Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • CG: Déjà vu All Over Again: California Gov. Newsom Imposes Statewide Indoor Mask Mandate
  • AP: California brings back mask mandate as virus cases rise
  • CG: The Return of the Statewide Mask Mandate: The Reaction of Businesses
  • CalM: California mandates masks again
  • OCReg: OC supervisor expects ‘whole lot of noncompliance’ with mask mandate
  • PE: Latest coronavirus mandate sparks outrage for some in Inland Empire
  • AP: California proposes reducing incentives for rooftop solar
  • NR: Gavin Newsom Joins the Freakout over the Texas-Abortion-Law Decision
  • Reason: Taking a Page From the Texas Abortion Ban, California's Governor Threatens To Attack Gun Rights With Private Lawsuits
  • SDUT: Flash flood watch issued for San Diego County as potentionally damaging storm starts to move ashore
  • AP: Big California storm dumps snow, drenches parched regions
  • OCReg: These are the Southern California areas under evacuation orders or warnings
  • LADN: Judge denies LAPD union’s request for injunction against vax mandate
  • LADN: LAUSD to consider vaccine mandates for more charter schools
  • LAT $: Judge denies LAPD union’s request to temporarily halt vaccine mandate
  • LAT $: Senate to hold hearing weighing Garcetti’s nomination to be ambassador to India
  • WSJ: Flash-Mob Thefts Planned on Snapchat and Other Apps, Police Say
  • SJMN: Woman charged with stealing $328,000 from California retailers
  • SacBee: Lawsuit over inmate death adds to scandal surrounding guards at California prison
  • AP: Police, prosecutors bugged California courtroom
  • FresBee: Fresno County leaders and residents have clashed over district maps. Final vote coming
  • SacBee: Why Placer County reversed course on redistricting in a surprising win for the public
  • Stanislaus County leaders approve new election boundaries. Not everyone is happy
  • SFC: Judge says school can refuse to display menorah symbol at tree-lightning
  • LAT $: ‘Toxic atmosphere of hatred.’ USC faculty outraged over response to student’s tweets
  • SJMN: After $14 million in damage, how a redwood park is bouncing back from last year’s devastating wildfires
  • CG: More Plastic Taxes Coming to a Ballot Near You
  • LAT $: Mattresses and mold removal: Medi-Cal to offer unconventional treatments to asthma patients
  • LAT $: After homeless killings, a confession leaves detectives with more questions
  • SFC: Soggy storm intensifies hard choices around Sausalito homeless encampment
  • SacBee: California would hire more than 1,000 more firefighters under state senator’s proposal
  • SFC: Judge becomes first Korean American woman to serve on federal court
  • SacBee: Newsom can’t get Californians to cut their water use. His family is doing far better
  • Facebook Defames Me, Now Says 'Fact-Checks' Are 'Opinion'
  • Reason: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis: No More Mask Mandates Because 'the Emergency Is Over'
  • NR: The Failure of ‘Latinx’
  • NR: Psaki Is Right; the CBO Score Is ‘Fake’
  • CalM: Enrollment declines squeeze local school finances
  • CG: Will Hollywood completely ignore CNN’s sex scandals?
  • BreitbartCA: Producer Price Index Rises by Record 9.6%, Worse Than Expected
  • LAT $: Arellano: My can’t-miss predictions for L.A. and California in 2022
  • SacBee: Oak Park gentrification: $5 million Aggie Square fund to protect tenants from displacement
  • SFC: Breed tries to rein in S.F. school board with unprecedented charter amendment
  • SFC: Should feds poison mice on Farallon Islands? Controversial plan goes to vote
  • SJMN: Google’s urban village proposal in this city one of Bay Area’s largest residential project in history
  • Turlock staff wants to request Modesto fire contract proposal. City Council OK needed
  • FresBee: An independent review is needed for how Tulare County Jail treats pregnant inmates
  • VCStar $: Eminent domain concerns delay vote on rail operator of Santa Paula line
  • VCStar $: Camarillo seeks to disband rent commission for mediator
  • LADN: New plan calls for closure of Aliso Canyon gas facility by 2023
  • LAT $: Former DWP official agrees to plead guilty
  • LADN: LA County tops 15 million COVID vaccine doses, but push more to get shots
  • OCReg: Former O.C. deputy accused of throwing scalding water on mentally ill inmate faces felony charges
  • OCReg: Strike among sanitation workers enters new week, limited trash being collected
  • OCReg: UC Irvine announces gift toward building new California art museum
  • SBSun: San Bernardino County coronavirus cases, hospitalizations going back up
  • PE: Riverside County coronavirus numbers hold steady
  • PE: What’s new: Dos Lagos center sells for $47 million; Grocery Outlet opens in French Valley
  • VOSD: San Diego’s Faulty Climate Equity Tool
  • SDUT: San Diego NAACP leader ousted by national board
  • SDUT: San Diego city attorney seeks another $500,000 for outside lawyers in Ash Street litigation

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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