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PROM PRICE RELIEF

Organizers promote equity by offering free formalwear
Redwood High School junior Liv Villanova adjusts a dress at the Village at Corte Madera mall on Wednesday. She is
organizing a shop where students can get donated formalwear for their proms. Redwood ninth-graders Angelica Claire,
center, and Ruby Zaim are helping to set up the shop.
By Keri Brenner
kbrenner@marinij.com
Across Marin County, el-
egant dresses, stylish shoes
and sharp tuxedos will
be ready for high school
proms this spring — all
for free.
The formalwear, both
new or lightly used, is be-
ing assembled to level the
playing field for students.
“We felt it was impor-
tant that every student
gets the opportunity to
attend the prom,” said
Liv Villanova, a Redwood
High School student who
is organizing the school’s
new “Prom Boutique”
at the Village at Corte
Madera. “Money should
not be a reason they can’t
attend.”
The shop, which is oppo-
site the Apple Store at the
mall, will be open Saturday
and Sunday for students to
try on and choose outfits.
Donations of clothes or
shoes can be contributed
by dropping them off at
the Redwood High School
office or by calling the mall
at 415-924-8588.
“Redwood has not had
this kind of program be-
fore,” said Villanova, a ju-
nior who came up with
the boutique idea after at-
tending last year’s prom as
a guest. “I just kind of re-
alized how expensive it is,
with clothes, transporta-
tion and tickets — it can
cost as much as $300.”
At Tamalpais High
School, longtime par-
ent organizer Stephanie
Young said a team of stu-
dents, families and mer-
chants have collected
closets full of beautiful
formalwear, now being
stored at Young’s home in
Mill Valley.
Lawsuit
alleging
racism
settles
Couple claimed bias
in appraisal of home
By Richard Halstead
rhalstead@marinij.com
A Marin City couple who sued a real estate
PHOTOS BY ALAN DEP — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL appraiser over alleged racial discrimination has
reached an out-of-court settlement.
Paul Austin and his wife Tenisha Tate-Austin
sued appraiser Janette Miller and Miller and Pe-
rotti Real Estate Appraisals in San Rafael. They
also sued AMC Links LLC, an appraisal manage-
ment company in Utah. The suits were filed in 2021.
The Austins alleged that the defendants sup-
plied them with an appraisal that undervalued
their house because they are Black. Fair Housing
Advocates of Northern California participated in
the suit as a co-plaintiff.
Caroline Peattie, the executive director of Fair
Housing, said the decision to settle was made be-
cause of the toll such a case takes on the people
bringing it and the uncertainty of the outcome.
“Obviously we felt we had a strong case or else
we wouldn’t have pursued it in the first place,” Pe-
attie said. “Filing a lawsuit on the strength of the
evidence is one thing and how a judge will rule
is a separate question. You’re never assured of a
particular outcome. I think everybody involved
Tamalpais High School student Sophia Weinberg looks with the case was ready to move on.”
at some of the shoes donated for the “Tam High Pop-Up In a statement, Paul Austin said, “We’re glad
Prom Shop” at the home of parent organizer Stephanie that we can put this lawsuit behind us. Having
Young in Mill Valley on Feb. 28. to experience everything that came with receiv-
ing the lowballed appraisal was overwhelming.
Being able to tell our story and knowing we had
“I think it’s really important that legal recourse helped.”
we’re reusing formalwear and not SETTLEMENT » PAGE 2
being wasteful — and giving equal
access to everybody.”
— Sophia Weinberg, Tamalpais High School MILL VALLEY

City to address
PROM » PAGE 2

racial bias with

MARIN PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICE

County testing wastewater for drugs mail campaign

By Richard Halstead
rhalstead@marinij.com
Marin officials are hoping
that analysis of local waste-
water will become an ef-
fective tool in addressing a
surge of drug overdoses in
the county, just as it was in
stemming the spread of CO-
VID-19.
In early February, the
Marin public health office
began testing samples col-
lected weekly at the Central
Marin Sanitation Agency in
San Rafael for fentanyl, co-
caine, nicotine and metham-
phetamine.
“We were early adopters
using wastewater for CO-
VID-19 surveillance,” said
Dr. Matt Willis, the coun-
ty’s public health officer.
“That has proven to be one
of the most effective tools
for us. It’s really the same
concept.”
Marin is partnering with
Biobot Analytics, a com-
pany in Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, to conduct the pi-
lot study. Biobot is the com-
pany that analyzes Marin’s
wastewater for COVID-19
and other pathogens.
Willis said there are a
handful of counties across
the nation, including San
Mateo, that are partnering
with Biobot on similar stud-
ies.
Newsha Ghaeli, presi-
dent and co-founder of Bio-
bot, said, “There are a num-
ber of other counties in
California that are very in-
terested in expanding their
By Giuseppe Ricapito
gricapito@marinij.com
Mill Valley is seeking to combat “bias by proxy”
— or using race and appearance as a reason to
call the police — with an information campaign.
The city plans to mail flyers to 6,000 homes
this spring, said Linn Walsh, a city management
analyst.
“This is a long-term campaign. We want to get
it out in front of people. We have to have con-
ROBERT TONG — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL versations about it,” Walsh said. “We want it to
The county has begun screening waste at the Central Marin be in the community’s dialogue for a while. We
Sanitation Agency plant, above, in San Rafael to monitor the want it to be something people talk about and
prevalence of drugs such as fentanyl. are aware of.”
The program is a part of a larger effort to im-
COVID wastewater monitor- tify Biobot’s other part- prove diversity, inclusion and equity in the city
ing work into high risk sub- ners. “We let the communi- following a report, drawn from police data, that
stance monitoring. We are ties take the lead in disclos- indicated Mill Valley community members call
speaking with a number of ing that they’re doing this the police about Black people at nearly 20 times
other counties.” work,” she said. the rate they do about white people.
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Prom
FROM PAGE 1
“ It ’s a c om mu n it y
builder,” said Young, who
founded the prom clothes
donation drive more than
five years ago. “Kids get all
excited about the prom, and
they can pick out what they
like.”
“People from the commu-
nity get involved,” she said.
“We have many community
partners who want to sup-
port the kids.”
The team is seeking do-
nations for what it has re-
named the “Tam High
Pop-Up Prom Shop.” Dona-
tions may be dropped off
at the school office at 700
Miller Ave.; the Mill Valley
Community Center at 180
Camino Alto; Bloom Marin
at 1557 Fourth St. in San Ra-
fael; the Store at 68 Throck-
morton Ave. in Mill Valley;
and French Laundry and
Cleaners at 228 E. Blithe-
dale Ave. in Mill Valley.
In addition, students on
the team are taking drive-
up donations from parents
on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays for two weeks
during the morning car-
pool lineup at the school.
The donation deadline is
March 25.
Young and others will
assemble the donations of
new or gently used cloth-
ing and shoes in the Tam
High gym for students to
make their picks on March
30 and 31.
“I’m a big believer in
sustainable fashion, green
fashion,” said student orga-
nizer Sophia Weinberg, 16,
Wastewater
FROM PAGE 1
Ghaeli confirmed that
some communities are un-
comfortable about being
identified as areas where
illicit drugs are being con-
sumed.
“It definitely comes up,”
she said.
But Willis said shining
more light on where drugs
are being consumed and
what type of drugs are be-
ing used is precisely what
he hopes the testing will
do. He says more accurate
data are vital to reducing
the number of overdoses in
the county.
“Overdose is the third
leading cause of death for
anyone under the age of 75
in Marin,” Willis said. “We
lose someone every five
days, and we’ve seen a dou-
bling in the number of over-
doses since 2018.”
In 2022, the county re-
corded 659 non-fatal over-
doses, up from 617 in 2021.
Data on fatal overdoses in
Settlement
FROM PAGE 1
Tenisha Tate-Austin
said, “The ongoing un-
dervaluation of homes in
Black neighborhoods per-
petuates the wealth gap be-
tween Black and white fam-
ilies. We hope by bringing
attention to our case and
this lawsuit settlement, we
can help change the way the
appraisal industry operates,
and we can start to see a
different trend.”
Neither Miller nor any
other representatives of
Miller and Perotti Real Es-
tate Appraisals responded
to requests for comment.
AMC Links hired Miller
to appraise the Austins’
home in 2020 at the re-
quest of their mortgage bro-
ker. The Austins were seek-
ing to refinance their mort-
gage to make renovations to
their home.
Miller came back with
a valuation of $995,000,
which was $455,000 lower
than an appraisal done for
a previous mortgage refi-
nance on the house in 2019.
Dissatisfied with Miller’s
appraisal, the Austins re-
quested and received a sec-
ond appraisal by another
professional hired by AMC
Links.
Suspicious that their race
may have been a factor in
Miller’s appraisal, this
time the Austins removed
any evidence of their racial
identities inside their house
during the inspection and
made sure a White friend
was the only person present
at the time.
This time the house was
valued at $1.48 million.
The Austins’ suit singled
Tamalpais High School students Ava Nevolo, 17, left, classmate Sophia Weinberg, 16, and
parent organizer Stephanie Young go through donated dresses at Young’s home in Mill
Valley on Feb. 28. They are collecting formalwear for the “Tam High Pop-Up Prom Shop.”
Redwood High School student Ruby Zaim carries donated
dresses to a student-organized prom shop at the Village at
Corte Madera shopping center on Wednesday.
a junior. “I think it’s really equal access to everybody.”
important that we’re reus-
ing formalwear and not be- said she is on the Tam High
ing wasteful — and giving prom donations team for
2022 are not complete, but
the projection is 62, com-
pared to 65 in 2021.
The only data sources for
overdoses come from para-
medics called in to rescue
overdose patients and the
coroner’s office.
“With COVID-19 we had
strong data systems to
maintain visibility,” Wil-
lis said. “This problem by
contrast is largely hidden.
We’re really trying to find
ways to gain better visi-
bility to wrap our arms
around this issue.”
Willis cautioned that this
is still a new procedure.
“We’re not going to hang
our hat on any results un-
til we have a better under-
standing of how accurate it
is, how well it correlates to
other data sources,” he said.
But he added, “It could
potentially be very power-
ful for us.”
He said if testing indi-
cates an increase in the
amount of fentanyl present
in a community’s wastewa-
ter, alerts can be posted to
warn users, Narcan sup-
plies could be boosted there
out five pieces of evidence
to support its allegation of
housing discrimination due
to race.
First, the suit cited the
“unreasonably and inexpli-
cably low market value” ar-
rived at by Miller. Second
were adjustments to value
based solely on the house’s
location in Marin City.
Third was the “perceived
race” of the homeowners.
Fourth was a comment
Miller made regarding the
“distinct marketability” of
Marin City. Fifth was Mill-
er’s use of property sales lo-
cated exclusively or primar-
ily in Marin City as compar-
isons.
When doing her sales
comparisons, Miller used
three properties in Marin
City, two in Mill Valley and
one in Sausalito. The sec-
ond appraiser used two
properties in Marin City
and six in Sausalito.
According to the suit,
Miller’s decision to com-
pare the Austins’ house to
other homes sold in Marin
City resulted in the valua-
tion being dictated by past
sale prices that were “the
direct product of racial dis-
crimination.”
In January 2022, Miller’s
attorneys issued a 29-page
rejoinder to the allegations
made by the Austins.
“There is nothing inher-
ently racist about choosing
comparable properties that
are located in the same city
as the Subject Property,” the
brief stated. “Without any
direct (or indirect) evidence
of actual racial discrimina-
tion Miller’s choice of com-
parable properties cannot
support Plaintiff’s claim of
discrimination.”
Regarding Miller’s com-
ment about “distinct mar-
PHOTOS BY ALAN DEP — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL
Ava Nevolo, 17, a senior,
and strips used to test sub-
stances for fentanyl could
be distributed.
Biobot was one of the
first in the nation to
measure SARS-CoV-2 in
wastewater and has since
brought COVID-19 waste-
water monitoring to com-
munities across all 50
states. The company was
founded in 2017 to bring
more real-time data to
communities tackling the
opioid crisis.
Ghaeli said that before
Biobot began testing waste-
water in Cary, North Car-
olina, it was assumed that
the town’s surge in over-
doses was being caused by
increased use of heroin and
fentanyl. The town was try-
ing to address the problem
by investing in a needle-ex-
change program.
After wastewater testing
showed high levels of pre-
scription drugs in Cary’s
wastewater, the tow n
mounted a campaign to
increase public awareness
about the risks associated
with prescription drugs
and collected unused pre-
Paul Austin outside his home in Marin City on Dec. 5, 2022. He and his wife Tenisha Tate-
Austin were featured in the documentary “Our America: Lowballed,” which addresses
discrimination in home appraisals.
ketability,” the attorneys
wrote, “It is self-evident
that every geographical
area would have some sort
of distinct marketability.
If the Plaintiffs’ argument
is accepted, any appraiser
who used the term ‘distinct
marketability’ to describe a
home in Marin City would
be liable for racial discrim-
ination.”
In August 2022, U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Maxine Chesney
ruled that there were no
grounds for one of the
causes for action contained
in the suit, a claim of “neg-
ligent misrepresentation.”
The suit alleged that
the Austins had “reason-
ably relied on defendants’
representations and were
harmed in doing so.”
The judge, however,
wrote in her ruling that
the second year in a row.
“Seeing last year how
many people really enjoyed
the event, it was far more
successful than I ever imag-
ined,” Nevolo said of the do-
nation drive. “Especially
with guys, there’s a big inter-
est in getting formalwear.”
Tickets for the prom can
go as high as $150 each, she
said.
“I just know that with the
prom ticket price being so
high, a lot of the issue is: Do
I want to get a prom ticket
or do I find a nice dress?”
At the Novato Unified
School District, San Marin
and Novato high schools are
joining forces on the prom
outfits collection drive, said
student organizer Lisa Fer-
rigno.
scription drugs for dis-
posal. Cary reduced opioid
overdoses by about 40%.
Ghaeli said wastewa-
ter sampling is also a very
democratic method of col-
lecting data related to over-
doses.
“With wastewater data,
everyone has an equal voice
irrespective of whether you
have health insurance or
not,” Ghaeli said. “As long
as you’re connected to a
sewer system, you are rep-
resented in the data.”
Wastewater testing for
drugs is being done in other
areas of the United States
as well, without Biobot’s
help. For example, the city
of Tempe, Arizona, is work-
ing with scientists from Ar-
izona State University’s Bio-
design Institute to study its
wastewater.
“We began with measur-
ing only four substances
regularly in initially only
three areas of the city,” said
Rolf Halden, a professor
and sustainability scientist
at Arizona State Univer-
sity. “Now we have parsed
the city into over a dozen
ALAN DEP — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL
there was nothing to sug-
gest “the Austins believed
the representations in the
Miller Defendants’ ap-
praisal report were true.”
In their brief, Miller’s
lawyers pointed out that
the Austins’ mortgage bro-
ker relied on the second ap-
praisal when extending a
loan to them.
In her statement Mon-
day, Tenisha Tate-Austin
said, “We missed out on a
better interest rate because
of the unfair appraisal we
received.”
Miller’s attorneys, how-
ever, assert that interest
rates actually went down
between the time of the
first audit in February 2020
and the second in March
2020.
The plaintiffs reached
a confidential settlement
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2023
Donations may be made
at the Novato and San
Marin High School offices.
The dropoff deadline is
March 17. Pickups will be
made upon request. The
contact email is promatti-
re4all@nusd.org.
Leslie Benjamin, dis-
trict spokesperson, said the
prom attire shopping event
will be held for both schools
on March 17, 18 and 19 in
the old gym at Novato High
School at 625 Arthur St.
“It is open to all NUSD
seniors,” Benjamin said.
“On the last day, it will be
open to juniors and sopho-
mores. All items are free.”
In addition to prom or
bridesmaid dresses, the
schools are collecting suits,
dress shirts, shoes, purses
and jewelry, Benjamin said.
Details are still being
worked out at San Rafael
City Schools, where for-
malwear donation drives
are planned for students at
San Rafael and Terra Linda
high schools, said Christina
Perrino, district spokesper-
son.
After prom cancellations
in 2020 and 2021 because
of the pandemic, and some
schools having COVID-19
outbreaks after the 2022
proms, organizers this year
are hoping for a post-pan-
demic fresh start.
“Before and after COVID,
people were isolated from
everyone,” Weinberg said.
“The prom is a good op-
portunity for people to re-
connect with each other
and not be so isolated,”
she said. “Which is why we
want to encourage everyone
to go to the prom and have
that experience.”
different areas so we have
much better geographic un-
derstanding of the commu-
nity.”
Halden said wastewa-
ter testing is a good way to
track the entry of new syn-
thetic drugs into a commu-
nity.
Willis said he has asked
Biobot to add a new drug,
xylazine, to those it is test-
ing for in Marin. The vet-
erinary tranquilizer with
the street name “tranq”
is being mixed with fen-
tanyl, heroin and other il-
licit drugs.
Xylazine is already com-
mon on the East Coast, and
the San Francisco’s Office
of the Chief Medical Ex-
aminer recently found the
drug in the bodies of four
overdose victims. Xylazine
can increase the risk of
overdose death, make with-
drawal symptoms worse
and complicate the healing
of wounds, sometimes mak-
ing amputation necessary.
Willis said the first re-
sults for the xylazine test-
ing should be available in
about two weeks.
with AMC Links, according
to Fair Housing. No infor-
mation was released about
the terms of the settlement,
but it specified that AMC
Links “denied any wrong-
doing.”
Regarding the suit
against Miller, Fair Hous-
ing wrote in a statement
that the agreement includes
“an undisclosed monetary
amount with additional
terms.”
Julia Howard-Gibbon,
Fair Housing’s supervising
attorney, said in the agree-
ment the defendants pledge
they will not “engage in any
form of unlawful discrim-
ination in the appraisal of
residential real estate” in
the future, while not ad-
mitting they “engaged in
any unlawful discrimina-
tion in the past.”
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CORTE MADERA SAN ANSELMO

Longtime bookstore plans Town backs plan

to depart location at mall for pact to share
area fire services
By Adrian Rodriguez
services model with neighbor-
arodriguez@marinij.com
ing organizations.
Local Motion Solutions was
San Anselmo officials have represented by Adam Politzer,
endorsed the idea of a shared the former city manager of
services agreement between Sausalito and a recent interim
the Ross Valley and Central town manager in Fairfax, and
Marin fire departments. Jim Irving, a former Southern
The Town Council voted 4-0 Marin Fire Protection District
last week, with Councilmem- chief.
ber Brian Colbert absent, to Irving said they studied sev-
signal its support for the plan. eral options for a new gover-
The council received a presen- nance and leadership to carry
tation at its Feb. 28 meeting. the department forward.
“I would support a joint This was the second time
powers agreement poten- the consultants made a pre-
tially leading to a joint pow- sentation to San Anselmo.
ers authority,” Vice Mayor Ei- Last month, the council said
leen Burke said at the meet- it wanted more information,
ing. “I think that makes the including comments from
most sense.” its colleagues in neighbor-
The Ross Valley Fire De- ing towns. Other Ross Val-
partment is a consolidated ley member agencies have re-
department serving Ross, ceived similar presentations,
San Anselmo, Sleepy Hollow including the Fairfax and Ross
ALAN DEP — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL and Fairfax. The department town councils.
Shoppers walk near the Barnes and Noble Booksellers last week at Town Center Corte Madera. The business serves about 24,785 people After feedback and further
plans to close and will be replaced by an Arhaus furniture store. with nine firefighters on duty analysis, Irving said, they are
daily working out of four fire recommending officials focus
stations. immediately on the leadership
By Adrian Rodriguez
“We would love to continue to modifications to the plan, which The department entered change. The two models that
arodriguez@marinij.com
be in that area, but there is not an the Arhaus application team said into a memorandum of un- appear to be viable are hiring
opportunity for us to stay there,” it will work on. derstanding with the Marin a new fire chief, or a shared
Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Flanigan said. “It’s a great mar- Tenant improvements at Town County Fire Department in services agreement with the
a fixture at the Town Center Corte ket and we’re actively looking for Center could typically be handled 2018 for administrative and Central Marin Fire Depart-
Madera mall, plans to leave after a new location.” administratively. However, the executive services. The con- ment that could potentially
more than 15 years at the site, and The company’s real estate plan involves what town planners tract ends on June 30. lead to a new joint powers gov-
Arhaus, a home furniture com- team hopes to find a retail space classify as major exterior renova- Marin County fire Chief Ja- ernance model.
pany, is preparing to move into in Marin County in time to open tion, elevating the proposal to son Weber has been leading They said a pact between
the space. business by the end of the year, Planning Commission review. the Ross Valley department the Ross Valley and Central
The bookstore has plans to Flanigan said. The 27,744-square-foot store is under the shared services con- Marin agencies was the most
close its shop at 313 Corte Madera Meanwhile, a plan to remodel at the southeastern corner of the tract. The agency will be with- cost-effective move in the
Town Center after March 12, said the store at 313 Corte Madera mall, next to Crate and Barrel, out a chief when the contract short term.
Janine Flanigan, the company’s Town Center is under review. facing the freeway. It has been oc- expires. Under the current agree-
director of store planning and de- Last week, the Planning Com- cupied by Barnes and Noble since The Ross Valley board hired ment, Ross Valley pays
sign. Flanigan said its lease with mission voted 4-0, with Marga- 2006. Before that, Marshalls had the consulting firm Local Mo- $327,000 annually for Weber’s
the mall, situated on the west side ret Bandel absent, to continue the operated within the space for tion Solutions to advise on op- services, operations and busi-
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WEATHER In your town

Late-week deluge in Marin forecast

By Alex N. Gecan
agecan@marinij.com
An “atmospheric river”
will bring several inches
of rain to Marin on Friday,
the National Weather Ser-
vice said.
Wet weather will con-
tinue through mid-month,
with at least a slight chance
of rain in the forecast every
day through Sunday and es-
pecially heavy rain hitting
the county heading into the
weekend, according to the
agency.
Parts of the county got up
to an inch of rain over the
weekend, and more still fell
Monday. Between midnight
and 5 p.m. Monday, 0.11
inches fell on Point Reyes
Station, 0.22 inches fell in
San Rafael, 0.28 inches fell
in Novato and 0.38 inches
fell in Kentfield and at the
top of Mount Tamalpais
and 0.51 inches fell on the
Big Rock Ridge, according
to the agency.
Several lightning strikes
were recorded over the
weekend in the area of West
Marin and the Point Reyes
National Seashore. Mill Val-
ley also got some pea-sized
NOVATO
hail. Some more hail was
reported Monday evening
around southeastern Marin
County, the weather service
said.
Jeff Lorber, a National
Weather Service meteo-
rologist, said snow flur-
ries might have fallen on
Mount Tamalpais over the
weekend as well, although
there were no reports of ac-
cumulation.
While rain will be spo-
radic most of the week, Fri-
day is expected to feature
a major storm, Lorber said.
“Now to the middle of
next week, it’s looking
pretty wet,” Lorber said.
“It’s going to be a messy
commute on Friday, both
morning and afternoon.”
Continuing rain will
flood roads and loosen soil
which, combined with in-
coming wind, will increase
the risk of trees and power
lines tipping over.
The amount of rain is
“above average” for this
time of year, Lorber said.
Pacific Gas and Elec-
tric Co. continued to work
on power outages Monday
around the state but, as of
Monday morning, there
were no outages in Marin
County, according to the
utility’s outage map. A single
weather-related outage was
reported Monday evening.
Caltrans was continu-
ing road work on High-
way 1 near Tomales Bay af-
ter a washout there in Feb-
ruary, but no new closures
were reported in the county
Monday morning.
To the east, more than
2 feet of snow fell over the
northern portion of the Si-
erra Nevada area late Satur-
day and early Sunday morn-
ing, said Johnnie Powell, a
National Weather Service
meteorologist.
Boreal received 38 inches
of snow overnight, while
Sugar Bowl and University
of California at Berkeley’s
Central Sierra Snow Lab
each received 31 inches of
fresh powder. Bear Valley
recorded about 16 inches of
new snow overnight, while
17 inches of snow fell to
the north in Quincy and 15
inches fell at Kirkwood.
The snow continued to
snarl traffic in the high
country. Interstate 80 is
closed from Applegate to
the California-Nevada state
line. The hazardous con-
ditions also significantly
limited operations at sev-
eral Lake Tahoe-area ski
resorts. Both Boreal and
Sugar Bowl, for example,
were closed Sunday after
being buried in snow the
previous night.
The fresh powder adds to
a bountiful snowpack that is
nearly twice the state’s aver-
age for this time of year. As
of Friday, the state’s snow-
pack sat at 190% of its aver-
age for this time of the year.
Even though the northern
Sierra has received slightly
less snow this season, it still
sat at 151% of its average for
March 3, according to the
California Department of
Water Resources.
At least another foot of
snow could fall over por-
tions of the Sierra Nevada
above 5,000 feet through
Wednesday, Powell said.
Areas between 3,000 and
5,000 feet in elevation could
receive another 6 inches of
snow.
“This is copious amounts
of snow,” Powell said.
The Bay Area News Group
contributed to this report.
NOVATO
on Ross Common. The
Police probe spate hours would remain the
of antisemitic flyers same: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tuesday through Sunday.
Antisemitic flyers have The council meeting
once again been distrib- is set to begin at 6 p.m.
uted around Novato, this Thursday at Town Hall.
time in the area of Vine- Application details and
yard Road, police said. teleconference access in-
Police found more than structions are available
70 leaflets “on sidewalks, online at bit.ly/3JbwEvj.
streets and in driveways
of residences” after they SCHOOLS
investigated around 8:30 County office plans
a.m. Saturday, said police
Lt. Sophia Winter. job fair for teachers
“The flyers appear to The Marin County Of-
be distributed randomly fice of Education is plan-
and we did not locate ning a job fair for pro-
anyone who reported spective teachers on
that they were a target of March 18.
these flyers,” Winter said. The event is scheduled
The flyers are “being for 9 a.m. to noon at the
classified as a hate mo- organization’s headquar-
tivated incident,” or “an ters at 1111 Las Gallinas
action or behavior moti- Ave. in San Rafael. Par-
vated by hate but legally ticipants should bring re-
protected by the First sumes and wear profes-
Amendment right to free- sional attire.
dom of expression,” Win- Advanced registra-
ter said. tion is preferred but not
Similar flyers were mandatory. Registra-
found in September tion is available by call-
around Ignacio Boule- ing 415-499-5854 or visit-
vard and Bel Marin Keys ing teacher-job-fair2023.
Boulevard, then again in eventbrite.com.
November on cars parked
near Novato and San LARKSPUR
Marin high schools. The Appeal filed against
leaflets have previously
popped up in San Rafael, residential project
Mill Valley and other lo- The Planning Commis-
cations in Marin County. sion will hear an appeal
The Novato Police De- next week against a con-
partment encouraged struction project in the

