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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

• AP: San Francisco board open to reparations with $5M payouts
• CG: San Francisco Board of Supervisors Hear Out $5 Million Per Person Citywide Reparations Plan
• SJMN: San Francisco board open to reparations with $5M payouts
• LAT $: L.A. riders bail on Metro trains amid ‘horror’ of deadly drug overdoses, crime
• Suspect arrested following stabbing on SF Muni bus, police say
• FoxLA: LAUSD warns of school shutdowns amid possible strike
• LAT $: LAUSD unions to announce timing of three-day strike that would shut down schools
• OCReg: Bill would force California schools to tell parents if their child is transgender
• SFC: Why a catalytic converter theft was the final straw pushing one S.F. couple out of city
• SFC: Mass Bay Area power outages still affecting 200,000 PG&E customers
• FoxLA: California storm: Heavy rains prompt Flood Watches across SoCal
• AP: Another atmospheric river pounds California, 27K to evacuate
• SJMN: ‘I feel helpless’: Pajaro evacuees left in limbo as Monterey County crews race to plug levee
• LAT $: Flooding, evacuations and mass power outages hit California amid atmospheric river storm
• OCReg: PCH in Huntington Beach closed due to flooding
• VCStar $: Fentanyl deaths hit new peak in 2022 in Ventura County
• SFC: ‘I’m not an addict’: How crackdown on opioids is leaving patients agonizing
• AP: Class action suit filed against Silicon Valley Bank parent
• Justice Department, SEC to investigate SVB collapse: reports
• SDUT: County agrees to fund new app to connect homeless people with available housing
• SFC: S.F. to approve exemption to its boycott of 30 states that drives up costs
• Santa Rosa Catholic Diocese files for bankruptcy
• OCReg: Anaheim employees a step closer to ‘hospitality worker bill of rights’
• AP: Despite objections, Chevron says it reported oil price data
• CG: Meta Announces 10,000 More Job Cuts In Second Round Of Layoffs
• OCReg: Brandon Tsay is a hero and Joe Biden’s new best friend
• LADN: LA-area care home owner, 3 managers charged after 14 COVID-related deaths
• Groundwater wells activated in Roseville could bank nearly 44 million gallons of water, city says
• LAT $: Political strife is harming California teens’ high school experience, study says
• The Woke, Entitled Leaders of America's Failed Banks
• CG: Failed Silicon Valley Bank, the Newsoms, and Connected Friends
• OCReg: California finally ended its COVID-19 emergency order but didn’t make enough telehealth changes permanent
• Reason: Biden's Plan To Unilaterally Expand Background Checks for Gun Buyers Is Legally and Logically Dubious
• OCReg: Ending home equity theft in California, once and for all
• Blame Biden & SVB Execs for Failure, Not Depositors
• OCReg: The U.S. Senate should reject Eric Garcetti’s nomination to be U.S. ambassador to India
• CalM: California’s ghostly Tulare Lake will be revived this year
• Video shows glass falling from SF high-rise after window broken
• SFC: San Francisco supervisor calls for probe into affordable housing operator
• SFC: S.F. Mayor Breed, Supervisor Preston clash over public safety plans
• SJMN: Antioch city manager placed on leave amid City Hall turmoil
• SJMN: Here’s how San Jose’s mayor wants to spend next year’s budget
• FresBee: Retail marijuana a slow burn in Fresno after nearly a year. ‘Some of them will never open’
• Stanislaus County to search for records revealing white-only neighborhoods and racism
• Stanislaus County leaders approve $1.3 million for initiative to create higher-paying jobs
• CalCoast: SLO senior home under fire for health and safety issues
• VCStar $: Camarillo plans to convert hotel into housing
• LADN: Groundbreaking ex-LA County supervisor Gloria Molina faces terminal cancer
• LADN: LADWP board adopts pilot program to fast-track affordable housing projects
• OCReg: OC bans TikTok from county government devices
• VOC: Irvine City Manager Interviewed by FBI in Connection With City Investigation
• OCReg: Newport Beach looks at fractional home ownership in neighborhoods
• OCReg: Orange County declares local emergency amid winter storms, governor adds OC to state declaration
• No justice for working moms in Riverside County DA’s office, women allege
• How well did San Bernardino County respond to the winter storms?
• SBSun: Critics of ‘illegitimate’ Yucaipa city manager continue to speak out
• SDUT: San Diego ready to jump-start stalled efforts to preserve vulnerable lower-rent housing

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