Check out today's headlines on FlashReport!   Wednesday, May 24, 2023     Dear John, CLICK HERE TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE FR MAIN PAGE [Note: The above link takes you to the current page. You would have to toggle the date on the site if the headlines below have cycled out.] The FlashReport Main Page has been updated with all of the big stories in California...The FlashReport Blog is constantly updated with over 24 different correspondents penning items of interest to those who follow California politics and policy... THE HEADLINES SF mayor Q&A on drug crisis cut short after pushback from public SFC: Protesters halt plan to grill Mayor Breed at U.N. Plaza over city’s open-air drug dealing SJMN: Nordstrom plans to chop well over 300 Bay Area jobs SFC: Cole Hardware to close SoMa store by end of the month BreitbartCA: Dodgers Become ’Bud Light of Baseball’ NR: Archdiocese of LA Condemns Dodgers Inviting ‘Queer and Trans Nuns’ to Pride Event Reason: Randi Weingarten Only Taught for 3 Years. Shes Getting 15 Years of Public Pension Anyway. LAT $: He painted over graffiti to pay for his daughter’s birthday cake. It cost him his life SBSun: Southern California home prices up 4.3%: Where are the biggest gains? SBSun: Southern California home sales take 46% dip to historic low: 5 reasons why CalM: Newsom changes course, now wants more student housing money sooner LAT $: California emerges as big winner in Colorado River water deal Carlsbad City Council fails to pass flag policy Pride flag won’t fly on Fresno County flagpoles. These are the only two approved now SDUT: Proposal to display commemorative flags, including Pride flag, fails in Carlsbad CG: Bill To Increase Penalties For Fatal Hit-And-Run Incidents Fails In Assembly Third Time CG: Governor Newsom Signs Bill Ratifying Latest Tribal-State Gaming Compact SDUT: County joins city of San Diego plan to buy hotels to house homeless people. ‘Silly to leave money on the table.’ Here are results of the homeless count in Stanislaus County. How do they compare to 2022? SDUT: Oceanside business owners ask for new restrictions on Brother Benno’s as problems with homeless increase CA attorney general to review deadly SF Walgreens shooting SBSun: Vietnam War POWs gather, remember at Nixon Library reunion Temecula Valley substitute teacher uses N-word in video SJMN: VP Kamala Harris leaves her mark on Applied Materials building 9 kids arrested in connection to 35 robberies across Oakland: Police LAT $: Man accused of chasing people with pickax after crashing car into Orange County home LAT $: 1 killed, 1 injured in shooting at downtown San Diego library courtyard SFC: Bystander killed after stolen S.F. city vehicle crashes into crowd Bank customer thwarts robbery in Northern California SFC: YIMBY activists frustrated by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to reform CEQA CalM: California wants to increase pay for some Medi-Cal providers. How it might help patients access care NR: Target Reportedly Moving ‘Pride’ Items to Back of Store to Avoid the Bud Light Treatment OCReg: Debunking one of the common Prop. 13 myths CG: The Curious Case of CA Schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond and Daniel Lee CalM: Feinstein’s health has Newsom in a political trap of his own making OCReg: Bills from Mike Fong and Blanca Pacheco will undermine freelance interpreters Sacramento ‘moving forward’ with Railyards stadium despite losing MLS expansion bid, says mayor SFC: S.F. supervisor wants police to ramp up enforcement of 5 traffic violations SJMN: ‘Inappropriate all the way around’: Peninsula politicos play defense for landlord whose rental was deemed uninhabitable SJMN: Report: A’s reach ‘loose agreement’ with Nevada lawmakers for Las Vegas public financing CalM: Can Fresno bridge its economic divide? California’s millions boost Black businesses, ag tech FresBee: CSU’s Title IX assessment could cost taxpayers and students more than $1 million VCStar $: Ventura council sends proposed housing to next step FoxLA: City council OKs LAPD 'robot dog' donation LAT $: State orders L.A. County to move nearly 300 youths out of ‘unsuitable’ juvenile halls LADN: LA Metro’s long-awaited Regional Connector train under Downtown LA opens June 16 LADN: LA County Board of Supervisors raises admission to three popular museums CG: LAUSD Firing Unvaccinated Teachers and Staff – Even With Teacher Shortage VOC: Santa Ana School District Struggles With How to Teach Palestinian & Israeli History OCReg: Irvine is giving OCPA another chance — again OCReg: Irvine breaks ground on future Great Park projects, estimated cost now at $1 billion OCReg: Nuclear Regulatory Commission finds two violations at San Onofre, but no safety threat LAT $: Riverside County ghost town sells for $22.6 million to mysterious company SBSun: Ramona fire in San Jacinto area grows to 348 acres, is 80% contained SDUT: ‘People waiting for prices to come down will be disappointed’: San Diego home price rises for 2nd month County approves date for District 4 special election SDUT: County supervisors approve $7.2M to shift focus from incarceration to treatment, other services Click here to read these stories at the FlashReport site!     Sincerely, FlashReport Editors FLASHREPORT | Website FlashReport | 4040 MacArthur Blvd., Suite 20, Newport Beach, CA 92660 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected] powered by Try email marketing for free today!