Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • SacBee: California pension fund to award $1.1 million record-breaking bonus to investment chief
  • CG: Measure To Give Up To $14,000 in School Vouchers Could Be On 2022 Ballot
  • SacBee: Gut unions and boost private schools? 2022 ballot proposals aim at California labor
  • CalM: State renews $1.7 billion contract with troubled COVID lab
  • CG: Physician Explains Why No Improvement in COVID Case Rate with Increasing Vaccination
  • LAT $: Ridley-Thomas’ chief of staff is named caretaker for indicted councilman’s district
  • LAT $: Garcetti aide who disparaged others in private Facebook group returns to new job at City Hall
  • SDUT: California’s atmospheric river storms dropped 7,600,000,000,000 gallons of rain, but it was no drought buster
  • SDUT: When will it stop? San Diego gasoline prices keep rising
  • VOSD: Groups Complain Redistricting Commission Is Catering to Coast
  • VOC: Public Can Weigh in Tuesday on Proposed Maps Affecting OC Representation for Next Decade
  • SJMN: Here’s how Santa Clara County plans to spend hundreds of millions in federal COVID-19 relief funds
  • OCReg: Rep. Linda Sánchez, others push to keep pandemic-inspired restaurant expansions
  • FresBee: Don’t let your car’s catalytic converter get stolen. Here’s how to fight back
  • LAT $: L.A. county clears homeless encampment outside VA campus; vets offered shelter inside
  • SFC: Oakland is embracing tiny home villages for the unhoused. Here’s why
  • FresBee: Fresno anti-abortion group scores ‘free speech’ win against state over COVID shots
  • VOSD: California Supreme Court Declines to Hear Covid Records Case
  • SacBee: Court upholds Capital Christian prep football playoff ban for breaking COVID-19 rules
  • OCReg: OC judge rejects local governments’ claims in $50 billion lawsuit over the marketing of opioid painkillers
  • OCReg: Judge rules Vanessa Bryant won’t have to undergo psychiatric testing in lawsuit over Kobe crash scene photos
  • CalM: Cal State races to boost graduation rate and cut early Ds and Fs
  • SacBee: US HHS secretary touts California success as he opens enrollment in federal insurance market
  • SacBee: ‘Obvious flaws.’ California regulator hits PG&E over new rash of wildfire safety blackouts
  • CG: New SCOTUS Petitions Claim Public Employees’ First Amendment Rights Violated by Unions
  • BreitbartCA: EXCLUSIVE: 60K Migrants Released into U.S. in October
  • NR: DeSantis: Biden Admin’s Proposed $450K Payments to Illegal Immigrants Is ‘Slap in the Face’
  • SJMN: Election 2021: Yes, there’s yet another one Tuesday. But does it apply to you?
  • AP: Supreme Court won’t hear case involving transgender rights
  • NR: The Entirely Needless Meltdown over ‘Let’s Go Brandon’
  • NR: Biden Appears to Doze Off during United Nations Climate Change Conference
  • OCReg: As inflation takes off, politicians eye more of your money
  • How Journalism Abandoned the Working Class
  • CapWkly: Bob Stern on behested payments
  • CalM: SF case tests state’s will on housing crisis
  • CityJrnl: New Evidence for Lab-Leak Hypothesis of Covid's Origins
  • CG: North Sacramento Councilman At Odds With Local Media Over Affordable Housing Policies
  • CG: Safeway the Latest San Francisco Chain Store to Reduce Hours Over Crime Wave
  • SFC: S.F. public employees return to City Hall, but Civic Center stays quiet
  • SFC: California delays Bay Area Dungeness crab season to protect whales
  • SFC: David Chiu takes over as San Francisco’s city attorney
  • SFC: S.F. classrooms could face cuts as district shares proposal to deal with $125M shortfall
  • SJMN: Santa Clara County releases video in jail-injury case fueling supervisors’ sheriff scrutiny
  • SJMN: Elizabeth Holmes: Two months into Theranos founder’s trial, how does it look for her?
  • Parents sue Modesto in police officer’s fatal shooting of their unarmed son
  • Not just window dressing: Downtown businesses revamp their displays with new program
  • LAT $: Miranda: UC Santa Barbara shouldn’t let a petulant billionaire build a prison dorm on campus
  • CalCoast: Oceano Dunes off-road vehicle enthusiasts win two more lawsuits
  • VCStar $: On its 30th, Reagan presidential library 'something more than typical'
  • VCStar $: What you need to know about Oxnard's District 2 special election
  • LADN: Reseda veteran gets 25-year sentence for trying to bomb a Long Beach political rally
  • LADN: Judge denies order to groups fighting LAUSD student vaccine mandate
  • OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 906 new cases and five more deaths over the weekend
  • OCReg: Costa Mesa expected Chargers’ eventual move
  • VOC: Proposed Ballot Measure Could Save Controversial HB Desal Plant Proposal if State Regulators Deny It
  • OCReg: Irvine man, 20, charged in attack on flight attendant en route to John Wayne Airport
  • SBSun: Coronavirus hospitalizations rising in San Bernardino County
  • SBSun: Ontario airport celebrates 5 years of independence from Los Angeles
  • SDUT: San Diego County’s ‘decarbonization framework’ says local government must take lead on climate action
  • SDUT: San Diegans back $160B highway, transit overhaul by razor-thin majority, poll finds

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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