Monday, October 4, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • AP: Crews race to limit damage from major California oil spill
  • OCReg: Oil spill underscores urgency to shut wells, environmentalists say
  • LAT $: Before O.C. oil spill, platform owner faced bankruptcy, history of regulatory problems
  • AP: Response time questioned in Southern California oil spill
  • AP: Oil spill laps at “heartbeat” of California beach community
  • OCReg: Major oil spill closes OC beaches, kills wildlife in Huntington Beach
  • CalM: Massive oil spill batters California’s Orange County coast
  • OCReg: Vaccinated or not, everyone is likely to get COVID-19 at some point, many experts say
  • CalM: What’s at stake for Newsom’s biggest recall campaign donors
  • SacBee: Newsom administration gives ground on COVID vaccine order to state worker union
  • Saturday Headlines
  • Sunday Headlines
  • SFC: Opioid overdose epidemic is rapidly spreading across the Bay Area
  • SFC: Demands for religious exemptions rise as vaccine mandates kick in
  • SJMN: Bay Area and California public workers finding religion to avoid COVID-19 shots
  • SFC: Female lawmakers say their absence at bill signings hints at bigger challenges
  • California Republicans see bright spots in Newsom recall for 2 midterm races. Here’s where
  • CalM: Shlomo Rechnitz nursing home suit over COVID deaths reflects ‘broken state licensing’
  • SacBee: Not getting a child tax credit in California? Maybe you should be
  • OCReg: Where did all the school buses go? Some parents want them back
  • OCReg: Nearly 300 Camp Pendleton Marines welcomed home from deployment to Afghanistan
  • SJMN: Ex-Facebook manager alleges social network fed Capitol riot
  • LAT $: California state park with ties to racist past will now be called by Indigenous name
  • FresBee: Update: Poor air quality prompts youth sports cancellations; California Classic goes on
  • LAT $: L.A. Mayor Garcetti in ‘confirmation purgatory’ as Biden’s nominations stall
  • SDUT: Scripps Research scientist wins Nobel Prize in medicine for identifying temperature and touch receptors
  • OCReg: Falling support for the bullet train
  • Kamala Harris Panders to Antisemitism
  • CalM: California experiments with social democracy
  • NR: The People and Their Rulers Increasingly Loathe Each Other
  • Reason: Public Health Officials Blew Up Their Credibility, and We're Paying the Price
  • SFC: The water year just ended — here’s how much rain the Bay Area got
  • SJMN: Police: Oakland home of slain education advocate Dirk Tillotson may have been targeted
  • Oat milk is booming. Modesto plant will add workers to help meet demand for nondairy
  • FresBee: Clovis parents won’t be able to watch school board meetings live online. Here’s why
  • VCStar $: County upgrades health care in jails
  • Protesters call for school officer who shot woman in Long Beach to face arrest, charges
  • SBSun: Rendezvous Back to Route 66 draws thousands to downtown San Bernardino
  • PE: Riverside woman found in freezer: How a ringing phone confirmed detectives’ suspicions
  • PE: Riverside ponders where to build more than 21,000 homes
  • SDUT: Assistant San Diego City Attorney joins race for county sheriff
  • VOSD: Politics Report: About That Video
  • SDUT: The school in Balboa Park and the atypical lease that will likely keep it there forever
  • VOSD: Councilman Wants to Dump San Diego's Free Trash Pickup

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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