Sunday, January 2, 2022
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • FRBlog: David Takes on Goliath
  • LAT $: L.A. County public and private school staff must wear high-grade masks; rules for athletes tighten
  • SJMN: New California COVID-19 Guidelines: What to know
  • SFC: Bay Area schools hold firm with in-person plans amid omicron, parent concern
  • SacBee: New year, new garbage: Why California is counting on you to clean up another mess
  • SFC: California is about to witness its biggest change to trash since the ’80s
  • LAT $: How will California’s new laws affect you?
  • SJMN: With gun violence on the rise, Oakland ends the year with 134 homicides
  • OCReg: Raw sewage flow – now estimated at 8.5 million gallons – stopped; L.A., Orange County beaches still closed
  • AP: New Year’s Rose Parade marches on despite COVID-19 surge
  • AP: New Year’s Day ocean plunge off after LA-area sewage spill
  • CG: ‘Back to the Future’ California Recap and 2022 Political Predictions
  • SFC: Phillips: These questions will decide California’s future in 2022
  • SDUT: Meet the women leading San Diego’s two most powerful labor organizations at same time
  • SDUT: San Diego gains a state senator under new California voting districts
  • SDUT: New district maps pit some San Diego Assemblymembers against each other
  • POL: California continues to face wildfire risks. Insurers think they have an answer.
  • LAT $: With sexually transmitted infections soaring in California, new law pushes at-home tests
  • LAT $: Little India, already struggling before the pandemic, is at a crossroads
  • SFC: Waiting nine years for an asylum hearing in San Francisco
  • OCReg: Defend Proposition 13 and single-family zoned neighborhoods
  • Hill: Debacle of Defunding the Police Is Coming Home to Roost
  • OCReg: Restraint is key as COVID-19 continues on
  • Reason: The Lockdown Showdown
  • Reason: Against Champagne Socialists
  • SacBee: I’m Sacramento County’s health officer. Like you, after 100 weeks of COVID, I’m exhausted
  • SFC: S.F. has a slew of mega housing projects on track for 2022. Here’s what it could mean for the city
  • SFC: Stinson Beach homes could be flooded within a decade. Would building dunes save them?
  • FresBee: Fresno airport sees cancellations amid holiday travel delays from COVID, weather
  • What COVID-19 precautions are Stanislaus schools planning for winter break return?
  • FresBee: Fresno-area kids have low vaccination rates amid COVID spike. ‘Some kids get really sick’
  • CalCoast: San Luis Obispo County welcomes the first babies of 2022
  • LAT $: ‘We’ve lost Tom’: Fatal shark attack in Morro Bay devastates family and alarms surfers
  • VCStar $: Ventura County buildings to close as COVID-19 rates rise
  • LAT $: Orange County to resume counting homeless people with coronavirus safety measures
  • LAT $: Task force presses Irvine for museum to honor first people of Orange County
  • OCReg: Mater Dei president Walter Jenkins resigns
  • SBSun: Nearly 1,800 in Fontana without power due to outage
  • SDUT: National City becomes first in county to embrace project labor agreements
Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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