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Brookings man found dead in boat basin The World CHARLESTON — At about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Coos County Sheriff’s Office dispatch center received several reports of a subject who had fallen into the bay at the docks in Charleston and was unresponsive. Personnel from the Charleston Fire Department, Bay Cities Ambulance, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Sheriff’s Office respond-
ed to the scene. The victim was removed from the water and life saving efforts were unsuccessful. The victim has been identified as 64-year-old Lyle G. Marrington of Brookings. Family notifications have been made and the family has expressed their gratitude for the response of all first responders to the scene. Coos County Sheriff Craig Zanni told The World there was nothing that pointed to foul play.
The Sheriff’s Office would like to thank the several citizens who were extremely helpfully during this incident.
Boats sit in the Charleston boat basin earlier this summer.
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Layoffs remain at high level
to rein in the department and de-escalate its interactions with protesters. Davis defended the decision to use tear gas and said that the alternative was sending officers into a chaotic crowd, which would likely result in injuries to both officers and protesters. “I will be very happy if I can go the rest of my career without ever seeing us have to deploy C.S. gas,” he said, using another term for the substance. “The reason why we’re seeing more and more C.S. gas has to do with really unprecedented levels of violence that we’re seeing and not that we’re trying to
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a historically high pace that shows that many employers are still laying people off in the face of a resurgent coronavirus. The persistently elevated level of layoffs are occurring as a spike in virus cases has forced six states to reverse their move to reopen businesses. Those six — Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan and Texas — make up one-third of the U.S. economy. Fifteen other states have suspended their re-openings. Collectively, the pullback has stalled a tentative recovery in the job market and is likely triggering additional layoffs. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the number of applications for unemployment aid fell from 1.4 million in the previous week. The figure has now topped 1 million for 16 straight weeks. Before the pandemic, the record high for weekly unemployment applications was fewer than 700,000. The total number of people who are receiving jobless benefits dropped 700,000 to 18 million. That suggests that some companies are continuing to rehire workers despite job cuts by other employers. An additional 1 million people sought benefits last week under a separate program for self-employed and gig workers that has made them eligible for aid for the first time. These figures aren’t adjusted for seasonal variations, so the government doesn’t include them in the official count. Americans are seeking unemployment aid against the backdrop of a disturbing surge in confirmed viral cases, with increases reported in 38 states. Case counts have especially accelerated in four states that now account for more than half of reported new U.S. cases: Arizona, California, Florida and Texas. Applications for unemployment aid dropped last week in California and Florida, though in California they remained high, with more than 267,000 claims. That is more people than were applying each week for unemployment benefits in the entire country before the pandemic hit. Jobless claims also declined in Michigan and Colorado. Still, applications for benefits spiked in Texas, Nevada, Tennessee and Louisiana — states where confirmed cases of the virus are intensifying. They also jumped in New Jersey and New York, where the pandemic is mostly under control. The intensifying outbreaks and more stringent government restrictions have slowed economic activity in much of the country and may weigh on hiring. The government’s jobs report for June showed a solid gain of 4.8 million jobs and an unemployment rate that fell to 11.1% from 13.3%. Yet even so, the economy has regained only about one-third of the jobs that vanished in March and April. And the June jobs
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The World Newspaper Publisher Ben Kenfield scrubs graffiti off the paper’s sign, some of which read “fake news.”
Police investigate more graffiti JILLIAN WARD The World
COOS BAY — Coos Bay police are looking into two more graffiti cases, one at The World newspaper building and the other at Sunset Middle School. “Over the past several weeks, the Coos Bay Police Department has seen an increase in graffiti and criminal mischief calls,” read a department press release. “The graffiti has been found on various buildings, fences, sidewalks and business signs.” On Wednesday morning, the department was notified of new graffiti that appeared between 6:30 p.m. and 8 a.m. “The new graffiti was found at The World newspaper business located on Commercial Ave. in the downtown area of Coos Bay,” the release said. “The graffiti covered the front sidewalk and was also on (its) business sign.” The graffiti made “several offensive comments regarding The World newspaper, as well as city staff and city officials,” the release said. According to the newspaper’s
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Sunset Middle School was also hit with graffiti Tuesday night. publisher, Ben Kenfield, the tagging also covered the front stairs, while window chalk was used to write on the front door and windows around the building. Most of the tagging was done in sidewalk chalk. “It reflects the frustration in this community,” Kenfield said as he scrubbed graffiti off The World’s sign. “We have a microcosm of what’s happening in the
country here in Coos Bay. “I think sometimes it’s hard to tell where to point the frustration and turn it into change.” Members of Safer as One — a grassroots organization standing for equality and a safer community — showed up to help scrub the chalk graffiti off The World’s stairs. “These are words of pain and people trying to speak out but not going about it in the most
official way,” said one member, who asked to remain anonymous for her safety. “As someone who is trying to represent and speak with the many sub-communities, I wanted to make sure we are here to help.” She asked that people who wish to get messages out that include Black Lives Matter or #Justice4Saraya, a 14-year-old Black teen who was sentenced to juvenile prison for 11 years, to reach out to Safer as One. That way, the message can be put out “in a way that all the sub-communities can be equally representing and be heard.” The Safer as One member said the organization is not associated with the graffiti, which included accusations of “fake news” and “stop black media censorship.” The tagging follows stories published by The World about a demonstration from Safer as One, efforts to put in a statue memorializing Alonzo Tucker — the victim of the only documented case of a Black man being lynched in Oregon — and Black Lives Matter protests. Please see Graffiti, Page A2
Violent protests costly for Portland businesses PORTLAND (AP) — Downtown businesses in Portland, Oregon, have sustained about $23 million in damages and lost customers because of violent nightly protests that have brought the city to its knees, authorities said Wednesday. At a police briefing, Deputy Chief Chris Davis said the intensity of the violence by an “agitator corps” and the length of the protests that are now in their sixth week are unprecedented in Oregon’s largest city. Davis made a sharp distinction between Black Lives Matter protesters, whom he said were not violent, and a smaller group of people he repeatedly called “agitators.”
“Quite frankly, this is not sustainable,” he said. “There’s a very big difference between protests and the kind of mayhem that we’ve seen every night. ... The Black Lives Matter movement is not violent. The story that we’re going to talk about today is about a small group of agitators that is attempting to hijack that message and use it as a cover for criminal activity.” Protesters have demonstrated for 41 consecutive nights against racial injustice and police brutality following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and they are increasingly focusing their actions on federal properties, including Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in
the heart of the downtown business district. Authorities have declared riots several times and used tear gas to disperse demonstrators. A recently issued federal court order bans the police from using the tear gas unless a riot is declared, but critics have challenged the police on what constitutes a riot and who makes the decision to designate a protest as an unlawful event. The police unleashed tear gas last week the day after Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill into law that banned the use of it unless a riot was declared. That prompted Brown and Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek to publicly call on Mayor Ted Wheeler, who is also the police commissioner,
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South Coast Hospice continues care; thrift store remains closed The World COOS BAY — For those wondering, South Coast Hospice is still operating, providing services daily to community members who require end-of-life care with dignity. In addition to hospice services, the nonprofit organization also operates the South Coast Hospice Thrift Store which, according to CEO Lorell Durkee, many have inquired about and want to know when it will reopen. “The first thing we want our community neighbors to know, is thank you,” Durkee said in a press release. “Thank you for the countless calls to ask when we’re opening and that you have donations. We love to hear that and glad that we are missed, but unfortunately still cannot reopen.” “Although the Governor has lifted the closure on small businesses we fear it will return and with the increased number of COVID-19 cases across the State of Oregon, we still do not believe that the threat of the virus is contained and that places both our staff and our customers at risk,” Durkee added. “We continue to say that our staff are very important to us and hope to have all of them return and we are staying in communication with all of them.” Durkee said South Coast Hospice is reevaluating every two weeks the
possibility of reopening its thrift store and hopes to be open soon. The thrift store was set to reopen until the COVID-19 cases started to climb to unsafe numbers, which caused South Coast Hospice to re-think the decision. “We thank everyone for doing their part to decrease the growing COVID cases across the state,” Durkee said. “Keep an eye out for further information to follow.” The Pay It Forward program will continue. Member nonprofits and agencies can contact South Coast Hospice at the office, 541-269-2986 or email sch@schospice.org to submit requests for needed items. Organizations that have not signed up yet for the program can contact them for a simple form to fill out and submit. Meanwhile, there will be two staff members in the thrift store to provide security, work on projects and fulfill the needs of the Pay It Forward organizations. Staff has used the time the store has been closed to make changes both inside and out and are looking forward to being able to open the doors once again. “We ask that people take their donations elsewhere for the moment,” Durkee said. “When we do open we will not have the open space for all the donations we expect.” As the Thrift Store provides 17% of South Coast Hospice’s revenue for patient care services, the organi-
zation is currently seeking financial donations to help them through the COVID-19 crisis. Contact Doreen Kelly at 541-297-3241 or d.kelly@ schospice.org to help. South Coast Hospice is experiencing an increase in patient referrals and plans to continue to provide care and support to some of the area’s most vulnerable community members. The South Coast Hospice care team staff will make home visits as necessary to limit exposure and will be available by phone 24/7. When visiting, team members will enter homes wearing eye protection, masks and gloves to prevent the spread of any virus to patients. Staff has been instructed to not report to work if they have symptoms of illness. South Coast Hospice is monitoring reports from the Oregon Health Authority, Coos Health and Wellness and the CDC for the latest information and following all state and federal guidelines regarding COVID-19. In addition, all bereavement and illness support groups, trainings, events and classes have been canceled until it is safe to resume. Those in need of bereavement or grief support can call the office at 541269-2986 and ask for Mia. “Thank you for understanding and working with us to help our patients, their families and the community during this difficult time,” Durkee said.
