Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Dear John,


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THE HEADLINES
  • VOC: Could Undocumented Residents Soon Vote in Santa Ana?
  • CG: California Threatens New Indoor Mask Mandates as Other States Mostly Ignore
  • LADN: Supervisor Barger lashes out at LA County’s impending COVID mask mandate
  • CG: LA County Restaurants, Bars Prepare for Indoor Mask Mandate Return
  • CG: Alameda County Sued Over Racial Preferences in Awarding Governmental Contracts
  • SacBee: Could a tax on the wealthy help California fight climate change? Newsom and state Democrats disagree.
  • SJMN: Militia helping Oak Fire evacuees creates furor in Mariposa
  • LADN: Petition signature gatherer sues Gascón recall committee
  • VOC: Orange County Pharmacists Ready to Strike Over Alleged Anti-Union Practices
  • OCReg: California leads the nation in data breaches
  • AP: 2 California inmates killed in separate prison attacks
  • AP: Firefighters slow growth of California blaze near Yosemite
  • LAT $: Crews grow optimistic in battle against 17,000-acre Oak fire, which has destroyed 21 structures
  • SJMN: Bay Area car buyers suffer sticker shock, desperate dealers scramble for used vehicles
  • SDUT: In final ruling, judge declines to combine Ash Street-related lawsuits
  • LAT $: California’s strawberry fields may not be forever. Could robots help?
  • SacBee: Plummeting stocks and a Moscow shopping mall. CalPERS is stuck with its Russia investments
  • CG: City Residents Refuse to Press Charges Against Homeless Criminals
  • SFC: Display of Confederate flags at Sonoma Raceway campsites prompts backlash
  • SFC: Conservative judges urge Supreme Court to revive this immigration law
  • LADN: Thai Town project in East Hollywood gets federal funding – and support from a local congressman
  • SacBee: Sen. Padilla got $250 million in local projects for CA. Job well done or pushing pork?
  • LAT $: How California went from paying people to hunt mountain lions to spending millions to protect them
  • Trailblazing California civil rights lawyer to retire after decades fighting for farmworkers
  • SacBee: Here’s what another likely Fed interest rate hike could mean for Californians
  • Sackett v. EPA: Regulatory Agencies Gone Rogue
  • OCReg: ‘Freedom’ isn’t the right word to describe the state of things in California
  • Reason: Anthony Fauci Says If We Could Do It Again, COVID-19 Restrictions Would Be 'Much, Much More Stringent'
  • OCReg: Los Angeles County supervisors should block proposed mask mandate
  • OCReg: Unsettling settled law can be unsettling in America
  • SFC: Wine Country’s fancy new resorts could increase fire risk, experts say
  • SacBee: County Supervisors set to approve $3 million for supporting Afghan refugees in Sacramento
  • SacBee: If Sacramento crisis pregnancy centers closed, poor women would lose services they need
  • Reason: San Francisco Mayor Slaps Down Clever Plot To Make Housing Crisis Worse
  • SFC: Richer people left S.F. in the pandemic. And they took billions of dollars with them
  • SFC: Report says more than half of ‘unicorn’ startups in Silicon Valley founded by immigrants
  • FresBee: ‘We do not want to settle.’ Fresno buys $6.4M site, signals big plans for new senior center
  • FresBee: Online troll wanted to put father of Parkland victim ‘in check,’ Fresno court docs say
  • DA: Retired officer was drunk and texting just before crash that killed Oakdale woman
  • CalCoast: Unbearable Cayucos school board boredom
  • VCStar $: McCoy won't run again for T.O. City Council after all
  • LADN: Commission blasts Villanueva for refusing to testify about alleged deputy gangs
  • LAT $: Off-duty L.A. County sheriff’s deputy shot during family dispute in Harbor City
  • OCReg: 2 more Orange County cold cases solved through similar DNA analysis that took down Golden State Killer, DA says
  • OCReg: Cypress city attorney suggests resident committed libel, intensifying the rift between city officials and critics
  • VOC: Irvine Voters Might Get Choice To Expand City Council, Switch to District Elections
  • VOC: More OC Cities Disclose Their Police Departments’ Weapon Inventory
  • PE: 8-story hotel in downtown Riverside halted by lawsuits
  • PE: Monkeypox cases doubled in Riverside County in the past week
  • SDUT: Should single-family homes lose free trash pickup? San Diego voters will decide
  • SDUT: Should UC San Diego expand to Chula Vista? Rich Leib, the new chair of UC Regents, says yes
  • SDUT: City declares downtown hotel a ‘public nuisance,’ orders residents to relocate due to safety violations
  • SDUT: San Diego OKs ballot measures to lift Midway height limit, eliminate PLA ban, allow child care in parks
  • VOSD: Could an Elevated Trolley be the Answer to Long Border Wait Times?
Sincerely,

FlashReport Editors
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