Friday, November 5, 2021
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • CalM: California legislators are flying around the globe
  • SacBee: California state worker union redoing election after finding critical flaws in ballot security
  • LAT $: Study shows dramatic decline in effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines over time
  • LAT $: LAFD union says vaccine mandate could lead to public safety threat
  • LAT $: Newsom and guards challenge vaccine mandates at prisons, warning of staff departures
  • OCReg: Union says hundreds of unvaccinated L.A. firefighters could lose their jobs if city doesn’t pay for COVID-19 testing
  • LAT $: L.A. won’t immediately ticket businesses that violate vaccine mandate
  • Sen. Bill Cassidy: 'What Percent Of CDC Employees Are Vaccinated?'
  • OCReg: More than 30,000 Kaiser healthcare workers prepare to strike
  • SacBee: Exclusive: How California state workers got caught in a $2.7 million embezzlement scheme
  • SFC: Academy of Art University in San Francisco settles fraud case
  • EdS: How six California community college districts became targets of scammers
  • CalM: New study finds millions of workers are ‘functionally unemployed’
  • OCReg: Earliest you can fish off the coast? Officials say late November
  • AP: Supply chain delays disrupt California agriculture exports
  • LADN: New cargo tariff appears to be bringing some early compliance at the Port of LA
  • SacBee: Kevin McCarthy says Democrats in Biden-won seats are in danger. These Californians are on the list
  • LADN: LA City Council committee will take up dozens of proposals for changing proposed redistricting map
  • FresBee: Latinos are a majority in Fresno County. How new voting boundaries could limit their power
  • CalM: California redistricting 101: What you need to know
  • SFC: Tension over state vs. local control in California housing policy could get even worse next year
  • LADN: Mask mandates in LA County are likely to continue until next year, Ferrer says
  • AP: Lawsuit briefly blocking California assisted death law ends
  • SDUT: Outbursts and disruptions at public meetings reveal breakdown in civic discourse
  • SDUT: ‘This is not who we are:’ government, faith leaders call for end to hate speech
  • SFC: Racial slurs, pornography interrupt S.F. school equity committee meeting
  • SacBee: Desert high-speed rail line could block sheep, mountain lions. Democrats want more crossings
  • SBSun: San Bernardino apartment shooting leaves 1 dead, 2 injured
  • SFC: One person dead in S.F. Haight-Ashbury shooting
  • SFC: San Francisco police sergeant arrested in Rite-Aid robbery
  • CG: Town Council Votes to Make Oroville, CA Constitutional Republic City
  • SBSun: Yes, there are ‘marijuana mortgages’ for California borrowers
  • LAT $: Column One: They were supposed to die in prison. Instead, they earned freedom as college graduates
  • CalM: Is new support the key to success for formerly incarcerated community college students?
  • LAT $: Ridley-Thomas turns council fight into one for voting rights
  • BreitbartCA: WH: Actually, Biden 'Perfectly Comfortable' with Payouts to Illegals
  • BreitbartCA: Flip Flop: White House Admits Border Crossers Could Be Paid Off After Biden Claims 'That's Not Going to Happen'
  • BreitbartCA: ACLU Rips Biden for Denying Border Crossers Will Be Paid $450K Each
  • ATR: Dem Bill Gives Special Tax Handout to Media Companies with Up to 1,500 "Local Journalists"
  • CG: Gloria Romero: Memo to My Party
  • BreitbartCA: College Students Baffled by ‘My Body My Choice’ Argument for Vaccine Mandates
  • AmerSpec: How to Fight Wokeness
  • When Elections--and Clinical Trials--Go Wrong
  • CG: What Burns Hotter Than a Disco Inferno?
  • OCReg: Los Angeles’ UBI stunt will generate more headlines than results
  • SFC: Satellite images show kelp forest has doubled in size on North Coast
  • CG: Sacramento’s ‘Solutions’ and $pending are Growing Homeless Population
  • SacBee: Here’s what we know in Sacramento County as federal COVID-19 mandate takes effect
  • SacBee: Sacramento pays settlement to man who was arrested, released once body cam footage seen
  • SFC: Death of Wilma Chan raises tensions over traffic safety in Alameda
  • SFC: We obtained data on how Boudin is prosecuting cases. Here’s what it shows
  • SJMN: ‘Broken promises’: SJSU students chide university leaders for the housing crisis on campus
  • FresBee: Fresno City Council names new city clerk after controversial firing
  • Stanislaus County begins COVID-19 vaccinations for children in the 5-to-11 age group
  • CalCoast: Arroyo Grande imposes new water use restrictions
  • VCStar $: Moorpark City Council takes first step to allow some hemp businesses
  • VCStar $: Investigator cancels talk on waste plant probe after threat of litigation
  • LAT $: Garcetti says he has ‘some fever and head cold symptoms’ following COVID-19 diagnosis
  • AP: California’s PUC OKs boosting storage at infamous gas field
  • LADN: LAUSD agrees to double coaching stipends for athletics
  • LAT $: L.A. County sheriff’s deputies use minor stops to search bicyclists, with Latinos hit hardest
  • VOC: Huntington Beach City Manager Moves to Irvine, Ending City’s Year-Long Search for Top Job
  • OCReg: Huntington Beach city manager switching to Irvine
  • OCReg: 2 Orange County men charged with pointing lasers at law enforcement helicopters
  • OCReg: Coronavirus: 64% of Orange County is fully vaccinated with 292 new cases reported Nov. 4
  • VOC: Opponents of Santa Ana’s New Rent Control Law Now Working to Have Voters Repeal It
  • VOC: Costa Mesa Continues Ban on Short Term Rentals; City Council Vows to Come Back With Regulations
  • SBSun: Redlands historian appointed to San Bernardino Community College District board
  • PE: $13.9 million public health lab expansion open in Riverside County
  • SDUT: San Diego DA issues another letter raising doubts about work of a second crime lab worker
  • AP: California nurse charged in death of inmate at county jail
  • VOSD: Local Catholic Diocese: Students Can Evade COVID-19 Vaccine With Personal Belief Exemption
  • San Diego tops nearly every other US county for defense spending
  • SDUT: Advocates ask San Diego district attorney to charge Border Patrol agents in alleged cover up

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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