Saturday, April 24, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • AP: Caitlyn Jenner adds celebrity to run for California governor
  • LAT $: Caitlyn Jenner announces run for California governor in recall election
  • Caitlyn Jenner files paperwork to run for governor of California
  • Reason: Caitlyn Jenner Is Pitching Herself as the Anti-Lockdown Savior California Needs
  • CG: Caitlyn Jenner Formally Announces She’s Running for California Governor
  • SacBee: Caitlyn Jenner launches campaign for California governor in Newsom recall election
  • AP: EXPLAINER: How California could recall its governor
  • SacBee: California should close 10 prisons as inmate population falls, advocacy group urges
  • AP: California governor seeks ban on new fracking by 2024
  • BreitbartCA: Newsom’s California Greening Plans Phase-Out of Fracking in 2024, End Oil Extraction by 2045
  • CG: Gov. Newsom Executive Action to Ban Fracking by 2024 and End Oil Extraction by 2045
  • Reason: California Has Seen a Staggering Amount of Unemployment Fraud During the Pandemic
  • BreitbartCA: Migrant Minors to Receive Kamala’s Children’s Book in Welcome Kits
  • CG: The 2021 List of Gun Rights Killers is Out and it’s Bad
  • LAT $: L.A. County prepping to resume administering Johnson & Johnson vaccine
  • OCReg: Disneyland mass vaccination site to close next week
  • Stanislaus County will be phasing out mass COVID vaccine clinics. Here’s when and why
  • CG: ‘Equity Impact Analysis of Legislation’ at Crux of Assembly House Resolution
  • SacBee: California official who trafficked in 9/11, anti-Semitic conspiracies returns to state job
  • SFC: Saved from Santa Cruz fire, young salmon must now survive the ocean
  • SJMN: Big Basin Redwoods: Slow progress on rebuilding after wildfire, “a massive job”
  • SFC: The drought isn’t coming, California. It’s already here
  • AP: Nonprofits gain funding from unusual source: Marijuana sales
  • LAT $: California Guard members feared fighter jet would be ordered to frighten protesters
  • SFC: Vacaville police investigate officer’s violent arrest of teen with autism
  • SFC: Alameda launches probe into police custody death of Mario Gonzalez
  • PE: Temecula councilmember compares fight against coronavirus mask rules to Rosa Parks’ struggle
  • SFC: Should California end its outdoor mask mandate? Bay Area experts weigh in
  • SacBee: This county has one of California’s worst COVID vaccination rates. Will it hurt herd immunity?
  • SFC: Coronavirus infections slowing sharply across California as vaccines take hold
  • LADN: Here’s what LA County is doing about the vaccine hesitant
  • SFC: Democrats ask Justice Barrett to step aside from California case on charitable donors, citing conflict of interest
  • SJMN: Ex-teacher set for court on charge she coughed on baby at height of COVID-19 fears
  • Why Would We Aspire to Make Life Worse for People?
  • OCReg: States are finally getting serious about police misconduct
  • OCReg: Newsom’s drought plan lacks vision and bold action
  • SacBee: Sacramento schools bought laptops, PPE with Trump’s stimulus. What’s planned for Biden’s?
  • SacBee: Sacramento City Council, Mayor Darrell Steinberg to get raises. How much will they make?
  • SFC: City balks at Oakland A’s funding plan for proposed $12 billion ballpark and development
  • SFC: Alison Collins and her husband illegally merged two S.F. apartments
  • SFC: S.F. school board sued over change to Lowell High admissions policy
  • SJMN: What experts say is the one risk to the Bay Area’s economic recovery
  • SJMN: San Jose looks to shed decades-old parking requirements
  • FresBee: Southwest Airlines launches its Fresno service this weekend. Here’s what you need to know
  • Coronavirus update, April 23: Stanislaus adds zero deaths. Four neighbors do the same
  • FresBee: Fresno motel shooting sends woman to the hospital, where she is in critical condition
  • FresBee: Opponents of Tower Theatre sale win a court victory, attorney says. Here’s what it means
  • AP: Section of Highway 1 that collapsed during storm reopens
  • VCStar $: COVID-19 hospitalizations fall to single digits
  • VCStar $: Clinic doctors settle with county as takeover looms
  • LADN: ‘A Herculean effort’: LA County’s libraries begin to reopen a year after COVID-19 shut them down
  • LADN: Child homicides by caregivers down in LA County, but remain serious problem, report shows
  • LADN: LAUSD board names interim schools chief
  • LADN: City officials try pushing back on court order restricting LAPD use of projectile weapons
  • OCReg: Westminster man arrested in connection with Jan. 6 Capitol siege
  • OCReg: Anaheim sees ‘start of the comeback’ in convention center event
  • SBSun: Nestle told to stop spring water diversions in San Bernardino Forest
  • SBSun: San Bernardino County appoints new public defender
  • SBSun: High-end auto dealership in Upland target of viral complaints, DMV probe
  • CG: Is San Bernardino County’s Joshua Tree Turning Into ‘Glampzilla?’
  • VOSD: The City Budget, Explained
  • SDUT: Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs gives UCSD $14M to study politics, economics
  • SDUT: Parking valet killed, four people injured in Gaslamp Quarter shooting; suspected gunman arrested
  • SDUT: Balboa Park’s no-car project still a no-go, but city’s financing mechanism? Totally OK, appeals court says

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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