Thursday, February 17, 2022 |
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Dear John,
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THE HEADLINES:
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- AP: Democratic leaders reluctant to halt California gas tax hike
- SDUT: Ack! A new record high for San Diego gas prices
- CalM: Crime, homelessness emerge as California Democrats’ weak spots
- AP: California to unveil shift to ‘endemic’ approach to virus
- VOC: OC Prosecutors Challenge DA Spitzer for Bringing Race into Death Penalty Decision
- OCReg: Racially charged comments by DA Todd Spitzer send OC legal community into furor
- AP: Former prosecutor sparred with DA over race comments
- SJMN: Los Gatos teacher who gave ‘F’ grades to students protesting gun violence sues
- School-Board Fallout Will Spread Far Beyond SF
- NR: The Trouncing of the San Francisco School Board
- LAT $: San Francisco is usually seen as a lefty outlier. The school board recalls may make it a bellwether
- CG: SF School Board Recall: Communities Can Come Together and Do What’s Right
- CG: San Francisco Voters Recall Three School Board Members With Over 70% of the Vote Each
- SJMN: Is mask-friendly Bay Area embracing looser mask rule?
- SacBee: Sacramento County officially lifts mask, virtual meeting orders as COVID rates drop
- FresBee: Angry parents confront FUSD board over vaccine and mask mandates
- NR: Ending Mask Madness
- CalM: No end in sight: California drought on course to break another record
- AP: Use of rape-kit DNA to probe other crimes shocks prosecutors
- LAT $: Bass takes early lead in L.A. mayor’s race, poll finds
- LAT $: In a remote corner of California, a state program successfully shelters homeless people
- SacBee: Proposed homeless parking site on American River nixed after East Sacramento pushback
- VCStar $: $4.2 million grant will help house local homeless youth
- FresBee: Republican state Assemblyman will not seek re-election. He’s been in the role for 10 years
- CG: Bill To Give Tax Credits To Businesses That Sponsor Blood Drives Introduced in Senate
- OCReg: UCLA: Southern California high-risk fire days could double by 2100 — and there’s not a lot we can do about it
- AP: California wildfire spurs evacuations in remote Owens Valley
- Reason: In Leaked Audio, CDC's Rochelle Walensky Privately Confirms She Won't Relax School Mask Guidance
- SacBee: ‘Freedom convoy’ in California? Sacramento supervisor tried to organize COVID protest
- Are We Done With Democrats' Irrational Covid Mandates?
- OCReg: Repeal Proposition 19’s death tax
- OCReg: Tawdry plan to spike union president’s pension
- NR: We’re Paying for All of That ‘Free’ Money Now, Aren’t We?
- Media Is Much More Dishonest Than You Even Imagine
- LAT $: Column: Newsom’s waning voter approval might’ve given the GOP a shot. But they blew it in the recall
- OCReg: The failed attempt to cancel Joe Rogan
- SacBee: Sacramento’s ‘biggest economic initiative’ — $1 billion Aggie Square project — breaks ground
- SacBee: Sacramento jail inmate dies after suffering medical emergency, sheriff’s officials say
- SJMN: Judge orders DA to provide defense with race-based data in Bay Area death penalty case
- SFC: Exclusive Q&A: S.F. police chief weighs in on Boudin, Tenderloin, police morale
- SFC: ‘It’s the Wild West’: One marina has become the site of a nightmare eviction battle
- SFC: Listen: A’s ballpark faces crucial City Council vote
- SFC: Why must Cal cut admissions? The answer lies with a controversial environmental law
- SJMN: Stanford students file complaint against university over fossil fuel investments
- Modesto stadium backers point to other projects as examples of success stories
- Turlock Unified school board approves new trustee area boundaries. What changes?
- Patterson City Council statement calls allegations against mayor ‘serious, troubling’
- CalCoast: Coastal Commission bans new dwelling units in Los Osos, Cambria
- VCStar $: Conejo park district buys $975K site in hopes of building new park
- VCStar $: Oxnard Starbucks gets support from City Council
- LADN: Former Councilman Herb Wesson appointed to temporarily represent LA’s District 10
- LADN: LAUSD’s new superintendent tours schools during first week on job
- VOC: Tim Shaw Keeps OC Board of Education Seat For Now, Lawsuit Continues in March
- VOC: Laguna Beach Officials Refuse to Publish City Council Agendas Earlier
- VOC: Santana: School Board Renames Romero Cruz Academy to Recognize Santa Ana Education Pioneer
- OCReg: DA report on shooting of homeless man Kurt Reinhold falls short
- VOC: Orange County Takes Free Public Transit Leap With ‘Permanent’ Youth Bus Passes
- PE: Want to live at Disneyland? New Disney community near Palm Springs could be next best thing
- PE: Menifee Police Chief Pat Walsh to retire
- PE: Daryl Hickman, former longtime Lake Elsinore council member, dies at 81
- SBSun: Metrolink train tests San Bernardino-to-Redlands line for first time
- SDUT: ‘This is nuts’: San Diego home price continues to climb as inventory plunges
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Sincerely,
FlashReport Editors
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