July 29, 2020

On this episode of "Gimme Shelter" CalMatters' Matt Levin and the Los Angeles Times' Liam Dillon discuss President Trump's ominous tweets about low-income housing and the suburbs.

La mayoría de los condados, incluso aquellos con miles de casos de COVID-19, intentan contactar a todos los expuestos. Pero, siete de ellos solo se comunican con personas de alto riesgo, y uno ni siquiera eso.

Most counties, even those with thousands of COVID-19 cases, attempt to notify everyone exposed. But seven inform only high-risk people — and another isn’t even doing that.

School systems across the state at every level have either created their own training for teachers or paid someone else to do it. They hope it makes this fall’s distance learning more effective than the spring’s.

Good morning, California. It’s Wednesday, July 29. Could lose billons of $, thousands of jobs California has a lot riding on federal unemployment benefits set to expire this week. The Golden State could sink even deeper into recession and lose thousands more jobs if the Republican proposal to decrease weekly benefits from $600 to $200 […]

With a surge in COVID-19 cases, states should acknowledge that travel increases risk, and that closures and reopenings should be regionally coordinated.

Virus hot spot Imperial County went forward with eviction proceedings barred by the state judicial system.

A “Yes” vote on Proposition 25 means replacing a money bail system that criminalizes poverty with a fair system that assesses each individual’s public safety risk.

Legislation to abolish California's test of would-be teachers' ability to teach reading should be deferred in this pandemic-shortened session.