Oregon reports four new COVID-19 deaths The World PORTLAND — COVID-19 has claimed four more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 224, the Oregon Health Authority reported today. Oregon Health Authority reported 217 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. Wednesday bringing the state total to 10,817. The new cases are in the following counties: Baker (3), Clackamas (19), Clatsop (1), Columbia (1), Coos (2), Curry (1), Deschutes (3), Douglas (2), Harney (1), Hood River (1), Jackson (5), Jefferson (1), Josephine (2), Lane (10), Lincoln (3), Linn (8), Malheur (12), Marion (15), Morrow (10), Multnomah (30), Umatilla (43), Union (3), Wasco (1), Wash-
ington (31), Yamhill (9). Oregon’s 221st COVID-19 death is an 85-year-old woman in Benton County who tested positive on May 31 and died on June 28, at her residence. She had underlying conditions. Oregon’s 222nd COVID-19 death is a 55-year-old man in Multnomah County who tested positive on June 22 and died on June 28, at his residence. He had underlying medical conditions. Oregon’s 223rd COVID-19 death is a 91-year-old woman in Marion County who tested positive on June 18 and died on July 5, at her residence. She had underlying medical conditions. Oregon’s 224th COVID-19 death is a
36-year-old man in Multnomah County who tested positive on June 3 and died on July 7, at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center. He had underlying medical conditions.
Staying safe at playgrounds and parks In counties approved to move to Phase 2 of reopening, some local parks are starting to open their playgrounds. You can help keep the kids in your life safe by taking the following steps: • Review the policies of your local park. • Stay 6 feet from people who don’t live with you. • Bring face coverings for your family to wear in case you need to share the playground. • Bring your own food, water bottles and hand
sanitizer/wipes and take your trash with you when you leave. • Wash your hands before and after visiting a playground. For more information about reopening Oregon, visit coronavirus.oregon.gov.
Weekly Report released On Wednesday, OHA released its Weekly Report which showed that during the week of June 29 to July 5, 32,355 persons were tested for COVID-19 in Oregon with 5 percent recording a positive result. COVID 19 continued to surge during that week with 1,910 new cases — an increase of 51 percent over the previous week. In addition, 11 Oregonians were reported to have died, one fewer than the previous week.
COQUILLE POLICE LOG July 7 5:45 a.m., assault reported, unknown address. 11:16 a.m., criminal trespassing/suspicious vehicle reported in the 1300 block of E. 15th St. 12:47 p.m., criminal trespassing reported at 505 N. Central, Coastal Coffee. Subject previously trespassed was just back out at location. Arrested Pius Hilsendager on charge of criminal trespass II.
Hilsendager was cited in lieu of custody. 1:08 p.m., criminal trespassing at 611 N. Central Blvd., Fast Mart. Caller just observed subject trespassing at location. Arrested Pius Hilsendager on a charge of criminal trespass II, cited in lieu of custody. 4:06 p.m., traffic stop resulting in arrest on Highway 42 by Department of Motor Vehicles. Arrested passenger Jared Towns, 34, on a charge
of violation of a restraining order. Towns was transported to the Coos County Jail. 8:52 p.m., criminal trespassing reported in the 200 block of W. Highway 42. 9:01 p.m., theft reported in the 500 block of N. Collier St. 10:19 p.m., warrant service in the 800 block of N. Central Blvd. Arrested Skyler McNair, 38, on a Coquille Police Department warrant charging failure to
gry,” Kenfield said. “It’s a sign of the times, I suppose … It was graffiti intended to send a message, not cause damage.” The second instance of graffiti, at Sunset Middle School in Coos Bay’s Empire District, “showed a painted peace sign and referenced ‘All Lives Matter,’” according to the police department’s press release. “Officers responded to the area and photographed the graffiti. At this time, no suspect(s) responsible for this act has been identified.” Anyone with information about the crimes has been asked to call the department at 541-2698911 or Coos Stop Crime at 541-267-6666. “This isn’t something we want to tolerate in our community,” Chapanar said. “We don’t want offensive language defacing people’s property. “It isn’t a good thing for our community.”
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“We request that whoever did this, a community member most likely, step forward and let it be known,” said the woman. Coos Bay Deputy Chief Chris Chapanar told The World that he isn’t sure the tagging is connected to other cases seen throughout the city. He added that the city is looking to update its graffiti ordinance, which requires the property owner to have the tagging removed. “We’re in the process of revisiting that ordinance, which is like a lot of ordinances — outdated and in need of a revision of some sort,” he said. The City of Coos Bay provided The World with a graffiti cleanup kit to help remove the graffiti. “I’m certainly not an-
inforces evidence that the recovery of the job market is faltering. In the week that ended July 4, layoffs among Kronos’ clients actually rose and hirings declined. Companies are now laying off an average of nearly three workers for every new hire, the company’s data shows. Those job cuts reflect permanent job losses, rather than temporary layoffs or furloughs. That suggests that even as many companies recall workers from furloughs, they are reducing their permanent payrolls. And in the retail industry, the number of shifts worked changed little last week after steady increases in previous weeks. David Gilbertson, a vice president at Kronos, said this indicates that consumer demand in many cases hasn’t picked up enough to justify more employees. “Everything that’s going to be open is open,” Gilbertson said. “Now, we just need more people to come in and start spending money before things can pick up again.”
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report reflected surveys of Americans that were conducted in the middle of that month — before the pandemic flared up again. More recent data are worrisome. Spending on credit and debit cards issued by Bank of America fell in the week that ended June 27 compared with the previous wee, the bank said. Restaurant visits have also leveled off nationally, including in states that haven’t begun to close down again, according to data from OpenTable, the reservations website. “This suggests that renewed fears about the virus, rather than government restrictions, are driving the pullback in activity,” said Andrew Hunter, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics, a forecasting firm. Data from Kronos, which produces work-scheduling software for small businesses, re-
and other objects hurled at them with hate,” union President Daryl Turner said. “Enough. The people who put on a badge and uniform every day are human beings.” On Tuesday the U.S. attorney in Oregon announced federal charges against seven protesters accused of defacing a federal courthouse and assaulting federal officers. Police have also arrested two people on state charges of setting fire to a North Portland police precinct last week.
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appear in the first degree on the original charges of criminal mischief I, theft I, unlawful entry into a motor vehicle and contempt of court/violation of a restraining order. McNair was also arrested on Coos Bay Police Department warrant charging two counts of forgery II, unlawful entry into a motor vehicle and criminal mischief II. McNair was cited in lieu of custody on all warrants.
find excuses to use it. And that would be irresponsible of us to somehow ratchet down the definition of a riot so we can get to use C.S. gas quicker.” Earlier Wednesday, the president of the police union said he has no confidence that city leaders will move to stop the protests. “Our officers have endured weeks of rocks, bricks, bottles, mortars,
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Lottery dropoff kills funding for projects Coos Bay channel deepening among impacted projects BEND (AP) — A steep drop in lottery funds due to the COVID-19 crisis has killed the sale of $273 million in state bonds to pay for major projects in Oregon, the Bulletin newspaper of Bend reported Wednesday. The 37 projects authorized by the Legislature at the end of the 2019 session include water system overhauls in Warm Springs and Salem, rehabilitating the Wallowa Lake Dam, a Deschutes Basin piping project, two affordable housing projects, a new YMCA for Eugene and deepening the Coos Bay channel.