Sex offender booked in drug, guns probe
By Alex N. Gecan
and Gary Klien
IJ reporters
Marin County sheriff’s
deputies arrested a con-
victed sex offender in No-
vato on allegations of drug
and gun crimes.
Daniel Charles Worthen,
59, was booked after inves-
tigators searched his trailer
on Binford Road on Thurs-
day. Investigators found
Mall
FROM PAGE 3
The project proposes to
redesign the Mediterra-
nean-style Barnes and No-
ble building with a more
contemporary Arhaus style.
The plan calls for removing
a ramp entering from the
left front of the store, and
replacing it with an outdoor
furniture space.
A key feature to the proj-
ect is the series of rectangu-
lar arches that are elevated
above the roofline.
Commissioners agreed
methamphetamine and
marijuana that they sus-
pected Worthen planned
to sell, according to a state-
ment from the sheriff’s de-
partment.
Investigators also found
suspected fentanyl, a loaded
9mm gun with no serial
number, a digital scale and
items stolen from a vehicle
in San Francisco.
Worthen was booked
into the Marin County Jail
on suspicion of several gun
and drug felonies and a mis-
demeanor. He remained in
custody Monday in lieu of
$15,000 bail.
He previously served four
years in prison for a 1988
conviction for sexual bat-
tery, according to the state’s
sex offender registry.
Authorities began investi-
gating Worthen last month.
On Feb. 23, another trailer
occupant on Binford Road
was found dead, and investi-
gators suspect he overdosed
on fentanyl at Worthen’s
trailer several days before.
The man who died was
Larry Fred Kennedy, 58. His
cause of death and toxicol-
ogy results remain pending.
The involvement of drugs
“has not been excluded,”
said Chief Deputy Coroner
Roger Fielding. Kennedy
showed no traumatic inju-
ries, Fielding said.
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or use the online report- Diane Lane are seeking
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English– and Spanish- story addition and an ac-
language options. cessory dwelling unit. A
city zoning administrator
ROSS approved the project in
Council set to review January.
A neighbor at 22 Di-
planning proposals ane Lane filed a chal-
The Town Council has lenge, citing concerns
scheduled hearings this over the bulk of the proj-
week on two residential ect, the effect on privacy
projects and a commer- and light and the po-
cial permit. tential diminishment of
The residential propos- public safety access. The
als include a new carport city also received two
and dormer at 10 South- other letters in opposi-
wood Ave. and a plan to
elevate the home at 41
tion.
The Planning Commis-
Poplar Ave. because it is sion hearing is scheduled
in the floodplain. for its meeting at 7 p.m.
The commercial per- March 14. Project details
mit would allow beer and teleconference access
and wine service at the instructions are available
Crown and Crumpet Cafe online at bit.ly/3JdjH49.
SAN RAFAEL
Injured pedestrian dies
By Alex N. Gecan
Avenue and Second Street,
agecan@marinij.com
died Friday at MarinHealth
Medical Center, said Dep-
The pedestrian who
uty Chief Coroner RogerCMYK / .ai

that they preferred a sec-
ond alternative that was
presented where all the
arches were lowered, except
the one above the entrance.
Commissioners said they
want the brown corten ma-
terial to only be used be-
hind the brand signs, rather
than dispersed throughout
the façade. On the court-
yard facing side, the com-
mission suggested using
smaller signs for a more pe-
destrian-friendly feel.
Commissioners also sug-
gested that the applicant
seek energy efficient rat-
ings with LEED-certifica-
A rendering of a proposed Arhaus furniture store that will take over the space used by
Barnes and Noble Booksellers at Town Center Corte Madera.
tion and said landscaping manager of the mall, said
should be drought resistant. that he has a few propos-
The certification stands for als that would be brought
Leadership in Energy and to the town separately.
Environmental Design. “It’s incumbent on upon
The applicant said it is the center to figure out how
agreeable to the design to go solar,” said Peter Chase,
changes and would explore chair of the commission. “It’s
its ability to obtain LEED coming in one way or an-
certification. other. It’s just got to be part
Commissioners asked of everybody’s program.”
whether solar improvements More information on
could be made as part of the the project is at townofcor-
Arhaus renovation. temadera.org.
Monty Stephens, general Nikkee Edmiston, director
of real estate for Arhaus, said
the company has more than
80 stores across the nation.
“We have many projects
Can you �ind planned over the next cou-
ple of years and we are ex-
cited to continue shar-
PROVIDED BY RDL ARCHITECTS was struck by a vehicle in Fielding. Gonzalez, 59, was
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The mall, which was built on Wednesday at Lincoln not suspected.
in 1958, has had several ten-
ant developments of late.
Anthem, another home
furnishing store, has set
up shop there. Furniture
sales “is a very strong cat-
egory for us and that’s one
of the main reasons,” Ste-
phens said of the addition.
That is seconded only by
food sales, he said.
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BAY AREA

Stanford sues county over faculty home taxes

By Aldo Toledo
Bay Area News Group
In an effort to get a par-
tial property tax exemption
for faculty homeowners,
Stanford University is su-
ing Santa Clara County, ar-
guing that the subdivision
of these homes on campus
is a “college interest” and
should lower the homeown-
er’s tax bill.
Stanford University an-
nounced it is initiating legal
proceedings to gain clarity
on property tax issues that
are creating significant fi-
nancial uncertainty and
hardship for many of the
faculty members who own
long-term lease homes on
campus. The tax issue has
been a long-running debate
between county leaders who
want to see more tax money
from the university with the
largest endowment in the
country and Stanford which
wants to protect its mission
to keep the university pri-
vate and grow its influence.
At the center of the law-
suit are Stanford’s roughly
900 homes in the faculty
subdivision — 691 of which
are single-family homes
and 222 are condos — par-
ticularly one home at 828
Cedro Way. The university
contends homeowners over-
paid taxes when the prop-
erty changed hands in 2018.
Like other residen-
tial homes in Santa Clara
County, faculty homes on
Stanford’s campus — most
of them located on winding
suburban streets west of the
main quad — have been as-
sessed property taxes based
on the purchase price of the
property that reflects their
ownership interest. But the
university said in its state-
ment that the county asses-
sor has increased the as-
sessed value of some newly
purchased faculty homes on
Stanford’s campus to levels
well above the faculty pur-
chase prices.
The reassessment has
created “unexpected and
substantial financial diffi-
culty for some faculty home-
owners,” the statement said.
And the reassessment, the
university argues, does not
account for the fact faculty
homes are “leaseholds” —
meaning homeowners do
not have a full property
interest in these homes —
and that Stanford “retains
an interest in the proper-
ties and places restriction
on faculty sales, ownership
and use of these properties”
noting that they are “in ef-
fect … support” for the “ed-
ucation mission of the uni-
versity.”
“Stanford is seeking a
partial property tax ex-
emption based on the value
of the minority interest in
the property retained by
Stanford as the underly-
ing property owner,” Stan-
ford said in a statement. “If
the university’s legal case
is successful, faculty home-
owners will continue to pay
full property taxes based on
their majority ownership in-
terest in the property.”
Because homeowners
have an agreement to lease
the land from Stanford, the
university says in its law-
suit that the value of the
property should be split be-
tween the “faculty interest”
and “college interest.” It ar-
gues that the faculty inter-
est is “the more valuable
interest in the property” at
about 75% of the 2021-2022
property tax bill and that
“only the remaining 25% is
directly attributable to the
exempt College Interest,”
making it tax exempt.
The university is taking
the county to court in part
to get a $9,087.03 refund
for taxes homeowners paid
on the Cedro Way property
in the 2021-2022 tax year. If
granted “the net result of
this refund action is that
the faculty lessee would
pay property taxes based
on their arms-length, ne-
gotiated purchase price.”
The lawsuit is the latest
volley in a fight that has
been going for years be-
tween Santa Clara County
and other interests seeking
to get Stanford University
to pay more of its fair share
in taxes. The result of the
legal battle over taxes could
have a huge impact on the
county. County Counsel
James Williams told the
Palo Alto Weekly in Sep-
tember 2022 that if the uni-
versity pursues additional
refunds based on the same
claims, the county and lo-
cal jurisdictions could lose
about $5 million annually,
including about a $2.3 mil-
lion loss for the Palo Alto
Unified School District.
Williams did not return
a request for comment.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Judge denies release for Auburn man in US riot case

By Sam Stanton
The Sacramento Bee
A federal judge on Mon-
day rejected efforts by a
Northern California defen-
dant in the Jan. 6 insur-
rection to have his charges
dropped, to have his trial
moved from Washington,
D.C., to Sacramento and to
be released pending trial be-
cause his mental state is suf-
fering in jail.
In a 25-page opinion filed
in court in Washington, U.S.
District Judge John D. Bates
effectively shot down all but
one of the five motions filed
in recent months on behalf
of Sean McHugh, an Auburn
construction worker sched-
uled to go to trial in April
in connection with the Cap-
itol riot.
The judge’s findings fol-
low previous, unsuccessful
efforts by McHugh to have
his trial moved out of Wash-
ington or have his charges
dropped because of argu-
ments that he could not re-
ceive a fair trial in a city
that voted overwhelmingly
for President Joe Biden over
Donald Trump in the 2020
presidential election.
McHugh was indicted
on 10 counts, including two
counts of assaulting or re-
sisting officers using a dan-
gerous weapon and disor-
derly conduct with a dan-
gerous weapon.
McHugh attorney Jo-
seph Allen has argued the
charges lack specifics and
should be thrown out, and
also has argued that pepper
spray should not be consid-
ered a dangerous weapon.
McHugh is accused of us-
ing bear spray to spray of-
ficers and pushing a metal
sign against police trying
to hold back rioters during
the certification of the Elec-
toral College count that con-
firmed Biden’s victory.
The judge noted that in
other Jan. 6 cases courts
“have consistently agreed
that pepper spray or a metal
contraption could be a dan-
gerous weapon.”
The judge also rejected
McHugh’s efforts to have
various counts tossed over
arguments that they were
duplicative or vague, and re-
jected for the second time a
bid to have the trial moved
west.
McHugh filed a motion
last March seeking to have
his trial moved to Michigan
because media coverage of
Jan. 6 supposedly tainted
the jury pool and because
D.C. residents may have
strong feelings about what
happened during the attack
in their city.
The judge rejected that
motion, and Bates on Mon-
day refused McHugh’s ef-
fort to instead have the
trial moved to federal court
in Sacramento based on the
argument that the offenses
he is charged with began
and ended in Auburn, where
he was arrested.
“The charges all relate
to conduct that took place
at the Capitol, which is in
Washington, D.C.,” Bates
wrote. “And each count of
the indictment explicitly
charges McHugh with an
offense that took place in
Washington, D.C.”
Bates also refused to
grant McHugh’s tempo-
rary release from a District
jail pending trial, rejecting
his argument that McHugh
cannot adequately prepare
for trial in custody and that
his mental state is suffering
in the jail.
The judge also rejected
McHugh’s argument that his
family is suffering because
he has been in custody for a
year and a half, noting that
part of the delay in McHugh
going to trial stems from
the fact that he has agreed
to postponements.
The judge wrote that he
has recently noted “every
defendant’s family suffers
in some way or another due
to that defendant’s incarcer-
ation,” but that “the court
certainly cannot grant ev-
ery such defendant pretrial
release from custody.”
And, the judge wrote,
McHugh’s previous attempt
at winning release was re-
jected and McHugh “pres-
ents no reason why the fac-
tors weighing in favor of de-
tention have changed since
then.”
“As the government de-
scribes in depth, McHugh
is charged with multiple vi-
olent felonies, including as-
saults on law enforcement;
the weight of the evidence
is strong (there is video ev-
idence of his violent and
disruptive behavior); and
he ‘has a remarkably long
and disturbing criminal his-
tory’ including offenses that
‘occurred while he was on
probation and being super-
vised,’” Bates wrote. “Those
factors continue to weigh
heavily in favor of pretrial
detention.”
The only relief Bates of-
fered McHugh came in an
order to have prosecutors
file a redacted version of
McHugh’s past criminal his-
tory, with the judge conclud-
ing that the government in-
correctly accused McHugh
of being arrested in 2015 in
a “rape-related incident.”
“Specifically, the gov-
ernment asserted that his
‘criminal history includes
... three prior rape offenses,’
and referenced a 2010 arrest
that culminated in a mis-
demeanor plea as well as a
2015 arrest,” Bates wrote.
“These characterizations
were based on a pretrial
services report stating that
McHugh had been arrested
for three rape offenses.
“In his reply to the govern-
ment’s detention response
back in 2021, McHugh clar-
ified that he had been ar-
rested only twice for rape-
related charges — once in
2003 and once in 2010 —
and that the 2015 arrest was
related to his 2010 offense
and thus was not an arrest
for a separate incident.”
Distributed by Tribune
News Service.

Mill Valley
FROM PAGE 1
The campaign seeks to
educate Mill Valley resi-
dents about their implicit
biases about other races,
or assumptions and stereo-
types that can lead to false
judgments.
The flyers convey three
recommendations: con-
sider your behavior; con-
sider your assumptions;
and consider your reac-
tions. The considerations
are appended with addi-
tional questions and alter-
native community service
numbers that might be bet-
ter in certain situations.
The flyer reads: “A per-
son’s race or appearance is
NEVER a good reason to
call the police.”
The flyer was developed
as a joint effort between the
city and the advocacy group
Mill Valley Force for Racial
Equity & Empowerment, or
MVFREE.
The city has printed be-
tween 300 and 500 flyers so
far and distributed them to
community stakeholders for
Officials hope to distrib-
ute them this spring. The
flyers are also available as
a digital download on the
city website.
According to the Racial
and Identity Profiling Act,
law enforcement agencies
in the state must collect
specific data regarding de-
tentions and searches. The
Mill Valley Police Depart-
ment began collecting the
data on June 1, 2021 — six
months before the state-
mandated start time — and
released a report on its find-
ings in October 2022.
The city reported 2,485
stops since June 2021.
White people account for
about 70% of the stops and
the majority of violations
and criminal activity.
According to the data,
Mill Valley community
members call the police
about Black people at nearly
20 times the rate they do
about White people.
Mill Valley’s population
of approximately 14,100 in-
cludes about 81.6% White
residents, 1% Black resi-
dents, 6% Latino residents
and 6% Asian residents,
according to 2020 census
are stopped at 3.2 times the
rate of White people.
Celimene Pastor, a mem-
ber of MVFREE, said that
in most of the cases of calls
against people of color, the
police find no cause for ci-
tation or arrest.
“The data was heart-
breaking, but it’s something
that was eye-opening,” she
said. “We really do have a
problem. We really do need
something to do about it.”
She said the mailers are a
tactical alternative to catch
the attention of residents.
“You think about how
many emails you get per
day. If you sent it by email
it could be easily lost in the
mix,” she said. “Sending it
by mail shows how serious
the city is.”
Mill Valley police Chief
Rick Navarro said the po-
lice department is continu-
ing work to train officers on
implicit bias, principled po-
licing and racial diversity.
He said an examination of
the available data would as-
sist the department in pro-
viding service to the com-
munity.
“We are really encour-
aged by the response we

distribution at events.
The city is formatting the
flyers to fit on a traditional
mailer with the same con-
tent, Walsh said.
Services
FROM PAGE 3
With a combined staff,
there would be seven chief
officers, including a deputy
chief of operations, a fire
marshal, a training battal-
ion chief and an emergency
medical services battalion
chief. A standalone depart-
ment would require hiring
a new chief, deputy chief
and fire marshal, with an
estimated cost of $944,441.
Central Marin fire Chief
Ruben Martin said he is in-
terested in taking the step.
Burke asked what hap-
pens when Martin retires
or leaves the department.
“I don’t think you ever
data.
The report indicated
Black people are stopped at
6.5 times the rate of White
people and Latino people
Instead, Weber said
he recommends ma k-
ing the decision based on
what is the most sustain-
able option for the depart-
ment. He said a short-term
shared ser vices agree-
ment should provide offi-
cials time to continue dis-
cussions about that future
governance.
Burke said she agreed
with the suggestion, so that
there is time “for us to fig-
ure out if that’s the way we
want to continue.”
Town officials in Ross
and Fairfax also said they
support moving forward
with negotiations with Cen-
tral Marin.
Now that the councils
have weighed in, Weber
said staff are asking for
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ELECTION 2024
Pro-Trump bots attacking DeSantis and Haley
By David Klepper
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » Over the
past 11 months, someone
created thousands of fake,
automated Twitter ac-
counts — perhaps hundreds
of thousands of them — to
offer a stream of praise for
Donald Trump.
Besides posting ador-
ing words about the for-
mer president, the fake ac-
counts ridiculed Trump’s
critics from both parties
and attacked Nikki Haley,
the former South Carolina
governor and U.N. ambas-
sador who is challenging
her onetime boss for the
2024 Republican presiden-
tial nomination.
When it came to Ron
DeSantis, the bots aggres-
sively suggested that the
Florida governor couldn’t
beat Trump, but would be
a great running mate.
As Republican voters
size up their candidates for
2024, whoever created the
bot network is seeking to
put a thumb on the scale,
using online manipulation
techniques pioneered by
the Kremlin to sway the
digital platform conversa-
tion about candidates while
exploiting Twitter’s algo-
rithms to maximize their
reach.
The sprawling bot net-
work was uncovered by re-
searchers at Cyabra, an Is-
raeli tech firm that shared
its findings with The As-
sociated Press. While the
identity of those behind the
network of fake accounts
is unknown, Cyabra’s an-
alysts determined that it
was likely created within
the U.S.
To identify a bot, re-
searchers will look for pat-
terns in an account’s pro-
file, its follower list and the
content it posts. Human
users typically post about
a variety of subjects, with
a mix of original and re-
posted material, but bots
POLITICS
Fox libel defense at odds with GOP presidential rivals
By David Bauder
The Associated Press
NEW YORK » Fox News is on
an unlikely collision course
with two leading contend-
ers for the Republican presi-
dential nomination over the
rights of journalists.
In defending itself
against a massive defama-
tion lawsuit over how it cov-
ered false claims surround-
ing the 2020 presidential
election, the network is re-
lying on a nearly 60-year-
old Supreme Court ruling
that makes it difficult to
successfully sue media or-
ganizations for libel.
Former President Don-
ald Trump and Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis, two fa-
vorites of many Fox News
viewers, have advocated for
the court to revisit the stan-
dard, which is considered
the foundational case in
American defamation law.
“It is ironic that Fox is
relying on a landmark case
that was designed to help
the news media play the
watchdog role in a democ-
racy and is under attack
by Gov. DeSantis, Donald
Trump and other figures
who have been untethered
in their attacks on journal-
ists as enemies of the peo-
ple,” said Jane Hall, a com-
munication professor at
American University.
Eye-catching evidence
has emerged from court fil-
ings in recent weeks reveal-
ing a split screen between
what Fox was portraying to
its viewers about the false
claims of election fraud and
what hosts and executives
were saying about them
behind the scenes. “Sydney
Powell is lying,” Fox News
host Tucker Carlson said
in a text to a producer, ref-
erencing one of the attor-
neys pushing the claims
for Trump.
In an email a few weeks
after the 2020 election, Fox
Corp. Chairman Rupert
Murdoch described a news
conference featuring Powell
and former New York City
Mayor Rudy Giuliani, an-
other attorney who pushed
the election lies: “Really
crazy stuff. And damaging.”
Aside from the reve-
lations about Fox’s inner
often post repetitive con-
tent about the same topics.
That was true of many
of the bots identified by Cy-
abra.
“One account will say,
‘Biden is trying to take our
guns; Trump was the best,’
and another will say, ‘Jan.
6 was a lie and Trump was
innocent,’” said Jules Gross,
the Cyabra engineer who
first discovered the net-
work. “Those voices are not
people. For the sake of de-
mocracy I want people to
know this is happening.”
Bots, as they are com-
monly called, are fake,
automated accounts
that became notoriously
well-known after Russia
employed them in an effort
to meddle in the 2016 elec-
tion. While big tech com-
panies have improved their
detection of fake accounts,
the network identified by
Cyabra shows they remain
a potent force in shaping
online political discussion.
The new pro-Trump net-
work is actually three dif-
ferent networks of Twit-
ter accounts, all created
in huge batches in April,
October and November
2022. In all, researchers
believe hundreds of thou-
sands of accounts could be
involved.
The accounts all feature
personal photos of the al-
leged account holder as
well as a name. Some of
the accounts posted their
own content, often in re-
ply to real users, while oth-
ers reposted content from
real users, helping to am-
plify it further.
“McConnell... Traitor!”
wrote one of the accounts,
in response to an article in
a conservative publication
about GOP Senate leader
Mitch McConnell, one of
several Republican critics
of Trump targeted by the
network.
One way of gauging the
impact of bots is to mea-
sure the percentage of
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left: Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Maria Bartiromo, Stuart Varney, Neil
Cavuto and Charles Payne.
workings, the outcome
could have broad implica-
tions for media organiza-
tions because of how they
and the courts have come
to rely on the libel law Fox
is using as a shield.
In its $1.6 billion lawsuit,
voting machine maker Do-
minion Voting Systems ar-
gues that Fox repeatedly
aired allegations that the
company helped rig the
general election against
Trump despite many at
the news organization pri-
vately believing the claims
were false.
Fox says the law allows it
to air such claims if they are
newsworthy.
In a 1964 decision in a
case involving The New
York Times, the U.S. Su-
preme Court greatly lim-
ited the ability of public offi-
cials to sue for defamation.
It ruled that news outlets
are protected against a li-
bel judgment unless it can
be proven that they pub-
lished with “actual malice”
— knowing that something
was false or acting with
a “reckless disregard” to
whether it was true or not.
In one example of how
the law was applied, editors
at the Times acknowledged
last year that an editorial
mistakenly linked former
Republican vice presiden-
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Harbor, Maryland.
posts about any given topic
generated by accounts that
appear to be fake. The per-
centage for typical online
debates is often in the low
single digits. Twitter itself
has said that less than 5%
of its active daily users are
fake or spam accounts.
W hen C yabra re -
searchers examined neg-
ative posts about specific
Trump critics, however,
they found far higher levels
of inauthenticity. Nearly
three-fourths of the nega-
tive posts about Haley, for
example, were traced back
to fake accounts.
The network also helped
popularize a call for De-
Santis to join Trump as his
vice presidential running
mate — an outcome that
would serve Trump well
and allow him to avoid a
potentially bitter matchup
if DeSantis enters the race.
The same network of ac-
counts shared overwhelm-
ingly positive content
about Trump and contrib-
uted to an overall false pic-
ture of his support online,
TED SHAFFREY — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
tial nominee Sarah Pal-
in’s rhetoric to an Arizona
mass shooting. Palin lost
her libel suit because she
couldn’t prove the newspa-
per erred without concern
for the truth.
Some advocates for free
speech worry that the Do-
minion-Fox lawsuit ulti-
mately could give a con-
servative Supreme Court a
chance to revisit the stan-
dard set in the case, known
as New York Times Co. v.
Sullivan. While the case
has been among the court’s
most durable precedents,
the newly empowered con-
servative majority has indi-
cated a willingness to chal-
lenge what had been con-
sidered settled law — as it
did last year in overturning
abortion rights.
Two Supreme Court jus-
tices, Clarence Thomas and
Neil Gorsuch, have publicly
expressed interest in giving
the precedent another look.
In dissenting from a 2021
decision not to take up a li-
bel case, Gorsuch wrote
that what began in 1964 as
a decision to tolerate occa-
sional errors to allow robust
reporting “has evolved into
an ironclad subsidy for the
publication of falsehoods by
any means and on a scale
previously unimaginable.”
He said the modern media
researchers found.
“Our understanding of
what is mainstream Re-
publican sentiment for
2024 is being manipu-
lated by the prevalence of
bots online,” the Cyabra re-
searchers concluded.
The triple network was
discovered after Gross an-
alyzed Tweets about dif-
ferent national political
figures and noticed that
many of the accounts post-
ing the content were cre-
ated on the same day. Most
of the accounts remain ac-
tive, though they have rel-
atively modest numbers of
followers.
A message left with a
spokesman for Trump’s
campaign was not imme-
diately returned.
Most bots aren’t de-
signed to persuade people,
but to amplify certain con-
tent so more people see it,
according to Samuel Wool-
ley, a professor and misin-
formation researcher at the
University of Texas whose
most recent book focuses
on automated propaganda.
landscape is much different
today, and suggested it was
less careful.
“My wish is that the par-
ties would settle and this
case would go away,” said
Jane Kirtley, director of the
Silha Center for the Study of
Media Ethics and the Law
at the University of Minne-
sota. “I don’t see any good
coming out of it.”
A perceived strength in
Dominion’s case also wor-
ries some supporters of the
press.
Dominion says Fox was,
in effect, torn between the
truth that Joe Biden le-
gitimately won the race
and pleasing viewers who
wanted to believe Trump’s
lies. In depositions re-
leased last week, Murdoch
argued that Fox as a net-
work did not endorse the
claims, but that some of
its commentators — Ma-
ria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs,
Jeanine Pirro and Sean
Hannity — at times did.
Murdoch was among
several at Fox to say pri-
vately they didn’t believe
the claims made by Trump
and his allies that wide-
spread fraud cost him re-
election. In his deposition,
Murdoch said he could
have prevented guests who
were spouting conspiracies
from going on the air, but
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When a human user sees
a hashtag or piece of con-
tent from a bot and reposts
it, they’re doing the net-
work’s job for it, and also
sending a signal to Twit-
ter’s algorithms to boost
the spread of the content
further.
Bots can also succeed
in convincing people that
a candidate or idea is
more or less popular than
the reality, he said. More
pro-Trump bots can lead
to people overstating his
popularity overall, for ex-
ample.
“Bots absolutely do im-
pact the f low of infor-
mation,” Woolley said.
“They’re built to manufac-
ture the illusion of pop-
ularity. Repetition is the
core weapon of propa-
ganda and bots are really
good at repetition. They’re
really good at getting in-
formation in front of peo-
ple’s eyeballs.”
Until recently, most
bots were easily identified
thanks to their clumsy
writing or account names
didn’t.
“One of the defenses
is that even false speech
about public figures is
protected so long as it is
believed by the speaker,”
First Amendment attorney
Floyd Abrams said. “But no
one at Fox appears ready to
say that he or she did be-
lieve the assertions ... and
there now appears to be
substantial evidence that
no one there at Fox did so.
It’s a major blow.”
Fox’s entire prime-time
lineup privately dispar-
aged Trump lawyer Sidney
Powell, according to court
papers. Laura Ingraham,
in a text to Carlson, called
her a “nut.” In a deposition,
Hannity said he did not be-
lieve her theories “for one
second.” Nevertheless, Pow-
ell was interviewed on Fox
11 times between Nov. 8 and
Dec. 10, 2020, according to
court papers.
Dominion’s lawyers say
Fox is arguing that it has
no legal responsibility for
broadcasting even the most
horrible allegations, know-
ing they are false, as long
as they are deemed news-
worthy.
Fox said Dominion is
presenting an extreme view
of defamation, one in which
the network had a duty not
to report the allegations
but to suppress them or de-
nounce them as false.
“Under Dominion’s ap-
proach, if the president
falsely accused the vice
president of plotting to
assassinate him, the press
would be liable for report-
ing the newsworthy allega-
tions so long as someone
in the newsroom thought
it was ludicrous,” Fox law-
yers said in court papers.
“Such a rule would stop
the media in its tracks,”
Fox said.
There’s a high bar for
proving libel — and that’s
deliberate, First Amend-
ment attorney Lee Levine
said. Dominion has to
show that a reasonable
audience could conclude
that someone at Fox was
making these allegations,
not just the interview sub-
jects, he said.
Still, Levine said, Do-
minion has the strongest
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that included nonsensical
words or long strings of
random numbers. As so-
cial media platforms got
better at detecting these
accounts, the bots became
more sophisticated.
So-called cyborg ac-
counts are one example:
a bot that is periodically
taken over by a human
user who can post origi-
nal content and respond to
users in human-like ways,
making them much harder
to sniff out.
Bots could soon get
much sneakier thanks to
advances in artificial in-
telligence. New AI pro-
grams can create lifelike
profile photos and posts
that sound much more au-
thentic. Bots that sound
like a real person and de-
ploy deepfake video tech-
nology may challenge plat-
forms and users alike in
new ways, according to
Katie Harbath, a fellow at
the Bipartisan Policy Cen-
ter and a former Facebook
public policy director.
“The platforms have got-
ten so much better at com-
bating bots since 2016,”
Harbath said. “But the
types that we’re starting to
see now, with AI, they can
create fake people. Fake
videos.”
These technological ad-
vances likely ensure that
bots have a long future
in American politics — as
digital foot soldiers in on-
line campaigns, and as po-
tential problems for both
voters and candidates try-
ing to defend themselves
against anonymous online
attacks.
“T here’s never been
more noise online,” said
Tyler Brown, a political
consultant and former dig-
ital director for the Repub-
lican National Committee.
“How much of it is mali-
cious or even unintention-
ally unfactual? It’s easy to
imagine people being able
to manipulate that.”
defamation case he’s seen
in 40 years of being in-
volved in the topic.
George Freeman, execu-
tive director of the Media
Law Resource Center, said
Fox should cite a lesser-
known “neutral reportage”
standard that dates back
to a court case from the
1970s. It holds that news
organizations should not
be discouraged from re-
porting something news-
worthy even if there are
serious doubts about the
truth, as long as that in-
formation comes from re-
sponsible and prominent
sources.
But the U.S. Supreme
Court has not weighed in
on that argument, and a
number of lower courts
have rejected it. It’s also
not clear that the defense
would be legally applica-
ble in the Dominion case
against Fox.
There is sentiment in
Republican circles that the
Sullivan standard goes too
far in protecting news or-
ganizations.
DeSantis last month
urged the Supreme Court
to revisit libel laws, say-
ing they are used to smear
politicians and discourage
people from running for
office. A bill being consid-
ered in the Florida Legis-
lature would significantly
weaken standards in the
state. Trump said last
year that the court should
consider his own defama-
tion lawsuit against CNN a
“perfect vehicle” for revis-
iting precedents.
Some media law advo-
cates that the University
of Minnesota’s Kirtley has
talked to privately, peo-
ple who are usually eager
to support the press in li-
bel cases, are queasy about
publicly backing Fox in the
voting machine lawsuit.
Many see the case as
a surrogate to hold Fox
and Trump supporters ac-
countable for what hap-
pened after the 2020 elec-
tion, she said.
“I don’t think a libel suit
is the vehicle to deal with
this, and you have to think
about what damage could
be done to libel law if Do-
minion wins,” she said.
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ATLANTA » More than 20
people from around the
country faced domestic ter-
rorism charges Monday af-
ter dozens in black masks
attacked the site of a police
training center under con-
struction in a wooded area
outside Atlanta where one
protester was killed in Jan-
uary.
The site has become the
flashpoint of ongoing con-
flict between authorities
and left-leaning protest-
ers who have been drawn
together, joining forces
to protest a variety of
causes. Among them: Peo-
ple against the militariza-
tion of police; others who
aim to protect the envi-
ronment; and some who
oppose corporations who
they see as helping to fund
the project through dona-
tions to a police founda-
tion.
Flaming bottles and
rocks were thrown at offi-
cers during a protest Sun-
day at “Cop City,” where
26-year-old environmen-
tal activist Manuel Este-
ban Paez Terán, or “Tortu-
guita,” was shot to death
by officers during a raid at
a protest camp in January.
Police have said that Tor-
tuguita attacked them, a
version that other activists
have questioned.
Almost all of the 23 peo-
ple arrested are from states
across the U.S., while one is
from Canada and another
from France, police said
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Police work at the construction site of the police training
center in Atlanta on Monday in the aftermath of an attack
by demonstrators.
Monday.
Like many protesters,
Tortuguita was dedicated
to preserving the environ-
ment, friends and family
said, ideals that clashed
with Atlanta’s hopes of
building a $90 million At-
lanta Public Safety Train-
ing Center meant to boost
preparedness and morale
after George Floyd’s death
in 2020.
Now, authorities and
young people are embroiled
in a clash that appears to
have little to do with other
high-profile conflicts.
Protesters who oppose
what detractors call “Cop
City” run the gamut from
more traditional environ-
mental environmentalists
to young, self-styled anar-
chists seeking clashes with
what they see as an unjust
society.
Defend the Atlanta For-
est, a social media site used
by members of the move-
ment, said Monday on
Twitter that those arrested
were not violent agitators
“but peaceful concert-go-
ers who were nowhere near
the demonstration.” A rep-
resentative of a public-rela-
tions firm involved in the
group’s events said that
it could not immediately
comment.
After “Tortuguita” was
killed, demonstrations
spread to downtown At-
lanta. A police cruiser
was set ablaze, rocks were
thrown and fireworks were
launched at a skyscraper
that houses the Atlanta Po-
lice Foundation. Windows
were shattered. The gov-
ernor declared a state of
emergency.
On Sunday, Atlanta Po-
lice Chief Darin Schier-
baum said at a midnight
news conference, pieces of
construction equipment
were set on fire in what he
called “a coordinated at-
tack” at the site for the At-
lanta Public Safety Training
Center in DeKalb County.
Surveillance video re-
leased by police shows a
piece of heavy equipment
in flames. It was among
several destroyed pieces
of construction gear, po-
lice said.
Protesters also threw
rocks, bricks, Molotov cock-
tails, and fireworks at po-
lice, officials said. In addi-
tion, demonstrators tried
to blind officers by shining
green lasers into their eyes,
and used tires and debris
to block a road, the Geor-
gia Department of Public
Safety said Monday.
Officers used nonlethal
enforcement methods to
disperse the crowd and
make arrests, Schierbaum
said, causing “some minor
discomfort.”
Along with classrooms
and administrative build-
ings, the training center
would include a shooting
range, a driving course to
practice chases and a “burn
building” for firefighters to
work on putting out fires.
A “mock village” featuring
a fake home, convenience
store and nightclub would
also be built for rehearsing
raids.
Opponents have said that
the site would be to prac-
tice “urban warfare,” and
the 85-acre (34-hectare)
training center would re-
quire cutting so many trees
that it would be environ-
mentally damaging.
Many activists also op-
pose spending millions on a
police facility that would be
surrounded by poor neigh-
borhoods in a city with one
of the nation’s highest de-
grees of inequality.
Roger K. Daniels
March 7, 1936 - January 1, 2023
Bend, OR
Longtime Marin County resident Roger K. Daniels
passed away January 1, 2023 in Sacramento, CA. Roger
was born and grew up in Missoula, Montana. He grad-
uated from Missoula County High School in 1954. He
joined the Navy, serving in Japan and Korea as an ET3 on
the USS Shields and as a Sonar Technician on the USS
Cusk submarine. After his service Roger worked as a
Communications Engineer at AT&T for 30+ years, in-
cluding years at AT&T High-Seas Service Radio Station in
Pt. Reyes. He retired in his 50s at which time he pursued
his real passion: running. Roger loved running! He loved
the trails around Marin County, CA, and the Dipsea Trail
was quite possibly his favorite. Although running for
years, it wasn't until after his 40th birthday that Roger
ran in his first race – a 5k in Novato, CA - and he never
looked back! Roger went on to compete in races all over
the world, in various distances – marathons, 50k, 50-mil-
ers, and, Roger was a 10-time finisher of the
world-renowned Western States 100-mile Endurance Run.
Next, Roger decided to take on triathlons, teaching him-
self to swim properly so as to be competitive. With his
trademark tenacity and can-do attitude, he qualified mul-
tiple times for the Ironman Championship in Hawaii well
into his 70’s. A proud highlight, in 1984, Roger had the
honor to represent the USA as part of the Cadre Team re-
sponsible for carrying the Olympic flame across the Unit-
ed States to Los Angeles for the 1984 Summer Olympics.
A commemorative torch from this experience hung
proudly in his home. Roger loved to talk with anyone
about running, exercise, or the great outdoors. He loved
coaching! There were so many throughout his life that
he joyfully coached, both formally and informally, on the
finer aspects of trail running, and he would always take

