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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.

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• Another Backroom Deal: California’s $20 Billion Climate Boondoggle
• CG: The Left Incites Violence Against the Right, then Condemns It
• LAT $: California lawmakers pass bill to grant priority college admission for descendants of slavery
• SFC: A powerful California lawmaker wants to overturn the ‘Holy Grail’ of housing reform — just for one project
• Charlie Kirk ‘walked in the truth,’ says Inland Empire pastor who knew slain activist
• SFC: Fighting for ‘Charlie’s ultimate goal’: What’s next for Bay Area conservative student groups?
• CalM: California Legislature overrides local zoning to boost transit-oriented development
• LAT $: California lawmakers pass SB 79, housing bill that brings dense housing to transit hubs
• Gas, electricity costs to take center stage at the California state capitol on Saturday
• CalM: In last-minute scramble, California lawmakers fail to deliver promised environmental reform
• SJMN: California bill that would mostly prohibit local, federal officers from concealing faces heads to governor’s desk
• SDUT: Michael Smolens: San Diego GOP faces possible historic shut-out in Congress
• SJMN: Here’s how much the special election for California’s partisan redistricting measure will cost
• CalM: How Google organized opposition to a California privacy proposal
• LAT $: Luxury hotel near SoFi Stadium to be completed on time despite challenges, builder says
• SDUT: With harassment suit dismissed, Nathan Fletcher speaks publicly for first time in years
• LAT $: ‘Lord of the Rings’ star Sean Astin elected SAG-AFTRA president
• CG: Teen Opinion: Ode to a Hero
• CalM: Two years later, Californians still don’t know full impact of the $20 fast food wage
• OCReg: Gallagher’s proposal to divide California is a useful but unlikely idea
• OCReg: Horror in Charlotte, and in Utah
• SFC: Oakland teachers make contract demands as school district is on the brink of bankruptcy
• SFC: S.F. mayor calls fatal stabbing of father with child near school ‘horrific’ as suspect arrested
• SFC: BART to pay $6.75 million to woman shot by officer, admits initial report was inaccurate
• FresBee: Car crashes into Tower District business in Fresno; latest hardship for owner
• FresBee: Organizers of Fiestas Patrias expect thousands at downtown Fresno celebration
• CalCoast: Giuseppe’s fires employee over posts about Charlie Kirk assassination
• OCReg: LA County final report confirms elevated lead in soil downwind from Eaton fire
• LAT $: Mayor Bass appoints Mitch Kamin as her third chief of staff in three years
• OCReg: Irvine will stay with the Orange County Power Authority
• Don’t scapegoat judge in Haro child-cruelty case for baby Emmanuel’s death, group says
• SDUT: White House spent weeks planning for major military display above San Diego
• SDUT: Proposed $25 minimum wage for San Diego tourism workers includes concessions for theme parks, Padres and hotels
• SDUT: Jesus Cardenas fined $5,000 for San Diego ethics violation