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Customers dine at their tables at the Cast Iron Grill and Bar in Suisun City, Friday.
Suisun City Waterfront Restaurant Week offers up a variety of treats Susan Hiland
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SUISUN CITY — Anyone looking for a unique and delicious meal should put on their calendar the Suisun City Waterfront Restaurant Week that begins Friday. “The Restaurant Week is an opportunity for us to try different meals that we normal wouldn’t have,” said Bill Davini, co-owner of Cast Iron Grill and Bar. The Cast Iron, for the 13th annual Suisun City Waterfront Restaurant Week, is offering five different meals that include soup or salad along with dessert. This year, the menu will include pork chops, which is a crowd favorite according to Davini, along with shepherd’s
Stephen O’Neil carries a tray of food to customers at the Cast Iron Grill and Bar in Suisun City, Friday. pie, lobster ravioli and prawns, almond-crusted halibut and a lobster bake. “We ask that people make reservation at least for the weekend because it gets very busy,” Davini said. “We are not doing deliveries for this prix fixe menu items.” Prix fixe is a meal
consisting of several courses served at a total fixed price. People can still order and pick up the items themselves during the week. Other participating restaurants on the waterfront will offer three-course prix fixe
menus for dinner, a twocourse breakfast or lunch, or a special according to Laura Cole-Rowe, president of the Suisun City Waterfront District. Diners can also order from a restaurant’s regular menu, but to take advantage of the specials offered during this week, you must order from the prix fixe or special menu. The idea for the Restaurant Week began with Visit California thirteen years ago. They highlight all things Californian, according to Cole-Rowe. “One of the things they noticed, there was a slow down after the holidays,” she said. “The businesses create a fixed menu for the event,” Cole-Rowe said. “It is special for that See Week, Page A7
House GOP lawmaker Roy: ‘Let’s fight now’ over the US debt ceiling Laura Litvan
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WASHINGTON — A conservative Republican at the center of the tortured effort to elect House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’d welcome a hardfought battle over the U.S. debt ceiling, but said both parties should start negotiating terms for the increase now so it doesn’t go down to the wire. “Our point is, let’s fight now to end the status
quo,” Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican and member of the far-right Freedom Caucus, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “Let’s get in the room now.” Roy helped negotiate a deal with McCarthy giving conservatives more clout that helped give the leader enough backing to win the speakership by a single vote early Saturday on the 15th ballot. Asked whether McCar-
thy must tie a debt ceiling increase to deep spending cuts or face the mightiest tool they secured – the ability for a single Republican to force a House vote to oust McCarthy as speaker – Roy hinted that could be in store. “I’m not going to play the what-if games of how we’re going to use the tools of the House to make sure that we enforce the terms of the agreement,” Roy said. “But we will use tools of the House to
enforce the terms of the agreement.” Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, have denounced the deal McCarthy struck that helped bring around many of a group of 20 dissident GOP lawmakers last week. Democrats and other critics say it could hobble McCarthy’s ability to reach a bipartisan deal to lift the debt See GOP, Page A7
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Water officials says they are prepared for record flooding Jordan Parker
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California water officials emphasized the likelihood of record flooding in some areas as rain is expected to continue to pound the state this week. Speaking to reporters via zoom Saturday evening, Department of Water Resources officials stressed the state’s preparedness for a second atmospheric river storm expected to usher in more power outages for residents still recovering from last week’s deluge. Last week’s storm brought a combination of high winds and flooding across the Bay Area and Northern California regions, leaving thousands without power, downed trees and residents displaced from their homes.
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President Joe Biden was confronted at the airport in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who demanded in a handdelivered letter that Biden act immediately to stop unauthorized immigration, including by building more walls on the border. Abbott told reporters that in his letter to Biden, he described “the chaos that his refusal to enforce the border laws” has caused in Texas and suggested five possible solutions, including increasing deportations and constructing more walls. “He needs to step up and take swift action,” the governor said. The president, he said, responded that “he wanted to work with us on this.” Reporters who traveled with Biden and who
spoke with Abbott after the two men met were unable to hear anything they said to each other as the president stepped off Air Force One. Biden didn’t speak to the press before leaving the airport. Abbott, a Republican, has become one of the Democratic president’s fiercest critics on immigration as border crossings have spiked. Over the last year, he has repeatedly bused migrants from Texas to Democratic-run cities to protest what he calls federal inaction on border security. The White House has lambasted the move as a stunt that exploits vulnerable people. During a few hours on the ground in El Paso on Sunday, Biden plans to see firsthand conditions at a port of entry and a facility housing migrants encountered by U.S. authorities.
As of Friday night, roughly 36,000 Bay Area PG&E customers remained without power, with some facing another week before the possibility of restoration. Areas like unincorporated Annapolis in Sonoma County will be without power until Jan. 13, the utility company said. Intense weather conditions have made restoring power difficult for crews due to access challenges resulting from fallen trees, flooding, and road closures. And yet there is more to come. Michael Anderson, the state’s climatologist, said that Californians can expect the imminent string of storms to last through January 19. Areas including San Francisco and See Floods, Page A7
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