COVID-19 Special Coverage

This week we’ll be breaking down the North State’s case numbers for you, we’ll hear from Butte County’s public health director about the county being added to the state’s monitoring list and head to Plumas and Sierra counties to hear how teens there are coping during a summer pandemic. If you have questions or comments for us, our message line is still up – give us a call at 433-9216 – or you can also leave comments at mysnpr.org . For Thursday, July 23, 2020. This is special coverage from North

Today we’re hearing about videos recently released by the Justice For Desmond Phillips team that bring up questions regarding conflicting accounts from Chico Police officers about what happened on the night Desmond Phillips was killed by law enforcement three years ago on March 17, 2017. If you have questions or comments for us, leave them on our message line 433-9216 or you can also head to mysnpr.org. For Friday, July 17, 2020. This is special coverage from North State Public Radio.

Today we’ll hear from Congressman Doug LaMalfa about a scathing letter signed and sent to California Governor Gavin Newsom by local republican lawmakers regarding his recent statewide rollbacks and restrictions as coronavirus cases continue to rise. We’ll also check in with a pub owner about how these new restrictions have affected their business, and we’ll hear from the Shasta Superintendent of Schools about plans for the fall. If you have questions or comments for us, leave them on our message

Today we’ll hear from UC Davis School of Medicine associate dean Dr. Brad Pollock about what’s working and what isn’t with California’s testing strategy and we’ll hear how to better protect yourself from wildfire smoke this fire season. If you have questions or comments for us, leave them on our message line 433-9216 or you can also head to mysnpr.org. For Wednesday, July 15, 2020. This is special coverage from North State Public Radio.

Preparing for wildfire season includes a lot – creating 50 feet of defensible space around your home, signing up for your counties emergency alert system, having a go bag packed and ready and having an evacuation plan created and rehearsed – but even if you’re not in a high-risk fire zone, there’s also another important health threat we see every year from wildfires that you should consider – smoke. And this year officials are saying, it’s really important to defend yourself from it because

Today we’ll get an update from Butte County Superintended of Schools Mary Sakuma to learn about the county’s plans for schools and what they’re envisioning learning could look like when the year starts. W e’ll also head to Sierra and Plumas counties to look at how some growers and nonprofits there are working to help meet the increased demand for foo d during the pandemic. If you have questions or comments for us, leave them on our message line at 433-9216 or you can also head to mysnpr.org .

The traditional start of the school year is just weeks away. While the Trump administration and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos are pushing hard for schools to resume, some parents, teachers and others fear that with transmission rates exponentially higher than when in-person instruction ceased in the spring, catastrophe will be the end result. To help quantify the risks, understand the precautionary plans and envision what learning will look like next month, NSPR’s Marc Albert reached out to

Today we’ll hear about a plan to release 8,000 prisoners amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in the state, we’ll hear more about what we’ll expect this fire season and we’ll head to Plumas County – to hear what the pandemic has been like for two hotel owners and what they’d like to see from tourists traveling to the area. If you have questions or comments for us, leave them on our message line 433-9216 – or you can also head to mysnpr.org . For Monday, July 13, 2020. This is special coverage from

It’s been months since the North State’s last appreciable rain. Grasses and shrubs in the valley and low foothills are already tinder dry. Intense summer is quickly desiccating vegetation higher up. As California’s fire season begins in earnest, NSPR’s Marc Albert checked in with Cal Fire Butte County spokesman Rick Carhart about projections that firefighters will be very busy across a wider area than recent years, while COVID-19 idles one of Cal Fire’s key weapons: inmate fire crews.

Today w e’re focusing on emergency alerts – as we enter fire season – we’ll hear from five different counties in the North State about the type of alerts they use , how often they’re tested and how you can get signed up. If you have questions you can submit them through this form or call our message line: 433-9216 . For Friday, July 10, 2020. This is special coverage from North State Public Radio.