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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.

Governors and California's independently elected lieutenant governors “don’t always see eye to eye,” Gov. Gavin Newsom noted as he prepared to swear in the new lieutenant governor, Eleni Kounalakis. “That’s about to change,” Newsom said. Exactly what duties Newsom might cede to Kounalakis remain to determined. There was no promise. But Kounalakis promises to make an impact.

Gavin Newsom was inaugurated on the western steps of the capitol building this morning, closing out the Brown era of California politics and pointing towards a new, more assertively progressive politics out of Sacramento. This is what he said.

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.

Tejon Ranch gets approved after 20 years of fighting, Trump takes on California's border, immigrants and Nancy Pelosi, and the spotlight falls on Democrats.

California pledges to reduce transportation emissions, one in five elderly Californians lives in poverty and political pundits predict a blue wave in California.

The spotlight is on climate change in San Francisco, California eyes Delta tunnels, did California get its money's worth on stem cell research and Pelosi remains a powerhouse

The world’s fifth-largest economy has spent billions of dollars to fight climate change. But is California booming because of the law that spawned those programs or in spite of it?

Democratic former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still wants her old job back, telling a San Francisco forum: "I say this immodestly, but I want women to be immodest in this way: I'm a master legislator. Nobody wants to sit across the table from me."