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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

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THE HEADLINES

  • AP: 1,900 pairs of unreleased Nikes are stolen from freight trains in California and Arizona
  • OCReg: Wildfire recovery costs raise questions about L.A.’s 2028 Olympics priorities
  • LAT $: L.A. recovery czar vents at Harvard-Westlake over working for free: ‘I was lied to’
  • SFC: Can one man help wipe out S.F.’s drug markets? City officials want to find out
  • SJMN: Ex-Stanford research coordinator convicted of tampering with cancer study database
  • SJMN: Newsom again threatens to withhold homelessness money from cities failing to move people off street
  • CG: California FAIR Plan Payouts So Far in Palisades and Eaton Fires
  • SJMN: New Bay Area fire-hazard maps: Is your city among those seeing striking increases?
  • CalM: ‘A volunteer jail:’ Inside the scandals and abuse pushing California’s homeless out of shelters
  • CG: New Bill Introduced to Create Content Standards For Ethnic Studies Classes
  • State bills would remove physician oversight from nurse anesthetists in Stanislaus County
  • LAT $: How California schools, colleges are responding to Trump’s DEI crackdown
  • CalM: Even in wet years, wells are still dry. Why replenishing California’s groundwater is painfully slow
  • LAT $: California wildfires are burning deeper into urban areas like Altadena and finding new victims
  • SFC: How an S.F. Pilates instructor became the face of the city’s anti-Trump, anti-Musk protests
  • SDUT: San Diego’s top lawyer just got new powers to take on Trump
  • Constituents protest outside McClintock’s Modesto office. Here’s what they want from him
  • SJMN: U.S. Supreme Court denies review of San Jose police shooting, Mountain View cold case
  • AP: Top Apple exec concedes he had doubts about app store fees imposed on alternative payment options
  • Hundreds gather outside state Capitol in Sacramento as war in Ukraine reaches third year
  • OCReg: Government can’t ban surfing lessons on public beaches
  • NR: First, Fire All the Generals
  • CityJrnl: How Left-Wing Activism Corrupted America's Schools
  • CalM: Trump, Newsom play high-stakes game over billions in federal wildfire aid
  • OCReg: A multi-billion-dollar rule targeting homeowners and renters makes no sense
  • Sacramento County's jail expansion in question after critical peer review findings
  • SacBee: Sacramento’s latest budget deficit is $62 million. Here’s how officials want to lower it
  • SacBee: Federal judge blocks Trump administration immigration policy at West Sacramento temple
  • SFC: Judge tosses sentence enhancement in murder case that lawyer called a revenge move by Pamela Price
  • ‘Asian Muni mafia’: Workers allege campaign of antisemitism
  • FresBee: Does this Fresno Council candidate have the upper hand? Political science expert weighs in
  • CalCoast: Gag order placed on SLO County embezzlement case
  • CalCoast: Could San Luis Obispo lose ownership of Canet Adobe?
  • OCReg: State assemblymember raises questions over county’s decision to bench OC treasurer
  • OCReg: Westminster Councilmember Amy Phan West pleads not guilty to misdemeanor bribery charge
  • AP: California judge testifies that he accidentally shot and killed his wife
  • SJMN: Poll: North Bay ‘less supportive’ of transportation tax in region
  • SDUT: What should San Diego charge for trash pickup, and for what services? City seeks input at public forums
  • SDUT: Two unions at UCSD set to strike Wednesday
  • SDUT: For more than an hour, he called for help as he was tortured to death in jail. ‘No one came,’ his family says.

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FlashReport Editors
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