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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 Patriot Profile: Lance Izumi, An Education Evangelist
• Unions’ Assault on Grocery Store Self-Checkout In Long Beach: Inflating Costs to Shield Jobs from Innovation
• CG: Ridiculous New Gender Equity Policy Institute Report Finds ‘Gender Inequality’ Burdens Women
• CalM: Supporters are way ahead in fundraising for Newsom’s Prop. 50, but the race remains close
• CalM: This city banned the Pride flag. Newsom’s maps would give them a progressive, gay congressman
• SFC: Californians may not get SNAP payments next month, governor says
• LAT $: Newsom warns Californians’ SNAP benefits could be delayed because of federal shutdown
• OCReg: OC entrepreneur admits to conspiring to defraud investors out of $248 million; his firm’s payment to Kawhi Leonard faces scrutiny
• CalM: Expect more phonics lessons in California schools under law Newsom signed
• CalM: A scholarship for Black California students has to accept white applicants. Here’s why
• SJMN: Are they targeting Democrats? Trump administration cuts billions from Bay Area projects.
• LAT $: Firing artillery over Interstate 5 considered unusual for Camp Pendleton, some experts say
• CG: Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil calls on Insurance Commissioner to Reject FAIR Plan Rate Hike
• LAT $: California young people are struggling with anxiety and stress, study finds
• CG: A Republican Governor for California?
• CalM: Gavin Newsom embraced reparations at first. Now he’s slow rolling them
• SacBee: How did a South Lake Tahoe pastor discover ex-mayor’s theft? ‘Complete betrayal’
• I'm very upbeat about our future: Sacramento mayor delivers first state of the city address
• SacBee: Kevin McCarty formally campaigns for MLB team in Sacramento. Is it possible?
• SacBee: Sacramento mayor proposes 2026 ballot measure to fund housing, homelessness
• SFC: Convicted serial harasser is back in S.F. after prison stint — and again approaching women
• SFC: S.F. Mayor Lurie says National Guard will do nothing to get fentanyl off the streets
• CG: Is the Central Coast Still Blue? Acknowledging the Elephant in the Room
• CalCoast: Coastal Commission approves two more sea walls in SLO County
• LAT $: L.A. City Council candidate to be fined $17,500 for ethics violation
• OCReg: Irvine consultants accused of understating environmental waste at the Great Park in $2 million lawsuit
• Riverside police union says their own employee stole from them — again
• SDUT: San Diego plans to challenge court ruling on Midway District height limit
• SDUT: New tax on vacation homes? Proposed San Diego ballot measure would target second homes, short-term rentals
• SDUT: San Diego City Council votes to place stronger limits on collaborating with feds