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: A Most Excellent Supreme Court Decision
• CG: Fact-Check Missing in Article About Fur Ban Legislation in California
• SFC: Targeting Bay Area gridlock, groups floating $100 billion tax measure
• LAT $: Death penalty trials have continued despite Newsom's moratorium. The California Supreme Court could stop them
• LADN: Prosecutors: MS-13 members met in San Fernando Valley before killing 7 people
• LAT $: LAPD investigates claims of secret recordings at Councilman Jose Huizar's office
• LAT $: U.S. housing officials withhold $80 million from Los Angeles, alleging discrimination
• SDUT: State insurance commissioner accepted contributions and intervened in cases affecting donor, records show
• CG: Berkeley Going Gender-Neutral in its City Code
• VCStar $: Hill takes early fundraising lead in 2020 race
• PE: GOP candidates try out attack lines against Rep. Katie Hill - and each other
• SFC: California's Democratic seat-flippers are raking in campaign cash
• CG: Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures, Part III
• AP: California town leveled by wildfire reopens its public pool
• SJMN: Los Gatos road diet reviews spark yeas and no ways
• SFC: New diverging diamond interchanges coming to California
• VCStar $: Oxnard businesses fed up with downtown homeless
• It's hard for homeless kids to prepare for school. Kindness as important as supplies.
• SFC: Not so lonely anymore: Barbara Lee no longer a team of one on war powers
• Reason: The New York Times Says Heat Waves Are Getting Worse. The National Climate Assessment Disagrees.
• SacBee: Biden says young people are 'not a generation of socialists'
• OCReg: Scapegoating businesses and taxpayers for big government failures
• OCReg: The need to release body camera footage
• SFC: Everyone assumes Trump will debate in 2020. What makes them so sure?
• NR: No One Really Wants to 'Send Her Back'
• OCReg: A class guide to the 2020 presidential election
• SJMN: East Bay police department adds drones to crime-fighting arsenal
• SFC: Proposed SF 'safe' parking lot upsets some residents, pleases others
• SFC: With federal help, Alameda County and SF hope to cut rate of HIV infections
• FresBee: Wells Fargo taking Chukchansi tribe to court in dispute over $250M loan
• CalCoast: Paso Robles declares public safety emergency in Salinas River bed
• CalCoast: SLO Mayor Harmon leads ban on monuments that honor people
• VCStar $: Sales tax, pot a winning combo in Port Hueneme
• AP: Southern California couple arrested in newborn's death
• LADN: Two LA City Council candidates from the Valley. One big homeless problem. Two different ways to tackle it
• LADN: When San Fernando Valley homes were $10,000 and LA gridlock was a distant future
• PE: New video shows blast that leveled Murrieta home, killed gas company employee
• SDUT: Seaport San Diego tower is like nothing else on California's coast. That's the problem
• SDUT: Mayor's office denies actor's claim that Faulconer left Comic-Con immigrant exhibit

Sincerely,