“There’s not enough money — there is no repair,” said Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, a chair on the budget-writing Joint Ways and Means Committee. In order to sell bonds, the state has to show a 4-to-1 ratio between forecast Lottery Fund revenue and the amount of debt in the bonds. That has not been a problem in previous budget cycles since the lottery was established in 1984. Lottery sales sharply declined during the coronavirus crisis that arrived in Oregon at the end of February. The subsequent closing of businesses and the stay-home emergency order for residents kept customers away from venues that sell the state-sponsored games of chance. The Lottery said earlier this month that sales
for April were off by 90% compared to the year before. The loss has left the state with a Lottery Fund bonding ratio of just over 3-to-1. That is too low. “The State Debt Policy Advisory Commission has notified legislative leadership and the Governor there are no longer sufficient funds to issue lottery-backed bonds approved during the 2019 session,” said Nikki Fisher, a spokeswoman for Gov. Kate Brown. Fisher said Brown and legislative leaders are discussing “next steps” on the projects. But legislative budget-writers said the nature of the bond sales is “all-or-nothing.” Unlike other discretionary spending that can be reduced to account for lower revenues, the lottery bonds are
authorized to be sold as a package. “It’s all or none,” said Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena, a member of the Joint Ways and Means Committee. “If we don’t sell one, we don’t sell any. The lottery revenue has just cratered. We already have debt service on projects funded in earlier cycles.” The bonds were scheduled to be issued in spring 2021, with debt service on the sale beginning in the 2021-23 two-year budget cycle, known as the biennium. Some of the major projects affected include: • Affordable housing preservation: $25 million • Salem drinking water improvements: $20 million • Eugene YMCA: $15 million • Affordable Market Rate
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United warns 36,000 workers could be laid off Associated Press
United Airlines is warning 36,000 employees — nearly half its U.S. staff — they could be furloughed in October, the clearest signal yet of how deeply the virus pandemic is hurting the airline industry. The outlook for a recovery in the airline industry has dimmed in just the past two weeks, as infection rates rise in much of the U.S. and some states impose new quarantine requirements on travelers. Airlines say they must shrink to match falling travel demand. American Airlines executives have said they could have 20,000 more employees than the airline will need this fall. United told employees Wednesday that not everyone who gets a layoff notice will be furloughed. The company said job
losses could be reduced if enough employees accept buyouts or early retirement by a deadline next week. The buyouts come at a price too, however. United said it would take a $300 million charge in the second quarter to cover voluntary departures so far. The company said it was unable to estimate the cost of workforce reductions for the rest of the year. If every U.S. airline matched United’s worstcase scenario of furloughs, it could be extrapolated to about 240,000 lost jobs nationwide, given United’s share of the domestic market. Helane Becker, an analyst for Cowen, predicted Wednesday that U.S. airlines will end 2020 with 150,000 to 200,000 fewer employees than they had at the end of 2019 — much bigger losses than she expected back in April.
The notices that United sent out are meant to comply with a law requiring employers warn workers at least 60 days before mass job cuts. The furloughs could include up to 15,000 flight attendants, 11,000 customer service and gate agents, 5,500 maintenance workers and 2,250 pilots. “The United Airlines projected furlough numbers are a gut punch, but they are also the most honest assessment we’ve seen on the state of the industry,” said Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants. “This crisis dwarfs all others in aviation history, and there’s no end in sight.” United executives said any furloughs will take effect on or shortly after Oct. 1. United can’t lay off workers any sooner — that’s a condition of the $5 billion it got as its share of
Brooks Brothers files for bankruptcy NEW YORK (AP) — Brooks Brothers, the 200-year-old company that dressed nearly every U.S. president, filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday, the latest major clothing seller to be toppled by the coronavirus pandemic. Founded in New York in 1818, Brooks Brothers survived two world wars, the Great Depression and even managed to stay afloat as dress standards eased in the office. But the pandemic pushed it into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with so many stores closed and, with millions working from home, a crisp suit pushed to the very bottom of shopping lists. Brooks Brothers will permanently close more than a quarter of its 200 stores. The retail sector was under severe pressure even before the pandemic. Rival Barneys New York filed for bankruptcy protection late last year. Since COVID-19 began to spread in the U.S, J.Crew,Neiman Marcus,J.C. Penney and other national retail chains have followed suit. The virus has hollowed out spending in many places and the accelerated the shift to online shopping, mostly to the benefit of big retailers like Walmart, Target and Amazon.com. Stores have begun to open in some parts of the country, but millions of people are still hunkered down at home. There are regions in the U.S. that are now
getting hit with a wave of infections and some companies like Apple are shutting down stores again in those areas. Brooks Brothers said Wednesday that it will continue operations as it restructures and is looking to reopen shops that are not being closed permanently. The company employed 4,000 people in March, before it furloughed about a third of its workers. Jonathan Pasternak, a bankruptcy lawyer at Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, said that even before the pandemic, Brooks Brothers’ store expansion and the cost of making clothes in the U.S. had created a financial burden, but he does not believe the company will disappear. “The good thing about Brooks Brothers: It’s a very strong brand,” he said. The company has a storied history, dressing at least 40 American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, who was wearing a Brooks Brothers coat when he was assassinated in 1865. Brooks Brothers’ two-button suits were a favorite of President John F. Kennedy. But its cultural influence has been broad. Clark Gable wore Brooks Brothers and Jennifer Aniston appeared on the cover of GQ magazine wearing nothing but a red, white and blue Brooks Brothers tie.
Health official: Trump rally likely led to virus surge in Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa in late June that drew thousands of participants and large protests “likely contributed” to a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases, Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart said Wednesday. Tulsa County reported 261 confirmed new cases on Monday, a one-day record high, and another 206 cases on Tuesday. By comparison, during the week before the June 20 Trump rally, there were 76 cases on Monday and 96 on Tuesday. Although the health department’s policy is to not publicly identify individual settings where people may have contracted the virus, Dart said those large gatherings “more than likely” contributed to the spike. “In the past few days,
we’ve seen almost 500 new cases, and we had several large events just over two weeks ago, so I guess we just connect the dots,” Dart said. Trump’s Tulsa rally, his first since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S., attracted thousands of people from around the country. About 6,200 people gathered inside the 19,000-seat BOK Center arena — far fewer than was expected. Dart had urged the campaign to consider pushing back the date of the rally, fearing a potential surge in the number of cases. Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said the campaign went to great lengths to ensure that those who attended the rally were protected. “There were literally no health precautions to speak of as thousands looted, rioted, and protested in
the streets and the media reported that it did not lead to a rise in coronavirus cases,” Murtaugh said in a statement. “Meanwhile, the President’s rally was 18 days ago, all attendees had their temperature checked, everyone was provided a mask, and there was plenty of hand sanitizer available for all. “It’s obvious that the media’s concern about large gatherings begins and ends with Trump rallies,” he said. Although masks were provided to rally goers, there was no requirement that participants wear them, and most didn’t. A reporter who attended the Trump rally is among those who have tested positive for COVID-19, along with six of Trump’s campaign staffers and two members of the Secret Service who worked in advance of the rally.
$25 billion in federal aid to help airlines cover payroll costs for six months. The flight attendants’ union and other airline labor groups are lobbying Congress for another $25 billion to protect jobs through next March. But a senior United executive expressed doubt that Congress would approve the spending in an election year. United has already cut capital spending by $2.5 billion and convinced thousands of employees to take unpaid leave. It has hoarded cash after raising billions in new borrowing — including mortgaging its MileagePlus frequent-flyer program. But with ticket sales sagging again, the Chicago-based airline is still losing about $40 million a day, executives said. Layoffs are “the last option left to protect the long-term interests of the company,” said the senior United official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity. Executives said the notices covered 45% of the airline’s U.S. staff, most of whom are represented by unions. They would
have reinstatement rights if United’s fortunes improve. Another 1,300 management and support staff will be laid off Oct. 1, the company said. Including international employees, United has a work force of about 95,000. Air travel in the U.S. plunged about 95% from March 1 until mid-April, then began a slow recovery. The number of U.S. air travelers around the July 4 weekend was the highest since mid-March, but was still down about 70% from a year ago. In recent weeks, the number of new reported cases of COVID-19 has roughly doubled to about 50,000 a day, with cases rising in Texas, Florida and California. Last month, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Chicago announced requirements that people arriving from states with high infection rates go into quarantine for 14 days, throwing up a new roadblock to travel. United’s bookings for flights at its hub in Newark, New Jersey, have slumped badly since the region’s governors announced the quarantine requirements, falling 84%
from a year earlier. That compares with a 73% decline in bookings for United’s other destinations. Executives of other airlines have predicted their companies will be much smaller in October, and that air travel might not return to pre-pandemic levels for several years. Delta Air Lines recently told employees that it will send layoff notices to more than 2,500 of its 14,000 pilots, but it has not publicly discussed the outlook for other workers. American has not said whether it has issued layoff notices, but executives have encouraged workers to take buyouts. Southwest Airlines said Wednesday it has not issued layoff warnings. Germany’s Lufthansa has warned that it might cut 22,000 jobs, Air France last week announced plans to eliminate 7,500 jobs, and Latin America’s two largest carriers have filed for bankruptcy protection. The International Air Transport Association estimates that global carriers could lose $84 billion this year. The airline trade group is lobbying governments to provide more financial help for carriers.
