• Employers in California are hiring more and more people (a record-breaking pace) as the state’s unemployment claims remain high
• Since February, California has averaged more than 111,000 new jobs a month which has recovered about 58% of the 2.7 million lost in March and April of 2020 during the stay-at-home order

Northern California wildfires cause National Forest lands to close

• On Thursday, August 19, the U.S. Forest Service announced that on August 22, they will close nine national forests from Lake Tahoe at the Nevada border to the Six Rivers National Forest
• More than 650 firefighters and 13 helicopters, and air tankers have flown fire suppression missions there as conditions allowed, authorities said
• This area of land mentioned in the announcement is more than 1 million acres

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• On August 23, The Torrance Police Department reported that they’ve found hundreds of ballots for California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recall election, drugs, and a loaded gun
• This discovery occurred after Police responded to a call of a man passed out in a vehicle in a 7-Eleven parking lot in Torrance on August 16
• Also during the investigation, officers found that the suspect was a felon and had Xanax pills in his possession

Growing California wildfires force Reno residents indoors and 42,000 to evacuate

• Reno, Nevada Health Officials are warning residents to remain indoors as the Caldor Fire burning east of Sacramento, California has emitted smoke that has come across state lines
• Within California, more than 42,000 residents shave already received evacuation orders as eight other large wildfires burn the northern part of the state 
• A report from Cal Fire on August 24 said 632 structures have been destroyed by flames and two people have been injured

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• The amount of COVID-19 cases in the US has gone past 35 million with California becoming the first state to pass 4 million 
• The most recent 7 day average of daily new cases has shown 66,606 which is a 64% increase compared to the week before

California’s plea urges Forest Service to guarantee swifter action on new wildfires

• The new chief of the USDA Forest Service, Chief Randy Moore, is currently directing his agency to have swifter action on new wildfires
• The Forest Service’s Chief Moore comes amid rising complaints about his agency not having a quick enough response to many recent fires such as the Tamarack Fire that has burned 6,696 acres of land in Nevada and California

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• On Tuesday, a candlelight vigil was held to honor the life of Natasha Denise Barlow after she was found dead earlier this week
• According to authorities, Natasha had been allegedly been killed by the father of her toddler son who was also abducted by the father
• Just recently, the child was found sage and the father is currently in custody in Clark County, Nevada jail 

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• Michigan legislators have approved mid-year spending bills, including billions of federal coronavirus relief to boost pay for frontline government workers, incentivize unemployed people to return to work and upgrade infrastructure
• Under a $3.3 billion plan sent to the Senate by the Republican-led House on a 65-42 vote, some of the U.S. funding would go toward payroll costs and free up state dollars to pay the state’s million Flint water crisis settlement
• The GOP-controlled Senate, meanwhile, unanimously shipped the House a $445 million supplemental budget bill that would allocate federal emergency rental assistance and other aid that Congress and then-President Donald Trump enacted in December

• Nevada lawmakers are considering a massive energy infrastructure proposal that would encourage the construction of renewable energy transmission lines and electric vehicle charging stations
• The bill calls for a $100 million investment in transportation electrification through five programs that would install electric vehicle charging stations in cities and on highways throughout Nevada
• “We could develop transmission lines across the state of Nevada and be able to access wind in Wyoming, solar in the Southwest, hydropower in the Northwest and provide power to our neighbors in southern California and central California,” Senator Brooks said
• The Nevada proposal mirrors similar legislation under consideration throughout the region, including in Colorado

• Lawmakers in the Minnesota House began debating a proposal to legalize recreational marijuana use ahead of a historic floor vote Thursday evening that would mark the first time either chamber has voted on legalization
• Passage of the bill — which would legalize marijuana use for adults and expunge minor marijuana convictions — is expected in the Democratic-controlled House
• Republican lawmakers pointed out several reservations with the bill, including the potential for increased driving under the influence, a lack of roadside tests for law enforcement and uncertainty for businesses screening applicants who use cannabis, among others
• Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have already legalized recreational marijuana for adults to varying degrees

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