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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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- LAT $: UC chancellors get big raises, putting them between $785,000 and nearly $1.2 million
- VOC: Governor Vows New Penalties for Huntington Beach Amidst Housing Fight
- AP: California governor signs package of bills giving state more power to enforce housing laws
- OCReg: Gov. Newsom calls out Huntington Beach while signing homeless, housing bills
- OCReg: Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani has MLB’s first 50-50 season after 3-homer day
- FresBee: Gas rebates for California drivers? Bill would pull $3B from high-speed rail to do it
- SJMN: Gov. Newsom’s gas price proposal debated at special session legislative hearings
- CG: 35 California House Democrats Voted Against Deporting Illegal Immigrants Convicted of Sex Crimes
- LAT $: AI? New jobs? California’s local news deal with Google leaves lots of unanswered questions
- LAT $: Newsom appears unlikely to campaign heavily against Proposition 36 but cautions voters
- LAT $: Rite Aid’s answer to retail theft at Compton store: Lock up all its products
- LAT $: Carson woman faces up to six years in prison in alleged pepper-spray attack on teens at Taco Bell
- LAT $: Multiple firefighters suffer major injuries in Irvine crash returning from Airport fire
- CalM: What happens to homeless people after encampment sweeps? That’s on cities, Gavin Newsom says
- FresBee: Tulare touts a ‘progressive’ approach to homelessness. How its legal encampment works
- SFC: Another Bay Area city weighs aggressive action against homeless encampments and parked RVs
- SFC: S.F. Mayor Breed wants to double goal for homeless shelter as she pushes to get people off the streets
- CG: UC Board Of Regents Approve UC Police Requests For Non-Lethal Rounds, Weapons
- CalM: UC approves new less-lethal arms for its police force amid protest
- SJMN: 3 charts that explain the rising risk of Valley fever in California
- CalM: California drivers can get mobile licenses on their iPhones — but they need physical ones too
- LAT $: California Bible college students claim they were confined, surveilled and made to do unpaid labor
- LAT $: California secretary of state among officials in 16 states receiving suspicious packages
- OCReg: Fewer ‘ghost guns’ linked to crime in California, but problem persists
- CG: Gavin Newsom’s Ongoing Tyranny of California Includes Special Legislative Session
- The Unprecedented Biden-Harris Migrant Invasion
- Harris Cynical, Run-Out-The-Clock Campaign
- OCReg: Endorsement: Michelle Steel for the 45th Congressional District
- CalM: In California’s one-party system, political family feuds fill competitive vacuum
- SacBee: Mayor Steinberg: Leading City of Sacramento was ‘tougher’ than leading California Senate
- SacBee: St. Hope schools charter renewed by Sacramento school board, with unspecified conditions
- SacBee: A Rocklin man stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Now he’s teaching art in Placer County
- SFC: Controversial S.F. restaurant was accused of celebrating colonialism. Now it’s closed for good
- SFC: Mayor London Breed pushes back at fierce attacks during S.F. mayoral debate hosted by the Chronicle and KQED
- SJMN: Flag-raising dispute at San Jose’s Viet Heritage Garden continues to divide community
- SJMN: Massive layoffs for Cisco and IBM erase hundreds of Bay Area tech jobs
- LAT $: Public or private? A battle roils over who can access beaches along the bucolic Russian River
- FresBee: Fresno Unified’s Roosevelt trustee, seeking third term, questions district’s spending amid budget woes
- LAT $: Newport-Mesa Unified officials approve employee contracts, offering 7% raises
- VOC: Who is the OC Judge Married to the County Supervisor in the Middle of an FBI Probe?
- OCReg: Huntington Beach council approves Magnolia Tank Farm housing project
- VOC: Santana: Are Reforms and Transparency Coming to Orange County?
- OCReg: Former Orange County election official tells story of protecting the vote in 2020
- LAT $: Another Riverside teen girl arrested as school threats spread ‘like wildfire’
- Foster parents who abused Turpin children plead guilty to felony charges
- SDUT: In unusual rebuke of sheriff, medical examiner rules diabetic man’s jail death a homicide by neglect
- VOSD: The Close Ties Between a Councilmember’s Staff and His Campaign
- SDUT: Long before legal claims, San Diego Unified fielded at least 3 other complaints about its now-fired chief
- SDUT: Lawson-Remer, Faulconer clash on homelessness, housing and more in race for District 3 supervisor
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