DEAR ABBYBy Abigail Van Buren
New feelings for longtime friend are not reciprocated
DEAR ABBY: My longtime friend “Bonnie” and I have been reconnecting during COVID, mostly via text and video chatting. She’s recently moved back to my area (she’s in the military), so we spent a weekend together helping her move in. It was exhausting and stressful, and her drinking concerned me. I know drinking is prevalent in the military, and as a relatively high-ranking officer, she’s under a lot of pressure all the time. I’m more aware of it because my sister is a recovering addict. I’m a queer lady. Bonnie is gay, and over the last couple months I’ve been nursing a crush on her. She’s very supportive of my artwork, and over the years has been the one doing the work to keep our friendship alive despite our lives going in different directions. I told her I had a crush on her during the stressful moving weekend and asked her to please not tell me about all the girls she texts. She responded that she does not return those feelings for me. But we talk on the phone for hours at night, and she calls me “Baby” sometimes. She also tells me I’m sexually magnetic. Our lives are intertwined enough that both our parents think we’re dating, and Bonnie frequently says things like, “My neighbor thinks we’re dating.” How do I keep both our friendship and my sanity? -- CRUSHING IN PENNSYLVANIA DEAR CRUSHING: Regardless of what others might think, you and Bonnie are NOT dating, and she has told you plainly that she’s not physically attracted to you. She was honest with you, I’ll give her marks for that. Whether she’s being completely honest with herself, however, is anyone’s guess. My advice is to stop allowing her to monopolize as much of your time as she has been. It isn’t good for you because it keeps you from looking for a companion who can reciprocate your feelings. If you continue as things are, you will only
subject yourself to more of the confusion you are feeling now. DEAR ABBY: My wife of 46 years keeps telling me about her deprived childhood. Everybody else had a color TV; the one she grew up with was a black-and-white. Granny didn’t have a dryer; she had to use a clothesline. They didn’t have a car, and when they finally got one, it was a used car. Finally, they had a new car, but it was stolen two weeks later. All the other girls had ballet lessons; all the other girls were in Brownies. When Granny finally signed her up, it was too late. My wife had to get a used Brownie uniform that didn’t fit, and they put her in a troop with Girl Scouts much older. She always wanted a swing-set, but never got one. Is there counseling and group therapy for this self-pity condition? I’m laughing to myself and my tears are getting into my beer. -- HAD IT ROUGH, TOO DEAR HAD IT: I would like to think your wife has it a lot better now, but to be married to someone as insensitive as you appear to be can hardly be an upper. Go pour yourself another pilsner before your tears dilute this one and bring you down further, Laughing Boy.. ------------------------------Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. Abby shares more than 100 of her favWhat teens need to know about sex, drugs, AIDS and getting along with peers and parents is in “What Every Teen Should Know.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)
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Biden proposes ‘Buy American’ campaign Associated Press Launching an economic pitch expected to anchor his fall presidential campaign, Democratic candidate Joe Biden is proposing sweeping new uses of the federal government’s regulatory and spending power to bolster U.S. manufacturing and technology firms. Biden calls for a $400 billion, four-year increase in government purchasing of U.S.-based goods and services plus $300 billion in new research and development in U.S. technology concerns. Among other policies expected to be announced Thursday, he proposes tightening current “Buy American” laws that are intended to benefit U.S. firms but can be easily circumvented by government agencies. An outline released by Biden’s campaign also touts his long-standing promises to strengthen workers’ collective bargaining rights and repeal Republican-backed tax breaks for U.S. corporations that move
jobs overseas. “This will be the largest mobilization of public investments in procurement, infrastructure and (research and development) since World War II,” senior adviser Jake Sullivan told The Associated Press, with the campaign promising additionally that Biden would require that effort in domestic markets before negotiating any new international trade deals. The former vice president will discuss the proposals Thursday at a metal works concern in Dunmore, Pennsylvania. It’s the first of a series of addresses Biden plans as he shifts his line of attack against President Donald Trump to the economy. It’s political turf the Republican incumbent once considered a clear advantage before the coronavirus pandemic curbed consumer activity and drove unemployment to near-Depression levels. An opening emphasis on manufacturing and labor policy is no coincidence: Biden wants to capitalize on his union ties
and deliver on oft-made claims he can win back working-class voters who fueled Trump’s upset win four years ago. Biden will continue in coming weeks with an energy plan to combat the climate crisis and a third package on what the campaign has dubbed the “caring economy,” with a focus on making child care and elder care more affordable and less of an impediment to working-age Americans. Campaign aides told reporters that all of Biden’s policies would target immediate recovery from the pandemic recession and address systemic inequalities Biden says are “laid bare” by the nation’s ongoing reckoning with racism. “What’s going on here, we need to build back, not just to where we were but build back better than we’ve ever been,” Biden told the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers on Wednesday. “We’re going to take a monumental step forward for the prosperity, power, safety and dignity of all
American workers.” The Democrat’s agenda carries at least some rhetorical echoes of Trump’s “America First” philosophy, but the former vice president’s aides describe his approach as more coherent. They cast Trump’s imposition of tariffs and uneven trade negotiations with other nations as a slapdash isolationism compromised further by tax policies that enrich multinational corporations. The Biden campaign also pointed to an uptick in foreign procurement and continued outsourcing of jobs by U.S.-based corporations during Trump’s presidency. Republicans nonetheless have made clear they will attack Biden on trade and the economy, framing the Democratic establishment figure as a tool of the far left on taxes and a willing participant in decades of trade policy that gutted American workers. Trump also has lampooned Biden as “weak on China.” On trade, at least, it’s a similar line of attack Biden withstood from the Democratic primary
Court rules on Trump tax returns WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court issued a mixed verdict Thursday on demands for President Donald Trump’s financial records that will keep his tax returns, banking and other documents out of the public eye for the time being. The court rejected broad arguments by Trump’s lawyers and the Justice Department that the president is immune from investigation while he holds office or that a prosecutor must show a greater need than normal to obtain the records. By 7-2 votes, the justices upheld the Manhattan district attorney’s demand for Trump’s tax returns, but kept a hold on Trump’s financial records that Congress has been seeking for more than a year. Trump, the only president in modern times who has refused to make his tax returns public, didn’t immediately regard the outcome as a victory even though it is likely to prevent Trump’s opponents in Congress from obtaining potentially embarrassing personal and business records ahead of Election Day. The documents have the potential to reveal details on everything from possible misdeeds to the true nature of the president’s vaunted wealth – not to mention uncomfortable disclosures about how he’s spent his money and how much he’s given to charity. “This is all a political prosecution. I won the Mueller Witch Hunt, and others, and now I have to keep fighting in a politically corrupt New York. Not fair to this Presidency or Administration!” Trump lashed out on Twitter.
