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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Dear John,


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THE HEADLINES

  • FRBlog: The Disingenuous Actions of Senator Padilla
  • Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s Ban on Gas Water Heaters and Furnaces Ripe For Repeal
  • CG: Ninth Circuit Court Panel Hears Arguments Over Trump’s Control Of California National Guard
  • CalM: Trump lawyers call his decision to send troops to LA ‘unreviewable’ by U.S. courts
  • OCReg: US Justice Department lends support for Huntington Beach’s lawsuit challenging California sanctuary law
  • CalM: California prison union strikes $600 million contract with Newsom that includes furloughs
  • CG: GOP Lawmakers Demand Audit of Gov. Newsom’s 65 Cent Gas Tax Hike Coming July 1st
  • OCReg: Man who allegedly bragged about hurling rocks at CHP cars and setting fire in LA faces charges
  • SacBee: California’s economy expected to slow as unemployment rate rises
  • Why are so many Democrats running against Inland Rep. Ken Calvert?
  • CalM: A California county may lose its only hospital. How a dispute over roads is endangering it
  • LAT $: Former California and Los Angeles Democratic Party chair Eric Bauman dies at 66
  • SJMN: New bill would ban cancerous chemicals from California firefighters’ gear
  • LAT $: ‘Largest jewelry heist in U.S. history’: 7 indicted in massive Brink’s job
  • OCReg: Santa Ana council drops idea of ICE notification policy after federal warning
  • LAT $: California’s 2025 wildfire season was already going to be dangerous. Trump has made it worse
  • CalM: California Republicans hate government ‘overreach.’ Most are quiet on Trump’s military in LA
  • LAT $: Can undocumented immigrants vote? Fact-checking Trump’s false accusations of voting fraud in L.A.
  • SJMN: Bay Area food banks warn millions of children and seniors in California will go hungry under Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
  • CalM: Bay Area transit systems want more money. But their payrolls soared as ridership declined
  • CG: Charter-friendly bill preserves educational freedom
  • OCReg: Senator Padilla deserves an Oscar nomination
  • CG: The Lethal Fog of Clean-Air Hypocrisy
  • CG: Sanctuary State California is About to Get a Comeuppance
  • WashTimes: LA Shows What the Radicalized Dem Party Wants
  • SacBee: LA found she bullied Black staff. Now she manages Sacramento’s animal shelter
  • SacBee: As California cuts funding, can churches support Sacramento’s homeless?
  • Sacramento City Leaders pass ordinance cracking down on illegal fireworks
  • SFC: S.F. union members arrested after halting City Hall meeting with rowdy protest
  • SFC: “Failed vision:” S.F. citizen body slams city, police for lack of progress on Vision Zero
  • FresBee: City of Fresno takes on $100M in debt to repave dilapidated roads. Here’s where
  • CalCoast: Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing children in San Luis Obispo County
  • CalCoast: San Miguel faces public safety power shutoff over fire risk
  • Caruso gets more time to buy The Lakes mall in TO
  • LAT $: Metro scrambles to find funding for massive bus fleet that is the heart of its Olympics plans
  • LAT $: L.A. County supervisor worries it’s ‘bad players’ — not ICE — terrorizing residents
  • OCReg: OC health care official calls for full audit of county’s dealings with 360 Clinic
  • Ex-Riverside County deputies, tow company owner sentenced in tows-for-bribes scheme
  • SDUT: Evacuations ordered in Lakeside as fire chars hundreds of acres
  • SDUT: Were people counted twice in El Cajon’s homelessness census? Maybe, officials say.


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