Dear John,

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The FlashReport Blog is constantly updated with over 24 different correspondents penning items of interest to those who follow California politics and policy...

• FRBlog: The Root Problem: Causation and Public Policy
• OCReg: Number of public retirees in $100K Club skyrockets, but they're just part of the burden on state pension system
• FH: The Most Important Political Appointment In 2019
• SacBee: California lawmaker brings back $25 gun tax plan after multiple mass shootings
• LAT $: In wake of mass shootings, California considers new ways to fight violent extremism
• CalM: How California got tough on guns
• AP: California ammo check law blocked 100 sales in first month
• AP: 4 sue to block California tax return law aimed at Trump
• Hill: Duncan Hunter gets another GOP challenger
• LAT $: Carl DeMaio announces challenge for Rep. Duncan Hunter's congressional seat
• LAT $: As San Diego increases use of streetlamp cameras, ACLU raises surveillance concerns
• PE: How Southern California jails are changing the way they treat the mentally ill
• VOSD: Insurance Companies in California Work Hard to Avoid Public Hearings Over Rate Hikes
• CG: Hollywood Spends Big on Politicians
• CalM: Podcast: Oregon tenants did this to win renter protection-is California next?
• CalM: Gas taxes, crisis beds, a gun tax, a Reagan remembrance, a GOP loss, and CCPOA's $2 million headache
• SDUT: Bill looks to boost California's rebate for buying an electric vehicle
• CG: News employee exposed freelance journalist at center of Adachi leak
• LADN: At Pasadena forum in wake of shootings, Schiff tackles Trump, Congress, white nationalism - and gun control
• CG: Gov. Newsom Trolls Sen. Leader Mitch McConnell on Gun Control Following Shootings
• SDUT: Democratic candidates talk guns, immigration, economic opportunity in San Diego
• SacBee: California Gov. Gavin Newsom calls for national background checks to buy ammunition
• Congressman Josh Harder discusses gun control
• SFC: All that noise coming from Washington turning Calif. voters numb
• AP: Class action lawsuit filed against UCLA gynecologist
• CalM: California stretches applicant deadline to draw political districts-pool's too white, too male
• AP: California seeks more people of color to draw political maps
• AP: California's largest recycling business closes, 750 laid off
• Reason: At the Democratic Socialists of America Convention, Clapping, Chatter, and Gendered Language Are Considered Triggering
• SJMN: Harris, Sanders, Booker campaigned at Vegas church led by pastor who calls being gay a sin
• SDUT: Admiral that oversaw Gallagher prosecution implicated in 'Fat Leonard' probe, Navy documents indicate
• AP: Appeal in lawsuit over John Steinbeck works heads to court
• Reason: California Follows the Disastrous Flood Insurance Path to Fire Insurance Fiasco
• NR: Donald Trump Is Right to Call for Red-Flag Laws
• FH: The Ugly Lessons of California's Longest-Serving Federal Judge
• NR: The FBI Crushed the Klan and Should Target Violent White Supremacists Today
• FH: Steyer Strategy Has a Plus Side
• SJMN: Oakland landlords lose courtroom battle, after paying $6,500 to move back into their house
• SFC: SFSU shutters popular Chinese cultural program under pressure from feds
• SJMN: San Jose sues CVS, Walgreens and other drug distributors, manufacturers over opioids
• SJMN: Silicon Valley VC hit with $3.7 million penalty for 'filling in wetlands and burying stream' at vineyard
• SJMN: Housing tower planned on site of one of downtown San Jose's few gas stations
• FresBee: Who is 'attacking' Jerry Dyer in 2020 Fresno mayoral race? Could it be Satan?
• Modesto Chamber CEO out after 2 months in job, reasons behind her departure disputed
• FresBee: Mayor vetoes policy that would end raises for Fresno employees who already quit
• CalCoast: The SLO police chief, her lost gun, and a conflux of failures
• VCStar $: Camarillo moves forward on adding bike lanes
• VCStar $: Ventura readies the spigot for state water
• LADN: Deadline is Tuesday to request Vote by Mail ballot for Aug. 13 LA City Council District 12 vote
• LADN: Cleanup of homeless encampments launched in Sepulveda Basin
• LAT $: Two L.A. County residents are sick with West Nile - the county's first cases of 2019
• LADN: Residents, developer appeal Warner Center arena project approved for Promenade redevelopment in Woodland Hills
• OCReg: Laguna Beach approves first phase of potential $166 million wildfire mitigation plan
• AP: California millionaire arrested in wife's death
• VOC: Santana: Fishing Comes Back to Irvine Lake
• PE: Temecula area to get hundreds of high-end hotel rooms, new winery
• PE: 90-acre brush fire north of Lake Elsinore now 75% contained
• Reason: San Diego Comic-Con and the Tensions of Market-Induced Growth
• SDUT: County officials: Inspire charter schools operated illegal out-of-district enrichment centers
• SDUT: San Diego's top prosecutor calls rise in fentanyl overdose deaths 'a crisis'
• VOSD: Two Years Later, Dems Have a Much Different Take on School Board Elections
• SDUT: SDPD sergeant accused of soliciting minor for sex found dead from apparent suicide

Sincerely,