Dear John,

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• AP: California GOP says it won't remove unofficial ballot boxes
• KQED: Battle Heats Up Over Legal Challenge to Unofficial GOP Drop Boxes
• LADN: California GOP: Ballot box strategy is bigger than previously reported
• VCStar $: California Democrats condemn GOP for unofficial ballot boxesnews
• LAT $: California GOP doubles down on use of private ballot boxes
• CG: State Controller Rejects Secretary Padilla's $35 million Voting Contract with 'Team Biden' PR Firm
• SDUT: More than 1 million California ballots already cast, shattering records
• SJMN: Flex Alert could add to number without electricity as PG&E begins public safety power shutoff
• AP: Facing new fire threat, PG&E cuts power to tens of thousands
• AP: California heat wave prompts power shutdowns, fire danger
• SJMN: Coronavirus: Anti-lockdown declaration pulls signature list after report of fake names
• SFC: Calif. Supreme Court revives challenge to toll increase at Bay Area bridges
• CalM: At a glance: See the biggest spenders in California's prop battles
• CalM: A heavy burden: Should dialysis rules be up to voters?
• OCReg: Disney CEO says 'arbitrary' Disneyland reopening guidelines not based on 'actual fact'
• CG: Rideshare Employee Classification Case Begins In Appellate Court
• SacBee: If gig economy initiative fails, will you pay more for Uber and Lyft? What studies say
• FresBee: Caravan of Uber and Lyft drivers against Prop 22 stops in Fresno
• LADN: Laid off hotel workers at Beverly Hilton stage 'Die-In For Healthcare'
• SFC: Big Tobacco goes big in effort to quash law banning sales of flavored tobacco products
• CG: Disgraced Former Rep. Katie Hill Emerges To Mock Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Wardrobe
• KQED: Is Prop 25 California's Best Chance to End Cash Bail?
• AP: Scott Peterson murder convictions ordered re-examined
• LAT $: California Supreme Court orders reexamination of Scott Peterson's murder convictions
• VCStar $: Brownley, Baldwin-Kennedy debate COVID response
• SDUT: San Diego paying out $3.4 million to 700 firefighters for underpaid overtime
• SacBee: PG&E resumes tree cutting in California town that fought back. Activists aren't giving up
• SJMN: EDD: Woes and progress for unemployment
• City Heights Organizers Fear Undercount After Supreme Court Orders Census Count Halted
• CapWkly: California ramps up census push in final hours
• LAT $: Federal judge dismisses O.C. doctor's indictment over coronavirus trial suspensions
• SacBee: Becerra, Bay Area DAs join vow not to charge if Roe v. Wade ends
• NR: Twitter and Facebook's Shameful Repression of the New York Post's Hunter Biden Story
• NR: The Hunter Emails
• OCReg: The California GOP shoots itself in the foot with unofficial ballot boxes
• FH: New CA Task Force on Reparations is a Dangerous Exercise in Virtue-Signaling
• FH: The Ex-Governors As Initiative Warriors
• SacBee: Battered by pandemic, Sacramento County loses medical director for troubled jails
• SacBee: Sacramento to allow 10 new pot shops. Does it go far enough to fix equity issues, monopoly?
• SFC: 6 feet apart in the sandbox: Playgrounds open again in S.F.
• SJMN: Indoor dining returns to Santa Clara County - on a sunny day made for alfresco meals
• SFC: Video shows Napa Co. deputy fatally shoot unarmed man during traffic stop
• FresBee: Clovis schools win COVID-19 waiver to reopen elementary schools for in-person classes
• FresBee: Fresno voters overwhelmingly support police reform, new survey results show
• FresBee: More Fresno-area schools cleared to reopen during COVID-19 pandemic. But will they?
• CalCoast: Save Our Downtown endorses James Papp and Sandra Marshall
• CalCoast: Officers aware of mistaken identity, raid SLO County home anyway
• VCStar $: County reminds residents not to let guard down
• VCStar $: Candidate says not responsible for racist slurs
• VCStar $: Oxnard treasurer candidates show off commonalities
• LAT $: Second sighting of person wearing a jet pack near LAX prompts new investigation
• LAT $: Coronavirus transmission rate grows in L.A. County
• CG: LA County To Follow State Guidelines: Limits Gatherings to Three Families, Two Hours Or Less, No Singing
• LADN: Worksite coronavirus outbreaks 'cause for concern' in L.A. County
• OCReg: Newport Beach's popular short-term rentals face tightening restrictions
• OCReg: Orange County, firmly in the red tier, shows slight progress in coronavirus case rate and health equity
• OCReg: Coronavirus virtually gone from Orange County jail, Sheriff Don Barnes says
• SBSun: San Bernardino County coronavirus hospitalizations drop
• SBSun: San Bernardino green lights 5th Street Gateway Project off 215 Freeway
• SDUT: Suspended NBC 7 producer files legal claim against city over retracted Ash Street story
• SDUT: County orders San Diego strip club to cease and desist
• SDUT: San Diego City Council approves hotel purchases for homeless housing
• VOSD: Officers Who Wrote Multiple Seditious Language Tickets Have Been Accused of Other Violations

Sincerely,