Email from FlashReport Check out today's headlines on FlashReport!   Friday, April 4, 2025     Dear John, CLICK HERE TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE FR MAIN PAGE [Note: The above link takes you to the current page. You would have to toggle the date on the site if the headlines below have cycled out.] 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: Fight over phonics: Will California require the ‘science of reading’ in K-12 schools? CG: Los Angeles City Council Approves Only $29 Million Of $46 Million Requested Inside Safe Homeless Funding CG: Xavier Becerra: Just One More Professional Politician with a Shady Past Who Needs a Job CG: California’s High Gas Prices Climbing Over $5.00 Per Gallon – Again CG: Journalist Matt Taibbi Files $10 Million Libel Lawsuit Against CA Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove SF drug crackdown targets a whole new crime — arrests up 150% SFC: Newsom’s Bay Area crime crackdown recovers 3,217 stolen vehicles, leads to hundreds of arrests LAT $: In O.C., former Vice President Harris says she’ll stay politically active: ‘I’m not going anywhere’ SDUT: Months into his Assembly term, DeMaio is still raking in cash. So where is it going? CG: Bill to Block Immigration Enforcement Officers Nearby Schools Passes Senate Committee SJMN: California announces plans to relax protections for wolves as population grows OCReg: Oral arguments made in state’s lawsuit over Huntington Beach’s voter ID OCReg: ‘Hands Off’ anti-Trump protests planned across Southern California on April 5 SJMN: Bay Area students protest Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestine movement SJMN: UC Berkeley professors sought by Trump Administration for signing Israel-Hamas petitions SDUT: 2 San Diego CBP officers allegedly took bribes to let undocumented migrants enter U.S. OCReg: California’s tax-hikers are busy dreaming up more ways to take more of your money CG: A Molotov Cocktail Toast to the Environment and Democracy CalM: Newsom touts career master plan as his governorship begins to wind down Sacramento city leaders streamline entertainment permits for businesses SJMN: Ex-Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao directed top administrator to talk shop with alleged bribers SFC: Mayor Lurie’s ‘family zoning’ plan could reshape S.F. neighborhoods, add 36,000 new homes SJMN: San Mateo supervisors officially gain temporary power to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus LAT $: K-9 bit down on man’s throat and refused all commands to let go. San José will pay him $1.6 million Lodi city manager brings up concerns about misuse of funds Stanislaus State University faculty members decry layoffs amid budget shortfall State commission delays vote on Oxnard power plant lease AP: Death toll from the wildfires that tore through the Los Angeles area reaches 30 LAT $: State orders Chiquita Canyon Landfill to take corrective measures or face fines OCReg: Breach sends confidential Orange County emails to disgraced former Supervisor Andrew Do Riverside’s $93.5 million project will build underpass on Third Street SDUT: Will the new hotel tax hike be enough to expand the convention center? SDUT: Mission Bay leaders pump the brakes on city effort to develop long-toxic shoreline Click here to read these stories at the FlashReport site!     Sincerely, FlashReport Editors FLASHREPORT | Website FlashReport | 4040 MacArthur Blvd., Suite 20 | Newport Beach, CA 92660 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice