SF News Newsom Pledges 'Wonderful Things' For Moms 4 Housing Group As he wrapped up a statewide tour of programs to address homelessness on Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom called the protesting moms in West Oakland "courageous," and said that his staff would be meeting with them.
SF News Newsom Wraps Up Homeless Tour Today In Oakland With Showcase Of Trailers Governor Gavin Newsom is concluding a four-day tour of homelessness outreach operations across the state with a stop near the Oakland Coliseum where he'll be showing off a key component of his new state program.
SF News Newsom Creates $750M Homeless Housing Fund, Directs Cities To Build Shelters On Vacant Land California Governor Gavin Newsom is signing an executive order Wednesday creating a new fund that will provide rent assistance to homeless people and fund emergency shelters throughout the state.
SF News Gavin Newsom Rejects PG&E Bankruptcy Plan Pacific Gas and Electric has until Tuesday to submit another revised restructuring plan to emerge from bankruptcy after what the Sacramento Bee calls a "stunning rebuke" by Governor Gavin Newsom.
SF News Newsom Calls For (Largely Symbolic) Halt To Death Penalty In CA Due to legal challenges, no one has been executed in California since 2006. But after two ballot initiatives to end the death penalty failed to garner enough votes, Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking it upon himself to end it.
SF News Hilariously, Trump Says Gavin Newsom 'Loves' Him In Secret In addition to lobbing some idle threats in the direction of UC Berkeley, President Trump on Saturday used his CPAC speech to talk about all the money he wants to withhold from California, and how Governor Gavin Newsom secretly "loves" him.
SF News [Update] Kimberly Guilfoyle, Ex-Wife Of Gavin Newsom, In Talks To Replace Sean Spicer As Press Secretary 'Twould be rich. The former first lady of San Francisco, an SF native once married to the potential next liberal Democrat governor of California, is rumored to be next in line to take
SF News Venture Capitalist Sam Altman Is Thinking About Running For CA Governor Against Gavin Newsom Willie Brown offered up some rare, not-rumor-based political intel in his Sunday Chronicle column this week, announcing that 32-year-old Y Combinator president Sam Altman approached him for advice on possibly running for governor
SF News Local Politicos React To Trump's Firing Of James Comey Yesterday President Trump took the dramatic step of firing FBI Director James Comey, a move that many in particular the editorial board of the New York Times are declaring a turning point in
SF News Pelosi: Trump 'Speaks Like A Populist' But He's Full Of Sh** House Minority leader and other Bay Area Democrats were predictably unimpressed with President Trump's first speech before a joint session of Congress a sort of mock State of the Union address, six weeks
SF News California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom Sends White House Nasty Note Over Possible Pot Crackdown Gavin Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco who hopes to become California's Governor in 2018, hasn't been shy about his disgust with the White House, speaking out against GOP policies regarding LGBTQ
SF News Pelosi, Newsom Respond To Trump Directive Reversing School Policy On Bathroom Use For Trans Students In an effort to pander to religious conservatives who desperately want to make America straight and cisgender again, President Trump's administration issued a directive late Wednesday, as they had been expected to do,
SF News Peter Thiel Reportedly Mulling Run For Governor Of California "If you can dream it, you can do it," people frequently claim Walt Disney famously said. And when it comes to allegedly aspiring baby blood consumer and Trump-loving billionaire Peter Thiel, his newest
SF News Former Mrs. Newsom, Kimberly Guilfoyle, In Line To Be Trump's Press Secretary A former first lady of San Francisco in talks to be part of the Trump Administration? This is a topsy-turvy, upside-down world we are in, folks, and indeed the Chronicle has it that
SF News Willie Brown: George Clooney Might Take On Gavin In 2018 Governor's Race Willie Brown has floated rumors in his Chronicle column before that have not had any legs remember when he claimed within a week that both Ed Lee and Dianne Feinstein might become ambassador
SF News Videos: Watch Jerry Brown And Gavin Newsom Trash Trump At The DNC In case you missed it, Wednesday was the day for California's governor and lieutenant governor to say their peace, denounce Donald Trump, and endorse Hillary Clinton for President at the Democratic National Convention.
SF News Former Mayors Jordan, Feinstein, Brown, And Newsom Warn Against Creation Of Public Advocate Position Former mayors of San Francisco Dianne Feinstien, Frank Jordan, Willie Brown, and Gavin Newsom have joined forces in opposition to the creation of a new position that might sap the powers of the
SF News Gavin Newsom Goes On Epic Twitter Rant About Trump And The Republicans' Anti-LGBT Platform As some predictable chaos is erupting on the floor of the Republican National Convention over rules votes by the anti-Trump faction on Day 1, Donald Trump is trying to sound a positive, characteristically
SF News Puff, Puff, Vote: Recreational Marijuana Will Be On California's November Ballot Californians will once again have the chance to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The Sacramento Bee reports that the Secretary of State’s Office yesterday verified that supporters had turned in the required
SF News Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, SF Mayor Ed Lee Respond To Orlando Mass Shooting As follow-up stories and reactions spread across the country early Sunday in the wake of the horrific mass murder at an Orlando gay nightclub, the Bay Area woke up to the news just
SF News CA Lawmaker Proposes Statewide Use Of Roadside Marijuana And Opiate Test Driving while stoned could soon become a much trickier proposition if one California state lawmaker has his way. Republican Sen. Bob Huff of San Dimas (insert Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure joke) yesterday
SF News Gavin Newsom Announces Arrival Of Fourth Child (!) Following God's law that all beautiful people must procreate as often as humanely possible, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newson and his wife, thespian filmmaker/SFist commenter Jennifer Siebel Newsom have produced their fourth offspring.
SF News Newsom Proposes CA Gun Control Ballot Initiative Gavin Newsom knows what's up. "In the last 72 hours," he posted to Facebook yesterday, "68 people have been killed and 129 people have been injured due to gun violence in America." CBS
Arts & Entertainment Latino Heritage Fiesta Hosts Trump Piñata Bash Tomorrow The only thing keeping pace with the popularity of Donald Trump seems to be sales of those piñatas modeled after the presidential hopeful — effigies that,when SFist last checked in on them, were
SF News Gavin Newsom And Marijuana Task Force Want To Regulate Legal Pot-Grows Like Breweries A Blue Ribbon Commission with a mission to create a policy framework for the eventual (inevitable) legalization of marijuana in California has just released a new "Pathways Report." The report gets specific for
