Wednesday, January 27, 2021 |
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Dear John,
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- FRBlog: One CA city successfully replaced their $240K firefighters with part-timers and trained volunteers
- FRBlog: An Unnecessary and Destructive Abuse of Power
- CG: CA Labor Secretary Julie Su is ‘Failing Up’ After Massive EDD Fraud and Failures
- LAT $: EDD’s lack of planning deprived jobless Californians of needed benefits amid pandemic, audit finds
- AP: Audit: Millions may have to repay California jobless aid
- CalM: Bank of America says it lost ‘hundreds of millions’ on California’s unemployment fiasco
- CG: L.A. Councilman de León Bungles Pledge of Allegiance, Gets Lambasted on Twitter
- LAT $: An L.A. councilman struggles with the Pledge of Allegiance, and viewers pick sides
- SFC: Washington and Lincoln are out. S.F. school board tosses 44 school names in controversial move
- FresBee: Should a Fresno airport, named after a senator who was against women voting, be renamed?
- OCReg: State officials launch My Turn coronavirus vaccine eligibility tool
- AP: California seizes control over struggling vaccine delivery
- LAT $: Essential workers, disability advocates fear being left out as California shifts to age-based vaccine priority
- VOSD: Schools Want COVID-19 Vaccines, But Not Necessarily Mandates
- SFC: Why are people from out of town able to get vaccinated in San Francisco?
- CalM: Educators, food workers join California’s priority list for vaccines
- SDUT: UK variant, UCSD researcher warns, looks like a COVID-19 time bomb
- PE: Health care worker dies after second dose of COVID vaccine, investigations underway
- PE: How will the second coronavirus vaccine shot be given in Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties?
- LAT $: Survival at stake, L.A. restaurants rush to reopen, pray the roller-coaster ride is over
- SJMN: Power outages, flash floods, 100 mph Sierra winds expected as atmospheric river storm arrives
- SFC: Bay Area weather live updates: 89 Napa County homes put on high alert for mudslides
- AP: California storm raises risk of debris flows in burn areas
- SJMN: Santa Cruz Mountain residents on edge as storm bears down
- OCReg: Inglewood mayor’s former assistant alleges tumultuous nine-year romance in lawsuit
- SBSun: West Valley Water District approves $450,000 severance deal for embattled general manager
- California would ban bear hunting under new legislation, even as wild population rebounds
- CalM: ‘The most basic form of PPE’: 1.6 million households face water shutoffs
- CalM: CSU promises to keep tuition flat for 2021 school year
- AP: Cal State won’t hike tuition amid pandemic hardships
- CG: School Choice Initiative Quietly Gathers Support
- AP: California discloses math behind easing stay-at-home order
- CalM: California public schools suffer record enrollment drop
- CNN's Tapper: Cruz And Hawley Should Be "Co-Defendants" At Trump Trial
- SFC: California reopens, looking to Biden’s promise of more vaccines
- OCReg: Biden’s action to address racial equity welcomed by Southern California groups
- CityJrnl: The New Censors
- Reason: Another Reminder Teachers Unions Are Putting Kids Last
- The War on Free Speech Takes a Sinister Shape
- NR: The Teachers' Unions' Ransom Demand
- OCReg: California must change course to avoid water shortages
- CalM: California’s unemployment insurance mess laid bare
- SacBee: Sacramento Mayor Steinberg wants council to reject city manager’s plan to add cops
- SacBee: ‘I’m sick of it’: Sacramento mayor upset over warming centers being closed during storm
- SacBee: Yolo courts push February jury trials deeper into year on continued COVID-19 concerns
- SFC: S.F. officials: regional housing plan may hurt working-class neighborhoods
- SFC: Firefighter sues SFFD, claiming racist, homophobic treatment
- SFC: Marin conservatives stage protest to support My Pillow CEO
- SJMN: South Bay hospital chief operating officer disciplined amid COVID vaccine scandal
- SFC: Minn. police chief, San Jose cop job finalist, withdraws application
- FresBee: Anti-masker says he’s pro-police. Fresno chief says he’s wasting officers’ time
- Advocates for fish, and canoeing, win a round in debate over Tuolumne River flows
- FresBee: Fresno, Valley counties remain in purple COVID-19 business tier. What’s open, closed?
- Stanislaus County still hard-pressed by COVID pandemic. We’re ‘not out in the clear.’
- FresBee: Fresno Police Chief details stance on recent anti-mask protests during pandemic
- VCStar $: Board picks Erik Nasarenko as new DA
- VCStar $: COVID variant discovered through Oxnard sewage study
- LADN: Coronavirus: L.A. County reported 5,927 new cases, 291 new deaths and 179 fewer hospitalizations as of Jan. 26
- LADN: LA County formally outlines ways supervisors could remove sheriff
- LADN: San Fernando Valley restaurants prepare for their ‘lifeline,’ outdoor dining, to return Friday
- LADN: LA moves closer to possibly providing hazard pay to grocery store workers amid coronavirus
- OCReg: OC officials ask for fixes to $1.2 million vaccine app they say is ‘a mess’
- VOC: OC’s Coronavirus Vaccination Woes Continue, Some County Supervisors Lambast Rollout
- OCReg: Orange County’s coronavirus case rate dives after new year highs
- SBSun: San Bernardino County coronavirus rates improving, but far from target for reopening more businesses
- SDUT: San Diego extends Convention Center shelter program through March
- SDUT: Supervisors approve needle exchange for drug users
- SDUT: San Diego extends eviction ban for renters and businesses
- SDUT: Surveillance video shows deadly shooting of fleeing escapee near San Diego jail
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Sincerely,
FlashReport Editors
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