Sunday, April 18, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • FRBlog: Supporting the Infrastructure Bill
  • NYT: One Way to Get People Off the Streets: Buy Hotels
  • BreitbartCA: Newsom Shock: CA Homeless Policy National Model
  • SJMN: Oakland is building a new phone app for its homeless residents
  • SacBee: Here’s what California’s mayors need to help solve the homelessness crisis
  • LAT $: ‘Dr. Drew’ eyed for homeless commission, angering advocates who wonder: Is this a joke?
  • Newsom recall deflates progressive dreams
  • AP: US West prepares for possible 1st water shortage declaration
  • Another drought, another threat to California farming. Gov. Newsom, are you listening?
  • SFC: California hit a crucial benchmark for vaccine equity. What happens now that it's open season?
  • SacBee: Should California ban vaccine passports? Here’s why it’s not likely to happen
  • FresBee: See Fresno County vaccination rates by ZIP code. How does your neighborhood compare?
  • SJMN: The Johnson & Johnson shot was a ‘godsend’ for the most vulnerable. Now it may be hindering efforts to vaccinate them.
  • BreitbartCA: WATCH -- Maxine Waters: Derek Chauvin Must Be 'Guilty, Guilty, Guilty' or We Take to the Streets
  • SFC: Windows smashed, fires set in Oakland protest against police brutality
  • ‘Stand up and make changes’: Modesto protesters call for end to police violence
  • AP: Fires, damage at Oakland protest against police brutality
  • LAT $: Hundreds gather in Hollywood for march and candlelight vigil against police brutality
  • SJMN: Flouting COVID rules an open secret in California’s last purple county
  • OCReg: Costa Mesa officials to consider retail cannabis rules on 4/20
  • SDUT: Yikes! San Diego gas prices hit $4 a gallon
  • AP: California mass shooting suspect was barred from buying gun
  • OCReg: AAVs given OK by Marines to go back into the water after deadly accident last summer
  • SJMN: Suit claims Vallejo cop was part of 'vigilante police gang'
  • Whitlock on Twitter Ban: Never Apologize to These Satanic M-Fers
  • LAT $: Cal State San Marcos may remove benefactor’s name from campus over remarks about immigrants
  • SFC: Joe Garofoli: Alex Padilla is everywhere, but where is Dianne Feinstein?
  • OCReg: Sacramento’s recall games
  • Small Businesses Are Key to Economic Recovery
  • OCReg: Our privates have gone public
  • SFC: California gold fever still reigns. New prospectors seek to reopen giant mine
  • SacBee: Effort to block Sky River Casino’s plans in Elk Grove rejected by D.C. appeals judges
  • SFC: S.F. schools Superintendent Vincent Matthews agrees to stay if board behaves
  • SFC: How the pandemic changed crime in every S.F. neighborhood
  • SJMN: Could Bay Area home building be a COVID long-hauler?
  • SFC: San Franciscans still live in 1906 earthquake shacks. Why they matter more than ever
  • SFC: Neighbors asked for S.F. to intervene. Now man is accused of arson that destroyed 5 homes
  • New CEO named for Modesto’s Gallo Center as it readies to reopen from COVID closure
  • Analyst sees economic recovery coming to Stanislaus County. Here’s why.
  • CalCoast: San Luis Obispo leads the county in new COVID-19 cases
  • CalCoast: Lawsuit challenges Coastal Commission’s authority over the Oceano Dunes
  • VCStar $: T.O. plans $111M of infrastructure projects
  • VCStar $: Ventura's Players Casino files for bankruptcy
  • VCStar $: Julius Sokenu named Moorpark College president
  • LADN: Coronavirus: LA County’s daily test positivity rate of 0.9% is lowest since pandemic’s start
  • LAT $: L.A. County sees lowest COVID-19 daily test positivity rate since pandemic began
  • OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 80 new cases and five new deaths as of April 17
  • VOC: Huntington Beach Might Once Again Go to Court Over State Mandated Housing
  • SDUT: San Diego gives initial thumbs up for more Otay Mesa housing
  • LAT $: San Diego Catholic high school apologizes for football players’ racist photos aimed at rival
  • VOSD: Politics Report: Mayor Proposes Library Layoffs
Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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