1 dead, 9 hurt in concert stampede

By Karen Matthews
The Associated Press
Unfounded fears of gun-
fire at a rap concert in
Rochester, New York, sent
a crowd rushing toward
the exits in a stampede
that killed one person and
left two others fighting for
their lives, authorities said.
The Memphis rap stars
GloRilla and Finesse2tymes
had finished performing
Sunday night at Rochester’s
Main Street Armory when
people exiting just after 11
p.m. began to surge danger-
ously, Police Chief David M.
Smith said at a news brief-
ing Monday.
“We do not have any
evidence of gunshots be-
ing fired or of anyone be-
ing shot or stabbed at the
scene,” Smith said.
Concertgoer Ikea Hayes
returned to the venue Mon-
day to retrieve belongings
she left behind.
“I was watching my life
flash before my eyes, and I
still didn’t even know what
was going on,” she told
Rochester television station
WHEC. She described being
FINANCIAL MARKETS
Stocks hold steady ahead of potential big week
By Stan Choe
The Associated Press
NEW YORK » Stocks were
mixed in quiet trading Mon-
day as Wall Street stays in a
holding pattern ahead of a
potentially big week.
The S&P 500 rose 2.78
points, or 0.1%, to 4,048.42
after coming off its first
winning week in the last
four. The Dow Jones Indus-
trial Average gained 40.47,
or 0.1%, to 33,431.44, and the
Nasdaq composite slipped
13.27, or 0.1%, to 11,675.74.
The stock market has
found some footing over
the last week after a roller-
coaster start to the year
where a swift rise gave way
to a sharp tumble. At the
center of it all has been high
inflation and expectations
for what the Federal Reserve
will do about it.
Early in the year, stocks
rallied and bond yields eased
as hopes rose that cooling in-
flation would get the Fed to
take it easier on its hikes to
interest rates. Then, stron-
ger-than-expected reports
on the economy raised wor-
ries that inflation is not cool-
“on the ground, just scared,
praying, like, you got to get
up, you got to move.”
Police found three badly
injured women in the au-
ditorium. One, identified
as Rhondesia Belton, 33,
of Buffalo, died at a hos-
pital. The others, both 35,
from Rochester and Syra-
cuse, were in critical con-
dition Monday, police said.
Seven additional people
were treated at area hospi-
tals for injuries that were
not life-threatening.
“What began last night
as a night of live music
and fun for the performer
GloRilla ended in tragedy
with one person dead and
two more fighting for their
lives,” the chief said.
While there is no evi-
dence of gunfire, Smith
said, police are investigat-
ing several possible causes
of the fatal surge, includ-
ing “possibly crowd size,
shots fired, pepper spray
and other contributing fac-
tors.”
Mayor Malik Evans
called the fatal stampede
“totally unacceptable” and
promised a through in-
ing as smoothly as hoped.
While that calmed wor-
ries about an imminent re-
cession, it also forced Wall
Street to raise its forecasts
for how high the Fed will
take interest rates. Higher
rates can drive down in-
flation, but they also hurt
prices for stocks and other
investments and can create a
recession in the future.
On Monday, Treasury
yields held relatively steady
following their own roller-
coaster movements this
year. The yield on the 10-year
Treasury was at 3.97% after
topping 4% last week and
reaching its highest level
since November. It helps
set rates for mortgages and
other loans central to the
economy’s strength.
On Wall Street, technol-
ogy stocks were some of the
market’s strongest. They
tend to be some of the big-
gest beneficiaries of lower
interest rates, which can
boost demand by investors
for high-growth companies.
Apple rose 1.9%, and Mi-
crosoft ticked up 0.6% to be
the two biggest forces lifting
the S&P 500.
vestigation into whether
venue operators had the
necessary safety measures
in place for a large crowd.
“We are going to hold
people accountable for
what happened last night,
period,” Evans said, though
he cautioned that it was
too early in the investiga-
tion to assign blame. “I in-
tend to get to the bottom
of this.”
There was no immedi-
ate response to emails re-
questing comment sent
Monday to the Main Street
Armory.
GloRilla, whose 2022
song “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)”
with Hitkidd was nomi-
nated for a Grammy for
best rap performance,
tweeted that she was
“praying everybody is ok.”
Fatal crowd surges have
been a recurring disas-
ter at concerts and other
large events in the U.S. and
around the world, includ-
ing one at a 2021 concert
by rapper Travis Scott in
which 10 people died.
Built from 1905 to 1907
and initially used by the U.S.
Army, the armory hosted
On the losing end was
Tesla, which fell 2%. Over the
weekend, it cut the prices of
two of its most expensive ve-
hicles.
Bigger action may be
ahead later this week, with
several potentially market-
moving events on the cal-
endar.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell
will testify before Congress
for two days, beginning on
Tuesday. Other Fed officials’
comments recently have led
to big swings in markets, as
traders try to get ahead of
the next moves by the Fed.
Brian Jacobsen, senior
investment strategist at All-
spring Global Investments,
isn’t expecting anything sur-
prising from the testimony.
That’s partly because an im-
portant data release is sched-
uled for later in the week on
Friday, one that could by it-
self cause a big swing in the
Fed’s thinking.
That’s when the govern-
ment will release its latest
monthly jobs report. If the
reading it stronger than
expected, particularly if it
shows a big gain in wages, it
could shake Wall Street and
the time to give an encouraging pep talk. Roger will be
remembered for his gentle spirit, easy smile, kind eyes -
and as a tough-as-nails competitor as soon as the race
started! He had such a love of the great outdoors and
sporting events through- was at joy running along the mountain trails. Roger is
out the 20th century before survived by his former wife, Bonnie; their four children,
being shut down for sev- Scott, Michael, Kerri and Stefanie; their spouses, Jessica,
eral years starting in the Michiko, Bob and Ron; three grandchildren, Ari, Austin
late 1990s, partly because
and Bali; his sister, Connie and brother Bill; cherished
it lacked a fire suppression
system at the time. friends, beloved running companions, and running com-
It reopened after exten- munities across California and Central Oregon. His family
sive renovations and began plans to announce remembrance events in Oregon and
hosting concerts and other California in Roger’s honor in the future.
events in 2005. Smith said
its main arena is meant to
have a capacity of about
5,000 people, and the city
fire marshal will work
with police to determine
whether that capacity was
exceeded Sunday.
City officials said the fa-
cility underwent a physi-
cal fire safety inspection in
December and was compli-
ant with fire codes.
The venue’s next sched-
uled show, a Saturday per-
formance by the rapper A
Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, has
been canceled.
“If you go to a concert, Andreas (Andy) Guralas
you do not expect to be Age 92
trampled,” Evans said. Resident of Larkspur
“Your loved ones expect Andy was a native of San Francisco, born June 9, 1930.
you to be able to come He Attended both Lincoln and Galileo High Schools. He
home and talk about the Served in the U.S. Army from 1954-1956. Andy's family
experience that you had at
owned the Bellaire Market in San Francisco on Union
that great concert.”
and Leavenworth Street for 50 years.
Andy's father immigrated from Greece in 1906 and his
mother followed in 1927. Andy was extremely proud of
his Greek heritage. In 2002 he made his first trip to
Greece, where he was able to locate his father's child-
hood home that is still standing after hundreds of years.
He also located his father's family.
force it to raise rate expecta- After retiring from the Bellaire Market in 1987 he start-
tions even higher. ed another career working with the Woodlands Market
The Fed has been trying to family in Kentfield, California for 20 years. Andy was a
cool growth in wages to re-
resident of Larkspur from 1964 until his death. Andy en-
move pressure on inflation,
which remains far above its joyed classic cars, water skiing, trips to Maui with his late
2% target, and blowout fig- wife Minette, but most of all spending time with his
ures could cause it to get grandchildren.
more aggressive about rates. Preceded in death by his wife Minette, parents Angelos
The Fed’s next move on and Angeliki Guralas, and sister Helen Guralas.
rates will arrive later this Andy is survived by his sons Andy Guralas Jr., Tony Gu-
month. Besides Friday’s jobs ralas, grandchildren Ashley, Jett, Olivia, Andreas, An-
report, upcoming releases on thony, great-grandchildren Gabriel, Jesse and Thalia,
inflation across the economy niece Angelina Stephenson, cousins Katheryn Barkas,
will likely also carry a lot of Eleni Winget and John Winget.
weight on the decision.
Please join us in celebrating Andy's life on March 10,
The Fed has pulled its key
overnight rate to a range of 2023 at 11 a.m. at Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery Chapel.
4.50% to 4.75%, up from vir-
tually zero at the start of last
year, in its fastest set of hikes
in decades. Last month, it di-
aled down the size of its in-
creases and highlighted
progress being made in the
battle to get inflation lower.
But that was before last
month’s string of hotter-
than-expected data on in-
flation and other measures
of the economy. Wall Street
now is bracing for at least
three more hikes and the
possibility the Fed could
also ratchet the size of the
increases back up.
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WAR IN UKRAINE
Zelenskyy vows not to retreat from Bakhmut
By Mstyslav Chernov
The Associated Press
CHASIV YAR, UKRAINE »
Ukrainian President Volody-
myr Zelenskyy vowed Mon-
day not to retreat from
Bakhmut as Russian forces
encroached on the devas-
tated eastern city they have
sought to capture for six
months at the cost of thou-
sands of lives.
Less than a week ago, an
adviser to Zelenskyy said the
defenders might give up on
Bakhmut and fall back to
nearby positions.
But Zelenskyy on Monday
chaired a meeting in which
top military brass “spoke in
favor of continuing the de-
fense operation and fur-
ther strengthening our po-
sitions in Bakhmut.” Later
in his nightly video address,
the president reported that
his advisers unanimously
agreed to press on with the
fight, “not to retreat” and to
bolster Ukrainian defenses.
His top adviser, Mykhailo
Podolyak, told The Associ-
ated Press that Ukrainian
forces around Bakhmut have
been grinding down enemy
forces, reinforcing their po-
sitions and training tens of
thousands of Ukrainian mil-
itary personnel for a possible
counteroffensive.
Intense Russian shelling
targeted the city in the Do-
netsk region and nearby vil-
lages as Moscow waged a
three-sided assault to try to
finish off Bakhmut’s resis-
tance.
The nearby towns of Cha-
siv Yar and Kostiantynivka
came under heavy shelling,
damaging cars and homes
and sparking a fire. No ca-
sualties were immediately
reported.
MYANMAR
Locals say army troops
massacred 17 villagers
By Grant Peck
The Associated Press
BANGKOK » Soldiers in
My a n m a r r a mp a g e d
through several villages,
raping, beheading and kill-
ing at least 17 people, resi-
dents said, in the latest of
what critics of the ruling
military say are a series of
war crimes since the army
seized power two years
ago.
The bodies of 17 people
were recovered last week
in the villages of Nyaung
Yin and Tar Taing — also
called Tatai — in Sagaing
region in central Myanmar,
according to members of
the anti-government resis-
tance and a resident who
lost his wife. They said
the victims had been de-
tained by the military and
in some cases appeared to
have been tortured before
being killed.
Myanmar has been in
turmoil since the military’s
February 2021 seizure of
power from the elected
government of Aung San
Suu Kyi prompted nation-
wide peaceful protests that
security forces suppressed
with deadly force. The vi-
olence triggered wide-
spread armed resistance,
which has since turned
into what some U.N. ex-
perts have characterized
as a civil war.
The army has been con-
ducting major offensives
in the countryside, includ-
ing burning villages and
driving hundreds of thou-
sands of people from their
homes. It has faced some
of its toughest resistance in
Sagaing, in Myanmar’s his-
toric heartland.
The soldiers involved in
last week’s attacks were in
a group of more than 90
who were brought to the
area by five helicopters on
Feb. 23, said local leaders
of the pro-democracy Peo-
ple’s Defense Forces and in-
dependent Myanmar me-
dia.
They said the bodies of
14 people, including three
women, were found Thurs-
day on a small island in a
river in Nyaung Yin. Three
more male victims were
found in Tar Taing, in-
cluding two members of
the local resistance. One
of the two was dismem-
bered, with his head cut
A Ukrainian soldier takes cover in a trench under Russian shelling on the frontline close to
Bakhmut in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Sunday.
Police and volunteers
evacuated people from Cha-
siv Yar and other front-
line towns in an operation
made difficult by the loss of
bridges and constant artil-
lery fire that has left barely
a house standing.
Russian forces have been
unable to deliver a knockout
blow that would allow them
to seize Bakhmut. Analysts
say the city does not hold
major strategic value and
that its capture would be un-
likely to serve as a turning
point in the conflict.
The Russian push for
Bakhmut reflects the Krem-
lin’s broader struggle to
achieve battlefield momen-
tum. Moscow’s full-scale
invasion on Feb. 24, 2022,
soon stalled, and Ukraine
launched a largely successful
counteroffensive. Over the
bitterly cold winter months,
off, they said.
The neighboring villages
are about 45 kilometers (28
miles) west of the major
city of Mandalay.
Tar Taing resident Moe
Kyaw, 42, survived the at-
tack but said his 39-year-
old wife, Pan Thwal, and
18-year-old nephew were
among those killed. Con-
tacted by phone, he said
Friday they were among
70 villagers detained in
the middle of the night last
Wednesday by soldiers who
shot into the air as they
herded their captives from
their homes to the local
Buddhist monastery.
Moe Kyaw said the sol-
diers stole beer and other
items from his aunt’s small
shop, and as they beat her,
he fled for his life, escap-
ing two soldiers who shot
at him.
He said his wife and
other villagers were tor-
tured at the monastery and
then taken away from the
village, apparently as hos-
tages against any attack.
He said his wife and two
other women were beaten,
raped and shot dead on
Thursday by the soldiers,
who also took his spouse’s
earrings, His two sons, 9
and 11 years old, were re-
leased when the soldiers
departed, he said.
Moe Kyaw did not ex-
plain how he knew the de-
tails about his wife’s treat-
ment.
My a n m a r ’s u nder -
ground National Unity
Government — the main
organization opposed to
military rule that describes
itself as the country’s legiti-
mate government — said in
an online news conference
on Monday that the sol-
diers were from the 99th
Light Infantry Division
based in Mandalay Region.
A leader of a Sagaing re-
sistance group called the
Demon King Defense Force
said his group attacked the
better-armed government
troops on Wednesday in a
failed effort to rescue the
detained villagers.
When they went Thurs-
day morning to the small
island where the soldiers
had taken about 20 villag-
ers they found 14 bodies in
three spots, said the resis-
tance leader, who asked
not to be identified be-
cause of fear of reprisals
the fighting has largely been
deadlocked.
The city’s importance has
become mostly symbolic.
For Russian President Vlad-
imir Putin, prevailing there
would finally deliver some
good news from the front.
For Kyiv, the display of grit
and defiance underscores
the message that Ukraine
is holding on after a year
of brutal attacks, justifying
continued support from its
Western allies.
U.S. Secretary of Defense
Lloyd Austin endorsed that
view Monday, saying dur-
ing a visit to Jordan that
Bakhmut has “more of a
symbolic value than … stra-
tegic and operational value.”
Moscow, he added, con-
tinues “to pour in a lot of
ill-trained and ill-equipped
troops” into Bakhmut, while
Ukraine patiently builds
by the military.
Acknowledging that he
had not seen the killings,
he said he also believed the
women had been raped.
In an earlier incident
apparently involving the
same army unit, two boys
aged 12 and 13 assisting
the People’s Defense Force
were captured by govern-
ment troops on Feb. 26
and beheaded after be-
ing forced to show the lo-
cations of their camps, ac-
cording to independent
Myanmar media. Photos
said to be of their bod-
ies, found at Kan Daw vil-
lage, about 12 kilometers (7
miles) northwest of Tar Ta-
ing, were circulated on so-
cial media.
A separate group, the
Sadaung Lighting Peo-
ple’s Defense Force, has
said that two of its older
teenage members were
also killed and beheaded
in fighting at Kan Daw on
the same day.
The military govern-
ment has not responded to
the allegations. In the past,
it has denied documented
abuses and said that ca-
sualties occurred in the
course of fighting against
armed anti-government
guerrillas. Online media
supportive of the military
government have made
the same claim about the
recent incidents in Sagaing
or suggested that they were
the result of factional fight-
ing within the resistance.
Myanmar’s military has
long been accused of se-
rious human rights viola-
tions, most notably in the
western state of Rakh-
ine. International courts
are considering whether it
committed genocide there
in a brutal 2017 counter-
insurgency campaign that
caused more than 700,000
members of the Muslim
Rohingya minority to flee
to neighboring Bangladesh
for safety.
Last week, U.N. High
Commissioner for Human
Rights Volker Türk ac-
cused the ruling generals
of carrying out “a scorched
earth policy in an attempt
to stamp out opposition.”
His agency said credible
sources have verified the
deaths of at least 2,940 ci-
vilians and 17,572 arrests by
the military and its allies
since the 2021 takeover.
LIBKOS — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
“combat power” elsewhere
with Western military sup-
port ahead of a possible
spring offensive.
Even so, some analysts
question the wisdom of or-
dering Ukrainian defend-
ers to hold out much longer.
Others suggest that a tacti-
cal withdrawal may already
be underway.
Michael Kofman, the
director of Russia stud-
ies at the CAN think tank
in Arlington, Virginia,
said Ukraine’s defense of
Bakhmut has been effective
because it has drained the
Russian war effort, but that
Kyiv should now look ahead.
“The tenacious defense of
Bakhmut achieved a great
deal, expending Russian
manpower and ammuni-
tion,” Kofman tweeted late
Sunday. “But strategies can
reach points of diminishing
TURKEY
Earthquake survivors remain
in need of shelter, sanitation
By Suzan Fraser
The Associated Press
ANKARA, TURKEY » One
month after a powerful
quake devastated parts of
Turkey and Syria, hundreds
of thousands of people still
need adequate shelter and
sanitation, and an appeal
for $1 billion to assist sur-
vivors is only 10% funded,
hampering efforts to tackle
the humanitarian crisis, a
United Nations official said
Monday.
The Feb. 6 earthquake
and strong aftershocks have
killed close to 47,000 peo-
ple in Turkey, destroyed or
damaged around 214,000
buildings and left hundreds
of thousands of people
homeless — making it the
worst disaster in Turkey’s
modern history. The U.N.
estimates that the earth-
quake killed around 6,000
people in Syria, mainly in
the rebel-held northwest.
About 2 million survivors
have been housed in tem-
porary accommodation or
evacuated from the earth-
quake-devastated region,
according to Turkish gov-
ernment figures. Around 1.5
million people have been set-
tled in tents while another
46,000 have been moved
to container houses. Oth-
ers are living in dormitories
and guesthouses, the govern-
ment said.
“Given the number of peo-
ple that have been relocated,
given the number of people
that have been injured and
given the level of the dev-
astation, we do have exten-
sive humanitarian needs
now,” Alvaro Rodriguez, the
U.N. Resident Coordinator
in Turkey, told The Associ-
ated Press.
“We have some provinces
where up to 25% of the popu-
lation — we’re talking some-
times half a million people —
have relocated. So the chal-
lenge we have is how do we
provide food, shelter, water
for these communities?” he
said.
The U.N. representative
said tents are still needed
even though they are not
“the optimal solution” for
sheltering people. He re-
ported some cases of sca-
bies outbreaks because of
poor sanitary conditions.
Last month, the U.N.
made a flash appeal for
$397.6 million to help Syr-
ian quake victims and $1
billion appeal for victims in
returns, and given Ukraine
is trying to husband re-
sources for an offensive, it
could impede the success
of a more important oper-
ation.”
The Institute for the
Study of War, a Washington-
based think tank, said Kyiv’s
smartest option now may be
to withdraw to positions that
are easier to defend.
“Ukrainian forces are
unlikely to withdraw from
Bakhmut all at once and
may pursue a gradual fight-
ing withdrawal to exhaust
Russian forces through con-
tinued urban warfare,” the
ISW said in an assessment
published late Sunday.
The Bakhmut battle has
exposed Russian military
shortcomings and bitter di-
visions.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the
millionaire owner of the
Wagner Group military com-
pany that has spearheaded
the Bakhmut offensive, has
been at loggerheads with the
Russian Defense Ministry
and repeatedly accused it of
failing to provide his forces
with ammunition.
On Monday, Prigozhin
warned in a Russian social
media post that the situation
in Bakhmut “will turn out to
be a ‘pie’: The filling is the
parts of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine surrounded by
us (in the case, of course, if
there is a complete encircle-
ment of Bakhmut), and the
shell is, in fact, the Wagner”
Group.
Bakhmut has taken on
almost mythic importance.
It has become like Mariu-
pol — the port city in the
same province that Russia
captured last year after an
82-day siege that eventually
came down to a mammoth
FRANCISCO SECO — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
A family keeps warm next to a fire as they follow a rescue
team searching for their relatives among destroyed
buildings in Antakya, southern Turkey, on Feb. 15.
Turkey to cover emergency
needs, such as food, protec-
tion, education water and
shelter, for three months. Ro-
driguez said the appeal for
Turkey is only about 10 per-
cent funded.
“The reality is that if we
do not move beyond the
roughly 10% that we have,
the U.N. and its partners will
not be able to meet the hu-
manitarian needs,” he said.
Rodriguez added: “Tur-
key has been a country that
has supported 4 million Syr-
ian refugees over the last few
years, and this is an oppor-
tunity for the international
community to provide the
support that Turkey de-
serves.”
The World Bank has esti-
mated that the earthquake
has caused an estimated
$34.2 billion in direct phys-
ical damages — the equiva-
lent of 4% of Turkey’s 2021
GDP. The World Bank said
recovery and reconstruction
costs will be much higher
and that GDP losses associ-
ated to economic disruptions
will also add to the cost of
the earthquakes.
In Syria, the situation re-
mained dire one month after
the deadly earthquake, with
aid groups citing fears of a
looming public health crisis
with families still packed
into overcrowded tempo-
rary shelters and crucial in-
frastructure damaged by the
quake.
The International Com-
mittee of the Red Cross said
in a statement that Aleppo’s
water infrastructure — al-
ready aging and damaged
by the war — had been fur-
ther damaged by the quake,
which “reduced the system’s
efficiency and raised the
risk that contaminated wa-
ter could pollute the supply.”
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2023
steel mill where determined
Ukrainian fighters held out
along with civilians.
Moscow looked to cement
its rule in Mariupol. Rus-
sian Defense Minister Ser-
gei Shoigu toured some of
the city’s rebuilt infrastruc-
ture — a newly built hospi-
tal, a rescue center and res-
idential buildings — the De-
fense Ministry said.
In other developments
Monday:
— Russian forces at-
tacked central and east-
ern regions of Ukraine
with Iranian-made Shahed
drones, said a spokesman
for Ukraine’s Air Forces,
Yurii Ihnat. Of 15 drones
Russia launched, 13 were
shot down, Ihnat said. It
wasn’t immediately clear if
the attack caused damage.
— Russian defenders shot
down three missiles over
Russia’s Belgorod region on
the border with Ukraine, its
governor, Vyacheslav Glad-
kov, said on Telegram. De-
bris injured one person and
damaged power lines and
façades of residential build-
ings, according to the offi-
cial. Gladkov did not specify
whether the missiles were
fired from Ukraine.
— Ukraine’s chief prose-
cutor announced a criminal
investigation into what ap-
peared to be Russian troops’
execution of an unarmed
Ukrainian prisoner of war.
A video circulating on social
media showed a uniformed
Ukrainian soldier standing
and smoking. The soldier
recites Ukraine’s battle cry,
“Glory to Ukraine!” then a
volley of gunshots hits him,
and he falls into a shallow
hole dug into the ground.
The AP could not verify the
video’s authenticity.
Water contamination
is of particular concern in
Syria as the country had al-
ready been battling cholera
outbreaks before the earth-
quake.
While the earthquake
generated an initial out-
pouring of aid, relief orga-
nizations cited fears that
the world’s attention will
move on quickly, while ba-
sic humanitarian needs re-
main unmet. In the after-
math of the earthquake, the
United Nations appealed
for about $397 million to
meet the immediate needs
in Syria, including medical
care for quake survivors and
food and shelter for the dis-
placed. To date, just over half
of the requested amount has
come in.
Meanwhile, political and
logistical issues have in
some cases blocked aid from
reaching those in need.
Amnesty International
said Monday that between
Feb. 9 and 22, the Syrian
government had “blocked
at least 100 trucks carry-
ing essential aid such as
food, medical supplies and
tents from entering Kurd-
ish-majority neighborhoods
in Aleppo city” while Turk-
ish-backed rebel groups in
northwest Syria blocked at
least 30 aid trucks sent by ri-
val Kurdish groups from en-
tering Turkish-controlled Af-
rin in the same period.
“Even in this moment of
desperation, the Syrian gov-
ernment and armed opposi-
tion groups have pandered
to political considerations
and taken advantage of
people’s misery to advance
their own agendas,” Aya
Majzoub, the rights group’s
deputy director for the Mid-
dle East and North Africa,
said in a statement.
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Editorial Cartoonist’s take

