Friday, January 14, 2022
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • Reason: Supreme Court Blocks Biden Vaccine Mandate: This Is No Everyday Exercise of Federal Power
  • Supreme Court Puts an End to Pandemic of the Autocrat
  • SDUT: San Diego police union seeks court ruling to allow officers to record vaccine exemption meetings
  • SDUT: Column: SD’s vaccination mandate doesn’t appear to negatively impact staffing; will that shift attitudes?
  • AP: California suspends some disability claims, citing fraud
  • OCReg: EDD wants its unemployment money back. Some could owe $30,000 or more
  • SFC: California’s EDD freezes 345,000 disability claims to battle fraud
  • SacBee: California businesses expected to pay higher taxes to make up for unemployment shortfall
  • AP: Tech companies spend millions on California political gifts
  • SacBee: Gavin Newsom solicited massive increase in private donations to fund COVID response
  • SacBee: How Sacramento mayors Darrell Steinberg and Kevin Johnson raised money for their pet projects
  • OCReg: School stress explodes as COVID-19 cases soar
  • CalM: California hospitals predict COVID crisis will last 4-6 weeks
  • LAT $: Omicron surge leaves U.S. parents, teachers and students on edge
  • LADN: LA County reports 45,076 new cases of COVID, more than 4,000 hospitalizations
  • NYT: California Is Doubling Efforts to Preserve Film and TV Production
  • BreitbartCA: Newsom Proposes Billions for Doomed CA High-Speed Rail
  • AP: RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan will remain in prison
  • SFC: S.F. school district, unions reach deal on COVID-19 safety measures
  • Labor unions, essential workers call on state to bring back COVID-19 paid sick leave
  • AP: San Quentin inmate podcast host among California clemencies
  • CalM: Free tests? As COVID surges, rapid results cost up to $300
  • SacBee: California’s troubled payroll system would get $574 million upgrade under new plan
  • AP: 3 arrests in 2020 triple-slaying at California high school
  • AP: Super Bowl organizers say game is staying in Inglewood
  • AP: Judge in Avenatti-Stormy Daniels trial warns would-be jurors
  • SacBee: CHP wants more security at California Capitol to protect lawmakers. Here’s why
  • SacBee: California renters could get a big break from state under proposal to expand tax credit
  • LAT $: Lawmakers move to tighten restrictions on sex-offending doctors
  • LAT $: California’s undergraduate enrollment dropped by about 250,000 during pandemic years
  • SDUT: Faculty scold SDSU’s president for criticizing a dean who demeaned conservatives
  • SJMN: Year after Trump impeachment vote, this California town believes their Republican congressman ‘stabbed us all in the back’
  • VOC: Months Before Public Vote, Anaheim Politicians Secretly Decided to Sell Angel Stadium
  • OCReg: Vaccine skeptic, an OC Assembly candidate, talks about how COVID sent him to ICU
  • SacBee: Student loan provider wiping out $1.7 billion in debt after California, other states sue
  • SDUT: Surfers were right: Imperial Beach is polluted with Tijuana sewage even in summer
  • Biden's Voting Rights Smears and Lies
  • VOC: Santana: How Did So Much Lead Get Into Santa Ana’s Ground, What Can Be Done About it?
  • SJMN: Editorial: California fiscal system not good enough for government work
  • LAT $: Hiltzik: Single-payer healthcare is the right system. Can California build it on its own?
  • SFC: Breed vents frustration with supervisors, jokes about getting rid of board
  • SFC: Woman got charged $10K for 1-mile cab ride in S.F. Then things got even more outrageous
  • SFC: Bay Area beer prices may rise soon due to a drought-induced barley shortage
  • SFC: Oakland schools close again due to second teacher sickout
  • SJMN: Nearly 200 homes may sprout near future San Jose BART stop
  • FresBee: Will cutting ties with the SPCA help Fresno’s stray pet problem? Big changes looming
  • FresBee: Ex-Fresno councilmember appointed by Biden to fill key USDA position
  • FresBee: Fresno City Council changed the rules and denied its only Republican its presidency
  • VCStar $: Survey of Camarillo residents helps ground airport expansion
  • LADN: LA had nearly 400 killings in 2021, most in last 15 years
  • LAT $: L.A. County files suit over warehouse fire that led to sickening odor in Dominguez Channel
  • LAT $: Garcetti questions LAPD discipline for out-of-policy police shootings, orders review
  • AP: USC forms new committee to combat anti-Semitism on campus
  • OCReg: Westminster mayor censured in council meeting that lasts till 2:30 a.m.
  • PE: Courts in San Bernardino County may temporarily close due to staffing shortages amid COVID-19 surge
  • PE: Riverside County Supervisor Chuck Washington endorses foe of Supervisor Jeff Hewitt
  • PE: Murrieta Valley school board appoints new member
  • PE: Living conditions are better since Turpins complained to ABC’s Diane Sawyer, lawyer says
  • SDUT: Chula Vista declares trash strike a public health emergency, deploys city workers to pick up overflow
  • VOSD: County Will Let Homeless Residents Isolating in Hotels Return to Shelters Sooner
  • SDUT: Man charged with firing gun in clash with protesters outside San Diego mayor’s home
  • SDUT: Journalist appeals dismissal of lawsuit against San Diego city attorney to 9th Circuit
  • VOSD: Chula Vista’s Trash Contract Limits Its Options to End Strike

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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