Collateral damage: Can small businesses survive this ‘double whammy’?

By Ben Christopher and Rebecca Sohn, CalMatters

Zahalea Show-Anderson spent last Sunday afternoon tidying up her dojo for its grand reopening. After nearly 10 weeks in which a coronavirus-driven shutdown kept the lights off and the doors locked, the Urban School of Self Defense, a jiu-jitsu academy in downtown Long Beach, was ready to let its students back in.