Calif lawmakers demand more funding for local public health departments msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
LAUREL ROSENTHAL
CalMatters
Facing a trifecta of extraordinary circumstances â the waning COVID-19 pandemic, a looming recall election and an insanely flush state budget â Gov. Gavin Newsom barnstormed the state, dropping good news by the billions.
He wants to spend $12 billion to house the homeless, the governor announced in the lobby of a San Diego motel converted into a shelter; $3.4 billion to expand preschool to all 4-year-olds, he said on the playground of an elementary school in Monterey County; $1.5 billion cleaning up blight, he said as TV news crews filmed him hoisting an old mattress off the side of a Los Angeles freeway.
In spite of a pandemic that has killed about 62,000 Californians more than enough to pack Dodger Stadium Gov. Gavin Newsom has again declined to boost the budgets of the state's underfunded and understaffed local public health departments.
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