The rejection of Trump’s claims of presidential immunity marked the latest instance where Trump’s broad assertion of executive power has been rejected. Trump’s two high court appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, joined the majority in both cases along with Chief Justice John Roberts and the four liberal justices. Roberts wrote both opinions. “Congressional subpoenas for information from the President, however, implicate special concerns regarding the separation of powers. The courts below did not take adequate account of those concerns,” Roberts wrote in the congressional case. The ruling returns the case to lower courts, with no clear prospect for when it might ultimately be resolved. The tax returns case also is headed back to a lower court, but Trump’s major arguments have now been rejected. Because the grand jury process is confidential, Trump’s taxes normally would not be made public. Justice Samuel Alito, who dissented with Justice Clarence Thomas in both cases, warned that future presidents would suffer because of the decision about Trump’s taxes. “This case is almost certain to be portrayed as a case about the current President and the current political situation, but the case has a much deeper significance,” Alito wrote. “While the decision will of course have a direct effect on President Trump, what the Court holds today will also affect all future Presidents—which is to say, it will affect the Presidency,
and that is a matter of great and lasting importance to the Nation.” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said his investigation, on hold while the court fight played out, will now resume. “This is a tremendous victory for our nation’s system of justice and its founding principle that no one — not even a president — is above the law. Our investigation, which was delayed for almost a year by this lawsuit, will resume, guided as always by the grand jury’s solemn obligation to follow the law and the facts, wherever they may lead,” Vance said. The case was argued by telephone in May because of the coronavirus pandemic. The fight over the congressional subpoenas has significant implications regarding a president’s power to refuse a formal request from Congress. In a separate fight at the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., over a congressional demand for the testimony of former White House counsel Don McGahn, the administration is making broad arguments that the president’s close advisers are “absolutely immune” from having to appear. In two earlier cases over presidential power, the Supreme Court acted unanimously in requiring President Richard Nixon to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor and in allowing a sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton to go forward. In those cases, three Nixon appointees and two Clinton appointees, respectively, voted against
the president who chose them for the high court. A fourth Nixon appointee, William Rehnquist, sat out the tapes case because he had worked closely as a Justice Department official with some of the Watergate conspirators whose upcoming trial spurred the subpoena for the Oval Office recordings. The subpoenas are not directed at Trump himself. Instead, House committees want records from Deutsche Bank, Capital One and the Mazars USA accounting firm. Mazars also is the recipient of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s subpoena. Appellate courts in Washington, D.C., and New York brushed aside the president’s arguments in decisions that focused on the fact that the subpoenas were addressed to third parties asking for records of Trump’s business and financial dealings as a private citizen, not as president. Two congressional committees subpoenaed the bank documents as part of their investigations into Trump and his businesses. Deutsche Bank has been one of the few banks willing to lend to Trump after a series of corporate bankruptcies and defaults starting in the early 1990s. Vance and the House Oversight and Reform Committee sought records from Mazars concerning Trump and his businesses based on payments that Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, arranged to keep two women from airing their claims of decade-old extramarital affairs with Trump during the 2016 presidential race.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled broadly Wednesday in favor of the religious rights of employers in two cases that could leave more than 70,000 women without free contraception and tens of thousands of people with no way to sue for job discrimination. In both cases the court ruled 7-2, with two liberal justices joining conservatives in favor of the Trump administration and religious employers. In the more prominent of the two cases, involving President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, the justices greenlighted changes the Trump administration had sought. The administration announced in 2017 that it would allow more employers to opt out of providing the no-cost birth control coverage required under the law, but lower courts had blocked
the changes. The ruling is a significant election-year win for President Donald Trump, who counts on heavy support from evangelicals and other Christian groups for votes and policy backing. It was also good news for the administration, which in recent weeks has seen headline-making Supreme Court decisions go against its positions. In one of those earlier cases, the court rejected Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants. In another, the justices said a landmark civil rights law protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in employment. Another particularly important decision for Trump is ahead. The justices are expected to announce Thursday whether Congress and the Manhattan
district attorney can see the president’s taxes and other financial records he has fought to keep private. In its second big ruling on Wednesday, the court sided with two Catholic schools in California in a decision underscoring that certain employees of religious schools can’t sue for employment discrimination. Lay teachers whose contracts had not been renewed had sued their schools. But Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his majority opinion: “When a school with a religious mission entrusts a teacher with the responsibility of educating and forming students in the faith, judicial intervention into disputes between the school and the teacher threatens the school’s independence in a way that the First Amendment does not allow.” The court’s birth-con-
trol decision was cheered by conservative groups, and White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany joined in. “Today’s Supreme Court ruling is a big win for religious freedom and freedom of conscience,” she said in a statement. Liberal groups and Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, decried the decision, which she called a “fundamental misreading” of the health care law. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said the decision will make it “easier for the Trump-Pence Administration to continue to strip health care from women.” The Trump administration is still seeking to overturn Obama’s Affordable Care Act in its entirety. It has joined Texas and other Republican-led states in calling on the justices to
runner-up, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and one that Trump used effectively against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016. Biden voted for the North American Free Trade Agreement in the Senate in 1994, an anchor of Trump’s criticism and Sanders’ attacks before that. One of Trump’s signature achievements is an overhaul of NAFTA, which he accomplished with backing from many Democrats on Capitol Hill. Since the 1990s, including during two presidential campaigns, Biden has advocated tighter controls in future trade deals, and he’s promised to have organized labor and the environmental movement at the table. The campaign’s outline ahead of Thursday emphasizes that Biden wants a resurgence in U.S. markets before engaging in new trade deals abroad. That includes joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership that Biden advocated when he served as President Barack Obama’s vice president. Trump opposed TPP as a 2016 candidate. China is not a TPP member.
Floyd told police he couldn’t breathe more than 20 times MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As George Floyd told Minneapolis police officers that he couldn’t breathe more than 20 times in the moments before he died, the officer who pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck dismissed his pleas, saying “it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk,” according to transcripts of body camera video recordings made public Wednesday. The transcripts for the body camera videos of officers Thomas Lane and J. Kueng provide the most detailed account yet of what happened as police were taking Floyd into custody on May 25, and reveal more of what was said after Floyd, a Black man who was handcuffed, was put on the ground. “You’re going to kill me, man,” Floyd said, according to a transcript of Lane’s body camera video. “Then stop talking, stop yelling. It takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk,” said Derek Chauvin, the white officer who held his knee to Floyd’s neck for nearly eight minutes, even after Floyd stopped moving. “They’ll kill me. They’ll kill me. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe,” Floyd said. Chauvin’s attorney, Eric Nelson, had no immediate comment Wednesday. The transcripts were made public Wednesday as part of Lane’s request to have the case against him dismissed. Lane’s attorney, Earl Gray, said in a memorandum that there isn’t probable cause to charge his client, based on all of the
evidence and the law. Gray painted an image of a rookie officer who trusted Chauvin, a senior officer, after Floyd had been acting erratically, struggling and hurting himself during an arrest. Gray said that once Floyd was on the ground, Lane had asked twice if officers should roll Floyd on his side, and Chauvin said no. Gray also submitted the body camera footage itself, but that was not immediately made public. The transcripts show Floyd appearing cooperative at times but becoming agitated as he begged not to be put in a squad car, saying repeatedly he was claustrophobic. “Oh man, God don’t leave me man, please man, please man,” he begged, later adding: “I’ll do anything y’ll tell me to, man. ... I’m just claustrophobic, that’s it.” Gray wrote that Floyd started to thrash back and forth and was “hitting his face on the glass in the squad car and began to bleed from his mouth.” Officers brought Floyd to the ground and, “the plan was to restrain him so he couldn’t move and hurt himself anymore,” Gray wrote. Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter. Lane, Kueng and Tou Thao are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and manslaughter. Lane was holding Floyd’s legs at the time, Kueng was at Floyd’s midsection and Thao was watching nearby bystanders. All four officers were fired.
Supreme Court: Some businesses can refuse to offer free birth control do just that. The case is scheduled to be argued in the court term that begins in October. Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority of the court, said in Wednesday’s decision that the administration has the authority to make its birth-control coverage changes and followed appropriate procedures in doing so. The government has estimated that the rule changes would cause between 70,000 women and 126,000 women to lose contraception coverage in one year. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cited those numbers in dissenting. “Today, for the first time, the Court casts totally aside countervailing rights and interests in its zeal to secure religious rights to the nth degree,” she wrote in a dissent joined by Jus-
tice Sonia Sotomayor. Birth control coverage has been a topic of contention since the health care law was passed. “The ACA’s contraceptive mandate ... has existed for approximately nine years. Litigation surrounding that requirement has lasted nearly as long,” Thomas wrote. Initially, churches, synagogues and mosques were exempt from the contraceptive coverage requirement. The Obama administration also created a way by which religiously affiliated organizations including hospitals, universities and charities could opt out of paying for contraception, but women on their health plans would still get no-cost birth control. Some groups complained the optout process itself violated their religious beliefs, and years of legal wrangling followed.
