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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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• FRBlog: Time to Return to Israel Again
• Is Kamala Harris Running Again? Voters Have Seen This Movie Before
• Issue Tool Kit: The Importance of Federalism (States’ Rights), in the Words of Our Founders
• CalM: How a speeding ticket can be worse than killing someone with your car in California
• SJMN: Super Bowl LX: Santa Clara to restrict street vendors, illegal merchandise sales in ‘clean zone’ around Levi’s Stadium
• CalM: ‘False hope’: Why families who celebrated Newsom’s new mental health court feel let down by it
• CalM: How Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court lost its teeth in the California Legislature
• CalM: The WalMart of public defense: How justice gets sold to the lowest bidder in rural California
• SacBee: Is the death penalty legal in California? Capital punishment’s complex history
• SFC: S.F. judge orders Trump administration to rehire 675 workers it fired during shutdown
• ATF-led probe on Puente 13 gang ends in 17 arrests, seizure of 76 weapons
• SacBee: California’s first elected insurance commissioner says Ricardo Lara has ‘failed’
• NR: Campus Censorship Reached Record High in 2025
• CG: Top 50 Disasters Gov. Gavin Newsom Has Ushered into California: 2025 Edition
• CG: Ringside: Will the Delta Pumps Operate at Capacity this Winter?
• OCReg: Newsom relaxed his pro-housing stance for certain Democratic locales
• SFC: Jobs are down, housing is up: Inside San Francisco’s latest economic report
• SFMTA considers higher fares for transit but cheaper penalties for drivers
• SFC: Daniel Lurie’s first year as S.F. mayor is almost over. Here are his biggest triumphs and stumbles
• SFC: S.F. report suggests cutting almost half of city commissions. But streamlining fight isn’t over yet
• SJMN: Oakley names new mayor, vice mayor
• SJMN: Facing ‘substantial’ earthquake risk, South Bay city inches toward multimillion-dollar rehaul of City Hall
• Modesto unveils plans for minimal to aggressive growth as far as Ladd Rd. in north
• FresBee: Antisemitic incidents, hate-based vandalism under investigation at Fresno State
• CalCoast: Anti-ICE protestors create chaos at the SLO County Jail, video
• OCReg: Former OC prosecutor who won harassment case wins $1.54 million in attorneys’ fees
• OCReg: Brea council approves revenue-sharing agreement with local developer to court a Costco
• OCReg: Editorial: Anaheim’s gutsy decision to open stadium debates
• SDUT: Dan McAllister, San Diego County’s treasurer-tax collector for a generation, dead at 74
• SDUT: Campillo cries foul on removal from key council committee, blames refusal to ‘go along with the program’
• SDUT: Chula Vista renews Olympic training center contract, eyes expansion