Sunday, January 30, 2022
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • FRBlog: Positive Proof Affirmative Action a Failure
  • SFC: One-year contract deal between S.F. schools, teachers union offers bonuses
  • SDUT: Facing public records suit, CA insurance chief drops plans to auto delete emails
  • KQED: Underpaid and Burned Out: Many Outreach Workers for Unhoused Californians are Leaving Their Jobs
  • SacBee: See why this Sacramento homeless person can’t find housing, even with a housing voucher
  • SacBee: ‘A false hope:’ These Sacramentans waited years for a voucher, now they can’t find homes
  • FresBee: Fresno advocates worry the city’s new task force will ‘criminalize’ homeless residents
  • FresBee: Homeless find shelter in renovated motels thanks to Project Homekey
  • LADN: Where will rents jump the most in California?
  • AP: California man charged with stealing $1M in COVID benefits
  • SDUT: Scamming pandemic jobless benefits was easy. Going after the scammers is proving to be hard.
  • LADN: LA County COVID hospitalizations dip below 4,000, latest sign omicron has peaked
  • LAT $: Virus surge appears to be abating in L.A. County
  • LAT $: Scores of guns stolen from trains cause more problems in L.A.
  • SDUT: A dean’s divisive tweet casts SDSU into nationwide debate over academic free speech
  • AP: $426 million Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in California
  • SacBee: California is auditing a key housing program — but NIMBYs could use it to undo progress
  • SJMN: Rising interest rates making Bay Area homes even less affordable
  • SJMN: Elizabeth Holmes: Judge has given long prison sentences in big-money frauds, but baby may help her
  • LAT $: California promised ‘social equity’ after pot legalization. Those hit hardest feel betrayed
  • SFC: Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga answer questions about their records
  • FresBee: Stop asking when California’s drought will be over. Dry winters are the new normal
  • SDUT: Department of Energy launches plan to jumpstart interstate power transmission
  • How Housing First fueled the homelessness crisis
  • OCReg: Affirmative action could soon be ruled unconstitutional
  • Why Do Media Ignore Biden Familys Corruption?
  • Bill Maher: Not Me Who Changed, Its The Left They've Gone Mental And Made Me A Hero To FOX News
  • Why Do Washington Elites Want War in Ukraine?
  • NR: There Are No Easy Cures for What Ails Our Body Politic
  • A Public Health Reckoning Is Coming
  • CalM: Two statewide races to watch this year
  • SDUT: Opinion: California might expand abortion funding. What about help for mothers who carry to term?
  • SacBee: Folsom teen reports racial slurs, pulled braids and hateful messages. Was school slow to act?
  • SFC: Is the Tenderloin ‘healing’? What it’s like to live and work under an emergency...
  • SFC: These 15 Oakland schools could close or merge under fast-track proposal
  • SJMN: San Jose: Vietnamese Americans celebrate Lunar New Year at Tet festival
  • SJMN: Latest line: A good week for Liccardo, bad one for Tim Draper
  • How one Modesto district is keeping schools open during omicron COVID surge
  • Suspect in shooting of MPD officer rearrested. Girlfriend allegedly mailed drugs into jail
  • CalCoast: Escaped inmate arrested at Pirate’s Cove in SLO County
  • CalCoast: Black Lives Matter protester again ordered to face trial or diversion
  • OCReg: 2 men arrested after robbery of Irvine restaurant
  • OCReg: AG Bonta needs to investigate the Riverside Sheriff’s Department
  • PE: Riverside Lunar Festival returns after coronavirus canceled 2021 event
  • SDUT: Shortage of pickleball courts in San Diego prompts new proposals from city, players
  • SDUT: San Diego’s sports arena site is up for grabs. These are the 5 teams competing to remake the property

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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