Check out today's headlines on FlashReport! Thursday, August 26, 2021 Dear John, CLICK HERE TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE FR MAIN PAGE [Note: The above link takes you to the current page. You would have to toggle the date on the site if the headlines below have cycled out.] 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...  THE HEADLINES: AP: California looking to pay drug addicts to stay sober BreitbartCA: Groups Say Holes in Absentee Ballot Envelopes in LA County Create Potential for CA Recall Vote Fraud PE: Voting drop box vandalized in Ontario SFC: Oakland police shoot person near Coliseum LAT $: California homicide rise becomes recall rallying cry, but experts question Newsom’s role LAT $: Attacks on transgender women expose MS-13 gang’s grip on MacArthur Park LAT $: Newsom and Elder’s mutually beneficial relationship in the California recall election LAT $: Newsom says abortion is on the line in recall. But rolling back rights wouldn’t be easy SFC: Caitlyn Jenner tours S.F.'s Tenderloin: 'I feel sorry for these people' SFC: How close is the California recall? Here’s what the poll experts say Reason: California Recall Opponents Warn We Might All Die if Newsom Gets Ousted WSJ: RFK and the California Death Penalty CalM: Who is Kevin Paffrath and what would he do as governor? FresBee: Top-polling Democrat in recall calls for COVID filtration systems, water pipeline in debate AP: New to recall debate stage, Democrat Paffrath blasts rivals BreitbartCA: Research Cited to Show California Math Is ‘Racist’ Often Misrepresented SacBee: Millions of Californians to get another round of stimulus checks soon. When to expect the money SJMN: Police accountability: Transparency measure SB16 faces crucial test in California legislature AP: California wildfire dangers may be spreading south Airola fire threatening structures as firefighters battle steep, dry terrain SFC: Evacuations underway in Calaveras County as new wildfire erupts near New Melones Lake SFC: Two new wildfires light up Sierra as firefighters try to stop Caldor from reaching Lake Tahoe basin SFC: Bonta, Ramachandran battle down to the wire in East Bay Assembly race CG: Larry Elder Begins To Lay Out Plans If Elected Governor at Speech In Los Angeles LAT $: Larry Elder's ex-fiancee reports alleged 2015 gun incident to LAPD The Los Angeles Times vs. Larry Elder CG: Democratic Former Senate Leader Romero Endorses Larry Elder CG: California Legislature Guts Transportation Bill to Create Vaccine Mandate on Private Industry SFC: 7 counties in NorCal are seeing all-time high rates of hospitalized COVID patients NR: The Most Vaccine-Hesitant Group of All: Ph.D.s? CalM: Quarantined: A new law is disrupting California school reopenings LADN: LAUSD reports its first COVID-19 outbreak since students returned to campus CG: California in 3-Way Tie for 2nd Worst Unemployment in U.S. AP: California judge weighs new trial for Scott Peterson NR: Stop Masking Young Children CG: The Governor and State Have Failed Us and the People are Fed Up NR: Larry Elder Is Not on the ‘Far Right’ AP: Lake Tahoe ski resort expansion blocked by appeals court SFC: S.F. faces ‘sluggish’ tourism recovery; visitor spending well below 2019 SFC: Repair work paused on S.F.’s Millennium Tower due to continued sinking SJMN: First new park and campground in decades along SF Bay to open at former quarry site SJMN: Supervisors propose no-confidence vote for Santa Clara County sheriff FresBee: Slatic clashes with Fresno Unified trustees - again - as school board ends meeting early FresBee: Can a historic Black town in California’s Central Valley be revitalized? Here’s the plan CalCoast: SLO Mayor Harmon to announce career change, timing suspect VCStar $: Simi council reluctantly approves assisted-living facility LAT $: How a Black prosecutor called out racism in the D.A.'s office LADN: Judge wants DA to wrap up questioning of Robert Durst; he’s spent 24 hours being questioned LAT $: LAPD coronavirus cases spike as officials finalize vaccine mandate, others push back VOC: OC Board of Education Hosts Second Ethnic Studies Forum as Debates Over the Course Persist OCReg: OC Sheriff’s Department use-of force policies endanger public, deputies, watchdog report says SDUT: No indoor mask mandate in county’s COVID update despite urging of local doctors and hospitals SDUT: Carlsbad appoints longtime resident Peder Norby to fill vacant seat on City Council SDUT: San Diego must build bigger library branches in low-income areas, proposal says AP: Immigrant families from San Diego area stuck in Afghanistan Click here to read these stories at the FlashReport site! 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