Sunday, December 13, 2020

12-13: Another SUPER-SPIKE in OC Covid cases!

There were 1,236 patients in local hospitals with the coronavirus on Sunday – breaking a July record. 
—OC Reg
[See DtB graph below]
✅ Hiltzik: 2020 was the year that American science denial became lethal -- It’s hard to pinpoint when the Republican Party’s long-cherished hostility to scientific facts went, shall we say, viral. Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 12/13/20 

✅ Walters: High school ethnic studies – the third version -- Will the third time be the charm for California’s tortured effort to write a model ethnic studies curriculum for high school students? Dan Walters CalMatters -- 12/13/20 

✅ ‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy -- The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump’s desperate bid for a second term not only shredded his effort to overturn the will of voters: It also was a blunt rebuke to Republican leaders in Congress and the states who were willing to damage American democracy by embracing a partisan power grab over a free and fair election. Jim Rutenberg and Nick Corasaniti in the New York Times$ -- 12/13/20 

✅ Several UC chancellors call for tuition increase amid pandemic-fueled budget crisis -- As the pandemic throws the University of California into one of the worst financial crises it has ever collectively faced, top leaders at the majority of campuses say it’s time to consider a tuition increase for fall 2022. Teresa Watanabe in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 12/12/20

—LA Times

They’re loyal, diligent – and have unbeatable noses. Could dogs play a key part in the fight against the pandemic? 
—The Guardian

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...