebrity sparkle and a name on the ticket known through his nationally syndicated radio show and appearances on Fox News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with Faulconer, other Republicans who have said they will run include Republican businessman John Cox, who was defeated by Newsom in 2018, former U.S. Rep. Doug Ose and reality TV personality and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Cox said “a new day” is coming for California and that “the insiders and allies have done their best to manipulate the election date for the pretty boy Governor, but it doesn’t matter. The people are tired of corruption and politicians who don’t deliver.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recall election, voters would be asked two questions: First, should Newsom be removed, yes or no? The second question would be a list of replacement candidates to choose from if a majority of voters cast ballots to remove Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Del Beccaro, a former head of the state Republican Party who chairs Rescue California, one of the groups promoting the recall, said Elder would help drive up support for the critical first question in his home Los Angeles area, the most populous in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Statewide races in California are often won or lost in L.A. county,” said Del Beccaro, who is not aligned with any candidate. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The date of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recall election has been set. Voters will head to the polls Sept. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis set the date of the election Thursday, hours after Secretary of State Shirley Weber officially certified the recall. Weber’s certification came after she received the final election cost estimate of $276 million from the Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Kounalakis said she believes she’s chosen a fair and reasonable date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has always been my intention to choose an election date that gives election officials and the public ample time to ensure a smooth election with broad participation,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candidates who want to be considered for Newsom’s seat, should he be removed from office, have until July 17 to officially file for the race. Democratic political consultant Robin Swanson said the relatively short time frame makes it less likely the ballot will be swamped with possible replacements for Newsom, like it was in 2003 when 135 candidates vied to replace then-Gov. Gray Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what we saw in the Gray Davis recall election was everyone and their brother joining in as candidates and running for office,” she said. “And in this instance, people are going to have to file quickly. They either will have already announced that they are running or they’re going to have to do it in the next couple of weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process moved much quicker than was expected when the recall qualified for the ballot. Initially, it seemed most likely the election would take place in October or November. But as COVID rates fell and the economy boomed, Democrats started thinking it might be better for the election to be held sooner rather than later. Newsom even signed legislation this week aimed at speeding up the process. Swanson believes the earlier date will be good for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be ripping the Band-Aid off quickly and get it done in September so we can all move on with our lives and go back to governing the state of California,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with their campaign time cut short, Newsom’s opponents are still determined to give the governor a fight. Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, a Republican, said in a statement he’s ready to lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Change is coming for California and retirement is coming for Gavin Newsom,” Faulconer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Newsom appears to be in a strong position heading into the election. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11875264/new-poll-shows-support-idling-for-newsom-recall-effort\">According to a May poll\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California, just about 40% of likely voters think Newsom should be recalled. The poll also found 57% of likely voters say they will reject the recall effort on the ballot this fall, and vote to keep Newsom in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s campaign issued a statement describing the election as “a naked attempt by Trump Republicans to grab control in California.” It called on his supporters to “defend our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP field is expected to continue to grow. Conservative talk show host Larry Elder, 69, issued a brief statement Wednesday night saying he was seriously considering entering the race and would announce his decision early next week. His entry into the race would give the Republican field a jolt of celebrity sparkle and a name on the ticket known through his nationally syndicated radio show and appearances on Fox News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with Faulconer, other Republicans who have said they will run include Republican businessman John Cox, who was defeated by Newsom in 2018, former U.S. Rep. Doug Ose and reality TV personality and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Cox said “a new day” is coming for California and that “the insiders and allies have done their best to manipulate the election date for the pretty boy Governor, but it doesn’t matter. The people are tired of corruption and politicians who don’t deliver.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recall election, voters would be asked two questions: First, should Newsom be removed, yes or no? The second question would be a list of replacement candidates to choose from if a majority of voters cast ballots to remove Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Del Beccaro, a former head of the state Republican Party who chairs Rescue California, one of the groups promoting the recall, said Elder would help drive up support for the critical first question in his home Los Angeles area, the most populous in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Statewide races in California are often won or lost in L.A. county,” said Del Beccaro, who is not aligned with any candidate. Elder “is going to bring a constituency that is going to help us get a ‘yes’ on the question No. 1.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Frank, a longtime conservative activist serving as Elder’s spokesman, said his entry into the race would become “a major game-changer.” People across the political spectrum “know him, and many listen to his show.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder, a Black man, also would bring more diversity to the Republican ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claremont McKenna College professor and political scientist Jack Pitney said Elder’s entry into the race would be a setback for Cox because “Elder would appeal to the hard-core Republican, conservative base that would have been Cox’s base.” Faulconer is considered a GOP moderate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press’ Michael R. Blood and Kathleen Ronayne contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is set to talk wildfires with President Biden and governors of other Western states Wednesday, has \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/newsom-wildfire-executive-action-gavin-order-governor/5035854/\">said\u003c/a> that the reality of climate change, with its hot summers and dry winters, means the state’s approach to fighting increasingly large and frequent blazes “fundamentally has to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003ca href=\"https://fmtf.fire.ca.gov/media/cjwfpckz/californiawildfireandforestresilienceactionplan.pdf\">plan\u003c/a> he is promoting, to treat 500,000 acres a year by 2025, is notably less ambitious than a 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ca.gov/archive/gov39/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/5.10.18-Forest-EO.pdf\">executive order\u003c/a> signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/05/10/gov-brown-devotes-nearly-100-million-to-address-wildfire-threats/\">mandated\u003c/a> the state reach that goal by 2023. And this week, his administration nixed more than half a billion dollars in promised fuel-reduction spending for this year, an investigation by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom declined to comment for this story. But Wade Crowfoot, his natural resources secretary, said in an interview that the state was making a “quantum leap” in wildfire prevention under Newsom, but was under no obligation to stick with his predecessor’s timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t speak to what the last administration was focused on,” Crowfoot said, or “hypothesize on what the last governor had identified or had targeted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2025 goal is part of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/8.12.20-CA-Shared-Stewardship-MOU.pdf\">agreement\u003c/a> Newsom reached with former President Donald Trump last year, in which the state and federal government both committed to fuel-reduction work and conducting prescribed burns across 500,000 acres every year. When asked, neither Cal Fire or the U.S. Forest Service provided details on progress toward those goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final state budget, signed Monday, Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders also agreed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars less than what they had initially proposed for wildfire prevention efforts this year. Newsom had called for over $700 million for wildfire prevention and resilience in his May \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/Revised/BudgetSummary/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">revised budget\u003c/a>. The Legislature increased that amount to $1 billion in its budget \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB128\">bill\u003c/a>. But the final budget deal includes less than half of that — $458 million over the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"california-wildfires\"]Crowfoot said Cal Fire wasn’t ready to spend the money. “We couldn’t put all that billion dollars to work on shovel-ready projects immediately,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for the California Department of Finance, confirmed that despite the need, the state simply wasn’t ready to take on that many projects. Spending a billion dollars on wildfire prevention in one year, he said, would be “like trying to drink water out of a fire hose.” While substantially less than what Newsom originally promised, the outlay is still more money than in years past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is already facing criticism for \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/06/23/newsom-misled-the-public-about-wildfire-prevention-efforts-ahead-of-worst-fire-season-on-record/\">misrepresenting\u003c/a> his accomplishments on wildfire prevention. Last week, CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom reported that the governor drastically overstated — by an astounding 690% — the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in the very projects he said needed to be prioritized to protect the state’s most vulnerable communities. Newsom has claimed that 35 “priority projects” carried out as a result of a January 2019 executive order resulted in fire prevention work on 90,000 acres. But the state’s own data show that just 11,399 actual acres were “treated” through fuel reduction or prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation also found that after a spike in mitigation work in Newsom’s first year in office, the number of total acres treated by Cal Fire declined precipitously, to below what was done during the Brown administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Bill Dodd, a Democrat who represents the Napa and Sonoma Valley wine country, which have been ravaged by wildfires in recent years, said he was “not pleased” that the prevention work decreased, and was initially “taken aback” by the last-minute budget trim. Dodd said he suspects Cal Fire doesn’t have the capacity to ramp up its prevention work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve seen what Cal Fire has been able to get out the door this year, whether it’s prescribed fire or any number of other things,” he said. “And it’s not as quick as we’d like to have it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican lawmakers seized on the investigation and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmVinceFong/status/1407831117101617157?s=20\">demanded\u003c/a> oversight hearings. Assemblyman James Gallagher, who represents the fire-ravaged city of Paradise, offered amendments to the state budget to shore up wildfire prevention funding, which were quickly squelched by the Democratic majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher said he was unaware that Newsom pushed back to 2025 the state’s goal of treating 500,000 acres annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s another example of how the Newsom administration isn’t treating this issue with the urgency that’s needed,” Gallagher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom staffers and lawmakers say that even though they’ve reduced the wildfire mitigation budget this year, they plan to add an extra half a billion dollars to next year’s budget. By then, they argue, Cal Fire will be better positioned to implement those projects as the state continues to build toward the 500,000-acre goal.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated June 29.\u003c/em> \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879638/que-significa-la-extension-de-la-moratoria-contra-desalojos-en-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lea este artículo en español\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California renters, who are still struggling to pay the rent even as the pandemic wanes, will be shielded from eviction through Sept. 30 under a last-minute deal announced June 25 by Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement, which more fully opens up $5.2 billion to pay full back rent and rent going forward, was approved Monday by the Assembly and state Senate. Newsom, who faces a recall election later this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/06/28/governor-newsom-signs-nation-leading-rent-relief-program-for-low-income-tenants-eviction-moratorium-extension-additional-legislation/\">signed the bill Monday night\u003c/a>, just before the existing protections expire after Wednesday, June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In statements, Newsom and legislative leaders who negotiated the new protections said they would keep families from falling through the safety net as California reopens from COVID-19 and the economy recovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposal avoids a massive eviction cliff, allowing us to keep tenants in their homes and get landlords the financial support they need,” said Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Chair David Chiu, a San Francisco Democrat who put together the initial moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some tenant groups, however, wanted a longer extension of the eviction ban, saying that three months isn’t long enough to get rent relief distributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This timeline does not match the reality the state faces and tenants will be left out to dry,” Francisco Dueñas, executive director of Housing Now!, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"rent, eviction\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Lakewood Democrat, told CalMatters that lawmakers couldn’t guarantee they would get rental relief to everyone by Sept. 30, “but we do want to do everything we possibly can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the Legislature would reassess the program as the end date draws closer. “We’re trying to implement new processes and protections, and we’re hoping that those will be effective,” he said. “And we’re also obviously hoping that the economy is in full swing and hopefully an eviction moratorium will not be necessary moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While advocacy groups representing tenants and landlords said they were shut out of the negotiations — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/04/capitol-mum-on-eviction-moratorium-extension-as-renters-seek-more-time/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">similar to the last two rounds of negotiations\u003c/a> — both sides managed to get some key provisions they wanted. Here are some key components of Assembly Bill 832:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What would this mean for tenants?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tenants would have a defense in court should their landlord evict them over non-payment of rent through Sept. 30. They still have to \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/covid19_financial_distress_form.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">submit a declaration saying they are unable to make full rent\u003c/a>, and pay at least 25% of their monthly rent between Sept. 1, 2020 and June 2021, or in bulk, by Sept. 30, to avoid eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are served with a 15-day notice and do not provide the declaration form to your landlord before the 15-day notice expires, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you could be evicted\u003c/a>,” the bill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/120520_HousingProtest_AW_sized_03-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/120520_HousingProtest_AW_sized_03-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/120520_HousingProtest_AW_sized_03-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/120520_HousingProtest_AW_sized_03-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/120520_HousingProtest_AW_sized_03-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/120520_HousingProtest_AW_sized_03.jpeg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland resident Andrew Rosenburg holds up a banner while protesting rent evictions during the pandemic on Dec. 5, 2020 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Additional documentation, such as a bank statement proving a decrease in income, could be required in cases where a landlord has proof the tenant makes over a certain income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants will still need to abide by their lease in order to avoid eviction for reasons other than non-payment of rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evictions over non-payment of rent could resume on Oct. 1, but people who make less than 80% of the area median income and were financially affected by COVID would have another six months to apply for rental assistance funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the rent relief application goes through, the eviction process will be blocked, and landlords will be able to receive compensation for missed back rent. If the tenant is ineligible, however, the proceeding will continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupe Arreola, executive director of Tenants Together, said while the additional legal protections sound good in theory, they may not work in real life. “We’re saying that’s wishful thinking. We’re saying that’s not going to happen.