Welcome. In the coowner of politics and prose thank you for joining us here online. Holding all other talks since last spring. The pandemic for those who abandon interesting events. For those of you not familiar how this works, you still ask a question of the authors youd like. To do so, click on the q a at the bottom of your screen. Attack , you will find a link for purchasing the book, donald trump versus the u. S. By michael schmidt. Michael started as a news with the New York Times 15 years ago. He became a Sports Reporter at the paper. He went on to report in iraq, pentagon and department of Homeland Security to his work is focused on federal negotiations one of two teams in 2018. One on Workplace Sexual Harassment issues and the other for donald trump, his campaign ties to russia. Trumps abuse of president ial power focusing primarily on two individuals to confront the individuals and constrain him, james comey former white House Counsel, gone with the cans. This is a story of a
Swift. What were learning about chief eddie garcias plans to retire. But first, cautiously optimistic. The new numbers that show california and the bay area are making some progress in the fight against covid19. Amidst all the setbacks there are small yet notable victories during this pandemic. Governor newsom now says cases, hospitalizations, and icu numbers are down. Take a look. Yesterday the state added 5,700 new cases. Thats well below the daily average of 8,800 cases in the last couple of weeks. However, we still have a ways to go. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney has more. Here is extending on the narrative of some early good signs. Reporter Governor Newsom not only a 21 drop in cases the past week, but in the past two weeks, hospitalizations down 10 , icu cases down 5 . Those statewide numbers are good, but the bay area numbers are even better says dr. George rutherford, a professor of epidemiology at ucsf. Similarly in the bay area, the cases are dropping perhaps even more marked
Is double checking your Voter Registration before the largest absentee ballot effort in history in the middle of a global pandemic. David levine is a constitutional law professor at uc hastings and says covid19 should not stop free and fair elections. If we managed to have elections in the civil war and we managed to have them during the panamerican war and the pandemic of 1918 and world war i into and we managed to have elections despite crises. Reporter in Contra Costa County were before the pandemic 75 of the ballots were absentee, the Registrars Office has expanded their efforts. After the election of 2018 we up graded all of our mail handing equipment and scanners and sorters. Reporter they are reaching out to 150 voters who have not requested absentee ballots to double check their registration as well and they also implemented a workaround for potential posted delays and 45 of these drop boxes around the county. You dont need to worry about whatever the transit time is. They do r
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