Emily Hoeven

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Newsom blames ‘right-wing pundits’ for COVID surge

Governor blames state's COVID-19 spike on misinformation and unveils vaccine and testing requirements for state and health care workers.

经过 Emily Hoeven • 7 月 27, 2021

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Newsom faces COVID quandary

About five weeks after Gov. Newsom reopened California, COVID-19 is surging again, with the Sept. 14 recall election looming.

经过 Emily Hoeven • 7 月 26, 2021

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EDD to start auto-paying unemployment benefits

Desperate times call for desperate measures. With hundreds of thousands of jobless Californians waiting more than three weeks for the state Employment Development Department to process their claims, the agency announced Thursday that it will start automatically paying benefits to claimants who have already cleared fraud filters and verified their identity and who continue to […]

经过 Emily Hoeven • 7 月 23, 2021

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Newsom tries to go tough on crime

In an attempt to soothe voters spooked by crime rates, Gov. Newsom signed a bill to continue classifying organized retail theft as a crime.

经过 Emily Hoeven • 7 月 22, 2021

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Surge in “armed and prohibited” gun owners

Good morning, California. It’s Wednesday, July 21. Crackdown falling short 24,000. That’s how many Californians were believed to have guns at the beginning of the year despite being legally prohibited from owning them — the highest total since 2006, when the Golden State became the first in the nation to create a database of legal […]

经过 Emily Hoeven • 7 月 21, 2021

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Why California is still on the economic brink

Good morning, California. It’s Tuesday, July 20. Many thanks to Ben Christopher for filling in for me while I was out sick! Static unemployment rate Looking at California’s latest unemployment numbers, you’d be forgiven for thinking the state is still under lockdown. That’s because the jobless rate didn’t budge from May to June: It remained […]

经过 Emily Hoeven • 7 月 20, 2021

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‘Not sustainable’: Jerry Brown bursts Newsom’s budget bubble

Gov. Newsom's predecessor poked a hole in his budget bubble by calling the state's spending "not sustainable" and predicting "fiscal stress."

经过 Emily Hoeven • 7 月 14, 2021

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A massive week for California

Good morning, California. It’s Monday, July 12. Pivotal deadlines This week is going to be a big one for California. Today, a judge is expected to issue a decision in the lawsuit Gov. Gavin Newsom brought against his own elections chief to be listed as a Democrat on the ballot for the Sept. 14 recall […]

经过 Emily Hoeven • 7 月 12, 2021

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A hot and dangerous weekend

Good morning, California. It’s Friday, July 9. Drought + heat + fire A trifecta of troubling conditions is set to collide in California over the weekend. First: drought. With the vast majority of the state gripped by extreme dryness, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday asked all Californians to voluntarily cut their water use by 15% […]

经过 Emily Hoeven • 7 月 9, 2021

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California’s unemployment fiasco takes surprising turn: Bank of America wants out

Just how dysfunctional is California’s unemployment department? Apparently so dysfunctional that Bank of America, which since 2010 has had an exclusive contract with the state to deliver unemployment benefits through prepaid debit cards, wants to end the contract — even though the Employment Development Department just renewed it for another two years. The news, first […]

经过 Emily Hoeven • 7 月 8, 2021