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Thursday, May 8, 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

  • Oakland’s Collapse: The High Cost of Liberal Rule
  • CG: Gov. Newsom’s Climate Grift Spent $33 Billion in Cap-and-Trade to ‘Make Communities Cleaner and Healthier’
  • LAT $: In a race to clean up Altadena, businesses are on their own
  • SacBee: Gavin Newsom says his latest lawsuit against Trump would ‘help Elon.’ Here’s why
  • SJMN: California sues Trump administration over funds withheld for EV chargers
  • SFC: Plan to use Travis base as immigrant detention center criticized by California Dems
  • California Assembly moves forward with felony proposal for those who buy teens for sex
  • SDUT: San Diego County approves a narrow homeless camping ban tied to fire risk
  • LAT $: Trump proposes cut to federal rental assistance. California would be hit hard
  • CalM: California promised to boost mental health in schools. Why one key program is behind schedule
  • CG: California Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Glock Handgun Rather Than Going After Criminals
  • CalM: Head Start gets a reprieve from Trump budget cuts, but the fight isn’t over
  • CG: Poll Finds More Californians Believe Newsom is Focusing More on Becoming President than Being Governor
  • LAT $: Barabak: If Gavin Newsom wants to be president, he’s got work to do — starting at home
  • SDUT: Helicopter crash that killed 5 Marines near Pine Valley caused by pilot error
  • OCReg: 3 Santa Ana High School students stabbed; 1 fatally
  • LAT $: Despite political promises, Californians are stressed about their finances
  • SacBee: Amid climate change and Trump, CA lawmakers want better labor law enforcement
  • LAT $: Meet the L.A. holistic doctor and wellness influencer who is Trump’s choice for surgeon general
  • OCReg: Government-backed student loans are welfare for the better off
  • CalM: California’s fourth-ranked economy is also tops in unemployment, poverty and deficits
  • OCReg: Why are southern California cities turning toward tax roll billing?
  • SJMN: Alleged bias stalls review of police commission recommendations in Richmond
  • CG: The Case for Canceling the SFPD’s No-Mugshot Policy Now
  • SFC: The nation’s largest cities are sinking, including San Francisco
  • SFC: ‘No notice’: Union slams SFMOMA’s surprise layoffs as museum cites financial strain
  • SFC: Who will S.F. Mayor Daniel Lurie find to replace Police Chief Bill Scott?
  • SJMN: San Jose proposes $5.57 billion budget without significant cuts to services
  • SJMN: Palo Alto reviews proposed $1 billion budget
  • OCReg: LA Metro names new chief of transit police: former San Francisco police chief Bill Scott
  • LAT $: Nate Holden, state senator and longtime councilman who fought for South L.A., dies at 95
  • LAT $: New L.A. community college Chancellor Alberto J. Román pledges ‘culture of accountability’
  • VOC: Huntington Beach Calls for Probe of Library Nonprofit’s Political Spending
  • OCReg: Costa Mesa City Council fires its city manager
  • OCReg: OC Streetcar’s first train arrives, will connect Santa Ana to Garden Grove
  • OCReg: Irvine Co. looks to replace golf course as part of 3,100-home village
  • Chuckwalla National Monument’s creation challenged by lawsuit
  • SDUT: Critics slam Gloria’s cuts to San Diego police overtime, warn of longer response times
  • SDUT: Newsom selects prosecutor to be San Diego Superior Court judge


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FlashReport Editors
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