Sunday, July 12, 2020

7-12


FROM ROUGH AND TUMBLE:

 

California coronavirus-related deaths top 7,000 as infection spread worsens -- The rate at which coronavirus test results are coming back positive in California over the previous seven days has hit 7.97%. That’s the highest number since April — a continuing sign that the coronavirus is spreading throughout the state, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis conducted Saturday. Rong-Gong Lin II, Leila Miller in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 7/12/20

 

College students fume over having to pay full tuition for dubious online learning -- Students describe online coursework as a dehumanizing realm where it can be hard to see, hear, talk, work, socialize and collaborate. Gary Robbins in the San Diego Union-Tribune$ -- 7/12/20

 

Lopez: A retired teacher leads the masked resistance in Newport Beach -- Lynn Lorenz, a retired teacher who lives on a bluff above the Newport Beach harbor, emerged from her home Thursday morning wearing a mask. Nobody turned and stared, as if she were wearing a lampshade over her head. But Lorenz definitely stood out. Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 7/12/20

 

'Historic corruption': 2 Republican senators denounce Trump's commutation of Stone -- Sens. Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of his longtime confidant Roger Stone — the first elected Republicans to denounce the president’s Friday night move. Andrew Desiderio Politico -- 7/12/20


Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...