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Dear John,
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- AP: Newsom rejects claims his homelessness plan isn’t working
- SJMN: Homeless tiny homes village experiment in Oakland hits a snag
- SDUT: Governor helps clear San Diego homeless encampment to highlight pilot program
- SJMN: Once again, COVID delays crucial homeless census in the Bay Area
- CG: Sacramento Homeless Vagrant Viciously Attacks Horse, Kills Family’s Pet Chickens
- SFC: Progressive Working Families Party lands in California, targeting moderate Democrats
- SFC: Meet the man with the inside dirt on city’s famously filthy streets
- LADN: Sheriff says LASD stats show jumps in homicides, auto thefts from 2019
- OCReg: Law enforcement agencies, families call for tougher penalties against fentanyl dealers
- SJMN: Here come the parents to help Palo Alto schools stay open amid COVID surge
- SFC: Oakland braces for another teacher sickout as students threaten to walk out
- SDUT: Chula Vista teachers protest slow contract talks with Wednesday ‘walk out’ after school
- SJMN: Gov. Newsom signs executive order that makes it easier to hire teachers amid shortages
- CG: San Francisco Adds New COVID-19 Mega-Event Vaccination Requirements
- CalM: COVID cases triple in California juvenile prisons
- LAT $: Influx of winter visitors overwhelms Big Bear as virus hits workforce
- LAT $: Doctors ‘just scraping by’ as Omicron sweeps nation’s hospitals
- CalM: California teeters on edge of more COVID shutdowns
- Reason: New California Data Reinforce the Evidence That Omicron Is Less Virulent Than Delta
- AP: California assault weapon owners face registration deadline
- CalM: Spend the surplus game 2022: Newsom picked his budget priorities. Do you agree?
- CG: $12,250 per Household Tax Increase for Gov. Newsom’s Single-Payer Healthcare System Proposal
- SacBee: California businesses expected to pay higher taxes to make up for unemployment shortfall
- SFC: California’s Prop. 12 hasn’t resulted in a bacon apocalypse — at least not yet
- LAT $: Newsom’s latest housing fix: More Californians living downtown
- SBSun: Highland lawmaker James Ramos announces state Assembly reelection bid
- FresBee: California Republican David Valadao announces campaign for increasingly Democratic district
- CG: Senator Andreas Borgeas Announces He Will Not Run For Re-Election This Year
- AP: California sues ‘sharing ministry’ health insurance plan
- SacBee: California renters could get a big break from state under proposal to expand tax credit
- LAT $: California was supposed to clear cannabis convictions. Tens of thousands are still languishing
- CG: Film Set Firearms Ban Proposal Changed Following Industry Backlash
- OCReg: Black Lives Matter activist from Long Beach once again ordered to face trial for driving through Yorba Linda crowd
- SFC: S.F. appellate justice is latest Biden appointee confirmed to Ninth Circuit
- Blue States Are Ruining Kids' Lives for No Reason
- OCReg: Ditching standardized tests spells disaster
- LAT $: Barabak: Will Republicans ever be relevant again in California? Probably. But first...
- OCReg: Westminster council drama needs to end
- Escalating Battle Over Private Millions to Bankroll U.S. Elections
- Why Did Scientists Suppress the Lab-Leak Theory?
- OCReg: How ‘we’ obscure the truth about policy
- NR: Fauci Team Cared More about ‘International Harmony’ Than the Truth
- LAT $: Skelton: California single-payer healthcare proposal has even some Democrats skeptical of its survival
- SacBee: City Council approves first contracts to improve safety in downtown and Old Sacramento
- SacBee: Student loan relief was extended during COVID. Sacramentans brace for payments to restart
- SFC: SFPD chief slams D.A.’s office for dropping charges against assault suspect
- SJMN: California drought: Santa Clara County residents exceed water conservation targets
- Turlock hires police chief away from nearby city. What are his priorities?
- FresBee: Fresno County sets policy for ambulances amid omicron surge in overwhelmed hospitals
- FresBee: Do police staffing levels threaten Clovis Way of Life? No, but let’s form a committee
- CalCoast: Naked, fat man zoom bombs Templeton advisory meeting
- VCStar $: Simi council ousts advisor for disclosing DUI checkpoint location
- VCStar $: Camarillo may eliminate rent review panel for mediator
- LADN: 20 LAUSD law enforcement employees sue over mandatory vaccine mandate
- LADN: LA County COVID hospitalizations climb to near 4,000; ICU patients up by 200 in last 8 days
- OCReg: State panel moves to discipline OC judge for allegedly hiding evidence as a prosecutor
- OCReg: County social service workers urge action after COVID-19 outbreaks
- PE: Wildomar Mayor Ben Benoit to run for Riverside County auditor-controller
- SBSun: San Bernardino commission OKs affordable housing for low-income veterans
- SBSun: San Bernardino County pauses distribution of COVID-19 test kits as supply runs out
- SDUT: Gloria focuses on infrastructure, homelessness in second ‘State of City’ speech
- SDUT: Chula Vista leaders say they will work to protect jobs of striking sanitation workers
- VOSD: 5 Key Takeaways From Gloria’s Big Speech
- SDUT: ‘Suspicious’ fire scorches City Heights home of political leaders Fletcher, Gonzalez
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Sincerely,
FlashReport Editors
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