Essential California: Newsom says state will 'roar back'
For the record: 9:13 PM, Mar. 10, 2021An item in this newsletter previously misspelled the last name of poet Audre Lorde as Lord. Facing the growing threat of a recall election, Gov. Gavin Newsom fought to rekindle faith in his leadership during his third State of State address, delivered Tuesday night in Los Angeles. Advertisement Standing in a glaringly empty ballpark whose tens of thousands of vacant seats nearly matched the number of lives lost to COVID-19 in California, the governor spoke plaintively of the pandemic’s toll and promised brighter days ahead. It was a speech notably free...
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