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what about the money? The bill says tenants, as well as their landlords, will be able to \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/program_overview.html#renter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apply for 100% of back rent and up to three months of forward rent\u003c/a>. Previously, without landlord approval, a tenant was eligible for only 25% of missed rental payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was a key ask from tenant advocates, and a source of worry for landlords, who said the provision would be abused. Tenants who receive rental assistance will acknowledge under penalty of perjury they will use the money to pay missed rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the landlord still tries to evict the tenant over non-payment of rent, the court will be able to check whether the tenant received state dollars. If they paid the full amount to the landlord, the eviction will be blocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also shields evictions over non-payment of rent from appearing on a tenant’s record, which hampers the ability to rent in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who is eligible for relief?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The tenant’s household income must be at or below 80% of the area median income during 2020 or 2021. Those income brackets \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/income-limits/state-and-federal-income-limits/docs/income-limits-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vary by region\u003c/a>. Tenants with an income below 50% will be prioritized. Assistance is available to tenants regardless of their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local jurisdictions distributing rental relief might have different rules, however; during the last round of funds in Los Angeles, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://hcidla.lacity.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a two-person household couldn’t make more than $45,050\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill expands eligibility to tenants who may have moved out of their home during the pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/04/california-rent-relief-tenants/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who were not covered previously\u003c/a>. They can now apply for back rent owed to a previous landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What does this deal mean for landlords?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Landlords will be unable to evict tenants over non-payment of rent through Sept. 30. To file an eviction lawsuit after that, the landlord must provide evidence to the court they applied for rental assistance. The case can only proceed if the tenant does not complete their application or qualify for aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlord groups, which hoped the protections would not be further extended, are frustrated by this provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While there is some recognition of this distress in the deal by providing 100% in rent assistance and requirements for the tenants to use the funds to pay rent, we are very concerned as to when this moratorium will actually end,” Christine LaMarca, president of the California Rental Housing Association, which represents more than 20,000 landlords, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlords will still be able to evict tenants for a substantial remodel only if that is necessary to comply with health and safety standards, and if the owner of the property is selling it to a buyer who intends to occupy the property. They cannot, for example, sell to someone who intends to rent out the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those restrictions might be \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-22/la-county-extends-covid19-eviction-moratorium-through-september\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tighter in certain localities\u003c/a>, like Los Angeles, which passed a local moratorium earlier this week. But under the bill, other cities would not be able to enact stricter rules through March 2022, a provision \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/lawmakers-introduce-short-term-extension-of-covid-19-eviction-moratorium/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supported by the California Apartment Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlords would be able to apply for 100% of back and forward rent. The previous law said a landlord could apply for 80% of missed rent payments and would have to forgive the remaining 20%; the new bill means that even those who applied for only partial refund will be receiving the missing funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If both a landlord and a tenant applied for funds, the money will go directly to the landlord. It will only go to the tenant if the landlord declines to participate in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the California Apartment Association said the state’s moratorium extension, and the final federal extension through July announced Thursday, would not be necessary if the rent relief money was getting out to landlords and tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is frustrating that the state of California and numerous local governments have not quickly disbursed funds to those in need, especially to mom-and-pop rental housing providers who have not seen any rent payments yet must still pay the mortgage, insurance, taxes, maintenance and other expenses,” association President Tom Bannon said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about the money?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The protections are tied to dollars; and lots of them. The state approved an additional $2.6 billion of rental assistance, plus an existing $2.6 billion, all from federal relief funding. That’s $5.2 billion available to cover the missed back rent and up to three months of forward rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis by PolicyLink, an Oakland-based research group, suggests that about \u003ca href=\"https://nationalequityatlas.org/rent-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">758,000 households in California are behind on rent\u003c/a> and owe a total of $3.5 billion. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brian Augusta, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation\"]‘The linchpin in all of this is the billions of dollars we have from the federal government. We have got to urgently fix whatever has slowed the flow of that money to a trickle.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money has gone out at a snail’s pace. While billions have been available since January, the state has distributed from its pot only \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article252289103.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$61.6 million in relief\u003c/a> to a little more than 5,000 households so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The linchpin in all of this is the billions of dollars we have from the federal government,” Brian Augusta, legislative advocate for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, told CalMatters. “We have got to urgently fix whatever has slowed the flow of that money to a trickle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, have reported demand for rental assistance far outweighed availability. The bill says that unspent funds will be redirected to those places with the highest need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also grants larger cities and counties the ability to administer their own rental funds, instead of having to rely on the state to administer a portion of those. That was a major request from local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Lakewood Democrat, told CalMatters that lawmakers couldn’t guarantee they would get rental relief to everyone by Sept. 30, “but we do want to do everything we possibly can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the Legislature would reassess the program as the end date draws closer. “We’re trying to implement new processes and protections, and we’re hoping that those will be effective,” he said. “And we’re also obviously hoping that the economy is in full swing and hopefully an eviction moratorium will not be necessary moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While advocacy groups representing tenants and landlords said they were shut out of the negotiations — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/04/capitol-mum-on-eviction-moratorium-extension-as-renters-seek-more-time/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">similar to the last two rounds of negotiations\u003c/a> — both sides managed to get some key provisions they wanted. Here are some key components of Assembly Bill 832:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What would this mean for tenants?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tenants would have a defense in court should their landlord evict them over non-payment of rent through Sept. 30. They still have to \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/covid19_financial_distress_form.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">submit a declaration saying they are unable to make full rent\u003c/a>, and pay at least 25% of their monthly rent between Sept. 1, 2020 and June 2021, or in bulk, by Sept. 30, to avoid eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are served with a 15-day notice and do not provide the declaration form to your landlord before the 15-day notice expires, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you could be evicted\u003c/a>,” the bill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/120520_HousingProtest_AW_sized_03-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/120520_HousingProtest_AW_sized_03-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/120520_HousingProtest_AW_sized_03-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/120520_HousingProtest_AW_sized_03-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/120520_HousingProtest_AW_sized_03-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/120520_HousingProtest_AW_sized_03.jpeg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland resident Andrew Rosenburg holds up a banner while protesting rent evictions during the pandemic on Dec. 5, 2020 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Additional documentation, such as a bank statement proving a decrease in income, could be required in cases where a landlord has proof the tenant makes over a certain income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants will still need to abide by their lease in order to avoid eviction for reasons other than non-payment of rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evictions over non-payment of rent could resume on Oct. 1, but people who make less than 80% of the area median income and were financially affected by COVID would have another six months to apply for rental assistance funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the rent relief application goes through, the eviction process will be blocked, and landlords will be able to receive compensation for missed back rent. If the tenant is ineligible, however, the proceeding will continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupe Arreola, executive director of Tenants Together, said while the additional legal protections sound good in theory, they may not work in real life. “We’re saying that’s wishful thinking. We’re saying that’s not going to happen.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what about the money? The bill says tenants, as well as their landlords, will be able to \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/program_overview.html#renter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apply for 100% of back rent and up to three months of forward rent\u003c/a>. Previously, without landlord approval, a tenant was eligible for only 25% of missed rental payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was a key ask from tenant advocates, and a source of worry for landlords, who said the provision would be abused. Tenants who receive rental assistance will acknowledge under penalty of perjury they will use the money to pay missed rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the landlord still tries to evict the tenant over non-payment of rent, the court will be able to check whether the tenant received state dollars. If they paid the full amount to the landlord, the eviction will be blocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also shields evictions over non-payment of rent from appearing on a tenant’s record, which hampers the ability to rent in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who is eligible for relief?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The tenant’s household income must be at or below 80% of the area median income during 2020 or 2021. Those income brackets \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/income-limits/state-and-federal-income-limits/docs/income-limits-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vary by region\u003c/a>. Tenants with an income below 50% will be prioritized. Assistance is available to tenants regardless of their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local jurisdictions distributing rental relief might have different rules, however; during the last round of funds in Los Angeles, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://hcidla.lacity.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a two-person household couldn’t make more than $45,050\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill expands eligibility to tenants who may have moved out of their home during the pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/04/california-rent-relief-tenants/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who were not covered previously\u003c/a>. They can now apply for back rent owed to a previous landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What does this deal mean for landlords?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Landlords will be unable to evict tenants over non-payment of rent through Sept. 30. To file an eviction lawsuit after that, the landlord must provide evidence to the court they applied for rental assistance. The case can only proceed if the tenant does not complete their application or qualify for aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlord groups, which hoped the protections would not be further extended, are frustrated by this provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While there is some recognition of this distress in the deal by providing 100% in rent assistance and requirements for the tenants to use the funds to pay rent, we are very concerned as to when this moratorium will actually end,” Christine LaMarca, president of the California Rental Housing Association, which represents more than 20,000 landlords, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlords will still be able to evict tenants for a substantial remodel only if that is necessary to comply with health and safety standards, and if the owner of the property is selling it to a buyer who intends to occupy the property. They cannot, for example, sell to someone who intends to rent out the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those restrictions might be \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-22/la-county-extends-covid19-eviction-moratorium-through-september\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tighter in certain localities\u003c/a>, like Los Angeles, which passed a local moratorium earlier this week. But under the bill, other cities would not be able to enact stricter rules through March 2022, a provision \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/lawmakers-introduce-short-term-extension-of-covid-19-eviction-moratorium/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supported by the California Apartment Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlords would be able to apply for 100% of back and forward rent. The previous law said a landlord could apply for 80% of missed rent payments and would have to forgive the remaining 20%; the new bill means that even those who applied for only partial refund will be receiving the missing funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If both a landlord and a tenant applied for funds, the money will go directly to the landlord. It will only go to the tenant if the landlord declines to participate in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the California Apartment Association said the state’s moratorium extension, and the final federal extension through July announced Thursday, would not be necessary if the rent relief money was getting out to landlords and tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is frustrating that the state of California and numerous local governments have not quickly disbursed funds to those in need, especially to mom-and-pop rental housing providers who have not seen any rent payments yet must still pay the mortgage, insurance, taxes, maintenance and other expenses,” association President Tom Bannon said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What about the money?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The protections are tied to dollars; and lots of them. The state approved an additional $2.6 billion of rental assistance, plus an existing $2.6 billion, all from federal relief funding. That’s $5.2 billion available to cover the missed back rent and up to three months of forward rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis by PolicyLink, an Oakland-based research group, suggests that about \u003ca href=\"https://nationalequityatlas.org/rent-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">758,000 households in California are behind on rent\u003c/a> and owe a total of $3.5 billion. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money has gone out at a snail’s pace. While billions have been available since January, the state has distributed from its pot only \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article252289103.