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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 $: Crews improve containment on Palisades, Eaton fires; some residents allowed to return
- Former Cal OES director Mark Ghilarducci weighs in on LA wildfires and political discourse
- LAT $: California’s FAIR Plan, the home insurer of last resort, may need a bailout after the L.A. fires
- LAT $: The death toll continues to rise in the Los Angeles firestorm. Here are some victims’ stories
- OCReg: Jon Coupal: Information and resources for taxpayers impacted by the LA wildfires
- SFC: ‘Money buys everything’: Here’s how the feds say the Sheng Thao bribery scheme went down
- SFC: Bribery charges against Oakland recycling kingpins put Bay Area contracts in question
- SJMN: Indictment of Oakland ex-mayor alleges bribery network
- SJMN: Moss Landing battery fire: A ‘Three Mile Island’ for key renewable energy industry?
- LAT $: They live in L.A. County’s riskiest areas. Should they rebuild on their burned out lots?
- LAT $: California warns more than 200 hotels and landlords of price gouging complaints in wake of fires
- CG: Calls Grow For LAFD Chief Crowley To Resign Over Wildfire Mismanagement
- LAT $: L.A.’s fire chief generated controversy — and fierce loyalty — while the city burned
- LAT $: Prop. 36 drug and theft felonies to force millions in state cuts, projection shows
- OCReg: Trump seems open to increasing SALT cap, local GOP House member says after meeting
- Feds sue SVB leaders for ‘gross negligence’ over massive collapse
- SJMN: Health care AI, intended to save money, turns out to require a lot of expensive humans
- AP: Menendez brothers’ resentencing hearing pushed to March because of Los Angeles-area wildfires
- SJMN: Cain Velasquez shooting sentencing pushed back over Racial Justice Act motion
- SJMN: Immigration raid in Bakersfield has ‘chilling effect’ on community, United Farm Workers says
- AP: On LA fire lines, inmates tackle dangerous work for less than $30 a day
- OCReg: Wildfires incinerate Newsom’s already flimsy budget proposal
- OCReg: Fires spark a larger conversation: One-party rule has failed Californians
- OCReg: Matt Fleming: Wildfires unleash an endless stream of very bad takes
- CG: Gavinomics: California’s High Cost of Living is Exploding
- SacBee: Sacramento is working on a new bridge across the American River. Should it ban cars?
- SacBee: Sacramento County affordable housing pilot program for low-income residents begins soon
- SJMN: Las Lomitas superintendent steps down following credit card use investigation
- SFC: Silicon Valley school district abandons ethnic studies. Will other districts follow?
- Stanislaus County residents raise concerns about sex offender possibly moving next door
- New accusations arise against deposed Modesto youth soccer employee, including coup attempt
- CalCoast: Contractor loses position for illegal practices, Cambria hires him
- VCStar $: Ventura's Main Street to stay closed in tentative decision
- OCReg: OC county department heads warned to tighten spending, freeze hiring amid possible budget shortfall
- OCReg: Former Stanton councilmember accused of not living in district she represented, lying on election paperwork
- Riverside revisiting regulations on cannabis retailers
- Riverside school board won’t seek change in transgender athletics law
- SDUT: San Diego County to get feds’ help improving cybersecurity
- SDUT: Palomar Health enters turnaround pact with lenders as losses mount
- SDUT: San Diego economic roundtable points to ‘uncertainty’ with Trump, local housing woes
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