NASCAR moves Watkins Glen race to Daytona CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR will move its August road course race from Watkins Glen in upstate New York because of state health restrictions, and the event will shift instead to the road course at Daytona International Speedway. The move means the Cup Series will make its debut on Daytona’s road course, which is used by the IMSA sports car series and incorporates part of the famed 2.5-mile oval. The race on Aug. 16 was necessary to move from Watkins Glen because NASCAR cannot meet New York’s quarantine requirements for outof-state visitors. “This is an unprecedented
time in the history of our nation and Watkins Glen International,” racetrack President Michael Printup said. “The dynamic situation we are all confronting is impacting our daily lives and activities in unimaginable ways.” NASCAR will return to Daytona two weeks later as scheduled for the regular season finale on the oval. The Aug. 29 event is unchanged from the original 2020 schedule that has been patched back together following a 10-week shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. NASCAR said Wednesday it will determine if fans are allowed at Cup races on a market-by-market basis, in accordance with
local and state guidelines. NASCAR is expected to run its Nov. 8 season finale as scheduled, barring changes to health protocols during the 10-week playoff series. The revisions announced Wednesday cover six Cup races at three tracks. Michigan International Speedway will host a doubleheader before NASCAR’s debut on the Daytona road course. After that race, Dover International Speedway will host a doubleheader, and the playoff field will be finalized the next week at Daytona. NASCAR was not scheduled to compete on the road course at Daytona until next February
in the exhibition Busch Clash to kick off the season. But many of the ideas for next year’s schedule have been forced into the present as NASCAR attempts to complete its 38-race schedule. The All-Star race next Wednesday night at Bristol Motor Speedway will be the fourth midweek race since NASCAR resumed on May 17 and just the second time in event history the race won’t be held at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Track officials shifted the race to Tennessee, where up to 30,000 fans will be able to attend, because North Carolina is not allowing large gatherings. Pocono already hosted Cup races on consecutive days, so
Ivy League Stanford elimintes 11 varsity sports postpones fall sports Associated Press
Associated Press The Ivy League on Wednesday became the first Division I conference to suspend all fall sports, including football, leaving open the possibility of moving some seasons to the spring if the coronavirus pandemic is better controlled by then. “We simply do not believe we can create and maintain an environment for intercollegiate athletic competition that meets our requirements for safety and acceptable levels of risk,” the Ivy League Council of Presidents said in a statement. “We are entrusted to create and maintain an educational environment that is guided by health and safety considerations. There can be no greater responsibility — and that is the basis for this difficult decision.” Though the coalition of eight academically elite schools does not grant athletic scholarships or compete for an NCAA football championship, the move could have ripple effects throughout the big business of college sports. It was the Ivy League’s March 10 decision to scuttle its postseason basketball tournament that preceded a cascade of cancellations. All major college and professional sports were halted within days. Football players in the Power Five conferences have already begun workouts for a season that starts on Aug. 29, even as their schools weigh whether to open their campuses to students or continue classes remotely. More than a dozen prominent programs from Clemson to LSU to Oklahoma have reported positive tests among their athletes in the few weeks since voluntary workouts began. Some have temporarily shut down the workouts, incluidng Ohio State and North Carolina on Wednesday alone. Dr. Chris Kratochvil, the chair of the Big Ten’s infectious disease task force, said there is no “hard deadline” for a decision on sports. “Of course, we watch everything that’s going on,” said Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby, whose league has schools in five states from West Virginia to Iowa and Texas. “But we’re going to go forward and do our own evaluation, and so far our scientists and medical people are telling us that we should stay the course, and learn as we go and move slowly and evaluate as we go.” The Ivy League announcement affects not just football but soccer, field hockey, volleyball and cross country, as well as the fall portion of winter sports like basketball. Wednesday’s decision means Harvard and Yale will not play football in 2020, interrupting a rivalry known as The Game for the first time since the two World Wars. “This news is disappointing for all of us,” Harvard athletic director Erin McDermott said. “While the Fall 2020 experience will be unlike any other, I am confident Please see Ivy League, Page B2
Stanford was already facing some difficult financial choices as it tried to support one of the nation’s largest athletics departments. The coronavirus pandemic forced a dramatic and painful decision: Faced with a nearly $25 million deficit next year, Stanford became the first known Power Five school to eliminate athletic programs because of the pandemic, announcing Wednesday that 11 of its 36 varsity sports will be shuttered next year. The school will discontinue men’s and women’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men’s volleyball and wrestling after the 2020-21 academic year. Stanford also is eliminating 20 support staff positions. “As you can imagine this has been a heartbreaking day for all of us, especially with those student-athletes and coaches involved,” athletic director Bernard Muir said. “We came to this decision only after exhausting all other viable alternatives. It recently became painfully clear we would not remain financially stable and support 36 varsity sports at a nationally competitive level, which is what we desire.” The pandemic shut down sports in March, including the massive revenue-generating NCAA basketball tournaments. With no March Madness, the NCAA was short $375 million scheduled to be distributed to its member schools, which are already facing questions about enrollment levels and tuition shortfalls. Fall sports like football are still in question for some schools; the Ivy League, hours after Stanford’s announcement, called off all fall sports. But some tough choices have already been made. At least 171 sports programs from four-year schools have been cut since the pandemic began in the United States, according to research by The Associated Press. Of those disbanded teams, 51 are from 18 Division I schools. One conference in Division II and one in Division III suspended fall sports competitions and at least 18 small colleges across Division III and the NAIA won’t compete this fall.
Stanford’s decision to drop sports is likely the first of many by Power Five schools across the country. “If it can happen at Stanford, it can happen any place,” Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said. “They’re the broadest, most successful program in the history of college athletics and so to see them drop a third of their program is a shocking thing.” Stanford originally projected a deficit of $12 million for the 2021 fiscal year, a number that more than doubled as it faced fewer donations, sponsorships and ticket sales. Muir said the $25 million deficit for 2021 would likely double if the football season is canceled. The school projected a shortfall of nearly $70 million over the next three years due to the pandemic and estimated it would cost more than $200 million to sustain the 11 sports that will be cut. “We’ve been punching above our weight for quite some time,” Muir said. “It just became more acute .and became such a large issue we had to take this measure.” Stanford has one of the nation’s largest athletics departments, offering double the national average of 18 varsity sports. Earlier this year, football coach David Shaw, basketball coach Jerod Haase and members of the athletics executive team took voluntary pay cuts to help defray some of the financial hit caused by the pandemic. Stanford also saved close to $5 million with expense-cutting measures and asked some of its programs to limit long-distance travel in an attempt to shore up the budget shortfall. “We had a structural deficit coming in, so I don’t want to pin this all on COVID. That’s not the case,” Muir said. “When we realized coming off COVID, we knew we were going to take a financial hit. To blame this all on COVID would not be accurate, but it certainly contributed to the growing deficit.” The contracts of 24 coaches in the 11 sports will be honored, as will the scholarships for the more than 240 athletes affected. All support staff who have been let go will get severance pay.
Storied track meet will be held at 7 sites GENEVA (AP) — In a track and field season almost entirely wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic, athletes and organizers are setting new marks in creativity. On Thursday, the storied Weltklasse meet will broadcast near-live from Zurich in an ambitious mix of social distancing and technological innovation. Only a few of the 30 athletes that will share the $200,000 prize fund on an eight-event program will actually be in the city’s Letzigrund Stadium. Others will start and compete simultaneously, three athletes or teams per event, in one of six empty stadiums scattered across Europe and the United States. Olympic sprint champion Allyson Felix will race in California, while world 200-meter champion Noah Lyles and Olympic triple jump gold medalist Christian Taylor will be in Florida. The highest pressure race at the “Inspiration Games” is perhaps for the staff at Switzerland’s public broadcaster and timing officials. Technicians in Zurich will receive images transmitted on a slight delay from the U.S., France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden that must be synchronized within two minutes
for broadcast during the 90-minute show. “This is something that has never been done before,” Swiss Timing executive Alain Zobrist said. Zobrist’s team will monitor false starts — from “pressure curves” on the starting blocks relayed to Zurich — and photo finishes. “I was totally on board with the concept,” said Felix, who will line up in the 150 meters against Olympic 400-meter champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo in Florida and Mujinga Kambundji in Zurich. “Thought it was super creative just adapting to what’s going on in the world right now.” Taylor was equally enthusiastic during a news conference held online from the athletes’ homes and training bases. “If this is what the new normal is for this period then let’s attack it full on,” the reigning Olympic and world champion said. Simply running on an actual track surface — Felix in California, Taylor in Florida — will be different with training facilities closed during the pandemic. “In California, pretty much everything is locked down,” Felix said. “You can’t get on a track without jumping a fence.” Olympic pole vault champion Kat Stefanidi is now back in the
United States after an unscheduled long stay in her native Greece. She had returned for an Olympic torch event in March. “After six canceled flights, six failed attempts, we were able to get back to the U.S.” Stefanidi said, describing eight weeks of uncertainty as “super stressed.” Stefanidi, like Felix, will compete in California against Sandi Morris in Florida and Angelica Bengtsson in Sweden. The men’s sprinters will mostly congregate in Florida, with Lyles lining up there in the 200 against Christophe Lemaitre in Zurich and Churandy Martina in the Netherlands. Bradenton also hosts the only event with all three athletes at the same site: a 100-yard dash that includes 2019 world championship medalist Andre De Grasse. The winner of each event gets $10,000, second place is worth $6,000, and third gets $4,000. Four months in the planning, the most complete track meet of the outdoor season is not expected to be a template for the near future. “I don’t think the model or the format we are executing now ... will be a serious format,” Weltklasse director Andreas Hediger said, adding it is the “only possibility we have now to bring the best athletes together.”
Michigan and Dover make for three doubleheader weekends this season. The Cup Series also had its first doubleheader with IndyCar last weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. NASCAR has adopted oneday shows without practice or qualifying, and the starting lineups have been set by random draws or inversions based on the last race’s finishing order. Many of the elements NASCAR was forced into trying in 2020 could be seen on next year’s schedule. NASCAR will race Sunday at Kentucky Speedway. It will be the 13th Cup race since NASCAR resumed racing eight weeks ago.
