• Some business owners in Santa Clara County are now banding together to lobby for loosening the reopening guidelines there. The county, like San Francisco, is in the state's "red" tier but isn't allowing many of the businesses the state would allow to be open indoors under stricter local orders. [CBS SF]
• ABC 7 has compiled some statistics about the pandemic's impact on the Bay Area to date. These include a 97-percent drop in travelers passing through SFO between March and April (it's back up somewhat), and Muni is now operating at about one-third of its normal bus ridership. [ABC 7]
• San Francisco city leaders announced harsher penalties for people caught participating in sideshows. Cars will be impounded up to two weeks, and if a suspect is believed to have been a driver, they will be arrested. [KRON4]
• On Wednesday, Cal Fire lifted most but not all remaining evacuation orders in the CZU Lightning Complex fire zone. Around 900 people out 77,000 originally evacuated remain displaced from their homes. [Bay City News]
• The smoke from NorCal and Oregon fires is going to continue blowing away from the Bay Area this weekend, leaving us with clean air. [NWSBayArea/Twitter]
• A bad car crash in Antioch late Wednesday sent three people to the hospital, including a two-year-old who was taken to UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in SF. [KTVU]
• The Vallejo Police Officers Association, the police union, is making a public call for reform and the chief of police is calling bullshit and saying they've been a constant source of anti-reform grievances. [KRON4]
• All Yoga Tree studios are going into indefinite "hibernation," and some are closing permanently, including the Valencia Street studio. [Chronicle]
• A whistleblower in the National Guard says that military police were seeking out heat rays and sound cannons to use against protesters outside the White House in June. [New York Times]
• Kanye West posted a video on Twitter of himself pissing on a Grammy. [ABC7]

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