Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • AP: With $76B surplus, California proposes rebates for millions
  • BreitbartCA: Gavin Newsom, Facing Recall, Announces New Stimulus Checks for 2/3 Californians
  • OCReg: Two-thirds of Californians to receive $600 stimulus checks under Gov. Newsom’s new proposal
  • SDUT: Newsom vows new $600 checks and $5 billion rent help, puts California surplus at $76 billion
  • AP: Decades later, California’s ‘Gann limit’ back in spotlight
  • SFC: California is aiming for 100% COVID rent relief. Will it actually happen?
  • FresBee: California would pay 100% of missing rent for low-income tenants under Newsom’s budget plan
  • CapWkly: Gov’s recovery plan targets renters, low-income families
  • PRI: Stimulus Plan a Bailout Bonanza for California
  • WSJ: Democrats to States: No New Tax Cuts
  • Reason: Federal COVID-19 Bailout Prohibits States From Cutting Taxes – Reason.com
  • AP: California expands drought emergency to large swath of state
  • LAT $: Newsom extends drought emergency to 41 California counties
  • CapWkly: Newsom recall challenged in California appeals court
  • LADN: LA city and county lawyers point fingers during homeless lawsuit hearing
  • OCReg: Santa Ana, El Centro square off before Judge Carter over homeless
  • SFC: Oakland homeless encampments have seen a spike in blazes
  • SFC: Breed proposes 'wellness' teams to shift calls away from police
  • National group urges Turlock to stop homeless camp sweeps. Here’s what it recommends
  • SFC: S.F. seniors might go back to school for one day before term ends. Parents are furious
  • CG: CA Parents Seek to Abolish the California Teachers’ Association
  • NR: Teachers’ Union President Blames Trump for School Reopening Delays
  • OCReg: Police advise Los Alamitos school board to go virtual as anger grows in social justice debate
  • OCReg: Students demand resignation of Cypress College president for failing to support professor in viral video
  • LADN: Man arrested for allegedly firebombing LAPD Topanga Station
  • AP: 1 of 2 officers shot in California dies, gunman killed
  • CalCoast: San Luis Obispo police officer shot on Camellia Court
  • SDUT: San Diego leaders calling for thorough analysis of shifting money, tasks away from Police Department
  • CG: CA Public Health Officials Still Advancing COVID Vax ‘Until We Reach Community Immunity From Vaccinations’
  • SFC: Children ages 12 to 15 approved for COVID vaccinations by FDA
  • LAT $: L.A. County expected to hit COVID-19 herd immunity by end of July
  • OCReg: OC officials to face crowd, again, over stalled plans for digital vaccine records
  • AP: California man charged with using COVID loans to buy Ferrari
  • BreitbartCA: Caitlyn Jenner: 2020 Was Not Not Stolen — ‘We Are in a Post-Trump Era’
  • LAT $: Caitlyn Jenner, a longtime registered Republican, hedges on party status amid recall fight
  • VOC: OC Prosecutors Battled Against Their Own Boss, DA Spitzer, Standing Up for Harassment Victim
  • AP: US: Man faces domestic terror probe tied to racist extremism
  • VOSD: Environment Report: A Brief, Fiery Investigation of Beach Bonfire Rules
  • SDUT: Nine days in, cyberattack continues at Scripps Health
  • SFC: Bernie Sanders slams restoring tax deduction that benefited states like California
  • LAT $: NBC says it won’t air Golden Globes in 2022, after Times investigation
  • LAT $: How Fauci, other experts feel about easing mask guidelines
  • Hill: Jen Psaki says the quiet part out loud about Joe Biden
  • Reason: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of 'School Hesitancy'
  • NR: Court-Packers Say Court-Packing Is Not Court-Packing
  • Reason: The FBI Seized Heirlooms, Coins, and Cash From Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes in Beverly Hills, Despite Knowing 'Some' Belonged to 'Honest Citizens'
  • OCReg: Teachers’ unions ramp up another attack on charters
  • CalM: Newsom's relief plan might thwart recall
  • OCReg: California’s experiment in one-man governance
  • SacBee: Sacramento Sheriff’s Office will be focus of new citizen oversight commission
  • SFC: CCSF instructors accept pay cuts to save classes, jobs
  • SJMN: Silicon Sage Bay Area real estate empire heads for sales block
  • SJMN: San Jose State faculty leaders criticize athletics officials for handling of sex abuse probe
  • FresBee: Former Tulare County sheriff’s deputy convicted of domestic violence, witness intimidation
  • Parents file wrongful death claims against Modesto for fatal officer-involved shooting
  • FresBee: Rate of new COVID cases in Fresno County ticks higher. Plus, two more deaths
  • CalCoast: SLO County assesses San Simeon attorney’s work, does not pass
  • VCStar $: Mobile effort will bring COVID-19 leave pay message to farmworkers
  • LADN: Judge issues injunction limiting LAPD’s use of projectile launchers against crowds at protests
  • LADN: Coronavirus: L.A. County surpasses 24,000 deaths with 179 new cases and four new deaths, May 10
  • LAT $: Sheriff ordered Kobe Bryant crash photos deleted. A captain objected, calling it improper
  • OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 46 new cases and no new deaths, May 10
  • OCReg: Disneyland sets reopening date for Blue Bayou with booze — plus a passholder exclusive returns
  • PE: 5 takeaways from Riverside County’s review of the 2020 election
  • PE: Riverside County surpasses 3 million coronavirus tests
  • SBSun: San Bernardino County coronavirus hospitalizations fall to 61
  • SBSun: 3 finalists named for San Bernardino Community College District chancellor
  • SDUT: San Diego health systems ask for fewer vaccine doses, turn down extra amid supply glut
  • VOSD: Hundreds of Outdoor Dining Structures Might Have to Come Down
  • SDUT: South Bay residents, officials call for faster action on Tijuana-San Diego sewage problem

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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