Saturday, May 15, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • LADN: Supervisor Barger to Newsom: Ease state mask mandate immediately
  • LAT $: Mixed messaging on masks forces businesses to shoulder the burden
  • SJMN: A day later, California officials still silent on CDC mask guidance
  • Reason: The CDCs Ever-Shifting COVID-19 Advice Shows the Agency Is Ill-Suited To Decide Which Risks Are Acceptable
  • SFC: CDC’s mask guidance may come as a ‘psychological shock.’ Here’s the data behind it
  • AP: California weighing issues around new CDC masking guidelines
  • BreitbartCA: Eric Swalwell Lashes Out When Told to Go Maskless: ‘Don’t Tell Me What to F***ing Do’
  • SacBee: Undocumented seniors would be eligible for California health care in Gavin Newsom’s budget
  • VCStar $: California budget has $35 million for basic income programs
  • AP: Newsom’s spending binge reshapes California recall election
  • CG: Gov. Gavin Newsom Unveils $267.8 Billion Revised Budget
  • SacBee: ‘The state’s too damn dirty.’ Gavin Newsom calls for $1.5 billion to beautify California
  • AP: Newsom’s green budget has something for everyone — even bees
  • SFC: Court: S.F. can’t ban people charged with dealing drugs from Tenderloin
  • CG: Skid Row Shelter Order Temporary Halted By Appellate Court
  • LAT $: Homeless camping at beaches and parks? L.A. proposal stirs outcry from some neighbors
  • SFC: Homeless camp backlash has reached a turning point in California
  • CalCoast: SLO County evicts homeless from lot above Pirate’s Cove
  • ‘I don’t know what to do’: Turlock homeless woman evicted from encampment speaks out
  • OCReg: Santa Ana clears homeless camp from parking lot at El Centro cultural center
  • SacBee: California’s unemployment claims backlog growing again, new numbers show
  • VOSD: Sacramento Report: Learning Loss Bill Stuck in Limbo
  • SacBee: Pay cuts ending for 130,000 California state workers. Others must negotiate
  • SFC: San Francisco sues state over bid to restrict its Sierra water supplies
  • AP: Water crisis ‘couldn’t be worse’ on Oregon-California border
  • Reason: Will the Spike in Murder and Violence Undermine Criminal Justice Reform?
  • AP: University of California drops SAT scores for admission
  • SFC: CCSF seeks 23.5% raise for executive as faculty take steep pay cuts
  • AP: Prosecutors ask to drop most charges in doctor rape case
  • AP: Appeals court upholds $25M award in Monsanto cancer case
  • LAT $: Huge budget boost to UC, CSU and community colleges targets student housing and job training
  • AP: Southern California wildlife bridge plan gets huge boost
  • LAT $: After lawsuit, DACA recipients win permits to travel outside the U.S. — and come back legally
  • Unscrupulous Media Responsible for Rebekah Jones Hoax
  • SDUT: San Diego-area lawmakers file joint request for state audit of county jail deaths
  • SDUT: Activists call on city to release body-cam footage of man tackled, punched by San Diego police officers
  • CalCoast: Watch video of a deadly police shooting in Lompoc
  • NR: Three Women Arrested after Pig’s Head, Blood Left at Former Home of Chauvin Defense Witness
  • NR: A Biden Cabinet Secretary Violated Federal Law. So What?
  • FresBee: Marjorie Taylor Greene deleted video of her at AOC’s office. Fresno far-right agitator didn’t
  • SJMN: Tech manager who called Bay Area women ‘soft and weak’ says Apple fired him
  • OCReg: There’s no denying the reality of the California exodus
  • CG: Gov. Newsom Transforms Taxpayer Protection into Welfare
  • NR: Gavin Newsom Attempts to Bribe Away His Poor Record
  • OCReg: It’s past time for real school reopening
  • NR: There’s No Vaccine Against the Irrational Fear of Monsters
  • NR: The President Doesn’t Make ‘the Rules’
  • OCReg: Assembly Bill 5 continues to wreak havoc on our economy
  • SFC: Oakland City Council strikes back at MLB, A’s after relocation talks floated
  • SFC: Oakland cops found a man unconscious in a car with a gun. Reform advocates stepped in
  • SFC: Police investigate homicide in S.F.’s Excelsior District
  • SFC: Team of engineers working to make the Golden Gate Bridge 'humming' shut up
  • MID might stop funding Tuolumne River Trust program for kids. Why things went awry
  • FresBee: Ventura Street to close for months of high-speed rail construction. Here are the detours
  • CG: Vandenberg Air Force Base Transitions Into Space Force Base
  • VCStar $: Ojai Valley faces water shortage as lake level drops
  • VCStar $: Ventura adopts plan to prepare residents for next fire or emergency
  • LADN: AG files support for LA County Ban on flavored tobacco products sales
  • LADN: Judge hears arguments in Rose Bowl trademark lawsuit; no decision issued yet
  • LADN: LA budget committee sends its revisions of the mayor’s budget proposal on to the full council
  • VOC: Downtown Mission Viejo Property Owner Challenges Government Secrecy
  • OCReg: Boards overseeing Orange County toll roads clear the way for San Clemente to exit if City Council wants
  • OCReg: Fullerton settles lawsuit against bloggers, recants accusations of criminal hacking
  • SBSun: 2 candidates remain for San Bernardino Community College District chancellor
  • SBSun: 20 new police officers could be part of ‘promising’ San Bernardino budget
  • SBSun: 4-year plan for Bloomington and Muscoy includes proposals for homeless, animal shelter, parks
  • PE: Number of coronavirus cases ticks up in Riverside County
  • SDUT: Navy favors massive project with 10K housing units on NAVWAR site
Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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