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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.
THE HEADLINES
- CG: California’s Bad April Fools Joke: $20 Minimum Wage For Flipping Burgers
- AP: California-based 99 Cents Only Stores is closing down, citing COVID, inflation and product theft
- OCReg: Nearly half high school graduates don’t qualify to apply to a California university
- LAT $: Inside the gambling ring linked to Ohtani — as told by two bettors themselves
- AP: Judge appoints special master to oversee California federal women’s prison after rampant abuse
- CalM: These Californians just got protection from big rent hikes
- OCReg: California rent ‘bargains’ are disappearing. Which ones are left?
- SDUT: Blustery Alaskan storm leaves people across San Diego County with wet feet and red cheeks
- Controversial plan takes shape to protect Joshua trees from climate change, fire and development
- CalM: Native American students get free tuition to attend the UC. Why it isn’t enough.
- SFC: Man returns to S.F. home to find stranger showering inside, police say
- LAT $: CHP officer fatally shoots man at Cerritos mall; gunfire prompted shoppers to flee
- LAT $: Neighbor heard odd noises amid heist of up to $30 million from Sylmar vault
- LAT $: Column: He admitted to punching a reporter. A judge wished him “best of luck”
- LAT $: Michael Jackson’s accusers seek to open sealed records that include nude photos of the singer
- SJMN: California bill could expose what Title IX lawsuit calls ‘shocking’ gender inequities in how college athletes are paid
- Several students occupy administration building at Pomona College in support of Palestinians
- SFC: Bay Area congressman proposes renaming prison after Trump
- OCReg: Californians are struggling with an affordability crisis. But Sacramento keeps making things worse.
- Birx Tried To Sabotage Meeting Between Trump, Top Scientists
- CalM: Political ritual: California labor priorities and business ‘job killers’ again on a collision course
- Many Cities in Debt and Lying About It
- SFC: ‘It’s disgusting’: Why some Sacramentans are upset about A’s landing in their backyard
- SFC: YIMBYS love to hate mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin. But is his housing record more nuanced than critics say?
- SJMN: This Bay Area company wants to give homeowners $100K for the yard space they’re not using
- Power outages and hail impact some Fresno neighborhoods, businesses
- State auditor criticizes cannabis licensing process in Fresno
- LAT $: ‘Game of Thrones’ actor sues LAPD and L.A. County over false pedophile case
- LAT $: L.A. tests program to send unarmed civilians instead of cops to people in crisis
- Veteran San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy arrested on gun charges, ties to Mongols gang
- Former city manager candidate claims San Bernardino officials cost him his job in Salinas
- SDUT: U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services promotes innovation in Latino-focused San Diego visit
- SDUT: Judge orders Elisa Serna jail-death evidence unsealed, after Union-Tribune moves to intervene
- SDUT: Chula Vista chooses community engagement expert to temporarily fill council seat of Andrea Cardenas
- SDUT: Michael Smolens: Another hopeful zig-zag on homelessness in San Diego
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