State tax-filing
extension bad
for budget plan
The decision by the Internal Revenue Ser-
vice to delay the income tax filing deadline
until October for 97% of California’s popu-
lation is ridiculous policy that has serious
negative consequences for the already-trou-
bled state budget.
The IRS recently announced fect employer payments from
that it was exercising its dis- payroll withholding, it will
cretion to extend the filing affect estimated quarterly
deadline for residents and tax payments and funds that
businesses of 51 of California’s come in with tax returns, ac-
58 counties, including the en- cording to an expert with the
tire Bay Area, until Oct. 16 be- state Legislative Analyst’s Of-
cause of this winter’s storm- fice.
disaster declarations. The state Department of Fi- Marin Voice
It’s like using a chain saw nance estimates that $35 bil-

Inspiring girls, young women to lead

when a paring knife would
have been more appropri-
ate. There is no question that
some people suffered tremen-
dous loss from the onslaught
of landslides, flooding and
surging ocean waves. But for
the vast majority of state resi-
dents, that crisis has come and
gone.
It would make sense to offer
tax-filing delays for just those
who suffered damage. But
the IRS does not distinguish
within disaster areas between
people and businesses that en-
dured harm and the rest of us.
If it decides to offer tax-filing
delays, it automatically does
so for every resident and busi-
ness within the counties des-
ignated by the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency as
disaster areas.
The California’s Franchise
Tax Board, which collects state
income taxes, is backed by the
federal taxing agency. The fed-
eral decision pushed it into a
corner.
When the IRS announce-
ment was issued Feb. 24,
the state was left no realis-
tic choice but to follow suit,
which it did last week.
There was no practical or
political way for California to
stick with its original deadline
of April 18, nor the first exten-
sion the IRS and state had pre-
viously announced of May 15.
Most tax filers must start with
preparing their federal returns
and then make adjustments
to that to calculate the state
amount.
If the state had failed to
follow the lead of the IRS, it
would have created chaos.
But the delay to Oct. 16
means a cash-flow slowdown
for the federal and state gov-
ernments. It’s unclear what
the effect of that will be for
the feds. But for state govern-
ment, the consequences are
real.
While the delay will not af-
lion out of about $168 billion
of personal and corporate in-
come tax revenue originally
expected in the current fiscal
year, which ends June 30, will
now be deferred to next fis-
cal year.
The state is expected to be
able to internally borrow to
cover that shortfall. But it will
mean less money to invest and
hence less return on that in-
vestment. Our back-of-the-en-
velope calculation puts that
loss at about $500 million; the
state Treasurer’s Office did not
respond to our inquiry to con-
firm.
The biggest effect will be
the uncertainty during up-
coming budget negotiations.
By mid-May, Gov. Newsom
must complete his revised
proposal for next year, and
the Legislature is required to
approve a spending plan by
mid-June.
Normally, the estimates
of state tax return revenues
would be known by mid-May.
This year, however, state law-
makers will have to work with-
out complete information as
they navigate budget negotia-
tions that are already likely to
be contentious, with shortfalls
for the next fiscal year already
projected at $22 billion to $25
billion.
The revenue delays, invest-
ment return losses and budget
uncertainty were avoidable.
The tax extension should have
only been offered to those few
who truly needed it.
Rather than granting eligi-
bility to everyone in 51 coun-
ties, surely the IRS, which has
a form for everything else,
could devise one in which
needy filers declare that they
are legitimately impacted by a
disaster.
They deserve an extension;
the rest of us do not.
Written by the Bay Area News
Group editorial board.
By Kimberly Weichel are still married off, unable ference, a free annual event
and Ro Rigney to attend school and used as for girls from eighth to 12th
child labor in many countries. grades, offers tools, resources
UN Secretary General Anto- and support to empower and
On Wednesday, we are cele- nio Guterres has been outspo- inspire leadership in their lives
brating International Women’s ken on the importance of gen- and communities.
Day, recognized by the United der equality and made it a pri- “Now, more than ever, teen
Nations as a time to high- ority for his term. girls need a voice and opportu-
light current issues affecting One way to further progress nity to gain confidence,” said
women and girls, progress that is to mandate education and Crystal Martinez, a conference
has been made towards equal- support for young women. Fe- volunteer.
ity and work that still needs to male education is considered The many topics include
be done. one of the best long-term in- healthy relationships, consent
“When women succeed, the vestments in a country’s devel- culture, college readiness and
whole of society succeeds,” said opment, as the saying goes, “ed- resources for volunteering and
Vice President Kamala Harris. ucate a woman, you educate a internships.
We agree. nation.” This can be fostered • Pathways to Peace gives out
To further gender equality, through mentoring, which pro- annual Exceptional Women of
the UN established the Commis- vides one-on-one support to Peace Award honors — one of
sion on the Status of Women in help develop personal and pro- which is designated for a young
1946 to monitor and promote fessional growth. It helps girls woman under 25 years old who
women’s rights in all nations. and young women to navigate lifts up work that is often un-
The commission can press for challenges and find solutions. recognized, yet important.
international action to prevent The real work starts locally. We believe that the way to in-
or alleviate violations of wom- The good news is that there are crease leadership is to build a
en’s rights. It meets annually at various organizations in Marin broad cohort of young women
the UN in March, starting on to support opportunities for with motivation and confidence
International Women’s Day, to girls, teens and young women around the world. Coming into
review progress in each country to develop their voice. Here are their own while being given
and establish goals and strate- a few: skills and encouragement, they
gies for the next year. • Girls Force Leadership em- become more eager and ready
Simultaneously, thousands of powers girls ages 6 to 10 to be- to make a difference in society.
leaders from nonprofit, human- come tenacious and resilient We must invest more directly
itarian organizations attend to leaders using role models and in supporting girls and young
share programs, projects and projects at enrichment pro- women to achieve their poten-
lessons learned in their respec- grams, camps and events. tial. A healthy society lies in the
tive communities that meet lo- “Depression in girls is wide- hands of women who, alongside
cal challenges. spread,” founder Hilary Mc- men, work to solve the many is-
As an urgent call to action, Ginnis said. “Through a sense sues we face today.
the UN set global goals on key of sisterhood and community, We celebrate International
issues, as well as specific tar- girls develop the skills to navi- Women’s Day with this of-
gets and indicators, for all gate the difficult teenage years.” ten-quoted statement of un-
countries to make progress to- • Girls Circle, by the One known origin: “Here’s to strong
ward 2030. Circle Foundation, is a train- women: May we know them.
No. 5 on the list of UN sus- ing for adults to facilitate on- May we be them. May we raise
tainable development goals is going meetings with girls 9 to them.”
to achieve “gender equality and 18 to create a sense of belong-
empower all women and girls.” ing. Through speaking and lis- Kimberly Weichel, of Tiburon,
The goal calls to end discrim- tening, girls learn to give voice is president emeritus of the
ination in its many forms and to their thoughts and feelings. Marin UN Association. Ro
ensure girls and young women Topics include body image, Rigney, of Novato, is advocacy
receive the education needed to friendship, social media and chair of the Marin UN
be equal participants in society. the decision-making process. Association. Learn more at
Unfortunately, young girls • Marin Teen Girls Con- unamarin.org.

California Voice

Newsom put public health back on the chopping block

By Kim Saruwatari weakened by decades of disinvest- ments are the frontline of de- The overwhelming stress of 28, Health and Human Ser-
and Nancy Williams ment, which made responding to fense against all public health responding to COVID-19, often vices Agency Secretary Dr. Mark
the pandemic difficult while long- threats. Even as the pandemic with harassment and threats Ghaly observed that responding
standing barriers to health ex- raged, and despite the fact that fueled by misinformation, has to the pandemic “has prepared
The state’s public health acted an inequitable toll in the many were already understaffed, worn down public health profes- us for whatever comes next.”
emergency, in place for nearly most vulnerable communities. Yet they carried on as best they sionals, many of whom are be- It’s true that many lessons
three years, expired last week. on the eve of the scheduled end could to protect Californians ing heavily recruited by employ- have been learned. We know
Californians know from experi- to the state of emergency, Gov. from an outbreak of Mpox, ris- ers in other sectors or choos- what we would need to address
ence that it won’t be time to let Gavin Newsom proposed cut- ing rates of sexually transmitted ing to take extended breaks or what comes next, but we will
down our guard. ting $49.8 million dedicated to re- diseases, tuberculosis and other retire. We must try to keep as not be truly prepared unless we
We know better. Experience building California’s local public infectious diseases that will con- many public health workers as have fully trained and staffed
taught us that threats rarely health workforce. To cut public tinue to devastate our commu- possible. The promised funds local public health depart-
subside permanently. For in- health funding is a shortsighted nities long after this declared were designed to create educa- ments ready to provide a vigor-
stance, after a wildfire is con- proposal that the Legislature emergency has ended. tional opportunities that would ous response to all existing and
tained, there remains a threat it should reject and the governor It takes a highly skilled and enable existing employees to ad- emerging public health threats.
can flare up again — all it could should reconsider. specialized workforce to carry vance their careers while stay- We must never be caught off
take is another spark. We also While the state wisely decided out the task of protecting the ing on the job. guard again. In California, we
know that while heavy rains and last year to provide annual, on- public’s health. However, state- Now these funds are at risk should know better.
snow can ease a drought, dry going funding to rebuild Califor- wide, there is a severe shortage of being lost forever — and with
years typically come again. nia’s weakened public health in- of public health laboratory di- them, the opportunity to build Kim Saruwatari is the president
California learned these les- frastructure, achieving that goal rectors who can carry out the the kind of robust public health of the County Health Executives
sons from experience. The CO- won’t be possible without pro- testing necessary to identify workforce that will enable Cal- Association of California and
VID-19 public health emergency viding the planned boost of one- and respond to contagious dis- ifornia to be prepared for the public health director for
caught the state off guard and time workforce development eases. The funds promised last health threats that remain and Riverside County. Dr. Nancy
taught us many lessons that we funds to bolster a pipeline of year were designed to train pro- whatever comes in the years Williams is the president of the
can use to prevent being caught laboratory directors, epidemiol- fessionals to fill those jobs. Fel- ahead. Health Officers Association of
off guard again. ogists, microbiologists and other lowships for epidemiologists and When it was announced last California and public health
In California and elsewhere, skilled professionals. training positions for microbiol- fall that California’s COVID-19 officer for El Dorado County.
public health defenses had been Local public health depart- ogists would also be created. emergency would end on Feb. Distributed by CalMatters.org.

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WEATHER | MARINIJ.COM TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2023

Today Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

53
Cool today with times of clouds and
sun. Winds southwest 6-12 mph. A 54 54 57 58
brief shower or two late tonight. Winds 38 46 45 50
42 southwest 7-14 mph. Humidity 85% Clouds and sun with a
stray shower; cool
Periods of sun, showers
around in the p.m.
Cool with pouring rain;
watch for flooding
Mainly cloudy with
showers possible; cool
Wind: SW 6-12 mph Wind: W 7-14 mph Wind: SSE 4-8 mph Wind: SSW 8-16 mph Wind: E 6-12 mph

BAY AREA 14-DAY TREND California today Windsor How to read this map
Temperatures Normals Records
North Coast: Cloudy today; a couple of 53/38 City name Today’s
Yesterday’s high 50 64 79 (1972) 75/43 High/low forecast
Yesterday’s low 39 45 35 (1971) showers, except rain and drizzle in the Santa Rosa
north. 53/41 65° Water temperature
Past 7 days Forecast
Yosemite: Cloudy and cold today with a
couple of snow showers. Chilly tonight with
Sebastopol
100° snow, accumulating 1-3 inches.
54/37
Central Valley: Cloudy and cool today; a Vacaville
Bodega Bay Rohnert 56/40
80° brief shower or two; however, dry in the Park
south. A few showers tonight. 52/40 54/38 Napa
Big Sur: Cool today with times of clouds Sonoma 54/40
60°
and sun. Mostly cloudy and chilly tonight 54/40 Fairfield
with a shower in spots. Tomales Petaluma 56/41
40° Dillon Beach 53/40 54/40
Tahoe: Clouds and sun today. Partly cloudy 52/40
tonight. A little snow with little or no accu-
20° mulation tomorrow.
Tu W Th F Sa Su M Tu W Th F Sa Su M Southern California: Cool today. Clouds and
sun in the west; mostly sunny elsewhere. Nicasio Vallejo
ALMANAC Inverness 52/40 Novato 54/42 50°
Point Reyes 54/42 51°
San Rafael through 5 p.m. yesterday Eureka Lighthouse 53/41
Benicia
Temperatures 53/42 Woodacre 54/42
High/low ........................................ 50°/39°
46/36 52/40 Hercules
Last year’s high/low .................... 61°/44° Olema 54/43 Martinez Pleasant Hill
Point Reyes 53/41 San Rafael
Precipitation Station San 53/42 56/42 Pittsburg
53/42
24 hours through 5 p.m. yest. ......... 0.23” Ukiah 53/41 Anselmo
Corte
Richmond 54/42
Oct. 1 to date .................................. 34.78” 54/41 52/43
Last season to date ........................ 19.56” 51/38 Bolinas Madera
Walnut Creek
Normal season to date .................. 27.87”
52/44 54/43 Lafayette 55/41
Berkeley 53/41
Kentfield through 5 p.m. yesterday Sacramento Stinson Mill Valley Tiburon 53/43
Temperatures Tahoe Beach 52/42 52/43
55/40 52/44 Orinda
53/41
High/low ........................................ 49°/34° 31/22 Sausalito Alameda
Last year’s high/low .................... 62°/39° 50° 53/44 54/43 Moraga
Precipitation Yosemite Oakland 52/40
24 hours through 5 p.m. yest. ......... 0.38” San 55/44
Oct. 1 to date .................................. 44.26” 41/22 Francisco San Leandro
Last season to date ........................ 44.29” 51/43 55/43
Monterey 53° Castro V.
Normal season to date .................. 35.26” Fresno Daly City 54/41
Novato through 5 p.m. yesterday 54/41 57/39 54/44 San Lorenzo Hayward
Temperatures 55/42 55/42
High/low ........................................ 52°/34° Santa Barbara Needles SFO
Last year’s high/low .................... 67°/41° 55/45
62/40 Los Angeles Pacifica Union City
Precipitation 69/44 53/45 55/41
24 hours through 5 p.m. yest. ......... 0.24”
Oct. 1 to date .................................. 31.93”
61/44 San Mateo
56/43 Palo Alto Fremont
Last season to date ........................ 18.21”
Normal season to date .................. 27.87” 56/39 55/40
TODAY’S UV INDEX
San Diego
3 11+: Extreme Pacific Weather Pacific Forecast
8-10: Very high
61/48 Today’s noon forecast Jet Stream The jet stream will be situated over Central
Highest at 1 p.m. California Tuesday, resulting in below-aver-
(The higher the 6-7: High CALIFORNIA CITIES TIDES age temperatures and some showers. The
number, the faster 3-5: Moderate
skin damage will Today Wed. Inverness, Tomales Bay pattern for Wednesday will be similar.
occur.) 0-2: Low City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Time High Time Low

ALLERGY REPORT Anaheim 63/44/pc 62/44/pc 12:20 a.m. 4.6 6:16 a.m. 1.6
Allergy, dust and dander today: Neutral
Auburn
Bakersfield
49/36/sh
57/38/pc
47/32/sh
59/36/pc
11:39 a.m.
Point Reyes
5.1 6:35 p.m. 0.1
Weather Trivia™
Pollen levels
Barstow 62/38/s 63/37/pc Time High Time Low Q: How many more calories are burned
Grass .......... Absent Weeds ........ Absent Bishop 49/23/pc 52/23/pc
Trees ..... Moderate Mold ........... Absent 10:22 a.m. 5.4 4:33 a.m. 2.0 walking into a 15-mph wind?
Calistoga 52/40/sh 53/33/pc
Source: National Allergy Bureau 11:28 p.m. 4.9 5:02 p.m. 0.2
Chico 53/41/sh 54/36/c it is calm
AIR QUALITY FORECAST Cloverdale 51/39/sh 55/33/pc Sausalito A: 39 percent more as compared to when
Columbia 48/31/c 44/27/r Time High Time Low
City Today’s air quality Index
Crescent City 44/37/r 45/40/sh 12:01 a.m. 4.8 5:22 a.m. 1.8
Sacramento ................... Good ............. 42
San Francisco ................ Good ............. 46
Death Valley
Eureka
67/53/s
46/36/r
70/54/s
50/37/sh
11:20 a.m. 5.2 5:41 p.m. 0.1
5 p.m. Monday
Weather History
San Rafael ..................... Good ............. 37 Golden Gate An ice storm in Iowa on March 7, 1990,
Fresno 57/39/pc 59/36/pc Time High Time Low caused $60 million in damage. Power loss
What it means: 0-50: Good; 51-100: Moderate; Gilroy 56/37/pc 55/36/c
101-150: Unhealthy for sensitive people; 11:10 a.m. 5.4 5:08 a.m. 1.8 for over a quarter of a million people was
Grass Valley 43/33/sh 42/30/c none none 5:27 p.m. 0.2
151+: Unhealthy for all. Source: Sparetheair.gov included in the damages.
Hollister 56/37/pc 55/35/pc
Lakeport 47/37/sh 48/30/pc Bodega Harbor
SKY WATCH Los Angeles 61/44/pc 61/44/pc Time High Time Low
Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Long Beach 63/46/pc 62/44/pc 10:32 a.m. 5.3 4:52 a.m. 1.8
Tod. 6:34 am 6:09 pm 6:34 pm 6:57 am Mammoth Lakes 32/15/pc 32/10/sn 11:35 p.m. 5.0 5:11 p.m. 0.2
Wed. 6:32 am 6:10 pm 7:34 pm 7:19 am Modesto 55/38/pc 53/32/c Point Arena
Hours of sunlight ................. 11 hr., 35 min. Morro Bay 55/39/pc 56/40/pc Time High Time Low
Full Last New First
Mt. Shasta 35/22/sn 37/29/sn 10:41 a.m. 5.4 4:46 a.m. 1.8
Needles 69/44/s 71/48/pc Forecasts and graphics provided by
11:41 p.m. 4.9 5:17 p.m. 0.2 AccuWeather, Inc. ©2023
Nevada City 41/31/c 40/28/c
Palm Springs 70/47/s 71/48/pc
Mar 7 Mar 14 Mar 21 Mar 28 Paso Robles
Redding
57/32/pc
46/39/sh
55/32/pc
53/36/pc
National forecast
PLANET WATCH Today Wed. Today Wed. Today Wed.
Riverside 58/36/pc 58/36/pc
Tonight’s full moon rises at sunset against the City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Sacramento 55/40/c 55/34/c
stars of the constellation Leo the Lion. At night- San Bernardino 59/39/pc 59/39/pc Akron OH 42/25/pc 41/27/c Des Moines 45/31/pc 40/32/c Norfolk 58/39/s 51/39/pc
fall, look low in the west for Jupiter and Venus, San Diego 61/48/pc 61/47/pc Albany NY 30/23/sf 36/28/c Detroit 42/25/pc 41/26/s Oklahoma City 53/45/c 52/47/t
while Mars is almost directly overhead, surround- San Jose 57/41/pc 57/38/sh Albuquerque 62/39/c 67/41/pc El Paso 73/50/pc 78/56/pc Omaha 47/33/c 39/33/c
ed by the bright stars of the Winter Circle. San Luis Obispo 58/38/pc 59/36/pc Anchorage 30/27/s 33/32/s Fairbanks 32/28/pc 33/29/c Orlando 87/67/s 81/59/s
Santa Barbara 62/40/pc 62/38/pc Atlanta 78/47/pc 66/49/pc Fargo 20/15/sn 31/28/sn Philadelphia 48/29/pc 47/31/pc
Santa Cruz 54/41/pc 53/39/sh Atlantic City 47/30/pc 47/33/pc Flagstaff 48/24/pc 47/23/pc Phoenix 73/49/pc 76/50/s
Venus rises at .............................. 7:54 am Austin 82/63/pc 82/63/c Grand Rapids 44/25/pc 41/25/s Pittsburgh 43/25/pc 43/25/pc
Mars rises at .............................. 11:04 am S. Lake Tahoe 31/22/sf 30/17/sn
Stockton 56/40/c 54/34/sh Baltimore 52/32/c 51/30/s Great Falls 31/11/c 25/11/c Portland ME 35/28/c 45/31/c
Jupiter rises at ............................. 7:43 am Billings 29/16/c 24/15/c Greensboro 70/35/pc 59/34/s Portland OR 48/35/c 45/35/pc
Saturn rises at ............................. 5:57 am Truckee 29/21/sf 29/5/sn
Ukiah 51/38/sh 51/30/pc Birmingham 78/49/pc 64/51/t Hartford 36/25/pc 45/30/pc Providence 39/28/pc 48/33/c
Source: Morrison Planetarium Bismarck 14/8/sn 20/20/sf Honolulu 82/70/pc 80/70/pc Raleigh 73/36/pc 58/36/s
Boise 43/25/c 40/21/sn Houston 84/68/pc 86/68/pc Rapid City 25/14/sn 25/18/sn
World forecast Boston
Brownsville
38/29/pc
87/71/pc
44/34/c
88/71/s
Indianapolis
Jackson MS
49/29/pc
83/62/t
48/31/pc
76/62/t
Reno
St. Louis
41/26/sf
51/35/pc
38/20/sn
46/40/c
Today Wed. Today Wed.
City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Buffalo 35/25/s 33/26/c Jacksonville 86/61/pc 69/51/s Salt Lake City 39/29/sf 41/25/sf
Burlington VT 27/24/sf 34/28/sf Juneau 28/12/s 22/10/s San Antonio 85/64/pc 84/69/c
AFRICA/MIDEAST EUROPE Casper WY 26/8/sn 28/15/sn Kansas City 48/39/c 45/38/c San Juan PR 85/70/pc 84/70/s
Algiers 69/52/c 73/53/pc Amsterdam 41/30/r 42/30/c Charleston SC 85/47/pc 66/44/s Las Vegas 61/43/pc 63/42/pc Santa Fe 57/33/c 61/35/pc
Baghdad 80/56/pc 75/58/c Athens 63/49/sh 63/48/pc Charlotte 75/39/s 62/38/pc Little Rock 66/48/pc 52/44/t Seattle 48/33/c 45/33/pc
Beirut 66/56/pc 66/53/pc Berlin 40/31/sn 38/29/c Cheyenne 31/21/c 32/24/c Louisville 55/34/pc 51/36/c Shreveport 81/65/t 79/62/c
Cairo 71/54/pc 73/57/s Brussels 41/33/r 36/32/c Chicago 43/32/pc 44/32/c Memphis 67/47/pc 50/47/t Sioux Falls SD 33/30/c 33/30/sn
Damascus 66/41/pc 69/41/s Budapest 46/39/sh 55/45/pc Cincinnati 49/29/c 47/29/pc Miami 89/73/pc 86/71/pc Spokane 43/22/pc 42/26/c
Jerusalem 62/47/pc 59/44/pc Copenhagen 38/27/sn 38/27/pc Cleveland 40/27/pc 38/28/pc Milwaukee 41/32/pc 39/32/c Tampa 83/71/s 87/61/s
Johannesburg 78/57/t 79/58/pc Dublin 41/29/s 40/33/c Colorado Sprs 43/24/c 41/29/pc Minneapolis 39/28/pc 37/29/sn Tucson 76/47/pc 76/48/pc
Riyadh 91/67/pc 88/65/pc Frankfurt 46/34/r 41/36/sn Columbia SC 80/43/pc 66/43/pc Myrtle Beach 81/46/pc 61/44/s Wash DC 53/33/c 53/34/s
Tel Aviv 70/53/c 68/50/pc Geneva 51/36/c 52/48/r Concord NH 31/22/c 41/27/c Nashville 65/42/pc 53/45/t
ASIA Helsinki 24/20/pc 26/14/sn Dallas 80/65/pc 72/63/t New Orleans 83/68/pc 84/67/c Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy,
Bangkok 95/75/s 96/76/s Istanbul 59/51/c 60/51/s Denver 37/25/c 41/26/c New York City 44/28/pc 45/32/pc c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,
Beijing 69/41/pc 66/35/c Lisbon 64/58/c 63/57/r r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice
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Hanoi 75/65/c 78/66/c London 42/32/c 39/34/sn
Hong Kong 75/66/s 78/66/s Madrid 59/46/c 62/51/sh
Islamabad 84/53/s 86/53/s Moscow 30/14/sn 32/26/sn
Winnipeg
Kabul 62/40/s 65/41/pc Munich 47/32/c 48/46/r Seattle 11/7
Manila 89/72/s 89/72/pc Oslo 29/11/c 28/16/c 48/33 Montreal
Mumbai 95/78/pc 97/77/pc Paris 48/41/c 57/47/r 29/24
Prague 44/34/c 40/35/c Billings Minneapolis Toronto
New Delhi 86/62/pc 87/62/pc 29/16
Rome 60/52/c 62/51/sh 39/28 34/24
Seoul 64/40/pc 59/44/sh
Shanghai 84/53/c 86/58/pc Stockholm 31/25/sn 28/13/sn
Singapore 86/76/pc 86/76/sh Vienna 47/38/c 54/40/pc
Warsaw 42/32/c 40/29/sn Chicago
Taipei 76/59/s 78/61/s San Francisco 43/32 Detroit New York
Tokyo 66/44/s 70/47/s Zurich 47/35/c 53/48/r 51/43 42/25 44/28
Denver
LATIN AMERICA 37/25 Washington
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND Kansas City
Asuncion 92/73/t 85/71/t 48/39 53/33
Auckland 73/57/s 73/62/pc
Melbourne 76/53/c 66/51/c Bogota 66/52/c 65/49/sh
Sydney 92/68/s 89/64/s Buenos Aires 85/74/pc 87/75/s Los Angeles
Fairbanks 61/44
Caracas 87/73/sh 87/74/pc 32/28
CANADA La Paz 62/40/sh 60/41/c
Lima 81/70/c 81/70/pc Atlanta
Calgary 18/8/c 15/3/sn Anchorage El Paso 78/47
Edmonton 17/4/c 15/1/c Panama City 87/71/sh 85/69/sh 73/50
30/27 Juneau
Montreal 29/24/c 37/28/sf Rio 90/78/pc 88/78/pc
Santiago 87/57/s 87/56/s 28/12 Houston
Ottawa 24/18/sn 30/20/c
Toronto 34/24/s 33/23/pc 84/68
MEXICO Honolulu
Vancouver 48/35/pc 48/34/s 82/70 Miami
Winnipeg 11/7/pc 22/18/sn Acapulco 86/71/s 85/71/s Hilo Monterrey 89/73
Cabo S.L. 80/60/pc 80/63/pc 82/67 90/62
CARIBBEAN Cancun 86/72/c 84/71/c
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Barbados 84/75/pc 83/75/sh Guadalajara 89/48/pc 89/49/s
Yesterday for the 48 contiguous states.
Havana 88/63/s 88/66/c La Paz 82/56/pc 83/59/pc
Nassau 84/69/s 83/68/s Mazatlan 77/59/pc 77/59/pc Cotulla, TX ................................................. 94°
San Juan 85/70/pc 84/70/s Mexico City 85/49/pc 84/54/s Boca Reservoir, CA .................................. -12°

