Monday, March 29, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • SFC: Contra Costa County may offer vaccination to all 16 and up this week
  • LAT $: Bullet train contractor warns of further two-year delay as state struggles to secure land
  • SJMN: This Bay Area county wanted to stop COVID. So it fined businesses 50 times more than any other
  • OCReg: On Palm Sunday, Placentia church holds first service under new relaxed COVID rules
  • Understand That Some People Love the Pandemic
  • Saturday Headlines
  • Sunday Headlines
  • OCReg: Young Kim and Michelle Steel carve out different paths in Congress
  • SacBee: ‘Get an attorney’: Taking on sexual harassment in the California Legislature in 2021
  • SFC: Jack London had racist ideas. It’s time to rename the square
  • SDUT: Race, gender, policy intersect in 79th District race
  • FresBee: Special districts, largely left out of COVID-19 relief funds, need Legislature’s help
  • SJMN: From the street to the courtroom: Homeless Californians sue for their rights
  • LAT $: LAUSD goes to great lengths to show schools are safe to reopen. But it’s a tough sell
  • In San Francisco, Turmoil Over Reopening Schools Turns a City Against Itself – DNyuz
  • PE: ‘Swiss cheese model’ of precautions allows schools to open safely despite coronavirus, experts say
  • VOSD: One North County School Managed to Open and (Mostly) Stay Open
  • SacBee: California paying $2.1 million to settle state worker’s lawsuit over office chair
  • LADN: New wildlife bridge might be what saves Southern California’s mountain lions
  • OCReg: Is it possible to build fire-resilient communities in a fire-risk state?
  • FresBee: Future of Sierra, Sequoia forests being decided now. How Creek Fire figures into plans
  • BreitbartCA: Kennedy: Putting Kamala in Charge of Border Crisis Like Making Lance Armstrong Drug Czar
  • SFC: Is Kamala Harris speaking her mind when she’s the last person in the room with Biden?
  • SacBee: The origin of the Newsom recall had nothing to do with COVID-19. Here’s why it began
  • BreitbartCA: Media Interrogates Joe, Asks him ‘First Sweet’ He Plans to Eat After Lent
  • NR: Are Illegal Aliens Receiving COVID-19 Relief Checks? Yes
  • Media Reported Only Bad Covid News (Until Trump Lost)
  • OCReg: Modular housing could be an answer to the housing crisis
  • Is Racism Moral Now?
  • OCReg: Groundhog Days of California taxes
  • LAT $: Skelton: If Democrats really want gun control, Dianne Feinstein needs to stay in office
  • CapWkly: Bill Wong
  • SacBee: Sacramento City Council members denounce protest planned for city manager’s home
  • SacBee: Sacramento launches first ‘Safe Ground’ homeless camping site under downtown freeway
  • SFC: Where should Berkeley allow 9,000 new homes to be built?
  • SJMN: East Bay residents hold vigil, march over fatal police shooting
  • SFC: S.F.’s Asian American neighborhoods will see more community patrols
  • SFC: Bay Area sets pace as California unemployment drops to pandemic low
  • SFC: Uber to open S.F. office on Monday in city's first major return to work
  • Coronavirus update, March 29: Big week for Stanislaus County as tier assignment looms
  • RAD Card program a hit. Here’s what Modesto council members plan to do next.
  • VCStar $: Camarillo donates old library to children's museumcamarillo
  • LADN: LA County reports 538 new coronavirus cases, just one death
  • LAT $: How should Manhattan Beach atone for its racist past?
  • FresBee: LA County’s new district attorney has a major Valley opponent: Fresno’s Lisa Smittcamp
  • PE: Riverside event rallies against anti-Asian hate crimes, racism
  • SBSun: Jail visits resume at San Bernardino County jails after year-long suspension during coronavirus pandemic
  • SDUT: Plan would increase homes in Oceanside’s last agricultural region
  • AP: San Diego County pays $4M in misconduct suits against deputy
  • SDUT: The Color of Authority: San Diego police, sheriff’s deputies disproportionately target minorities, data show

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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