Updating Saturday . . .   

Chico mass shooting: 6 reported injured, 1 fatally -- Chico police are investigating a mass shooting that killed a 17-year-old girl Saturday morning. Six people, including the victim who died in a hospital, were shot at a party on the 1000 block of Columbus Avenue just off Chico State’s campus, police said. Danielle Echeverria, Warren Pederson in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 5/6/23

Smith: Reparations is morally right. But L.A. Democrats will decide if it’s politically doable -- In a new report, California’s reparations task force calculates how much Black people are owed for racism. It’s at least hundreds of millions of dollars. Erika D. Smith in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 5/6/23

Nolte: Nordstrom's style and class captured the essence of S.F. We will miss it -- There’s an old saying about sinking ships. Nobody starts to worry until the water gets up to the first-class cabins. And now that’s happening in San Francisco. Carl Nolte in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 5/6/23

Hoeven: California is cracking down on NIMBY cities. But when will it build housing in its own backyard? -- California is forcing city governments to build more housing. The state also needs to be more aggressive in building housing on its own properties. Emily Hoeven in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 5/6/23

Workplace

Santa Clara County budget proposal would cut jobs to remedy $120 million deficit -- Santa Clara County has released an $11.2 billion budget proposal that wrestles with a $120 million deficit and a potential economic downturn by turning to one of its costliest annual expenses: the county’s employees. Grace Hase in the San Jose Mercury$ -- 5/6/23

Thousands of Jobs Were Added in April—Even in Industries With Layoffs -- Hiring held up in tech, construction and manufacturing as the labor market continues to boom. Gabriel T. Rubin in the Wall Street Journal$ -- 5/6/23

Most of the country’s missing workers are back, propelling the economy -- The U.S. economy has recovered 75 percent of the 4 million workers who stopped working because of retirements, lack of child care and health concerns. Abha Bhattarai, Luis Melgar in the Washington Post$ -- 5/6/23

COVID

The federal COVID emergency is ending, but Californians get 6 extra months of free tests -- But there’s good news for Californians: The state legislature has given Golden State residents an extra six months of guaranteed coverage of COVID tests and reimbursements from their insurance. Harriet Blair Rowan in the San Jose Mercury$ -- 5/6/23

Street

Yearlong operation leads CHP to recover stolen goods worth millions -- Operation targeted sophisticated cargo theft ring; on Thursday, officers arrested 25 people and seized $5 million in merchandis. Teri Figueroa in the San Diego Union-Tribune$ -- 5/6/23

Flood Recovery

Central Valley town seeks $20 million for flood recovery. Will Gavin Newsom fund it? -- Planada residents, many of whom are agricultural workers, have been grappling with job and economic loss and mold-infested living conditions, as they try to rebuild their homes, community and elementary school. Melissa Montalvo in the Fresno Bee$ -- 5/6/23

Willie Mays

Willie Mays at 92: Longtime SF Giants fans share memories of the ‘Say Hey Kid’ -- Mays, the oldest living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and the greatest Giants player of all time, turns 92 today as San Francisco hosts the Milwaukee Brewers. No elaborate ceremony is planned, and it was unclear Friday as to whether Mays would attend the game, a group of singers will perform “Happy Birthday” in his honor, per a team spokesman. Curtis Pashelka in the San Jose Mercury$ -- 5/6/23

Also

‘My lawn was stolen last night’: How a filmmaker learned to laugh at his missing turf -- The NextDoor post sounded like a hoax, but one Studio City man says a thief hit paydirt by stealing his lawn. Nathan Solis in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 5/6/23

California Policy and Politics Saturday

San Bernardino County paid $1.1 million ransom to hacker of Sheriff’s Department computers -- David Wert, a county spokesman, said the county had anticipated such a computer invasion and had taken out insurance. He said that of the $1.1 million payout, the county’s share was $511,852 and that the insurance company paid the rest. Brian Rokos in the San Bernardino Sun$ -- 5/6/23

Protesters disrupt De León’s Cinco de Mayo presentation during council meeting; 1 arrested -- Since De León’s participation in a secretly recorded conversation with other city leaders was made public last October, his presence in council has often brought jeers and expletives from protesters. Julia Wick, David Zahniser in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 5/6/23

Here’s why S.F. Mayor Breed is going on a weeklong trip to Israel -- Private donors, largely from the Bay Area’s Jewish community, are funding the trip, which costs about $7,500 per person, not including airfare. San Francisco taxpayers will only cover the cost of Breed’s security, the mayor’s office said. Mallory Moench, J.D. Morris in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 5/6/23

