Sunday, September 6, 2020

9-6: the "college town" covid hot spot phenom. Cohen spills many a bean on Trump. And it's damned hot!


✅In new book, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen describes alleged episodes of racism and says president likes how Putin runs Russia
 -- President Trump’s longtime lawyer and personal fixer, Michael Cohen, alleges in a new book that Trump made “overt and covert attempts to get Russia to interfere in the 2016 election” and that the future commander in chief was also well aware of Cohen’s hush-money payoff to adult-film star Stormy Daniels during that campaign. Ashley Parker and Rosalind S. Helderman in the Washington Post$ -- 9/6/20

COVID-19 deaths reach 6,000 in L.A. County -- The coronavirus crisis has now caused 6,000 deaths in Los Angeles County, a new milestone as public health officials reiterated warnings Saturday to prevent a “great risk of community spread of COVID-19" by avoiding crowds and celebrating Labor Day weekend with members of one’s own householdTeresa Watanabe in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 9/6/20

 

San Diego State confines students to dorms as COVID-19 cases jump -- San Diego State University announced that starting Saturday night it is ordering students who live on campus to stay in their dorms for the rest of the Labor Day weekend in response to the continuing rise in COVID-19 cases. Gary Warth in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 9/6/20

How California’s most pressing problems fell victim to Legislature’s infighting -- When the state Senate leader’s priority housing bill died as the clock struck midnight on the Legislature’s annual session, it shone a spotlight on infighting that contributed to the stunning collapse this year of an agenda to tackle California’s most pressing problemsAlexei Koseff in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 9/6/20

 

#ScholarStrike to Begin Tuesday

     The Scholar Strike and teach-in for racial justice, organized by Anthea Butler and Kevin Gannon, will start at 10 a.m. on Tuesday and continue through Wednesday. Some 5,000 scholars have signed up, saying that they plan to strike, participate in the teach-in or both. Content will appear on Facebook at this link and on Twitter @ScholarStrike, starting Tuesday morning. A Canadian Scholar Strike is in the works now, as well.

—Inside Higher Ed



A New Front in America’s Pandemic: College Towns

The coronavirus is spiking around campuses from Texas to Iowa to North Carolina as students return.

—NYT

     IOWA CITY, Iowa —…Within days, students were complaining that they couldn’t get coronavirus tests or were bumping into people who were supposed to be in isolation. Undergraduates were jamming sidewalks and downtown bars, masks hanging below their chins, never mind the city’s mask mandate.

     Now, Iowa City is a full-blown pandemic hot spot — one of about 100 college communities around the country where infections have spiked in recent weeks as students have returned for the fall semester. Though the rate of infection has bent downward in the Northeast, where the virus first peaked in the U.S., it continues to remain high across many states in the Midwest and South — and evidence suggests that students returning to big campuses are a major factor.


At Least 4 Boats Sink During ‘Trump Boat Parade’ in Texas

—NYT

 

Northeastern dismisses 11 students who gathered in hotel room

     The dismissal underscores the extreme steps universities nationwide are taking to deter behavior that could accelerate the spread of the virus on campus.

—WashPo

 

Fox News colleagues defend reporter after Trump Twitter attack over confirmation of Atlantic reporting

     National security reporter Jennifer Griffin found sources to validate key aspects of the story about the president's alleged disparagement of fallen U.S. troops.

—WashPo


Today's OC Covid numbers: 223 new cases; 2 new deaths.

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