Friday, December 17, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • LAT $: California redistricting commissioner misses key meetings
  • CalM: Did California get its money’s worth from $1.7 billion COVID test contract?
  • LAT $: Fake students enrolled in community colleges. One bot-sleuthing professor fights back
  • CalM: Four California universities missed out on as much as $47 million in coronavirus aid. Here’s why
  • SDUT: ReOpen San Diego threatens to sue city over vaccine mandates
  • LADN: LA County tightens rules for mega events amid rising COVID numbers
  • OCReg: Rep. Lowenthal’s impending retirement could open field for ambitious Democrats
  • CG: CA Congressman Alan Lowenthal Announces That He Will Not Run In 2022
  • LAT $: California lawmakers prepare to protect abortion access, starting with eliminating copays
  • AP: California utility faces $550M in penalties for 5 wildfires
  • LADN: Coalition seeks tax on property sales over $5 million to fund LA’s homeless housing
  • CalCoast: SLO seeks to dismiss lawsuit over criminalizing homelessness
  • SFC: Santa Clara County warns of ‘deluge of omicron’ ahead as case numbers grow
  • LAT $: Delta and Omicron could overwhelm hospitals soon
  • LAT $: Unprecedented die-offs, melting ice: Climate change is wreaking havoc in the Arctic and beyond
  • AP: Search underway for shooter who wounded California officer
  • AP: Company indicted for not stopping oil leak after many alarms
  • SDUT: Column: San Diego, Los Angeles water agencies frame water sale as an end to hostilities
  • SFC: Charts show where California reservoir totals stand after latest rainstorms
  • FresBee: California’s High-speed rail project still needs to purchase hundreds of pieces of land
  • FresBee: She tried to unseat a Fresno congressman. Now this Republican wants Devin Nunes’ seat
  • CG: Did California Health Officials Just Say COVID Vaccine Doesn’t Stop Transmission?
  • Doocy to WH's Jean-Pierre: Why Is Biden Still Telling People That The Vaccinated Cannot Spread COVID?
  • SBSun: Complaints about racism at games are rare, CIF documents show
  • SJMN: Gilroy High among schools stepping up security in response to threats on TikTok
  • Reason: What Will 'Build Back Better' Buy? Inflation.
  • Reason: Legislators Hid a Sneaky Crypto Reporting Provision in the Infrastructure Bill
  • L.A.'s DA on the Persistent Racism in Police Culture
  • LAT $: Hiltzik: The idea of expanding the Supreme Court to blunt its right-wing bias gains traction
  • LAT $: Smith: Tough-on-crime politics are back in California. But Black activists aren’t giving up
  • OCReg: Inflating the costs of government’s fiscal irresponsibility
  • NR: Against the Thiel Tax
  • NR: San Fran Mayor Has Defunder’s Remorse
  • OCReg: Newsom’s misguided proposal to target our Second Amendment rights
  • OCReg: Protect small-business owners from lawsuit abuse
  • NR: America Has Reached Covid Burnout
  • AmerSpec: Fighting Crime the Soros Way
  • Democrats U-Turn on Policing—Too Little, Too Late
  • OCReg: Voters deserve clear, neutral ballot summaries and titles
  • SacBee: Why Placer County is unlikely to enforce California’s statewide mask mandate
  • SFC: A’s waterfront ballpark could get key vote after Oakland report comes out
  • SFC: State Coastal Commission approves mouse poison drop on Farallon Islands
  • SFC: S.F. school board extends Lowell High lottery admission for another year
  • FresBee: Fresno aims to improve trust with immigrant community. Liaison wants to be that ‘link’
  • Turlock Unified School District seeks input on trustee boundary maps. What to know
  • Huge rate increases coming to garbage service customers in Stanislaus County. Here’s why
  • Healthcare provider hosts Harder in Modesto to show importance of school-based centers
  • VCStar $: CLU president says former congressman's replica office weak draw
  • LADN: Port of LA uses pre-approved contingency funding on Wilmington Waterfront, overflow container yards
  • LADN: Coronavirus: L.A. County reported 2,275 new cases and 20 new deaths, Dec. 16
  • LADN: LA commissioner lobbied CAO to support his company’s $3 million COVID-19 testing contract
  • OCReg: Deal in trash strike reached for Anaheim, Huntington Beach
  • VOC: Orange County Board of Education to Choose New Member After Resignation
  • OCReg: Dept. of Justice: Orange County is now nation’s center for addiction fraud
  • VOC: Orange Residents Get a Temp For City Manager
  • PE: San Bernardino meeting: $1M donation, $143k salary, priceless entertainment
  • SDUT: Lawyers for NBC 7 journalist and San Diego city attorney clash over defamation lawsuit
  • SDUT: San Diego County median home price hits new high: $750K. Why some experts think it won’t stop rising.

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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