SF Politics New Poll Finds Newsom In Trouble Among 'Likely' Recall Voters, Indicating Turnout Will Be Major Factor A poll finds that "likely" voters in the September recall are nearly evenly split on recalling Newsom, and now he's getting tough in his talk trying to motivate voters by comparing the Republicans behind the recall to those pushing vaccine misinformation.
SF News More Vaxx Mandates: Newsom Requires All State Employees to be Vaccinated, Breed Expands Mandate California will be the first state to require all state employees to be vaccinated, while Mayor London Breed doubles down and expands the SF vaxx mandate, and you see where this is all going.
SF News East Bay Man Faces Assault Charges for Throwing Bottle of Water at Gavin Newsom A Berkeley man lived the dream and threw a bottle of water at Gavin Newsom, but now faces charges of assaulting a public official and resisting an officer.
SF News Newsom Announces $1.5M Vaccine Lottery Winners at Universal Studios, With Minions, Transformers, and Trolls It was a cartoony pony show Tuesday morning befitting our big and baffling state, and our showboat Governor Gavin Newsom was greeted as he arrived on stage by a weird voiceover of Optimus Prime saying "It is a privilege to be by your side."
SF News You May Want to Answer Unknown Calls For a Couple Weeks As CA's Vaccine Lotto Kicks Off How will you know if you've won $50,000 or one of the $1.5 million grand prizes in California's vaccine lottery drawings? State health officials are going to try to call you on the phone, so you may want to answer unknown calls on your cell for the next couple of weeks.
SF News Newsom Says Masks Will Only Be Needed In 'Massively Large Settings' After June 15 Newsom said Tuesday that California won't have a broad mask mandate after June 15 in the majority of public settings. But that doesn't mean the Bay Area will roll with that right away — and we likely won't.
SF Politics The Gavin Newsom Recall Has Qualified for the Ballot We don’t know when there will be a recall election, but we now know there will indeed be a recall election, as the pro-recall crowd has validated 1.6 million of the necessary 1.4 million signatures.
SF News Newsom Declares Drought Emergency In Sonoma and Mendocino Counties Governor Gavin Newsom went to Lake Mendocino on Wednesday to make an announcement on the state's first effort to address the current drought — and it's starting with a "targeted" drought emergency declaration for two NorCal counties.
SF News Newsom Wants All Businesses, Concerts, Conventions, and Schools Fully Open June 15, With Masks Newsom announced during a visit to San Francisco Tuesday that he expects, if COVID infection rates hold steady and keep declining in the state, that California will be able to toss out the color-coded tier system by June 15.
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.
