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To balance the budget, Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing eliminating an annual $300 million payment to public health, instituted after COVID. Advocates warn it could leave us more susceptible to another disease threat.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is recommending small cuts to the state prison system, avoiding the closures of additional facilities.
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After weeks of negotiations, the governor and top Democrats in the Legislature say they have a budget deal. Legislators will start voting today on bills related to the agreement, which sets spending and policy across a wide range of issues affecting Californians.
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Will America embrace Newsom’s gun plan? 5 things to know about his bid to change the US ConstitutionGavin Newsom’s proposed US constitutional amendment includes four popular gun control policies, but it faces an extraordinarily difficult path to succeeding.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom rolled out a plan to speed construction of major public infrastructure and demanded quick votes from lawmakers. His Democratic allies put the proposals on ice.
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Firefighters, paramedics, and police often respond to the worst days of people’s lives — accidents, deaths, fires, and other distressing events. After the deadly mass shootings earlier this year in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay, and countless others across the country, awareness of how such trauma affects first responders has grown.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom says his plan to cover a budget shortfall that has grown by $9 billion protects investments in education, health care and housing. But it also relies on more borrowing and doesn’t include asks for child care and public transit.
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After widespread, bipartisan criticism, the governor revised his budget proposal to bring back $40 million to restore San Joaquin Valley floodplains.
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Tax increases are sensitive business in politics. So it didn’t take long Wednesday — all of two hours — for Gov. Gavin Newsom to swiftly and decisively reject the latest idea from Democratic lawmakers to balance California’s budget by pumping businesses for more cash.
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Accelerated by the COVID pandemic, a shift by state officials toward emails and written statements is making it more difficult for journalists to be watchdogs for Californians.
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Gov. Newsom signs an oil profits penalty plan that is supposed to keep California gas prices under control. The oil industry says it will closely watch the regulations.
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California lawmakers completed a nearly four-month special session Monday by sending Governor Gavin Newsom a bill that would create new transparency around oil industry profit margins.
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A bill to impose new oversight authority and levy potential penalties against the oil industry for extreme profits cleared the full Senate Thursday..
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A revised proposal by Governor Gavin Newsom will get its first hearing in a Senate committee Wednesday, six months after he first proposed capping profits to reduce dramatic price spikes at the pump.