MLS event starts after poignant moment
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Nani called it beautiful and emotional. He wasn’t talking about either goal he played a part in during Orlando City’s 2-1 victory over Inter Miami on Wednesday night. Nearly 200 players took the field for an 8-minute, 46-second moment of silence to protest racial injustice before Major League Soccer’s return to action. Players wore black T-shirts, black gloves and black facemasks emblazoned with Black Lives Matter. The shirts had varying slogans that included Black And Proud, Silence Is Violence and Black All The Time. The players walked toward midfield, raised their right arms one at a time and held the pose so long that some could be seen stretching fatigued muscles afterward. It was a poignant moment that put two of the nation’s most prominent changes over the last four months — masks and movements — at the forefront of the sport’s return. “I felt for a couple of minutes,” Nani said shortly after scoring the go-ahead goal in the seventh minute of stoppage time. “We all want to change the world. We want a better world — no differences, no discrimination. ... Everyone in the world should stop for a couple of minutes and think about our children and teach them how to be a better person and create a better world.” The group setting the tone was formerly called the Black Players Coalition of MLS but changed its name this week to Black Players for Change. Originally announced on Juneteenth, the group started in the wake of George Floyd’s death with the hope of combating systemic racism both in soccer and the players’ communities. The league and the players’ union endorsed the organization. Several other players from Orlando City and Inter Miami took a knee near midfield during the demonstration. The two in-state teams delivered their own moment of silence by taking a knee along with the referee and the line judges just before the opening kick. The national anthem was not played before or after the demonstration. MLS previously said it would not be played because no fans were in attendance. Floyd, a Black man, died May 25 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly eight minutes. Prosecutors said that a police officer had his knee on the neck of Floyd for 7 minutes, 46 seconds — not the 8:46 that has become a symbol of police brutality. Please see Soccer, Page B2
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Golf’s Golf’s Ryder Ryder Cup Cup is is postponed postponed until until 2021 2021 DOUG DOUG FERGUSON FERGUSON Associated Associated Press Press
Seth Seth Waugh Waugh knows knows how how aa Ryder Cup is supposed Ryder Cup is supposed to to look look and how it should sound. and how it should sound. In In his his first first week week as as CEO CEO at at the PGA of America, Waugh the PGA of America, Waugh was was in in the the 72-foot 72-foot high high grandgrandstand behind the first stand behind the first tee tee at at Le Le Golf Golf National National outside outside Paris. Paris. Flags Flags were were waving. waving. Fans Fans were were singing. Players were singing. Players were trying trying to to conceal conceal their their nerves. nerves. That’s That’s what what he he expects expects for for the the Ryder Ryder Cup Cup at at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. Next Next year. year. The The inevitable inevitable became became reality reality Wednesday Wednesday when when Ryder Ryder Cup Cup officials officials postponed postponed the the SeptemSeptember matches until next ber matches until next year year due due to to the the COVID-19 COVID-19 pandemic pandemic that that made made itit increasingly increasingly unlikely unlikely the the loudest loudest event event in in golf golf could could have have spectators. spectators. “A “A Ryder Ryder Cup Cup with with no no fans fans is is not not aa Ryder Ryder Cup,” Cup,” Waugh Waugh said. said. The The Ryder Ryder Cup Cup was was scheduled scheduled for Sept. 25-27 at Whistling for Sept. 25-27 at Whistling Straits Straits along along the the Lake Lake Michigan Michigan shore. shore. Because Because of of aa reconfigured reconfigured schedule schedule created created by by golf golf being being shut down for three months, shut down for three months, the the matches matches would would have have been been held held one one week week after after the the U.S. U.S. Open. Open. Now, the Ryder Cup Now, the Ryder Cup will will move move to to Sept. Sept. 24-26, 24-26, 2021, 2021, the the second second
time time in in the the last last two two decades decades itit was was postponed. The Sept. postponed. The Sept. 11 11 terrorist terrorist attacks attacks led led the the 2001 2001 matches matches to to be be postponed two weeks before they postponed two weeks before they were were set set to to be be played. played. Waugh, the Waugh, the former former CEO CEO of of Deutsche Deutsche Bank Bank Americas, Americas, called called itit “the “the most most complicated complicated deal deal of of my career” because of so my career” because of so many many moving moving parts. parts. The The decision decision mean mean Europe’s Europe’s next home Ryder next home Ryder Cup Cup set set for for Italy has been pushed back Italy has been pushed back until until 2023. 2023. The The European European Tour Tour thrives thrives on on Ryder Ryder Cup Cup revenue. revenue. And it affects And it affects the the PGA PGA Tour, Tour, which already has lost which already has lost millions millions this this year year while while trying trying to to keep keep canceled canceled tournaments tournaments solvent. solvent. The The Presidents Presidents Cup Cup in in 2021 2021 at at Quail Hollow in North Quail Hollow in North Carolina Carolina was was aa sellout sellout in in corporate corporate hoshospitality, pitality, and and itit now now gets gets pushed pushed back back aa year. year. Quail Quail Hollow Hollow instead instead will will host host the Wells Fargo Championship the Wells Fargo Championship next next spring, spring, and and that that event event will will move to the TPC Potomac move to the TPC Potomac in in 2022 2022 during during the the Presidents Presidents Cup Cup year. year. “It “It was was very very clear clear that that once once we reset the schedule, we reset the schedule, there there were were challenges,” challenges,” PGA PGA Tour Tour CommisCommissioner sioner Jay Jay Monahan Monahan said. said. “They “They did did absolutely absolutely everything everything they they could could to to play play the the Ryder Ryder Cup Cup and and play play itit with with fans. fans. When When itit was was
that that we we will will find find positive positive opportunities in opportunities in this this chalchallenging lenging time. time. We We will will keep keep moving moving forward forward through through this this painful painful but but temporary temporary experience, together.” experience, together.” The The league league said said itit has has not yet determined not yet determined whether whether some some seasons seasons can can be be moved moved to the spring. But the to the spring. But the conference conference noted noted that that its its schools already are schools already are limiting limiting gatherings, gatherings, visitors visitors and and travel for students travel for students and and staff. staff. “As “As athletics athletics is is expected expected to to operate operate consistent consistent with with campus policies, campus policies, itit will will not not be be possible possible for for Ivy Ivy League League teams teams to to participate participate in in intercollegiate intercollegiate athletics athletics competition competition prior prior to to the the end of the fall semester,” end of the fall semester,” the the league league said. said.
Ivy Ivy League League schools schools are are spread across seven spread across seven NorthNortheastern eastern states states that, that, as as of of mid-July, have seen mid-July, have seen some some success success at at mitigating mitigating the the spread of COVID-19. spread of COVID-19. But But most most of of those those states states still still ban ban large large gatherings; gatherings; under under the Massachusetts the Massachusetts reopenreopening ing plan, plan, Harvard Harvard would would not not be be allowed allowed to to have have fans fans in in the the stands stands until until aa vaccine is developed. vaccine is developed. Harvard Harvard has has already already announced announced that that all all classes classes for for both semesters will both semesters will be be held held virtually; virtually; dorms dorms will will be be open open only to freshmen and only to freshmen and seniors. seniors. Yale Yale said said itit would would limit limit its its dorms to 60% capacity dorms to 60% capacity and and said said most most classes classes would would be be conducted remotely. conducted remotely. PrincPrinceton eton will will also also do do most most of of its its teaching online, with dorms teaching online, with dorms at at half half capacity. capacity. But But while while Ivy Ivy League League football football remains remains aa quaint quaint extracurricular extracurricular activity, activity, the the
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clear clear that that was was something something they they were unable to were unable to do, do, we we came came to to the the table table and and were were about about to to reach reach the the right right outcome outcome for for players players and and fans.” fans.” Franco Franco Chimenti, Chimenti, president president of of the the Italian Italian Golf Golf Federation, Federation, told told The The Associated Associated Press Press the the postpostponement gives Rome ponement gives Rome more more time time to to prepare prepare the the Marco Marco Simone Simone Golf Golf and and Country Country Club. Club. “We would “We would have have been been ready ready (by 2022), and now (by 2022), and now we’ll we’ll be be ready ready by by 2023,” 2023,” Chimenti Chimenti said. said. “We’re “We’re about about to to inaugurate inaugurate the the course. course. We We don’t don’t have have probproblems.” lems.” Among Among the the issues issues caused caused by by the the pandemic pandemic was was travel travel by by EuEuropean ropean fans, fans, who who would would have have had had to spend a month in quarantine to spend a month in quarantine — — two two weeks weeks both both coming coming and and going going — — for for three three days days of of matchmatches. es. The The environment environment at at the the Ryder Ryder Cup is unlike any other Cup is unlike any other in in golf, golf, with with distinctive distinctive tones tones of of cheering cheering from from Europeans Europeans and and Americans, Americans, hour-by-hour hour-by-hour tension tension over over 28 28 matches from the opening matches from the opening tee tee shot shot Friday Friday morning morning until until the the final final putt putt Sunday Sunday afternoon. afternoon. “The “The Ryder Ryder Cup Cup is is uniquely uniquely about the fans,” Waugh about the fans,” Waugh said. said. “We “We didn’t want to build Lambeau didn’t want to build Lambeau Field, Field, get get hopes hopes up up and and then then have have to cancel.” to cancel.” There There is is no no guarantee guarantee moving moving
sport sport drives drives millions millions in in reverevenues for Power Five schools. nues for Power Five schools. According According to to USA USA Today, Today, the Longhorns the Longhorns football football program program brought brought Texas Texas more more than $144 million than $144 million in in 2018. 2018. Losing Losing football football would would be a heavy be a heavy blow blow for for most most schools. schools. At At aa White White House House sumsummit mit on on reopening reopening schools schools earlier earlier Wednesday, Wednesday, PresiPresident Donald dent Donald Trump Trump asked asked University University of of Alabama Alabama chancellor chancellor Finis Finis St. St. John John if if the Crimson Tide will the Crimson Tide will play play football football this this year. year. “I can “I can promise promise you. you. We We are are planning planning to to play play the the season season at at the the University University of of Alabama,” St. Alabama,” St. John John said. said. “Understand “Understand that that creates creates great great difficulties difficulties and and complexities, complexities, and and we we are are hoping for that. It’s hoping for that. It’s importimportant ant to to aa lot lot of of people. people. But But we’re we’re doing doing our our best best on on that that one.” one.”