Shasta County's decision to ditch Dominion triggers state Assembly bill -- Pellerin introduced the bill about three weeks after Shasta Supervisors voted 3-2 to terminate their contract with Dominion without a state certified and federally qualified voting system in place, ignoring the advice of Registrar of Voters Cathy Darling Allen and then-County Counsel Rubin Cruse Jr. David Benda in the Redding Record Searchlight -- 5/6/23

Workplace

Citing writers’ strike, Drew Barrymore withdraws from live-hosting Sunday’s MTV awards -- ‘In order to truly respect’ writers during the writers’ strike, Drew Barrymore said she won’t host Sunday’s MTV Movie & TV Awards. But she’ll do it next year. Nardine Saad in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 5/6/23

Cedars-Sinai laying off more than 100 employees -- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is laying off more than 100 employees in a move that the hospital said was needed to reduce costs as it faces “a challenging financial environment.” Emily Alpert Reyes in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 5/6/23

Oakland school district, teachers face the possibility of a protracted strike -- But they are much farther apart when it comes to the union’s list of broader demands, called “Common Good” proposals. Those include, among other initiatives, smaller class sizes, free student transportation, student housing, making campuses more hospitable against a changing climate and creating school-site committees to share decision-making among administrators, faculty and families. Austin Turner, Shomik Mukherjee, Katie Lauer, Scooty Nickerson in the in the East Bay Times$ Jill Tucker in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 5/6/23

Housing

$55,000 to leave a rent-controlled apartment? Why these tenants say no thanks -- As the L.A. rental market soars out of reach for many working families, one community wants to hold on to its low-cost housing. Paloma Esquivel in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 5/6/23

Why You Should Forget What You Think You Know About Housing in L.A. -- Los Angeles, a city known for its conventional single-family homes, may offer some of today’s most innovative solutions for multifamily housing. Julie Lasky in the New York Times$ -- 5/6/23

Downtown SF

Two of S.F.’s biggest hotels face a $725 million loan deadline. Landlord exploring ‘all options’ -- Owner Park Hotels said, on an earnings call this week, it is exploring all options for the properties, including potentially giving them up to its lender. The company could also extend the loan deadline. Roland Li in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 5/6/23

Travis AFB

EPA orders Air Force to respond to oil spill from Travis Air Force Base -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency order Thursday mandating the U.S. Air Force address an oil discharge from Travis Air Force Base into Fairfield’s Union Creek that has been ongoing since 2021. Joel Umanzor in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 5/6/23

Fentanyl

Should California throw the book at opioid dealers? -- Bills proposed by Republican and moderate Democratic officials seeking to impose stricter penalties on fentanyl dealers have floundered as fractures emerge in the legislature Scooty Nickerson in the East Bay Times$ -- 5/6/23

Street

Ex-UC Davis student pleads not guilty in deadly stabbings -- Cloaked in an anti-suicide vest, the young suspect charged in a spate of brutal stabbings in Davis pleaded not guilty Friday. Jessica Garrison, Brittny Mejia in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 5/6/23

Who is Carlos Dominguez? Suspected Davis killer grew up in Oakland, football team captain -- Before Carlos Reales Dominguez became a student at UC Davis — and long before his arrest earlier this week on suspicion of stabbing three people — he was a high school athlete, a standout student and a leader among his peers. Mathew Miranda, Stephen Hobbs in the Sacramento Bee$ -- 5/6/23

Prosecutors weigh death penalty for Davis stabbing suspect -- Prosecutors in Yolo County filed murder charges Friday and are weighing whether to pursue the death penalty against former UC Davis student Carlos Reales Dominguez in connection with three stabbings, two of them fatal. Sophia Bollag, Rachel Swan in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 5/6/23

S.F. Walgreens shooting: D.A.’s clearing of armed guard hasn’t settled tensions -- A week after a Walgreens security guard fatally shot an unarmed man in a confrontation over alleged shoplifting, tensions are mounting over San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’ decision to not file criminal charges in the killing. Noah Arroyo, St John Barned Smith in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 5/6/23

Accused Los Gatos party mom asked judge what she’d get if she pleaded guilty. She has her answer -- The Los Gatos mom charged with arranging drunken sex-fueled parties for her teen son and his friends got her answer from a judge Friday on what her sentence would be if she pleaded guilty to charges in the case that rocked her upscale Silicon Valley community: seventeen years and four months behind bars. John Woolfolk in the San Jose Mercury$ -- 5/5/23

Also

The Next Fear on A.I.: Hollywood’s Killer Robots Become the Military’s Tools -- U.S. national security officials are warning about the potential for the new technology to upend war, cyber conflict and — in the most extreme case — the use of nuclear weapons. David E. Sanger in the New York Times$ -- 5/6/23