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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 lawmakers keep killing bills by not voting on them. Do the rules need to change?
• CalM: Will California voters decide tax limits in November? It’s up to the Supreme Court
• California Supreme Court to soon decide if voters will see major tax measure on November ballot
• CalCoast: California Supreme Court to weigh removing ballot measure aimed at impeding tax hikes
• As protests for Gaza grow nationally, Democrats in close Central Valley House races are quiet
• LAT $: ‘Are you a Zionist?’ Checkpoints at UCLA encampment provoked fear, debate among Jews
• CG: Cal State Univ. Sacramento Capitulates Again to Pro-Hamas Protesters
• OCReg: Pro-Palestinian rallies, events held across CSU system on ‘day of action’ but no disturbances
• OCReg: Gaza solidarity encampments at UCI and Chapman continue to rally for changes
• AP: Union push pits the United Farm Workers against a major California agricultural business
• SJMN: President Biden plans two-day Bay Area visit for campaign fundraisers
• LAT $: Fast-food workers make $20 an hour. California’s other low-wage earners ask: What about us?
• CG: CA Suspended Nursing Home Regulations Allowing COVID-19 patients to Infect Elderly Patients
• LAT $: They want to ride buses and trains, but they’re afraid. For riders old and young, Metro must be safer
• LAT $: GardaWorld heist: The reason $30 million was in a Sylmar warehouse and not a bank
• LAT $: Newsom touts billions in climate spending through California’s cap-and-trade program
• LAT $: How the ‘junk fee’ ban will affect prices displayed by California restaurants and other businesses
• LAT $: Incredible before-and-after images of reservoirs are proof of California’s winter deluges
• AP: California regulators to vote on changing how power bills are calculated
• Former CPUC president calls out agency for skyrocketing PG&E rates
• SJMN: Pete McCloskey, former South Bay congressman, combat veteran and environmental leader, dies at 96
• SacBee: Sacramento program worked with the chronically homeless. For some, the result was eviction
• SacBee: Sacramento program worked with the chronically homeless. For some, the result was eviction
• OCReg: Homelessness in Orange County up 28% since 2022 in newly released point in time count results
• OCReg: California’s homelessness problem
• CalM: When is a California college degree worth the cost? A new study has answers
• Canyon Lake Councilmember Mark Terry arrested on suspicion of DUI, child endangerment
• SDUT: A judge was disqualified from hearing racial bias motions. Now the motions department no longer exists.
• CG: Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su Facing Heat For Pandemic Fraud
• LAT $: Column: Expect campus uprisings to cause headaches for Democrats this election
• OCReg: The Democrat memory hole forgets it was the party of slavery, the Confederacy and Jim Crow
• In 2021, They Tried To Destroy Me for Telling the Truth
• CG: Medi-Cal and its Deleterious Impact in California Medical Care: The Hippocratic Oath
• OCReg: UCLA administrators ignored UC policies and now engage in blame-shifting
• CG: Ringside: Water Czars Ignore Solutions to Scarcity
• SacBee: Sacramento school suspends journalism adviser after student paper printed Hitler quote
• Elk Grove council approves plan for new zoo, clearing final hurdle for project to begin
• SFC: Mayor Breed says she’s turning San Francisco around. Will voters believe her?
• CG: San Francisco School Board Meets Over Audit Exposing Dire Financial Situation
• SFC: Gavin Newsom threatens Half Moon Bay with legal action over ‘egregious’ farmworker housing delay
• SFC: San Francisco tower hitting the market could reset pricing for city’s top buildings
• SJMN: BART will get a decade of use out of cars meant for San Jose extension on VTA’s dime
• EXCLUSIVE: 1-on-1 with FUSD's Misty Her following historic appointment
• Modesto hospital remains in Medicare program after federal agency reverses decision
• CalCoast: Paso Robles City Council votes to dump paid parking
• VCStar $: Ventura effort to access state water gets $5M from feds
• LAT $: Los Angeles voters want more housing but worry it won’t help them, poll finds
• OCReg: Jeffrey Jackson, president of Orange County Realtors, dies at 65
• OCReg: What will Disneyland build first in theme park expansion?
• Mark Coast, a former editor at The Press-Enterprise, dies at 64
• UC Riverside student charged with illegally having assault rifle is also a UCR police employee
• AP: 2 young children die after being swept away by fast-flowing California creek
• SDUT: With profits slow to materialize, San Diego considers another overhaul of its ambulance service
• SDUT: Hundreds of people sue San Diego over January floods, saying it ‘absolutely failed’ to manage stormwater
• SDUT: Joan Jacobs, San Diego community leader and philanthropist, dies at 91

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