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$61.6 million in relief\u003c/a> to a little more than 5,000 households so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The linchpin in all of this is the billions of dollars we have from the federal government,” Brian Augusta, legislative advocate for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, told CalMatters. “We have got to urgently fix whatever has slowed the flow of that money to a trickle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, have reported demand for rental assistance far outweighed availability. The bill says that unspent funds will be redirected to those places with the highest need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also grants larger cities and counties the ability to administer their own rental funds, instead of having to rely on the state to administer a portion of those. That was a major request from local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Gavin Newsom’s first full day in office, Jan. 8, 2019, the newly elected governor \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/newsom-wildfire-executive-action-gavin-order-governor/5035854/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stood\u003c/a> before the cameras, clad in jeans and sneakers and surrounded by emergency responders, and declared war on wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has had enough,” the governor said, announcing he’d signed a sweeping \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1.8.19-EO-N-05-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive order\u003c/a> overhauling the state’s approach to wildfire prevention. \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/09/03/wildfires-in-california-will-continue-to-get-worse-climate-change-experts-explore-why/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate change was sparking fires\u003c/a> more frequent, ferocious, and far-reaching than ever before, Newsom said, and confronting them would have to become a year-round effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s response, Newsom added, “fundamentally has to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two-and-a-half years later, as California approaches what could be the worst wildfire season on record, it does so with little evidence of the year-round attention Newsom promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An investigation from CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom found the governor has misrepresented his accomplishments and even disinvested in wildfire prevention. The investigation found Newsom overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in the very forestry projects he said needed to be prioritized to protect the state’s most vulnerable communities. Newsom has claimed that 35 “priority projects” carried out as a result of his executive order resulted in fire prevention work on 90,000 acres. But the state’s own data show the actual number is 11,399.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, California’s response has faltered under Newsom. After an initial jump during his first year in office, data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show Cal Fire’s fuel reduction output dropped by half in 2020, to levels below Gov. Jerry Brown’s final year in office. At the same time, Newsom slashed roughly $150 million from Cal Fire’s wildfire prevention budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]Newsom has claimed that 35 ‘priority projects’ carried out as a result of his executive order resulted in fire prevention work on 90,000 acres. But the state’s own data show the actual number is 11,399.[/pullquote] In 2020, 4.3 million acres burned, the most in California’s recorded history. That was more than double the previous record, set in 2018, when the Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise, killing 85 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show that through Memorial Day, the annual number of acres worked remained low, despite a fire season that threatens to be even more dangerous than last year. \u003ca href=\"https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Most of the state\u003c/a> is in “extreme drought” or “exceptional drought,” which means there is an abundance of dry vegetation ready to catch fire. A record heat wave has swept the state already this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data show Cal Fire treated 64,000 acres in 2019, but only 32,000 acres in 2020 and 24,000 acres through Memorial Day this year. The federal government and private landowners also chip in, but the totals remain far below what experts say is required to effectively adapt to the dangers of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be doing a million acres a year, for a long time,” said Michael Wara, director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment. “That’s the scale where you start to achieve … strategic goals, like fewer structures lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Newsom is trying to play catch-up. With the state enjoying an unexpected surplus, Newsom proposed $1.2 billion in “wildfire resiliency” funding in the upcoming budget. Experts say the increase in prevention spending could help the state get closer to a less-dangerous wildfire season over time. But they also expressed concern over whether the state will sustain that commitment for years to come. “We are in a deep hole,” Wara said, “and it is going to take us many years of sustained effort to get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879067\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-800x530.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-800x530.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-1020x676.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-1536x1017.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-2048x1356.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-1920x1272.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitch Mackenzie’s home in Santa Rosa, pictured after it was destroyed in the 2017 Tubbs Fire. Last year’s wine country fires ruined one-third of the winery’s grape harvest, and the flames nearly overran his new home in Sonoma County. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mitch Mackenzie)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In interviews, fire survivors said they felt betrayed by government officials who seem more concerned with making a splash than saving homes and businesses from incineration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a deception,” said Mitch Mackenzie, co-owner of Carol Shelton Wines in Santa Rosa, who lost his home in the 2017 Tubbs Fire. Last year’s wine country fires ruined one-third of the winery’s grape harvest, and the flames nearly overran his new home in Sonoma County. He says Newsom’s embellishments are a frustrating — but typical — example of how California politicians handle wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all the fire danger that we have experienced year, after year, after year … you would think it would be a higher priority to make sure that all of this area is treated as much as possible,” Mackenzie said. Politicians, he added, “always want to look good about fixing the problem, but then they never really do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Newsom’s case, the data shows he’s done just 13% of the job he’s touted on his highest-priority projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment over the course of two weeks, including a 500-word email that laid out the investigation’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of Cal Fire, Chief Thom Porter, did grant an interview. He acknowledged the figures cited by Newsom were incorrect and took responsibility for the governor’s misstatements. Porter, who stood behind Newsom at a series of press conferences where the governor boasted of his accomplishments, said Cal Fire had neither “done our job in educating the public, nor the governor’s office” about how to talk about its wildfire prevention efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter also confirmed the agency had fallen short of its fuel reduction goals in 2020. “It’s not something that I’m comfortable with,” he said. “It is something that I’m working to reconcile and to correct for the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 90,000 Acres That Weren’t\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many of Newsom’s misrepresentations revolve around \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/about-us/45-day-report/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">35 “priority projects,”\u003c/a> which Cal Fire launched in February 2019 as a result of Newsom’s executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The projects selected, Cal Fire said, would protect 200 communities that were especially vulnerable to wildfire. The projects ran the length of the state — from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/5536/45-day-plan_01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fuel break\u003c/a> in the shrublands around the community of Crest, east of El Cajon in San Diego County, to cutting back foliage along major routes in and out of the town of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/5574/45-day-plan_06.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Shastina\u003c/a>, in Siskiyou County, near the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879055\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-800x1035.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-800x1035.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-1020x1320.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-160x207.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-1187x1536.jpeg 1187w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-1583x2048.jpeg 1583w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-1920x2485.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-scaled.jpeg 1978w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘original project area’ of Cal Fire’s Ukiah Fuels Reduction project in Mendocino County covers a sprawling 26,541 acres (in green). But the agency’s data shows the agency did work on just 734 of them (in red). \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As required by Newsom’s executive order, the agency said it paid particular attention to equity — focusing on areas with high “poverty levels, residents with disabilities, language barriers, residents over 65 or under five years of age, and households without a car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially, the projects totaled about 90,000 acres. That’s well short of the amount of forestland experts say needs treatment in California, but it would have substantially increased Cal Fire’s prevention output compared to past years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2020, Newsom declared mission accomplished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The projects collectively have treated 90,000 acres,” states a January 2020 \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/01/29/governor-newsom-announces-completion-of-emergency-projects-to-protect-wildfire-vulnerable-communities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a> from the governor’s office. “Work included removal of hazardous dead trees, vegetation clearing, creation of fuel breaks and community defensible spaces, and creation of ingress and egress corridors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the data analyzed by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show that Cal Fire treated a small fraction of that amount, 11,399 acres, or about 13% of the amount cited by Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mendocino County, for example, Cal Fire’s public reports said its Ukiah Fuels Reduction Project, which included fuel breaks and forest thinning in the hills west of Highway 101, covered a sprawling 26,541 acres. But the agency’s data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom showed the agency did work on just 734 of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879056\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-800x1035.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-800x1035.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-1020x1320.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-160x207.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-1187x1536.jpeg 1187w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-1583x2048.jpeg 1583w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-1920x2485.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-scaled.jpeg 1978w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officially, the Willits Fuel Reduction Project covers 11,965 acres. The data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom, on the other hand, showed just 262 acres of fuel breaks and no prescribed burns. \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Responding to our inquiries, the agency provided a map. It included a large area shaded in green, covering much of the area west of Highway 101 and described as the “original project area proposed,” and a much smaller area in red, where the work was actually done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire provided a similar map for the Willits Fuel Reduction Project, where the agency’s public reports showed a project area of 11,965 acres. The data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom, on the other hand, showed just 262 acres of fuel breaks and no prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 90k acre figure was the overall project area, but not necessarily the area treated,” Cal Fire public information officer Daniel Berlant wrote when pressed, acknowledging the priority projects did not produce mitigation work across 90,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t square with Newsom’s portrayal to the public, nor does it match how Cal Fire described the projects. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20972182-factsheet_proclamation-stateofemergency_final\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fact sheet\u003c/a> from 2019 claimed “the priority fuel reduction projects would treat approximately 90,000 acres.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forestry experts said the discrepancies in vegetation management data undermine the state’s ability to measure progress toward its ambitious fuel reduction targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be truthful,” said Scott Stephens, a professor of fire science at UC Berkeley. When treatment numbers are garbled or exaggerated, he added, “Then you wonder about public confidence [and if] funding is being used efficiently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state and federal government recently set an annual goal of treating 500,000 acres each by 2025, with Cal Fire developing a list of 500 projects to continuously work on and update to reach that end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be really clear on what we’re reporting,” said John Battles, a professor of forest ecology at UC Berkeley. “Especially if there’s a million acre goal, with half coming from the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire fact sheet from 2019 claimed Newsom’s priority projects would knock out “about 20% of the [500,000 acre] goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, the actual acres treated represented less than 3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Newsom’s public pronouncements, Porter, the chief of Cal Fire, said the state was never going to be able to tackle all 90,000 acres in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have all of the environmental clearance that we were going to need to do all of that work,” Porter said. “Nor did we have all of the agreements with landowners completely in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Total Acres Treated Plummets\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom regularly points to the 35 priority projects as a badge of success. In a press release last month, he claimed the “emergency fuel reduction projects … played a critical role in containing wildfires last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 4 million acres burned across the state in 2020 — the most since California began keeping track. Cal Fire did not provide an estimate for how much more land would have burned without the completion of the priority projects, and a review of fire data by the San Francisco Chronicle found the fire breaks were often too small to be effective. “When they did intercept a fire, the flames often pushed right through,” the paper reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the department says the fuel breaks and thinning did save some communities from fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fuel break near Shaver Lake in Fresno County, for example, is credited with helping save about 70 homes in a nearby subdivision. And a fuel break in Butte County called Forbestown Ridge helped slow the advance of the North Complex Fire, allowing firefighters to develop a suppression plan and create contingency lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Newsom boasted about the 35 projects, fire prevention funding and productivity dwindled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom did not identify a new set of priority projects to tackle after declaring victory on the initial 35 in January 2020, even though Cal Fire’s recommendations underscored the urgent need to make this an ongoing effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California faces a massive backlog of forest management work,” the department states in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/5584/45-day-report-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 report\u003c/a>. “Millions of acres are in need of treatment, and this work — once completed — must be repeated over the years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade ago, Cal Fire was treating a paltry 17,000 acres annually. That number has steadily climbed. Though Newsom misrepresented the number of acres treated in his “priority projects,” the overall amount of wildfire mitigation work carried out by Cal Fire spiked in his first year in office, to 64,000 acres. But in 2020, fuel reduction totals plummeted to less than 32,000 acres — a roughly 50% drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter acknowledges the decline, but claims there’s not much Cal Fire could do. Though Newsom claimed in July 2020 that California was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/07/09/watch-live-gov-gavin-newsom-update-on-covid-19-and-fire-season-preparation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">up to the task\u003c/a>” of preventing wildfires and stopping the coronavirus at the same time, Porter said the reality of the pandemic presented barriers Cal Fire could not overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The record fire season also made prevention work more difficult. Fires broke out earlier than usual, leaving less time for prescribed burns and thinning. Crews responsible for fire prevention work are also tasked with fire suppression. After a spate of dry lightning that set multiple conflagration fires at once, crews shifted to an all-hands-on-deck suppression effort. Our “initial analysis is that what kept us from getting the work done was completely out of our control,” Porter said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the significant drop in acres treated also shows the fragility of California’s existing wildfire prevention infrastructure — and the need to considerably strengthen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to get more strategic,” said Stephens. “We’re going to have to get much more nimble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through late May of 2021, Cal Fire treated over 23,000 acres, putting it on track to exceed last year’s total, but fall short of the work done in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Big Spending Push, After Disinvestment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The drop in wildfire prevention work occurred at a time when the state put fewer dollars toward fire prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2019 budget allocated $355 million for wildfire prevention and resource management. The following year, after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Newsom slashed that to $203 million — a decrease of more than 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within months of enacting the budget last year, fire had consumed California. Over 4 million acres burned largely due to the long-term impacts of climate change and fuel buildup, combined with extraordinary weather events. But the cataclysmic fire season underscored the crucial need for increased and sustained spending on prevention — not disinvestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spending on prevention is the only way that this gets better, but we have to do it for a super long time,” said Wara of Stanford University’s Woods Institute. “We can’t firefight our way out of this problem.” [pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Wara, director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment\"]‘The significance of this problem for California justifies spending a lot more than we’re spending right now.