Governor Newsom

"Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget—and I’ll tell you what you value," Joe Biden.

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Here are the highlights

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Not funding transit agencies' basic operating needs is a political loser in any state.

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Is the California Environmental Quality Act - theoretically written to prevent disasters like these fires - really the big barrier holding back a rebuild?

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“If the Governor knew what it felt like to wake up each day without your child because of a speeding driver, he wouldn’t have hesitated for a single moment to sign this bill,”

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Three new laws will help protect people living near oil and gas facilities, and one overrides a court decision blocking local control over gas wells.

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So he says

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More than half of the state's "Climate Commitment" of 2022 has been funded, but it has shrunk and spread out over time, and its funding source includes money that was already going to the climate fight.

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