Saturday, December 18, 2021 |
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Dear John,
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THE HEADLINES:
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- CG: SF Mayor London Breed Announces State of Emergency for Tenderloin Neighborhood
- SFC: Breed leaning into a crackdown on crime and drugs. What happens if she can’t deliver?
- BakCal: Newsom calls Kern murder capital of California while unveiling funds to address crime rates
- CalM: Fund the police: Newsom responds to California crime concerns
- AP: California governor boosts efforts to combat smash-and-grabs
- LADN: Smash-and-grab robberies take financial, emotional toll on businesses across LA County
- LAT $: Six arrested after investigation into robberies targeting Asian women in San Jose
- AP: Vaccinated California employees face workplace restrictions
- CalM: Fearing a big COVID surge, California reinstates rules for private workplaces — and the vaccinated
- SJMN: Oakland considers requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccinations to enter restaurants, gyms and other gathering places
- How Academic Ideologues Are Corrupting STEM
- PE: Developer used stolen taxpayer funds to hire Andrea Bocelli for daughter’s $2 million wedding, Industry alleges
- LAT $: California population continues decline, driven by lower immigration, fewer births and pandemic deaths
- FresBee: Think Fresno has more people? You’re right. San Joaquin Valley grows while state shrinks
- SFC: California and Bay Area populations decline, with state deaths increasing
- SacBee: California’s population is still falling. Here’s what is leading to the decline
- SacBee: These 10 California counties lost the most residents during the COVID-19 pandemic
- LAT $: CDC endorses policy to avoid school COVID-19 quarantines
- CG: Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia Announces Bid To Become Congressman
- LAT $: Roughly 80% of city workers in L.A. say they’re vaccinated
- OCReg: First OC Omicron case found in an adult returning from domestic travel
- Omicron threat in California: Your questions answered on COVID, travel and boosters
- PE: First omicron coronavirus case reported in Riverside County
- LAT $: Former San Francisco public works director to plead guilty in corruption case
- VOSD: Fine City: You’re Working Harder and Harder and Making Less and Less
- LAT $: YouTube TV loses ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels in fee dispute
- SJMN: Jailed Los Gatos ‘party mom’ to spend holidays behind bars and seek bail again next month
- PE: Churches contemplate new business models to survive coronavirus pandemic
- LAT $: For Newsom, a childhood struggle to read influenced his life and career
- Reason: Global Freedom Is on the Decline
- How Corporate Greed Fuels Chinas Domination
- OCReg: Learning from the Korematsu decision of ‘44
- Reason: California Promised Street Vendors More Freedom. Instead They Got More Rules.
- NR: How Biden Blew It
- Reason: Why Are So Many Prominent Journalists Abandoning Journalism?
- CG: Sacramento Crime Log Grows While Mayor Focuses on the ‘Unhoused’
- SacBee: Biden energy secretary touts his $2 trillion spending plan in visit to Sacramento
- SJMN: Palo Alto shelter workers say ‘avoidable mistakes’ caused puppy deaths. ‘Putting them in that crate was the kiss of death’
- SJMN: Grand jury praises Mountain View, rips Palo Alto for their affordable housing efforts
- SJMN: Low COVID vaccination rates prompt West Contra Costa Unified to extend deadline for getting shots
- SFC: Son of Mario Gonzalez files wrongful death lawsuit against Alameda police
- FresBee: Fresno Diocese’s list of credibly accused priests is ‘inaccurate,’ lawyer says. Here’s why
- Turlock man charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting CHP officer Thursday
- FresBee: Fresno County judge slashes millions from malpractice award for man with brain injury
- FresBee: Fresno police reviewing force used against teen during incident captured on video
- CalCoast: Video game talk spurs investigation at Paso Robles school
- CalCoast: First Omicron variant of COVID-19 reported in SLO County
- VCStar $: Ojai board members gather input on downtown hotel proposal
- LAT $: Lopez: Torrance police bigotry scandal echoes the early days of L.A. race discrimination
- LADN: More LA County supervisors? Latest redistricting process prompts calls for change
- LADN: Ambitious $145.7-million modernization project under way at Woodland Hills’ Taft High
- LADN: Former LA County coroner’s investigator gets $8.4 million in lawsuit
- OCReg: Huntington Beach agenda item shows rift between council and City Attorney
- SBSun: San Bernardino County distributing free coronavirus tests for residents
- SDUT: New analysis shows San Diego’s proposed foam ban can be enacted
- SDUT: Trolley-to-airport extension coming to San Diego
- PE: Inside the $5 billion demolition of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant
- SDUT: San Diego unemployment plummets to lowest level of the pandemic
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Sincerely,
FlashReport Editors
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