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By late 2020, it became clear the pandemic would not have a disastrous impact on state revenues. On the contrary, Newsom said the state had a nearly $76 billion surplus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Newsom is proposing $2 billion in spending on wildfires and emergency preparedness, with $1.2 billion going toward “wildfire resiliency.” The state Legislature’s version of the budget allocates over $1.5 billion for a “wildfire prevention and forest resilience package.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts anticipate there will be significantly more money for mitigation compared to past budgets — but it’ll still fall short.\u003cbr>\n[aside tag=\"fire, wildfire\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see [it] as a very positive trend,” said Wara. “I still think that we are not spending enough. The significance of this problem for California justifies spending a lot more than we’re spending right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s $2 billion proposal included an early budget allocation for $536 million, signed in April, with the majority going toward forest health and fuel reduction programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berlant, the Cal Fire spokesman, says he believes the funding will help the department reach its treatment goals years ahead of schedule. But he acknowledges the agency can only keep that up with sustained funding — otherwise, fuel reduction could drop again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How we work to make that ongoing will be a continued discussion with the Legislature,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephens of UC Berkeley says retreating on wildfire prevention spending could undo progress made toward the state’s ambitious goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re not going to maintain the funding for [treatment] work, why even do it in the first place?” he said. “If you don’t continue this forever, you’re basically never going to get out of this hole.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Gavin Newsom’s first full day in office, Jan. 8, 2019, the newly elected governor \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/newsom-wildfire-executive-action-gavin-order-governor/5035854/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stood\u003c/a> before the cameras, clad in jeans and sneakers and surrounded by emergency responders, and declared war on wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has had enough,” the governor said, announcing he’d signed a sweeping \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1.8.19-EO-N-05-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive order\u003c/a> overhauling the state’s approach to wildfire prevention. \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/09/03/wildfires-in-california-will-continue-to-get-worse-climate-change-experts-explore-why/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate change was sparking fires\u003c/a> more frequent, ferocious, and far-reaching than ever before, Newsom said, and confronting them would have to become a year-round effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s response, Newsom added, “fundamentally has to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two-and-a-half years later, as California approaches what could be the worst wildfire season on record, it does so with little evidence of the year-round attention Newsom promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An investigation from CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom found the governor has misrepresented his accomplishments and even disinvested in wildfire prevention. The investigation found Newsom overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in the very forestry projects he said needed to be prioritized to protect the state’s most vulnerable communities. Newsom has claimed that 35 “priority projects” carried out as a result of his executive order resulted in fire prevention work on 90,000 acres. But the state’s own data show the actual number is 11,399.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> In 2020, 4.3 million acres burned, the most in California’s recorded history. That was more than double the previous record, set in 2018, when the Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise, killing 85 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show that through Memorial Day, the annual number of acres worked remained low, despite a fire season that threatens to be even more dangerous than last year. \u003ca href=\"https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Most of the state\u003c/a> is in “extreme drought” or “exceptional drought,” which means there is an abundance of dry vegetation ready to catch fire. A record heat wave has swept the state already this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data show Cal Fire treated 64,000 acres in 2019, but only 32,000 acres in 2020 and 24,000 acres through Memorial Day this year. The federal government and private landowners also chip in, but the totals remain far below what experts say is required to effectively adapt to the dangers of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be doing a million acres a year, for a long time,” said Michael Wara, director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment. “That’s the scale where you start to achieve … strategic goals, like fewer structures lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Newsom is trying to play catch-up. With the state enjoying an unexpected surplus, Newsom proposed $1.2 billion in “wildfire resiliency” funding in the upcoming budget. Experts say the increase in prevention spending could help the state get closer to a less-dangerous wildfire season over time. But they also expressed concern over whether the state will sustain that commitment for years to come. “We are in a deep hole,” Wara said, “and it is going to take us many years of sustained effort to get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879067\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-800x530.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-800x530.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-1020x676.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-1536x1017.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-2048x1356.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mitch-House-After-1920x1272.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitch Mackenzie’s home in Santa Rosa, pictured after it was destroyed in the 2017 Tubbs Fire. Last year’s wine country fires ruined one-third of the winery’s grape harvest, and the flames nearly overran his new home in Sonoma County. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mitch Mackenzie)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In interviews, fire survivors said they felt betrayed by government officials who seem more concerned with making a splash than saving homes and businesses from incineration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a deception,” said Mitch Mackenzie, co-owner of Carol Shelton Wines in Santa Rosa, who lost his home in the 2017 Tubbs Fire. Last year’s wine country fires ruined one-third of the winery’s grape harvest, and the flames nearly overran his new home in Sonoma County. He says Newsom’s embellishments are a frustrating — but typical — example of how California politicians handle wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all the fire danger that we have experienced year, after year, after year … you would think it would be a higher priority to make sure that all of this area is treated as much as possible,” Mackenzie said. Politicians, he added, “always want to look good about fixing the problem, but then they never really do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Newsom’s case, the data shows he’s done just 13% of the job he’s touted on his highest-priority projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment over the course of two weeks, including a 500-word email that laid out the investigation’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of Cal Fire, Chief Thom Porter, did grant an interview. He acknowledged the figures cited by Newsom were incorrect and took responsibility for the governor’s misstatements. Porter, who stood behind Newsom at a series of press conferences where the governor boasted of his accomplishments, said Cal Fire had neither “done our job in educating the public, nor the governor’s office” about how to talk about its wildfire prevention efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter also confirmed the agency had fallen short of its fuel reduction goals in 2020. “It’s not something that I’m comfortable with,” he said. “It is something that I’m working to reconcile and to correct for the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 90,000 Acres That Weren’t\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many of Newsom’s misrepresentations revolve around \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/about-us/45-day-report/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">35 “priority projects,”\u003c/a> which Cal Fire launched in February 2019 as a result of Newsom’s executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The projects selected, Cal Fire said, would protect 200 communities that were especially vulnerable to wildfire. The projects ran the length of the state — from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/5536/45-day-plan_01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fuel break\u003c/a> in the shrublands around the community of Crest, east of El Cajon in San Diego County, to cutting back foliage along major routes in and out of the town of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/5574/45-day-plan_06.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Shastina\u003c/a>, in Siskiyou County, near the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879055\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-800x1035.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-800x1035.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-1020x1320.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-160x207.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-1187x1536.jpeg 1187w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-1583x2048.jpeg 1583w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-1920x2485.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ukiah_fuels_reduction_v1-1-scaled.jpeg 1978w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘original project area’ of Cal Fire’s Ukiah Fuels Reduction project in Mendocino County covers a sprawling 26,541 acres (in green). But the agency’s data shows the agency did work on just 734 of them (in red). \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As required by Newsom’s executive order, the agency said it paid particular attention to equity — focusing on areas with high “poverty levels, residents with disabilities, language barriers, residents over 65 or under five years of age, and households without a car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially, the projects totaled about 90,000 acres. That’s well short of the amount of forestland experts say needs treatment in California, but it would have substantially increased Cal Fire’s prevention output compared to past years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2020, Newsom declared mission accomplished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The projects collectively have treated 90,000 acres,” states a January 2020 \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/01/29/governor-newsom-announces-completion-of-emergency-projects-to-protect-wildfire-vulnerable-communities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a> from the governor’s office. “Work included removal of hazardous dead trees, vegetation clearing, creation of fuel breaks and community defensible spaces, and creation of ingress and egress corridors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the data analyzed by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show that Cal Fire treated a small fraction of that amount, 11,399 acres, or about 13% of the amount cited by Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mendocino County, for example, Cal Fire’s public reports said its Ukiah Fuels Reduction Project, which included fuel breaks and forest thinning in the hills west of Highway 101, covered a sprawling 26,541 acres. But the agency’s data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom showed the agency did work on just 734 of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879056\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-800x1035.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-800x1035.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-1020x1320.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-160x207.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-1187x1536.jpeg 1187w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-1583x2048.jpeg 1583w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-1920x2485.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/willits_fuels_reduction-1-scaled.jpeg 1978w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officially, the Willits Fuel Reduction Project covers 11,965 acres. The data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom, on the other hand, showed just 262 acres of fuel breaks and no prescribed burns. \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Responding to our inquiries, the agency provided a map. It included a large area shaded in green, covering much of the area west of Highway 101 and described as the “original project area proposed,” and a much smaller area in red, where the work was actually done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire provided a similar map for the Willits Fuel Reduction Project, where the agency’s public reports showed a project area of 11,965 acres. The data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom, on the other hand, showed just 262 acres of fuel breaks and no prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 90k acre figure was the overall project area, but not necessarily the area treated,” Cal Fire public information officer Daniel Berlant wrote when pressed, acknowledging the priority projects did not produce mitigation work across 90,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t square with Newsom’s portrayal to the public, nor does it match how Cal Fire described the projects. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20972182-factsheet_proclamation-stateofemergency_final\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fact sheet\u003c/a> from 2019 claimed “the priority fuel reduction projects would treat approximately 90,000 acres.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forestry experts said the discrepancies in vegetation management data undermine the state’s ability to measure progress toward its ambitious fuel reduction targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be truthful,” said Scott Stephens, a professor of fire science at UC Berkeley. When treatment numbers are garbled or exaggerated, he added, “Then you wonder about public confidence [and if] funding is being used efficiently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state and federal government recently set an annual goal of treating 500,000 acres each by 2025, with Cal Fire developing a list of 500 projects to continuously work on and update to reach that end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be really clear on what we’re reporting,” said John Battles, a professor of forest ecology at UC Berkeley. “Especially if there’s a million acre goal, with half coming from the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire fact sheet from 2019 claimed Newsom’s priority projects would knock out “about 20% of the [500,000 acre] goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, the actual acres treated represented less than 3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Newsom’s public pronouncements, Porter, the chief of Cal Fire, said the state was never going to be able to tackle all 90,000 acres in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have all of the environmental clearance that we were going to need to do all of that work,” Porter said. “Nor did we have all of the agreements with landowners completely in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Total Acres Treated Plummets\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom regularly points to the 35 priority projects as a badge of success. In a press release last month, he claimed the “emergency fuel reduction projects … played a critical role in containing wildfires last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 4 million acres burned across the state in 2020 — the most since California began keeping track. Cal Fire did not provide an estimate for how much more land would have burned without the completion of the priority projects, and a review of fire data by the San Francisco Chronicle found the fire breaks were often too small to be effective. “When they did intercept a fire, the flames often pushed right through,” the paper reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the department says the fuel breaks and thinning did save some communities from fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fuel break near Shaver Lake in Fresno County, for example, is credited with helping save about 70 homes in a nearby subdivision. And a fuel break in Butte County called Forbestown Ridge helped slow the advance of the North Complex Fire, allowing firefighters to develop a suppression plan and create contingency lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Newsom boasted about the 35 projects, fire prevention funding and productivity dwindled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom did not identify a new set of priority projects to tackle after declaring victory on the initial 35 in January 2020, even though Cal Fire’s recommendations underscored the urgent need to make this an ongoing effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California faces a massive backlog of forest management work,” the department states in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/5584/45-day-report-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 report\u003c/a>. “Millions of acres are in need of treatment, and this work — once completed — must be repeated over the years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade ago, Cal Fire was treating a paltry 17,000 acres annually. That number has steadily climbed. Though Newsom misrepresented the number of acres treated in his “priority projects,” the overall amount of wildfire mitigation work carried out by Cal Fire spiked in his first year in office, to 64,000 acres. But in 2020, fuel reduction totals plummeted to less than 32,000 acres — a roughly 50% drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter acknowledges the decline, but claims there’s not much Cal Fire could do. Though Newsom claimed in July 2020 that California was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/07/09/watch-live-gov-gavin-newsom-update-on-covid-19-and-fire-season-preparation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">up to the task\u003c/a>” of preventing wildfires and stopping the coronavirus at the same time, Porter said the reality of the pandemic presented barriers Cal Fire could not overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The record fire season also made prevention work more difficult. Fires broke out earlier than usual, leaving less time for prescribed burns and thinning. Crews responsible for fire prevention work are also tasked with fire suppression. After a spate of dry lightning that set multiple conflagration fires at once, crews shifted to an all-hands-on-deck suppression effort. Our “initial analysis is that what kept us from getting the work done was completely out of our control,” Porter said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the significant drop in acres treated also shows the fragility of California’s existing wildfire prevention infrastructure — and the need to considerably strengthen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to get more strategic,” said Stephens. “We’re going to have to get much more nimble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through late May of 2021, Cal Fire treated over 23,000 acres, putting it on track to exceed last year’s total, but fall short of the work done in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Big Spending Push, After Disinvestment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The drop in wildfire prevention work occurred at a time when the state put fewer dollars toward fire prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2019 budget allocated $355 million for wildfire prevention and resource management. The following year, after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Newsom slashed that to $203 million — a decrease of more than 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within months of enacting the budget last year, fire had consumed California. Over 4 million acres burned largely due to the long-term impacts of climate change and fuel buildup, combined with extraordinary weather events. But the cataclysmic fire season underscored the crucial need for increased and sustained spending on prevention — not disinvestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spending on prevention is the only way that this gets better, but we have to do it for a super long time,” said Wara of Stanford University’s Woods Institute. “We can’t firefight our way out of this problem.