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: Admiral McRaven Keep It to Yourself
• AP: Ethics panel opens investigation of Rep. Katie Hill
• LADN: UPDATE: Santa Clarita Congresswoman Katie Hill is focus of House Ethics Committee investigation
• SDUT: Rep. Katie Hill under investigation after allegations of inappropriate relationship with congressional aide
• CG: U.S. Dept. of Justice Files Lawsuit Against California's Illegal Climate Agreement with Quebec
• SFC: Trump administration sues California over agreement with Quebec
• AP: Trump seeks to block California as global climate leader
• AP: California utility begins another blackout amid fire fears
• LAT $: More than 500,000 California utility customers could lose power as strong winds pick up
• CalM: Is it fair to blast PG&E for not managing blackouts like SDG&E?
• LADN: Edison plans for more potential power shutoffs this week ahead of high winds
• SJMN: PG&E begins Northern California power outages - and more could be coming this weekend
• OCReg: Huntington Beach confronts ACLU, state in appeals court hearing over rejection of sanctuary law
• LAT $: Large, fast-moving wildfire explodes in Sonoma County, prompting evacuations
• SFC: Kincade Fire in Sonoma County grows to 7,000 acres, evacuation orders expanded
• CalM: California pursues a holy grail: high-tech data to predict how wildfire will spread
• SacBee: Update: El Dorado County deputy killed responding to call of stolen marijuana, 2 arrested
• AP: California deputy fatally shot investigating marijuana theft
• CG: One Year Away From Statewide Vote, Bail Bondsmen Are Doing Everything To Keep Their Industry Alive
• LADN: Chatsworth residents erupt over supportive housing for homeless, despite LA councilman's message: It's not a done deal
• VOSD: The City Has a Plan to Fight Homelessness. Now What?
• AP: Fire has industry rethinking guidance to dump burning trash
• AP: Sea urchin explosion off California, Oregon decimates kelp
• SDUT: Jane Buckingham, parenting book author, gets three weeks in prison in admissions scandal
• SacBee: 4,000 mental health clinicians planning to strike at 100 Kaiser facilities
• PE: Former lawmaker Steve Clute gets charge reduction in UC Riverside educator Pam Clute's suicide case
• SFC: 2nd most valuable US startup to leave SF as city loses another headquarters
• KQED: Harris Loses Ground in California to Front-Runners Warren and Sanders
• SFC: Can Tom Steyer help to raise money for ... Julián Castro?
• OCReg: Sacramento moves to densify your neighborhood
• FH: State auditor will review how $30 billion in Local Control Funding Formula grant money was spent
• FH: Do You Miss Jerry Brown (Sometimes), Yet?
• CalM: Why are our gas costs so high?
• LAT $: Skelton: California's most liberal governor ever, Newsom took on more than he could handle in his first year
• Rep. Josh Harder shouldn't exploit a Newman cop's death, even if he was a hero
• Boosters say Sacramento's MLS stadium will be an economic game-changer. Economists aren't so sure.
• SFC: A's offer deal to Oakland to shake loose movement on Coliseum site
• SFC: Contra Costa hazmat chief concedes NuStar called his office after explosion
• SFC: Interim DA Suzy Loftus kills Gascón's DUI diversion program
• FresBee: Clovis school board votes to include bond for $408M next March
• FresBee: Fresno chief, police union stand by cop who fatally shot teen as outrage builds
• FresBee: Clovis is mostly white and that's no accident, says group suing the city over housing
• Warnings sounded as Modesto considers spending $380K in downtown hotel project
• CalCoast: SLO puts its pigeons on birth control, stop the flies
• CalCoast: Morro Bay residents win referendum petition against city hall
• LAT $: Sheriff hires corruption investigator accused of posing as deputy
• LADN: Clippers, Air Resources Board at impasse over Inglewood arena's future
• VOC: OC Mental Health Jail Expansion Draws Pushback and Debate
• OCReg: Orange leaders choose map for dividing city into voting districts
• SBSun: Rancho Cucamonga steel mill cuts 110 jobs as it quits scrap metal, melting police-seized guns
• PE: Riverside doesn't OK 5-year contract extension with tow companies that ex-police chief called 'corrupt'
• SDUT: Lawsuit claims San Diego police sergeant inappropriately touched female officer's buttocks
• SDUT: The five cases of sexual harassment the District Attorney didn't want you to see
• SDUT: San Diego cracking down on massage businesses to fight human trafficking
• SDUT: Civil liberties group asks local law enforcement to stop using facial recognition technology

Sincerely,