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Newsom Wants Tax on Water for ‘Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund’

January 15, 2019 1:30 amJanuary 14, 2019 8:33 pm

Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a tax on drinking water throughout the state to help poor communities in California deal with contaminated water systems. Newsom’s plan to establish a “safe and affordable drinking water fund” is in his budget proposal,...

Gov. Newsom’s ‘Genius’ Cabinet Secretary Ana Matosantos

January 14, 2019 10:15 amJanuary 16, 2019 1:48 pm

Gavin Newsom’s selection for cabinet secretary is Ana Matosantos, whom California’s new governor calls one of the “most capable public servants in America” and a person of “unrivaled professional accomplishment coupled with a personal determination to serve the public good.”...

LAUSD Strike: Teachers Union ‘Insulted’ by Latest Offer

January 14, 2019 1:25 amJanuary 16, 2019 1:49 pm

Gov. Gavin Newson has only been governor for seven days and is already facing the first strike in 30 years at the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest school district. The United Teachers of Los Angeles labor...

What’s In Gavin Newsom’s 2019 ‘California For All’ Budget

January 11, 2019 5:00 amJanuary 17, 2019 1:04 pm

Self-described policy wonk Gov. Gavin Newsom presented his first Budget Summary 2019-20 Thursday – all 178 pages of it. “Full disclosure, this is something I really enjoy,” Newsom said. Newsom inherited a significant surplus of $15 billion and the...

Democratic Donor Ed Buck Gave to Newsom and Brown

January 10, 2019 5:52 pmJanuary 15, 2019 10:50 am

When a second younger black man turned up dead in the apartment of Los Angeles Democratic donor Ed Buck, questions are being raised about whether investigators were too hasty to dismiss the first instance 18 months ago. Now, the Daily...

Newsom Proposes State-Funded Health Coverage for Illegal Immigrants

January 9, 2019 6:30 amJanuary 9, 2019 7:01 am

Once he was sworn-in Monday as California’s 40th Governor, Gavin Newsom wasted no time in getting to work on his campaign promises, proposing state-funded full scope Medi-Cal healthcare coverage to 138,000 illegal immigrant adults ages 19-26. Newsom also reinstated the...

Lt Gov Eleni T. Kounalakis Launches with High Profile

January 8, 2019 3:05 pmJanuary 9, 2019 7:15 pm

Eleni T. Kounalakis was sworn in as California’s 50th Lieutenant Governor yesterday afternoon in a ceremony that looked more like a Who’s Who of national Democratic power players than the perfunctory performance for one of the state’s eight Constitutional officers....