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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: A Voice Built in California — The Steady Rise of John Phillips
• Proposition 50 lawsuit witnesses are disclosed before trial and listed here
• CG: US DOJ Sues California & 11 States for Failing to Provide Voter Registration Rolls
• SDUT: Larger 9th Circuit panel to hear San Diego challenge to California’s ammunition background check law
• CG: The Case of the Missing California Congressman
• LAT $: California expected to suffer from a sluggish economy through early next year
• SFC: S.F. officials flag ‘severe’ fiscal concerns at Mission youth nonprofit
• FresBee: Native American tribe reclaims 900 acres of Yosemite National Park in California
• SJMN: Salmon returning to Bay Area creek for first time in 70 years could be sign of environmental renewal to come
• San Francisco declares war on Slim Jims, Froot Loops with new lawsuit
• SJMN: Black Friday shooting at Valley Fair mall renews debate: Are California’s juvenile laws too lax?
• SJMN: Air quality district fines Chevron $900,000; claims refinery didn’t properly monitor pollution
• NR: Republican Matt Van Epps Wins Tennessee Special Election for U.S. House Seat
• NR: Minnesota’s Massive Welfare Fraud Scandal
• CalM: California’s new labor law could have unintended and unwanted consequences
• SFC: S.F. Mayor Lurie’s ‘Family Zoning’ plan approved in major legislative victory
• Time to build: Supervisors approve Lurie’s upzoning plan for 36,000 new homes
• SJMN: Study: Moss Landing battery fire dumped 55,000 pounds of toxic metals into wildlife-rich marshes
• CalCoast: SLO County Supervisor Gibson hires wife as his legislative assistant
• LAT $: L.A. City Council votes against proposal to ban police use of ‘less-lethal’ launchers
• LAT $: Unintended competitors: Why L.A. preschools are closing as transitional kindergarten thrives
• ‘Painful scar’ of San Bernardino mass shooting brings community together on anniversary
• SDUT: Grossmont school district to pay more than $700K to settle official’s claims she was demoted for being gay
• SDUT: ‘Like the circus has left town’: Poway looks back on a year of turmoil triggered by now-former councilmember