Thursday, December 31, 2020
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • CalM: Newsom announces $450-per-student incentive to reopen schools
  • LAT $: Newsom promises $2 billion in hopes of reopening schools
  • AP: California governor offers plan to reopen in-person schools
  • SDUT: State extends stay-at-home order in Southern California
  • SDUT: San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria orders police to intensify enforcement of public health rules
  • SDUT: 25 more fitness centers suing county, state officials over COVID-19 restrictions
  • NBC: Health Officials Say COVID-19 Variant Was Detected in San Diego County
  • AP: California hits record COVID-19 deaths as new variant found
  • AP: High LA virus deaths, more contagious variant hit California
  • FresBee: Watch: Gavin Newsom discusses COVID-19 with Dr. Anthony Fauci as California hospitals fill
  • SDUT: First California case of UK coronavirus variant confirmed in San Diego County
  • CG: LA Prosecutors File Lawsuit To Stop District Attorney Gascón From Breaking California Law
  • SFC: Newsom on vaccinations: ‘We may have overpromised a little bit in the short run’
  • AP: New director appointed to California unemployment department
  • AP: Pasadena allows Rose Bowl name to be used in Texas
  • FresBee: Five new California laws that go into effect in 2021
  • PE: New year rings in new traffic and public safety laws in California
  • AP: Water content of California’s early winter snowpack lagging
  • OCReg: First patients move into mobile field hospital at UCI Medical Center
  • PE: Field hospitals in Inland Empire won’t be activated despite coronavirus surge
  • AP: Some California tribal casinos ring in 2021 as virus spreads
  • SJMN: In 2016, a California inmate’s suit ended indefinite solitary confinement policy. Now he says prison is using dirty tricks to keep him in ‘torturous’ conditions
  • SFC: San Quentin Prison COVID releases delayed by state Supreme Court
  • CG: Most California Film and TV Productions to Go on Hiatus Until Mid-January
  • OCReg: Bankruptcies are expected to ramp up as COVID-19 continues
  • AP: Man called most prolific serial killer in US history dies
  • LAT $: Cancel Abraham Lincoln? San Francisco grapples with the president’s legacy
  • OCReg: Gratitude for what’s going right in our world
  • OCReg: Price transparency in health care could be a game changer for Americans
  • NR: What Will Historians Make of Our Annus Horribilis?
  • OCReg: Change law letting problem deputies drain local budgets
  • SacBee: Nurses at Sutter’s Sacramento psychiatry hospital unionize; Rideout RNs ratify contract
  • SacBee: Wilton residents fight placement of sexually violent predator in rural, family neighborhood
  • SFC: S.F.’s Laguna Honda was a model for virus control. Now, 3 are dead in new outbreak
  • SFC: DOJ investigating San Jose State’s handling of Title IX complaints
  • SJMN: San Jose: City asks Twitter, Instagram to scrub mayor’s address from activists’ posts
  • FresBee: Fresno adds 875 new COVID-19 cases. Foster Farms Fresno worker dies, company confirms
  • CalCoast: SLO County remains under Gov. Newsom’s stay-at-home order
  • VCStar $: Patients wait in ERs as COVID surge rolls on
  • VCStar $: Complex picture of Borderline gunman emerges
  • LADN: LA County’s coronavirus death toll tops 10,000
  • LADN: Should Los Angeles park rangers carry guns? Some on council say yes, but local opponents want fewer armed police
  • LADN: ICU doctor: Gatherings are ‘turning hospitals into morgues’ in L.A. County
  • OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 4,514 new cases and 27 new deaths on Dec. 30
  • OCReg: Appeals court turns down OC sheriff’s request to block judge’s order reducing jail population
  • PE: Riverside County receives coronavirus help from the National Guard
  • SBSun: San Bernardino County coronavirus cases 6 times the goal for school reopening

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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