Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters during a rally about redistricting at the Democracy Center of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on Aug. 14, 2025. Photo by Ted Soqui for CalMatters Last month, while signing a bill to provide a tax credit for struggling local news outlets, Gov. Gavin Newsom reminisced about the days when reporters thronged around him when he was mayor...
Oct 23, 2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom in the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on Feb. 11, 2026. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters Not only has Gov. Gavin Newsom vocally opposed the proposed California billionaire tax, but he also wants to prevent the state from ever passing a wealth tax in the future. Last week he endorsed Proposition 42, a ballot measure that would cancel out Proposition 40, th...
Oct 14, 2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito, where he signed 13 bills focused on protecting kids from technology, on Sept. 10, 2026. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney, CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that he is directing state agencies to develop artificial intelligence safety recommendations, some of which were part of a bill he vetoed...
Sep 25, 2026
Republican state Sen. Brian Jones has been trying to block sex offenders from being released from prison through California’s elderly parole program for several years. Last week, for the first time, his bill to do so made it out of its first committee. IT was just one of many votes Senate Bill 286 will have to survive in a long road ahead in the Capitol, but it caught Jones’ attention. In a...
Apr 25, 2025
