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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

• FRBlog: California’s Firearm List: A Liberal Assault on the Second Amendment
• CalM: Special interests poured more than half a billion into California lobbying last year
• Why is a new office building for California lawmakers costing as much as an NFL stadium?
• CalM: Steeply discounted overdose-reversal medicine now available to any Californian
• AP: Californians can now buy opioid reversal drugs from the state online
• OCReg: Bill would allow cities to boost pensions for public workers despite unfunded liabilities
• CG: Steve Hilton Announces Run For Governor
• OCReg: Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host, is running for California governor
• AP: Lawsuits accuse insurers of colluding to drop coverage in fire-prone parts of California
• LAT $: Trump named Gibson, Stallone and Voight as ‘special ambassadors.’ Hollywood is still waiting for a call
• LAT $: Sea lions, dolphins, now a whale: Ocean giant is latest victim of SoCal’s toxic algal bloom
• SFC: Al Gore rallies S.F. climate conference crowd with fiery anti-Trump keynote
• CG: Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Parent’s Case Against Chico School District for Gender Transition
• CG: Democrat Reps Shun Constituents for Wife Beating, Human Trafficker, Illegal Alien, MS-13 Gang Member
• CalM: Trump is dismantling the education department. How that might harm special education
• SDUT: Trump administration replaces commissioner overseeing management of sewage crisis
• OCReg: Sales tax increases slam the middle class in California
• CG: Is California Governor Gavin Newsom an Economic Illiterate or Just Deceitful?
• CalM: California’s economy was already sluggish before Trump’s global tariffs
• Presenting the SF100
• SFC: SFUSD is on the verge of closing budget chasm, but what will it cost?
• SFC: Goodwill to close 11 Bay Area locations and lay off staff after major merger
• SJMN: What a view! Famous Bay Area nude beach preserved in $10 million deal
• SFC: Here’s who will help Barbara Lee as she prepares to become Oakland’s mayor
• SFC: Zuckerberg-funded school for low-income families in Silicon Valley to shut down
• SJMN: Nonprofit ex-director, charged with pocketing $50,000 donation from Steph and Ayesha Curry, to plead guilty
• Community-led water system in historic Stanislaus town struggles to supply locals
• CG: Former LA Councilman Kevin de Leon Faces Major Ethics Violations Fines
• LAT $: Three months after Palisades fire, mayor proposes adding more than 200 jobs to LAFD
• LAT $: Bass proposes laying off about 1,650 city workers, a quarter of them civilians at LAPD
• LAT $: Reams of documents related to L.A. County sex abuse cases never turned over, lawyers say
• OCReg: Fate of OC Judge who shot and killed his wife once again in the hands of a jury
• Residents fight 49-home project eyed for Victoria Avenue in Riverside
• SDUT: ‘Grievous mistake’: Residents, council slam Gloria’s cuts to police, parks, arts, libraries
• SDUT: Encinitas may hire private security officers to combat downtown problems
• SDUT: Santee City Manager Marlene Best leaves position, but no reason stated

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