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Newsom goes big in his budget and Nunes goes after L.A.’s subway
Newsom's first budget, the taxes behind his agenda, prison guards go after Jerry Brown's legacy on justice and Devin Nunes goes to Beverly Hills.
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Budget hopes, shutdown fears, Trump tweets
Newsom reveals his budget, Republicans slam Trump on FEMA threats, shutdown could worsen wildfires, CA vs. Big Pharma, DMV reinvention and why tiny toilets matter.
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PG&E teeters and Gavin Newsom confronts the ‘new abnormal’
Bankruptcy looms for PG&E, Newsom calls for more wildfire funding, the Montecito mudslides, Kamala Harris preps for 2020 and are legislators really like us?
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Newsom launches ‘Governor Dad’ era, and a ‘lite guv’ scores some big names
Newsom baits Trump, Governor Dad is in the building, Pelosi, Huerta and other bigs turn out for Kounalakis and California school kids get a superintendent that can relate.
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Jerry Brown’s torch passes to Gavin Newsom
The good and bad news about Gov. Newsom's new job, what Newsom's advisors say about the economy, Jerry Brown stories and what mattered Jan. 7, 1919.
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The revolving door revolves, a teen sues Trump and don’t call it the Brown court
Ricardo Lara opens the revolving door for a pharma lobbyist, an immigrant teen sues Trump for her parents, Jerry Brown's judges by the numbers and Pelosi and Becerra get the band back together again.
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A drug price reveal, a dirty trick and a handy Brown-Newsom translator
A California law reveals a big drug price hike, legal weed a year later, a dirty trick may have cost the GOP an Assembly seat and a Brown-Newsom translator.
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Strike, recession, homelessness: What will test Governor Newsom in 2019
LAUSD gives Gavin Newsom his first big test, redevelopment gets resurrected, California reduces homelessness but only slightly, and recession is nigh.