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MEDIA
SO IT GOES

Taking
on a
‘Karen’
problem
Like newspapers across the
country, the IJ last week can-
celed the “Dilbert” cartoon after
East Bay cartoon-
ist Scott Adams
went on a racist ti-
rade, calling Black
people “a hate
group” and advo-
cating for White
people to live in
largely segregated
neighborhoods.
Of course, that
already occurs in many places
in Marin, whose residents are
nearly 85% White — the least di-
AUGUST DE RICHELIEU — PEXELS verse of all the Bay Area coun-
ties.
The popular image of Black men is skewed in America. When I first moved here 36
years ago, I didn’t question why

Busting the narrative

Marin was so White. Then I did.
And I came upon a 1997 inter-
view with cultural critic and hu-
morist Fran Lebowitz in which
she explains why she believes
White people think about race
all wrong. Instead of asking
themselves, “How would it be if
Reality of Black men’s love lives is different than what TV presents I were Black?” they should in-
stead be asking, “What is it like
to be White?”

By Armon Perry
The Conversation
Finding and keeping a good
Black man in a relationship
has become a cottage indus-
try. From celebrities and real-
ity TV stars to social media in-
fluencers, for better or worse,
there is no shortage of rela-
tionship advice to people seek-
ing to figure out Black men.
And while much of this con-
tent is understood to be for en-
tertainment purposes only,
some of it is presented and re-
ceived as legitimate and data-
driven.
This is a problem because
too many people cannot distin-
guish what they see onscreen
from reality. Media portrayals
are often hyperbolic and sensa-
tionalized to attract public at-
tention. Equally troubling is
that the majority of academic
research in this area also per-
petuates many of the same,
negative patterns that are com-
mon in popular culture.
As a graduate student and
university professor, I have
spent nearly two decades re-
viewing these studies on Black
men and families. The general
consensus from them falls into
one of two categories: first,
that many Black men are not
viable marriage mates because
their financial struggles will
not allow them to provide for a
wife and children.
Other studies conclude that
many poor Black men reject
monogamous romantic rela-
tionships in favor of a hyper-
sexual masculinity to overcom-
pensate for their inability to
fulfill the traditional breadwin-
ner role. These men, the studies
conclude, treat women as con-
quests rather than partners.
In both historical and more
recent research, studies on
Black men have disproportion-
ately examined the lives of low-
The way White
women weaponize
their womanhood
— through tears and
with knowledge
that they’re more
believable than
Black people and
other people of color
— taps into long-
seated fears of Black
male predators and
the trope of White
woman victimhood.
“That’s something White peo-
ple almost never think about.
And what it is like to be White is
not to say, ‘We have to level the
playing field,’ but to acknowl-
JOSE LUIS MAGANA — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS edge that not only do White peo-
The near-total focus on low-income Black men by academia and popular culture creates an unrealistic ple own the playing field, but
picture of them. Here, at commencement at Howard University in 2016, students heard from then- they have so designated this plot
President Barack Obama. of land as a playing field to be-
gin with. White people are the
men to learn more about their playing field,” she said. “The ad-
“The media portrays us as shiftless perspectives on marriage. vantage of being White is so ex-
The men’s stories reveal im- treme, so overwhelming, so im-
and violent and not to be trusted. portant findings that are typi- mense, that to use the word ‘ad-
I think when you see a man with a cally not explored in research vantage’ at all is misleading
woman treating her well, a man with on Black men. They opened up since it implies a kind of parity
about their desire for intimacy that simply does not exist.”
his children treating them the way they and companionship in their re- It’s something to think about.
should be treated, it dispels a lot of lationships. It’s something the Mill Valley
what folks see in the media.” My findings, many of which Force for Racial Equity and Em-
are counter to the popular im- powerment, known as MVFree,
age that our society holds of has been thinking about. That’s
Black men, have just been pub- because like elsewhere in Marin,
income men and the struggles tach to their romantic relation- lished in a book, “Black Love Mill Valley police stop Black and
they faced in maintaining sta- ships. And this perception can Matters: Authentic Men’s Hispanic people much more of-
ble relationships in the face of be used to perpetuate negative Voices on Marriage and Ro- ten than they do White people,
economic disadvantage. stereotypes that frame them as mantic Relationships.” according to Racial and Identity
I have found that the near- dangerous and predatory. My study followed 33 Black Profiling Act data, which I wrote
exclusive focus on low-income men from Louisville, Ken- about a few weeks ago. What I
Black men in research related Resetting the image tucky, chronicling their per- didn’t realize at the time was
to the family skews perceptions In response to that lim- sonal circumstances, as well that the stops were prompted
of these men. It also limits the ited view, I spent the last four as their attitudes, experiences by Mill Valley residents mak-
public’s knowledge of them years conducting a study on and behaviors within their ing racially motivated 911 calls
and the meanings they at- a more diverse group of Black MEN » PAGE 2 LARSON » PAGE 2

SIX-WORD STORIES Consumer tip

Well, do you feel lucky? What a home improvement contract needs

Share a short tale with
the IJ about your
thoughts on luck
By Vicki Larson
vlarson@marinij.com
As they say, everyone’s a little
Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. But not
everyone has the luck of the Irish.
Or do they?
Since March comes in like a lion,
out like a lamb and includes the
holiday of leprechauns, pots of
gold and four-leaf clovers, let’s
explore luck — in six words. Have
it? Want it? Had it once?
Please make it a story with a
beginning, middle and end — not
six adjectives, not a cliche and not
advice. Make us laugh or cry or at
the very least feel something. For
an example, here is the famous
story attributed to, but not proven
to be written by, Ernest Heming-
way: “For sale: baby shoes, never
worn.” That’s quite the story!
If you want your story to run in the
IJ, please:
• Write “Six-word story” in the
subject line
• Send one story. Just one
• Include your full name and Marin
town in the body of the email, no
attachments
• Write your short story in the
body of the email
• Use proper punctuation and
spelling
• Use sentence style in one line
• It does not need to rhyme and
ideally shouldn’t
• Do not submit six adjectives —
that’s not a story
Please send to lifestyles@marinij.
com by March 17 and look for it in
the March 28 lifestyles section
and online.
You decided on a home improvement con-
tractor, but don’t know what you should look
for in your contract. In California, a written
contract is required for any project over
$500. A contract should tell you everything
you need to know about the work to be
performed. It should specify in detail how
the work will be performed, the timeline for completion, materi-
als expected to be used and the total cost of the project. If there
is a payment schedule, it should be detailed and the payments
cannot exceed the value of the work performed. Never pay the
full amount of the contract before the job is completed to the full
specifications of the contract. Any changes to the job that are
made during construction should be memorialized in a written
“change order.” If the contract leaves you with questions, ask
the contractor to address them in the contract. Finally, down
payments cannot exceed $1,000 or 10% of the contract price,
whichever is less.
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TAILS OF MARIN

Protect your pets from the dreaded tick

By Lisa Bloch
IJ correspondent
As someone who works
in animal welfare, I try
not to actively dislike any
creature. After all, you
can find redeeming quali-
ties in almost all of them.
However, I’m having a
hard time coming up with
something nice about
ticks.
These insects are com-
mon in Marin and even
more so now that we’ve
had so much rain. Ac-
cording to the Bay Area
Lyme Foundation, Marin
County has some of the
highest tick infection
rates in California, likely
due to all its open space
and wetlands.
The little buggers love
the moist ground and air,
especially when an un-
suspecting person and
their dog walks through
their habitat. They’ll eas-
ily hitch a ride onto fur or
clothing and quickly bur-
row in for blood.
Ticks secrete saliva that
produces an anesthetic ef-
fect at the site of the bite,
which is why we often
don’t know we’ve been bit-
ten by a tick until some-
time later. The saliva con-
tains an anti-clotting
agent to keep the blood
flowing, and acts like ce-
ment, helping to anchor
the tick in place and make
it harder for you to re-
move. Pretty amazing en-
gineering, if you can ig-
nore the fact that they can
carry the bacteria that
causes diseases such as
Lyme.
With so much open
space and awesome trails,
many in Marin spend a lot
of time outside walking
and hiking, especially with
dogs. And while Lyme dis-
ease isn’t as common in
dogs as it is in humans,
dogs can still get sick.
That’s why it’s so im-
portant to check your dog
thoroughly for ticks af-
ter every outing. Moreover,
the sooner you remove the
tick, the better. It takes at
least 24 hours for a tick to
transmit an infection. The
less time a tick feeds on
your pet, the less risk of
infection (same is true for
us humans).
To lessen the chances of
coming home with ticks,
wear light-colored cloth-
ing so they can be spotted
easily. Know where ticks
are found and use caution
when walking through
tall grasses. Apply a bug
repellant and perform a
provoking it to release ad-
ditional saliva or regur-
gitate its gut contents
(also eww), increasing the
chances of infection trans-
mittal.
Thoroughly disinfect
the bite site after remov-
ing the tick and wash your
hands with soap and wa-
ter.
Of course, the real key
in protecting our pets is
prevention. Having your
pets on flea and tick medi-
cation is extremely impor-
tant. There are myriad op-
tions but personally, I’ve
found the oral treatments
work best.
Some even protect your
pet for three months with
one dose.
Wishing you and your
pets a tick-free spring.
Lisa Bloch is the
PHOTO BY LISA BLOCH
marketing and
It’s important to check your dogs thoroughly for ticks. communications director
at Marin Humane,
tick check as soon as you tick as close to the skin squeeze, crush or puncture which contributes Tails
get home. If your dog has surface as possible and the tick’s body. This can of Marin articles and
thick or long fur, it’s espe- pull upward with steady, squeeze tick fluids, which welcomes animal-related
cially important to part even pressure. may contain infectious or- questions about the
the fur as you check them Don’t twist, “unscrew” ganisms, into the blood- people and animals in
thoroughly. or jerk the tick; this may stream. our community. Go to
To remove a tick, shield cause the parts to break Don’t use petroleum marinhumane.org, find
your fingers with a tis- off and remain in the skin. jelly, hot matches or alco- us on social media @
sue, paper towel or rubber If this happens, remove hol to remove a tick. This marinhumane, or email
gloves. Then, using fine- the leftover tick parts can make matters worse lbloch@marinhumane.
tipped tweezers, grasp the (eww) with tweezers. Don’t by irritating the tick and org.

HISTORY WATCH
The famed tavern
atop Mount Tamalpais
Last month’s storm brought
snow to Mount Tamalpais,
and although not rare, it’s
an uncommon sight to see
the summit of our mountain
blanketed in winter white. The
January 1913 storm not only
covered the summit of Mt. Ta-
malpais but dropped 6 inches
of snow in most of the towns
at the foot of the mountain.
The Tamalpais Tavern, built
by the Mill Valley & Mt.
Tamalpais Scenic Railway,
opened in 1896 on land
owned by the Tamalpais
Land and Water Co. The
tavern offered visitors
comfortable accommoda-
tions and spectacular views
overlooking the beaches
west to the Farallon Islands
and east to Mount Diablo. A
columnist for the Petaluma
Morning Daily Courier wrote
that the location provided “a
sight terrestrial and celes-
tial that men have travelled
hundreds of miles to see.”
Within weeks of its open-
The Tamalpais Tavern pictured covered in snow in 1913 during a storm.
ing, California Gov. James
H. Budd and his entire staff
rented the tavern and, ac-
cording to a San Francisco
Call article, “will view the
sunset and sunrise and will
discuss state affairs from a
high standpoint.”
The railway ran two trains
COURTESY OF MARIN HISTORY MUSEUM
a day up to the tavern famous gravity cars were
from downtown Mill Valley. added at this time for a ride
The tavern expanded its down the mountain on what
overnight accommodations was called “the crookedest
in 1900 and added a dance railroad in the world.” For
pavilion. After a spur line many years, local and out-
was added in 1907, visitors of-state guests, along with
could also travel from the luminaries of the political
tavern to Muir Woods. The and cultural world, visited
the mountaintop and stayed
at the tavern.
In 1916, the Marin Mu-
nicipal Water District
(MMWD) purchased the
land the tavern was on,
along with all three peaks
of the mountain. In 1923, a
small kitchen fire spread to
the surrounding buildings
and destroyed most of the
structure. It was rebuilt a
year later as a smaller, one-
story building, which did not
offer overnight accommo-
dations. With the opening
of Ridgecrest Boulevard to
automobiles in 1925, the
tavern and Muir Woods be-
came accessible by automo-
bile and in 1930, the “scenic
railroad” ceased operation.
The tavern became the
property of MMWD but was
still a favorite spot for orga-
nizations to hold their meet-
ings, luncheons and dinners.
A 1933 Mill Valley Record
article noted that the tavern
“has become popular as a
place of entertainment for
organizations when they
desire to provide an event of
unusual interest.”
By the early 1940s, the tav-
ern had changed hands and in
1943, the Army Air Force was
quartered there for the dura-
tion of the war. The tavern
reopened to guests after the
war, but its heyday was over.
The MMWD eventually sold
a portion of the East Peak
and the tavern to the State
of California, which made it
a state park. One of the last
public events at the tavern
was a 1949 New Year’s dance,
hosted by Don’s Sequoians,
a seven-piece orchestra led
by Don Urquhart. The tavern
closed down within a few
months and was razed in
1950 by MMWD.
History Watch is written
by Scott Fletcher, a
volunteer at the Marin
History Museum,
marinhistory.org. Images
included in History Watch
are available for purchase
by calling 415-382-1182
or by email at info@
marinhistory.org.

Larson
Lynching to Central Park sexual violence perpetrated tial legal and non-legal solu- White Supremacy, Our White women can be seen
Karen: How White Women by Black men — an assault tions to counteract the wea- Role in It, and How We as “serious racist aggres-
Weaponize White Wom- to their supposed inno- ponization of White wom- Can Help Dismantle It,” sors, and not innocent vic-
FROM PAGE 1 anhood,” is a fascinating cence and purity — which anhood, although she does sociology professor Jessie tims” and that calling
deep dive into the long led to numerous lynchings, promote the need for edu- Daniels takes on “Karens,” the police because a per-
— at nearly 20 times the history of White women’s Armstrong writes. cation, especially the need and speaks to well-mean- son of color has been seen
rate they do about White racism in the U.S. MVFree is readying for White women to take ing White women’s com- in your neighborhood
people. And when the po- Not to say that men to send out flyers asking responsibility to educate plicity in harming com- is a dangerous kind of
lice showed up, there often don’t also act in racist Mill Valley residents to themselves on their histori- munities of color, whether White supremacy. If White
was nothing to justify a ci- ways, she notes. They do. consider three things be- cal — and ongoing — role in choosing to send their women are not actively
tation or arrest. (Hello Scott Adams). But fore calling the police on perpetuating racism. children to the “best” working toward being an-
Mill Valley residents Armstrong observes that someone simply because We’re used to White schools or indulging in tiracist, she suggests, well,
have evidently become the way White women of their race: Consider the men like Adams indulging a wellness industry that then they are dangerous,
“Karens,” a term used to weaponize their wom- behavior: Do I see behav- in racist behaviors. White she says insulates White too.
describe White women anhood — through tears ior that makes me think women? Not so much, women in a “bubble of Like I said above, when
acting in in racist ways. and with knowledge that somebody is committing which seems to perpetu- their own privilege.” I, a White woman, moved
There is, of course, no they’re more believable a crime or endangering ate White women’s alleged Does that sound famil- here, I didn’t think much
way to know if it’s mostly than Black people and someone?; consider your innocence. Many White iar? about Marin’s whiteness.
women who are making other people of color — assumptions: If a friend women are clueless as to I don’t know if a flyer I do now. Others should,
the calls, although there taps into long-seated fears or neighbor were behav- their own power, she states. will help Mill Valley deal too.
are more women than men of Black male predators ing in that way, would I And let’s not forget that with its “Karen” issue.
in the city of a bit more and the trope of White think someone should call many White women voted I don’t know how many Vicki Larson’s So It
than 14,000. However, it woman victimhood. the police?; consider your for Donald Trump. Not in of the racially motivated Goes opinion column
wouldn’t be surprising to Today’s calls to the po- response: Are police the Marin, but there might be calls to Mill Valley’s police runs every other week.
Bay Area attorney Megan lice on Black people in most appropriate service a problem with Marin’s are from White women. Contact her at vlarson@
Armstrong, whose recent someone’s neighborhood providers for the situation? White women anyway. But I do agree with marinij.com and follow
article in Hastings Wom- are yesterday’s White wom- Armstrong doesn’t have In her book “Nice White Armstrong that “Karen” her on Twitter at OMG
en’s Law Journal, “From en’s false accusations of flyers in her list of poten- Ladies: The Truth About memes show us how Chronicles.

Men
In sharing their experi- of the men credit their part- media. Just seeing posi- cal stress he faced in be- the men acknowledge be-
ences, the men provided ners with making them bet- tive men doing what men ing a Black man having to ing guarded with their
an in-depth look into their ter husbands, fathers and should do is a good thing,” police his community at emotions as a result of
FROM PAGE 1 love lives. Their discus- men. According to one of said one man. a time of distrust and un- some of their early expe-
sions touched on many im- the participants, “I always Most often, the men rest, only to come home riences. Even when they
marriages and romantic portant factors that have tell her that I couldn’t have talked about how the and have to be emotionally were able to move beyond
relationships. The data for shaped their past and cur- become who I am without unique characteristics that available for his wife. early negative experiences,
the study were collected rent relationships. her. Meeting the right per- set their mate apart from In one of his interviews, many of the men discussed
from over 150 hours of in- They reflected on how son, to stand with the right others they had dated. he stated, “I try not to feeling haunted by their
terviews with the men. they met their partners person is probably the most In explaining what at- let the stress bother me, friends and family mem-
The men I interviewed and the characteristics that important decision I’ve tracted him to his wife, one but it’s still one of those bers’ failed relationships.
ranged in age from 18 to made them stand out from made in my life.” man stated, “I think just things. It just does. Some- In these cases, the men
72. They represented a va- previous partners. The men The men even recog- how she was able to artic- times I’m really with- expressed concern that
riety of relationship sta- described their ideal mar- nize the ways their rela- ulate to me who she was drawn because I’m think- their relationships would
tuses, with men reporting riage mate and shared tionships serve to com- and how she shared some of ing about things at work not last. As one partici-
being single, romantically what marriage means to bat the negative percep- my values when it comes to or I’m always working. pant said, “I don’t know
involved, married, divorced them. tion that often surrounds children and relationships. When it happens, I’ve got that many people of color
and remarried. The men In discussing what at- Black men. It’s just how she carries her- to put myself in check.” have seen marriage mod-
were also diverse in their tracted him to his wife, one “The media portrays self. Her presence made me Another man wrestled eled very well.”
educational attainment. man stated, “She wasn’t us as shiftless and vio- want to be with her and I with the realization that
Some had graduate and phony. She was comfortable lent and not to be trusted. never had another woman many of his former girl- This article is republished
professional degrees, while being herself, she wasn’t I think when you see a make me feel like that.” friends had a striking re- from The Conversation,
others had high school di- trying to impress anybody. man with a woman treat- However, many of these semblance to a babysitter an independent and
plomas and GEDs. The men So it made me learn to be ing her well, a man with men said they struggle who abused him as a child. nonprofit source of news,
also varied in their eco- comfortable being myself.” his children treating them with previous traumas analysis and commentary
nomic situations, with an- the way they should be that challenge their rela- Haunted by failures from academic experts,
nual incomes ranging from Partners matter treated, it dispels a lot tionships. A detective al- In discussing their fears under a Creative
$0 to US$175,000. In the interviews, many of what folks see in the luded to the psychologi- and insecurities, many of Commons license.
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45 “No idea” gesture DOWN
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show Monday.
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borders Yemen

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daughter was in ICU

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collection “My in his first comics 37 Exit or Yield
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brief cattle By Peter Sblendorio
old daughter, Haley Joy.
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24 Chanteuse with 42 Resident of sighting the “Today” show came
A U D I O I N P U T I N S 8 Spanish for “gold” chart-topping hits Nebraska’s
largest city
Hoda Kotb returned to the on Feb. 17.
S H E O E R B E A T 9 ___ Wednesday found at the tops
of 4-, 14-, 16-
58 “Deliver Us NBC morning show Monday “We know a lot of you
S U V B U R N B E R G 10 Cause of some 43 Hakuna ___ From ___”
T H I S I S A N O U T R A G E cling and 19-Down (Swahili phrase
after a two-week absence, have been wonder ing
(2003 rom-com)
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T E N D D M V Z A G university beards problems”) 59 Plural article in daughter was home follow- host Craig Melvin said of
C O D L I E I N S T A T E 12 Cricket and 31 Stately trees 51 Methods French ing a recent hospitalization. Kotb during last Wednes-
I B E R I A N O U I squash, for two Kotb’s colleagues pre- day’s show. “We can tell
R I G H T B E T W E E N T H E 14 Giant narrative Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past viously explained she was you that Hoda’s OK. She’s
C A G E S R E A L G O O P that may be
puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). dealing with a family health got a family health matter
about giants (and matter but didn’t get into that she has been dealing
A S S A Y S A G S E Y E S elves as well) Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay.
specifics. with.”
“My youngest, Hope, was Guthrie left during last
in the ICU for a few days Tuesday’s broadcast after
and in the hospital for a lit- learning of her positive
Bridge By Phillip Alder tle more than a week,” Kotb COVID test.
said on Monday’s show. “I’m “As soon as we found
Keep your eyes on the target 5-3; otherwise, East would have led so grateful she’s home. She out, she rushed home to
During the card play, both sides his last diamond and the defenders is back home. I was waiting rest up,” said Sheinelle
should keep their eyes firmly on the taken their five tricks: two diamonds for that day to come. We are Jones, who co-anchored
number of tricks needed for success. and one from each of the other three watching her closely. I’m with Melvin last week dur-
Suppose the contract is three no- suits. just so happy.” ing Guthrie and Kotb’s ab-
trump. The declarer should numerate Given that South knew West was Kotb, 58, didn’t discuss sences. “Savannah, we love
to nine tricks, while the defenders holding two diamond winners, he put the nature of Hope’s med- you. Wishing you a speedy
should be foraging for five. up the spade king. If West had the ical issue. She was joined recovery.”
at the “Today” desk by co- Kotb, who joined NBC in
The auction was straightforward, and ace, declarer was down for sure. He anchor Savannah Guthrie, 1998, has co-anchored the
West had an automatic diamond lead. made the play that maximized his who also made her return main “Today” show with
Declarer correctly ducked East’s king chance of keeping West off the lead. Monday after missing most Guthrie since 2018. She
at trick one and won the second dia- When the spade king won the trick, of last week due to a posi- also co-hosts the show’s
mond trick with the ace. When South declarer cashed his club and heart tive COVID-19 test. fourth hour with Jenna
ran the heart queen, East took the winners, ending with an overtrick.
“I’m grateful for the doc- Bush Hager, who replaced
trick and returned his last diamond. True, if West had the spade ace, and tors at Weill Cornell, who Kathie Lee Gifford in 2019.
Declarer won with the queen and East the queen, going up with the were amazing, and the Longtime “Today” me-
turned his attention to the clubs. He spade king (instead of finessing the nurses,” Kotb told Guthrie. teorologist Al Roker re-
cashed the ace and finessed the jack, jack) would have resulted in down “I’m grateful to my family, turned to the show in Jan-
losing to East’s queen. Back came the three instead of down two, but that and I’m grateful to friends uary after multiple hospi-
spade nine. extra 50 points would have been like you who were there ev- talizations. He was treated
Is it correct to play the king or the nothing when compared to the lost ery single day. So, I want for blood clots in Novem-
jack? game bonus if East held the spade to say thank you for that. ber before undergoing sur-
Clearly the diamonds were initially ace. I love you.” gery for a perforation in
— MARCH 7, 2023 Kotb also has a 6-year- his small intestine.