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The new rules will take effect as soon as they are filed with the secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a draft executive order ready to go immediately after they vote to make clarifications public and to provide more certainty,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules apply in almost every workplace in the state, including offices, factories and retailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are intended to ensure that workers are protected while businesses resume normal or near-normal activity, Eric Berg, deputy chief of research and standards for California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA, told the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business groups had sought the changes, arguing that rules for businesses should conform with state guidelines patterned after the latest federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Laura Stock, an occupational safety expert who cast the lone opposition vote, said that even though people are tired of restrictions, the pandemic is not over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has real consequences that people can get sick and die due to exposure in the workplace,” Stock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the rules go too far by eliminating physical distancing and workplace partitions and allowing workers to self-report their vaccination status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitch Steiger, a legislative advocate for the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, similarly objected that the measures “essentially pretend that the pandemic is over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Thomas, the board’s chair, thanked who spoke in support or opposition to the rules and acknowledged that coming with up with latest iteration of the guidelines has not been easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do appreciate the time and concern and hours we’ve spent in these meetings to get to this conclusion, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank you guys, it’s a lot of work, and a lot of responsibility,” said Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More coverage\" tag=\"face-masks\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes after the board did a double-twisting backflip in recent weeks when it first postponed, then rejected, then adopted, then rescinded rules that would have allowed workers to forgo masks only if every employee in a room was fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fully vaccinated employees will not need to wear masks, except in locations like mass transit and classrooms, where they are required for everyone, or in the event of outbreaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Physical distancing also will end except for certain workers during major outbreaks. Vaccinated employees won’t need to be tested or quarantine unless they show symptoms, even if they have close contact with an infected person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers must document that workers who skip masks indoors are indeed fully vaccinated. But employers have the choice of requiring workers to show proof of vaccination or allowing employees to self-report their status, with the employer keeping a record of who does the latter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also could decide to require everyone to remain masked — vaccinated or not. And vaccinated employees will still be able to wear masks if they choose without facing retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office released a statement saying the workplace regulations, initially implemented in November 2020, “remain an important component of the state’s ongoing response, providing balanced worker protections that support California’s continued progress in recovering from the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Lapsley, president of the California Business Roundtable, said the rules don’t fully conform to the state’s other standards. Others argued that they still will cause confusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because of the requirement that employers provide masks and keep track of employees’ vaccination status, record-keeping that he and others said could create liability and privacy issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do remain a significant barrier to fully reopening the economy,” Lapsley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Hansen, senior legislative director for the California Restaurant Association, said it is unrealistic to expect unvaccinated employees to remain masked until emergency work rules expire early next year, while others generally drop their face coverings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Chamber of Commerce took a milder approach, thanking Newsom for eliminating confusion by pledging to conform workplace rules with the state’s loosened pandemic precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes immediately ending social distancing obligations instead of waiting until July 31, as Cal/OSHA had initially proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chamber also praised a rule change that will require employers to provide the most effective N95 masks for free to unvaccinated employees upon request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others objected that the rule still will require employers to stockpile masks and compete with health care workers, despite Newsom’s promise to provide a one-month supply of the masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 700 California workplace outbreaks and more than 10,000 infections in the last 30 days, Cal/OSHA’s Berg said, but he said the N95s are the best alternative as other protections wane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Moutrie, a chamber of commerce policy advocate, called the latest proposal a “measured step” that opens too quickly for some businesses and not quickly enough for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”But we do think that this is a good step in that direction,” Moutrie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Hall contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>From the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, the governors of California and Florida have taken almost polar opposite approaches to managing an unprecedented health crisis: California Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down his state early, prioritizing public health; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis largely kept his state open for business, prioritizing the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California just fully reopened on Tuesday, while Florida has been open all year, save for a short lockdown last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The split mirrors the political divisions that have bedeviled the United States during the pandemic — with both sides claiming victory at various times. But now, more than a year of data is offering some clear takeaways on which state’s approach has produced better outcomes on a number of fronts.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jon Jacobo, SF Latino Task Force health committee chair\"]‘We recruited volunteers. We knocked on 1,400 doors over four days and registered people at the door, handed out fliers. We phone-banked — treated it like a traditional political campaign.’[/pullquote]In short, thousands more people per capita in Florida have been infected with, and died from, COVID-19 than in California. And while unemployment remains about twice as high in California, some economists are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-06-02/la-fi-california-economy-recovery-ucla-forecast-june-2021\">predicting a faster overall recovery\u003c/a> in states like California that locked down early and kept those restrictions in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, given the two states’ widely contrasting approaches to the pandemic, some experts say they would have expected even more disparate health outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think most public health officials would say that Florida humbles us and makes us realize there are parts of this that we understand and there are parts of this that we don’t exactly understand,” said Dr. Bob Wachter, a leading epidemiologist and chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easy to criticize California,” Wachter added. “The overall numbers of cases and deaths are so high. But that’s irrelevant, really. You have to look at the per capita rates because California is so much bigger than any other state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Wachter’s math, if Florida’s COVID-19 death rate had been closer to California’s, there would have been nearly 2,400 fewer people dead there. As of this week, \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days\">transmission rates in Florida remain five times higher than in California\u003c/a>, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In all, 57% of all Californians have received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared to about 48% of all Floridians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And beyond health and economic impacts, there have been other trade-offs each state made, with outcomes that may take years to fully evaluate: For one, most Florida kids have been back in school since the fall; most California students did not return until this spring, and even then, not always full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Wachter, assessing the success or failure of each state is complicated — and to some extent subjective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I think some of that will come down to how you value human life,” he said. “I don’t want to sugarcoat it. The number of deaths in Florida per capita is significantly higher than they are in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For community leaders on the ground in both states, the decisions made by DeSantis and Newsom had far-reaching implications — especially for communities of color, who were generally hardest hit by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-national-health-crisis-fell-on-the-backs-of-local-leaders/\">after we first compared these two states\u003c/a>, in a collaboration between KQED in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/\">WLRN\u003c/a> in Miami and \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a>, we visited communities in each state: the Mission District in San Francisco and the city of Miami Gardens in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Mission District\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last spring, as the coronavirus was spreading across the nation, and the world, community leaders in San Francisco’s heavily Latino Mission District realized things were poised to get bad — quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although heavily gentrified in pockets, the Mission is still a largely working-class neighborhood. It’s home to many low-income families who often live in homes shared by multiple generations, allowing little room to quarantine if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo, who grew up here and is active in local politics, said he and others watched with concern in March 2020 as San Francisco officials, and then state leaders, announced some of the nation’s first stay-at home orders — even as spring break continued to draw tourists to Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46114_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers from the San Francisco Latino Task Force help register people at a COVID-19 testing site on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The immediate thoughts, I think, for everybody were, ‘What is going to happen to the folks that are going to lose their jobs? … What’s going to happen to the individuals that have to go to work?’ ” he said. “Because there’s a lot of people that don’t have that luxury or that privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo and other volunteers — many of them Latino community members themselves — banded together to create what they called the Latino Task Force. Fearful of a coming wave of infections, they started asking the city for resources, including testing, tracing, rental assistance and food donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the time, tests were in short supply and the virus was spreading rapidly — more so in this neighborhood, it seemed to them, than in other nearby communities. So in April 2020, the Latino Task Force and other community leaders partnered with UCSF to set up a testing site in the neighborhood and put some numbers behind their hunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recruited volunteers. We knocked on 1,400 doors over four days and registered people at the door, handed out fliers. We phone-banked — treated it like a traditional political campaign,” Jacobo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, over 4,000 people came to get tested. About 40% were Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that were positive — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/05/417356/initial-results-mission-district-covid-19-testing-announced\">it was 95% Latino, it was 100% people of color,\u003c/a>” Jacobo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]In response, the city expanded testing opportunities and other help for people of color and essential workers throughout the city — in partnership with existing groups like the Latino Task Force, who already had deep ties to city neighborhoods. It’s a lesson San Francisco learned decades ago during the AIDS crisis: The best way to get to hard-to-reach populations, people who might distrust the government, is to use the networks they already trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Latino Task Force did this in the Mission by not only focusing on testing: They set up a resource hub at a large building at 701 Alabama St. Funded by the city, the street outside morphs every Thursday into a pop-up COVID-19 testing site, and now, a place where people can make vaccine appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also offering all the other things low-income residents have needed during the pandemic. For more than a year, the site has handed out groceries — serving as many as 9,000 families each week. There is also a community wellness team on-site that partners with families when someone tests positive to make sure they have the resources to survive quarantine. Mental health services and job training — all offered in multiple languages — are available as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed called the collaboration — one of many across the city — a game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of working with the Latino Task Force had everything to do with making people feel comfortable about getting tested, no questions asked,” she said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this government and community support didn’t erase the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 cases on Latinos in San Francisco during its summer and winter surges. But Jacobo said it did offer a safety net for vulnerable residents — and it left the city and community with a playbook when the vaccines started to roll out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a community health team providing info on what the vaccine is or what the vaccine isn’t. And we’ll literally sign you up for your appointment here,” Jacobo said. “So you don’t have to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1403425020303396865\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It worked: By early June, San Francisco reported that \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/COVID-19-Vaccinations-Maps/uue2-6gdn/\">more than 70% of residents in the neighborhood\u003c/a> had received at least one dose. Citywide, more than two-thirds of Latinos are vaccinated. And as California lifts nearly all COVID-19 restrictions — San Francisco officials this week announced more 80% of residents have received at least one dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed credits San Franciscans for trusting the science, the data and one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I must say, I am really proud of how San Franciscans, for the most part, handled this crisis, because if people didn’t comply and didn’t trust the information, we wouldn’t be here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same cannot be said across the country in Miami Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Miami Gardens\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Located in