Latest line: A good week for Christine Wormuth, bad one for Fremont schools superintendent

Christine Wormuth

California native and former undersecretary of defense, who helped lead the Pentagon’s counter-ISIS campaign. is nominated by President Biden to be the first female Secretary of the U.S. Army.

C.J. Cammack

Fremont Unified School District superintendent gets strong criticism and parents’ lawsuit threat after announcing schools won’t open in person until next fall over a failure to make a deal with the teachers’ union.

PG&E

California Public Utilities Commission tightens oversight of the utility, saying despite starting multiple deadly fires, it’s still doing a poor job trimming and removing trees near the most hazardous power lines.