Disaster
could show up at
YOUR doorstep.

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plan today.
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ADVICE Horoscope NEA Crossword

Ex-husband’s troubled TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2023
Be prepared to act, make
changes and do things your

history burdens family way. Your fate rides on your

ability to reach your target
on time. You’ll have to spread
yourself thin to accommo-
DEAR AMY » After many tween a 30-year-old and date what’s going on in your
years of marriage and two a 15-year-old makes this personal and professional
lives. Don’t mix business with
children, my now ex-hus- lack of consent more obvi- pleasure or neglect one for the
band revealed that ous (this is not like other. Balance and productivity
a few years before two teenagers hav- are the keys to your success.
he and I met, when ing a sexual rela- Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20):
he was about 30 tionship). Nothing appears stable, but
years old, he had a If you have any that can work in your favor if
“consensual” sex- valid reason to you sidestep controversy and
work behind the scenes to get
ual relationship suspect, believe, or things done on time. Exud-
with his 15-year- worry that this be- ing confidence will result in
old, non-biological havior might con- support.
niece (his ex-wife’s tinue (or resur- Aries (March 21-April 19):
niece). face), then you Slow down, figure out the best
Everyone in their fam- should notify your chil- way to maintain what you have
worked so hard to achieve and
ily found out about it and dren. don’t let anyone come between
was upset — but nothing But you don’t mention you and your goal. Focus and
happened. having this concern. precision will be key.
I was devastated by You have every right to Taurus (April 20-May 20):
this information and loathe your ex for this sex- Use your experience and know-
other serious problems in ual misconduct or for any how to bring about positive
our marriage, and we di- other reason. change. Call on people who
have the skill and willingness
vorced. We’ve been di- You don’t have the right to help you. You can have a
vorced for seven years. to use your knowledge big impact on the world if you
Our children are 15 and 17 of this crime to retaliate work hard.
years old. against your ex-husband Gemini (May 21-June
My ex and I still live innow. 20): Distance yourself from
our hometown and share And so you have to anyone trying to talk you into
custody of our children. question your own moti- something. Put your money,
time and effort into personal
I haven’t told our kids vation. gain and self-improvement.
— or my family — about Based on the way Keep your plans under wraps
this event. you’ve framed this, you for now.
I’m living in fear that seem worried that your Cancer (June 21-July 22):
my kids will find out one kids might have too high Rearrange your space to suit
day and that they will re- an opinion of their father your needs. Having a designat-
sent me. — when you believe that ed area to explore possibilities
will lead to new opportunities.
Holding onto this se- he doesn’t deserve it. In A joint venture will be tempt-
cret has cost me a price, fact, he might not deserve ing, but make sure it’s right
personally. On occasion I it. But he is their father. for you.
look like the “bad guy” in Familial love is not bal- Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t
our divorce, which is un- anced. Children do love let what others do confuse you
fair to me. undeserving parents. or make you feel that you must
follow their lead. Romantic
I think my ex can still If your ex-husband lies opportunities are apparent but
be charged for this crime, to your children about may interfere with prior obliga-
and although this is un- you or unfairly casts you tions. Be wary of taking a risk.
likely, it has impacted our as “the bad guy,” you Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
lives in other ways. should immediately cor- Ignoring situations you must
Should I just live with rect the record. eventually address will only
this and hope for the Otherwise, this is not make things worse. Step up,
say what’s on your mind and
best? your secret. It’s his. If the implement whatever change
— Sick of Secrets
victim ever chooses to is necessary to avoid discord.
come forward, he will be Seek out information.
DEAR SICK OF SECRETS forced to face this. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
» First of all, no sex- You worry that if you Get into the swing of things
ual relationship with a don’t tell your children, and look for opportunities to
15-year-old can be con- they will resent you. expand your circle of friends.
Taking a day trip, visiting a
sidered “consensual,” be- I believe it’s more friend or relative, or learning
cause (with a few excep- likely that they will re- something new will bring you
tions depending on the sent you if you do tell joy.
state where this occurred) them, because you would Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22):
15-year-olds are too young be transferring the bur- Put your best foot forward
to consent. den of this knowledge and show everyone what you
have to offer. Don’t give in to
Celebrity Cipher By Luis Campos
The age differential be- from yourself onto them. someone trying to monopolize
your time or spend your money.
Instructions: Celebrity Cipher cryptograms are created from quotations by famous
Say no to bad behavior. people, past and present. Each letter in the cipher stands for another.
Sudoku Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec.
21): Stick close to home and
the people you love. Refuse
to let an outsider influence
your beliefs. Trust and invest
in yourself, and be wary of
someone trying to talk you out
of your cash.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Find an outlet for your energy,
talent and skills, and you’ll
achieve happiness and bring
in additional cash. A domestic
change will lower your over-
head, add to your comfort and
ease stress.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19):
Adjust to your surroundings
and prepare to make conces-
sions that will help others feel
at ease. Don’t give up on love
or friendship. Reconnect with
someone you haven’t seen in
a while.

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WARRIORS
Iguodala again proves worth
Returning forward is showing why he’s an impact player
By Shayna Rubin
Bay Area News Group
Steph Curry’s anticipated re-
turn to the court was heard loud
and clear. Andre Iguodala’s long-
awaited return wasn’t as loud, but
his impact was pretty clear.
Iguodala scored no points but
was a plus-11 in 15 minutes of the
Warriors’ 113-105 loss to the Los
Angeles Lakers on Sunday, sec-
ond-best to Anthony Lamb’s plus-
17. As has been typical of Iguoda-
la’s Warriors career, a lot of his
highlight plays are subtle.
“Every time Andre is on the
floor you’re going to get positive
49ERS
SEIZE THE MOMENT
There are still plenty of question marks regarding 49ers quarterback Trey Lance, but he will have the opportunity to assert and prove himself.
Purdy’s surgery delay could be a good thing for the Niners, and Lance
The 49ers’ offseason plans
are coming into focus now that
Brock Purdy’s rescheduled el-
bow surgery is set
for Friday. There
will be a lot of
Trey Lance in the
picture.
While it isn’t
ideal that the
surgery on Pur-
dy’s ulnar collat-
eral ligament was
pushed back from
Feb. 22 due to swelling, the de-
lay was the right move. That is
both the company line and the
truth.
It also presents an opportu-
nity for Lance, the presumptive
starter a year ago at this time,
and he’s got a small window to
assert himself.
“We have a team that’s ready
to go now,” general manager
49ERS COMMENTARY
Players from combine who should jump up draft board
The NFL draft combine
might only seem
like a made-
for-TV even
these days, but I
promise you, it’s
still a useful en-
terprise.
At least it is
for teams that
know how to
use it.
The 49ers are one of those
squads. Their systems and val-
TUNE IN
WARRIORS AT THUNDER
When: Tuesday, 5 p.m.
TV/Radio: NBCBA/ 95.7
results,” Draymond Green told
reporters after the game. “That’s
who he’s been his entire career
and especially his years here. he
understands the game on a to-
tally different level than most. To
have him out there with his IQ,
he didn’t score, but his game has
never been predicated on if he
scores or not.”
Iguodala had played just three
games this year in mid-January,
John Lynch told reporters at
the NFL combine last week. “He
has to get out there and play.
Brock got that opportunity this
year. He grabbed it. He did great
things. We’ll see at some point
how we get Trey that opportu-
nity. Because we very much be-
lieve in who he is as a person
and who he is as a quarterback.”
What the 49ers aren’t saying
publicly is that having Purdy re-
habbing and on the sidelines
into late August and into Sep-
tember isn’t necessarily a bad
thing in terms of 2023 and be-
yond.
It may in fact be a good thing
as the 49ers hit a crossroads at
the most important position in
professional sports.
Purdy provided nothing but
answers in his whirlwind nine-
game stretch beginning with a
MCDONALD » PAGE 3
ues under Kyle Shanahan and
John Lynch are tried and true,
allowing them to cut through
all the nonsense that now
comes with the combine.
Analysis for this draft will
go so much deeper than com-
bine numbers, but it’s good to
have some numbers up on the
board.
And with them come some
possibilities for the Niners
with their coterie Day 2 and
Day 3 draft picks:
sandwiched by two months-long
injury management absences. But
his impact was immediately felt
upon entering the second quarter
of Sunday’s game, helping flip a
17-point deficit to start the second
quarter into a one-point deficit by
the time he subbed out with under
six minutes remaining in the half.
He deftly swiped the ball out
of Lonnie Walker IV’s hands on a
drive within his first few seconds
of play, setting the tone of a sec-
ond quarter in which the Warriors
outscored Los Angeles 36-22.
Throughout, his quick hands
defied his age -- at age 39, he’s the
WARRIORS » PAGE 4
JOSE CARLOS FAJARDO — BAY AREA NEW S GROUP FILE
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy is scheduled to
go to surgery this Friday.
Round 3
TUCKER KRAFT, TE, SOUTH DA-
KOTA STATE » The Niners can
replace Tyler Kroft with Tucker
Kraft. That should be pretty
seamless.
The South Dakota State tight
end is strong with enviable athlet-
icism — at 6-foot-5, 255 pounds,
he ran a 4.69-second 40-yard
dash and tested admirably across
the board. He could well be off
the board before pick No. 99.
Contact us
To submit story ideas, contact:
Sports editor Ian Ross
iross@marinij.com
or at 415-382-7383.
Andre Iguodala, who had played just three games this season for
the Warriors, returned on Sunday against the Lakers.
SETH WENIG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
Kraft is the perfect blend
of risk and predictability. He’s
built to be a No. 2 tight end
in the NFL. The Niners really
need a No. 2 tight end.
Round 5
JAKE MOODY, K, MICHIGAN »
The 49ers have three Round 5
picks. With Robbie Gould say-
ing he will not re-sign in San
Francisco — and with the fran-
chise tag being too expensive to
49ERS » PAGE 3
» marinij.com
JANE TYSKA – BAY AREA NEWS GROUP
GIANTS
Wisely
making
a push for
roster spot
Being youngest of 7 brothers
instilled competitive instinct
By Evan Webeck
Bay Area News Group
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. » As the young-
est of seven siblings, Brett Wisely
has experience with a little com-
petition.
Perhaps, then, that is why
Wisely, 23, has been one of the San
Francisco Giants’ breakout stars
of the first week of Cactus League
games. Looking to put himself first
in line when a middle-infield need
arises, whether that is on Open-
ing Day or later on, Wisely has al-
ready slugged two home runs in
four games, played second base
and shortstop, and impressed San
Francisco coaches with his “genu-
ine” hard-working attitude.
“There’s no entitlement there,”
manager Gabe Kapler said. “He
wants to earn it. It’s not a BS
mindset.”
That attitude can be traced back
to Wisely’s childhood in Jackson-
ville, Florida, where everything
was a competition with his six
older brothers and he had to
work hard, or else little brother
would be assigned all the chores.
From ping pong to pool, Wisely
GIANTS » PAGE 4
SPRING TRAINING
GIANTS AT REDS
When: Tuesday, 12:05 p.m.
Radio: MLB.com
SHARKS
SJ needs to
address its
goalie issue
By Curtis Pashelka
Bay Area News Group
The San Jose Sharks have
tried to address their organi-
zational depth on defense in
recent weeks and as February
has turned into March, their
chances of winning the NHL
draft lottery — and thereby
drafting a future star forward
such as Connor Bedard — have
only increased.
Those additions might only go
so far – in terms of being a Stan-
ley Cup contender again -- if the
Sharks can’t find a goalie to grow
with that group.
Unearthing that type of net-
minder, either through a trade or
free agency, will be at or near the
top of general manager Mike Gri-
er’s to-do list once his offseason
gets underway.
SHARKS » PAGE 4
THE SCORE
SHARKS 3, JETS 2
Up next: Sharks at Avs
When: Tuesday, 6 p.m.
TV/Radio: NBCCA/ SJSharks.
com/listen
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Tuesday’s local events NEWS+NOTES

South Carolina No. 1 for 37th

PREP BASEBALL
Napa at Terra Linda: 3:30 p.m., Terra Linda High
Branson at Marin Catholic: 4 p.m., Kentfield
Archie Williams at Novato: 4 p.m., Novato

straight week, Iowa now No. 2

Redwood at San Marin: 4 p.m., Novato
Tam at San Rafael: 4 p.m., San Rafael
Marin Academy at Technology: 4 p.m., Rohnert Park
Making Waves at Tomales: 4:340 p.m., Tomales

COLLEGE BASEBALL
Yuba at COM: 2 p.m., Kentfield The Associated Press
GIRLS BASKETBALL South Carolina stands
NorCal: Menlo vs. San Domenico, 7 p.m., Dominican University alone with the second-lon-
gest streak atop The Asso-
BOYS GOLF ciated Press Top 25 wom-
Archie Williams at Branson: 3:30 p.m., Peacock Gap en’s basketball poll as the
Marin Catholic at Novato: 3:30 p.m., Marin Country Club
San Rafael at Tam: 3:30 p.m., Mill Valley CC Gamecocks remained No.
1 for a 37th consecutive
WOMEN’S GOLF week.
Dominican at CSUSM Invitational: all day, Vista The Gamecocks (32-0)
won the Southeastern Con-
BOYS LACROSSE ference Tournament over
Marin Academy at Redwood: 3:30 p.m., Larkspur the weekend to remain un-
Terra Linda at St. Vincent: 4 p.m., Petaluma defeated heading into the
Cardinal Newman at San Rafael: 7 p.m., San Rafael NCAA tourney. South Car-
GIRLS LACROSSE olina, which received all 28
Head Royce at Redwood: 4:30 p.m., Larkspur first-place votes from a na-
Terra Linda at Sonoma Valley: 4:30 p.m., Sonoma tional media panel Monday,
broke a tie with Louisiana
PREP SOFTBALL Tech for most consecu-
Novato at Piner: 3:30 p.m., Santa Rosa tive weeks at No. 1. The
defending national cham- MIC SMITH — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOYS TENNIS pions now trail only UCo-
Terra Linda at Archie Williams: 3:30 p.m., San Anselmo South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston holds up the championship trophy after defeating
nn’s run of 51 straight
Redwood at Marin Catholic: 3:30 p.m., Bay Club Ross Valley Tennessee 74-58 to win the championship game of the Southeastern Conference
weeks atop the Top 25.
San Rafael at Novato: 3:30 p.m., Novato women’s tournament in Greenville, S.C., on Sunday.
Branson at Tam: 3:30 p.m., Mill Valley With the final poll of
the season set to come falling out. idea until I saw the box the combined ATP-WTA
BOYS VOLLEYBALL out next week, the Game- score.” event begins Wednesday
Monte Vista at Redwood: 5 p.m., Larkspur cocks are poised to go Men’s basketball Rios appeared in eight at Indian Wells Tennis
wire-to-wire at No. 1 this HOUSTON, UCLA, KANSAS of the Cardinal’s 121 Garden and runs through
year ahead of the NCA A TOP LATEST AP TOP 25 » games his first two years March 19.
On the air Tuesday Tournament. UCLA is surging, both to- and didn’t play in the sea- Sen. R ick Scot t , R-
Iowa moved up five ward the postseason and son opener against Cal F la ., said on Tw it ter
COLLEGE BASEBALL
spots to No. 2 after run- in The Associated Press State Fullerton. that Homeland Security
6 p.m. Villanova at Cal PAC12 ning through the Big Ten men’s college basketball He had two three-run had rejected Djokovic’s
WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC Tournament. poll. homers, a pair of two-run vaccine waiver request,
8 p.m. Pool A: Netherlands vs. Cuba FS1 The Hawkeyes routed While Houston was No. singles and an RBI base hit which would have al-
3 a.m. Pool A: Panama vs. Chinese Taipei (early Wed.) FS2 Ohio State by 33 points 1 for a third straight week during his 5-for-7 day. lowed him to play back-
in the title game Sunday in Monday’s poll, the Bru- to-back at Indian Wells
BASKETBALL
behind another strong ef- ins rose two spots to No. Soccer and Miami, which runs
9 a.m. G League: Santa Cruz at Birmingham NBCBA
fort from Caitlin Clark, 2 for their highest rank- NEYMAR TO UNDERGO SEA- March 19-April 2.
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
who had the third tri- ing of the season. UCLA SON-ENDING SURGERY ON The U.S. is ending its
3:30 p.m. Southland semifinal: McNeese St. vs. TAM-CC ESPNU ple-double in conference (27-4) has won its last 10 RIGHT ANKLE » Neymar C OV I D -1 9 emer genc y
4 p.m. Colonial final: UCNW vs. TBD CBSSN tournament history. games, including a show- will undergo season-end- declaration on May 11,
4 p.m. Horizon final: Northern Ky. vs. TBD ESPN It is the Hawkeyes’ best down with highly ranked ing surgery on his damaged which will allow foreign
4 p.m. Northeast final: Merrimack vs. Fair. Dickinson ESPN2 ranking since they had Arizona in the regular- right ankle and will be out air travelers to enter the
5:30 p.m. Big Sky semifinal: Montana vs. Northern Az. ESPNU an eight-week run at No. season finale behind star for up to four months, Paris county without being vac-
6 p.m. WCC final: TBD vs. St. Mary’s ESPN 2 in 1994. Jamie Jaquez Jr. to com- Saint-Germain said. cinated.
6 p.m. Summit League final: TBD vs. Oral Roberts ESPN2 Indiana dropped one plete a perfect home re- Neymar will miss PSG’s UKRAINE’S KOSTYUK BEATS
8 p.m. Big Sky semifinal: TBD vs. Montana St. ESPN2 place to third with Vir- cord. Champions League match RUSSIA’S GRACHEVA FOR 1ST
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL ginia Tech mov ing up Houston (29-2) closed at Bayern Munich on WTA TITLE » Marta Kostyuk
9 a.m. Horizon final: Cleveland St. vs. Green Bay ESPNU four places to No. 4. The out its reg ular-season Wednesday and will be won her first career WTA
11 a.m. Summit final: Omaha vs. SD State ESPNU Hokies, who won the ACC schedule by winning at operated on in the com- title at age 20 by beating
1 p.m. WCC final: Portland vs. Gonzaga ESPNU Tournament for the first Memphis on a last-sec- ing days at a hospital in Varvara Gracheva 6 -3,
time, have their highest ond basket Sunday, mark- Doha, the Qatari-backed 7-5 in the ATX Open fi-
MLB SPRING TRAINING
ranking ever. ing its 11th straight win. club said. nal, then dedicated the
10 a.m. Blue Jays at Pirates MLB Stanford and Maryland The only change in the Neymar picked up his victory to her home coun-
NBA were the next two. UConn top five came with UCLA latest injury last month try of Ukraine.
4:30 p.m. 76ers at Timberwolves TNT moved up to seventh with trading places with No. 4 in a 4-3 win over Lille in T he eighth-seeded
5 p.m. Warriors at Thunder NBCBA 95.7 Utah and LSU next. Alabama, with Kansas re- the French league. He also Kost y uk and the un-
7 p.m. Grizzlies at Lakers TNT The Utes and Tigers maining at No. 3 despite injured his right ankle in seeded Gra cheva , a
NHL each dropped five spots a loss at Texas in Satur- Brazil’s opening match at 22-year-old Russian, did
6 p.m. Sharks at Avalanche NBCCA after losing in their con- day’s regular-season fi- last year’s World Cup in not meet at the net for the
ference tournaments. nale and Purdue staying Qatar, but the forward was traditional post-match
SOCCER
Villanova finished out at fifth. able to return later in the handshake; Kostyuk has
Noon UEFA Champions: Chelsea vs. Borussia Dortmund CBS
the top 10. tournament. said she will not do so af-
3 p.m. CONCACAF Champions: Violette vs. Austin FC FS1 It’s the Wildcats best College baseball ter facing any opponents
5 p.m. CONCACAF Champions: Alianza vs. Philadelphia FS1 ranking ever and it came RIOS’ PATIENCE REWARDED Tennis from Russia, which began
7 p.m. CONCACAF Champions: Tigres vs. Orlando City FS2 as they faced UConn for WITH RECORD 11-RBI GAME DJOKOVIC WITHDRAWS AF- its invasion of Ukraine
TENNIS the Big East title late FOR STANFORD » It took Al- TER FAILED BID TO PLAY IN- more than a year ago, or
7:30 p.m. BNP Paribas Open, Eisenhower Cup TENNIS Monday. berto Rios until his third DIAN WELLS » Top-ranked Belarus, which helped
Te n n e s s e e j u m p e d season at Stanford to break Novak Djokovic has with- launch the attack.
back into the poll at No. into the starting lineup. drawn from the upcom- When Gracheva sailed
Scoreboard BYU 76-69.
24 after making a run to Days like Sunday will help ing BNP Paribas Open, a forehand long to end
WOMEN’S TOP 25 FARED the SEC Tournament fi- keep him there. having lost his bid to en- the match after 1 ½ hours
NBA No. 9 UConn (29-5) beat No. 11 Villanova nal. He set the school record ter the United States un- on Sunday, Kostyuk —
Sunday’s games (28-6) 67-56. South Florida and Iowa and tied the Pac-12 mark vaccinated to play in who trailed 5-3 in the
Phoenix 130, Dallas 126 No. 15 Gonzaga (28-3) beat BYU 79-64.
Indiana 125, Chicago 122 No. 22 UNLV (29-2) beat Nevada 84-47. State dropped out of the with 11 RBIs in a 24-9 the Southern California second set and saved a set
L.A. Lakers 113, Golden State 105 Top 25. win over Cal State Bakers- event. point at 5-4 — dropped to
Brooklyn 102, Charlotte 86
Portland 122, Orlando 119 MLB T he C yclones had field. T he tournament an- her knees at the baseline,
Houston 142, San Antonio 110 been ranked for 36 con- “It’s kind of ridiculous,” nounced his withdrawal put her hands on her face
Oklahoma City 129, Utah 119
Milwaukee 117, Washington 111
SPRING TRAINING secutive week s before he said Monday. “I had no on Sunday night. Play in and sobbed.
New York 131, Boston 129, 2OT
Monday's games
L.A. Clippers 135, Memphis 129
Boston 7, Detroit 1
Monday’s games
Portland 110, Detroit 104
St. Louis 7, Houston 1 NFL NOTES
Philadelphia 147, Indiana 143 Tampa Bay 5, Miami 1

