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Tuesday, January 7, 2025

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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

  • AP: After 2 years of shortfalls, California governor proposes $322B budget with no deficit
  • Trump, taxes, Prop 36 and other takeaways from Gov. Newsom's budget preview
  • AP: Strongest winds in over a decade could increase fire risk to dry Southern California
  • OCReg: ‘Particularly dangerous situation’ red flag warnings issued for Santa Ana windstorm in Southern California
  • OCReg: Cal Fire moves resources to Southern California as agencies brace for extreme winds
  • OCReg: Legislators ask Biden and Senate for rail project funds before Trump assumes White House
  • FresBee: California high-speed rail project: Here’s where Central Valley construction stands
  • SFC: California’s new plan for its long-delayed high speed rail system: Connect it to Las Vegas
  • CG: Why Incumbent Congressional Representatives Michelle Steel and John Duarte Should Have Won
  • SJMN: ‘We get it’: Democrats aim to cut California’s cost of living in 2025
  • CalM: Californians: Here’s why your housing costs are so
  • CG: ExxonMobil Sues AG Rob Bonta, Environmental Groups Over Defamation
  • SacBee: California’s AG could receive $25 million to fight Trump. Attorney union has concerns
  • CalM: Five things to watch as California’s Legislature returns to the Capitol in 2025
  • AP: Biden will announce the creation of two new national monuments to protect tribal lands in California
  • SDUT: Will California’s power grid keep running smoothly?
  • SFC: Holder of $1.27 billion lottery ticket, sold in Shasta County, still a secret
  • OCReg: Local environmentalists applaud Biden’s offshore oil drilling restrictions
  • LAT $: Catalytic converter thief shouted ‘No!’ before accomplice shot Johnny Wactor, police say
  • OCReg: Part-time Huntington Beach actor who solicited investments for phony COVID cure gets 8 years
  • LAT $: How legal immigration helped end the great California exodus
  • LAT $: ‘I don’t feel safe anywhere.’ California moves to aid undocumented students as fears surge
  • CalM: Will Newsom simply finish his governorship or mount a White House campaign?
  • CG: SF Chronicle Calls Prop. 13 Property Tax Cuts ‘Subsidies’
  • NR: When Gender Theory Becomes State Education Policy
  • SFC: Napa government says winery owes $8 million after contentious legal battle
  • CG: Oakland Closing Two Fire Stations, Reducing Services at Four More
  • SFC: What kind of mayor will Daniel Lurie be? San Francisco is about to find out
  • New public safety czar accused of driving drunk in 2016 crash
  • SJMN: Santa Clara’s Great America theme park lease could be terminated in three years: new docs
  • Newsom visit to Turlock draws criticism from Republican leaders in Stanislaus County
  • VOC: Will Huntington Beach’s Legal Argument of Limited Independence Hold up in Court?
  • VOC: Cypress Doubles City Manager’s Spending Power
  • Lake Elsinore’s new city hall is under construction next door
  • SDUT: San Diego’s annual pension price tag soars past half a billion dollars
  • SDUT: Re-elected San Diego County supervisors sworn in — except one
  • SDUT: Widow of late Padres chairman Peter Seidler sues two of husband’s brothers over control of team

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FlashReport Editors
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