Sunday, December 27, 2020
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*FR Exclusive*
Bruce Bialosky
		FRBlog:  Forget Voter Fraud; This is Bigger
		
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DiFi Resignation Deal?
		CG:  EXCLUSIVE: Feinstein Husband in Discussions for Ambassador Post
		
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Law and Order
		CG:  LA Judge Rebukes DA Gascón’s Lawless New Policies Siding With Criminals
		
 - LAT $: Los Angeles must change use of gang injunctions under court settlement
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Hospitals Brace
		LAT $:  Overwhelmed L.A. hospitals brace for post-Christmas COVID wave
		
 - SFC: Kaiser postpones ‘non-urgent’ surgeries at Northern California hospitals through Jan. 4
 - AP: California hospitals delay surgeries amid virus surge
 - SFC: Are hospital numbers flattening? Some see possible signs of a plateau
 
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Let's Go to The Mall!
AP: Health inspectors scrutinize crowding at Los Angeles malls - 
	
	
NYE Party
		LADN:  La Scala in Beverly Hills urged to scrap plans for New Year’s Eve party
		
 - LAT $: Beverly Hills denounces plans for ‘discreet’ dinner at La Scala
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COVID-19 Vaccine
OCReg: COVID-19 vaccine provides ‘peace of mind’ for Orange County Fire Authority firefighters - PE: Disney employee brags relative helped her obtain COVID-19 vaccine meant for health workers
 - PE: Corona firefighters receive COVID-19 vaccine
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Special Election 2021
VOSD: Politics Report: Shirley Weber's Shoes to Fill - Ammar Campa-Najjar, Georgette Gómez, Akilah Weber, several Republicans all early names for 79th Assembly
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Free Speech Fight
		LAT $:  Are tattoos free speech that should override coronavirus restrictions? California artists say yes
		
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Year in Review: 2020
SDUT: 2020: A Visual Review - SDUT: With 2020 hindsight, there was nothing perfect about this year
 - VOSD: Terrible Year, Great Discoveries: Our Favorite Stories of 2020
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Ivory Tower Pork
PE: Universities get $4.1 million to figure out how to engage hard-hit communities on COVID vaccines - 
	
	
CA GOP Revival
		NYT:  A Stinging Setback in California Is a Warning for Democrats in 2022
		
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Academic Anti-Semitism
SFC: UC Merced professor maintained Twitter account rife with anti-Semitism - 
	
	
Californication: GA Senate
LAT $: Record cash pours into Georgia Senate races, with a large chunk from California - 
	
	
Virtue Signalling: Wear Your Mask
LAT $: Asian Americans were targets, prophets due to masks 
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The Golden Pen
John Seiler
		OCReg:  What it was like working in a California Senate office during the pandemic
		
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Willie Brown
SFC: Loyalty has its perks. Just ask Alex Padilla - 
	
	
Dan Walters
CalM: COVID-19 may have permanent economic impacts - 
	
	
Charles Cooke
NR: The Federalist Papers: Instruction Manual for the Constitution - 
	
	
Doug McIntyre
		OCReg:  ‘Tis the season to receive: 
		
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SF Bay Area
SFC: San Franciscans will be key ingredient if city’s restaurants are to survive - SJMN: ‘Desperate’ Bay Area residents brace for federal unemployment dollars to expire
 - SJMN: A final farewell: Notable Bay Area residents who died in 2020
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South Bay
SJMN: San Jose agrees to quicker police records releases after media lawsuit - 
	
	
East Bay
		SFC:  UC Berkeley shutting down rare pipeline for doctorates of color
		
 - KQED: 'Vandalism': Oakland Bust of Breonna Taylor Broken Into Pieces
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Central Valley
Coronavirus update, Dec. 26: Hospitalizations, infection rate flat in Stanislaus County - 
	
	
Ventura County
VCStar $: Oxnard wastewater rates battle officially overnews - 
	
	
Los Angeles County
		LAT $:  L.A. County reports nearly 30,000 coronavirus cases over a two-day period
		
 - LADN: With technical issue delaying results, LA County reports two-day total of 29,464 new coronavirus cases
 - OCReg: Long Beach closes beaches after 50,000 gallons of sewage spill into Los Cerritos Channel
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Orange County
OCReg: Coronavirus: 5,953 new cases, 63 new deaths in Orange County over Dec. 25 and 26 - 
	
	
San Diego County
SBSun: Crews stop growth of brush fire at Sycamore Canyon in Cajon Pass area - SDUT: COVID-19 hospitalizations rise for 40th-straight day in San Diego County
 
