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Sunday, April 20, 2025

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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

  • FRBlog: Living in a Post Racial World
  • LAT $: Banked vacation leads to a $1.2-million payday: How state workers cash in on days off
  • LAT $: Former L.A. Councilmember Kevin de León faces ethics fine for voting on issues in which he had a financial stake
  • SacBee: Gavin Newsom grants clemency to 25, including Yuba County shooting convict
  • Faithful celebrating Easter, Passover find connection in stories and traditions
  • SJMN: CEQA has a history of derailing California’s high-speed rail
  • SDUT: Michael Smolens: Criticism of CEQA, Coastal Commission on housing goes national
  • SJMN: The CEQA graveyard: Projects delayed by California’s powerful environmental law
  • SJMN: A California environmental law makes it ‘too damn hard’ to build. But do Democrats have the will to reform it?
  • AP: Progressive icon and ex-US Rep. Barbara Lee wins race for mayor of struggling Oakland, California
  • VCStar $: Anti-Trump rallies draw thousands in Ventura County
  • SJMN: Bay Area protesters rally against Trump Administration
  • CG: CA Republican Congressional Members Show Strong Q1 Donation Earnings
  • LAT $: As heavy as 100 Eiffel Towers: Monumental L.A. County fire debris removal could finish by June
  • SJMN: How Trump’s transgender athlete order affects California high schools
  • LAT $: Lancaster mayor’s remedy for homelessness: ‘Free fentanyl’ and ‘a purge’
  • CG: ALEC’s ‘Rich States, Poor States’ Ranks California 47th in the Nation – Again
  • OCReg: California can’t afford free health care for undocumented immigrants
  • SacBee: Nonprofit scrambles to help Sacramento farmworkers after abrupt loss of food aid
  • SFC: Fans of controversial S.F. fountain fear Embarcadero Plaza makeover puts it ‘in danger’
  • Frank Carson case ends with a $22.5 million legal settlement with Stanislaus County
  • Police Chief Mindy Casto journey within the Fresno Police Department
  • Public speaks out on use of force, accountability after viral video in Patterson
  • CalCoast: Prosecutors find convicted murderer Paul Flores’ appeal meritless
  • Gorell's former chief of staff sues County of Ventura
  • LAT $: Mayor Karen Bass weighs deep cuts, including layoffs, as L.A.’s challenges mount
  • OCReg: ‘Little Saigon Freeway’ on the 405 pays homage to the Vietnamese American community
  • SDUT: San Diego County has hundreds of millions in reserve. Federal cuts are renewing a push to spend more of it.
  • SDUT: Gutting Head Start would end services to thousands of San Diego families, cut hundreds of jobs


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FlashReport Editors
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