Carr agrees to 4-year deal with Saints

Cleveland 118, Boston 114, OT Baltimore 10, Philadelphia 7
Miami 130, Atlanta 128 Kansas City 10, Arizona 1
Denver 118, Toronto 113 L.A. Dodgers 8, San Diego 3
New Orleans at Sacramento, n. Chicago Cubs 6, Seattle 2
Tuesday's games L.A. Angels 6, Cleveland 0
Milwaukee at Orlando, 4 p.m. Colorado (ss) 4, Texas 1
Washington at Detroit, 4 p.m. N.Y. Yankees 9, Pittsburgh 2
Charlotte at New York, 4:30 p.m. Cincinnati 6, Colorado (ss) 1 The Associated Press Jacobs would make $10.1
Philadelphia at Minnesota, 4:30 p.m.
Brooklyn at Houston, 5 p.m.
Tuesday's games million next season un-
Golden State at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.
San Francisco vs. Cincinnati, 12:05 p.m. Derek Carr has proved der the franchise tag. The
Oakland vs. Arizona, 12:10 p.m.
Utah at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. repeatedly that he can pro- sides have been negotiat-
Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m.
duce as a passer. ing a long-term deal, and if
NHL What the former Raiders they reach an agreement by
College basketball Sunday’s games
Carolina 6, Tampa Bay 0
quarterback hasn’t done is July 15, the Raiders would
AP MEN'S TOP 25 POLL Vegas 4, Montreal 3 win in the playoffs, some- remove the tag.
Record Pts Pvs
Philadelphia 3, Detroit 1 thing he aims to change in If Jacobs doesn’t agree to
New Jersey 5, Arizona 4, OT
1. Houston (58) 29-2 1522 1 Seattle 3, Colorado 2, OT
New Orleans, where he’ll be a long-term deal, he would
2. UCLA (3) 27-4 1452 4 Monday’s games reunited with Dennis Allen play under the terms of the
3. Kansas 25-6 1368 3
4. Alabama 26-5 1343 2
Edmonton 3, Buffalo 2 — his first NFL coach. franchise tag or sit out and
San Jose 3, Winnipeg 2, OT
5. Purdue 26-5 1274 5 Calgary 5, Dallas 4
Carr has agreed to a forfeit his pay.
6. Marquette 25-6 1218 6 Ottawa at Chicago, n. four-year contract with the Jacobs led the league in
7. Texas 23-8 1100 9
8. Arizona 25-6 1042 8
Nashville at Vancouver, n. Saints, and a person famil- 2022 with 1,653 yards rush-
Washington at Los Angeles, n.
9. Gonzaga 26-5 1031 10
Tuesday's games
iar with the situation said ing and 2,053 yards from
10. Baylor 22-9 961 7
11. UConn 24-7 847 14
Carolina at Montreal, 4 p.m. the deal could be worth up DON WRIGHT — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS scrimmage.
12. Kansas St 23-8 838 11
Columbus at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m. to $150 million. Quarterback Derek Carr, who has spent his entire nine- SMITH, SEAHAWKS AGREE
Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m.
13. Virginia 23-6 791 13
Toronto at New Jersey, 4 p.m. Financial terms were not year career with the Raiders, is headed to New Orleans. TO TERMS » The Seattle
14. Miami 24-6 761 16
15. Xavier 23-8 641 19
Vegas at Florida, 4 p.m. released when the Saints Seahawks have agreed to
Buffalo at N.Y. Islanders, 4:30 p.m.
16. Saint Mary's 25-6 587 17
Calgary at Minnesota, 5 p.m.
announced their agreement just two playoff appearances round of the 2014 draft terms with quarterback
17. Tennessee 22-9 573 12
18. Texas A&M 23-8 507 24
San Jose at Colorado, 6 p.m. with Carr, a four-time Pro and no postseason victories. out of Fresno State. Four Geno Smith on a three-year
19. Indiana 21-10 481 15
St. Louis at Arizona, 6 p.m. Bowler who ranks fourth Now he will have an oppor- games into that season, Al- contract that keeps the AP
Anaheim at Seattle, 7 p.m.
20. San Diego St. 24-6 370 18 in the NFL in yards passing tunity in New Orleans to len was fired. comeback player of the year
21. Duke 23-8 293 -
since entering the league. demonstrate that he can get Carr indicated during the in the Pacific Northwest.
22.
23.
TCU
Kentucky
20-11
21-10
193 22
138 23
MLS Carr played nine sea- better results with a differ- week of the Pro Bowl that a NFL Network and The
24. Creighton 20-11 133 - Saturday, March 4
Los Angeles FC 3, Portland 2
sons for the Raiders and ent organization. talk with Peyton Manning Score reported the deal
25. Missouri 23-8 66 -
Toronto FC 1, Atlanta 1, tie holds club records for yards Allen, meanwhile, ur- encouraged him to explore could be worth up to $105
AP WOMEN’S TOP 20 POLL Columbus 2, D.C. United 0 passing (35,222) and touch- gently needs to win. He free agency. The Indianap- million.
Miami 2, Philadelphia 0
Record Pts Pvs New England 3, Houston 0
down passes (217). But after went 8-28 in his first head olis Colts released Manning The agreement came
1. South Carolina (28) 32-0 700 1 Nashville 0, New York 0, tie struggling late last season, coaching job with the Raid- in 2012 and he went on to a day before the league’s
2. Iowa 26-6 651 7
3. Indiana 27-3 640 2
Cincinnati 0, Orlando City 0, tie he was benched with two ers, but he got a second win a Super Bowl with the deadline for using the fran-
Austin FC 1, CF Montréal 0
4. Virginia Tech 27-4 595 8 New York City FC 1, Chicago 1, tie games remaining. chance in New Orleans in Denver Broncos after the chise tag. Smith would have
5. Stanford 28-5 557 6
6. Maryland 25-6 547 5
FC Dallas 3, LA Galaxy 1 Carr, who turns 32 on 2022 after overseeing one 2015 season. been an unrestricted free
7. UConn 28-5 543 9
Saint Louis City SC 3, Charlotte FC 1
Sporting Kansas City 0, Colorado 0, tie
March 28, was released by of the NFL’s best defenses Since 2006, the Saints agent when the new league
8. Utah 25-4 519 3
San Jose 2, Vancouver 1 Las Vegas on Feb. 14 after during more than a half- have made the playoffs nine year begins next week.
9. LSU 28-2 506 4
10. Villanova 28-5 425 11
Seattle 2, Real Salt Lake 0 he declined to waive the decade as a coordinator times and won a Super Bowl, Smith led the Seahawks
11. Notre Dame 25-5 401 10
Saturday, March 11
Atlanta at Charlotte FC, 9 p.m.
no-trade clause in his con- under Sean Payton. but all of those postseason to a 9-8 record and a play-
12. Ohio St. 25-7 395 14
FC Dallas at Vancouver, 2 p.m. tract. Las Vegas needed to While the Saints again appearances came with off berth last season.
13. Duke 25-6 327 13
14. Oklahoma 24-5 313 16
Seattle at Cincinnati, 4:30 p.m. trade or release him by that fielded an elite defense last franchise all-time passer He threw for a career-
Orlando City at D.C. United, 4:30 p.m.
15. Texas 23-8 298 12
Miami at New York City FC, 4:30 p.m.
date or $40.4 million of his season, they finished 7-10 Drew Brees at quarterback high 4,282 yards, setting a
16. Gonzaga 27-3 282 15
17. UCLA 25-9 273 19
Chicago at Philadelphia, 4:30 p.m. contract over the next two and out of the playoffs be- and Payton as coach. franchise record. He threw
18. Michigan 22-9 175 17
Columbus at Toronto FC, 4:30 p.m. years would have become cause of an inconsistent RAIDERS TAG JACOBS » Josh 30 touchdown passes and
LA Galaxy at Kansas City, 5:30 p.m.
19. North Carolina 21-10 151 18
New York at Minnesota, 5:30 p.m. fully guaranteed. and turnover-prone offense. Jacobs, who led the NFL just 11 interceptions, com-
20. Colorado 23-8 114 20
CF Montréal at Nashville, 5:30 p.m. The knock on Carr was Allen was the Raiders’ in rushing last season, has pleted 399 passes and led
MEN’S TOP 25 FARED Austin FC at Real Salt Lake, 6:30 p.m. that his tenure as the Raid- coach when the club se- received the franchise tag the NFL in completion per-
Saint Louis City SC at Portland, 7:30 p.m.
No. 16 Saint Mary’s (Cal.) (26-6) beat Colorado at San Jose, 7:30 p.m. ers’ starting QB produced lected Carr in the second from the Raiders. centage at 69.8%.
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PREPS OF THE WEEK

TL, MA soccer teams make program history

By Ian Ross
through NorCal playoffs Cal championship game at 7
iross@marinij.com
with zero goals against.” p.m. on Tuesday at Domin-
MALCOLM ZALAYET AND ican University. A win in
Marin soccer teams have PARKER MASCOTT, MARIN that game would send San
had a fair amount of suc- ACADEMY BOYS SOCCER » Domenico back to Sacra-
cess since the NorCal play- Zalayet scored five times mento for a shot at its sec-
offs began in 2018. This last week — including four ond consecutive state cham-
year, teams from the county in one game — to power the pionship.
combined to do something Wildcats through to another ROSIE SLAYEN, BRANSON
that’s never been done be- NorCal title. Zalayet scored GIRLS BASKETBALL » The
fore — win three NorCal ti- four times against Pied- Bulls may have been elim-
tles in a single season. mont in the semifinals and inated in the NorCal D-
The Terra Linda High once in the opener against III semifinals but not be-
boys team made NorCals Live Oak. Mascott scored a fore Slayen turned in one
for the first time and brought pair of goals in the opener of the best games of her ca-
home the NorCal Division III and scored the title-clinch- reer in Branson’s quarterfi-
title despite being seeded ing goal against North Sa- nal win against Foothill on
fourth — traveling to Fresno linas on a penalty kick af- Thursday. Slayen poured
and defeating No. 2 McLane ter Dominic Yu was fouled in 31 points, accounting
2-0 on Saturday night. inside the box. The victory for more than half of Bran-
The Marin Academy girls allowed Marin Academy to son’s 61-point total. Slayen
team also broke through for become the first team to also scored 16 and 12 points,
its first NorCal title despite win three NorCal titles. respectively, in Branson’s
entering the D-II playoffs as AVEREY CONKLIN AND MAJA other two games. Honorable
the eighth seed out of eight SHERRY LAVARS — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL CYKOWSKA, SAN DOMENICO mention to Hannah Golan,
teams. Both MA and sev- Terra Lionda’s Francesco Calvi (21) moves the ball down the field during their MCAL game GIRLS BASKETBALL » The who continued to be one
enth-seeded Branson went against Archie Williams in San Anselmo on Feb. 3. Terra Linda came from behind to defeat Panthers are the last Marin of Marin’s most dominant
on the road twice last week, Archie Williams 4-3. team standing following a playoff performers with av-
winning their way back 3-0 win in the NorCal D-IV erages of 18.3 points and
home where they clashed first team — and got key landers a way back into the into the back line in an ef- basketball playoffs. Conk- 13.7 rebounds per game
for the title at San Rafael
contributions from all five game. fort to strengthen the at- lin scored in double digits in the three contests. Go-
High on Saturday night. MAthroughout the week. The KACY WALKER AND CAT ZOLA, tack and the defense at the across all three games, post- lan also pulled down the
claimed the title with a 1-0
Trojans also got big perfor- MARIN ACADEMY GIRLS SOC- same time. Both moves paid ing a double-double with 1,000th rebound of her
victory. mances from some of their CER » Marin Academy had off. Zola scored the title- 15 points and 10 rebounds Branson career last week.
The MA boys team got the
less-heralded players. Calvi, a tough road to travel to clinching goal and Walker in the opener against Pri- BEN FRIEDMAN, TAM BOYS
party started on Saturday af-
who plays left winger, came claim their first NorCal ti- was crucial to limiting ory. Conklin added 10 GOLF » Friedman carded a
ternoon, claiming their third
up with a pair of goals to tle, needing away wins Branson’s ability to climb points and stellar defense 31 at Mill Valley Golf Course
NorCal title — and second in
help TL to the title, includ- against Franklin and Ma- back into the game late. against Pierce’s best offen- on Wednesday, leading Tam
a row — following a 1-0 home
ing the eventual winner ria Carrillo in the first “Whether in midfield or sive player in the NorCal to a 182-215 victory against
win against No. 3 North Sa-
in the title game against two rounds before facing defense, (Walker) consis- quarterfinal before scor- Archie Williams. Fried-
linas in the D-IV title game.
McLane. Calvi pounced on a Branson program that tently demonstrates amaz- ing 11 points in the semi- man also shot a 3-over-par
All told, Marin’s four a rebound and blasted the had literally been stand- ing soccer IQ,” Rafanelli final win against Marys- 147 to win the Future cham-
teams went 11-1 at NorCalsball into the roof of the net ing between the Wildcats said via email. “She’s a ville. Cykowska saved her pions Golf Half Moon Bay
with a spotless 11-0 mark to give TL a lead in the first and a NorCal title on two fierce competitor, wins biggest game to this point Championship in the Boys
against out-of-county oppo-
half. Rodriguez, a fresh- separate occasions. Coach balls out of the air, reads for the semifinals, posting under-18 division over the
nents. man goalie, came up with Sarah Rafanelli made and intercepts opponents’ team-highs in points (16) weekend. Friedman’s score
FRANCESCO CALVI AND JESSE his biggest contribution of some key adjustments to passes, great at switching and rebounds (12) against was four strokes better than
RODRIGUEZ, TERRA LINDA the week later in that first the spine of her team, mov- the field, makes beautiful Marysville. Top-seeded the second-place finisher
BOYS SOCCER » TL put five half against McLane, saving ing center back Zola up to passes to wings … was a San Domenico welcomes and nine strokes clear of
players on the all-MCAL a penalty to deny the High- striker and pulling Walker key player for getting us No. 7 Menlo in for the Nor- the rest of the field.

MARIN BRIEFS
McDonald
Won two playoff games.
Won Shanahan’s trust in a

FROM PAGE 1
relief performance against
Miami after Jimmy Garop-
polo left with a broken
foot. Lance remains noth-
ing but question marks to
coach Kyle Shanahan and
his staff.
Let’s assume the elbow
rearranged by Philadelphia
edge rusher Haason Red-
dick can be repaired with
the less invasive option and
allow Purdy to take the field
at some point in early or
mid-September.
That gives the 49ers a
chance to assess whether
their decision to part with
two first-round picks and a
third-round pick in order to
move up to No. 3 overall in
2021 and take Lance is a de-
cision which can pay div-
idends with a dual-threat
quarterback of the future.
Or if they made a bad de-
cision and then got incred-
ibly lucky with their final
pick in 2022 to cover for
their mistake.
It’s a do-over for Lance,
who had moments both
good and bad in the offsea-
son and training camp a
year ago. Yet there were con-
cerns, otherwise Garoppolo
wouldn’t have been brought
back on cutdown day on a
reduced deal. The 49ers at
that point had no idea what
they had in Purdy.
Can Lance thrive from
the pocket and take advan-
tage of weapons such as
Deebo Samuel and Bran-
don Aiyuk in a conventional
way? We still don’t know.
Is Lance fast enough to
get to the boundary like
Jalen Hurts or Josh Allen on
running plays rather than
way that Garoppolo never
did. Marin Academy’s
Zalayet named MVP
What Purdy did wasn’t
mystical or magical. He
studied, he practiced, he ex-
ecuted. Health permitting,
there’s no reason to believe
he won’t do it again with
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the same coach, the same Marin Academy’s Mal- Coaches are encouraged
offense, the same weapons colm Zalayet was named the to report scores, stats and
and a top-flight defense to MVP for boys soccer in the game details via email to
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get him the ball. Bay Counties League West sports@marinij.com or to
49ers quarterback Trey Lance attempts a pass against the Now instead of splitting when the all-league teams @marinij_sports on Twitter
Chicago Bears at Soldier Field on Sept. 11 in Chicago. reps with Purdy in some were released on Monday. following games. Anything
sort of pseudo-competition, Zalayet, a striker, led the that comes in after the
exclusively sticking his nose ular season. Lance gets to run the show team in scoring during a deadline for print – around
inside where 300-pound When Lance got hurt in on his own. There’s reason season in which it went 8 p.m. typically – will be
tackles are waiting for him? Week 2, Garoppolo went in to be skeptical, but if Lance undefeated in league play, included the following day.
We still don’t know. and the offense got better. suddenly blossoms, having made a North Coast Section
On a related matter, can And when Garoppolo suf- two good young quarter- final and won a NorCal title. this month when the IJ re-
Lance stay healthy? We still fered the same fate in Week backs on their first contract Five of Zalayet’s team- veals its own Winter Player
don’t know. 13, Purdy went in and the is a great problem to have. mates were named to the of the Year selections.
Does Lance have enough offense took another step Purdy’s more elongated first team — goalie Alex
experience to be dependable forward. timeline allows Lance to get Hayward, defenders Parker Prep softball
in terms of decision-making Purdy’s stats (67.1 comple- the work he needs and show Mascott, Tristan Schauble Thomara Drummer hit
in running Shanahan’s of- tion percentage, 13 touch- he’s capable of being a fac- and Diego Doyle, plus mid- her first home run of the sea-
fense? We still don’t know. down passes, four inter- tor and justifying his draft fielder Dane Knudsen. son but that was all the of-
None of this is a knock ceptions and a 107.3 passer status. San Domenico’s Angelo fense San Rafael would mus-
on Lance. He seemed to rating) weren’t all that dif- If Lance struggles, then Neto and Enzo Zamorano ter in a 5-1 loss to Albany in
connect with his team- ferent from Garoppolo it’s Purdy to the rescue. were also selected to the the season opener.
mates and there are no red (67.2%, 16 TD passes, four Purdy has already shown first team. The Bulldogs (0-1) were
flags concerning his char- picks and a 103.0 rating). he can succeed with little or The girls soccer team, limited to two hits on the
acter. It’s easy to trust Sha- But Purdy’s mobility no game preparation. Based fresh off its own NorCal ti- day, with Drummer’s home
nahan and Lynch and their added a bootleg element on the last two seasons, tle, placed three players on run coming in the fourth in-
judgment, but even good that didn’t exist with the when the 49ers started 3-5 the league’s first team with ning. Megan Murphy had
coaches and personnel eval- immobile Garoppolo. And and 3-4 and made the play- midfielders Chloe Swindle the other hit and also drew
uators have made mistakes while Garoppolo actually offs both times, an early and Kacy Walker, plus for- a walk.
on quarterbacks. was able to go off schedule in-season Lance bellyflop ward Imogen Jenkyn. San Drummer pitched 3.1 in-
Based on what we saw on occasion more so than in wouldn’t be detrimental so Domenico’s Saliah Johnson nings of shutout relief — al-
last season, 32 teams blew the past, Purdy was better long as Purdy can take over. also made the first team. lowing two hits while strik-
it on Purdy. Even the 49ers, in that realm as well. He won’t be deterred by a San Domenico, which ing out four — after the Bull-
because if he was anywhere What Purdy did was no late start. hosts the NorCal Division dogs surrendered five runs
near what he showed last mirage. It happened, it was The 49ers know what IV championship game at 7 across the first three innings.
season he wouldn’t have real, and it was evident the Purdy can do. Now it’s up p.m. Tuesday at Dominican
been taken at No. 262. first time he played in a to Lance to use all those University, placed two play- Boys golf
The 49ers’ 31-7 loss game that really mattered OTA, training camp, exhibi- ers — Maja Cykowska and Jack Mount shot a 36 at
against Philadelphia in the when he stared down re- tion and early regular-sea- Lily Reeser — on the first McInnis Park to take med-
NFC Championship Game peated heavy blitzes against son snaps and explode onto team for girls basketball. alist honors for Redwood
and ending it without a Miami. the scene the way Purdy did San Domenico’s Gytis Ger- in a 195-213 victory against
quarterback who could Purdy led the 49ers to a in 2022. vickas made the first team Terra Linda. San Madden
throw a forward pass ob- division-title-clinching win Then the 49ers would on the boys side. paced the Trojans with a
scured the fact that they in Seattle with an oblique have a legitimate quarter- Full lists for all-league 38. Dominic Orlando, Sam
were incredibly fortunate at strain. Went head-to-head back controversy, and a wel- teams can be found at Sumski and Arjun Aujla all
the position during the reg- with Tom Brady and won. come one at that. bacbcl.org and will run later shot 39s for the Giants.

