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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 Patriot Profile: The Late Andrew Breitbart
- CalM: State Farm wins first-ever emergency rate hike in California
- CG: Insurance Commissioner Lara Approves 17% State Farm Rate Hike
- LAT $: How a funding pause and renewed controversies could tank California’s ethnic studies mandate
- LAT $: Officers are winning massive payouts in ‘LAPD lottery’ lawsuits
- LAT $: California sues over Trump policy tying transportation grants to immigration
- OCReg: This OC Assembly race is already one of the most expensive 2026 legislative contests
- LAT $: Newsom claims Trump’s tariffs will reduce California revenues by $16 billion
- CalM: Trump tariffs and rising health care costs knock California budget back into deficit
- LACCD Trustee Andra Hoffman eyes seat as California’s schools chief
- LAT $: AI is coming soon to speed up sluggish permitting for fire rebuilds, officials say.
- LAT $: UC regent Bob Myers questions UCLA athletics finances
- CG: Globe Interview: Senator Tony Strickland on Funding Prop. 36 in May Revise
- CalM: Gavin Newsom says these middlemen drive up drug prices. He’s got a new plan to fix it
- SJMN: California OK millions for 19 new Bay Area addiction and mental health treatment centers
- SacBee: Gavin Newsom wants California to stock up on abortion pill
- AP: The Menendez brothers had their sentences reduced. What’s next?
- CG: Gavin Newsom Gaslighting California Again with Homeless Encampment Plan
- NR: California Seeks Federal Funding for the ‘Worst New Transit Project in the U.S.’
- OCReg: Why are Californians still paying so much at the pump?
- CalM: Newsom reveals his weaknesses when he needs political hardball to get his way
- SacBee: Sacramento leaders debates budget cuts to skate park, police department
- SFC: S.F. supervisor calls for hearing on financially troubled nonprofit Parks Alliance
- SFC: Another Bay Area theater is ‘suspending’ as industry’s free fall continues
- SFC: Mayor Daniel Lurie has a new plan to boost S.F. police staffing. Here are the details
- SFC: Organizer of Supervisor Joel Engardio recall resigns days before deadline
- SFC: Exclusive: S.F.’s planning director stepping down after five years and an ambitious rezoning process
- SJMN: Sheriff’s union accuses San Mateo County of labor violations
- SJMN: Santa Clara County Office of Education workers decry ‘DOGE-like’ layoffs impacting special ed, Head Start
- SJMN: SJ mayor’s pay-for-performance proposal faces some pushback
- Modesto school board appoints new superintendent amid some experience concerns
- CG: New Poll: Only 32% of L.A. Voters Hold a Favorable Opinion of Mayor Bass
- OCReg: Can the future of local policing be found in this LA County city?
- OCReg: $373,200 income required to buy Orange County home, up 129% in five years
- $200K donor steps up to aid Riverside’s De Anza monument
- Plan to redevelop 818 acres of ex-March Air Force Base land near Riverside is rejected
- SDUT: Bonta investigating San Diego County juvenile detention halls
- SDUT: In May budget revision, Gloria pulls back on police cuts but sticks with cuts to parks, libraries
- SDUT: Years before Grossmont hired him as a top administrator, he was disciplined for racial slurs, sexism
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