Thursday, December 30, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • CG: New San Francisco Order Mandates COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters For Workers in ‘High Risk’ Settings
  • AP: San Francisco to require boosters for certain workers
  • SFC: Breed poured millions into Tenderloin community ambassadors and police. Has it helped?
  • LAT $: Explore California’s new laws for 2022
  • VCStar $: Food waste recycling starts Jan. 1. Here's what it means
  • AP: Bringing home the bacon tops new California laws in 2022
  • SJMN: Hospitalizations rising faster in California than at any other point in the pandemic
  • SFC: The Marina’s coronavirus case rate has surged above every other S.F. neighborhood
  • SFC: Holiday gatherings account for 40% of new COVID cases in Sonoma County
  • AP: Judge halts California earlier releases for repeat offenders
  • SacBee: Who should pay for pension mistakes? New California law puts employers on the hook
  • AP: Federal government approves California’s Medicaid overhaul
  • LAT $: Unprecedented coronavirus cases have officials urging scaled-back New Year’s celebrations
  • CG: California’s Public Golf Courses to be Converted to Affordable Housing Complexes Under AB 672
  • AP: Schwarzenegger and Shriver divorce final after 10 years
  • SDUT: Rain weary San Diego County could get another 3 inches of precipitation by early Thursday
  • SFC: Tahoe’s record snowfall has officials warning everyone to stay away
  • FresBee: Bundle up, Fresno. Near-freezing temperatures over New Year’s weekend in Central Valley
  • Republican Shakes Up Race for California Fiscal Watchdog
  • SacBee: ‘40 million Californians shouting at you’: What redistricting was like for a commissioner
  • SacBee: Blackouts and green energy: Why California might slash subsidies for rooftop solar panels
  • OCReg: Why Disneyland’s gates won’t close because of holiday crowds
  • LAT $: Fearing for their lives, Mexicans fled a gang-ruled town. Now they seek political asylum in California
  • SFC: Why these 6 Bay Area residents joined The Great Resignation
  • Reason: Facebook Said My Article Was 'False Information.' Now the Fact-Checkers Admit They Were Wrong.
  • OCReg: Let the free market dictate the labor market, not the government
  • Reason: California Distillers Are About To Lose the Right To Ship Booze Directly to Consumers
  • NR: In 2022, Retire the ‘Trust the Scientists’ Platitude
  • OCReg: Double standards on gerrymandering
  • OCReg: A call to fight rising authoritarianism on the left and right, in 2022 and beyond
  • SacBee: Sacramento courts seek volunteers for county grand jury to monitor public agencies
  • SFC: S.F. Fire Department hit with COVID surge; 40 active cases
  • SFC: Mongolian barbecue spot closes after 28 years, plus other restaurant closures
  • SJMN: SF Bay Area sends mixed messages on omicron as New Year’s Eve arrives
  • Adrian Condit, longtime Ceres minister and patriarch of political family, dies at 94
  • FresBee: With new board chair, shakeup of Fresno’s river parkway effort starts at the top
  • First case of the COVID-19 omicron variant confirmed in Stanislaus County
  • VCStar $: Oxnard to close most city facilities due to COVID spike
  • LAT $: Decades before LAPD killed girl, a wild shootout blocks away helped militarize police
  • LADN: LA County reports 16,510 COVID-19 cases, doubling total from previous day; hospitalizations soar
  • OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 2,749 new cases and five more deaths, Dec. 29
  • VOC: OC Canyon Residents Forced to Evacuate Homes Just Ahead of New Year Holiday
  • SBSun: San Bernardino County’s economy is larger than New Hampshire, Sri Lanka and nearly tops FedEx
  • PE: Could Riverside County have prevented Turpin children’s recent struggles? Answers remain elusive
  • PE: Riverside County reports 17 coronavirus deaths in one day — most in a month
  • SDUT: County issues alert as San Diego emergency departments fill with coronavirus patients
  • VOSD: What We Learned This Year: San Diego’s Demographics Changed – Those Who Hold the Power Didn’t
  • SDUT: Two nurses, two pilots killed in medical transport jet crash near Gillespie Field

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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