Monday, June 14, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • OCReg: State auditor finds lots of illegal activity
  • AP: Shop owner’s plea as California reopens: ‘I need customers’
  • SDUT: After a year at home, will San Diegans embrace a return to office life?
  • SJMN: California prepares to reopen — are Golden Staters ready?
  • OCReg: Pandemic restrictions will largely vanish this week. Politics? Or science?
  • LAT $: L.A. Archdiocese to drop mask, social distancing requirements for vaccinated parishioners
  • CG: Gavin Newsom and Democrats are Changing the Recall Rules in the Middle of the Game
  • CalM: In switch, lawmakers accelerate Newsom recall election
  • Saturday Headlines
  • Sunday Headlines
  • TOWN: Kamala Harris Is an International Laughingstock
  • Disastrous Trip Proved Harris Not Up to the Job
  • Harris Is an Embarrassment the Media Can't Spin Away
  • LAT $: With a major heat wave expected across the L.A. region, ‘summer has definitely arrived’
  • SacBee: Northern California city to sue Gavin Newsom administration over plan to close prison
  • SDUT: Opinion: How new funding for homelessness can make the biggest impact in the San Diego region
  • LAT $: Editorial: To solve homelessness, California should declare a right to housing
  • SJMN: California’s stricter COVID rules did not hurt the economy: report
  • SFC: California's reopening dangers: Scary variants, unvaccinated pockets
  • WSJ: Some California Homeowners Can Get Coverage Again After Wildfires
  • SBSun: Stretch of Highway 74 closed by wildfire in Pinyon Crest area, evacuation center established in Idyllwild
  • OCReg: World’s largest firefighting helicopters join Orange, Los Angeles and Ventura County fleets
  • SBSun: Highway 18 in San Bernardino reopens; Cloud fire is 85% contained
  • SacBee: Evacuations lifted in Amador County after Goose Fire briefly threatens homes near Ione
  • OCReg: FBI raids North Hollywood home of actor seen at Capitol riot
  • EdS: Teachers report spring school reopenings were exhausting and unproductive
  • SFC: Youth climate activists head to the Golden Gate Bridge on 266-mile march
  • LAT $: Opinion: My front row seat to the radicalization of the Republican Party
  • OCReg: Legal corruption in the Golden State
  • OCReg: Bad teachers are a bigger threat to students than school police
  • The Myth of a Majority-Minority America
  • CG: Coerced Compliance is not Freedom in Gov. Newsom’s Staged Re-Opening of California
  • OCReg: Fiona Ma’s prudent assessment of the bullet train
  • CalM: California shifts from baby boom to baby bust
  • CapWkly: California Labor Politics Update – and More
  • Our Corrupt Media's Top Ten Lies
  • SacBee: Sacramento’s K Street suffers scars from the pandemic. How can it heal?
  • SFC: Mayor Breed wants to revive S.F's Hallidie Plaza. It won't be easy
  • SFC: An East Bay city chased out its first Black homeowner a century ago. It hasn’t atoned
  • SFC: Stanford holds Bay Area’s first full in-person college commencement since pandemic began
  • FresBee: Dyer vetoes resolution that would transfer control of honorary flags at Fresno City Hall
  • COVID restrictions are set expire in Stanislaus County. Here’s what you need to know
  • Ceres council to vote on contracting Modesto for fire services. What are the costs?
  • CalCoast: Arroyo Grande withdraws from regional recycled water project
  • VCStar $: County's proposed expansion of mental health care would 'help a lot'
  • LADN: 6 Black LAFD employees sue the city, citing ‘good old white boys club’
  • LAT $: LAPD shootings of unstable people wielding sharp objects a deadly problem
  • LADN: LA County coronavirus rules will ease this week, but experts say don’t toss those masks just yet
  • PE: Effort to defund Riverside County Sheriff’s Department continues amid new budget
  • SDUT: In sworn statement, a San Diego city attorney says lawyer threatened him over testimony
  • SDUT: Redistricting could force some San Diego cannabis dispensaries to close
Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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