SF Politics New Poll Finds Newsom Recall Would Fail If It Were Held Today A new poll has found that a majority of Californians would vote against recalling Gavin Newsom as governor if the recall election were held today, and only 40% — mostly Republican voters — would vote in favor.
SF Politics Newsom Taps East Bay Assemblyman Rob Bonta To Be New Attorney General Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced his nomination of Assemblyman Rob Bonta of Alameda — a former deputy city attorney in San Francisco — to be the state's next attorney general.
SF Politics Recall Gavin Campaign Hastily Deletes ‘Chinese’ Virus Rhetoric From Website After getting called out for racist “Chinese” virus language on their website, the Recall Gavin Newsom effort has scrubbed the offending words — and it’s not the first time, either.
SF News Newsom Says All Californians Should Be Vaccine-Eligible By Late April As the vaccine rollout and the availability of appointments continues to be a source of frustration for some Bay Area residents, the governor on Friday indicated that he believes everyone in the state should be eligible to get a vaccine by late April.
SF Politics Feinstein Says She's Not Retiring, But Newsom Says He'll Appoint a Black Woman to the Senate If She Does Senator Feinstein told the press Tuesday they were "making a mountain out of a molehill" after Newsom made some comments about replacing her with a Black woman if he had the chance.
SF Politics Brace Yourselves For a Rogues' Gallery of Candidates If Newsom Recall Election Happens Anyone who was around California in 2003 will remember the circus sideshow that the whole nation watched when Governor Gray Davis was put up for a recall vote, with 135 candidates qualifying for the ballot including former child star Gary Coleman (RIP) and porn star Mary Carey.
SF News First California Cases of South African COVID Variant Found in Bay Area Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that two cases of the potentially vaccine-resistant South African variant of COVID-19 have been found in California — one Alameda County and one in Santa Clara County.
SF Politics Effort to Recall Gavin Newsom Looks Likely To Reach 1.5 Million Signatures; Former San Diego Mayor Jumps In Mix The continuing campaign to trigger a recall election for Governor Gavin Newsom is looking likelier to succeed each day, and the group behind it has reportedly amassed 1.3 million certified signatures from voters, with only 200,000 left to go by mid-March.
SF News Newsom Lifts Regional Stay-at-Home Orders as Bed Capacities Rise Governor Gavin Newsom has lifted the remaining regional stay-at-home orders across California, returning to the county-by-county, color-coded system for reopening, and San Francisco will be allowing outdoor dining to resume in short order.
SF Politics As Predicted, Alex Padilla Will Replace Kamala Harris in Senate Governor Gavin Newsom has put an end to all the palace intrigue and any backroom wrangling that may have been going on and he's tapped California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to be the next senator from California, to take Senator Kamala Harris's seat.
SF Politics Recall Campaign Gains Steam as Gov. Gavin Newsom Finishes Second Year In Office Under Cloud of Criticism By spring 2021, with no signs that daily life will have returned to normal yet amid an ongoing pandemic, Governor Gavin Newsom could be among multiple governors facing recall efforts around the country.
SF Politics New Newsom Scandal: Gavin’s Companies Got $3 Million in PPP Loans Newsom’s PlumpJack Group got a plump $2.9 million in PPP loans for its high-end wineries and restaurants, which is eight times higher than what was originally reported.
SF News Gov. Gavin Newsom Imposes Three-Week Stay-at-Home Order For Most of California Citing the fact that ICU capacity is expected to drop below 15 percent in most regions of the state, California Governor Gavin Newsom said that he was once again pulling the "emergency brake" this week and he's instituting a three-week stay-at-home order.
SF News Newsom: 'Red Flags Are Flying' With COVID Hospitalizations, Stricter Stay-at-Home Order Could Be Coming With 75 percent of ICU beds now occupied across the state and 72 percent occupied in the Bay Area, Governor Gavin Newsom warned of a stricter stay-at-home order possibly to come within days for the 51 "Purple" tier counties in California.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Three of Newsom's Kids Exposed to COVID That major fire in Berkeley is still active, two people were killed in a stabbing during a religious service at a San Jose church Sunday night, and three of Gov. Gavin Newsom's four kids were recently exposed to a COVID-positive CHP officer.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Newsom Announces 10 PM Curfew For 41 Counties In 'Purple' Tier Through Christmas week and possibly longer, residents in California counties in the state's "Purple" tier for reopening must now stop gathering with anyone outside their household or doing anything after 10 p.m., says the governor.
SF News San Francisco Reverts To 'Red' Tier; Five Bay Area Counties Slide Back to 'Purple' As COVID Cases Proliferate A day ahead of the usual Tuesday update, Gov. Newsom announced an "emergency brake" on reopenings as 40 California counties slide backwards in their COVID metrics.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'We Should Have Modeled Better Behavior': Newsom Called Out for Attending French Laundry Dinner Governor Gavin Newsom is facing criticism that he and his wife attended a 12-person dinner at the French Laundry for the birthday of a political advisor last week at which members of at least three households were present.
SF Politics London Breed Is On Short List To Take Kamala's Senate Seat It's an old joke in politics: "Every time you make an appointment, you make 20 enemies and one ingrate." And that's what Newsom is facing.
SF Politics California to Ban Sale of Gas-Only Cars By 2035... If We All Make It That Long On Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new initiative to end the sale of gas-powered automobiles in the state by 2035 — a 15-year timeline that will make this state of 40 million people the first in the nation to phase out gas-only vehicles completely.
SF Politics Trump Lands In Sacramento For Wildfire Briefing, Gets Greeted By Protesters Trump was doing his best to seem presidential and look like he cared as he met with state leaders in Sacramento about the wildfire response, and Governor Gavin Newsom did his best not to spit in his face.
SF News Newsom Signs Bill Clearing Way for Ex-Inmates To Become Professional Firefighters Friday, Governor Newsom (while sitting at an ash-covered picnic table) signed Assembly Bill 2147 into law, allowing inmates who have worked as firefighters to ask for the dismissal of their charges — which will make it feasible for them to become professional firefighters once they're released.
SF News SF's Watch-List Rating Improves As Newsom Unveils Color-Coded Rating Thing to Replace County Watch List In his public address today updating the state on its double-disaster fire/pandemic situation, Governor Gavin Newsom focused on improving how the state is handling its county "watch list" messaging — and slightly altering how the latest reopening guidance is going to work, going forward.
SF Politics Who Will Gavin Pick to Take Kamala's Senate Seat? The Palace Intrigue Begins If all goes well this November, Governor Gavin Newsom will get to appoint a new Democratic Senator to take Vice President-elect Kamala Harris's seat. And the pressure will be on to select a woman — and a woman of color.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations, New Cases Show Signs Of Decline Statewide In the enormous state of California — which as Governor Gavin Newsom has said before is equivalent in scale to about 20 states the size of Nebraska or Idaho — the latest surge in coronavirus cases is showing signs of abating, though that should probably only inspire some cautious optimism.
