<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Sorry, but this was too rich. &nbsp;<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From the general overview blurb</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/us/live-coronavirus-news-cases-deaths.html" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/us/live-coronavirus-news-cases-deaths.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="StoryBodyCompanionColumn css-1fanzo5"><div class="css-53u6y8"><h2 class="css-k667mn eoo0vm40" id="">Defying state rules, Atwater, Calif., declares itself a \u2018sanctuary city\u2019 for businesses.</h2><p class="css-nnwssh evys1bk0">The
 City of Atwater, Calif., declared itself a \u201csanctuary city for all 
businesses\u201d at a special meeting on Friday, openly defying the state\u2019s 
coronavirus orders, after a chorus of business owners showed up to voice
 their support for the measure.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div class="StoryBodyCompanionColumn css-1fanzo5"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-nnwssh evys1bk0">\u201cIt\u2019s
 not the government\u2019s job to protect my health, it\u2019s their job to 
protect my rights, and they\u2019re being taken away, so thank you for giving
 them back to us,\u201d Ron Danel, who owns a company that makes gravestones,
 said to the City Council.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I\u2019m sure among the many anecdotes the reporter could have chosen, this one was perhaps especially enticing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eric</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>