Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • CG: California Stimulus Checks to Arrive Week Before Recall Election in September
  • LAT $: New stimulus checks, rent relief, business grants: Newsom signs more recovery bills
  • OCReg: Gov. Newsom, LA County officials gather to trumpet $262 billion state budget
  • SFC: Attack ads in Newsom recall race invoke dystopian California in decline
  • AP: Election depicts two Californias: Rising star or catastrophe
  • AP: Faulconer calls for ‘war footing’ to fight California fires
  • SFC: Another recall challenger: Republican legislator Kevin Kiley
  • LAT $: COVID-19 cases surge in L.A. County, fueled by ‘enormously selfish’ unvaccinated
  • SFC: Delta variant’s spread among unvaccinated threatens new COVID surge, officials warn
  • SFC: Half of people released from S.F. jail before trial allegedly reoffended, study shows
  • CG: San Francisco Mid-Year Crime Statistics Show General Rise of Crime in City
  • SBSun: Poor neighborhoods get up to 7° hotter than rich ones in Southern California, study finds
  • CalM: Charity and politics: California elected officials would have to disclose their connections under proposed rule
  • AP: California changes course on schools enforcing mask mandate
  • Parents pack Stanislaus board meeting to protest mask-wearing requirements at schools
  • OCReg: California changes course on school masks, will let individual districts enforce mandate
  • LAT $: Ed Buck is cast as deadly predator as overdose trial opens
  • SFC: Contra Costa Co. politician sentenced to jail for misusing campaign funds
  • SFC: Firefighters gain ground against biggest Northern California blaze
  • LAT $: California fires are burning faster, getting harder to fight
  • SFC: California spent over $1 billion on emergency wildfire suppression last year
  • LADN: LA County approves more than $500 million in spending for homeless
  • CalM: Key lawmaker on California’s eviction ban: ‘If we run out of money, all bets are off’
  • SacBee: California has a new ‘student loan bill of rights.’ Here’s how it will help borrowers
  • CalM: Low-wage workers in California can’t afford to take family leave. This bill seeks to change that.
  • CalM: Latest ‘menstrual equity’ bill would require California’s public colleges to provide period products
  • Dem candidate Harley Rouda calls GOP voters 'morons' for supporting Trump
  • AP: California pension fund agrees to $2.7 billion lawsuit deal
  • SacBee: Thousands of CalPERS members could get $30,000 or more in long-term care lawsuit settlement
  • LAT $: Long delay in alerting public to massive beach sewage spill raises alarm
  • AP: ‘Marrying Millions’ TV star pleads not guilty to raping teen
  • CG: California Labor Secretary Julie Su Confirmed By Senate As Next U.S. Deputy Labor Secretary
  • SacBee: California labor secretary overcomes unemployment complaints, will join Biden administration
  • NR: How CRT Gets into Classrooms
  • NR: Forget Critical Race Theory. I Don’t Trust Elites to Teach Kids Basic Civics
  • LAT $: His job was to police bad lawyers. He became Tom Girardi’s broker to L.A.’s rich
  • NR: Dems Announce $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Bill — Time for Republicans To Walk
  • BreitbartCA: Padilla: TX Dems Are ‘Heroes’ and We Should Abolish the Filibuster
  • LAT $: With Trump appointees, 9th Circuit suffers another year of reversals at Supreme Court
  • The Left Hides Bigotry Under the Hood of Empathy & Pity
  • OCReg: Mandatory masking of school children is a bad idea
  • NR: Joe Biden’s Shameful Voting-Rights Speech
  • CityJrnl: The Boomer Wealth Boom
  • NR: Hunter Biden’s Art Heist
  • OCReg: Biden right to criticize licensing rules
  • CalM: Will bullet train survive budget wrangle?
  • NR: On the Eve of Destruction
  • Roger Stone To Unveil "Plan To Save America" During California Rally
  • Another botched COVID message to the public. Get it together, state leaders
  • SacBee: Congressman Ami Bera tours Old Town Elk Grove, requests $2 million for historic district
  • SacBee: Sacramento County COVID rates now among highest in California. Here’s who’s getting sick
  • SFC: ‘The Oakland process is at the end’: Rob Manfred on A’s ballpark plight
  • SJMN: Bay Area prices rocket higher as inflation grips region
  • FresBee: Fresno Black leaders call for city ant-racism task force
  • LAT $: Parachutist plunges through home’s roof in Atascadero and survives: ‘It was a miracle’
  • AP: The Latest: LA County has 5th straight day of 1,000 cases
  • LADN: LAUSD school board adopts resolution denouncing antisemitism
  • LADN: LA County seeks reparations for 1968-1974 forced sterilizations at LAC+USC Med Center
  • LAT $: L.A. city attorneys took part in ‘sham lawsuit’ over DWP billing errors, report says
  • AP: GM to build mobility design center in Pasadena, California
  • OCReg: OC’s COVID-19 cases, hospitalization on the rise again
  • VOC: One of OC’s Most Popular Parks is Up for Big Changes; Some City Officials Have Concerns
  • VOC: Orange County Supervisors’ Chairman Could Get More Say Over Delaying Action Items
  • OCReg: 12 arrested after customers used ‘taco,’ ‘enchilada’ to order heroin in Orange County, authorities say
  • OCReg: Skateboarder ordered to kneel at gunpoint by deputy settles lawsuit against Orange County
  • SBSun: Yucaipa to honor fallen San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy
  • SBSun: $37 million in state budget slated for San Bernardino Community College District projects
  • PE: Clarissa Cervantes sworn in as newest Riverside City Council member
  • PE: 1,250 more homes coming to Beaumont, Lake Elsinore
  • VOSD: School Boards Are Losing it
  • SDUT: San Diego will re-open final 10 library branches by September, fully restore hours by June
  • SDUT: Group says Junipero Serra High name change was unlawful
  • SDUT: San Diego County authorizes contract extension for San Pasqual Academy
  • SDUT: Gompers teachers reach contract agreement amid union dispute
  • SDUT: California attorney general praises San Diego’s use of red-flag laws to thwart gun violence

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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