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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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• LAMag: Rep. Katie Porter's Sweet UC Irvine Housing Deal Raises Eyebrows
• BreitbartCA: Katie Porter Donor Helped Her Keep Sweetheart University Housing Deal
• OCReg: Rep. Katie Porter’s university housing deal draws scrutiny
• BreitbartCA: San Francisco Officials Unveil ‘Soft Touch’ Plan to End Open-Air Drug Crisis
• SFC: S.F. D.A. Brooke Jenkins announces new policy to crack down on public drug use
• CG: Resolution That Decriminalizes Psychedelic Drugs Passed By San Francisco Board of Supervisors
• PE: Fairview fire swells to nearly 24,000 acres; Newsom declares emergency
• SacBee: PG&E files report with state on Mosquito Fire, says power equipment tagged by investigators
• SacBee: California grid at stage 2 emergency as heat wave, Mosquito Fire add to power woes
• SJMN: Mosquito Fire explodes in size, threatens air quality
• FresBee: Firefighters make progress against Fork Fire. Here’s when it could be fully contained
• LAT $: Officials prepare to evacuate 22,000 people from Hemet wildfire’s path
• AP: California faces wildfires, heat and likely rain, flooding
• CG: After Denying Learning Loss, UTLA Opposes Teaching Days to Catch Kids Up
• SFC: California will pump $25M into local journalism initiative
• LADN: Los Angeles sees slight homeless rise to 41,980 – but also a glimmer of hope
• BreitbartCA: L.A. Homeless Population Grew During Pandemic
• SFC: Tension rises at homeless encampment as state tears down blockade
• SFC: End of California's heat wave brings other weather event to S.F. Bay Area: bad air quality
• SJMN: Triple-digit temperatures returned Thursday as Bay Area heat wave comes to close
• CG: Restaurants File for Referendum to Stop California’s New Fast Food Worker Law
• CG: AB 257 or Reversal: Fast Food Workers Weigh in on the New Fast Food Council Law
• SacBee: Newsom administration can close Northern California prison, judge rules in dismissing lawsuit
• AP: Oil company pleads guilty in Southern California spill
• VOC: Oil Spill Company to Pay Equivalent of 1.5% of Last Year’s Revenue to End State Charges
• OCReg: Companies responsible for Huntington Beach oil spill agree to pay an additional $4.9 million
• OCReg: Grid operator bumps up emergency energy request as hours extended for 9th straight Flex Alert
• LADN: LA mayoral candidate Karen Bass linked to USC bribery and fraud case
• Caruso claims Bass hacked campaign email in 'desperate attempt to change the discussion'
• LADN: Small theaters, lawmakers, call on Newsom to sign bill to help them ‘thrive’
• CalM: California lawmakers approved CARE Court. What comes next?
• CalM: Free college 2.0: To lure students, community colleges add new perks
• SacBee: Squaw removed from place names in US. Here’s what CA names changed under federal order
• LAT $: Reality of legal weed in California: Illegal grows, deaths
• CalM: State may permanently shrink internet and cell phone discounts for low-income Californians
• SFC: COVID in California: U.S. dedicates $300 million to next-generation tests
• LAT $: Judge approves Boy Scouts’ $2.46-billion reorganization plan to keep operating
• The Midterm Power of Parents
• CA Is the National Poster Child for Crime and Chaos
• OCReg: COVID’s hidden victim: economic freedom
• CG: How the Teachers Union Can Save LA Unified
• Reason: Almost 40 Percent of College Students Feel Uncomfortable Sharing a Controversial Opinion in Class
• SFC: How an empty 1970s S.F. movie theater could scale back housing plans at Stonestown
• Man brutally beheaded young mother in middle of San Carlos street in front of witnesses, law enforcement says - ABC7 San Francisco
• SFC: Judge rejects challenges to A’s plan for $12 billion waterfront ballpark
• AP: Authorities ID couple allegedly killed by sheriff’s deputy
• SJMN: Dublin execution-style killings probed; Alameda County sheriff’s deputy held without bail
• SJMN: Former San Jose State baseball coach sexually and racially harassed players and staff, investigation found
• Update: Air advisory issued as wildfires send smoke to Modesto, Oakdale and other cities
• FresBee: Principal accused of striking Fresno student got another job. Now he’s been suspended
• CalCoast: Nearly $4 million awarded to SLO County water projects, San Simeon declined
• CalCoast: SLO County school districts faced with bus driver shortages
• LADN: Murder charges stand against Grossman Burn Foundation co-founder in boys’ crosswalk deaths
• LAT $: ‘Barbaric’ L.A. County jail conditions alleged as ACLU seeks federal intervention
• LAT $: A little more than two years after a devastating fire, the San Gabriel Mission is nearly restored
• PE: Overnight freeway closures canceled on 15, 215 in Murrieta, Temecula
• PE: Grand jury report is ‘defamatory, naive and ignorant,’ Riverside County auditor says
• LAT $: 2 workers killed in Union Pacific train crash near Salton Sea
• FOX 11 coverage may have helped open bathroom access in San Bernardino County schools
• SDUT: San Diego County’s suicide rate falls for third straight year

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