According to the Citrus Heights Sentinel, the City of Citrus Heights has received $7.8M for Covid-19 relief. It's the first of two increments from the federal government's American Rescue Plan Act. Within 12 months the city will get a second increment, bringing the totaL to almost $16M. That's quite a help for the City's budget, which, like other municipalities, took a hit during the pandemic. It'…

How does our community compare with other parts of California? There are several tools that let you dive into that subject. The US Census is a widely-known example. But for ease of use, one of the best tools is the Healthy Places Index, maintained by the Public Health Alliance of Southern California as an online interactive map with content reports that are easy to create. The index is intended to…

This week the U.S. coronavirus death toll in our country surpassed 500,000, which is the highest death toll of any country in the world. That number exceeds the entire number of Americans who died in World War II plus the population of Rancho Cordova. NBC News reported that the number is roughly equal to the population of the City of Sacramento. Another way to envision this tragic number of deaths…

The NY Times' "California Today" online newsletter had a story about the City of Long Beach's Covid-19 vaccination program, which appears to be running faster and more smoothly than it's county's program is. You see, the city has its own health department, separate from Los Angeles County’s, and that has  helped make the city's vaccination program a model within California, even to the point of…