Saturday, December 11, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • CG: Sacramento Homeless Population Grows While Mayor and Council Wring Their Hands
  • SacBee: Sacramento council to consider to stop towing homeless vehicles unless city can offer shelter
  • SJMN: Mountain View: Number of RV dwellers increases as city fights lawsuit challenging parking ban, advocates say
  • PE: Bill to strip Riverside County supervisors’ redistricting powers gets new push
  • SDUT: Omicron is spreading locally. Second case spotted in San Diego County, a day after first case
  • FresBee: Fresno health officer says unlike smallpox or polio, COVID ‘not going to go away’
  • SJMN: COVID: California cases rise as omicron spreads in Bay Area
  • LAT $: L.A. County may be at the start of a winter COVID surge
  • SDUT: San Diego Unified student asks Supreme Court to intervene in lawsuit against district’s vaccine mandate
  • LADN: LAUSD to consider delaying banning unvaccinated students from campus
  • CG: GOP, Democratic Senators Co-Sponsor Budget Proposal To Increase Cal Fire Staff
  • LAT $: This isn’t the first time Torrance Police Department has been accused of widespread racism
  • OCReg: Ex-Torrance police officers move to suppress use of offensive texts
  • FresBee: With Devin Nunes set to leave Congress, here’s the field of potential candidates so far
  • LAT $: Alarmed by Tesla’s public self-driving test, state legislators demand answers from DMV
  • SDUT: Police, prosecutors bugged a Vista courtroom to get evidence against defendants in a murder case
  • OCReg: Orange County woman charged with retail thefts that netted more than $300,000
  • SBSun: Claremont Unified sued by man sexually abused as a teen by former teacher’s aide
  • AP: Father, son charged with starting wildfire plead not guilty
  • OCReg: Driver gets 15-years-to-life for DUI crash that killed Costa Mesa fire captain
  • SacBee: ‘A heavy heart:’ Galt police officer who died in head-on crash awarded posthumous degree
  • OCReg: Who wants to be a governor appointee?
  • OCReg: ‘Vanishing’ ships underscore supply woe at the ports
  • SacBee: From the ashes: US Capitol tree from California stands as a reminder of wildfire, drought policy
  • PE: Riverside Assembly Member Jose Medina won’t run for re-election in 2022
  • LAT $: Mission accomplished: Beth Pratt raised millions for a freeway overpass for L.A. cougars
  • NR: The Covid Mandates Should Be Ignored
  • It Is Time to End Corporate Sports Welfare
  • NR: The Unmitigated Gall of Ilhan Omar
  • Reason: Without Budget Gimmicks, Biden's 'Build Back Better' Will Add $3 Trillion to the Deficit, CBO Says
  • NR: China’s Economic World War
  • SDUT: Chris Reed: China is a far more daunting Cold War rival for U.S. than the Soviet Union
  • SFC: S.F.’s plans to protect the Embarcadero could transform the Ferry Building
  • SFC: Nearly 1,000 S.F. students protest sexual harassment and assault: ‘We aren’t being heard’
  • SFC: Richmond files restraining order; mayor says free speech rights squashed
  • SJMN: While most Bay Area economies floundered in the first year of the pandemic, Santa Clara County’s soared
  • LAT $: State tells San Joaquin Valley agencies that groundwater plans are flawed
  • FresBee: Fresnans demand COVID relief money go to housing protections. Did City Council listen?
  • LAT $: Uber and Lyft too expensive at LAX? You have options
  • LADN: LA to seek federal infrastructure bill funds to remediate orphaned oil wells
  • VOC: Will Newport Beach Ban City Council Members From Boozing During Meetings?
  • OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 314 new cases and eight new deaths, Dec. 10
  • PE: San Bernardino County supervisors approve new district boundaries
  • SBSun: Inland Empire group seeks $100 million in federal grants to promote racial equity in logistics industry
  • PE: Lara Gressley says she’ll challenge Riverside County DA Mike Hestrin in 2022
  • CG: San Diego Association of Governments Passes $163 Billion Regional Travel Plan

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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