Miami-Dade County, Miami Gardens is the largest Black-majority city in Florida — African Americans make up roughly 71% of the population. And like the Latino community in San Francisco’s Mission District, it is not a monolithic group — there are Bahamians, Jamaicans, Afro-Cubans, residents from West African countries like Nigeria and Ghana; some are Florida natives, some are immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Miami-Dade County is doing pretty well when it comes to vaccines: About 58% of the total population has received at least one dose, according to county data from June 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1760px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G.jpeg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On a Friday in May, only four or five people came to receive COVID-19 vaccinations at the Brentwood Pool vaccination site in Miami Gardens, Florida. \u003ccite>(Caitie Switalski Muñoz/WLRN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, that number plummets among the county’s Black residents, only about 20% of whom have received at least one shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vice mayor of Miami Gardens, Reggie Leon, said he feels that disparity is probably due to a combination of inaccessibility and mistrust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that people of color had some trust issues, especially with vaccines. So [my office] started reaching out,” said Leon, who is Black. “We started reaching out to different groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the major vaccination sites was a state-run location at the Hard Rock Stadium in the city — home to the Miami Dolphins and where the 2020 Super Bowl was held shortly before the coronavirus hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the state previously offering testing at the site, Leon said the location just didn’t work for many residents of his city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stadium wasn’t enough because you had people coming from everywhere to get into the stadium and the stadium didn’t have the flexibility for walk-ups and they didn’t have the flexibility for those people that didn’t have transportation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just about access, said Dr. Dwight Reynolds, an emergency physician working with the city of Miami Gardens. Many Black men like him were uncomfortable with the stadium site, he said, noting that it was set up by the state with help from the National Guard, and had a lot of security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine for a moment that you are a male of color. You go into a place where you see white officers — let’s tell it like it is — with guns,” Reynolds said. “OK, would you feel comfortable pulling up to that site although it’s free? Probably not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1394293659441500160\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So to try to increase vaccination rates among residents, the city partnered with a Black-owned company to open its own pop-up vaccination site at Brentwood Community Pool, about 2 miles away from the Hard Rock Stadium. At its pop-up site, the city offers doses of the Moderna vaccine, with Black nurses and doctors, including Reynolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds said he regularly hears from Black Floridians that they feel more comfortable with him holding the needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have people that look like you, talk like you, that’s kind of important,” he said. “We look like them. We talk like them. And guess what? We are them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith Heywood, a Black nurse herself, got her first shot there in mid-May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been looking online and it’s, you know, very complicated,” she said. “I’m ready today. I don’t want to think about Monday or Tuesday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Despite the location and ease, though, it’s been hard to attract people: On one Friday in May only about four or five people came for a shot all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds said he’s often been in the difficult position of deciding whether or not to open a vial — and risk having doses go bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s say at 3 o’clock, 4 o’clock — if you … can’t move those ones that you have left, then you end up having problems,” he said, adding he’s taken to driving extra doses as far as Coral Springs — some 30 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been slower going here than in San Francisco, where a deeper level of trust had already been established in some lower-income communities by the time the vaccines arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders in both Miami Gardens and San Francisco’s Mission District have centered their efforts around building trust on the ground, but say they have been both helped and stymied by the decisions made at their own state capitols.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘I Would Not Declare Victory Now’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Florida, Gov. DeSantis followed the lead of his ally, former President Donald Trump: He refused to institute many restrictions recommended by health experts, like a statewide mask mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by spring 2021, DeSantis also made it harder for local governments to enforce their own COVID-19 safety rules. In March, for example, he overturned fines cities and counties administered to individuals and businesses for breaking health restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epidemiologists in both states agree that while the two governors’ decisions did influence health outcomes, so did the individual decisions of the millions of residents in each state — who sometimes acted in spite of their leaders’ examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy Prins, a University of Florida epidemiologist, said that’s probably one reason why things aren’t as bad in Florida as some experts predicted they would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people continued to wear masks, not go to restaurants, physically distance in some cases, in spite of the fact that things were opened up,” Prins said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Dwight Reynolds, emergency physician in Miami Gardens, Florida\"]‘To have people that look like you, talk like you, that’s kind of important. We look like them. We talk like them. And guess what? We are them.’[/pullquote]“It’s very hard to judge success because we don’t have the comparison group of what would have happened if everything was open the whole time,” she continued. “What’s the comparison if everything’s closed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Wachter, from UCSF, stressed that this pandemic isn’t over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the Florida story is fully written yet,” he said. “There’s a lot of the variants down there. The variants are nastier. So I would not declare victory now in Florida.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the actions of individual Californians — especially at family gatherings over the holiday season — prompted a major winter surge. Yet Wachter said those outbreaks were notably worse in the southern half of the state, showing that Newsom’s restrictions only went so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state had the same rules and standards. But people in L.A. and people in some of the other southern counties were acting differently than the people in the Bay Area were tending to. And you saw a divergence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-national-health-crisis-fell-on-the-backs-of-local-leaders/\">major finding\u003c/a> of our collaboration last spring, early in the pandemic: the huge significance of individual actions, particularly in the absence of a coordinated national response. We all ended up being the Dr. Fauci of our own homes, so to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where We Go From Here\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now, with vaccines widespread, the U.S. is entering a new phase of this pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even now, DeSantis and Newsom are still being guided by their opposing ideologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 15 months, California lifted nearly all restrictions Tuesday, but counties are still permitted to enforce their own, and all unvaccinated residents are still being asked to mask in most public spaces. Attendees at indoor events with more than 5,000 people will have to either show they’re fully vaccinated or provide a recent negative COVID-19 test result; and Newsom’s administration is in the process of creating a digital “vaccine verification system,” allowing businesses to more easily check people’s vaccination status (though he’s quick to stress that using it is not required).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health care worker Jaden Anderson tests a child for COVID-19 at a Unidos en Salud testing site on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Florida, DeSantis recently \u003ca href=\"//www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article251147909.html\">overrode\u003c/a> all remaining local emergency pandemic-related orders and restrictions. He also signed a bill making it illegal for businesses, schools and governments to require proof of vaccination. Recently, he’s been in a legal battle with the CDC over requiring vaccines on cruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, each governor is playing to his political base — with mixed results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite better health outcomes in California, Newsom is facing a recall attempt largely fueled by anger over his strict lockdowns. Yet just months after the recall qualified, Newsom is looking increasingly strong as his state emerges from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, DeSantis’ star is also on the rise in the GOP — even though, or maybe because, he flouted many public health guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coming months will be crucial from a public health perspective. But the debate over whether DeSantis or Newsom best led his state through this crisis will likely drag on, especially given the two governors’ ambitious political aspirations: Both are thought to have presidential hopes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Correction\u003c/b>: Dr. Bob Wachter’s initial estimate of how many fewer COVID-19 deaths there would have been in Florida if it had the same death rate as in California was miscalculated. The original version of this story states: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>By Wachter’s math, if Florida’s COVID-19 death rate had been closer to California’s, there would have been roughly 5,000 fewer people dead there.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the correct estimate of fewer deaths (based on each state’s COVID death rate at the time of publication) is less than half that: 2,389. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>WLRN’s Verónica Zaragovia contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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And while unemployment remains about twice as high in California, some economists are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-06-02/la-fi-california-economy-recovery-ucla-forecast-june-2021\">predicting a faster overall recovery\u003c/a> in states like California that locked down early and kept those restrictions in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, given the two states’ widely contrasting approaches to the pandemic, some experts say they would have expected even more disparate health outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think most public health officials would say that Florida humbles us and makes us realize there are parts of this that we understand and there are parts of this that we don’t exactly understand,” said Dr. Bob Wachter, a leading epidemiologist and chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easy to criticize California,” Wachter added. “The overall numbers of cases and deaths are so high. But that’s irrelevant, really. You have to look at the per capita rates because California is so much bigger than any other state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Wachter’s math, if Florida’s COVID-19 death rate had been closer to California’s, there would have been nearly 2,400 fewer people dead there. As of this week, \u003ca href=\"https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days\">transmission rates in Florida remain five times higher than in California\u003c/a>, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In all, 57% of all Californians have received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared to about 48% of all Floridians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And beyond health and economic impacts, there have been other trade-offs each state made, with outcomes that may take years to fully evaluate: For one, most Florida kids have been back in school since the fall; most California students did not return until this spring, and even then, not always full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Wachter, assessing the success or failure of each state is complicated — and to some extent subjective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I think some of that will come down to how you value human life,” he said. “I don’t want to sugarcoat it. The number of deaths in Florida per capita is significantly higher than they are in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For community leaders on the ground in both states, the decisions made by DeSantis and Newsom had far-reaching implications — especially for communities of color, who were generally hardest hit by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-national-health-crisis-fell-on-the-backs-of-local-leaders/\">after we first compared these two states\u003c/a>, in a collaboration between KQED in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/\">WLRN\u003c/a> in Miami and \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a>, we visited communities in each state: the Mission District in San Francisco and the city of Miami Gardens in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Mission District\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last spring, as the coronavirus was spreading across the nation, and the world, community leaders in San Francisco’s heavily Latino Mission District realized things were poised to get bad — quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although heavily gentrified in pockets, the Mission is still a largely working-class neighborhood. 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Fearful of a coming wave of infections, they started asking the city for resources, including testing, tracing, rental assistance and food donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the time, tests were in short supply and the virus was spreading rapidly — more so in this neighborhood, it seemed to them, than in other nearby communities. So in April 2020, the Latino Task Force and other community leaders partnered with UCSF to set up a testing site in the neighborhood and put some numbers behind their hunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recruited volunteers. We knocked on 1,400 doors over four days and registered people at the door, handed out fliers. We phone-banked — treated it like a traditional political campaign,” Jacobo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, over 4,000 people came to get tested. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In response, the city expanded testing opportunities and other help for people of color and essential workers throughout the city — in partnership with existing groups like the Latino Task Force, who already had deep ties to city neighborhoods. It’s a lesson San Francisco learned decades ago during the AIDS crisis: The best way to get to hard-to-reach populations, people who might distrust the government, is to use the networks they already trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Latino Task Force did this in the Mission by not only focusing on testing: They set up a resource hub at a large building at 701 Alabama St. Funded by the city, the street outside morphs every Thursday into a pop-up COVID-19 testing site, and now, a place where people can make vaccine appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also offering all the other things low-income residents have needed during the pandemic. For more than a year, the site has handed out groceries — serving as many as 9,000 families each week. There is also a community wellness team on-site that partners with families when someone tests positive to make sure they have the resources to survive quarantine. Mental health services and job training — all offered in multiple languages — are available as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed called the collaboration — one of many across the city — a game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of working with the Latino Task Force had everything to do with making people feel comfortable about getting tested, no questions asked,” she said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this government and community support didn’t erase the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 cases on Latinos in San Francisco during its summer and winter surges. But Jacobo said it did offer a safety net for vulnerable residents — and it left the city and community with a playbook when the vaccines started to roll out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a community health team providing info on what the vaccine is or what the vaccine isn’t. And we’ll literally sign you up for your appointment here,” Jacobo said. “So you don’t have to do anything.