Saturday, March 5, 2022
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • How a San Diego man escaped Kabul after Taliban takeover
  • CalM: Millions of Californians at risk of losing health coverage when federal COVID programs end
  • ‘Money, it just got tighter.’ Many California parents struggle without child tax credit
  • NR: The Masks Come Off
  • SFC: S.F. public schools will lift mask mandate, reversing earlier stance
  • LADN: LAUSD: As LA County’s COVID unmasking advances, hard part remains for district – building consensus
  • SDUT: San Diego Unified will make masks optional starting April 4
  • SJMN: COVID: Bay Area colleges divided on public health unmasking orders
  • LAT $: Column: A stabbing at a Long Beach liquor store sparks memories of the L.A. riots
  • AP: Armed man killed by Kern County deputies after standoff
  • AP: California to review contracts in light of Russian sanctions
  • AP: Ukrainians in US consider taking advantage of new status
  • SacBee: State worker first to be sentenced in massive California Office of AIDS fraud scheme
  • Stanislaus County leaders could end local COVID emergency declared two years ago
  • CG: GOP Lawmakers Renew Push for 6 Month Gas Tax Moratorium with Looming Gas Price Hikes
  • LADN: Southern California gas prices top $5 average for first time
  • AP: Apple investors urge company to undergo civil rights audit
  • SFC: Counties ‘all in’ on Newsom’s mental health plan — for the right amount
  • California’s mental health system leaves some people on the streets. What Newsom wants to change
  • LAT $: Fire in Shasta County prompts mandatory evacuations as crews make progress
  • SFC: On future wildfires, 2 California congressmen want them all suppressed
  • OCReg: Law enforcement watchdog looking into DA Todd Spitzer’s racial comments
  • VOC: DA’s Racial Remarks in Death Penalty Case Are Being Probed by OC’s Law Enforcement Watchdog
  • CG: For First Time in Several Years Joint Rules Set to Be Adopted by California Legislature
  • Reason: YouTube Won't Distinguish Between Misinformation and Reporting, So It Suspended My Channel
  • AP: New director chosen for California state fire agency
  • LADN: Reps. Adam Schiff, Nanette Diaz Barragán discuss food-for-students bill at Cal State Dominguez Hills
  • LAT $: Long Beach school pauses gender-neutral locker room proposal amid anti-transgender climate
  • NR: How Public Schools Went Woke — and What to Do about It
  • OCReg: When public sector unions control California, you get this
  • LAT $: Lopez: Costs too high, pace too slow: Voters backing HHH didn’t have $800,000 housing in mind
  • OCReg: Learn the lessons of Los Angeles’ HHH
  • CG: California’s Green Energy Mania Prices Electricity Like a Luxury Good
  • DeSantis Closes the Curtain on Dems' Covid Theater
  • OCReg: By coddling right-wing crazies, GOP imperils its future
  • SFC: Is Lake Tahoe on the wrong track? Survey highlights growing issues
  • SacBee: Sacramento homeless plan gets a breakthrough at one site, but scaled down from concept
  • LAT $: UC Berkeley will increase California students and cut out-of-state ones to meet enrollment cap
  • SJMN: Term limits measure critics call ‘intellectually dishonest’ placed on June ballot in Santa Clara County
  • Thousands of new homes planned in Patterson. How that will impact already crowded schools
  • FresBee: Admitted pedophile caught with Fresno girl, 12, can represent self in court, judge says
  • FresBee: Fresno legislator, DA aim to make human trafficking a ‘strike’ offense. Here’s why
  • FresBee: ‘Urgency isn’t there.’ Fresno renters, unhoused call on city to address housing crisis now
  • VCStar $: Ventura City Council finalizes new district maps
  • AP: L.A. County health plan fined $55M for health care failures
  • LADN: LA CD10 residents protest Ridley-Thomas suspension, Wesson appointment
  • LAT $: L.A. County health plan hit with huge fines for delays in treating poor patients
  • OCReg: Court says OC Board of Ed will use voting maps drawn by county committee
  • OCReg: Trustee at Capistrano Unified steps down, saying she and family faced harassment
  • OCReg: CalOptima, health insurer for OC’s poor, chooses new CEO
  • PE: Five Inland Empire cities get over $15 million for projects
  • SDUT: San Diego apartment boom: More than 4,000 new apartments and most are outside downtown

Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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