Tuesday, November 17, 2020 |
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Dear John,
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THE HEADLINES:
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- CG: As Governor Newsom Locks Down California, State Lawmakers Head to Maui on Annual Junket
- California lawmakers take trip to Hawaii amid COVID surge, travel advisory
- LAT $: California lawmakers travel to Hawaii conference amid COVID-19 travel warnings
- AP: Newsom says he made ‘bad mistake’ attending pricey party
- CalCoast: Gov. Gavin Newsom faces backlash over attending dinner party
- SFC: Newsom on French Laundry dinner party: ‘I made a bad mistake’
- LAT $: Newsom sorry for French Laundry dinner, says he’ll practice what he preaches
- AP: California governor imposes new restrictions in pandemic
- AP: California businesses hit with new virus restrictions
- SDUT: ‘We have to stand up’: San Diego businesses, elected officials push against closures
- Gavin Newsom weighs a statewide curfew as most of California returns to toughest COVID-19 tier
- CalM: California clamps down: Governor announces new restrictions to curb surging coronavirus
- AP: California governor pulls ‘emergency brake,’ imposes new restrictions on businesses amid spike in coronavirus cases
- OCReg: As public pension costs soar, some Southern California agencies turn to controversial borrowing to fill deep holes
- LAT $: California breaks single-day record for new COVID-19 cases amid sweeping new restrictions
- CapWkly: As anxieties rise, Californians buy hundreds of thousands more guns
- CG: Congressman Mike Garcia Hangs on to Narrow 104 Vote Lead in Congressional Race
- AP: Cal/Osha fines Farmer John for hundreds of COVID-19 cases
- SDUT: State Supreme Court declines to hear San Diego County appeal of records case
- SBSun: With Harris’ U.S. Senate seat in the mix, Southern California leaders lobbying governor hard
- FH: Gavin, Please Send Me to the Senate
- SacBee: ‘We are long overdue’: Leaders press Gavin Newsom to put a Latino in the U.S. Senate
- CG: California Assemblyman Challenges Gov. Newsom’s ‘Cattle Call’ to Fill Kamala Harris’ Senate Seat
- AP: University of California agrees to $73M sex abuse settlement
- OCReg: Disneyland and Knott’s further from reopening with Orange County’s slide into most restrictive COVID-19 tier
- OCReg: Gov. Newsom says surge of COVID-19 cases might delay release of new guidelines for high school, youth sports competition
- SacBee: Sacramento County may declare racism a public health crisis. Here’s what that means
- VCStar $: County board declares racism a public health crisislocal
- Reason: School District Decides Asians Aren't Students of Color
- VOC: Orange County Moves its Largest Homeless Shelter Starting Around the New Year
- Fire at homeless camps in Modesto causes blast, spreads to truck yard
- SacBee: Homelessness is on the rise in Placer County. Will COVID-19 closings make it even worse?
- LADN: Expired unemployment benefits, EDD debacles sink jobless Californians
- LAT $: Hundreds of giant sequoias killed by California’s Castle fire
- SFC: Faith leaders urge clemency for David Gilbert, father of S.F. D.A. Boudin
- CalM: Newsom displays hypocritical arrogance
- FH: The Governor is Not a King
- OCReg: Restaurants need more flexibility to stay in business, operate safely
- OCReg: Garcetti, Newsom look for a lifeboat as LA and California fall apart
- SacBee: Mai Vang claims Sacramento’s District 8 City Council seat after Les Simmons’ concession
- SacBee: Sacramento could ban pot shops, massage parlors, other businesses along this street
- SacBee: Sacramento may consider banning all fireworks after complaints soared this summer
- SFC: Union to challenge San Francisco Whole Foods plan
- SFC: BART avoids station closures, weekend shutdowns but could lose up to 40% of staff
- SFC: Airbnb IPO could generate billions for the Bay Area. How will housing prices react?
- LAT $: New restrictions in San Francisco Bay Area after ‘explosion’ of new coronavirus cases
- SJMN: Google backs two more Bay Area affordable housing projects
- SJMN: DA dismisses case against George Floyd protester injured by SJPD
- FresBee: Jerry Dyer remains at home with coronavirus. Others exposed at Fresno party update status
- Update: New coronavirus restrictions go into effect in Stanislaus County on Tuesday
- FresBee: California demotes Fresno County back to purple-tier COVID-19 business restrictions
- CalCoast: Surge in coronavirus cases to restrict dining at SLO County restaurants
- CalCoast: Jan Marx wins SLO City Council, and other winners
- VCStar $: Oxnard names next police chief
- VCStar $: Virus surge knocks Ventura County into purple tier
- LAT $: L.A. police union spurns City Hall’s request to meet on the budget crisis
- LADN: Officials: L.A. County at ‘dangerous point’ in coronavirus surge
- LADN: Garcetti announces expanded testing efforts in response to COVID surge
- CBS: Orange County CEO Frank Kim Tests Positive For COVID-19
- OCReg: Restrictions on dining in return as Orange County moves back to purple tier
- OCReg: Orange County moves to purple tier as Newsom pulls ’emergency brake’ amid coronavirus surge
- OCReg: Anaheim will cut rents on more than 1,000 middle-income apartments
- OCReg: Costa Mesa to allow retail sales as OC voters show softening stance on cannabis
- SBSun: San Bernardino County sets 7-day record for new coronavirus cases: 6,064
- PE: Riverside County now has more than 75,000 coronavirus cases
- SDUT: New COVID-19 outbreak forces transfer of dozens of county jail inmates
- SDUT: Is panic buying returning in San Diego amid rising COVID rates?
- SDUT: San Diego County sounds alarm on COVID-19 violations, as state hits ‘emergency brake’
- VOSD: The Rise and Fall (for Now) of Georgette Gómez
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Sincerely,
FlashReport Editors
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