49ers
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use on him — the Niners
should spend one of those
fifth-round picks on the
best kicker in this draft
by a longshot, Michigan’s
Moody.
Not only can Moody
make field goals inside
the 50 look routine, but
he can also push it out
past 50 (as proven in the
Fiesta Bowl) and is out-
standing on kickoffs.
His Shrine Bowl per-
formance (he was named
MVP of the game) was
enough to make him a
possible Day 2 pick, but I
ultimately think he falls
to the fifth.
That’s good news for
San Francisco. The Nin-
ers lean on their kicker.
Moody is used to that
from his days at Michi-
gan.
Might this still be too
early to pick a kicker?
Perhaps.
But it’s better to be too
early than too late when
you have a clear need.
Round 6
BRAEDEN DANIELS, OL,
UTAH » It doesn’t matter if
Mike McGlinchey stays or
goes, Daniels needs to be
on the Niners’ radar.
Daniels’ athleticism is
clear on tape and was val-
idated at the combine, as
he ran a sub-5-second 40-
yard dash, with strong
3-cone and 20-yard shuf-
fle scores.
He’s a Day 3 pros-
pect because he lacks
the strength most teams
want to see from offen-
sive linemen.
But strength can be de-
veloped. Technique can
be refined.
Athleticism? That’s
something entirely differ-
ent. Pair that with Dan-
should be a quarterback
(not just this season, but
in the seventh round in
perpetuity), the Niners
also need to bolster their
defensive line.
Surely the seventh
round will not be the
first time the Niners take
a defensive lineman in
this draft, but for a sec-
ond straight season, I
can foresee a Round 7
pick having a huge im-
pact.
In this case, it’s literal,
too.
Clark is a big boy at
6-foot-4 and 335 pounds.
It’s a knock on him with
MICHAEL CONROY — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS most teams, as he lacks
South Dakota State tight end Tucker Kraft runs a drill at the strength to play as a
the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis on Saturday. two-gap nose tackle in
the NFL.
iels’ high-energy mo- Day 3 star. But the 49ers don’t
tor, toughness (he played care about two-gap stuff,
at Utah, after all), and Round 7 and Clark checks the lim-
a deep familiarity with JERROD CLARK, DT, COASTAL ited — but validated —
the outside zone scheme CAROLINA » The 49ers also boxes they have.
and you have a player the have three seventh-round You’re starting with
49ers can make another picks. While one pick the broad jump when
testing for a 49ers’ defen-
sive lineman. It’s the best
test to determine get-off-
the-line speed, which is ev-
erything to the Niners on
the D-line.
Clark jumped 102 inches
at the combine.
That strong number
shows up on film, too.
Clark explodes from his
stance and makes crunch-
ing contact with the offen-
sive line on every snap he
takes.
What I like about Clark
is his wingspan. His arms
measure 6-foot-10. That
makes him an elite deflec-
tor of passes up the mid-
dle. It can translate into
the run game as well.
Most teams will spend
time worrying about what
Clark can’t do.
When you’re drafting on
Day 3, it’s all about what
a player can do, and Clark
can fill roles the 49ers
need filled upcoming sea-
son.
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MLB
Blackburn ready to get throwing for A’s
By Cole Bradley
Bay Area News Group
MESA, ARIZ. » Paul Black-
burn has faced a lot of ad-
versity since joining the
Oakland A’s in 2017, a se-
ries of trials that have
lended the 29-year-old
right-handed pitcher per-
spective throughout his six
big-league seasons.
He dealt with injuries in
his right elbow and forearm
that held him out for most
of 2018, posted career-worst
numbers in 2019, spend-
ing most of the season in
Triple-A, only to struggle
more. Two years later, the
Heritage High produce was
designated for assignment
after throwing just 2.1 in-
nings during the truncated
2020 season. And even after
being selected as Oakland’s
lone All-Star last season
amid the best year of his
career, Blackburn’s season
was cut short once again
after tearing his flexor ten-
don sheath in his right mid-
dle finger in August.
But instead of falling into
the “dark places” that his
previous setbacks led him
to, Blackburn has found
light at the end of the tun-
nel with his most recent
injury. His rehab has pro-
gressed ahead of schedule,
culminating in his first ap-
pearance since the injury
Sunday afternoon in Las
Vegas in the A’s 14-4 loss to
the Reds.
“I know a lot of times you
come back from injury and
Giants
FROM PAGE 1
said, “I hated losing.
“Because if I lost, I had to
take out the trash or do all
the chores. Winning meant
everything. You win, you
don’t have to do any chores.”
Between Brett, Alec,
Ryan, Matt, Jordan, Chris
and Daniel, the Wisely par-
ents — Bob and Kelly — had
their hands full. In addition
to their household compe-
titions, all seven broth-
ers played baseball grow-
ing up — 12 years separate
Brett from his oldest sibling
— and Brett wasn’t the only
one to make it pro.
Brett was drafted out of
Gulf Coast State College
(Panama City, Fla.) by the
Rays in the 15th round in
2019. That same year, the
second-youngest sibling,
Alec, was selected by Cleve-
land in the 34th round out
of South Florida (where he
was teammates with Giants
third baseman David Villar).
While Alec was released af-
ter last season, he still acts
as his younger brother’s big-
gest advocate — and batting
coach.
“When I’m struggling,
I always text him,” Wisely
said. “Like, dude, I’m going
through it. When I’m going
bad, every swing I have, I
send it to him. … It actu-
ally helps a lot. When I’m
going bad, I send him most
of my videos. … Just a big
role model.”
Sharks
FROM PAGE 1
“Goalie is a priority for
us. It’s probably a priority
for a lot of teams,” Grier
said last week. “But we’ll
keep building. There’s still
lots of holes to fill and lots
of space on the shelf to keep
trying to fill up.”
The Sharks entered Mon-
day’s game in Winnipeg with
a team save percentage of
.881, second-worst in the 32-
team NHL. Against the Jets,
starting goalie James Re-
imer made 36 saves as the
Sharks beat the Jets 3-2 in
overtime to snap a five-game
losing streak.
The Sharks play the de-
fending Stanley Cup cham-
pion Colorado Avalanche to-
night and close out the brief
road trip Thursday in St.
Louis.
It’s easy to see why goal-
tending is such a question
mark for the Sharks.
Reimer had a .892 save
percentage before Monday’s
game, turns 35 on March
15, and is a pending unre-
stricted free agent. Kaapo
Kahkonen, 26, likely to start
tonight, is signed through
next season. He played well
there’s kind of that mental
block you got like, ‘Man I
hope this doesn’t happen, I
hope I don’t feel it,’” Black-
burn said Friday. “I never
had that. I feel like that’s a
step in the right direction
when you’re coming back
from injury.”
Entering spring train-
ing, A’s manager Mark Kot-
say was optimistic about
the status of Blackburn and
fellow right-hander James
Kaprielian, who received
offseason shoulder sur-
gery on his AC joint. Both
have thrown off a mound
and against hitters a num-
ber of times already this
spring, but Blackburn was
the first to start a game dur-
ing camp.
In the end, Blackburn
threw 43 pitches. He al-
lowed six runs on five hits,
walked two and struck out
one, and didn’t make it out
of the second inning. But
the right-hander’s first ap-
pearance in a game in more
than 200 days wasn’t about
the results.
“I feel like it’s been a very
long time since I’ve been
out there and just been
able to compete,” Blackburn
said. “Everything bodywise
feels really good right now. I
feel like I’m kind of ahead of
where I thought I’d be as far
as how I’m feeling and just
the amount of confidence I
have with what I dealt with
last year.”
In 21 starts last season,
Blackburn posted a 4.28
earned run average across
The Giants’ Brett Wisely throws to first during the fifth
inning of a spring training game at Goodyear Ballpark on
Thursday in Goodyear, Ariz.
So far this spring, there
hasn’t been much to send
him.
Starting at shortstop in
his first game, Wisely laced
a single for his first spring
hit. Back at short two days
later, he lined a home run
over the right field wall.
Continuing to showcase
his power and versatility,
Wisely made his next start
at second base and homered
again.
“He can turn on the base-
ball,” Kapler said. “The
word ‘gamer’ is coming up
quite a bit. That has a lot of
different meanings in base-
ball, but in this particular
case, when it’s coming from
the cage, I think it’s really
about being responsive to
coaching, wanting to be in
there and wanting to hone
your craft. All good stuff for
Brett so far.”
Ever versatile, Wisely
in February after the Sharks
suggested some changes, but
after he allowed eight goals
on 30 shots Saturday against
the Washington Capitals,
still owns an. .882 save per-
centage.
Among the 51 NHL goal-
ies who have played at least
20 games this season, Re-
imer and Kahkonen, per
moneypuck.com, rank 46th
and 47th, respectively, in
goals saved above expected.
In more general terms,
the Sharks, before Monday,
allowed 3.71 goals per game,
third worst in the NHL.
That’s over a half-goal per
game more than last season
(3.18), and their highest aver-
age since 1995-96 when they
allowed 4.35 goals per game.
Blame the goalies, blame
the skaters or blame the sys-
tem, the Sharks have almost
no chance of becoming a
playoff-type team again if
they can’t cut down on the
goals against, especially
if offensive dynamo Erik
Karlsson is playing some-
where else in 2023-24.
“What you pride your-
self in as a goaltender is
when maybe the team has
hit a bit of a wall, you want
to try and come up with a
couple of big saves to keep
it close or to keep them in
Oakland A’s pitcher Paul Blackburn participates in
exercises during spring training workouts on Feb. 15
in Mesa, Arizona.
111.1 innings pitched with
89 strikeouts and a mere
30 walks. His performance
took a drastic dip during
the second half after he re-
corded a sterling 3.62 ERA
in 97.0 innings in the first
half en route to his first
All-Star game appearance.
Blackburn started just
three games in the second
half, though, allowing 14
earned runs in as many in-
nings of work before his in-
jury.
Blackburn is looking to
return to Oakland’s rota-
tion at full health ahead of
Opening Day as the group’s
most-experienced arm.
No player on the staff has
started more games with
the A’s than Blackburn (48).
His career 5.09 ERA dur-
CHRIS CODUTO — GETTY IMAGES
owns four gloves. But,
speaking to the Giants’ view
of him, he’s only had to use
two so far.
Wisely has played mostly
second base throughout
the minors but has logged
time at all four infield posi-
tions and said all the mov-
ing around has made him
“super comfortable at re-
ally any position,” even in
the outfield, where he has
also been taking reps this
spring.
Good thing because
Kapler said the Giants see
Wisely “as a shortstop, then
second base,” while his pri-
mary competition, Isan
Díaz, “we see more sec-
ond base, then shortstop.”
Either way, Kapler said, “I
don’t think there’s any ques-
tion that those two guys are
going to be instrumental to
our success in some way.”
As currently constructed,
it,” Reimer said after the
Sharks’ 6-3 loss to St. Louis
on Thursday. “That’s just
something you want to do
as a competitor.”
In the Sharks’ minor
league system are Eetu Ma-
kiniemi, 23, and Strauss
Mann, 24, who are both
pending restricted free
agents. On the reserve list
are Ben Gaudreau, 20, Ma-
son Beaupit, 19, and Mag-
nus Chrona, 22.
Of that group, Makiniemi
is the closest to being NHL-
ready, as he played well in
two appearances with the
Sharks this season. In 22
AHL games this year, Ma-
kiniemi is 8-10-3-2, with a
.900 save percentage.
In other words, he’s
had an up-and-down year
and is no sure thing to
be on the Sharks’ open-
ing night roster next sea-
son. But helping the Barra-
cuda reach the AHL play-
offs could be beneficial to
his and other players’ de-
velopment. Right now, San
Jose is tied for eighth in
the AHL’s Pacific Division
with 49 points, five points
out of a playoff spot with 18
games to go.
“It’s important for all the
young guys down there,
(Makiniemi) included,”
PHOTO BY JOHN MEDINA
ing that span shows that
he’s had plenty of strug-
gles, but the Bay Area na-
tive has still found ways to
learn from those hardships.
He referenced how difficult
such experiences were early
in his career, when spring
training was an opportu-
nity to prove his worth as
opposed to preparing for a
season.
“There were times I’d
go out, especially early in
spring, where I’d try and
go out and be too perfect,”
Blackburn said. “You’re try-
ing to be someone you’re
not. You see that a lot in
the first week, you see guys
going out there and they’re
trying way too hard or over-
throwing. You’re just trying
to make such a good im-
the only players on the Gi-
ants roster who can play
shortstop are Brandon
Crawford, their projected
starter, and Thairo Estrada,
their projected starting sec-
ond baseman. Another area
that separates Wisely and
Díaz: they would be the
Giants’ only left-handed
hitting infielders besides
Crawford and LaMonte
Wade Jr.
The Giants acquired
Wisely last November, al-
most out of thin air. They
turned a reliever who never
threw a pitch for them,
Trevor Rosenthal, into out-
field prospect Tristan Pe-
ters in a trade deadline
swap with Milwaukee, and
when Tampa Bay couldn’t
find a spot for Wisely on its
40-man roster, San Fran-
cisco sent Peters to the Rays
in exchange.
When the Rays informed
Wisely that he wouldn’t be
getting a spot on their 40-
man roster, he was resigned
to spending another year in
the minor leagues.
But he woke up one
morning with a premoni-
tion, one that would prove
true and put him in po-
sition to make his major-
league debut at some point
this season.
“The day I got traded, I
woke up and I told my mom,
like I’ve got a weird feeling
that I might get traded to-
day,” Wisely recalled. “She
was like, don’t say that. And
I said, I don’t know, some-
thing’s off today. And it
ended up happening.
Grier said. “Hopefully they
make the playoffs, but play-
ing important games where
every goal matters, every
play matters, every shift
matters. I think it’s a good
experience for young play-
ers.”
On defense, the Sharks
acquired defenseman Sha-
kir Mukhamadullin, 21, and
Nikita Okhotiuk, 22, as part
of the Timo Meier deal, and
traded for Anaheim Ducks
2019 draft pick Henry Th-
run, 21, last Thursday. All
three have the potential to
be full-time NHL players in
the next year or two.
Bedard, a 17-year-old cen-
terman, is considered a gen-
erational-type talent and
the best player available in
this year’s draft, and the
Sharks have a better chance
of selecting him now than
they did a month ago.
The Sharks entered Mon-
day with the third-worst re-
cord in the NHL at 18-33-
12 and if they stay in that
spot, will have an 11.5 per-
cent chance of winning the
lottery. On Feb. 1, San Jose
had the fifth-worst record
and an 8.5 percent chance
of winning the lottery. The
team that finishes with the
NHL’s worst record has an
18.5 percent chance.
SPRING TRAINING
A’S AT D’BACKS
When: Tuesday, 12:05 p.m.
Radio: 960 and A’s Cast
pression early when you’re
not being yourself and
what’s gotten you here.”
He dealt with similar is-
sues in his sophomore sea-
son, when he spent most
of the campaign on the in-
jured list with a strained
right forearm and, later,
right-elbow lateral epicon-
dylitis. When Blackburn
did pitch in 2018, albeit in
six games, he posted a glar-
ing 7.16 ERA in six starts.
He found himself fighting
a mental battle that any in-
jured player who desires to
help his team does.
But that didn’t appear to
be the case with his most
recent injury. Not at all.
“Dating back to 2018,
I kind of dealt with being
hurt on the roster as well,”
Blackburn said. “That
was basically through the
whole season. I found my-
self in those dark kind of
down times. I feel like with
this one, it happened at the
end of the year and, yeah,
it sucked the last six weeks
not being able to go out
there and compete.
“But then going into the
offseason I was able to have
a routine and kind of look
forward to spring training
and I’m not sitting there
watching 160 games from
the dugout not being able
to help the team win. It
NBA ROUNDUP
Mitchell drops 40,
Cavs send Celtics
to another OT loss
The Associated Press
CLEVELAND » Donovan
Mitchell scored 40 points
and Lamar Stevens fueled
Cleveland’s fourth-quarter
comeback with his hustle,
leading the Cavaliers to
a 118-114 win on Monday
night over the Boston Celt-
ics, who lost their second
overtime game in less than
24 hours.
Evan Mobley added 25
points and 16 rebounds for
the Cavs, who improved to
7-0 in OT while avenging a
loss in Boston five days ago.
Jaylen Brown scored
32 points and Malcolm
Brogdon 24 for the Celtics,
who didn’t arrive at their
hotel in Cleveland until
2:30 a.m. after losing to the
New York Knicks in double
overtime on Sunday.
76ERS 147, PACERS 143 » Joel
Embiid scored 42 points,
James Harden added 14
points, 20 assists and nine
rebounds, and Philadel-
phia pulled away late for a
victory over Indiana in an
entertaining game virtu-
ally devoid of defense.
Warriors
FROM PAGE 1
second-oldest player in the
NBA behind only Miami’s
Udonis Haslem -- one of
a few weapons that could
somewhat limit a hot-
handed Anthony Davis.
He had two assists: One
a sharp pass to Curry in
transition for a quick la-
yup. For the second, Iguo-
dala facilitated a dribble
handoff to Jordan Poole,
who passed up a 3-pointer
and passed back to Iguo-
dala in the key, who found
an open Anthony Lamb be-
yond the arc for 3. Most no-
tably, Iguodala subbed in
for Lamb to close the game
with 1:45 left, the Warriors
down two.
Sunday’s game didn’t
end the Warriors’ way, but
Iguodala could be a bal-
ancing force this shaky
team needs down the
stretch. Youth and relative
inexperience playing as a
unit have partially contrib-
uted to their late-game ex-
ecution issues this season,
and Iguodala raises the
collective IQ when he’s
on the floor, ensuring his
teammates are in the right
place on both ends along
with his passing and indi-
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2023
was just a little different,
I didn’t really have any of
those down times or dark
places with this injury.”
Blackburn has since used
those experiences as lessons
that he has shared with
some of the A’s younger
pitchers, including Hogan
Harris, a 26-year-old lefty
who has hardly played
above Single-A to this
point in his career, but has
a chance to help the A’s ro-
tation this season. Harris
gave up two runs and only
recorded two outs in his
first outing of the spring
against the Angels, walk-
ing four batters.
Blackburn was there to
share some needed advice.
“I told him kind of what I
just reiterated, ‘Look man, I
know you want to impress,
but just know yourself and
what got you here,’” Black-
burn said. “That’s the big-
gest thing, really. If you’re
able to kind of just stay
within yourself and just be
able to be as calm as you
can when you get out there
and do what you can do, a
lot of times that’s when the
game doesn’t seem to speed
up on you.”
On Sunday, Blackburn
will have his turn on the
mound, his first in 212 days.
It’s a breakthrough that has
come sooner than expected
for the A’s and Blackburn,
but one he’s worked hard to
see through.
“I couldn’t be more happy
with where I’m at right
now,” Blackburn said.
Embiid made 11 of 16
field goals and all 19 free-
throw attempts. Tyrese
Maxey scored 24 points
and Jalen McDaniels
added 20 for the 76ers, who
have won two straight.
HEAT 130, HAWKS 128 »
Jimmy Butler had 26
points, Victor Oladipo and
Caleb Martin each scored
21 off the bench and Miami
held off Atlanta.
Butler also had nine re-
bounds and nine assists
for Miami, which swept
a two-game set from the
Hawks.
Trae Young scored 25
for Atlanta, which got 23
from Dejounte Murray and
17 apiece from Saddiq Bey
and John Collins.
TRAIL BLAZERS 110, PIS-
TONS 104 » Damian Lillard
had 31 points, 13 rebounds
and 12 assists, securing his
second triple-double of
the season before the end
of the third quarter, and
Portland beat Detroit.
The dynamic guard
scored 16 points in the first
quarter to give the Trail
Blazers a 31-18 lead.
vidual defense.
If Iguodala can stay
healthy enough to play
down the stretch is the big
question.
His return on Sunday
came as somewhat of a
surprise.
Not because Iguodala
wasn’t expected to return
this year, but because de-
tails of his months-long
absences and health have
been mostly hidden from
public consumption.
When head coach Steve
Kerr was asked about
Iguodala’s potential re-
turn after a scrimmage
with Curry last week, he
deferred to Iguodala him-
self: “I’d recommend lis-
tening to his podcast.”
Iguodala announced in
January on his podcast
that he’d make his sea-
son debut. Asked about
his plans to play, Iguodala
rarely gives a straight an-
swer -- it’s part of his
charm.
Andre had been “champ-
ing at the bit” to get back
out and play, Curry said
after the game. With the
Warriors clinging onto the
Western Conference’s fifth-
seed, hoping to keep their
toes out of the play-in tour-
nament, the team can only
hope Iguodala’s return this
time lasts.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS West St. Sanitary Sewer Line Replacement NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR BIDS CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NOVATO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
NAME STATEMENT ACTION ON ORDINANCES – FEBRUARY 28, 2023, FOR CHANGE OF Lovely Dizon
COUNTY OF MARIN Project (100504-100103A) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Reed Union MEETING CASE NUMBER: CIV 2300324
File No. 154789 School District of Marin County, California, act- SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA,
Business or change Bid Submission. City of Sausalito (“City”) will ing by and through its Governing Board, here- ORDINANCE NO. 1699 COUNTY OF MARIN
Furniture, started on: N/A accept sealed bids for its West St. Sanitary inafter referred to as the DISTRICT will receive (First Reading) TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS
tickets The following Sewer Line Replacement Project up to, but not later than 2:00 PM of the 24th 1. Petitioner (name of each): Lovely Dizon has
garage person(s) is (are) (100504-100103A) (“Project”), by or before day of March, 2023, sealed bids for the award ORDINANCE TO MODIFY THE RADAR filed a petition with this court for a decree
doing business as: March 16, 2023 at 2:00 p.m., at its City Hall, of a contract for Granada School Roof Repair ENFORCEABLE SPEED LIMIT FROM 40 MPH TO changing names as follows:
sales. Studio Velo located at 420 Litho Street, Sausalito, CA, 94965 Project Phase 2. 35 MPH IN BOTH DIRECTIONS OF NAVE DRIVE Present Name:
31 Miller Ave at which time the bids will be publicly opened BETWEEN 600 FEET SOUTH OF ROBLAR DRIVE Lovely Dizon
Mill Valley, CA 94941 and read aloud. Scope: The Reed Union School District is con- AND ALAMEDA DEL PRADO AND FIND THE to Proposed Name:
Bikerx, LLC ducting roof repairs at this site. This project MODIFICATION EXEMPT FROM THE Jasmine Mislang Zamora
55 Jordan Ave Location and Description. The contractor shall will include all labor, equipment and materials REQUIREMENTS OF THE CALIFORNIA 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons inter-
San Francisco, CA replace approximately 209-feet of existing 4” necessary for providing roof repairs described ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) ested in this matter shall appear before this
94118 cast iron public sewer system located on West herein and/or as indicated on the drawings PURSUANT TO CEQA GUIDELINES SECTION court at the hearing indicated below to show
County of principal Street between Richardson Street and Main and specifications. 15061 (b)(3) cause, if any, why the petition for change of
place of business: Street in Sausalito. The full replacement will name should not be granted. Any person ob-
Marin connect both existing sanitary sewer manhole There will be a mandatory pre-bid conference The full text of Ordinance No. 1699 is posted on jecting to the name changes described above
This business is con- 120500 at Richardson Street and West Street to at Granada School, 50 El Camino Dr., Corte the Community Services Board at City Hall must file a written objection that includes the
Collectibles ducted by: limited lia- the existing sanitary sewer manhole 100103 at Madera. CA 94925 at 11:00 AM on March 10th. Offices at 922 Machin Ave. reasons for the objection at least two court
bility company West Street and Main Street. All private lower Only prime contractors in attendance at this days before the matter is scheduled to be
Lots of great LP’s
/s/ Taylor Walker sewer laterals shall be replaced in their meeting can bid on this project. /Laura McDowall/ _____ heard and must appear at the hearing to show
Just in for $5 ea in FILED: Feb 16, 2023 entirety. Laura McDowall, City Clerk cause why the petition should not be granted.
San Rafael SHELLY SCOTT Bids shall be received in the Maintenance & If no written objection is timely filed, the court
415-454-8929 MARIN COUNTY CLERK The sanitary sewer manhole 100103 interior Operations Office of the Reed Union School PUBLISH: March 7, 2023 may grant the petition without a hearing.
By: J. Mannion, Deputy will need to be completely rehabilitatedv and District located at 50 El Camino Dr, Corte 6736816 NOTICE OF HEARING
NOTICE: This state- some rehabilitation of the existing 120500 will Madera, CA 94925 and shall be opened and
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NOVATO
a. Date: Apr 13, 2023, Time: 9am, Dept: B, Room:
ment expires on need to be done too. Sanitary sewer manhole publicly read aloud at the Maintenance & Op- B
Legal Notice 2/16/2028. A new FBN 100103A will need to be eliminated and the erations Office. ACTION ON ORDINANCES – FEBRUARY 28, 2023, b. The address of the court is same as noted
MEETING
statement must be existing 4” CAS sanitary sewer main will need above: 3501 Civic Center Drive, P.O. Box 4988,
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS filed no more than 40 to be decommissioned and the publicly Each bid must conform and be responsive to
ORDINANCE NO. 1698
San Rafael, CA 94913.
NAME STATEMENT days from expiration. maintained sanitary sewer system flowing on the contract documents, copies of which may
(First Reading)
3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall
COUNTY OF MARIN This filing does not of Main Street will need to be connected to the be obtained on February 13, 2023 at 50 El Cami- be published at least once each week for four
File No. 154656 itself authorize the newly rehabilitated sanitary sewer manhole no Dr., Corte Madera 94925; by contacting
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
successive weeks prior to the date set for
Business or change use of this name in vi- 100300. Eduardo Munoz - Phone (415)927-2628; Email hearing on the petition in the Marin Independ-
started on: N/A olation of the rights of emunoz@reedschools.org; or by visiting www. CITY OF NOVATO AMENDING MUNICIPAL CODE ent Journal, a newspaper of general circula-
reedschool.org. SECTION 2-11 TO UPDATE THE MEMBERS’
The following another under federal, Time for Final Completion. The project is to be
OTHER SERVICE AND RESIDENCY
tion, printed in the county of Marin.
person(s) is (are) state or common law. completed within 30 calendar days from the DATED: Feb 06, 2023
(B&P Code 14400 et start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. Each bid shall be accompanied by the security REQUIREMENTS OF THE DESIGN REVIEW James T. Chou
doing business as:
Adaptahome seq.) The City anticipates that the Work will begin referred to in the contract documents, the COMMISSION Judge of the Superior Court
665 Magnolia Ave 6736831 March 7, 14, on or about April 3, 2023, but the anticipated non-collusion affidavit, the list of proposed JAMES M. KIM
Larkspur, CA 94939 21 & 28, 2023 start date is provided solely for convenience subcontractors, and all additional documenta- The full text of Ordinance No. 1698 is posted on Court Executive Officer
and is neither certain nor binding. tion required by the Instructions to Bidders. the Community Services Board at City Hall MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
YD Wellness Offices at 922 Machin Ave.
665 Magnolia Ave FICTITIOUS BUSINESS By J.Chen, Deputy
Larkspur, CA 94939 NAME STATEMENT Estimated Cost. The estimate base bid In public works contracts involving expendi- 6732254 February 14, 21, 28, March 7, 2023.
Yvonne E Dotson COUNTY OF MARIN construction cost is $200,000. tures in excess of $25,000, the successful bid- /Laura McDowall/ _____
665 Magnolia Ave File No. 154842 der shall file a payment bond issued by an ad- Laura McDowall, City Clerk
Larkspur, CA 94939 Business or change License. ThisProject requires a valid California mitted Surety approved to conduct business in
County of principal started on: 01/07/2013 contractor’s license for the following the State of California approved by the District PUBLISH: March 7, 2023
place of business: The following classification(s): A-General Engineering in the form set forth in the contract docu- 6736814
Marin person(s) is (are) Contractor, C-34 – Pipeline, or C-42 – Sanitation ments. The cost of said bonds shall be paid by

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This business is con- doing business as: System. the successful bidder. 1*
ducted by: an individ- Caruso Company
ual 32 Treehaven Dr DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid The District reserves the right to reject any or Legal Notice Legal Notice
/s/ Yvonne E Dotson San Rafael, CA 94901 Proposal from or enter into the Contract all bids or to waive any irregularities or
FILED: Jan 30, 2023 Just Happy, INC with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is informalities in any bids or in the bidding. “The Novato Fire District is seeking bids from
SHELLY SCOTT 369 3rd Street Unit B registered with the California Department of licensed landscapers that are also DIR
MARIN COUNTY CLERK Suite # 313 Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public "The lowest bid shall be the lowest total of the registered for a project in Novato. The details

By: J. Mannion, Deputy San Rafael, CA 94901
NOTICE: This state- County of principal
ment expires on place of business:
1/30/2028. A new FBN Marin
statement must be This business is con-
filed no more than 40 ducted by: a corpora-
work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject
to limited legal exceptions.
Contract Documents. The plans,
specifications, bid forms and contract
documents for the Project, and any addenda
all
bid prices on the base contract and those ad- for this request can be found at
ditive or deductive items taken in the numeri- www.novatofire.org; or by emailing
cal order set forth in the bid form." cwalraven@novatofire.org. Bids must be
received on or before March 24, 2023 by
All contractors intending to bid or work on 4:00pm.”
public works projects are required to be regis- 6736838 March 7 & 14, 2023

days from expiration. tion
This filing does not of /s/ Robert Caruso
itself authorize the FILED: Feb 27, 2023
use of this name in vi- SHELLY SCOTT
olation of the rights of MARIN COUNTY CLERK
another under federal, By: J. Mannion Deputy
state or common law. NOTICE: This state-
thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be
downloaded from City’s website located at:
https://www.sausalito.gov/departments/publi
c-works/bid-notices. A printed copy of the
Contract Documents is not available.
Prevailing Wage Requirements.
about
tered with the Department of Industrial Rela- REQUEST TO BID TO PERFORM
tions per Labor Code Section 1725.5. Bids re- SUBCONTRACTOR CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
ceived from unregistered contractors will be
FOR MOUNTAIN VIEW WHISMAN SCHOOL
rejected as non-responsive. DISTRICT’S MULTI-SITE WINDOW
REPLACEMENT
The Director of Industrial Relations has deter- PROJECT PHASE 2
mined the general prevailing rate of per diem

Marin
(B&P Code 14400 et ment expires on wages in the locality in which this work is to E.F. Brett is the Mountain View Whisman
seq.) 2/27/2028. A new FBN General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § be performed for each craft or type of worker School District’s (“District”) general contractor
6731335 February 14, statement must be 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the needed to execute the contract which will be on the District’s Multi-Site Window
21, 28, March 7, 2023. filed no more than 40 prevailing wage requirements applicable to awarded to the successful bidder, copies of Replacement Project Phase 2. E.F. Brett is
days from expiration. the locality in which the Work is to be which are on file and will be made available to requesting subcontractor bids from demolition
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS This filing does not of performed for each craft, classification or type any interested party upon request. It shall be and abatement subcontractors (License ASB
NAME STATEMENT itself authorize the of worker needed to perform the Work, mandatory upon the Contractor to whom the and C21) and glass/glazing storefront
COUNTY OF MARIN use of this name in vi- including employer payments for health and contract is awarded, and upon any subcon- subcontractors (License C17) for this project.
File No. 154844 olation of the rights of welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship, tractor under him/her, to pay not less than the
Business or change another under federal, and similar purposes. said specified rates to all workers employed Interested subcontractors must submit sealed
started on: 6/11/2019 state or common law. by them in the execution of the contract. bids on or before 3:00 P.M., March 23, 2023, to
The following (B&P Code 14400 et Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with the E.F. Brett, 1 Commercial Blvd. Suite 203,
person(s) is (are) seq.) City and are available online at Attention is directed to the provisions of Sec- Novato, CA 94949. Bids will also be accepted
doing business as: 6736836 March 7, 14, http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor tions 1777.5 and 1777.6 of the Labor Code of the via email at adamc@efbrett.com, but each

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Borgo Built, INC 21 & 28, 2023 and Subcontractor must pay no less than the State of California concerning employment of subcontractor is responsible to ensure that
110 Oak Springs Dr specified rates to all workers employed to apprentices by the Contractor. the bid is received by E.F. Brett, prior to the
San Anselmo, CA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS work on the Project. The schedule of per diem above time and date.
94960 NAME STATEMENT wages is based upon a working day of eight In the event that your bid necessitates con-
Borgo Built, INC COUNTY OF MARIN hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work struction work, the bidder shall be a licensed A non-mandatory pre-bid project description
110 Oak Springs Dr File No. 154587 must be at least time and one-half. contractor pursuant to the Business and Pro- will be conducted via a video conference on
fessions Code and shall be licensed in the fol- March 11, 2023 at 11:00 A.M. All attendees are
sports and
San Anselmo, CA Business or change
94960 started on: 4/1/23 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to lowing classification: C-39. required to first register with the host by
County of principal The following compliance monitoring and enforcement emailing Adam Coll at adamc@efbrett.com 24
place of business: person(s) is (are) by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of hours prior. A link for the video conference will
Marin doing business as: sixty (60) days after the date set for the open- be then forwarded to the attendee.
This business is con- Game Ready Sports Performance and Payment Bonds. The ing of bids. Furthermore, each bidder must ex-
ducted by: a corpora- Camps successful bidder will be required to provide pressly guarantee that the price quoted in E.F. Brett will award the subcontracts, if it
tion
/s/ Thelis Borgo
65 Mt. Lassen Dr.
San Rafael, CA 94903
performance and payment bonds, each for
100% of the Contract Price, as further specified
in the Contract Documents.
their bid will remain effective for those 60 awards at all, based on the criteria permitted
days. The Governing Board will act to accept under Education Code §17406 and authorized
or reject bids within that period.
classifieds.
FILED: Feb 27, 2023 Joseph Robert Ayoob by the District.
SHELLY SCOTT 65 Mt. Lassen Dr.
MARIN COUNTY CLERK San Rafael, CA 94903 Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should Carlos Estrella The successful subcontractors shall pay all
By: J. Mannion, Deputy County of principal carefully review the Instructions to Bidders forBusiness Manager workers on the Project not less than the
NOTICE: This state- place of business:
ment expires on Marin
2/27/2028. A new FBN This business is con-
more detailed information before submitting a
Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in
Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all
Reed Union School District
Of Marin County, California
_________________________
general prevailing rate of per diem wages and
the general prevailing rate for holiday and To subscribe
overtime work as determined by the Director
1 *A payment bond must be filed for a contract
statement must be ducted by: an of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, of the Department of Industrial Relations,
filed no more than 40 individual including this Notice Inviting Bids. involving expenditures in excess of $25,000 State of California, for the type of work
days from expiration. /s/Joe Ayoob (Civil Code section 3247(a)) and may be re- performed and the locality in which the work
This filing does not of FILED: Jan 19, 2023
itself authorize the SHELLY SCOTT
use of this name in vi- MARIN COUNTY CLERK
Questions. All bid questions must be in writing quired for contracts involving smaller expendi-
and can be emailed to Pat Guasco at
pguasco@sausalito.gov. The last day to submit
tures at the option of the District.
MIJ 6734703; Feb. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28;
is to be performed within the boundaries of
the District, pursuant to sections 1770 et seq.
of the California Labor Code.
call
olation of the rights of By: J. Mannion, Deputy questions prior to bid opening is Thursday, Mar. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 2023
Prevailing wage rates are available from the
another under federal, NOTICE: This state- March 9, 2022. District at the District’s office or on the inter-
state or common law. ment expires on net at: <h t t p : / / w w w . d i r . c a . g o v >
415-883-8633
(B&P Code 14400 et 1/19/2028. A new FBN Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Sausalito Marin Subcontractors shall comply with the
seq.) statement must be will be held on March 7, 2023 at 2pm., over City School District (“District”) is requesting registration and qualification requirements
6736828 March 7, 14, filed no more than 40 telephone and video conference to acquaint proposals from interested and qualified pursuant to sections 1725.5 and 1771.1 of the
21 & 28, 2023 days from expiration. perspective bidders with the Contract organizations to provide General Childcare California Labor Code.
This filing does not of Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ and Development (“CCTR”) Services for the
itself authorize the conference is not mandatory. District’s School-Age Program, serving Contract Documents and plans and
MAILING use of this name in vi- children ages 4 to 14. specifications are available here:
ADDRESS olation of the rights of
another under federal,
Meeting ID: 341 172 7775
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3411727775
The RFP can be viewed on the district website
https://efbrett.egnyte.com/fl/aFAvS2mB3F
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103 Shoreline Parkway, state or common law. www.smcsd.og Questions regarding this bid must be in writing
Ste.201, San Rafael, (B&P Code 14400 et +16699006833,,3411727775# US (San Jose) and directed only to Adam Coll at the
CA 94901 seq.) ALL PROPOSALS ARE DUE BY 5:00 P.M. ON aforementioned email above.
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