George Skelton
It s Christmas in May and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is playing Santa Claus. The tree where all his gift-wrapped packages are piled is the state vault.
The vault is overflowing like never before.
Santa is flying around California promising expensive presents to voters who very likely will be deciding in a fall recall election whether to keep or toss him.
Support local news coverage and the people who report it by subscribing to the Napa Valley Register. Special offer: $1 for your first six months! It s easier being Santa Claus than the Grim Reaper, notes Democratic consultant Steve Maviglio, who was Gov. Gray Davis communications director when he was recalled in 2003 and replaced with Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Plastic Surgery was Buoyed by the “Zoom Boom” but the End of Social Distancing Offers Patients a New Incentive to Get Started on Procedures, says Dr. J Plastic Surgery
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The Beverly Hill-based plastic surgeon comments on a recent article that patients are gearing up for a return to the real world by exploring procedures covering the entire body.
Dr. J offers the full-range of procedures to patients from throughout California and worldwide.
While the widely publicized “Zoom boom” was sparked by patients’ increased awareness of their facial appearance online, we are now seeing the flip side of the phenomenon as patients are reflecting on their head-to-toe appearance.
The budget behemoth includes money for taxpayers, schools, the homeless crisis and the fight against climate change.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) After a year of pandemic-induced sweeping budget cuts that ripped billions from schools and popular social programs, a spending spree is on tap in California.
Capping a dramatic turnaround in which the state morphed a record-high deficit into an unprecedented surplus, California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed a mammoth $267 billion budget built on a conveniently timed $100 billion windfall. The plan represents a $40 billion increase from his initial January proposal and includes $196 billion in general fund spending.
The flush spending plan which comes as Newsom is actively fending off a recall election is stocked with $600 checks to taxpayers, major education gains, record homelessness spending and billions to ward off climate change and wildfires. The Democratic governor says the state can afford the ambitious spending plan
California Gov. Newsom proposes $3.2B in EV investment as part of economic recovery package
California Governor Gavin Newsom, a vocal proponent of electric vehicles, on Friday debuted a new proposal that would earmark $3.2 billion to boost EV infrastructure and adoption in the state.
“This is a big deal,” Newsom said at a press conference Friday. “The Biden administration’s been talking a lot about this, they’re hoping to do something with the Senate, but we’re doing it. We’re not waiting around.”
Over half of the $3.2 billion budget would go toward replacing 1,150 trucks, 1,000 transit buses and 1,000 school buses with electric models. Another $800 million would be put toward the state’s Clean Cars 4 All program, which aims to help lower-income drivers upgrade to a zero- or near-zero car, as well as further rebates or clean vehicles. The proposal earmarks $500 million toward infrastructure and $250 million would go toward manufacturing grants. Newsom did not spe
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Juvenile Chinook Salmon are released into the ocean after being transported from the Nimbus Fish Hatchery in the Central Valley to Mare Island, California, U.S, on May 11, 2021. Picture taken May 11, 2021. REUTERS/Nina Riggio NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
GOLD RIVER, Calif. (Reuters) – During a typical spring, the silver young salmon swimming in long tanks at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery east of Sacramento would be released into the American River and then make their way out to the Pacific Ocean to grow to adulthood.
But with extreme drought now gripping California and much of West Coast, the rivers are too warm for the salmon to survive.