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>It worked: By early June, San Francisco reported that \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/COVID-19-Vaccinations-Maps/uue2-6gdn/\">more than 70% of residents in the neighborhood\u003c/a> had received at least one dose. Citywide, more than two-thirds of Latinos are vaccinated. And as California lifts nearly all COVID-19 restrictions — San Francisco officials this week announced more 80% of residents have received at least one dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed credits San Franciscans for trusting the science, the data and one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I must say, I am really proud of how San Franciscans, for the most part, handled this crisis, because if people didn’t comply and didn’t trust the information, we wouldn’t be here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same cannot be said across the country in Miami Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Miami Gardens\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Located in Miami-Dade County, Miami Gardens is the largest Black-majority city in Florida — African Americans make up roughly 71% of the population. And like the Latino community in San Francisco’s Mission District, it is not a monolithic group — there are Bahamians, Jamaicans, Afro-Cubans, residents from West African countries like Nigeria and Ghana; some are Florida natives, some are immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Miami-Dade County is doing pretty well when it comes to vaccines: About 58% of the total population has received at least one dose, according to county data from June 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1760px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G.jpeg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Miami-G-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On a Friday in May, only four or five people came to receive COVID-19 vaccinations at the Brentwood Pool vaccination site in Miami Gardens, Florida. \u003ccite>(Caitie Switalski Muñoz/WLRN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, that number plummets among the county’s Black residents, only about 20% of whom have received at least one shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vice mayor of Miami Gardens, Reggie Leon, said he feels that disparity is probably due to a combination of inaccessibility and mistrust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that people of color had some trust issues, especially with vaccines. So [my office] started reaching out,” said Leon, who is Black. “We started reaching out to different groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the major vaccination sites was a state-run location at the Hard Rock Stadium in the city — home to the Miami Dolphins and where the 2020 Super Bowl was held shortly before the coronavirus hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the state previously offering testing at the site, Leon said the location just didn’t work for many residents of his city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stadium wasn’t enough because you had people coming from everywhere to get into the stadium and the stadium didn’t have the flexibility for walk-ups and they didn’t have the flexibility for those people that didn’t have transportation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just about access, said Dr. Dwight Reynolds, an emergency physician working with the city of Miami Gardens. Many Black men like him were uncomfortable with the stadium site, he said, noting that it was set up by the state with help from the National Guard, and had a lot of security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine for a moment that you are a male of color. You go into a place where you see white officers — let’s tell it like it is — with guns,” Reynolds said. “OK, would you feel comfortable pulling up to that site although it’s free? Probably not.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>So to try to increase vaccination rates among residents, the city partnered with a Black-owned company to open its own pop-up vaccination site at Brentwood Community Pool, about 2 miles away from the Hard Rock Stadium. At its pop-up site, the city offers doses of the Moderna vaccine, with Black nurses and doctors, including Reynolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds said he regularly hears from Black Floridians that they feel more comfortable with him holding the needle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have people that look like you, talk like you, that’s kind of important,” he said. “We look like them. We talk like them. And guess what? We are them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith Heywood, a Black nurse herself, got her first shot there in mid-May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been looking online and it’s, you know, very complicated,” she said. “I’m ready today. I don’t want to think about Monday or Tuesday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s very hard to judge success because we don’t have the comparison group of what would have happened if everything was open the whole time,” she continued. “What’s the comparison if everything’s closed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Wachter, from UCSF, stressed that this pandemic isn’t over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the Florida story is fully written yet,” he said. “There’s a lot of the variants down there. The variants are nastier. So I would not declare victory now in Florida.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the actions of individual Californians — especially at family gatherings over the holiday season — prompted a major winter surge. Yet Wachter said those outbreaks were notably worse in the southern half of the state, showing that Newsom’s restrictions only went so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state had the same rules and standards. But people in L.A. and people in some of the other southern counties were acting differently than the people in the Bay Area were tending to. And you saw a divergence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-national-health-crisis-fell-on-the-backs-of-local-leaders/\">major finding\u003c/a> of our collaboration last spring, early in the pandemic: the huge significance of individual actions, particularly in the absence of a coordinated national response. We all ended up being the Dr. Fauci of our own homes, so to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where We Go From Here\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now, with vaccines widespread, the U.S. is entering a new phase of this pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even now, DeSantis and Newsom are still being guided by their opposing ideologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 15 months, California lifted nearly all restrictions Tuesday, but counties are still permitted to enforce their own, and all unvaccinated residents are still being asked to mask in most public spaces. Attendees at indoor events with more than 5,000 people will have to either show they’re fully vaccinated or provide a recent negative COVID-19 test result; and Newsom’s administration is in the process of creating a digital “vaccine verification system,” allowing businesses to more easily check people’s vaccination status (though he’s quick to stress that using it is not required).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS46130_038_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health care worker Jaden Anderson tests a child for COVID-19 at a Unidos en Salud testing site on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Florida, DeSantis recently \u003ca href=\"//www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article251147909.html\">overrode\u003c/a> all remaining local emergency pandemic-related orders and restrictions. He also signed a bill making it illegal for businesses, schools and governments to require proof of vaccination. Recently, he’s been in a legal battle with the CDC over requiring vaccines on cruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, each governor is playing to his political base — with mixed results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite better health outcomes in California, Newsom is facing a recall attempt largely fueled by anger over his strict lockdowns. Yet just months after the recall qualified, Newsom is looking increasingly strong as his state emerges from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, DeSantis’ star is also on the rise in the GOP — even though, or maybe because, he flouted many public health guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coming months will be crucial from a public health perspective. But the debate over whether DeSantis or Newsom best led his state through this crisis will likely drag on, especially given the two governors’ ambitious political aspirations: Both are thought to have presidential hopes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Correction\u003c/b>: Dr. Bob Wachter’s initial estimate of how many fewer COVID-19 deaths there would have been in Florida if it had the same death rate as in California was miscalculated. The original version of this story states: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>By Wachter’s math, if Florida’s COVID-19 death rate had been closer to California’s, there would have been roughly 5,000 fewer people dead there.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the correct estimate of fewer deaths (based on each state’s COVID death rate at the time of publication) is less than half that: 2,389. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>WLRN’s Verónica Zaragovia contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878067/la-gran-reapertura-de-california-que-ha-cambiado-y-que-no-el-15-de-junio\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s grand reopening day is finally here, but it comes with a few asterisks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Tuesday, our 15-month-long ordeal of public health restrictions, mandates, bans and color-coded tiers to stem the COVID-19 pandemic will finally come to an end. As Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868240/newsom-announces-plan-to-open-up-business-as-usual-in-california-by-june-15\">said in April\u003c/a> and reaffirmed in May, June 15 is when “we can start to open up…business as usual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as that much-touted date approaches, the governor’s promise of a sudden milestone is colliding with the loophole-ridden gradualism of California labor law, local control and the imperatives of fighting a diminishing — but not defeated — virus that has killed 62,500 Californians and counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some mixed messages along the way have added to the confusion. So what will — and won’t — actually happen on Tuesday? Many of your questions, answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will I be able to sit inside a bar, work out at a gym or go to the movies?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Probably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average Californian can expect things to look fairly back-to-normal in most of the ways that matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-Framework.aspx\">beyond the blueprint\u003c/a>,” to use the state’s branding, and instead using federal health guidance for public places means that most businesses can dispense with social distancing requirements, capacity limits and forced closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a difference between “can” and “must.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties will still be free to impose their own public health restrictions if they choose to — but only if they’re stricter than what the state is requiring. So far, no counties have said that they’ll part ways with the state’s rules, though a few, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/what-will-the-bay-area-look-like-when-california-reopens-on-june-15/2561205/\">like San Francisco\u003c/a>, say they’re still mulling over their options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, businesses aren’t taking any chances. On Tuesday, more than 35 business groups sent a letter to county governments across the state begging them to stick to the statewide rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though business groups, who don’t relish the idea of getting sued, are hoping for consistent, cheap and easy-to-follow standards, your favorite restaurant, movie theater or hair salon is also free to impose its own public health restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means you shouldn’t be surprised if you still spot a few “No Mask, No Service” signs after June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can I go to a concert?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Depends. Are we talking open mic at the local bar or Beyoncé at an arena?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has said it will \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-QA.aspx\">impose additional restrictions on “mega events.”\u003c/a> That’s defined as anything that draws more than 5,000 people indoors or 10,000 outside. (Sorry, nameless dude playing a melodica into a loop pedal, you are not a mega event).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the most recent state guidance, concerts, conventions and other indoor mega events will only be open to people who can prove that they’ve either been vaccinated (by showing a vaccination card, a photo of the card, or documentation from a doctor) or that they tested negative for the coronavirus in the last 72 hours. That kind of proof won’t necessarily be required at outdoor events such as baseball games, but the state is recommending that stadiums either impose such a rule or require masking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878044\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Three people sitting inside a bar without facemasks.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233049916-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fully vaccinated customers gather at the bar inside Risky Business, a private members-only club in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on May 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Once I’m inside the bar, gym or movie theater, can I finally take this mask off?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes, if you’re vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s public health officials confirmed Wednesday that along with relaxed social distancing, the state will also drop its mask mandate on June 15 and instead adopt the recommendations of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Mark Ghaly, Health and Human Services Secretary\"]‘We are not requiring businesses to, for example, have somebody at the door checking for vaccine status as a way to comply with this.’[/pullquote]That means vaccinated adults should feel free to go mask-less in most public spaces. There are still exceptions for venues where the potential for many vulnerable people congregating in a confined place is high: hospitals and other health care settings, school classrooms, prisons and jails, public transit and nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re unvaccinated, you’ll still be required to wear a mask indoors in most public places, though it’s not entirely clear if or how that will be enforced. On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said that businesses can require masks of all customers, implement a vaccination verification system or simply go with the honor system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not requiring businesses to, for example, have somebody at the door checking for vaccine status as a way to comply with this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878051\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08.jpg\" alt=\"Two people working at the grill of a restaurant.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Armstrong, 51 and his wife, Paula Armstrong, 45, prepare pick up orders during lunch hour at their Long Beach restaurant, VBurger, on June 8, 2021. ‘It’s been very challenging for us, but we couldn’t back out,’ said Armstrong of opening mid-pandemic last year. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What about when I’m at work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For anyone who has a job, doesn’t work from home and spends their work hours with other human beings, this Q&A just got a lot more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last November, the state’s workplace safety regulator has been requiring most employees across the state to mask up and maintain 6 feet of distance from one another when possible. They’ve also required stores, restaurants and other employers to provide personal protective equipment to their staff, offer testing when necessary and, in some cases, set up pathogen-blocking furnishings such as plexiglass shields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those requirements seem to be on the way out, but not on June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rachel Michelin, president of the California Retailers Association\"]‘We can’t be the mask police. This totally contradicts the messaging that came out of the governor’s office, which was June 15, we’re opening up the economy.’[/pullquote]Wednesday night, the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Board agreed to take the new state public health mask guidance into account and vote on new workplace rules on June 17. If affirmed, those rules wouldn’t ordinarily become official policy until June 28. But on Monday, Newsom vowed to sign an executive order putting the rules into effect immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board unanimously voted to revoke a vote last week to adopt new workplace rules that would let workers go without a mask, but only so long as they and all their colleagues are vaccinated. Employers would have also been required to provide N95 masks to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea did not go over well with the state’s business interests. How, they asked, is an employer supposed to find out which workers are not vaccinated? What if vaccinated employees, chafing at their masks, begin harassing their unvaccinated colleagues? How expensive are all these masks going to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='coronavirus']“We can’t be the mask police,” said Rachel Michelin, president of the California Retailers Association. “This totally contradicts the messaging that came out of the governor’s office, which was June 15, we’re opening up the economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s business interests lobbied the governor directly, asking him to do an end run around the state’s workplace safety regulators and issue an executive order to “align” workplace guidelines with guidance from the state public health department and federal CDC. They renewed that request after the Cal/OSHA decision Wednesday night, urging Newsom to provide all employers with “consistency and certainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom declined on Friday to say whether he would act on that request. On Wednesday, Ghaly said the administration was “in no way predisposing or pushing for one outcome over the other” but for now was simply leaving it up to the workplace safety board.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Presumably state agencies will be abiding by the state public health guidelines?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You might think that. And that might very well be the case. But at least for now, it appears to be up to the agencies themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night — just hours before the state’s reopening at midnight — the California Department of Human Resources sent an advisory to department heads across state government. State offices that serve the public directly, like offices and stores across the state, will not be required “to inquire about a member of the public’s vaccine status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the advisory read, agencies “should provide notice to all customers, guests and members of the public that face coverings are required for unvaccinated individuals. If an individual without a face covering enters a state building, the department should assume the individual is complying with the requirement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State employers are also being told to keep their flexible work-from-home policies in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a press conference to discuss the state reopening at Universal Studios in Hollywood, California on June 15, 2021. California will let fully vaccinated workers go maskless after June 17, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Is the state still going to be in a state of emergency?