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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’s Payroll Tax Hike: Governor Gavin Newsom’s $23 Billion Betrayal of Businesses
• Los Angeles Is Crumbling — and Hollywood Is Leading the Fall
• CG: Gov. Newsom Acquiesces to Freshman Assemblyman Who Leads on Insurance Commish Lara Travel Grift
• CG: New Zogby Poll: Steve Hilton Leads Republicans, Nearly All Democrats in CA Governor’s Race
• SacBee: Top CA Republican vowed to cut waste, corruption. His spending says otherwise
• SFC: Newsom says he’ll pull California from governors group if it won’t condemn Trump deployments
• LAT $: South Lake Tahoe mayor confesses to stealing from church, attempting suicide in statement to local paper
• CG: California Democrats gain only 190 new voters in 200 days
• New California law makes sure streaming ads aren't louder than programs
• CG: Potential Impact of Retail Gas Prices of the Chevron El Segundo Fire
• LAT $: A huge $600-million casino — bigger than many Vegas rivals — is coming to California next month
• LAT $: California consumers get surprise sticker shock ordering imports online
• SJMN: Caltrans demolishes 50-year-old statue of Junipero Serra along Interstate 280
• CalM: California braces for ‘devastating’ expected cuts to federal homeless housing funds
• LAT $: Burbank airport air traffic control tower unmanned, flights canceled amid government shutdown
• CG: The Map of Former Rep. Lois Capps ‘Ribbon of Shame’ Gerrymandered District
• CalM: Refinery fire spotlights California’s gas supply crunch and high prices at the pump
• OCReg: From hospitals to homelessness: America’s half-century mistake
• Helicopter crash critically injures 3, shuts down Highway 50 in Sacramento
• Alameda County boldly votes to take a moral stance sometime in the future
• SFC: Crime is down and scandals have faded, but can Barbara Lee turn Oakland around?
• SFC: The fight for sober homeless housing in S.F. isn’t over. Here’s the next step
• CalM: A Bay Area startup sold a plastic recycling dream. Neighbors call it just another incinerator
• SJMN: Environmental group buys three South Bay farms for $7.8 million
• CalCoast: Boil water notice for parts of Morro Bay
• LAT $: Fire after fire, L.A. County keeps promising to fix failures but doesn’t deliver
• LAT $: USC faculty members denounce Trump compact that would shift university to the right
• SDUT: San Diego County waives fees for Coches fire victims rebuilding homes
• SDUT: In Learn4Life charter school network, millions of taxpayer dollars get spent by one private corporation
• SDUT: San Diego’s contested Measure C hotel tax hike clears important legal hurdle