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Emily Hoeven

Author Archives: Emily Hoeven

Emily Hoeven writes the daily WhatMatters newsletter for 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.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom delivers the State of the State address at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on March 9, 2021. Photo by Shae Hammond for CalMatters
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Newsom speech ushers in election season

Emily Hoeven by Emily Hoeven March 10, 2021March 10, 2021
Governor Gavin Newsom addresses a press conference held at the launch of a mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 2021. Photo by Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times via AP/Pool
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A big night for Gavin Newsom

Emily Hoeven by Emily Hoeven March 9, 2021March 9, 2021
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As California racks up huge surplus, billions set to flow in from feds

Emily Hoeven by Emily Hoeven March 8, 2021March 8, 2021
Patients enter Levi’s Stadium to receive Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines on Feb. 9 2021 in Santa Clara. The 49ers arena opened on Tuesday as a vaccine distribution site for Santa Clara County residents 65 and older and is expected to inoculate up to 15,000 people per day once supplies become available. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
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California hurtles into fastest reopening yet

Emily Hoeven by Emily Hoeven March 5, 2021March 5, 2021
Denise Saldana prepares the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines for inoculation at St. John's Well Child And Family Center in South Los Angeles on Feb. 09, 2021. Photo by Shae Hammond for CalMatters
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California changes reopening criteria again, allots 40% of vaccine to poorer areas

Emily Hoeven by Emily Hoeven March 4, 2021March 4, 2021
Demonstrators calling for $15 an hour and a union protest at a McDonald's restaurant in downtown Los Angeles in 2016. According to a recent report, California's economic divide has grown wider during the pandemic. Photo by Richard Vogel
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Governor’s panel: State should help workers unionize, raise wages

Emily Hoeven by Emily Hoeven March 3, 2021March 3, 2021
Second-grader Quinn Stevens, 7, carries a sign during a rally to reopen publish schools for in-person instruction at Astro Park in Oakland on Feb. 28, 2021. “I miss my friends,” said Quinn on why she wants to return to the classroom. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
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Will new school reopening plan work?

Emily Hoeven by Emily Hoeven March 2, 2021March 2, 2021
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SNL rips Newsom, French Laundry

Emily Hoeven by Emily Hoeven March 1, 2021March 1, 2021
OptumServe is opening vaccine clinics across California despite several counties expressing dissatisfaction with a vaccination pilot program and COVID-19 testing sites. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
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Counties raise concerns as OptumServe gets bigger role in vaccination

Emily Hoeven by Emily Hoeven February 26, 2021February 26, 2021
Patients enter Levi’s Stadium to receive Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines on Feb. 9 2021 in Santa Clara. The 49ers arena opened on Tuesday as a vaccine distribution site for Santa Clara County residents 65 and older and is expected to inoculate up to 15,000 people per day once supplies become available. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
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Delays emerge in Blue Shield vaccine rollout

Emily Hoeven by Emily Hoeven February 25, 2021February 25, 2021

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