Thursday, December 3, 2020
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • AP: Hewlett Packard Enterprise to move headquarters to Texas
  • SFC: HPE, a touchstone of Silicon Valley, moving headquarters to Houston
  • AP: Politicians eat own words after dining out, taking trips
  • CalM: Credibility at stake: The French Laundry saga followed by others
  • NR: Austin Mayor Flew to Mexico for Vacation While Advising Public to ‘Stay Home’
  • LAT $: City of L.A. issues stay-at-home rules that mirror L.A. County order
  • LAT $: L.A. County must show evidence for outdoor dining ban, judge orders
  • CapWkly: Governor plans stricter COVID-19 response*
  • VOC: Santa Ana Officials Enact Their Own Mandatory Mask Order as Coronavirus Crisis Worsens
  • CG: Ski Resorts Allowed To Stay Open Under New State COVID-19 Guidelines
  • SFC: Newsom’s staff members in quarantine after one tests positive for...
  • AP: California reports more than 20,000 virus cases in one day
  • SJMN: Coronavirus: Hospitals filling fast with fall COVID-19 case surge
  • SFC: Hospitals brace for rising wave of coronavirus cases as public officials raise alarms
  • LADN: Hospitals activate surge plans as L.A. County heads into pandemic’s most dangerous days
  • AP: California COVID-19 surge could lead to new stay-home order
  • SFC: Magnitude 4.9 earthquake strikes California-Nevada border region
  • NR: Bruce Herschensohn, R.I.P.
  • LADN: Bruce Herschensohn, conservative commentator on Southern California airwaves, dies at 88
  • OCReg: OC water districts file massive lawsuit over PFAS contaminants
  • AP: Feinstein picks Padilla in jockeying for Harris’ Senate seat
  • KQED: Overcrowding Is Fueling California's Worst Active COVID-19 Prison Outbreak, Advocates Say
  • LADN: Fears of more COVID-19 spread as thousands of L.A. County inmates await transfer to state prisons
  • Two deputies file complaint as coronavirus outbreak grows at Stanislaus County jail
  • SFC: S.F. sheriff’s deputy dies on the job at county jail in San Bruno
  • VOSD: San Diego’s Many Jail Outbreaks Have These Factors in Common
  • OCReg: Evacuations ordered in Silverado, Williams and Modjeska canyons as wildfire explodes to 1,500 acres
  • SDUT: Homes burned as 25-acre brush fire breaks out in Rancho San Diego
  • AP: California firefighters critically injured setting backfires
  • Interview: State Sen. Richard Pan On What California's Vaccine Distribution May Look Like
  • SDUT: County lays out who will get vaccines first; health care workers top priority
  • CG: More Than 2,400 Californians Now Suspected of Voting in Nevada’s Election
  • CalM: How election officials fought fiction with fact
  • SDUT: Statue of Gov. Pete Wilson returned to downtown San Diego
  • VOSD: San Diego's Pete Wilson Statue Is Back
  • AP: Power goes out as fire danger looms in Southern California
  • SDUT: 56,000 SDG&E customers lose power as fierce Santa Ana winds lash San Diego County
  • NR: Walter Williams, R.I.P.
  • OCReg: Never forget the great Walter E. Williams
  • Reason: 'I Just Do My Own Thing': Walter Williams, RIP
  • LAT $: L.A. police chief says city officials are ‘seriously contemplating’ laying off police officers
  • LAT $: L.A. County sheriff says deputies can conceal their names during protests
  • PE: Riverside rejects $1.4 million plan to move homeless from Santa Ana River bottom
  • SacBee: Mayor Steinberg says homeless warming centers must open this winter in Sacramento
  • SJMN: San Mateo County buys two Redwood City hotels for senior, homeless housing
  • CG: Are California Business Owners Fighting the Illegal Lockdown Orders?
  • SFC: Couple who tested positive for virus at SFO arrested after flying to Hawaii
  • CalM: With Barrett on Supreme Court, California’s church COVID limits in legal jeopardy
  • OCReg: Anaheim Union High School District delays return to in-person instruction until March
  • CG: California Sued By Parents Over Remote Learning Inequalities
  • AP: Prosecutors to retry man accused of killing police officer
  • WP: With new taxes and bad policies, San Francisco may cause even more residents to flee
  • FH: California Has an Outmigration Problem
  • NR: Governors and Mayors Should Quit Making Quarantine Decrees
  • FH: California Must Join Europe As The World’s Leading Amazon Enforcers
  • FH: Eric Garcetti’s Rocky Road
  • LAT $: Skelton: Newsom endures two embarrassments with French Laundry dinner and unemployment scam
  • OCReg: John Moorlach for Orange County supervisor
  • FH: California Public Advocates Office enters a “common interest agreement” with the Sierra Club to help the CPUC ban the use of natural gas
  • OCReg: Cities need flexibility to contain skyrocketing pension costs
  • SacBee: Sacramento council rejects controversial gas station project in North Natomas
  • SacBee: Sacramento County health chief who oversaw local coronavirus response resigns
  • SacBee: Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones tests positive for coronavirus, is isolating
  • SFC: Biden could help S.F. win billions from Big Oil over climate change
  • SJMN: Coronavirus layoffs resume in Bay Area
  • SFC: Justin Phillips: Curfew could be danger for Black people in the Bay Area
  • FresBee: Hospital ICUs in Fresno, Valley on thin ice as COVID-19 overwhelms medical facilities
  • FresBee: Altercation leads to deadly shooting in Fresno, police say. Suspect may have fled on foot
  • City of Modesto levies stiff penalty on city clerk. Her attorney threatens to sue
  • Fresh set of voices will help Modesto City Council to move beyond rancorous past
  • Mysterious monolith pops up in SLO County — the first to appear in California
  • VCStar $: Ventura County COVID-19 cases break record
  • VCStar $: County hits COVID-19 hospitalizations record
  • VCStar $: Two men hospitalized after falling from oil platform
  • LAT $: L.A. signs off on $1-billion ‘mini-city’ in the west San Fernando Valley
  • LAT $: L.A. mayor announces $800 stipends for food service workers
  • CG: Following Outdoor Dining Ban, LA County Creates $5.6 Million Restaurant Grant Program
  • OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County surpasses 80,000 cumulative cases as of Dec. 2
  • OCReg: Discovery Cube looking to sell its Balboa Fun Zone property amid coronavirus pandemic
  • PE: Riverside County coronavirus hospitalizations double in 18 days, set 4th record in 4 days
  • PE: Riverside City Council affirms ethics violations by Councilwoman Gaby Plascencia
  • SBSun: San Bernardino County’s 2 charter change measures both pass
  • SBSun: San Bernardino County coronavirus hospitalizations double in 13 days
  • SBSun: On 5th anniversary, memorial plans unveiled for San Bernardino terrorist attack victims
  • AP: Ceremony marks anniversary of fatal California terror attack
  • SDUT: Whitburn plans to use collaboration, varied background to help bring San Diego council to next level
  • SDUT: San Diego State University sued in the death of fraternity pledge Dylan Hernandez

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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