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.”
SF Politics Republican Radio Host Larry Elder Announces He Will Not Run For CA Governor In 2022 The Trumpiest of Republican candidates in September's gubernatorial recall in California, Larry Elder, has just announced that he will not run again in 2022 — which means Gavin Newsom is unlikely to face any viable competition for reelection.
SF Politics Gavin Goes on ‘The View,’ Takes Pot Shots at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Over COVID Newsom told Whoopi, Joy, and the gang on ‘The View’ that “I don't mean this as a cheap shot,” but then proceeded to call out Governor Ron DeSantis over Florida’s COVID death toll.
SF News Newsom Says Organized Smash-and-Grab Robbers Will Be Punished, Says Mayors Must 'Step Up' Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday he was speaking as a victimized business owner himself when he made comments about last weekend's swarm of organized smash-and-grab robberies around the Bay.
SF Politics The Press Has Located Gavin Newsom — He Was at Ivy Getty’s Wedding/Trick or Treating With His Kids The mystery of the disappearing governor has been solved, as Gavin Newsom apparently skipped a global climate conference to attend the fancy Getty heiress wedding at City Hall Saturday.
SF Politics What 'Family' Issue Kept Gavin Newsom From Attending Climate Conference? Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife abruptly canceled a planned trip to the U.N. climate conference, COP26, and he's been out of the public eye for about 10 days now with little explanation
SF News Newsom Announces Vaccine Mandate for All California Schoolchildren (Starting Next Year) California just became the first state in the nation to make getting a COVID vaccine a requirement for all students ages 12 and up in both public and private schools, and this will take effect when full FDA approval happens for this age group.
SF Politics How Soon Can We Call This Election and Move On? Hopefully — hopefully! — the massive number of mail-in ballots that counties have already begun processing will yield results Tuesday night that will put this recall to bed, one way or another... but more than likely one way.
SF Politics Good News for Gavin? Dems Crushing GOP 2-to-1 in Returning Mail-In Ballots A couple new polls show Newsom back up by double-digits in the Sept. 14 recall election, but more importantly, Democrats have an overwhelming advantage among the 23% of Californians who’ve already voted by mail.
SF News California Has Quietly Paid $4.4 Million to Settle COVID-19 Shutdown Lawsuits An oddball assortment of churches, strip clubs, and tattoo parlors have squeezed $4.4 million out of the state to settle their lawsuits related to COVID closures, and the state spent $9.5 million on attorneys to defend the shutdowns.
SF Politics Meet the Nine Democrats Listed on the Gavin Newsom Recall Ballot From Youtube stars to cannabis lobbyists to anti-mask Marin County yoga instructors, here are your nine options to vote for a Democrat in the upcoming California recall election — even though Newsom and many others are saying you should just leave that side of the ballot blank.
SF Politics Team Newsom Soiling Themselves Over Low Turnout Fears in Recall Election The polls show Newsom surviving the recall, but a bizarrely timed mid-September election and an unmotivated Democratic base could easily swing this thing to some nobody Republican with miniscule support.
SF News Kamala Harris Is Coming Back to California to Campaign for Gavin Newsom With California's gubernatorial recall election uncomfortably close, Vice President Kamala Harris is heading back to the Bay Area to help sway voters about why they should vote "no."
SF Politics Federal Lawsuit Hopes to Halt Newsom Recall Vote, Calls it Unconstitutional Two California voters could throw a huge monkey wrench into the entire recall circus, filing a federal lawsuit that aims to call off the recall, or add Gavin’s name to the replacement list.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Kicks Off 'Vote No' Campaign In San Francisco With one month left before California votes on whether or not to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, and days before people start receiving their mail-in ballots — if you haven't received yours already — Newsom is doing a four-day campaign tour encouraging voters to "Vote No."
