Latest Line: A good week for homeless solutions, a bad week for outrunning COVID infections
Santa Clara homeless
A new study found modest financial efforts to prevent homelessness were successful in Santa Clara County. At-risk families receiving assistance were 81% less likely to become homeless within six months and 73% less likely within a year.
COVID-19
The virus is on the rise in California and across the Bay Area, with reported positivity rates doubling from June to July. Even our most cautious public health officers, Santa Clara County’s Dr. Sara Cody among them, finally came down with it.
Pac 12
The long-storied college football conference was on the brink of extinction this week amid a mass exodus and fizzling media deal. But could Cal and Stanford end up joining the stacked Big Ten?