Gov. Gavin Newsom Archives - Page 55 of 65

President Trump Set to Revoke California’s Authority to Set its Own Auto Emissions Standards

September 17, 2019 4:13 pmSeptember 18, 2019 2:50 pm

President Donald Trump is expected to revoke a rule that allowed California to set its own tougher vehicle emissions standards than those required by the federal government. California has relied on this special waiver for decades. This triggered an announcement...

The Back Story of California’s Homeless Surge

September 17, 2019 8:40 amSeptember 17, 2019 8:51 am

As the Sacramento Bee reports, the number of homeless people in Sacramento County has increased to 5,570, a jump of 52 percent from 2017. In February, Gov. Gavin Newsom named Sacramento mayor Darrell Steinberg to lead the Commission on Homelessness...

AG Becerra Turns Up Travel Ban to Eleven States

September 14, 2019 4:35 pmSeptember 14, 2019 4:50 pm

California’s ban on taxpayer-funded trips by state employees had included ten U.S. states, including Texas, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. Last week Attorney General Xavier Becerra made the ban more inclusive by extending it to Iowa, because it passed a law...

Merced County Deputy Survives, Shooter Apprehended

September 6, 2019 3:00 pmSeptember 7, 2019 7:45 am

“A 51-year-old Dos Palos man accused of shooting Merced County sheriff’s deputy was captured Thursday following a nearly hour-long high-speed chase,” Shawn Jensen of the Merced Sun-Star reports. The fugitive’s name was Guadalupe Lopez-Herrera and Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke...

Why Is Ricardo Lara Quiet on Hundreds of Thousands of Homeowners Insurance Cancellations?

September 6, 2019 8:28 amSeptember 6, 2019 6:29 pm

The number of California’s rural homeowners dropped by insurance companies is up to 350,000 in just four years, California Globe recently reported, but that was just through 2018. Since then, homeowners in Riverside and San Bernardino counties have experienced “a...

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures, Part VII

August 28, 2019 7:26 pmSeptember 16, 2019 6:33 am

‘The stress level for running a business in Nevada is much lower.’ What could possibly make someone leave Fullerton, California for a move to Henderson, Nevada? According to our latest interview on Leaving California, “they wanted us.” Everyone is...

San Francisco Adopts PC Language Instead of Fighting Crime

August 25, 2019 9:48 amAugust 26, 2019 7:10 am

“Societies in decline fixate on impossible postmodern dreams as a way of disguising their inability to address premodern problems.” The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will now call a “justice-involved person,” someone previously known as a “convicted felon,” Lloyd...