Page 20 - Phil Willon News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. As the signature gathering deadline for the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom fast approaches, the governor’s recent COVID-19 press conferences have taken on a unique twist. Along with the usual pandemic announcements, elected officials are now offering mini-testimonials to the governor’s on-the-job performance from behind the podium. The tone has, at times, resembled something between a campaign event and the direct-to-camera interviews on “The Bachelor,” with local Democrats ex...

Should Gov. Gavin Newsom worry about being recalled? It depends on COVID Written by Amy Ta, produced by Bennett Pursuer Feb. 02, 2021California MORE Governor Gavin Newsom speaking at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. Newsom is now facing a recall effort that requires 1.5 million signatures by mid-March. Photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0). California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing his most serious threat of being in a recall election. More than...

Kamala Harris last week, the news anchor for WSAZ in Huntington, W.Va., pointed out how unusual it was that “the White House actually reached out to us for that interview.” Indeed, it’s not every day that the vice president calls a small-market television news station looking to chat. The station was pleased with the high-level access, but the brief video interview backfired on Harris and has become the first public stumble in her short tenure as vice president. Good morning, and welcome to the Essential Politics newsletter, Kamala Harris edition. As I promised in my first installment...

This is the Jan. 7, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. With less than two weeks until Joe Biden takes office — and with Democrats taking control of the Senate — the growth of clean energy is poised to accelerate. Even if Congress doesn’t fully embrace the president-elect’s $2-trillion climate plan, there will be plenty of actions his administration can take to support renewable power and put pressure on fossil fuels. So here’s some food for thought: I...

President Trump and his supporters are still circulating baseless conspiracy theories about President-elect Joe Biden’s win. A group of Republican officials is still trying to intervene as the results are recorded. And we’re still waiting for results in a key race with dozens of absentee ballots ahead, this time in Georgia. The sense of déjà vu has been even stronger in that state, where voters relived the runup to the 2020 election, in which neither of the state’s Republican senators managed to clear the 50% threshold needed to win. For weeks since, Republican Sens. David Perdue an...