Friday, April 22, 2022
Dear John,

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THE HEADLINES:
  • NR: L.A. County to Continue Requiring Masks at Airports, on Public Transit
  • LADN: LA County reinstates mask mandate aboard public transit and at airports
  • OCReg: State auditor asks legislators to hold MWD accountable for hiring, ethics practices
  • LAT $: State audit slams powerful water agency for workplace discrimination, harassment and more
  • LAT $: The California Republican Party is meeting. What to know
  • FresBee: Cash for farmworkers? California lawmaker says new $20 million idea will help amid drought
  • SacBee: Sacramento delivered $2 million in COVID relief to artists. Where did the money go?
  • Are you overdue on your water bill in California? This program can credit up to $2,000
  • CalM: How California created the nation’s easiest abortion access — and why it’s poised to go further
  • VOSD: City, County To Seek State Homeless Housing Money After Initial Whiff
  • LAT $: A new skid row facility where homeless women can try 'to get whole and heal'
  • SacBee: California is swimming in tax revenue. Sacramento mayor wants to use more for homelessness
  • OCReg: Elections 2022: Get to know Rep. Katie Porter, four more candidates in 47th District race
  • SFC: California streamlines workplace pandemic rules — including masking
  • SFC: Can an employee’s spouse who contracts COVID sue the employer? A federal court wants the California Supreme Court to weigh in
  • SacBee: Despite losing federal money, California is still testing uninsured residents for COVID — for now
  • AP: California hikes costs for flood protections in farm country
  • SJMN: Drought rules tightening in more Bay Area cities
  • SFC: Bay Area’s biggest water agency may start capping household use
  • LAT $: A cougar passage rises over a deadly Southern California freeway
  • SBSun: What should be done with Highland land once slated for 3,600 homes?
  • SFC: Escaped inmate can sue Stockton police officer for alleged attack after he was restrained, court rules
  • SJMN: “I’m exhausted”: Why Stanford nurses are preparing to strike
  • FresBee: Chowchilla school bus kidnapper up for parole. How district attorney plans to fight it
  • SFC: Convicted S.F. drug dealer had 5 million doses of meth at home
  • AP: Suit: Officials ignored warnings before children’s slayings
  • SDUT: Prosecutors accused of improperly withholding prostitute evidence in ‘Fat Leonard’ trial
  • AP: Audio: McCarthy said he would urge Trump to resign
  • OCReg: Cut cost of living, not more government checks
  • DeSantis Right To Attack Disney, GOP Should Follow
  • OCReg: Even if the CDC’s mask mandate made sense, that would not make it legal
  • OCReg: Stand with Elon: Larry Elder
  • Biden Admin and the Limitlessly Intolerant Left
  • CG: Twitter’s Board of Toddlers Would Rather Collapse Company than Sell to Elon Musk
  • LAT $: Editorial: Turn golf courses into housing? We’re desperate enough that it should be on the table
  • SacBee: These Sacramento neighborhoods won’t have a City Council member for 2 years. Here’s why
  • SFC: How Lowell’s diversity compares to other elite public high schools in U.S.
  • SFC: Redistricting panel approves new supervisorial boundaries splitting Tenderloin, SoMa
  • AP: UC Berkeley lifts lockdown over threat; classes canceled
  • SJMN: Amid rash of traffic deaths in San Jose, dangerous intersection gets cameras
  • FresBee: Fresno City Council approves purchase of Tower Theatre for $6.5 million. Here’s the latest
  • Plan for 40 senior apartments riled up a Riverbank neighborhood. How did panel vote?
  • CalCoast: Is the SLO County clerk-recorder taking advantage of her position?
  • LAT $: He called Biden a rapist. Now his deleted tweets are shaking up the city controller’s race
  • LAT $: SoFi Stadium’s art plan left Black artists in limbo. ‘Used as a pawn’ says artist rep
  • LADN: Olive Garden settles with Glendale server who says he was fired for reporting sewage flood
  • LADN: LASD did not get permission for helicopter pad near Villanueva’s La Habra Heights home, audit finds
  • OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County is reported 71.3% fully vaccinated, April 21
  • VOC: Local Activists Put Lydia Back at Romero Cruz Academy
  • SBSun: Fontana abandons land used for popular bicycle races, vows to work to keep races going
  • PE: 15 Freeway, Railroad Canyon Road expansion project wraps up in Lake Elsinore
  • SDUT: Column: SANDAG’s $4 billion airport transit plan is far-reaching. Does it overreach?
  • SDUT: U.S. Supreme Court sides with La Mesa heirs in dispute over Nazi-looted painting
Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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