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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...

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• AP: California poised to phase out sale of new gas-powered cars
• OCReg: California to ban sale of all new gasoline-powered cars starting in 2035, a “historic turning point”
• SDUT: California to ban sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035
• Reason: Forgiving Student Debt Without Abolishing the Federal Loan Program Is Morally Wrong
• NR: Joe Biden’s Legal Argument for Student-Loan Transference Is Cynical and Ludicrous
• BreitbartCA: Carney: Biden Pours Student Debt Gasoline on Inflation Fire
• NR: Majority of White House Staffers Eligible for Biden’s Student-Loan ‘Forgiveness’
• NR: ‘Slap in the Face’: Republicans Enraged over Biden’s Student-Debt Move
• SFC: Frustrated Castro merchants threaten to withhold taxes unless city tackles drugs, litter
• Should Noncitizens Vote In California?
• SJMN: San Jose’s proposal to allow non-citizens to vote could be in trouble after San Francisco ruling
• SFC: State lawmakers aim to strip nonprofit status from groups in Jan. 6 riot
• PE: Some homeless people in Santa Ana River bed will soon have to leave
• SJMN: Bay Area awarded millions in Project Homekey grants for new homeless housing
• LADN: LA may turn downtown’s 600-unit Cecil Hotel into permanent housing for homeless
• SacBee: Emotion, tears, guitar: See what happened at city, county hearings on homeless camps
• SFC: Why fires at the Bay Area’s largest homeless encampment are so tough to fight
• VCStar $: Thousand Oaks awarded $27M for homeless facility
• AP: Police: California man shoots, kills burglar in gun battle
• SJMN: Even conservative parts of California overwhelmingly support abortion ballot measure
• BreitbartCA: California Democrats Vote Down ‘Alexandra’s Law’ to Charge Drug Dealers with Murder
• CG: Amendment to Hold Drug Dealers Accountable for Fentanyl Deaths Rejected by Senate Democrats
• SacBee: California opens new investigation into Kaiser mental health as complaints surge in strike
• SFC: California congressman’s wife died after taking herbal remedy, report shows
• AP: Water deliveries halted to farmers in Oregon, California
• VCStar $: 9 local water agencies meet 15% conservation goalnews
• OCReg: LA County ordered to pay $31 million in damages for sharing of Kobe Bryant crash photos by first responders
• LAT $: California rejects bill to extend bar hours to 4 a.m. in 3 cities
• CG: Wild Pig Hunting and Control Bill Passes Assembly, Senate
• CalM: Why Cal State struggles to graduate Black students — and what could be done
• AP: Cosmetics giant Sephora settles customer data privacy suit
• OCReg: Orange County reports 1st monkeypox case in child
• LAT $: State Bar, under scrutiny for Tom Girardi, gives director $43,000 raise
• LADN: Jury awards former Pasadena special-needs student $26 million for sexual assault by classmates
• SDUT: Citing ‘a crisis with child care,’ officials urge more subsidies, training
• SFC: Yosemite has stopped selling camping-stove propane cans. California may follow
• SacBee: IRS will refund penalties to California taxpayers who filed late in early COVID years
• CalM: When employers steal wages from workers
• Biden's Student Loan 'Forgiveness' Is an Abuse of Power
• Eric Adams Is All Talk When It Comes to 'Open' Borders
• CG: How Many States are Still Under Public Health Emergency Orders & Covid-19 Related Restrictions?
• Reason: Elementary School Calls Cops on 4-Year-Old for Violating Mask Mandate
• 87,000 IRS Agents Set to Become Dems' Woke Army
• CDC Back Channel to Censorship
• SacBee: Sacramento region to test mass notification system Thursday. Here’s what to expect
• SFC: ‘Wine tech is a graveyard of failure’: Napa startup lays off almost entire staff
• SFC: Is Lowell segregated? Here’s how S.F. schools score on a racial ‘divergence’ index
• SFC: Hump on a S.F. slow street landed at least two bicyclists in the hospital
• SFC: 49ers make ‘best and final offer’ to settle lawsuits with Santa Clara
• Faced with 18% job vacancy rate, Stanislaus County gives employees raises and bonuses
• Scrum inside Modesto theater spills outside, where deputies were arresting someone else
• FresBee: Fresno councilmember blames GOP politicians for safety concerns that led to restraining order
• CalCoast: Paso Robles school board votes to protect gender-specific names
• CalCoast: California allocates $14.7 million for Pismo Beach infrastructure improvements
• LADN: Measure to fast-track LA’s mobility plan headed to ballot in 2024
• AP: $1.5 billion Port of Long Beach bridge finally has a name
• LADN: Two San Fernando Valley transit projects are up for votes at LA Metro board on Thursday
• OCReg: San Juan Capistrano leaders appoint 2 unchallenged incumbents back to City Council
• VOC: County Demands Investigation of OC’s New Green Power Agency, Under Threat of Withdrawing
• VOC: “Little Arabia Exists”: Anaheim Officially Recognizes America’s First Arab American District
• OCReg: Hoornstra: Angels’ next owner faces a tall task – creating an identity
• AP: $480K to inmate who miscarried after stop for coffee
• SBSun: San Bernardino greenlights long-awaited State Street extension
• SBSun: 10 Freeway lanes closed after damaging flash flooding in Riverside County desert
• SDUT: Midway Rising’s affordable housing proposal makes it clear choice for sports arena site, city says
• VOSD: With State Ban Set to Expire, Local Police Could Bring Back Facial Rec
• SDUT: Long-stalled, ambitious upgrades of Otay Mesa’s Brown Field just got a major boost

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