Emily Hoeven wrote the daily WhatMatters newsletter for three years at CalMatters . Her reporting, essays, and opinion columns have been published in San Francisco Weekly, the Deseret News, the San Francisco Business Times, the Flathead Beacon, the Daily Pennsylvanian, and the Mercury News. Emily graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English and French and studied English at the University of Cambridge, England as a Thouron Summer Prize fellow. She speaks French fluently and spent a year teaching English in Châteauroux, France.
Good morning, California. It’s Friday, September 10. Influx, outflux of people? If you want to keep your job or go to school, get vaccinated. That was the resounding message sent Thursday, when President Joe Biden issued a sweeping order mandating vaccines or weekly COVID-19 testing for the roughly 80 million Americans who work for a […]
Good morning, California. It’s Thursday, September 9. Big decisions ahead Win or lose the recall, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political challenges won’t end after Sept. 14. State lawmakers on Wednesday sent a stack of controversial bills to the governor’s desk, adding to a pile that already contains such contentious proposals as eliminating single-family zoning statewide and […]
Ironically, as Californians celebrate Labor Day weekend, millions will see their unemployment benefits reduced or cut off altogether. That’s because the federal government on Saturday is ending four key programs intended to help keep people afloat amid the pandemic — a shift that will cause about 2.2 million of the 3 million Californians currently receiving […]
Good morning, California. It’s Tuesday, August 31. Hectic evacuation process Thousands of cars stuck in traffic so knotted that one South Lake Tahoe resident moved just 30 feet in two hours. Snow guns deployed to beat flames away from the Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort. Smoke and ash so dense that the clarity of Lake Tahoe’s brilliant […]
Read this article in English. El único gobernador de California que ha sido destituido tiene algunas ideas sobre cómo se podría reformar el proceso. Pero no espere que Gray Davis se compadezca de los políticos que se enfrentan a un esfuerzo por expulsarlos de su cargo. “Cuando te postulas para un cargo en California, sabes que […]
Emily Hoeven wrote the daily WhatMatters newsletter for three years at CalMatters . Her reporting, essays, and opinion columns have been published in San Francisco Weekly, the Deseret News, the San Francisco Business Times, the Flathead Beacon, the Daily Pennsylvanian, and the Mercury News. Emily graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English and French and studied English at the University of Cambridge, England as a Thouron Summer Prize fellow. She speaks French fluently and spent a year teaching English in Châteauroux, France.