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- SDUT: San Diego boosts pay for thousands of city workers, including 29% spikes for 640 engineers
- VOSD: The Learning Curve: More Cash for Schools Means More Transparency Concerns
- AP: California delays debate on easing virus rules for workers
- SJMN: COVID: Employer, worker groups square off over proposed mask rules
- LAT $: California postpones decision on relaxing mask and distancing rules for workers
- SacBee: California county to public: Stop hostility toward health workers over state mask mandate
- LADN: Officials approve signature-gathering efforts for petition to recall DA George Gascon
- SBSun: Five more counties join effort to give parts of Oregon and California to Idaho
- SacBee: Gavin Newsom calls for more state spending at Mexico border, aiming to help migrants
- AP: Fire threatens homes in Santa Barbara, evacuations ordered
- VCStar $: Two Firehawk helicopters beef up firefighting capabilities
- CalM: California approves electric car mandate for Uber and Lyft | CalMatters
- SFC: Lawmakers kill many bills, including one to create election day holiday
- Understanding How A California Bill Dies Without Public Debate
- OCReg: Newsom signs law streamlining environmental reviews for big projects
- SacBee: More than 90% of California Capitol interns are unpaid by Legislature. Who’s left behind?
- CG: Bill to Decriminalize LSD, MDMA, Hallucinogens, Psychedelic Drugs Headed for Full Senate Vote
- SFC: California eyes rooftop solar policy changes. Industry says its future hangs in balance
- SacBee: CalPERS considering pension hikes for workers, agencies as investment outlook dims
- CG: Longtime Republican Policy Advisor Lanhee Chen Seriously Considering 2022 Run for State Controller
- LAT $: Will your gifted child take calculus? Maybe not under California’s reimagined math plan
- OCReg: 80% of adults had serious hardships during pandemic, according to USC study
- CapWkly: Poll: Death penalty repeal gaining, but many undecided
- LAT $: What’s missing in Newsom’s budget that has public health officials worried
- LADN: West Covina makes it official, votes to create its own health department
- VOSD: Officials Scramble to Address Skyrocketing Fentanyl Deaths
- LAT $: Homeless woman stabbed in head while asleep on L.A. sidewalk
- OCReg: 7 more vehicles damaged by gunfire on Southern California freeways
- SacBee: California prison guards missed inmate’s decapitation and misled investigators, report says
- SFC: California’s housing crisis is getting worse. So is anti-housing denialism
- LAT $: Cash to help California renters goes unspent with eviction protections expiring soon
- AP: Man pleads not guilty to torching historic California church
- SFC: Nonprofit that helps the poor lost $650K to scammers. Boss had to go after them herself
- SacBee: Ransomware attack shut down Northern California community college’s computer system
- SDUT: Cathedral Catholic faces sanctions for racist photos aimed at Lincoln High athletes
- OCReg: Florida and Texas shamed California into opening up
- OCReg: The fake outrage over Liz Cheney’s ousting
- NR: No, Kamala Harris, the COVID Crisis Is Not an ‘Opportunity’
- NR: Why the Right Hates Fauci
- NR: Betsy DeVos Rips Teachers’ Unions over School Closures
- SacBee: Sacramento air quality takes a hit as large grass fire burns in rural Yolo County
- SFC: Trump retains ownership of S.F. property after refinancing
- AP: Justice delayed? In wealthy California town, officer kills 2
- SFC: One of the Bay Area's biggest hospitals has hit a huge milestone: Zero COVID patients
- BreitbartCA: Activists, Politicians Seek ‘Desegregation’ of California City
- SJMN: Twitter roasts San Jose BART extension plans: ‘Journey to the center of the Earth’
- FresBee: Fresno protests supporting opposite sides of Palestine-Israel conflict clash near River Park
- ‘We have persevered’: Stanislaus State 2020 graduates celebrate in postponed ceremony
- VCStar $: Nearly 6,000 local businesses, nonprofits to receive pandemic grants
- OCReg: Automation war expected to intensify with another Long Beach terminal looking to modernize
- LADN: As LA emerges from pandemic, City Council backs revisions to $11.2 billion ‘recovery’ budget
- LADN: Studio City’s redeveloped Shops at Sportsmen’s Lodge are set to open in early summer
- LAT $: L.A. budget vote boosts spending on parks, relief programs and the LAPD
- LADN: LA looks into financing ADU construction to house homeless
- LAT $: What’s hiding in plain sight at Magic Johnson Park? Maybe a solution to our water problem
- VOC: OC’s County Government is Flush with New Cash. Where Should It Go?
- OCReg: Banning Ranch takes key step toward becoming coastal nature preserve
- OCReg: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 37 new cases and four new deaths as of May 20
- OCReg: With demand for shots waning, OC health providers decline vaccine doses
- SBSun: San Bernardino County reports 68 new coronavirus cases
- SBSun: San Bernardino plans to honor more ‘Hometown Heroes’ with military banners
- PE: Riverside County coronavirus hospitalizations continue to drop
- SDUT: New program to keep youth facing criminal charges out of justice system a ‘sea change,’ DA says
- SDUT: Does Gloria have the votes to pass his SDG&E franchise deal?
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Sincerely,
FlashReport Editors
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