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Tuesday, May 13, 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

  • California’s Homelessness Crisis Under Newsom’s Leadership
  • AP: What to know about California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s move to ban encampments
  • CalM: Newsom wants cities to force homeless Californians to move camp every 3 days
  • CalM: Caltrans’ response to homeless encampments is lagging, cities complain
  • CalCoast: Newsom wants California cities to ban homeless encampments
  • CG: Gov. Newsom Releases New Ordinance Pushing Cities To Remove Homeless Encampments
  • LAT $: Faced with a $30 minimum wage, hotel investors start looking outside L.A.
  • OCReg: Irvine to consider $25 minimum wage for full-time city workers
  • LAT $: In these parts of California, earning less than $100,000 makes you ‘low income’
  • LAT $: A new push to bring recovery homes into state’s ‘housing first’ homeless model
  • CalM: California released 15,000 prisoners early during COVID. New data reveals what happened to many of them
  • CG: Gov. Newsom Smears USC Professor Mische for Reporting CA is Facing $8.43/gallon Gas as Refineries Close
  • CG: Gov. Newsom’s Office Continues To Receive Backlash Over Attacking A USC Professor
  • CG: Newsom Continues Freefall in 2028 Presidential Candidate Polls
  • SJMN: If Gov. Newsom doesn’t solve California homeless crisis, can he be president?
  • LAT $: California labor leaders grill Democrats running for governor on AI, benefits for strikers
  • Democratic Gubernatorial candidates discuss labor and housing in California
  • AP: House GOP reveals Trump’s tax breaks for tips, overtime and car loans, but costs run high
  • LAT $: Insurers seek to surcharge California homeowners for L.A. County fire costs
  • Don’t Pass the SALT
  • CG: Protecting Female Civil Liberties: It’s Non-Negotiable
  • SFC: Why Gavin Newsom’s new California homeless encampment plan is just cheap PR
  • CalM: Democrats seeking California governor strut their stuff for powerful union leaders
  • OCReg: California’s Medicaid corruption costs us all
  • Sacramento leaders pursue state funding to address homelessness
  • SacBee: Sacramento motel could be developed into housing for formerly homeless people
  • SacBee: Sacramento church, landlord strike compromise over homeless services
  • SJMN: Viral Bay Area projection activist reaches $120,000 settlement in civil rights lawsuit against Bay Area city
  • SFC: First wave of fixes to S.F. permitting red tape would help bars and nightclubs
  • SFC: Biden slogan costs San Ramon $120,000
  • SJMN: Google to pay $50 million to settle lawsuit claiming it paid Black workers less
  • FresBee: Cherry crops failing in Fresno, Tulare from heat. ‘This has never happened’
  • FresBee: Hotel management firm stole $58,000 from Fresno workers’ wages, city alleges
  • CalCoast: Central Coast Planned Parenthood workers vote to strike
  • Santa Paula school trustee resigns after Fillmore hire
  • OCReg: Two homebuilders with Orange County roots to merge
  • OCReg: Dana Point clears way for new cliffside transportation at Strand Beach
  • 5 stabbed at Riverside sober-living home
  • Newsom announces new funding to combat Inland Empire homelessness
  • SDUT: ‘Unbelievable’ turnaround: San Diego water officials have fixed notoriously bad hold times, billing errors
  • SDUT: San Diego library hours are getting cut. City officials can’t agree on how to ease the pain.
  • LAT $: California ‘teacher of the year’ sexually assaulted elementary school boys. She gets 30-year term

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FlashReport Editors
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