New Year's Day: January 1, 2021 |
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Dear John,
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- FresBee: Fresno orders fines up to $10,000 for big New Year’s Eve parties hours before they begin
- OCReg: Costa Mesa bar owner is 1st in O.C. to face criminal charge for flouting Covid limits
- SacBee: California spent millions on ventilators. Why they’re sitting unused during COVID surge
- San Francisco’s Lockdown and Quarantine Has Been Extended ‘Indefinitely’
- SFC: Tahoe’s shutdown order expires; region will remain shut down for New Year’s
- SacBee: Sacramento region to remain under Gov. Newsom’s tightest COVID restrictions
- SFC: Gavin Newsom recall campaign draws big donors. Here are the top funders
- SDUT: Newsom’s friendship with lobbyist who threw French Laundry party brings questions
- AP: California passes 25,000 deaths, finds 3 more variant cases
- SDUT: San Diego County ends 2020 with largest single-day COVID-19 death total of the year
- SFC: COVID’s deadly toll: More Californians died in 2020 than ever before
- LAT $: Bodies pile up, patient care falters as COVID-19 devastates L.A. County hospitals
- LADN: Coronavirus ends year claiming 10,345 LA County lives, including 290 on New Year’s Eve
- AP: California ends year struggling to keep hospitals afloat
- SJMN: Lyft: Lawsuits claim poor driver screening leads to ‘sexual predators’ raping female passengers
- The US isnt an option anymore: why Californias immigrants are heading back to Mexico
- WP: How Brius, California’s largest nursing home chain, amassed millions as scrutiny mounted
- PE: New law expands California’s homestead equity protection to $600,000
- SDUT: California’s new workplace laws: COVID-19 safety, family leave and more
- FresBee: Creek Fire is a $500 million-plus mystery. How investigators plan to solve the case
- SJMN: PGE bills are rising in January
- LAT $: LAX begins rapid coronavirus testing for travelers
- SacBee: California child care centers, workers to benefit from $1 billion in federal relief
- SacBee: Stimulus package will keep California limping along. But the economic chasm is deepening
- CG: Why does the U.S. Congress Have So Many Geriatric Members?
- UC Merced denounces professor’s anti-Semitic tweets. Petition calls for his firing
- CG: Who Are California’s Winners and Losers of 2020?
- NR: Annus Horribilis
- SFC: Former BART deputy chief named Emeryville police chief
- SFC: UC regents become S.F. Art Institute’s landlord after paying off its debt
- SJMN: The Bay Area’s sluggish vaccine rollout: Cautious optimism among grim news
- State allocates more COVID vaccine to Stanislaus County. Who will get the shots?
- State allocates more COVID vaccine to Stanislaus County. Who will get the shots?
- FresBee: Clovis Unified changes plan for many students’ return to classroom due to COVID
- VCStar $: Oxnard ordered to pay back $34M in utility fees
- VCStar $: COVID update: 1,582 new cases, 3 new deaths
- VCStar $: Protest filed over legality of oil petitions
- VCStar $: Los Robles nurses ratify three-year contract
- AP: Restoration plan for Los Angeles County wetlands advances
- LADN: As LA County COVID deaths mount, mortuaries backed up; hospitals diverting bodies to coroner
- Reason: L.A.'s Reformist D.A. Promised To Eliminate Hate Crime Enhancements—Until Progressive Activists Gave Him a Call
- OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 610 new cases, 1 new death as of Dec. 31
- OCReg: Could Disneyland require proof of COVID-19 vaccination when it reopens?
- SBSun: San Bernardino County sees slight drop in coronavirus hospitalizations
- SBSun: Coronavirus cancels Riverside, San Bernardino counties’ homeless counts
- PE: Riverside County reports 34 more coronavirus deaths
- PE: Lake Elsinore opens first housing project for homeless
- PE: Federal bills save March Air Reserve Base jobs, fund Prado Dam study
- SDUT: San Diego launching analysis that could revive controversial polystyrene foam ban
- SDUT: San Diego’s firefighter EMTs and paramedics get vaccinated for COVID
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Sincerely,
FlashReport Editors
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