Saturday, June 26, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • SDUT: Newsom, lawmakers reach agreement on spending tax windfall in $262.6 billion state budget
  • AP: California moves closer to budget deal as deadline looms
  • SFC: Health care for undocumented seniors, $600 stimulus checks coming in next budget
  • FresBee: ‘Fresno to turn the page.’ City to chip in public funds toward these immigrant initiatives
  • SacBee: Undocumented adults over 50 to qualify for Medi-Cal benefits under California budget deal
  • SDUT: San Diego Unified agrees to 4 percent raise for educators, increase in staffing
  • SacBee: California child care providers reach contract with state, secure 15% minimum pay raise
  • AP: California to extend eviction ban, pay back rent for tenants
  • AP: EXPLAINER: California’s efforts to slow pace of evictions
  • SJMN: San Francisco takes COVID vaccine mandate to new level. Will others follow?
  • SacBee: Students sue over California university’s COVID vaccine mandate, saying shots could harm them
  • SFC: Fire season is coming. One community doesn’t have money to fight it
  • AP: Bail reduced for co-defendant in road-rage killing of boy
  • OCReg: Bail reduced to $100,000 for Wynne Lee, driver accused as accessory in road-rage death of boy
  • LADN: LA city leaders take a step toward plan to get county’s homelessness efforts on the same page
  • VCStar $: Thousand Oaks to build citys first homeless facility
  • OCReg: For homeless and advocates, pandemic brought chaos, some of it helpful. Now what?
  • SFC: The battle over a homeless encampment in Sausalito has reached a critical moment
  • VOC: Is Sacramento About to Block OC Supervisors from Putting Term Limits Extension on the Recall Ballot?
  • LAT $: Scorching weekend ahead prompts heat warnings in Southern California
  • SFC: Giant rock wall built across delta river to protect state's water supply
  • SacBee: New bill by Sen. Alex Padilla would replace every lead pipe in U.S. over 10 years
  • VOSD: Sacramento Report: A Life Raft for Cities Dealing With Sea-Level Rise
  • NR: Kamala Harris Snaps at Reporter: ‘It’s Not My First Trip’ to Border
  • LADN: Kaiser sues, says it lost $5 million in PPE scam
  • NR: Another Lie from China about COVID-19 and the U.S.
  • Reason: Chinese Officials Are Obscuring the Truth About COVID-19
  • NR: Fighting the Great Derangement of Our Times
  • OCReg: Progressive DA’s shake up tough-on-crime status quo
  • OCReg: The insanity of new, expansive definitions of ‘infrastructure’
  • OCReg: Carbon taxes better than assigning artificial political risk
  • SacBee: First new state office building in downtown Sacramento in nearly two decades opens
  • SFC: Bay Area group sues Coca-Cola over plastic pollution ‘greenwashing’
  • Reason: Critics Warned the Largest Tax Increase in San Francisco History Would Be Ill-Spent. It's Now Funding $60,000 Tents for the Homeless.
  • LAT $: Oakland City Council votes to reallocate $18.4 million from police funding
  • SJMN: San Jose Unified School District ends partnership with SJPD
  • FresBee: Fresno ‘poised for greatness’ year after COVID began, says mayor at first State of the City
  • FresBee: COVID’s Delta variant reaches Fresno, Valley as local vaccination rates lag behind
  • CG: Salinas School District Parents Exposing Radicalization Behind California ‘Ethnic Studies’
  • VCStar $: Thacher abuse survivors encouraged to come forwardnews
  • LADN: LA County coronavirus cases inch upward again; health officials push testing, vaccines
  • SFC: L.A. sees rise in COVID cases, delta variant concerns officials
  • LAT $: Garcetti appointee quits redistricting panel amid revelations about Facebook group
  • LAT $: Sheriff’s Department ordered to release misconduct, use-of-force records in response to Times lawsuit
  • LADN: NASA will dismantle two test sites at toxic Santa Susana Field Lab area
  • VOC: $8 Billion in OC Taxpayer Spending is Finalized with No Public Remarks from Supervisors
  • PE: ACLU pushes Riverside Superior Court to end civil assessments on traffic tickets
  • PE: How do San Bernardino, Riverside county coronavirus death tolls compare?
  • SDUT: San Diego County’s human relations commission says it’s ‘seriously disturbed’ about tortilla incident
  • VOSD: The Ongoing Border Restrictions, Explained
  • SDUT: San Diego mayor, South Bay officials plead to reopen the border as vaccination efforts advance
Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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