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As the month of August comes to a close, we at GBH are getting ready to launch a few reporting projects about debt, health care access and the communities we live in. So as you wrap up this week, I’d love to hear your thoughts: what kinds of things around your community would you like to see us report on? Are there issues affecting your life, or the lives of those around you, that you haven’t seen other news outlets covering? You can hit reply to this email or send a note to daily@wgbh.org. I’d love to hear from you.

Four Things to Know

1. Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins, indicted earlier this month on federal extortion charges, is temporarily stepping away from his job overseeing Boston’s jails. Gov. Maura Healey and Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced the news in a statement, saying the allegations are “serious.” “It is a full-time job that demands full time attention,” Healey said.

His attorney, Martin Weinberg, said Tompkins is taking medical leave and “will use this time to meet the challenge resulting from a serious medical issue, while he and I work to safeguard his freedom by preparing his defense to what we strongly contend is an unwarranted accusation.” Special Sheriff Mark Lawhorne will lead the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department in the interim. 

2. Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft has not released full tax returns, but told Boston Public Radio yesterday that the $6.3 million he received in income last year came from the Kraft family business. His father Robert Kraft is chief executive of the Kraft Group and owner of the New England Patriots.

Still, Kraft did not say what companies he’s specifically invested in, other than the ones in a blind trust. “Maybe I will, maybe I won’t,” he said. “But I can tell you I disclosed more than was legally required of any candidate to disclose. There’s a lot of candidates that don’t disclose anything.” Listen to his full conversation with Jim Braude and Margery Eagan here.

3. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the president’s actions toward the Federal Reserve, including threatening to fire Board of Governors member Lisa Cook, threaten to destabilize the economy. 

“The reason the Fed has such importance is that people — investors in the United States, but also all around the world — say [that] when the Fed says here’s what needs to be done on interest rates, there’s a lot of confidence. Not that they got it 100 percent right, but that they got it as right as you could by looking at the data available,” Warren said on Boston Public Radio. “And what Donald Trump is doing right now is his very best to destroy that.”

4. The Ladies Professional Golf Association FM Championship tees off at the second annual TPC Boston golf club in Norton today — with $4.1 million in prizes on the line. 

Megan Khang, a professional golfer who grew up in Rockland and is competing this weekend, said tournament organizers asked her what would make the event more appealing to players — and took her suggestions seriously, including helping cover flights and accommodations. “They went above and beyond. Like, they took everything I gave them and said, ‘Done, we’ll do it all,’” Khang said.

Bye bye beetle? Massachusetts is close to eradicating an invasive bug

You’ve probably heard of Asian longhorned beetles, the invasive bugs with black exoskeletons and white spots that, if left unchecked, can eat their way through our region’s forests. Today we have a bit of encouraging news for forest conservation efforts: The beetles’ population is now largely in check. 

GBH’s Sam Turken got to go into the woods with some of the people whose work — climbing trees to look for signs of beetles in the heat and cold, through poison ivy and countless tick encounters — has made that happen.

“It’s sort of like an Easter egg hunt,” Department of Conservation and Recreation Forester Matt Shreiner said. “You’re looking for damage in the tree. You’re looking for something that breaks up the pattern of the bark.”

The Department of Conservation and Recreation has been following the beetles since they were first discovered here in 2008, inspecting about 8 million trees (maples, willows, poplars and elms) to look for infestations. When they find an infested tree, they must chop it down and grind it up to get rid of the threat. That’s happened about 30,000 times, or to about 0.3% of trees inspected.

“It’s pretty hard to eradicate any insect,” said Cecily Isenberg, a DCR forest worker. “The fact that we’ve basically eradicated this one is pretty amazing.”

But a beetle-hunter’s work is never done.

“It just takes one gravid female who can lay 90 eggs [to] start it all over again,” said Felicia Hubacz, a forest health specialist with the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Read Sam Turken’s full reporting (and see the beetle damage) here.