Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • AP: Current lawmaker rare appointee among 12 California judges
  • CG: Gov. Newsom Appoints Assemblyman Ed Chau as LA County Superior Court Judge
  • CG: SEIU Leader Suspended For Six Months Following $44,000 Time Sheet Fraud
  • SDUT: As Omicron threat looms, local health care leaders take wait-and-see approach
  • LADN: Worried about Omicron variant? Get vaccinated, LA County urges
  • VCStar $: Omicron variant is coming, local health officer warns
  • SDUT: San Diego City Council moves forward with vaccine mandate
  • BreitbartCA: L.A. Begins Enforcing Vaccine Mandate at Gyms, Restaurants, Businesses50
  • CG: Appellate Court Issues Temporary Stay Against Prison Worker Vaccination Mandate
  • CG: SF Mayor London Breed Goes Clubbing Again While the City Collapses
  • SF Leaders to Consider Allowing Deputies to Provide Private Security at Businesses
  • Criminal Network Targeting Most Vulnerable in the Bay Area: Police
  • SJMN: Large group of burglars strikes Santa Clara shoe store again
  • SFC: Oakland cannabis merchants ask for tax break after string of burglaries
  • SacBee: Legal cannabis is mostly white, so consider backing these Black California businesses this holiday
  • SFC: California’s snowpack could disappear one day, and scientists have begun to put a timeline on when
  • SacBee: Mayors scramble for face time with Buttigieg with billions of infrastructure dollars at stake
  • How Much Tax Does Elon Musk Save by Moving to Texas and Selling Tesla Stock?
  • AP: California lawmakers relocate to make way for new building
  • AP: California now limits medical parole to those on ventilators
  • AP: California father arrested after 4 kids, grandmother killed
  • AP: California to reopen fishing after offshore oil spill
  • LAT $: Some California cities aim to blunt new duplex law
  • SacBee: California health care companies want bilingual workers. Here are some top jobs
  • LAT $: Attorney agrees to plead guilty to bribery in kickback scheme tied to DWP billing scandal
  • LADN: Ex-lawyer for LADWP to plead guilty in kickback probe tied to botched billing system
  • SFC: Rural fire departments are turning down neighbors’ calls for help. Here’s why
  • FresBee: Should California schools require gender-neutral bathrooms? Some Fresno students say ‘yes’
  • CalM: Exclusive: Cal State blunder may mean loss of 3,000 new student housing beds
  • Scott Peterson transferred off death row ahead of murder resentencing. What’s next?
  • OCReg: ‘No place in Irvine’ for hate, Mayor Khan says after second anti-Semitic banner incident
  • SFC: Noose-like ropes found on Stanford campus
  • NR: Corrupt NLRB Puts Unions over Workers
  • CalM: Drought has big impacts on California agriculture
  • OCReg: California is awesome
  • NR: The King of Hypocrisy
  • Reason: Don't Expect Joe Biden's Travel Ban To Save America From the Omicron Variant
  • NR: The Left Belatedly Notices the Dangers of Ideological Conformity
  • SacBee: Downtown Sacramento has failed more than the Kings. I hope for a revival before I die
  • SJMN: Cal’s COVID crisis: Audio recording shows frustration with Berkeley
  • SFC: Oakland officials to propose growing police department ranks
  • SJMN: Elizabeth Holmes testifies: Theranos president Balwani forced sex on her
  • Which Stanislaus County workplaces have reported COVID deaths to California?
  • SJMN: Santa Cruz farm provides jobs to the homeless, food for the community
  • LAT $: Pismo Beach was once the Clam Capital of the World. Then the clams disappeared
  • CalCoast: San Simeon CSD considers protecting manager from financial liability
  • LAT $: Sheriff Villanueva won’t use county’s coronavirus testing provider over alleged ties to China
  • LAT $: The confessions of a prolific serial killer have left L.A. detectives chasing ghosts
  • LAT $: L.A. County's low-income areas less likely to get COVID boosters
  • LADN: Can’t cut overtime costs like it did during pandemic’s peak, LA Sheriff’s Department says
  • OCReg: CIF will not investigate the Mater Dei hazing case
  • OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 1,226 new cases over the long holiday weekend
  • SBSun: COVID-19 hospitalizations in San Bernardino County hover around 300
  • SBSun: San Bernardino park supporters say it’s time to build up Berlin Wall monument
  • PE: 3-month high for coronavirus cases seen in Riverside County
  • VOSD: The First Year of COVID: A College Degree Was ‘an Insurance Policy’ Against Death
  • SDUT: Upscale Torrey Hills area resists proposal that would unite it politically with Mira Mesa

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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