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With COVID-19 declining in California, a host of other issues could determine whether voters will recall Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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The campaign to recall Gov.
Gavin Newsom from office could lose one of its strongest selling points by the time voters are asked whether to remove him this fall namely, the devastation that ensued during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recall organizers remain confident that animosity will continue to linger over past school closures, job losses and the billions of dollars the state paid out to fraudulent unemployment claims during the pandemic, along with Newsom’s missteps, such as attending a lobbyist’s birthday party at Napa Valley’s French Laundry restaurant after asking Californians to refrain from similar gatherings.
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Helen Weaver, Chronicler of an Affair With Kerouac, Dies at 89
She was a respected translator from French and a writer on astrology, but her magnum opus was a memoir of her time with Kerouac and the Beats.
Helen Weaver with Jack Kerouac in an undated photo. She spent nearly 20 years writing “The Awakener,” an evocative memoir about their brief relationship.Credit.via Weaver family
April 26, 2021, 10:00 a.m. ET
Helen Weaver, who fell in love with Jack Kerouac months before “On the Road” rocketed him into the literary stratosphere, and who 53 years later made a record of their romance in an enduring book of her own, died on April 13 at her home in Woodstock, N.Y. She was 89.
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