Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • SDUT: Masks won’t be required in many places starting Wednesday
  • LADN: Super Bowl’s mask-free celebrities spark renewed call for rethinking LA County mandates
  • CG: LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, Celebrities Shown Attending Super Bowl Sans Required Masks
  • CalM: Parents lose patience over school mask mandate
  • CG: California Health Secretary Ghaly Announces School Mask Mandate Will Stay in Place Until March
  • CalM: California launches ambitious effort to transform Medi-Cal to ‘whole person care’
  • LAT $: Poll: California voters want to reinstate tougher penalties for some crimes, change Prop. 47
  • LAT $: Newsom’s approval hobbled by crime fears, poll finds
  • CalM: No legal battles for California’s new election maps. But what lessons can be learned?
  • Where Turlock stands on homelessness, COVID response and public safety
  • SacBee: Another homeless ballot measure could go to Sacramento voters. Here’s what it would do
  • SacBee: Placer County divided on plan to move homeless encampment. ‘I’m not going anywhere’.
  • SJMN: Redwood City hotel to become housing for homeless amid $16 million in Homekey funds
  • VOSD: Attorneys Warn of Legal Action Over Midway Camp Crackdown
  • NR: Today’s San Francisco School-Board Recall Is Dividing Democrats
  • SJMN: Why so many beyond San Francisco are watching Tuesday’s school board recall election
  • SFC: As election nears, two S.F. school board members facing recall clash
  • OCReg: Disneyland throws a Super Bowl victory parade for Rams stars
  • SJMN: Current drought is worst in 1,200 years in California and the American West, new study shows
  • SFC: California lawmaker takes aim at plastic waste from online retailers
  • AP: California man killed in small plane crash at Kansas airport
  • FresBee: California Attorney General puts county jails on notice over reproductive health care
  • LAT $: UC Berkeley may be forced by court to cut 3,000 undergraduate seats, freeze enrollment
  • CalM: Do-over: Cal State resubmits application, increasing affordable student housing projection by 800 beds
  • LAT $: L.A. mayoral candidate Rick Caruso wants 1,500 more officers, says he’ll put company in a blind trust
  • LAT $: A Hollywood union tried to promote diversity. Then things got complicated
  • FresBee: Regulators unveil wildfire safety plan. Will it fix rural California’s insurance crisis?
  • Already Flush, States Seek Federal 'Zuck Buck' Top-Off
  • CalM: A Democrat wants to crack down on employers that exploit workers. Will this help?
  • How the CDC Abandoned Science
  • Public Sector Unions vs. 1st Amendment
  • OCReg: Puff, puff, pass: the federal decriminalization of marijuana
  • NR: The Forever Emergency
  • OCReg: SoFi Stadium deal sweetens Rams victory
  • Stanislaus Republicans criticize party’s “legitimate political discourse” blunder
  • CalM: No plan yet for bullet train’s soaring price tag
  • Inside the Woke Racial Indoctrination Machine
  • Big Tech's Safety Pretext to Censor Speech
  • LAT $: Former Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn on Stephon Clark, anger toward law enforcement
  • SacBee: UC Davis partnered with Elon Musk to experiment on monkeys. Now a doctors group is suing
  • SFC: John Madden honored in public memorial at Oakland Coliseum
  • AP: DA: San Francisco police used rape kit DNA to arrest victim
  • SFC: Bay Area COVID cases stop falling just as state prepares to roll back mandates
  • SFC: Amazon is exploiting S.F.’s zoning policy to plot a huge expansion. Some aren’t happy
  • SFC: Two more S.F. Walgreens are closing, this time in the heart of downtown
  • AP: California AG, others to help with new SF investigation pact
  • SFC: What’s wrong in San Jose? 14 killed in car crashes, including 8 pedestrians, this year
  • SJMN: Larry Stone’s 27-year run as Santa Clara County assessor faces stiff test in primary
  • FresBee: Fresno Unified makes big changes after second chaotic meeting but tensions remain high
  • Advance pesticide notification pilot to launch in Grayson. How accessible will it be?
  • CalCoast: Witness foils carjacking attempt in Grover Beach
  • VCStar $: Farm workers rally in Oxnard for immigration reform
  • LADN: Coronavirus: L.A. County reported 2,457 new cases and 26 new deaths, Feb. 14
  • OCReg: Long Beach agrees no paid parking at Alamitos Bay Marina — for now
  • LAT $: Supt. Alberto Carvalho won high marks in Miami, but can he move L.A. Unified forward?
  • OCReg: Bus drivers, supporters rally in Orange ahead of possible strike Tuesday
  • VOC: A New Fight in Irvine Could Be Brewing Over a Veterans Memorial
  • OCReg: Mater Dei moves to quash deposition of former AD in hazing case
  • OCReg: Santa Ana offers free downtown parking to help businesses hurt by streetcar construction
  • SBSun: San Bernardino to revisit asking voters whether to continue electing mayor
  • PE: Mourners line streets of Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga to honor fallen soldier
  • SDUT: San Diego may shift to relatively long 5-year email retention policy
  • SDUT: Citizens review board will send representative to jail death scenes
  • SDUT: San Diego’s Modern Times to shut down brewpubs in 4 cites as craft brewer retrenches from pandemic

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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