SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Announces $50K Rewards In Four Cold Cases Gov. Gavin Newsom announced four $50K rewards for four cold cases murders including one in San Pablo in 2020; a DoorDash driver in San Jose says he was attacked by a machete in a road rage incident; and a man has been charged with murder in Oakland's first homicide case of the near year.
SF News Newsom’s Proposed Budget Slashes $2 Billion From Public Transportation, Legislators Up In Arms With California now looking at a $22.5 billion budget deficit, one area Governor Newsom wants to tighten the strings is public transit. But transit heads and legislators say they're already saddled with a fiscal cliff and service cuts.
SF Politics For the Umpteenth Time, Gavin Newsom Insists He Won't Run for President In 2024 Newsom seems to really want to tamp down the loud rumor that he's looking to replace Biden on the 2024 ticket.
SF News Weinstein Lawyer Asked Jennifer Siebel Newsom to Fake an Orgasm On Witness Stand You've got to be a special sort of cynic to want to represent Harvey Weinstein in court, and one shining gem of an attorney asked the wife of California's governor to fake an orgasm on the stand on Tuesday.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Campaign Drops Nearly $2 Million To Defeat Electric Car Measure Prop 30 Supposedly climate-friendly Governor Newsom’s campaign just gave nearly $1.9 million to defeat Prop. 30, the millionaire tax that would help fund California’s conversion to electric cars only.
SF News Newsom Temporarily Cuts Off Homeless Funding to SF and Other Cities Pending Better Local Plans The Governor's Office on Thursday announced that it was putting a pause on releasing a third round of grants totaling $1 billion from a key funding program that sends money to address homelessness to cities and counties across the state.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom Blames Fox News for 'Creating the Culture' That Led to Pelosi Attack The motive in the killing of Oakland dentist Lili Xu was allegedly financial, Newsom denounces Fox News and its culture of hate villainizing Democrats, and Trump has spoken out calling the attack on Paul Pelosi "a terrible thing" but saying crime in SF is "worse than Afghanistan."
SF Politics Prop 30 Oddly Pits Lyft Against Silicon Valley VC Billionaires in Electric Car Battle There’s a rift between Lyft and the money men who power Silicon Valley over Prop. 30, the tax proposal to fund electric vehicles, as venture capital billionaires are dropping millions and enlisting Gavin Newsom to defeat the tax hike.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom’s 2005 Affair Will Be Back In the News, Courtesy of the New Harvey Weinstein Trial The latest Harvey Weinstein sexual assault trial is shaping up to be a wild one (Mel Gibson will take the stand), and Weinstein’s defense will use emails about Gavin Newsom’s 2005 affair as evidence in the trial.
SF Politics Newsom Joined By Other West Coast Governors In Signing Symbolic Climate Pledge Taking an opportunity to say "Eat your heart out, Fox News," Governor Gavin Newsom was joined by the governors of Oregon and Washington and the premier of British Columbia in signing a joint climate pledge in the Presidio on Thursday.
SF News SF Likely to Move Ahead With Safe-Consumption Sites Run By Non-Profits, Despite Newsom Veto San Francisco would have neither the cover of the state nor federal governments, but city leaders are likely going to take Newsom's cue to go ahead with a model pioneered by New York City to have safe drug-consumption sites that are run by non-profits.
SF News Newsom Unveils $4.7 Billion ‘Master Plan’ to Treat Mental Health Among Young People With a statewide youth suicide rate that’s spiked by 20% during the pandemic, Newsom a announced a new plan Thursday to double the number of school counselors in the state, and add 40,000 more behavioral health professionals.
SF Politics Flashback: The Risqué Gavin Newsom Photo That Stared Down His 2007 SF Mayoral Campaign It was 15 years ago this week when this image brought scandal onto then-Mayor Gavin Newsom's reelection campaign. SFist investigates whether the image is even real, and who might have been behind its release.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Poll Finds Newsom Could Beat Trump Newsom could beat Trump or DeSantis in a general election according to a poll, a 19-year-old severely injured in a Vallejo sideshow is clinging to life, and gas prices in the Bay Area may finally fall back below $6.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Runs to Fire-Charred Woods to Make Video Response to Supreme Court's EPA Decision In just a week's time, the conservative-led Supreme Court — more the Alito Court than the Roberts Court at this point — has made itself Enemy Number One of the Democratic Party, and of women, LGBTQ people, climate activists, and liberals generally.
SF Politics More Newsom Bucks Could Be Coming Your Way, State Has ‘Framework’ for Inflation Rebate Checks Checks of anywhere from $200 to $1,050 appear likely to be coming, as Governor Newsom and the state legislature have agreed to a “framework” for a budget that includes inflation rebate checks for every California taxpayer.
SF News Governor Newsom Tests Positive for COVID-19 Shortly After Second Booster, Receives Paxlovid Prescription On Saturday, the Office of the Governor of California announced Gavin Newsom had tested positive for COVID-19 and is taking antiviral medication to curb the infection's worst symptoms; Newsom is fully vaccinated and recently received a second booster shot.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom's Presidential Ambitions On Back Burner, Says He Has 'Sub-Zero Interest' In Running In 2024 There's been plenty of speculation that Gavin Newsom's public sparring with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is setting them up to be rivals for the White House someday. But for now, as Newsom runs for a second term as California's governor, he says he's rooting for Kamala Harris.
SF News With Stunning $97.5 Billion Surplus, Newsom Will Spend Big to Help Beleaguered Schools Governor Gavin Newsom now has an astonishing amount of surplus money to throw around, and he’s throwing a big chunk to bail out California schools with declining enrollment and awash in red ink.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis Wage Taunting War as Florida Governor Calls SF a ‘Dumpster Fire’ Florida man Ron DeSantis, perhaps unaware of his own state’s punchline status in oddball news stories, calls San Francisco a “dumpster fire” in his ongoing spat with Gavin Newsom.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CA Car Owners Could Get Up to $800 For Gas Under Newsom Proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing $400 debit cards for every registered car in the state as a gas rebate, two arson suspects were arrested in Contra Costa County for setting vegetation fires, and Madeline Albright has died.
SF Politics Critics Agree That Newsom's CARE Court Plan Won't Work Without Huge Investment In New Psych Treatment Beds Governor Gavin Newsom last week unveiled an ambitious-seeming plan to push more of the state's severely mentally ill into treatment. But forced psychiatric treatment requires locked wards and hospital beds that the state has been short on for decades, so how is this all going to work?
SF Politics Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom to Give State of the State Address Today Newsom will give his third State of the State address today at 5 p.m., two workers had to be rescued after a 75-foot fall off an Oakland hills home on Monday, and problems continue after an electrical issue on BART's Richmond line.
SF News Newsom Proposes 'Care Court' to Compel Mentally Ill Into Treatment Governor Gavin Newsom, who as mayor of San Francisco over a decade ago championed a controversial policy for the city's poor dubbed Care Not Cash, is now proposing a new solution for the problem of untreated mental illness in the streets of California cities.
SF News Activists Furious at Newsom for Granting PG&E a Safety Certification, Given All the Manslaughter Charges and Whatnot Critics did not mince words after the state gave PG&E a renewed safety certification Monday, saying that Gavin Newsom “handed a license to burn back to the most murderous corporation in history.”
