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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
- CalM: Park Fire jeopardizing one of California’s most iconic species: ‘This species could blink out’
- SJMN: Most severe start to California wildfire season in 16 years
- Crews keep battling the nearly 5,000-acre Nixon fire in Aguanga
- CG: Sen. Scott Wiener Calls Elon Musk ‘Bigot’ and ‘Conspiracy Theorist’
- LAT $: How much does your city know about you? This Southern California city opens up
- CG: ‘Politickin’ – Gavin Newsom’s New Podcast is Quite Political
- LAT $: The hidden role of public pensions in raising rents in California
- AP: University of California president to step down after 5 years marked by pandemic, campus protests
- SDUT: UCSD workers demonstrate for new contract
- LAT $: UC healthcare and service workers demand wage hike and housing aid
- OCReg: Tony Thurmond seeks to build millions of affordable housing units for teachers
- Trump running mate JD Vance in Fresno County for fundraising event
- Sacramento County will offer homes, hope for homeless people with new large safe stay campus
- SFC: Breed promised ‘aggressive’ sweeps of S.F. homeless encampments. Here’s what’s changed
- SacBee: Property owner sues Sacramento after homeless people broke into vacant commercial building
- VOC: What Does The Future of Homeless Camping Enforcement In Orange County Look Like?
- Stanislaus County hires contractor to manage interim housing complex for Modesto’s homeless
- CG: Some L.A. County Officials Oppose Gov. Newsom’s Homeless Encampment Order
- SF homeless encampment sweeps continue; 82% declining shelter
- AP: San Francisco police and street cleaners take aggressive approach to clearing homeless encampments
- CG: NewsGuard Strikes Again, Threatening Free Speech
- SFC: California reservoir levels could drop much more than expected in the future, state report finds
- AP: Captain in 2019 scuba boat fire ordered to pay about $32K to families of 3 of 34 people killed
- CalM: Toilet paper and flat tires — the strange ways that Californians ignite wildfires
- LAT $: ‘What are the odds?’ California family lost one home to wildfire in 2018 — and a second in 2024
- CalM: Newsom denounces Trump’s authoritarian tendencies, but displays some himself
- CG: Ringside: How Many People Will Water From the Delta Tunnel Support?
- OCReg: Sorry Gavin, the First Amendment protects AI ads mocking Kamala Harris
- OCReg: Orange County cities act like Karens over Airbnbs
- SacBee: Sacramento DA’s lawsuit against city in homelessness crisis paused for six months
- Investigation underway after mailbox explodes in north Sacramento County neighborhood
- SFC: Anxiety builds over S.F. school closures. Here’s when SFUSD will release the list
- Runners infuriated after SF Marathon miscalculates course length
- SFC: Bay Area companies hit with hundreds of layoffs, including biotech firm’s 75% reduction of U.S. workers
- SFC: Alameda County DA Price charges leader of nonprofit youth swimming group with embezzlement
- SFC: It was the epicenter of Oakland’s surging crime. Is this corridor any better now?
- Aerial spraying set for Modesto to control mosquitoes that spread West Nile, other diseases
- Fresno City Council lays out proposed changes for future Arthop events
- $20 million settlement reached in lawsuit for former Bitwise employees
- VCStar $: Work to start on Simi long-delayed Lost Canyons homes
- LAT $: Los Angeles County agrees to buy downtown skyscraper
- VOC: Orange County Cities Grapple With Drug Treatment Facilities
- OCReg: Rent relief applications open for select OC residents on the verge of homelessness
- SDUT: San Diego County only has a few dozen detox beds for homeless residents. That total is about to get a boost.
- SDUT: Carlsbad could be first in county to ban smoking in apartment buildings, condos
- SDUT: San Diego again declares a crisis over a lack of shelter. It’s still not clear where beds might be found.
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