Saturday, April 17, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • SacBee: Why won’t Gavin Newsom declare a drought? California recall puts him in tough spot
  • Stanislaus districts respond to Newsom’s ‘disingenuous’ comments about school reopenings
  • CapWkly: Price tag in Newsom recall battle starting to grow
  • LAT $: Newsom recall gives Antonio Villaraigosa risky road to political comeback. Will he take it?
  • SacBee: How do unions shake down Sac City schools for COVID money? Go on strike and hurt the kids
  • SFC: Oakland teachers declare impasse with district, but say they will return
  • CG: Opposition Grows Against State Parole Placement Of Sexual Predators In Residential Neighborhood
  • SDUT: Region’s homicides spike 35 percent, property crime hits 41-year low
  • Facebook spent $23 million for Zuckerberg’s security in 2020
  • BreitbartCA: Anti-Trump Lawmakers Spend Thousands in Campaign Cash on Security Services
  • AP: Signs of recovery as California adds jobs for 2nd month
  • LAT $: California is ‘clawing back’ from pandemic recession. But some have quit the job hunt
  • SacBee: ‘Beginning of the end of the pandemic.’ Unemployment rates fall across California
  • SFC: Protesters march through Oakland, denounce police brutality
  • BreitbartCA: WATCH: BLM Activist Asks When People ‘Ready to Get Blood on Their Hands?’’If you want to set something on fire, go do that’
  • SFC: Here's where the Democratic and Republican parties are growing most in California
  • Claremont's Counterrevolution to Save America
  • SFC: Controversial S.F. immigration judge quits, bashes system
  • LAT $: 52% of adults in California are at least partially vaccinated
  • SFC: Bay Area residents flood vaccine sites as eligibility opens, supply remains limited
  • SJMN: Photos: Levi’s Stadium’s COVID-19 mass vaccination site breaks record in California
  • NR: The Supreme Thuggery of Democrats’ Court-Packing Scheme
  • OCReg: Partisan court-packing bill met with little enthusiasm, for now
  • CapWkly: California wants a hefty slice of that $2 trillion pie
  • SJMN: Fremont: Police release video showing officer dodging gunfire, fatally shooting man
  • FresBee: Fresno Police Chief Balderrama details Thursday night’s officer-involved shooting
  • SacBee: California mass shooting suspect shouldn’t have had a gun. How’d he get it?
  • CG: ‘Porch Pirate’ Penalty Bill Heavily Amended Thursday Following Committee Passage
  • CG: Water Rate Assistance Fund Bill To Face Tougher Senate Committees This Month
  • CalCoast: Judge silences all parties in the Kristin Smart murder case
  • CalCoast: SLO County prosecutors have video evidence of Flores’ sexual assaults
  • FL's DeSantis: Lockdowns Were a 'Huge Mistake'
  • OCReg: We need more anger over unemployment fraud scandal
  • OCReg: Proposition 65 invites abuse and needs reform
  • CG: Capitol Lawmakers’ COVID Hypocrisy in Full View on Packed Southwest Flight
  • OCReg: Proposed Rule 2305 must be rejected
  • Google Should Not Be Banning Discussion of Vote Fraud
  • SFC: Foppoli says he will ‘step back from an active role’ as Windsor mayor amid allegations
  • Sacramento Arts Venues Say It’s Not Feasible To Reopen Under New California Guidelines - capradio.org
  • SFC: S.F. schools renaming fight: Plaintiffs demand lawsuit not be called ‘frivolous’
  • Towering tree fell in Modesto park in January. Why is city only now removing it?
  • LAT $: Shooting among Fresno farmworkers leaves one dead, two injured
  • FresBee: $800M in upgrades proposed for Valley canals including Friant-Kern, California Aqueduct
  • FresBee: Fresno-area COVID hospitalizations reach lowest level in months. See the latest data
  • CalCoast: San Luis Obispo leads the county in new COVID-19 cases
  • VCStar $: Camarillo recall ends; here's what both sides say
  • LADN: Most LAUSD students won’t have to take Smarter Balanced standardized tests
  • LADN: Coronavirus: L.A. County reported 643 new cases and 36 new deaths as of April 16
  • LADN: L.A. County’s nursing home oversight division under scrutiny
  • OCReg: Triangle Square digital sign proposal goes to Costa Mesa City Council
  • PE: Ex-employee alleges Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt harassed, discriminated against her
  • PE: Eight-story downtown Riverside hotel stirs concerns about views
  • SDUT: City report: Ocean Beach Fishing Pier ‘has reached the end of its service life’
  • SDUT: Again, SDG&E turns in only bids for San Diego electric and gas franchise agreement
  • VOSD: I Helped Make it Easier for San Diegans to Build Granny Flats. It’s Still Hard.
  • VOSD: VOSD Podcast: Teacher and Police Pay Under the Microscope
Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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