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does that mean the state isn’t actually going to reopen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the governor was asked on Friday whether, come June 15, he would also rescind the state of emergency proclamation that he issued in the early days of the pandemic in March 2020, Newsom — to the surprise of many and dismay of some — said that he would not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can the state possibly reopen for “business as usual” when it’s simultaneously under an emergency?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer might be that the definition of “state of emergency” under California law doesn’t necessarily mean “emergency” in the everyday “something is on fire” sense of the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Brandon Stracener, California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley\"]‘Abruptly terminating the emergency would cancel all that wholesale … A gradual transition process that involves the Legislature is far better, and permits a rapid response to any unexpected surge in the pandemic.’[/pullquote]While the California Emergency Services Act does give the governor exceptionally broad powers to govern by fiat during a period of crisis, in practice the governor has evoked that power during the pandemic to administer various public health and economic relief programs and to collect federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Abruptly terminating the emergency would cancel all that wholesale,” said Brandon Stracener, research fellow at the California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley. “A gradual transition process that involves the Legislature is far better, and permits a rapid response to any unexpected surge in the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With executive orders empowered by the proclamation, Newsom has loosened regulations to allow more people to administer vaccines, banned water shut-offs on homes with delinquent utility bills, given cities the ability to freeze commercial evictions, allowed local governments and courts to conduct public hearings over Zoom and given businesses on state roads the freedom to set up parklets and other street-side services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor is hoping to extend some of the programs long past June 15 — either as long as the effects of the pandemic coursing through the state last, or until the Legislature can make it permanent by statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 2, for example, the governor’s office assured local governments that they would still be allowed to hold meetings remotely. “The Governor recognizes,” Cabinet Secretary Ana Matosantos wrote in an open letter, “the importance of an orderly return to the ordinary conduct of public meetings of state and local agencies and boards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local governments are deciding to return somewhat to normal; San Francisco Mayor London Breed presided over four weddings at City Hall to mark its reopening Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in the Legislature have long bristled at the governor’s unprecedented use of executive power during the pandemic, and are now attacking him leading up to an all-but-certain recall election this fall. On Monday, Assemblymembers Kevin Kiley of Rocklin and James Gallagher of Yuba City and state Sen. Melissa Melendez from Riverside County demanded that the administration explain what justified the continued proclamation of the emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some emergencies from recent wildfires and past droughts are still active, Newsom’s office notes. State law does give the Legislature the ultimate check on the governor’s emergency powers. All they need to do is pass a resolution declaring the emergency to be over. But they haven’t. And with Democrats enjoying supermajorities in both the Assembly and Senate, they aren’t likely to anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859270\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"State Capitol in Sacramento\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46696_011_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fence lines the perimeter of the state Capitol building in Sacramento on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What about the state Capitol?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The halls of state government will be reopening on June 15, too. But befitting a deliberative body, it’ll be doing so at a slower pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting on Tuesday, the building will be open to a maximum of 500 members of the public. Masks will still be required and social distancing guidelines will still be in effect. After that, the rules committees in both the Assembly and Senate will “continue to assess increasing capacity to a total of 1,000 members of the public as soon as the week of June 21st,” according to a statement released Friday by legislative leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, lobbyists, reporters and the general public have been permitted to enter the Capitol only under very limited and supervised conditions.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878067/la-gran-reapertura-de-california-que-ha-cambiado-y-que-no-el-15-de-junio\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s grand reopening day is finally here, but it comes with a few asterisks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Tuesday, our 15-month-long ordeal of public health restrictions, mandates, bans and color-coded tiers to stem the COVID-19 pandemic will finally come to an end. As Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868240/newsom-announces-plan-to-open-up-business-as-usual-in-california-by-june-15\">said in April\u003c/a> and reaffirmed in May, June 15 is when “we can start to open up…business as usual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as that much-touted date approaches, the governor’s promise of a sudden milestone is colliding with the loophole-ridden gradualism of California labor law, local control and the imperatives of fighting a diminishing — but not defeated — virus that has killed 62,500 Californians and counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some mixed messages along the way have added to the confusion. So what will — and won’t — actually happen on Tuesday? Many of your questions, answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will I be able to sit inside a bar, work out at a gym or go to the movies?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Probably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average Californian can expect things to look fairly back-to-normal in most of the ways that matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-Framework.aspx\">beyond the blueprint\u003c/a>,” to use the state’s branding, and instead using federal health guidance for public places means that most businesses can dispense with social distancing requirements, capacity limits and forced closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a difference between “can” and “must.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties will still be free to impose their own public health restrictions if they choose to — but only if they’re stricter than what the state is requiring. So far, no counties have said that they’ll part ways with the state’s rules, though a few, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/what-will-the-bay-area-look-like-when-california-reopens-on-june-15/2561205/\">like San Francisco\u003c/a>, say they’re still mulling over their options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, businesses aren’t taking any chances. On Tuesday, more than 35 business groups sent a letter to county governments across the state begging them to stick to the statewide rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though business groups, who don’t relish the idea of getting sued, are hoping for consistent, cheap and easy-to-follow standards, your favorite restaurant, movie theater or hair salon is also free to impose its own public health restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means you shouldn’t be surprised if you still spot a few “No Mask, No Service” signs after June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Can I go to a concert?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Depends. Are we talking open mic at the local bar or Beyoncé at an arena?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has said it will \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Beyond-Blueprint-QA.aspx\">impose additional restrictions on “mega events.”\u003c/a> That’s defined as anything that draws more than 5,000 people indoors or 10,000 outside. (Sorry, nameless dude playing a melodica into a loop pedal, you are not a mega event).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the most recent state guidance, concerts, conventions and other indoor mega events will only be open to people who can prove that they’ve either been vaccinated (by showing a vaccination card, a photo of the card, or documentation from a doctor) or that they tested negative for the coronavirus in the last 72 hours. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That means vaccinated adults should feel free to go mask-less in most public spaces. There are still exceptions for venues where the potential for many vulnerable people congregating in a confined place is high: hospitals and other health care settings, school classrooms, prisons and jails, public transit and nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re unvaccinated, you’ll still be required to wear a mask indoors in most public places, though it’s not entirely clear if or how that will be enforced. On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said that businesses can require masks of all customers, implement a vaccination verification system or simply go with the honor system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not requiring businesses to, for example, have somebody at the door checking for vaccine status as a way to comply with this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878051\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08.jpg\" alt=\"Two people working at the grill of a restaurant.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/0682021_ReopeningJune15_PU_Sized_08-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Armstrong, 51 and his wife, Paula Armstrong, 45, prepare pick up orders during lunch hour at their Long Beach restaurant, VBurger, on June 8, 2021. ‘It’s been very challenging for us, but we couldn’t back out,’ said Armstrong of opening mid-pandemic last year. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What about when I’m at work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For anyone who has a job, doesn’t work from home and spends their work hours with other human beings, this Q&A just got a lot more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last November, the state’s workplace safety regulator has been requiring most employees across the state to mask up and maintain 6 feet of distance from one another when possible. They’ve also required stores, restaurants and other employers to provide personal protective equipment to their staff, offer testing when necessary and, in some cases, set up pathogen-blocking furnishings such as plexiglass shields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those requirements seem to be on the way out, but not on June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We can’t be the mask police,” said Rachel Michelin, president of the California Retailers Association. “This totally contradicts the messaging that came out of the governor’s office, which was June 15, we’re opening up the economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s business interests lobbied the governor directly, asking him to do an end run around the state’s workplace safety regulators and issue an executive order to “align” workplace guidelines with guidance from the state public health department and federal CDC. They renewed that request after the Cal/OSHA decision Wednesday night, urging Newsom to provide all employers with “consistency and certainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom declined on Friday to say whether he would act on that request. On Wednesday, Ghaly said the administration was “in no way predisposing or pushing for one outcome over the other” but for now was simply leaving it up to the workplace safety board.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Presumably state agencies will be abiding by the state public health guidelines?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You might think that. And that might very well be the case. But at least for now, it appears to be up to the agencies themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night — just hours before the state’s reopening at midnight — the California Department of Human Resources sent an advisory to department heads across state government. State offices that serve the public directly, like offices and stores across the state, will not be required “to inquire about a member of the public’s vaccine status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the advisory read, agencies “should provide notice to all customers, guests and members of the public that face coverings are required for unvaccinated individuals. If an individual without a face covering enters a state building, the department should assume the individual is complying with the requirement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State employers are also being told to keep their flexible work-from-home policies in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1233471456-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a press conference to discuss the state reopening at Universal Studios in Hollywood, California on June 15, 2021. California will let fully vaccinated workers go maskless after June 17, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Is the state still going to be in a state of emergency?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does that mean the state isn’t actually going to reopen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the governor was asked on Friday whether, come June 15, he would also rescind the state of emergency proclamation that he issued in the early days of the pandemic in March 2020, Newsom — to the surprise of many and dismay of some — said that he would not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can the state possibly reopen for “business as usual” when it’s simultaneously under an emergency?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer might be that the definition of “state of emergency” under California law doesn’t necessarily mean “emergency” in the everyday “something is on fire” sense of the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California will offer six “dream vacation” incentives to spur more people to get coronavirus vaccinations and boost the state's hobbled tourism industry, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday, the day before the state lifts most pandemic restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promotion is the latest in a string of game show-style drawings recently announced by Newsom to increase vaccination rates and, in this case, help jump-start the Golden State's travel and tourism industry, which has been in virtual hibernation for more than a year because of stay-at-home orders and travel restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tourism industry “had a sledgehammer taken to it,” Newsom said at a press briefing Monday morning inside San Francisco's historic Ferry Building, a major tourist attraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tourism revenues nose-dived from a record $145 billion in 2019 to $65 billion last year as California enacted some of the nation's toughest pandemic restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom said it's now safe to travel in California again, as the state of nearly 40 million people boasts among the nation's lowest virus transmission rates, with \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/06/14/californias-mask-mandate-ends-june-15-heres-why-some-fully-vaccinated-people-will-keep-wearing-them/\">close to half\u003c/a> of all residents fully vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was because of the health-first focus that this state is not poised to recover. It's poised ... to come roaring back,” Newsom said, emphasizing that from both health and economic standpoints, California weathered the pandemic better than many conservative states with much looser restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11877048,news_11877530,news_11876747\"]“Florida actually had worse economic outcome over the course of the last year than the state of California. So did Texas,” he said, calling out two of California's conservative rivals, while touting his state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873677/newsom-unveils-revised-budget-proposal-touting-historic-windfall\">record budget surplus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we're here primarily because California has excelled in another category, and that's vaccinations,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 80% of eligible city residents have received at least one dose of vaccine, and nearly 70% are fully vaccinated, becoming the first major American city to hit that threshold, Mayor London Breed said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city by the bay is the site of one of the six vacation packages offered by various donors through Visit California, the state's nonprofit travel promotion arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others destinations include Anaheim, Los Angeles, San Diego and a luxury hotel in Palm Springs. Newsom hastily added that he has never visited the luxury hotel, a caveat that comes after he was widely criticized for patronizing an exclusive Napa Valley restaurant during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And you can’t think of California without thinking about the Ritz Carlton down in Palm Springs. At least I’m told the Ritz Carlton down in Palm Springs is spectacular,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the goodies in the \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/vax-for-the-win/\">various packages\u003c/a> — each available for up to four people — include floor seats at a Los Angeles Lakers game, as well as tickets to Disneyland, Legoland, SeaWorld and a symphony, Newsom said. Each winner also gets $2,000 in travel money, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all due respect, eat your heart out the rest of the United States,” he said “There's no state in America that has more in terms of experiences, more in terms of its culinary options than the great state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Californians 18 and older who are at least partially vaccinated are eligible for the drawing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is also proposing $95 million in state funding to help a hospitality and tourism sector that at one point during the pandemic, he said, lost nearly half its 1.2 million jobs. The investment could speed the resumption of more than 300,000 jobs within a year, he projected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Beteta, president and CEO of Visit California, predicted it will take another four years for California's travel industry to fully recover, particularly because of the anticipated slow comeback of business and convention travel. 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