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itit back back aa year year will will change change anyanything. The PGA Tour thing. The PGA Tour resumed resumed its its schedule schedule aa month month ago ago and and has has not allowed spectators for not allowed spectators for at at least least seven seven events. events. The The PGA PGA ChamChampionship on Aug. 6-9 pionship on Aug. 6-9 in in San San Francisco Francisco will will be be the the first first major major without without fans. fans. Waugh Waugh raised raised the the notion notion of of cancanceling the Ryder Cup if the coroceling the Ryder Cup if the coronavirus navirus situation situation hasn’t hasn’t changed changed by next September, by next September, though though he he was was “betting on science.” “betting on science.” The The Americans, Americans, who who won won the the last last Ryder Ryder Cup Cup on on home home soil soil in in 2016, 2016, changed changed their their qualifying qualifying because because of of the the three-month three-month shutdown that shutdown that allowed allowed Steve Steve Stricker Stricker six six captain’s captain’s picks. picks. With With the the postponement, postponement, the the U.S. U.S. and and European European teams teams are are reviewing reviewing their criteria. Europe their criteria. Europe said said its its Ryder Ryder Cup Cup points points earned earned since since last last September September have have been been frozen frozen until next year. until next year. Players Players had had urged urged all all along along for for the the Ryder Ryder Cup Cup to to be be postponed postponed if if fans fans couldn’t couldn’t be be there. there. “The “The decision decision to to reschedule reschedule is the right thing to is the right thing to do do under under the the circumstances,” circumstances,” Stricker Stricker said. said. “At “At the the end end of of the the day, day, we we want want to stage a Ryder Cup that to stage a Ryder Cup that will will rival rival all all other other Ryder Ryder Cups Cups in in my my home home state state of of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, and and now now we we have have the the opportunity opportunity to showcase the to showcase the event event as as itit was was
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MLS MLS players players had had weeks weeks to decide what to to decide what to do do prior prior to to the the MLS MLS is is Back Back tourtournament nament at at ESPN’s ESPN’s Wide Wide World of Sports World of Sports complex complex at at Disney Disney World. World. The The league’s league’s teams teams are are sequestered in resorts sequestered in resorts for for the the duration duration of of the the World World Cup-style tournament, Cup-style tournament, which which began began with with aa Group Group A match that was A match that was the the first first meeting meeting between between two two SunSunshine shine State State teams. teams. FC FC Dallas Dallas withdrew withdrew Monday Monday after after 10 10 players players and a coach tested and a coach tested positive positive for for COVID-19. COVID-19. A A day day later, later, Nashville Nashville SC’s SC’s status status was thrust into doubt was thrust into doubt with with five five confirmed confirmed positive positive tests. tests. Nashville Nashville was was supposed supposed
meant meant to to be be seen.” seen.” The move The move does does nothing nothing to to ease ease aa crowded crowded golf golf schedule schedule for for 2021. 2021. The The Summer Summer Olympics Olympics already already were were postponed postponed with with hopes Tokyo can hopes Tokyo can host host them them next next summer. summer. Golf Golf also also has has three three other other cups cups on on the the calendar calendar — — the the Walker Cup and Curtis Cup Walker Cup and Curtis Cup for for amateurs, amateurs, and and the the Solheim Solheim Cup Cup on on the the LPGA LPGA Tour, Tour, which which is is scheduled scheduled to to finish finish on on Labor Labor Day Day next summer at Inverness next summer at Inverness Club Club in in Toledo, Toledo, Ohio. Ohio. When When the the Ryder Ryder Cup Cup was was postponed because of postponed because of 9/11, 9/11, that that led led to to the the Solheim Solheim Cup Cup in in Minnesota and the Ryder Minnesota and the Ryder Cup Cup in in England England being being played played in in consecutive weeks consecutive weeks in in 2002. 2002. The The Solheim Solheim Cup Cup then then moved moved to to odd-numbered odd-numbered years. years. Next Next year year “is “is shaping shaping up up to to be an incredible year for be an incredible year for golf,” golf,” LPGA LPGA Commissioner Commissioner Mike Mike Whan said. Whan said. “The “The LPGA LPGA looks looks forward forward to to staging staging the the Solheim Solheim Cup Cup over over Labor Labor Day Day weekend weekend at at Inverness Club in Ohio, Inverness Club in Ohio, and and the the Ryder Ryder Cup Cup just just aa few few weeks weeks later later at at Whistling Whistling Straits Straits in in Wisconsin Wisconsin will will cap cap an an amazing amazing month month for for golf fans in the Midwest. golf fans in the Midwest. We We are are excited excited for for this this doubleheader doubleheader opopportunity portunity to to celebrate celebrate all all the the great great golfers, golfers, male male and and female, female, who who play for the USA and play for the USA and Europe.” Europe.”
to to play play Chicago Chicago in in the the second game of a second game of a doubledoubleheader header Wednesday Wednesday but but itit was postponed. was postponed. MLS MLS shut shut down down because because of the coronavirus of the coronavirus panpandemic demic on on March March 12, 12, after after the league’s teams the league’s teams had had each each played played two two reguregular-season games. lar-season games. The The reboot reboot had had aa conconsiderably different siderably different feel feel — — without without fans fans and and with with plenty of concern plenty of concern even even amid amid aa safety safety bubble. bubble. “Today “Today we we made made the the noise,” Orlando noise,” Orlando coach coach Oscar Oscar Pareja Pareja said. said. But But 25 25 teams teams that that include include nearly nearly 700 700 players players plus plus coaches, coaches, trainers trainers and and other other support support staff staff do do eveverything erything right right for for aa month? month? And what’s the And what’s the threshold threshold for for more more positive positive tests? tests? The NFL, The NFL, the the NBA NBA and and Major Major League League Baseball Baseball surely surely have have aa close close eye eye on on
what’s what’s happening happening outside outside Orlando. Orlando. The The NBA NBA should should get get an an up-close look. The league up-close look. The league already already has has part part of of its its bubble established bubble established at at the the sprawling sprawling ESPN ESPN venue. venue. NBA NBA team team flags flags fly fly on on every flagpole, and every flagpole, and some some areas areas have have been been sanitized sanitized and and cordoned cordoned off off for for basbasketball’s return later ketball’s return later this this month. month. MLS MLS is is using using three three fields fields near near the the back back of of the the complex, complex, two two of of the the ones ones the the NFL NFL used used for for Pro Pro Bowl Bowl practices practices the the last last four four years. years. The The league league mandated masks mandated masks for for eveveryone other than eryone other than playplayers. ers. Miami Miami star star Rodolfo Rodolfo Pizarro, Pizarro, though, though, wore wore one one during warmups. during warmups. SocSoccer cer balls balls knocked knocked out out of of bounds were wiped bounds were wiped down down before before being being placed placed back back into the mix. into the mix.
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