Monday, January 10, 2022
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • Live in Taxifornia with Jim Lacy and Don Romano | KABC-AM
  • AP: Surplus in hand, California governor to reveal spending plan
  • FresBee: Exclusive: Newsom’s budget would add billions to fight drought, fires and boost California farms
  • LAT $: In El Sereno, homicides increase amid fears of gentrification
  • FresBee: Four people shot outside Tower District nightclub. Fresno police seeking shooter
  • SFC: Federal prosecutors charge Oakland man in drug and ‘road-rage’ shooting
  • PE: Rialto police fatally shoot knife-wielding man at gas station
  • LADN: Taco Bell employee shot dead at drive-through window in South LA
  • FresBee: Should prison-limiting Prop. 47 be repealed? California voters should get chance to decide
  • SDUT: Student absenteeism rose, graduation rates hardly budged during COVID, Calif. data show
  • Saturday Headlines
  • Sunday Headlines
  • ‘If not us, then who?’: inside the landmark push for reparations for Black Californians
  • LADN: Train slams into downed plane in Pacoima after pilot is pulled from wreckage
  • SFC: State officials warn against price gouging of home coronavirus tests
  • CalM: California weighs order canceling elective surgeries as COVID surges
  • LADN: LA County’s COVID cases set another record – 45,584 on Sunday, with 13 more deaths
  • SDUT: California National Guard will help at testing sites as demand overwhelms capacity
  • SacBee: COVID omicron surge could mean trouble for California Democrats in midterm election
  • SDUT: Rancho Guejito tapped groundwater deep in San Pasqual Valley. Some farmers aren’t happy about it.
  • CalM: California’s extra sick leave for COVID-19 ended, but is it time to restore it?
  • LAT $: A neglected California city reinvents itself with electric cars — and plots a roadmap for the nation
  • South Bay hotel solves staffing shortages with robot service
  • LAT $: Judge pauses California luxury development over wildfire evacuation concerns
  • VOSD: Politics Report: Who Will Replace Lorena Gonzalez?
  • FresBee: Here’s your next congressman, north Fresno. He doesn’t even need your vote
  • NR: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Dodges Question on Sonia Sotomayor’s Covid-19 Misinformation
  • SFC: Swalwell’s lawsuit against Trump over Capitol insurrection faces test
  • NR: The Left’s Latest Political Scheme: Let Noncitizens Vote
  • OCReg: California state government isn’t competent enough to run health care
  • Has Covid Vaccine Efficacy Turned Negative?
  • OCReg: Learning to live with COVID
  • Reason: It's Dangerous to Allow Politicians and Officials to Decide What Constitutes 'Truth'
  • LAT $: Skelton: California Democrats are trying again for universal healthcare. It’s a debate well worth having
  • CalM: Should state provide health care to everyone?
  • CG: Peaking Under the Dome: Is It Deal-Making or Vote Trading in California’s Capitol?
  • CG: The Voter Bill of Rights
  • The New Norms of the Democratic Majority
  • SFC: San Francisco ADUs are being built mostly in the richest parts of the city
  • SJMN: Why are San Jose’s trees disappearing? City loses hundreds of acres each year
  • LAT $: Study predicts rising heat and hardship for San Joaquin Valley farming communities
  • CalCoast: Cal Poly COVID-positive students decry deplorable conditions
  • VCStar $: Doors still open at most local government agencies
  • LAT $: L.A. County sets new daily record with nearly 46,000 coronavirus cases
  • LAT $: Coastal Commission approves Laguna’s downtown specific plan after years in development
  • PE: What cities make up the Inland Empire? Survey holds surprises
  • PE: First claim filed over COVID-19 death in San Bernardino County jails
  • VOSD: Chula Vista's Mayor Called Councilman Gringo’ and a $16K Probe Concludes It Wasn't Discrimination

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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