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Newsom has already vowed to tank a proposed ballot initiative that would impose a 5% wealth tax on the state’s billionaires to bolster Medi-Cal. Progressive lawmakers and their allies in labor and health seem hopeful that Newsom could support a different long-shot funding idea.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Common Sense Media had rival ballot initiatives designed to protect kids from chatbots. Now, they've merged their efforts.

The development comes after a Republican-led campaign delayed key tax increases in the bill.

Local agencies have shelved planned services and upgrades to buildings amid funding uncertainties.

Republicans who have blocked new tax revenues now argue emergency funds might be needed.

One major challenge in implementing and evaluating Measure 110 and the programs it created, auditors found, is that it has been revised heavily over the past five years.

The initiative needed roughly 78,000 signatures by Dec. 30 to qualify for next year’s election. Backers say they have more than 150,000.

Republicans say they’ll insist voters get a say on new taxes in the Oregon transportation bill.

In recent years, California Republicans wielded far more influence in Congress than in the state Legislature, thanks to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But since his ouster, and now under Prop. 50 maps, the GOP is increasingly isolated.

Justices pressed for answers on permits and required training, which guns were available during the state’s founding and whether the court needed to conduct any historical analysis.

Even some Democrats are objecting as Kotek runs down the clock on the bill’s opponents.

While lopsided polling and fundraising have given the Yes on 50 campaign an undeniable advantage, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s team is taking nothing for granted as Election Day arrives.