Latest line: A good week for teachers, a bad one for Newsom

Teachers

As Bay Area schools begin, more training and preparation makes for smoother online learning, and polls show most parents agree with teachers and think kids should have distance learning until there’s a vaccine.

Gavin Newsom 

First blackouts since the Gray Davis era in 20 years ago, 367 wildfires at once with three months of fire season still to go, state budget surplus vaporized by COVID-19… why did you want this job again?

California ISO

Managers of the state’s power grid come under heavy scrutiny following two days of blackouts, then during historic heat wave find enough conservation and imported power to keep the lights on.