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Thursday, July 17, 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

  • Trump Ends Federal Funding for California’s $135 Billion High-Speed Rail Fiasco
  • CG: Shawn Ryan Podcast: Gavin Newsom Tries to Falsify His 3-Years of Covid Lockdowns
  • CG: $4 Billion in Federal Funding Terminated for California’s High Speed Rail
  • OCReg: Trump administration pulls funding from California’s high-speed rail
  • SFC: S.F. officials set to grill leaders of defunct nonprofit that misspent millions
  • Gov. Gavin Newsom eyes redraw of California congressional districts to send more Democrats to DC
  • SJMN: Cost to build largest new reservoir in California in 50 years increases by $2 -$6.2 billion
  • LAT $: National Guard came to L.A. to fight unrest. Troops ended up fighting boredom
  • OCReg: Newsom blasts Trump over partial National Guard withdrawal
  • CG: Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains Announces 2026 Congressional Run Against Rep. David Valadao
  • LAT $: UC to consider increasing tuition and cutting how much of it goes to financial aid
  • CalM: Behind the masks: Who are the people rounding up immigrants in California?
  • SJMN: California to provide LGBTQ suicide prevention hotline after Trump administration axes it
  • OCReg: OC supervisors should explain the origin of their recent big raises
  • CalM: New California budget papers over $20 billion deficit, ignores day of reckoning
  • NR: The End Is Still Near
  • CG: ‘Green’ Regulations Could Be the End of the Road for California Drivers
  • SJMN: Lobbying, tension abound as Oakland ditches company tied to presumed FBI informant
  • LAT $: Berkeley professor’s ex-wife arrested in his slaying in Greece
  • SJMN: First Amendment advocates urge open hearing for San Mateo County sheriff facing removal
  • SFC: ‘Demographic bomb’: Children are vanishing from this wealthy Bay Area city
  • SFC: San Francisco SPCA announces layoffs of animal hospital and shelter staff
  • FresBee: Flea market vendors call on Fresno councilmember to resign after ICE raid rumors
  • FresBee: Fresno Unified official who resigned after AI controversy gets six-figure payout
  • LAT $: Six months after the fire, has Mayor Karen Bass done enough for the Palisades?
  • OCReg: Orange Unified is weighing school consolidations amid enrollment declines
  • OCReg: Anaheim pledges $250,000 for fund helping families affected by immigration sweeps
  • VOC: Huntington Beach Bolsters Contract Transparency
  • OCReg: Former OC Supervisor Andrew Do, daughter sued for $15 million by organization accused of scheming with them
  • Dale fire east of Temecula expands past 1,000 acres, prompts evacuations
  • 3 Riverside police patrol officers investigated for having disabled veteran plates on personal cars
  • Riverside council bans downtown, midtown cannabis retailers
  • CG: Political Motives Suspected in Firebombing of Oceanside Home/Cars


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FlashReport Editors
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