Saturday, August 21, 2021 |
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Dear John,
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The FlashReport Main Page has been updated with all of the big stories in California...
The FlashReport Blog is constantly updated with over 24 different correspondents penning items of interest to those who follow California politics and policy...
THE HEADLINES:
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- AP: Judge: California ride-hailing law is unconstitutional
- SDUT: Prop. 22 is ruled unconstitutional, a blow to California gig economy law
- SJMN: As new San Francisco vaccine passport mandate takes effect, customers scramble
- LAT $: San Francisco moves to suspend employees for not disclosing vaccination status
- SFC: As San Francisco's vaccine mandate takes effect, Breed hints at expansion
- AP: Some California prison workers ordered to get vaccinated
- SFC: VP Harris headed to the Bay Area to campaign for Newsom next week
- CG: Vice President Kamala Harris To Campaign For Gov. Newsom in Bay Area Next Week
- Reason: Some Progressives Are Now Claiming California's Recall Election Is 'Undemocratic'
- SFC: State orders 4,500 cities, farms to stop drawing river water
- SJMN: How San Jose could become the first major California city with water allotments and drought penalties
- SacBee: Thousands of farmers face $10,000-a-day fines if they pull water from California rivers
- LAT $: Larry Elder draws fire for N-word comedy clip
- AP: Claims against Elder: Will they harm him in Calif. recall?
- CalM: Who is Larry Elder and what would he do as governor?
- LAT $: Fringe California gubernatorial candidate under fire for helping assailant flee L.A. protest
- SacBee: More than 20,000 California janitors vote to authorize strike that could start in September
- SFC: Former building commissioner, senior inspector are accused of wire fraud
- FresBee: Gunshots fired after high school football game in Fresno. 19-year-old struck multiple times
- LADN: LAPD is short about 300 officers but the chief hopes to fill the gap
- FresBee: High-speed rail board approves Bakersfield-Palmdale segment. When will it get built?
- CalM: COVID hospitalizations break records in six California counties
- LAT $: Caldor fire has small towns under siege, threatening nearly 7,000 structures
- AP: More winds threaten to blow California blaze into new fury
- SFC: Caldor Fire forces closure of 40-mile stretch of Highway 50, more communities evacuated
- CG: Sacramento’s Homeless Street Vagrants Live Under Separate Set of Laws
- LAT $: L.A. had a golden opportunity to house homeless people in hotels — but fell short of its goal
- SFC: Homeless man fatally shot in Vallejo
- CalM: Garment manufacturers worry California bill threatens ‘golden window’ to reshore jobs
- AP: California adding jobs, but unemployment claims remain high
- CG: California Adding 5 Temporary Natural Gas Power Plants to Help Alleviate Energy Shortage
- OCReg: Libertarians always predicted an Afghanistan fiasco
- OCReg: Power shutoffs shouldn’t be the new normal
- NR: Universities Are Complicit in Ballooning Student Debt
- Joe vs. The Swamp
- OCReg: Modern California should stop operating by outdated rules
- SacBee: GOP candidate Larry Elder must drop out of recall. California doesn’t want a sexist governor
- OCReg: America must embrace, not demonize, Afghan refugees
- SacBee: Sacramento City Council to consider asking residents to reduce water use by 15%, upping fines
- FresBee: More than 2,300 new COVID cases in Fresno this week as delta spreads. Here’s the latest data
- Stanislaus State leaders share details on now-virtual start to fall semester
- FresBee: Fresno Councilmember Esmeralda Soria has COVID a second time despite being vaccinated
- CalCoast: San Simeon CSD refuses to identify its general manager
- VCStar $: Ventura County issues mask mandate, cites rising surge
- VCStar $: Camarillo raises transit fares for first time in 20 years
- LADN: Completion of Long Beach port’s automated terminal hailed as creating a ‘new bar’ for the industry
- LAT $: Compton residents call on city councilman accused of election fraud and bribery to resign
- LADN: Inglewood treasurer files $10 million defamation lawsuit against mayor, City Council
- OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 820 new cases and seven more deaths, Aug. 20
- LAT $: Orange County sheriff’s deputies apprehend suspect in airport closure, evacuation
- LAT $: Ex-Angels employee charged in Tyler Skaggs’ death supplied other MLB players with drugs, feds say
- VOC: Fullerton to Relocate Popular Dog Park to Brea Dam Park
- OCReg: Local, state officials spotlight Orange County mental health services
- PE: Coronavirus hospitalizations in Riverside County top those seen in summer 2020 surge
- SDUT: San Diego launching Pure Water, largest infrastructure project in city’s history
- VOSD: After Long Push for In-Person School, Some Parents Are Getting Cold Feet
- VOSD: Civic Center Plaza Lenders Argue What They Didn’t Know Can’t Hurt Them
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Sincerely,
FlashReport Editors
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