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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...
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- CalM: California’s firefighter union is poised to get a rare perk: Guaranteed raises, forever
- State workers protest at California state Capitol to demand pay raises amid SEIU bargaining
- AP: California reparations report urges action on housing discrimination and overpolicing
- LAT $: California’s reparations proposal moves to Newsom, state lawmakers
- OCReg: Reparations task force gives recommendations on how California can atone for slavery
- SFC: Newsom went into attack mode on affirmative action, but dialed it down on reparations
- CG: Supreme Court Outlaws Affirmative Action in College Admissions, Bolsters CA’s Prop. 209
- NR: The Supreme Court Corrects a Grievous Error
- OCReg: Southern California educators, leaders split on Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling
- LAT $: Supreme Court strikes down race-based affirmative action in college admissions
- SFC: Bay Area transit agencies say $5.1 billion state funding deal is not enough
- FoxLA: Los Angeles Homeless Count 2023 results released, showing 10% increase in city of LA
- CG: Los Angeles Homelessness Jumps 9% in County to More than 75,500
- SDUT: San Diego opens first of two tent camps for homeless people
- City opens first safe sleeping lot for homeless
- SDUT: Judge says San Diego’s encroachment law doesn’t violate rights of homeless people
- Gavin Newsom gets $380 million for San Quentin reforms. But he won’t commit to prison closures
- FoxLA: These new California laws take effect July 2023
- LAT $: California lawmakers act after Taylor Swift ticket fiasco. Ticketmaster tries to shake it off
- CalM: Robert Rivas takes charge as California Assembly speaker
- SJMN: Fraud lawsuit against Black Lives Matter foundation dismissed in California
- CalM: Troubled nursing home chain owner gets new licenses just before state reforms take effect
- FoxLA: 4th of July travel: LAX expects 3 million passengers as holiday getaway begins
- SFC: UCSF security guard accused of stealing $200K worth of Apple devices
- SFC: Retired East Bay judge robbed at gunpoint in Oakland
- SJMN: Point Reyes theft suspect accused of attacking store worker with a bottle of lime juice
- NR: Hunter Biden Prevails in Effort to Deprive Daughter of Last Name
- SDUT: Michael Smolens: Study boosts case for rental assistance, guaranteed income in San Diego
- Reason: Turns Out 'Bidenomics' Means Top-Down Economic Control
- The Whistleblower, the FBI and the Biden Money Trail
- The Long Road to Racial Equality Under the Law
- CG: How Do You Solve a Problem Like CEQA?
- OCReg: Charter schools excel while traditional, union-dominated schools rot
- OCReg: Supreme Court upholds equal rights, strikes down discriminatory ‘affirmative action’ schemes
- Spare the Air alert issued for Sacramento region
- SJMN: Golden Gate Bridge toll set to rise to $9.75 on July 1
- SFC: S.F. D.A. charged three drug users to send them to treatment. None appeared in court
- 2 San Rafael police officers in excessive force case charged: DA
- SFC: S.F. supervisors delayed 10 townhomes. What does it mean for city’s housing shortage?
- SJMN: VTA pressures downtown San Jose merchants to exit sites
- FresBee: Fresno trailer park residents pleaded for city’s help. Now they fear becoming homeless
- LAT $: In the wake of winter storm damage, Pajaro River flood-control efforts slide
- OCReg: Central Coast is California’s ‘hottest’ housing market
- FoxLA: Amtrak train derailment: Crews work to clear tracks in Moorpark
- VCStar $: Hueneme Council gets training in civility, governance
- VOC: Former HB Mayor Accuses Surf City Leaders of Illegally Gifting Public Funds to Airshow
- OCReg: Former Huntington Beach leaders file lawsuit to block $5 million air show settlement
- VOSD: Just How Many Tax Hikes Are Too Many on a Ballot?
- SDUT: Should San Diego be giving public funds to the World Design Capital?
- VOSD: The State Is Moving Incarcerated Youth to Local Facilities. It’s Off to a Rocky Start
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