Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • LAT $: Nashville’s Southern hospitality — and affordability — beckons Californians
  • SacBee: Burglars hit at least a dozen Sacramento lobbyists and nonprofits in downtown break-in
  • SFC: S.F. cancels New Year’s Eve fireworks show due to omicron surge
  • SFC: Bay Area arts outfits cancel New Year’s shows, citing omicron
  • CalM: Eleven new California laws for 2022, explained in one minute
  • FresBee: New California laws for 2022: More duplexes, fewer ketchup packets and all mail-in elections
  • CG: Restaurants, Bars Across California Prepare To Introduce More To-Go Options For New Liquor Law
  • CG: CA Senator Nancy Skinner to Introduce Bill to Pay State Funds To Children of COVID-19 Victims
  • SFC: Here are the latest numbers as omicron cases skyrocket in California
  • AP: California 1st state to top 5M cases amid omicron surge
  • LAT $: California COVID-19 hospitalizations up 25% in the last week
  • FresBee: Here comes another COVID vaccine debate as California lawmakers brace for more protests
  • AP: ‘So difficult’: Winter snow, cold slam Northwest and Sierra
  • SDUT: San Diego has gotten almost twice its average December rain, and more is on the way
  • VOSD: After Redistricting, Advocates Argue for More Districts. Or None At All.
  • New congressional districts split Modesto’s white and Latino communities
  • SDUT: How 14 citizens drew new voting lines for San Diego County
  • SacBee: A $2.1M office chair and permanent telework: Our top California state worker stories in 2021
  • SFC: We have life-saving treatments for opioid overdoses. Here’s why they often don’t get used
  • LAT $: 9th Circuit rules that California man can be charged with threatening Mitch McConnell
  • OCReg: Inglewood police barred from destroying officer records on eve of new transparency law
  • LADN: ‘Profound pain:’ Mother of girl, 14, slain in LAPD Burlington shooting describes aftermath
  • SDUT: Poway synagogue shooter gets federal life sentence
  • SJMN: New computer program rapidly detects homes, buildings damaged by California wildfires
  • SDUT: Major energy storage project — enough to power 110,000 homes for 2 hours — coming to San Diego
  • OCReg: California needs pension reforms more than streetcar projects
  • CG: God Sent the Rain, But We Need an Angel to Build the Infrastructure to Manage It
  • Reason: Californians Learn That Raising Taxes on Marijuana Fuels Black Markets for Drugs
  • OCReg: Capitalists are the people who do the most good for the world
  • SJMN: Editorial: Biden humiliates himself attacking California pension reform
  • OCReg: Another year in the books
  • SacBee: School tied to Trump buys land from group led by Sacramento’s Democratic Tsakopoulos family
  • SFC: Marin D.A. drops charges against journalist who had camera, phone seized
  • SJMN: With the rent doubling, Ben’s BBQ & Brew in San Jose will close
  • SJMN: Man beaten in notorious Santa Clara County jail gang attack seeking right to sue county
  • Modesto giving away 200 rapid, at-home COVID-19 test kits to its residents
  • San Joaquin County confirms first cases of COVID omicron strain, as surge takes hold
  • CalCoast: COVID-19 cases surge in SLO County
  • VCStar $: T.O. landowner's allegations against Parks still in play
  • LADN: LA County posts 22 new COVID-19 deaths, 9,473 cases; hospitalizations still climbing
  • LAT $: Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna tests positive for COVID-19
  • VOC: What’s the Future of COVID Mandates in Orange County?
  • OCReg: Balboa Island ferry will close to cars for a month
  • OCReg: State Bar sanctions Orange County attorney who represented Mater Dei football players
  • PE: Inland Empire hospitals bracing for post-holiday coronavirus surge
  • SBSun: San Bernardino County’s economy is larger than New Hampshire, Sri Lanka and nearly tops FedEx
  • OCReg: 4 dead after plane that took off from John Wayne Airport crashes in San Diego County
  • SDUT: COVID-19 surge builds in San Diego County
  • SDUT: Sewer rates spike 17 percent Saturday for single-family customers in San Diego

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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