Check out today's headlines on FlashReport! Wednesday, July 14, 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: CG: California Stimulus Checks to Arrive Week Before Recall Election in September LAT $: New stimulus checks, rent relief, business grants: Newsom signs more recovery bills OCReg: Gov. Newsom, LA County officials gather to trumpet $262 billion state budget SFC: Attack ads in Newsom recall race invoke dystopian California in decline AP: Election depicts two Californias: Rising star or catastrophe AP: Faulconer calls for ‘war footing’ to fight California fires SFC: Another recall challenger: Republican legislator Kevin Kiley LAT $: COVID-19 cases surge in L.A. County, fueled by ‘enormously selfish’ unvaccinated SFC: Delta variant’s spread among unvaccinated threatens new COVID surge, officials warn SFC: Half of people released from S.F. jail before trial allegedly reoffended, study shows CG: San Francisco Mid-Year Crime Statistics Show General Rise of Crime in City SBSun: Poor neighborhoods get up to 7° hotter than rich ones in Southern California, study finds CalM: Charity and politics: California elected officials would have to disclose their connections under proposed rule AP: California changes course on schools enforcing mask mandate Parents pack Stanislaus board meeting to protest mask-wearing requirements at schools OCReg: California changes course on school masks, will let individual districts enforce mandate LAT $: Ed Buck is cast as deadly predator as overdose trial opens SFC: Contra Costa Co. politician sentenced to jail for misusing campaign funds SFC: Firefighters gain ground against biggest Northern California blaze LAT $: California fires are burning faster, getting harder to fight SFC: California spent over $1 billion on emergency wildfire suppression last year LADN: LA County approves more than $500 million in spending for homeless CalM: Key lawmaker on California’s eviction ban: ‘If we run out of money, all bets are off’ SacBee: California has a new ‘student loan bill of rights.’ Here’s how it will help borrowers CalM: Low-wage workers in California can’t afford to take family leave. This bill seeks to change that. CalM: Latest ‘menstrual equity’ bill would require California’s public colleges to provide period products Dem candidate Harley Rouda calls GOP voters 'morons' for supporting Trump AP: California pension fund agrees to $2.7 billion lawsuit deal SacBee: Thousands of CalPERS members could get $30,000 or more in long-term care lawsuit settlement LAT $: Long delay in alerting public to massive beach sewage spill raises alarm AP: ‘Marrying Millions’ TV star pleads not guilty to raping teen CG: California Labor Secretary Julie Su Confirmed By Senate As Next U.S. Deputy Labor Secretary SacBee: California labor secretary overcomes unemployment complaints, will join Biden administration NR: How CRT Gets into Classrooms NR: Forget Critical Race Theory. I Don’t Trust Elites to Teach Kids Basic Civics LAT $: His job was to police bad lawyers. He became Tom Girardi’s broker to L.A.’s rich NR: Dems Announce $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Bill — Time for Republicans To Walk BreitbartCA: Padilla: TX Dems Are ‘Heroes’ and We Should Abolish the Filibuster LAT $: With Trump appointees, 9th Circuit suffers another year of reversals at Supreme Court The Left Hides Bigotry Under the Hood of Empathy & Pity OCReg: Mandatory masking of school children is a bad idea NR: Joe Biden’s Shameful Voting-Rights Speech CityJrnl: The Boomer Wealth Boom NR: Hunter Biden’s Art Heist OCReg: Biden right to criticize licensing rules CalM: Will bullet train survive budget wrangle? NR: On the Eve of Destruction Roger Stone To Unveil "Plan To Save America" During California Rally Another botched COVID message to the public. Get it together, state leaders SacBee: Congressman Ami Bera tours Old Town Elk Grove, requests $2 million for historic district SacBee: Sacramento County COVID rates now among highest in California. Here’s who’s getting sick SFC: ‘The Oakland process is at the end’: Rob Manfred on A’s ballpark plight SJMN: Bay Area prices rocket higher as inflation grips region FresBee: Fresno Black leaders call for city ant-racism task force LAT $: Parachutist plunges through home’s roof in Atascadero and survives: ‘It was a miracle’ AP: The Latest: LA County has 5th straight day of 1,000 cases LADN: LAUSD school board adopts resolution denouncing antisemitism LADN: LA County seeks reparations for 1968-1974 forced sterilizations at LAC+USC Med Center LAT $: L.A. city attorneys took part in ‘sham lawsuit’ over DWP billing errors, report says AP: GM to build mobility design center in Pasadena, California OCReg: OC’s COVID-19 cases, hospitalization on the rise again VOC: One of OC’s Most Popular Parks is Up for Big Changes; Some City Officials Have Concerns VOC: Orange County Supervisors’ Chairman Could Get More Say Over Delaying Action Items OCReg: 12 arrested after customers used ‘taco,’ ‘enchilada’ to order heroin in Orange County, authorities say OCReg: Skateboarder ordered to kneel at gunpoint by deputy settles lawsuit against Orange County SBSun: Yucaipa to honor fallen San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy SBSun: $37 million in state budget slated for San Bernardino Community College District projects PE: Clarissa Cervantes sworn in as newest Riverside City Council member PE: 1,250 more homes coming to Beaumont, Lake Elsinore VOSD: School Boards Are Losing it SDUT: San Diego will re-open final 10 library branches by September, fully restore hours by June SDUT: Group says Junipero Serra High name change was unlawful SDUT: San Diego County authorizes contract extension for San Pasqual Academy SDUT: Gompers teachers reach contract agreement amid union dispute SDUT: California attorney general praises San Diego’s use of red-flag laws to thwart gun violence Click here to read these stories at the FlashReport site! 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