Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • AP: Newsom casts political blame in new California vaccine push
  • LAT $: Newsom calls out the unvaccinated, blasts Tucker Carlson for COVID-19 misinformation
  • AP: Former US Sen. Barbara Boxer assaulted, robbed in California
  • NR: Former Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer Assaulted, Robbed in California
  • SFC: Former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer robbed, assaulted in Oakland
  • LAT $: ‘Shocking and so unsuspected’: Barbara Boxer assaulted, robbed of cellphone in Oakland
  • BreitbartCA: Democrat Mayors Hired Private Security After Defunding Police
  • SDUT: Newsom: State and health care workers must show proof of vaccination, starting in early August
  • Newsom vows California will have the 'strongest vaccine verification system in the US' as mandate is announced
  • FresBee: Watch: Gavin Newsom orders state, health care workers to provide proof of COVID vaccination
  • CG: CA Gov. Newsom Implements Mandatory COVID Vaccine for State Workers
  • AP: California, NYC to workers: Get vaccine or face weekly tests
  • CalM: California orders vaccine or testing for health care workers, state employees
  • NR: Government Employees Facing First COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements as Delta Variant Spreads
  • BreitbartCA: CNN’s Lemon: Unvaccinated Should Not Be Allowed in Supermarkets, Ball Games, Work
  • Montclair: COVID sticker mandate set to take effect for maskless city employees
  • SFC: Want to work in San Francisco city government? You’ll need to be vaccinated
  • CG: CDC Pulls PCR Tests Because they Can’t Differentiate Between COVID and Flu; California News Silent
  • Here We Go Again: Public Health Authorities Still Lying
  • Fauci: Would Have Been "Negligent" Not To Fund Research At Wuhan Lab Because "SARS-CoV-1 Originated In China"
  • SacBee: Who will take care of the disabled and elderly? California faces ‘unprecedented’ labor shortage
  • LAT $: Likely California voters now almost evenly split on Newsom recall, poll finds
  • CG: California GOP Announces Recall Candidate Endorsement Vote
  • SFC: The California GOP’s endorsement process may do harm — to Republicans
  • VOSD: Here's What the Business in Faulconer’s ‘Businessman’ Ballot Title Refers to
  • Democrats eye path to citizenship for 8 million in economic plan
  • LADN: USC healthcare workers OK contract that includes raises between 11%-68%
  • SFC: Oakland’s unhoused will help run their own homeless encampment
  • SDUT: With a wave of new coronavirus cases, will it soon be masks up in San Diego?
  • LAT $: Water crisis reaches boiling point on Oregon-California line
  • AP: Monsoonal rain comes to dry Southern California
  • LAT $: Britney Spears’ new attorney at last petitions court to oust dad from conservatorship
  • CalM: Fired: California bill aims to decertify police for serious misconduct
  • CalM: Why are key California affordable housing bills bottled up?
  • AP: California court requires lawyers in murder case challenges
  • CG: EDD Rolls Out All Chipped Unemployment Benefit Debit Cards
  • LADN: Mike Pompeo says faith in God should drive GOP, nation as he returns to Southern California
  • LAT $: FBI breached rights of Beverly Hills safe deposit box holders, judge rules
  • SJMN: Northern California’s Dixie Fire nears 200,000 acres
  • AP: Winds feed California’s largest fire as blazes scorch West
  • LAT $: Satellite images of wildfires are saving lives. The Pentagon might let the program expire
  • LAT $: After feds drop charges against Chinese scholars, new concerns about racial profiling
  • LAT $: Pride patches on O.C. police uniforms: Progress or performative activism?
  • LAT $: The rise of the Indian American candidate
  • OCReg: Anti-mask Huntington Beach restaurant says it will only serve unvaccinated diners
  • Glenn Greenwald: The Biden Administration Is Launching A "Second War On Terror" Against American Citizens
  • CalM: COVID-19 roaring back, forcing Newsom to act
  • OCReg: U.S. Senate should strive for consensus, not partisanship
  • NR: Joe Manchin Just Blew Up Rationale for Republicans to Cut an Infrastructure Deal
  • The Democrats' Reckless Tax and Spending Spree
  • Reason: Federal Appeals Court Sneaks in One Final Ruling Against the CDC's Expiring Eviction Moratorium
  • SacBee: No survivors as small jet crashes near golf course during landing at Truckee-Tahoe Airport
  • SacBee: Deputies find man dead in Sacramento County Main Jail cell
  • SacBee: Elk Grove council to meet in person, but rising COVID cases keep chambers closed to public
  • SJMN: Bay Area cities among top 5 most educated in U.S.
  • SFC: Overdose reversal drug Narcan has already been used more than 4,200 times in S.F. this year
  • SFC: Fourplexes on every S.F. single-family lot? Supervisor juices legislation
  • SFC: Oakland considers opening City Hall East in East Oakland
  • FresBee: Clovis schools superintendent gets pay raise - her first since taking over the district
  • CalCoast: Morro Bay Councilman Robert ‘Red’ Davis dead at 76
  • VCStar $: Health care workers now required to verify vaccine status
  • VCStar $: Ventura College area council to discuss housing affordability, other issues
  • LADN: Bonin’s program brings 160 unhoused people indoors from Venice boardwalk encampment
  • VCStar $: Head of county transit agency named Metrolink's new CEO
  • VOC: Ethnic Studies Professor Drops Out of County Board of Education Forum Over Fellow Panelists
  • VOC: Rhonda Bolton Appointed to Huntington Beach City Council, Becoming First Black Woman on Dais
  • OCReg: Huntington Beach shifts gears with Ortiz replacement
  • OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 1,351 new cases and one new death over the weekend
  • PE: State sues Fontana to block sprawling warehouse project in low-income area
  • SBSun: KVCR will get $4 million from state budget
  • SDUT: Artist forced to remove community center paintings over ‘obscenity’ issues
  • VOSD: Another Troubled City Real Estate Deal Is Still Having Troubles
  • SDUT: Outbursts disrupt public forum about vision for Lincoln High School
  • SDUT: First steps taken to make pumped hydro energy storage project at San Vicente Reservoir a reality
Sincerely,

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