Saturday, April 30, 2022
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • SJMN: Santa Clara city workers narrowly avoid strike over pay raise
  • SJMN: Striking Stanford, Packard nurses will lose healthcare benefits May 1st, fueling fear and frustration
  • SFC: Oakland schools empty amid teacher strike
  • CG: ‘Pay to Play’ Governor Behest Payment Contracting Bill Killed by Senate Democrats
  • SFC: Urban Alchemy street ambassador reportedly shot in S.F.’s Tenderloin
  • SFC: ‘Ringleaders’ of organized retail crime ring convicted after investigation
  • AP: Headcounts are down at public schools. Now budgets are too.
  • SDUT: San Diego home prices accelerating at a pace not seen since housing boom of 2004
  • SJMN: Newsom: Desalination project should be approved — “We need more damn tools in the toolkit”
  • AP: A longer life for Diablo Canyon? Newsom touts nuke extension
  • CalM: Another gas rebate plan — but little action
  • SacBee: Democrats are feeling gas-price pressure. How Nancy Pelosi’s solution would affect California
  • CalM: California’s youngest children need more mental health support, advocates say in request for funding
  • OCReg: Ghosted by the PUC: Folks await new plan for rooftop solar, but get silence
  • SDUT: East County cities weigh closer cooperation on homelessness as residents decry tent camps
  • SacBee: What goes into building tiny homes? What to know as Sacramento County considers shelters
  • SFC: California OKs bullet train from Central Valley to Bay Area. What it means
  • SFC: Wealthy S.F. neighborhood accused of trying to skirt housing laws with historic status
  • LAT $: A speeding Mercedes. Two kids killed. Should a Hidden Hills socialite face a murder trial?
  • SFC: Wildfires are destroying California's giant sequoias. Scientists are trying to save them
  • LAT $: To survive drought, parts of SoCal must cut water use by 35%. The new limit: 80 gallons a day
  • LAT $: USC education school omitted key data for U.S. News & World Report rankings, report says
  • SJMN: Big labor, developer money rolling into state Senate District 10 race
  • CalM: Who’s missing from California’s community colleges?
  • Make Colleges Pay For Student Debt Crisis
  • OCReg: State’s latest tobacco ‘protections’ are trying to kill us
  • Reason: Don't Wait! The National Debt Is Only Getting Worse
  • Cogan & Warsh: U.S. Needs a Return to First Principles
  • CG: BART Board Votes to Reinstate Mask Mandate on All Trains Following Dismissal of Federal Mandate
  • SFC: These 11 maps show exactly how S.F. supervisor districts will be redrawn
  • SFC: San Franciscans may soon be able to hail a paid ride from a driverless taxi
  • SJMN: What fundraising and endorsements tell us about San Jose’s mayoral election
  • ‘Another shot’: Turlock High students prep for showings of once-canceled musical
  • FresBee: Sanger school dropping charter status. Do parents know what it means for students?
  • CalCoast: SLO County Supervisor Bruce Gibson’s latest tirade
  • VCStar $: Goats return to Reagan library to help reduce fire risk
  • VCStar $: Incumbent district attorney faces challenge from within
  • OCReg: Port of Long Beach estimates $345 million loss if it takes control of Queen Mary
  • LAT $: Critics of plan to relocate youths from L.A. juvenile hall increasingly vocal before May 1 move
  • LAT $: A long-forgotten toxic dump site is raising new worries for this Los Angeles neighborhood
  • OCReg: Judge temporarily bars Tim Shaw from his Orange County Board of Education seat
  • OCReg: Attorney General asked to weigh in on timing of redistricting of OC Board of Supervisors
  • PE: Meet the four candidates for the Riverside County Supervisor 5th District seat
  • SBSun: Shannon Dicus, Clifton Lee Harris vie for San Bernardino County sheriff
  • SDUT: Amazon doubles down on San Diego office space with lease at The Collection at UTC
  • SDUT: Superior Court judge orders San Diego city officials to turn over Ash Street-related records
  • SDUT: In civil rights case, county seeks to shed $85 million verdict or get a new trial

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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