Newsom wants to resolve state’s long debate over mental health
After California became a state in 1850, one of its first acts was to establish the Insane Asylum of California in Stockton, the first of 12 state hospitals meant to care …
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Prop. 1 will force major cuts in mental health services
We are the people who live with serious mental illness. We are clients and providers in California’s public mental health system. We are voting “no” on Proposition 1, the mental health …
Newsom backs out of delivering 200 tiny homes to San Jose
In March 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom promised to deliver 200 prefabricated tiny homes to San Jose to provide interim housing for the homeless — ready for occupancy, and at no …
Newsom vents over blame for retail thefts in story about confronting Target clerk
California’s retail theft problem got personal for Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday when he shared a story about confronting a Target store clerk who didn’t stop a man from taking …
Why so many California communities lack clean drinking water
Barely a month after he took office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom journeyed to a rural school in the Central Valley and stood by chance against a backdrop more prescient …
Gov. Gavin Newsom backs dam removal projects aimed at sustaining salmon populations
By ADAM BEAM | Associated Press EUREKA — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects by the end of his term to remove …
Gavin Newsom Says Democrats Have Improved Their Messaging Against The GOP
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Newsom has a lousy record forecasting California’s tax revenues
A review of recent state budgets and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s newly released 2024-25 budget proposal reveals truly monumental errors in revenue estimates by his fiscal advisers, particularly personal income taxes. The …
Housing conversion program, Homekey, has been a success, needs more funding
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday, Jan. 18, boasted about California’s progress in overhauling hotels and other buildings into housing for those at-risk of homelessness, with more than 9,000 units having …
California’s program to clear homeless encampments show signs of success, but housing remains elusive
For years, the Guadalupe River Trail — a winding path that snakes through the heart of downtown San Jose — had been home to hundreds of people living in tents …