Thursday, October 7, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • AP: Delay after alarm puts California spill response in question
  • LAT $: Coast Guard investigates cargo ship that was in the area of massive O.C. oil spill
  • OCReg: Criminal investigation launched as oil spill cleanup continues
  • LAT $: California lawmakers demand more info from two federal agencies on massive oil spill
  • SDUT: Coast Guard investigates container ship that was in the area of massive O.C. oil spill
  • OCReg: California is looking for hundreds of volunteers to help clean up the OC oil spill
  • AP: Ship anchored near oil pipeline made unusual movements
  • AP: California oil spill renews calls to ban offshore drilling
  • AP: Kaiser Permanente suspends 2,200 unvaccinated employees
  • Unvaccinated Muni drivers could lose jobs by Nov. 1
  • LA passes one of the strictest vaccine mandates in the US
  • FresBee: How many Fresno-area hospital workers met the deadline to get their COVID vaccines?
  • LAT $: UCLA anesthesiologist, vocal against COVID vaccine mandates, is escorted out of workplace - Los Angeles Times
  • SFC: I'm tired of all this Even in Bay Area, mask fatigue is rising fast
  • SJMN: Goodbye mask mandate? Bay Area health officials to announce criteria for lifting requirement
  • Stanislaus County is nearing the threshold for lifting COVID-19 mask requirement
  • SacBee: Want a ketchup packet at a restaurant? New California law means you’ll have to ask for it
  • Hundreds of families crowd Stanislaus education office to protest student vaccine mandate
  • AP: California encourages prescribed burns to counter wildfires
  • FresBee: New KNP Complex Fire evacuation orders in Three Rivers area to Sequoia National Park
  • AP: California prison guard died after reporting corruption
  • AP: California hopes to ease transfers to UC and Cal State
  • LAT $: Parents sue state alleging Black and Latinx students are harmed by disciplinary practices
  • CG: AB 1200 Requires Chemical Disclosures in Cookware and Food Packaging
  • CG: Food Delivery App Bill to Increase Price Transparency, Tip Protections, Signed by Governor
  • City of Sacramento sets up department to respond to nonviolent emergencies
  • SacBee: This new large homeless shelter could get hundreds off the American River Parkway
  • LADN: Buscaino seeks stricter LA anti-camping laws through 2022 ballot measure
  • SFC: S.F. advances homeless parking site in the Bayview despite protest
  • Scott Peterson to be resentenced in December for murders of wife, unborn child
  • SJMN: Elizabeth Holmes trial: Buddhist Juror No. 4 off jury over concerns about punishment
  • SFC: Zodiac case solved? ‘Case Breakers’ group makes an ID, but police say it doesn’t hold up
  • LAT $: Former gynecologist’s accusers urge inquiry of top USC officials
  • BreitbartCA: Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Texas Law Banning Abortion After 6 Weeks
  • NR: Leaked Grant Proposal Confirms Chinese and American Scientists Planned to Create Novel Coronavirus
  • SacBee: Seeking Black, Hispanic and millennial voters, Democrats tap VP Kamala Harris to boost the base
  • VCStar $: At Reagan library event, Haley plots GOP future, with or without Trump
  • Dems Want to Control Facebook's Power to Censor
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Why I Left National Review
  • Biden DOJ Considers Angry Moms 'Domestic Terrorists'
  • OCReg: Marc Levine versus Ricardo Lara
  • Biden Turns the Department of Justice Against Parents
  • Reason: Government Keeps Trying To Censor This Brewery. The Owner Isn't Having It.
  • VOC: Santana: The Public’s Right to Know Shouldn’t Be the First Victim of an Oil Spill
  • NR: No, We Won’t Stop Battling Out-of-Control Federal Spending
  • OCReg: State ranks very poorly on fiscal health
  • SFC: Sacramento investigators open probe after swastika leaflets left on homes
  • Portion of South San Jose under quarantine due to fruit flies
  • SJMN: Map: Fruit quarantine imposed on much of Santa Clara Valley
  • CalCoast: Should SLO County leadership cut ties to corruption?
  • CalCoast: SLO County supervisors won’t correct staff error over appointment
  • VCStar $: In-person or virtual? Hueneme council latest to return to remote
  • VCStar $: County's defense fund against oil lawsuits now over $2M
  • LAT $: L.A. to require proof of COVID vaccination at indoor venues
  • LADN: LA County mega-event COVID-19 vaccine mandate starts Thursday: Here’s what you need to know
  • LAT $: Long Beach school district officials fire safety officer after internal review of shooting
  • LADN: Gov. Newsom launches council to promote Holocaust education at LA’s Museum of Tolerance
  • LADN: LA County’s Maria Rosario Jackson nominated by Biden Administration to NEA post
  • OCReg: Still no agreement reached between city, Mary’s Kitchen in dispute over lease termination
  • OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 384 new cases and seven more deaths, Oct. 6
  • OCReg: Boaters file lawsuit against Dana Point Harbor developers and Orange County
  • SBSun: San Bernardino County moving forward, despite challenges, officials say
  • SBSun: Ontario airport receives $11.4 million in federal coronavirus relief funds for taxiway project
  • PE: Riverside approves plan for more than 20,000 new homes by 2029
  • PE: Victoria Baca, Moreno Valley City Council member, dies
  • SDUT: San Diego County OKs expansion of backcountry marijuana shops
  • SDUT: ‘That’s not true.’ San Diego doctors tackle COVID misinformation sown during county meeting
  • VOSD: DA Investigators Raid Hughes Marino, Cisterra
Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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