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NBA FINALS, GAME 7
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Historic loss: Warriors are first team to lose after leading 3-1
Historic win: Cleveland gets city’s first pro title in 52 years
WATER MANAGEMENT
Should
state limit
small water
agencies?
Senate bill would
make it more difficult
to add to the state’s
7,500-plus systems
By Paul Rogers
[email protected]
California’s drought has revealed that when it comes to water, not every community is equal.
Large urban areas, from the
Bay Area to Los Angeles, asked
residents to conserve, raised
rates to buy water from other
places and generally have gotten by without much inconvenience, other than brown lawns
and shorter showers.
But communities served by
smaller systems, from farm towns
to forest hamlets — often lacking money, expertise and modern equipment — have struggled
and, in some cases, nearly run out
of water entirely.
Now, a bill by a Bay Area state
lawmaker aims to slow the spread
of little “mom and pop” water providers by making it very difficult
to create new ones.
The problem, says state Sen.
Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, is
that California has 7,642 water
systems. Some serve only campgrounds, prisons or schools. Of
the ones in communities with
full-time residents, 63 percent
have 200 or fewer connections.
Many have no permanent employees. Some own only one well
By David DeBolt, Julia
Prodis Sulek and Erin
Baldassari
Bay Area News Group
OAKLAND >> A season of breaking record after record ended
in heartbreak for the Golden
State Warriors Sunday — devastating fans in a Game 7 for
the ages.
Silence fell over Oracle
Arena, as the Cleveland Cavaliers did the impossible. With
a 93-89 victory, they became
the first team to come back
from a 3-1 deficit in the NBA
Finals and the first pro sports
team to bring a championship
home to the Rust Belt city since
1964. After the game, children
were seen weeping outside the
arena.
“At the end, they made shots
and we missed shots,” said fan
John Winer, of Berkeley, outside of the arena. “I feel terrible.”
Jewel Burrell, who flew from
Houston to attend the game, is
a Warriors fan but was happy
for Cleveland.
“They haven’t won in a
while,” she said.
Lifelong Warriors fan and
Oakland native Nico Dorado
said he felt “deflated.”
“We broke every record in
the regular season and postseason and then to lose the
championship, it’s the worst
way to feel .... I’m holding back
WATER >> PAGE 6
DIVIDED AMERICA
Gun views
create friction
even as fewer
bear arms
WARRIORS >> PAGE 6
“We broke every
record in the
regular season and
postseason and
then to lose the
championship, it’s
the worst way to
feel .... I’m holding
back tears.”
By Matt Sedensky
The Associated Press
Look anywhere in
this nation born of a bloody revolution of musket fire, and you’re
likely to find sharp disagreement
over guns.
Democrats war with Republicans; small towns are pitted
against cities. Women and men
are at odds, as are blacks and
whites and old and young. North
clashes with South, East with
West.
“The current gun debate is
more polarized and sour than any
time before in American history,”
said Adam Winkler, a constitutional law professor at UCLA and
author of the 2011 book, “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right
to Bear Arms in America.”
Still numb from the latest mass
shooting, in Orlando, it’s easy to
imagine that guns have always divided us this way. But a close look
at survey data over decades shows
they haven’t.
There was a time when most
citizens favored banning handguns, the chief gun lobbyists supported firearm restrictions, and
courts hadn’t yet interpreted the
Second Amendment as guaranteeing a personal right to bear
NEW YORK >>
— Lifelong Warriors fan and
Oakland native Nico Dorado
ERIC RISBERG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry sits on the bench during the fourth quarter of Game 7of the
NBA Finals between the Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Oakland on Sunday. The Cavaliers won
93-89, becoming the first team to win the NBA title after trailing 3-1and bringing Cleveland its first pro
sports title of any kind in the last 52years.
More inside: Jim Seimas:
Warriors’ collapse is another lesson learned, B1
DROUGHT
California to fire up burners to battle dead tree epidemic
By Scott Smith
The Associated Press
CRESSMAN >>
Ca lifor nia’s
drought and a bark beetle epidemic have caused the largest die-off of Sierra Nevada
forests in modern history,
raising fears that trees could
come crashing down on people or fuel deadly wildfires that
could wipe out mountain communities.
Aerial images show vast
forests that have turned a
rust-color. The epidemic has
killed an estimated 40 million
trees since 2010 in the central
and southern Sierra, and it’s
spreading north.
Officials who are cutting
down and stacking the most
dangerous trees in piles across
six counties, however, say they
are stumped by how to get rid
of them all.
One solution is to fire up a
fleet of 10 large, mechanized
incinerators the state recently
purchased. Promoters say they
burn so hot that they spew little if any smoke, making them
environmentally friendly.
Environmentalists contend the burners undercut an
emergency order by Gov. Jerry
Brown — considered a global
leader in the fight against climate change — who called for
sending the trees to biomass
SCOTT SMITH — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
plants and converting them
Firefighters with the California
into energy.
Chief Ken Pimlott, who Department of Forestry and Fire
manages the state’s response Protection remove dead trees near
TREES >> PAGE 6 Cressman.
GUNS >> PAGE 6
FATHER’S DAY
OBITUARY
WEATHER
SOCIAL MEDIA
Drama tells the story of
a park’s formation
‘Star Trek’ actor Anton
Yelchin killed by own car
Heat wave scorches
Southwestern US
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Sentinel videos on Tout
At Big Basin Redwoods State
Park, visitors learned how
local men helped save the redwoods for posterity. PAGE A2
INDEX
Coast Lines.....A5
Sports.............. B1
The car pinned Yelchin, 27,
against a brick mailbox pillar
and a security fence at his
home in Studio City. PAGE A6
Opinion ............ A7
Weather ..........B8
Puzzles............B6
Phoenix hits 118degrees as
Santa Cruz County and other
parts of California near the
triple digits. PAGE A2
Comics ............ B7
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