Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • LAT $: Newsom sues to get his party preference on the recall ballot
  • AP: California governor to weigh budget that nixes pandemic cuts
  • SacBee: California lawmakers send Gavin Newsom budget flush with surplus, $600 stimulus checks
  • CalM: Five things to know about Newsom’s budget deal with Legislature
  • CalM: Special ed and high-needs students get windfall in budget deal
  • AP: What’s in California’s new $262 billion operating budget?
  • AP: GOP cries foul as California OKs new governor recall rules
  • CG: Democrats Are Messing With the California Recall Election, Again
  • SFC: Democratic lawmakers vote to speed up Newsom recall election
  • LAT $: Track the millions funding the campaign to recall California’s governor
  • RNC Invests Early in California With Asian Voters
  • SacBee: Dianne Feinstein’s waterfront Lake Tahoe compound hits market at $41 million
  • LAT $: California COVID vaccine code not scanning? Here's why
  • LAT $: Podcast: Recall, George Gascón and the troubles of progressive D.A.s
  • CG: California Adds Five States to State Travel Ban Following New LGBT Discrimination Laws
  • SacBee: Tech firm once moved California jobs overseas. The state just offered them a tax break
  • SFC: United to add 4,000 jobs, bigger planes at SFO as part of nationwide expansion
  • AP: LA County recommends indoor masks, regardless of vaccines
  • SFC: High-speed rail opponents seize on poll showing waning public support
  • SJMN: Big Sur fire 73% contained, state parks and Buddhist monastery spared
  • SFC: Lava Fire jumps highway, threatens Lake Shastina community amid evacuations
  • CG: Oversight Hearing Request Following Reports Investigation Gov. Newsom ‘Mislead the Public’ About State’s Wildfire Prevention Efforts
  • OCReg: Orange County cities sue state over ‘erroneous’ homebuilding goals
  • BreitbartCA: Tucker: Biden NSA Spying on Me
  • BreitbartCA: Dissident Purge: Adviser Warns Pentagon ‘Counter-Extremism’ Effort Targeting ‘Constitutionally Protected Speech’
  • CalM: An entire California town is without running water — in a heat wave
  • VOSD: San Diego Is Relatively Drought-Proof – and Has Prices to Prove it
  • Reason: Government Pandemic Loans Plagued by Potential $260 Billion in Fraud
  • Reason: Major Anti-Tech Antitrust Package in Congress Moves Forward
  • WashTimes: Why congressional earmarks are a monumentally bad idea
  • Big Tech's Threat to Democracy
  • Amazon's Woke Smokescreen
  • OCReg: Voters must reject OC supervisors’ deceptive term limits plan
  • CalM: Data undercut Newsom’s ‘roaring back’ claim
  • OCReg: Federal health policy shouldn’t be left to the courts
  • SJMN: Homebuyer fatigue? Bay Area home sales slow as prices soar
  • SFC: Boudin asks state to take the case of S.F. school board recall petition theft
  • SJMN: Contra Costa County publishing COVID rates by vaccination status
  • SJMN: Developers plan to turn military buildings on Concord site into residential villages
  • FresBee: Fresno-area college criticized over hiring white chancellor. Here’s what she says
  • FresBee: Fresno got millions for rent relief amid COVID. Why have so few residents received it?
  • LAT $: Arellano: California’s Central Valley sees pride, prejudice over raising of rainbow flag
  • 50,000 Stanislaus County residents skipped their 2nd COVID shot. Are they protected?
  • CalCoast: San Luis Obispo County IWMA director explains resignation, misconceptions
  • VCStar $: Inmate dies in apparent medical emergency, officials say
  • OCReg: LA County employee, a San Clemente resident, arrested and charged in Capitol breach
  • LADN: Top LA homeless agency, county officials, service providers to Villanueva: Back away from Venice
  • LAT $: Testimony contradicts Sheriff Villanueva’s claims about handling of Banditos
  • OCReg: Orange County wants $25 million for failed Highland development site
  • VOC: Huntington Beach to Appoint New Council Member, Reviving a Debate Other OC Cities Tackled
  • VOC: Why Does the Sheriff Destroy Misconduct Files After 5 Years?
  • VOC: Banning Ranch One Step Closer to Becoming Coastal Public Park with $8 million State Grant
  • SBSun: San Bernardino County coronavirus cases rise in past week
  • PE: What Riverside County could do about fentanyl overdose deaths
  • PE: Riverside County coronavirus vaccinations down 28% in past week
  • PE: Riverside hires new city attorney, months after firing last one
  • SDUT: Intense homeless outreach launched in downtown San Diego
  • SDUT: Video captures vandalism incident at Chabad House on San Diego State campus
  • SDUT: San Diego Human Relations Commission calls on CIF to take action on racism
  • SDUT: Lawyers: City’s ‘volunteer’ consultant on Ash Street deal was paid millions by seller
  • VOSD: Big Question Marks Are Hanging Over the District 6 City Council Race
Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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