Writers Guild and Hollywood studios reach tentative agreement to end strike. No deal yet for actors
AP, ANDREW DALTON: "Union leaders and Hollywood studios reached a tentative agreement Sunday to end a historic screenwriters strike after nearly five months, though no deal is yet in the works for striking actors.
The Writers Guild of America announced the deal in a joint statement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group that represents studios, streaming services and production companies in negotiations."
READ MORE -- WGA and the studios reach tentative deal to end writers’ strike -- LA Times, WENDY LEE/MEG JAMES; Here is what the WGA had to say about strike settlement -- LA Times, JEVON PHILLIPS
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bills to enhance the state's protections for LGBTQ+ people
AP: "California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several bills Saturday aimed at bolstering the state's protections for LGBTQ+ people, a day after issuing a controversial veto that was criticized by advocates.
The new laws include legislation that focuses on support for LGBTQ+ youth. One law sets timelines for required cultural competency training for public school teachers and staff, while another creates an advisory task force to determine the needs of LGBTQ+ students and help advance supportive initiatives. A third requires families to show that they can and are willing to meet the needs of a child in foster care regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity."
Federal firefighters will quit in droves if Congress doesn’t take action, union warns
LA Times, ALEX WIGGLESWORTH: "With temporary pay hikes for federal wildland firefighters set to expire in the coming weeks, union officials are warning that the 15,000-member workforce could face a mass exodus if Congress fails to make the increases permanent.
Max Alonzo, national business representative for the National Federation of Federal Employees, said recently that many firefighters were likely to depart for higher paying jobs at state and municipal agencies, or power companies, once they reached the “pay cliff” — the point at which temporary raises end."
Asteroid sample returns to Earth after a 3.86-billion-mile journey
BANG*Mercury News, ELISSA MIOLENE: "The country’s first pristine asteroid sample — protected by a heat shield invented in Silicon Valley — landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert Sunday morning, where it was greeted by a team of NASA scientists hoping to study its chemical composition.
The sample was taken from Bennu, an asteroid with a 500-meter diameter. The process has been years in the making: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launched in 2016, taking just over two years to arrive at the asteroid. From 2019 to 2021, the spacecraft took samples of rock, dust and other measurements from the asteroid — and now, after a 1.2-billion-mile journey home, pieces of 4.5-billion-year-old Bennu have finally landed on Earth."
Storm to bring rain, winds to the Bay Area. Here’s a timeline of impacts
The Chronicle, GERRY DIAZ: "A deep area of low pressure will raise a chance of showers in the Bay Area next week, including what will be the first measurable rainfall for parts of the region since spring.
Starting Sunday evening, stormy conditions are expected along large stretches of the Pacific Northwest and far Northern California, including heavy downpours and gusty conditions through Monday and Tuesday. The bulk of these impacts will bypass the Bay Area, but brief rain bands and blustery conditions are possible in select cities."
Storm swell expected to bring 16-foot waves to Bay Area beaches
The Chronicle, SAM WHITING: "Waves as high as 16 feet could hit Bay Area beaches late Monday afternoon as the result of a storm 200 miles off the coast of Washington state, meteorologists said Sunday.
The National Weather Service has upgraded its Beach Hazard Statement warning to a high surf advisory from Monday afternoon through 11 p.m. Tuesday. The NWS warned of “dangerous rip currents and larger breakers." Of particular danger are beaches that face northwest, the direction of a powerful swell being created by a storm that is 1,500 miles off the Pacific Northwest."
Yosemite’s longest-serving ranger is retiring. Here’s how he became a ‘legend’
The Chronicle, GREGORY THOMAS: "If you’ve spent time in Yosemite National Park any of the past 59 summers, there’s a chance you’ve had a friendly run-in with Fred Koegler, the park’s longest-serving seasonal ranger.
An 82-year-old retired schoolteacher from Hollywood, Koegler, with his wide-brimmed Stetson and broad smile, is what park veterans know as a “ranger’s ranger.” That is a casually competent jack-of-all-trades, unmatched in his knowledge of Yosemite’s rugged high country and with an old-school, boots-on-the-trail approach to public service."
California spent $40 million on an opioid awareness campaign. Fentanyl is still killing nearly 20 people a day
BANG*Mercury News, SCOOTY NICKERSON: "With fentanyl killing nearly 20 Californians every day, state health care officials have staked millions of dollars on a boutique Sacramento-based advertising firm to “raise awareness, break the stigma, promote recovery, build hope and save lives” in the battle against the powerful opioid.
But was there a better way to spend $40 million?"
Hospital medication errors left SoCal patients at risk. One suffered a brain bleed
LA Times, EMILY ALPERT REYES: "State regulators faulted two hospitals in Southern California for medication errors that put patients at risk, including an elderly patient who suffered a brain bleed after receiving repeated doses of blood thinner.
At Adventist Health Simi Valley, medical staff erroneously gave an 81-year-old patient two doses of the blood thinner Lovenox within two hours, which “probably caused” a brain bleed that preceded the patient’s death in March, investigators with the California Department of Public Health found."
LAUSD considering a policy to limit charter co-locations, prioritize vulnerable students
EdSource, MALLIKA SESHADRI: "The Los Angeles Unified School District school board is considering a resolution that would exclude 346 schools serving its most vulnerable student populations from co-location arrangements with charter schools. Doing so could potentially undermine the integrity of Proposition 39, a statewide initiative that mandates public schools to share spaces with charter schools.
The resolution, authored by President Jackie Goldberg and member Rocio Rivas and discussed at a meeting Tuesday, would require the district to avoid co-location offers on LAUSD’s 100 Priority Schools, Black Student Achievement Plan campuses and community schools."
Where to get a low-cost bachelor’s degree close to home and a job lead: Community college
LA Times, DEBBIE TRUONG: "It took nearly two decades for Promise Roberts to earn a college degree. She first enrolled at Antelope Valley College in 1994, earning an associate’s degree in 2013 while raising children and building a hairdressing business.
But, she said, “I wanted more.” In 2022, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in airframe manufacturing technology and landed a job near home without ever leaving the community college."
California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease
LA Times, EMILY ALPERT REYES, CINDY CARCAMO: "Inside the row of workshops in an industrial stretch of Pacoima, men labored over hefty slabs of speckled stone, saws whining over the sounds of Spanish-language rock.
Pale dust rose around them as they worked. Many went without masks. Some had water spurting from their machines, but others had nothing to tamp down the powder rising in the air."
Loaves & Fishes’ Chris Delany dies at 90. She leaves behind a thousand daily miracles in Sacramento
Sacramento Bee, ISHANI DESAI: "The co-founder of Loaves & Fishes, one of Sacramento’s largest homeless service providers, didn’t just serve more than seven million meals across 40 years to homeless people and participate in California’s iconic civil disobedience protests leading to getting arrested more than 30 times.
Marie “Chris” Josephine Delaney’s ethos helped change the perception around Sacramento’s unhoused population. It stemmed from Delany, guided by her deep Catholic faith, seeing the dignity and humanity in everyone, no matter who they were, said her friends and family."
Traditional Polynesian canoe, loaded with goodwill, sails into S.F. Bay
The Chronicle, SAM WHITING: "After 2,830 miles navigating by stars, waves and birds, and propelled by wind, the Polynesian voyaging canoe Hokulea was scheduled to sail into Aquatic Cove at noon Sunday. It was 18 minutes late, which did not matter to hundreds of people waiting in the grandstand.
When the canoe rounded the breakwater, accompanied by paddlers on outriggers and boards, the crowd went silent in a reverie interrupted only by the ancient greeting of conch shells."
