Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • AP: Records show slow response to report of California oil spill
  • AP: Did ship’s anchor cause California oil spill? Maybe
  • OCReg: Tens of millions in fines expected in oil spill
  • VOC: OC District Attorney: Amplify Energy Should Not Investigate Its Own Oil Leak
  • AP: California spill came 52 years after historic oil disaster
  • Facebook Begins Recovery After Major Outage Shut Down Apps
  • Facebook addictive; and particularly destructive for kids, say senators
  • AP: Ex-Facebook employee bringing sharp criticisms to Congress
  • Who pays for the woke agenda?
  • CapWkly: Capitol Weekly Podcast: Scott Lay Memorial Edition
  • LADN: Five LA County employees sue over vaccine mandate
  • SDUT: Despite risks as front-line workers, many local police, sheriff’s deputies hold out on COVID-19 vaccines
  • SacBee: Sacramento State reports that nearly all students have followed COVID vaccine policy
  • SacBee: Texas, Florida, Ohio and more: California’s state travel ban covers one-third of America
  • CG: California Parents and Kids are Abandoning Public Schools with Gov. Newsom’s Attack on Parent Choice
  • SacBee: California could soon have its own public banking service, under new law signed by Gavin Newsom
  • LAT $: KNP Complex fire spurs new evacuations as it forms massive pyrocumulus cloud
  • FresBee: More Fresno County evacuation warnings for KNP Complex Fire in Sequoia National Park
  • LAT $: Hospice reforms to become law after Times investigation reveals widespread fraud, abuse
  • AP: New California law aims to reduce deaths among Black moms
  • CG: Lawsuit Claims LA Union Slush Fund Scandal Still Ongoing
  • CG: California’s Businesses Contending With Hardships, Difficulties and Uncertain Future
  • SDUT: Column: School officials raised alarms about threats, disruptions at meetings; We need to listen
  • SacBee: COVID-19 vaccines prevented 3,800 deaths among California seniors, HHS report says
  • CG: Hollywood Stage Employees Union Votes To Authorize Possible Largest Strike Since 2007
  • Hispanics led home-buying surge last year. Here’s how Latino first-time buyers closed the deal
  • Pfizer Scientists: "Antibodies Are Probably Better Than The Vaccination"; It's About Making Life Hard For Unvaccinated
  • AP: Jury awards $6.3M to Shannen Doherty in State Farm fire suit
  • LAT $: California will impose new vaping tax to curb teen use, fund public health programs
  • LAT $: Ticket sold in California wins $699.8-million Powerball jackpot
  • SJMN: Black ex-Tesla worker who claimed racial abuse awarded $137 million
  • Reason: Our Looming Trillion Dollar Doom
  • OCReg: Politicians treat jobs like prizes to be awarded or taken away
  • OCReg: How to slow, reverse the California exodus
  • CalM: Newsom’s erratic vaccination orders
  • NR: Infected by Bureaucracy: Our Fatally Flawed COVID Response
  • FresBee: Reservations are no longer needed to enter Yosemite National Park. Here’s what to expect
  • SacBee: Controversial gunshot sensors now in more Sacramento area spots. Here’s what we know
  • SFC: S.F. saw just 9 inches of rain this ‘water year.’ Here’s how that compares to normal
  • SFC: Alameda Co. reprimands ambulance provider, demands faster response times
  • SFC: Oakland police chief urges support in preventing crime after two homicides
  • SJMN: Santa Clara University students allege sexual assaults and druggings, demand action
  • Patterson becomes first Stanislaus County city to require this COVID safety measure
  • CalCoast: Battle over SLO County’s clerk recorder appointment
  • VCStar $: Here's how a $5.1M grant for dredging helps Port of Hueneme
  • LADN: L.A. County District Attorney Gascón seeks help from automakers to curb thefts of catalytic converters
  • LADN: State officials consider plans to beef up gas-storage capacity at Aliso Canyon
  • LADN: COVID-19 hospitalizations still dropping in LA County
  • LAT $: The story of L.A.’s oddball flag. Wait, L.A. has a flag?
  • OCReg: OC sheriff’s department rolls out first body cameras to patrol deputies in Yorba Linda
  • PE: Latino lawmakers object to new Riverside County supervisor maps
  • PE: Hospitalizations continue trending down in Riverside County
  • PE: San Bernardino County judge overturns voter-approved measure slashing supervisors’ pay
  • SDUT: San Diego County schools are struggling with a labor shortage
  • SDUT: San Diego paying out $100K to Black laborer who claimed discrimination, retaliation

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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