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Thursday, May 15, 2025

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  • Six Reasons Biological Males Should Not Be Competing In Women’s Sports
  • VOC: Fleischman: Time to Rethink Taxpayer-Funded Bus Services in Orange County
  • CG: Gavin Newsom’s Reputation Facelift
  • CG: Gov. Newsom Announces Halt on Expansion of Illegal Immigrants in Medi-Cal
  • CG: May Budget Revise 2025-2026 Grows to $322 Billion, with $12 Billion Deficit
  • CalM: California budget is $12 billion in the red amid Trump tariffs and rising costs
  • CalM: Is the secret to housing affordability in California buried in the building code?
  • SJMN: Two Southern California residents arrested on suspicion of impeding federal immigration enforcement agents
  • SacBee: State worker payroll freezes in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised California budget
  • LAT $: Newsom proposes $20-million funding cut for California newsrooms, citing budget issues
  • AP: Here is how California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to address a $12 billion budget shortfall
  • High-speed rail, abortion, and the will of the voters: takeaways from Gov. Newsom's budget
  • CalM: Medi-Cal coverage of weight loss drugs on chopping block under governor’s proposal
  • SFC: ‘Ghost student’ fraud has quadrupled at California colleges
  • CG: Loyola Marymount University Discriminated on Basis of Race, Sex, New Federal Civil Rights Complaint Alleges
  • LAT $: Staring down harsh Trump funding cuts, UC and CSU get some relief in Newsom budget plan
  • ‘Very dangerous’: New report shines light on presence of CCP spies at top universities
  • SJMN: Peninsula cops fatally shoot man carrying replica gun
  • SacBee: Video shows moments unfold as man with fake gun shot by Sacramento police
  • CalCoast: California approves State Farm’s 17% home insurance rate hike
  • California bill aims to ease licensing requirements for muralists
  • OCReg: Newsom still doesn’t have the guts or ideas to get vagrants off our streets
  • OCReg: Newsom forced to roll back unwise Medi-Cal expansions
  • CG: Ringside: Green Hydrogen in California
  • OCReg: Supes right to be angry at Do wrist slap
  • Woman arrested after homeless woman intentionally set on fire in Sacramento County
  • SFC: Billionaire California winery owner sued for allegedly sexually harassing former employee
  • SFC: Oakland school board faces backlash over budget cuts that gut aftercare
  • SJMN: San Jose is back up to 12th biggest city in the U.S., displacing Austin
  • SJMN: San Jose officials push city to find alternative site for Berryessa Flea Market
  • FresBee: Fresno’s largest hospital group fined $31.5 million in federal kickback probe
  • CalCoast: SLO County political consultant claims critic is racist, again
  • VCStar $: New fire hazard maps to double Ventura County real estate inspections
  • LAT $: Teachers tend to plan pregnancies with summer due dates. Could a LAUSD policy change that?
  • LAT $: Rancho Palos Verdes is home to a Trump golf course. But his cuts are imperiling the city’s landslide response
  • LAT $: Santa Monica approves public drinking proposal to turn Third Street Promenade into entertainment zone
  • OCReg: Santa Ana City Council looked at more frequent inspections of supportive housing units, has questions
  • OCReg: Student found with gun, ammo on campus at Vista View Middle School in Fountain Valley
  • VOC: Anaheim Institutes New Oversight on Tourism Bureau After Searing State Audit
  • VOC: Westminster Grapples With Potentially Losing Tet Parade
  • OCReg: Victorville foster children kept journals of strangulation, other abuse, DA says
  • LAT $: Riverside wants to become ‘the new Detroit.’ Can this self-driving electric bus get it there?
  • SDUT: In May budget revision, Gloria pulls back on police cuts but sticks with cuts to parks, libraries

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FlashReport Editors
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