Friday, July 4, 2025
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FR Publisher Jon Fleischman's Commentary
		Breaking News: One Big Beautiful Bill Passes House, And Heads to President Trump For His Signature
		
 - CG: One Big Beautiful Bill Passes House, Goes to Trump for July 4 Signature
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Happy Independence Day!
		Declaration of Independence
		
 - NR: Independence Day on the Eve of the Semiquincentennial
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Survey Says
		CG:  Another Poll Shows Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Popularity Shot Up Following L.A. Anti-ICE Riots – Temporarily
		
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unMask Mandates
		Can California Democrats require ICE agents to unmask and show IDs?
		
 
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Union Protest
SacBee: Union presses Sacramento to reach conclusion on Railyards protest - 
	
	
Fireworks Explosions
		Esparto fireworks explosions: Crews begin search, recovery for 7 missing people
		
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Essayli Seat Runoff
Race to replace ex-Inland assemblymember Bill Essayli heads to runoff - 
	
	
SF Education Battle
SFC: Politicized kids? Rogue teachers? A contentious education battle hasn’t calmed in S.F. - 
	
	
RIP: John Harris
FresBee: John Harris, titan of California agriculture, horse racing, dies. ‘Lost a legend’ - 
	
	
Central Coast Fire
		CalCoast:  Madre Fire in San Luis Obispo County grows to 35,530 acres
		
 - Madre Fire: California's largest blaze explodes in size as dry, hot weather raises wildfire risk
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Disaster Tourism
LAT $: Los Angeles to halt ‘disaster tourism’ buses through Palisades fire zone - 
	
	
OC Votes
OCReg: How Orange County’s representatives voted on President Trump’s spending bill that the House passed - 
	
	
San Diego GOP
SDUT: Michael Smolens: Will Trump continue to be an albatross for San Diego Republicans in 2026? 
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Dominic Pino
NR: Americans Must Declare Independence from the Federal Retirement State - 
	
	
Donald P. Wagner
		CG:  Blind Squirrels in Sacramento
		
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Dan Walters
CalM: California’s politics drifts rightward while New York’s leans left - 
	
	
Sabrina L. Schaeffer
OCReg: The Founders believed knowledge could bind us together. It still can. - 
	
	
David Marcus
PBS, NPR and a Lethal Case of TDS - 
	
	
Sacramento Valley
CG: Sacramento Mayor McCarty Kicks Homeless Out of City Hall - SacBee: 23 homeless people jailed for living outside in Sacramento County, recent records show
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SF Bay Area
SFC: This Marin County town is having a ‘freakout’ over a planned downtown apartment complex - 
	
	
South Bay
		SJMN:  Family buyout deal triggers purchase of San Jose casino property
		
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Central Valley
FresBee: $10.5M park in historic Fresno neighborhood opens soon. More development to follow - 
	
	
Central Coast
CalCoast: Belsher’s San Luis Obispo home to be sold at sheriff’s auction - 
	
	
Ventura County
Thousand Oaks pivots from new city hall to hotel for downtown - 
	
	
Orange County
		OCReg:  OC government agencies need to improve hate crime initiatives, grand jury says
		
 - OCReg: Irvine voters likely to decide fate of 3,100-home Oak Creek proposal
 - OCReg: Santa Ana council give Police Oversight Commission a director, but may change its role
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San Diego County
SDUT: Journalists and watchdog groups scramble to watch police after scanners go silent 
