Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • AP: California treasurer often shared hotel rooms with employees
  • OCReg: California treasurer often shared hotel rooms with staff, documents show
  • LAT $: L.A. Unified enrollment drops by more than 27,000 students, steepest decline in years
  • CalM: Between the lines: Hidden partisans try to influence California’s independent redistricting
  • LADN: LA City Council to vote on vaccine mandate for indoor spaces
  • SacBee: Gavin Newsom says a California school vaccine mandate is ‘on the table’
  • LAT $: L.A. to consider sweeping vaccine mandate for restaurants, gyms, malls and salons
  • SDUT: San Diego Unified mandates COVID vaccines by Dec. 20 for staff, eligible students
  • SDUT: San Diego moves deadline for city workers to be vaccinated but resists police lobbying
  • TOSD: Who Needs Sacramento or GOP? Recall Boss Heatlie Plots Burst of Ballot Drives
  • AP: 1 dead, 2 wounded in unrelated California police shootings
  • SFC: San Francisco is 'drowning in fentanyl.' Where is the drug coming from?
  • SDUT: Two-thirds of California voters favor recalls for reasons like crime or corruption, survey says
  • AP: Top utility regulator tasked with overseeing PG&E resigns
  • SFC: What San Francisco is saying about the future of the indoor mask mandate
  • OCReg: Huntington Beach officially plans bid to host surf, skate and BMX for 2028 Olympics
  • BreitbartCA: Warriors’ Andrew Wiggins Tells Media His Vax Status is ‘None of Your Business’35
  • SacBee: The bill is climbing to fight California wildfires. How much are they costing taxpayers?
  • LAT $: Strong winds fanning Windy, KNP Complex fires as they burn through southern Sierra Nevada
  • LAT $: A new, ‘first-class’ high-rise will house homeless people on L.A.'s skid row
  • LAT $: From ‘sizzling to ho-hum’: Delta cools California’s economic outlook
  • California’s economy is recovering, but new report shows it’s not there yet
  • FresBee: Former Baywatch actress, animal rights activists target Foster Farms plant in Livingston
  • AP: Theranos CEO wooed investors while lab director saw trouble
  • SJMN: California Gov. Newsom signs more than two-dozen housing bills
  • OCReg: New law counts ‘workforce’ apartments as meeting middle-income housing quotas
  • AP: California city apologizes for 1887 Chinatown destruction
  • NR: White New Hampshire Resident Files Discrimination Suit after Being Denied COVID Shot over Race
  • Government of the Unions, by the Unions, for the Unions
  • CG: Hollywood Howls Over Fake Whipping
  • NR: The Age of Progressive Misinformation
  • NR: The Many Lies That Built the Reconciliation Bill
  • NR: Pentagon Punishes Someone for Afghanistan Debacle — the Marine Who Spoke Out against It
  • OCReg: Newsom bows once again to the prison guard union
  • AP: Far Northern California gets welcome rain amid drought
  • SacBee: 100 new air quality monitors will track pollution in these Sacramento neighborhoods
  • SFC: Longtime S.F. City Attorney Dennis Herrera has a new job
  • SJMN: Suspect in series of SF robberies targeting Asian women faces hate-crime enhancements, DA says
  • SFC: S.F.’s Grubstake Diner fight pits activists vs. condo owners — but not how you think
  • SFC: S.F. to pay $8 million to man wrongly convicted of murder
  • SFC: Suspect arrested in S.F. school board recall petition ballot grab case
  • SJMN: Los Gatos district sued over serial abuse by convicted ex-teacher
  • FresBee: Fresno County school district won’t discipline employees who refuse COVID-19 test
  • Income dipped for Stanislaus farmers in 2020. How did drought and pandemic affect it?
  • CalCoast: No new deaths, COVID-19 cases in SLO county decline
  • CalCoast: SLO County lodging legal action against San Simeon management
  • CalCoast: 13 candidates vying for SLO mayor, council seats
  • VCStar $: Fair Board to allow gun show but targets 'ghost guns'
  • VCStar $: Landowner seeks Supervisor Parks' removal from office
  • LAT $: L.A. Council reshuffles leadership team, giving Mitch O’Farrell its No. 2 post
  • LADN: Porter Ranch residents renew call for closure of Aliso Canyon gas facility
  • LADN: LAPD’s $18.5 million plan to reform itself after 2020 protest response heads to City Council
  • LADN: LA County Supervisors look to watchdog agency to take on deputy cliques
  • OCReg: Santa Ana Unified pays seven figures to settle 38-year-old sexual abuse case
  • VOC: Flush With Federal COVID Cash, OC Plans Major Spending on 2nd Mental Health Campus
  • VOC: OC District Attorney Says Laguna Beach City Council Violated Brown Act
  • VOC: Mission Viejo Moves Ahead With Stein Mart Purchase, Locking In Millions Of Bond Debt
  • OCReg: Son of former ‘Real Housewives’ personality poised for $595,000 settlement for mistreatment in OC jail
  • PE: Cal State police association votes ‘no confidence’ in CSUSB chief
  • PE: Ex-Murrieta Valley High cheer coach sues after firing, alleging anti-LGBTQ discrimination
  • SDUT: San Diego raises fees on industrial polluters for first time since 1984
  • SDUT: Nonprofits serving San Diego’s residents could be eligible for more than $4.2 million in federal funding
  • SDUT: County reviews booster rules as third shots arrive for many
Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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