California's Gavin Newsom Champions Birth Control Rights in Defiance of Senate GOP's Blockade Governor Newsom reaffirms California's commitment to ensuring access to birth control despite the Senate GOP blocking the Right to Contraception Act. 06/6/2024 - 5:43 am | View Link
Column: Newsom finally gets moving on fixing California’s homeowner insurance crisis California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed urgency legislation to expedite the hiking of homeowner insurance rates. It’s about time. Because the alternative for many is no insurance at all. 06/2/2024 - 11:01 pm | View Link
Gavin Newsom Responds on Gas Prices and Big Oil What people pay at the pump isn’t simple supply and demand but the result of a highly concentrated and opaque market. 05/30/2024 - 8:13 am | View Link
As key deadlines loom, Newsom and California lawmakers have dozens of deals to make It’s time for the folks in California’s Capitol to play let’s-make-a-deal – or actually ... Most are to be found in the much-revised 2024-25 budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled earlier this month. 05/29/2024 - 12:39 am | View Link
California wants to be carbon-neutral by 2045. What does that mean for its big economic drivers? Nevertheless, he has proclaimed that California will by 2045, just 21 years hence, become carbon emission-neutral. In 2022, the state Air Resources Board issued a “scoping plan” with multiple precise ... 05/28/2024 - 4:28 am | View Link
On Tuesday, the United States House voted to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC), in response to an announcement that te body plans to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and another Israeli official. The announcement also included the call for arrest warrants for three senior Hamas leaders.
Earlier this week, the Biden administration officially announced a long-anticipated border crackdown. The executive action—which relies on the same presidential authority former President Donald Trump invoked to enact an entry ban on travelers from Muslim-majority countries—circumvents a key provision of US law: The legal right to seek asylum, regardless of where or how a person enters the country.
Under Biden’s order, with narrow exceptions, only migrants coming to official ports of entry will qualify for asylum after encounters at the border reach a certain threshold.
Digging for more money to inject into affordable housing, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is considering asking the City Council to refer a sales tax increase to the November ballot, administration officials confirmed to The Denver Post.
It’s too soon to say whether an affordable housing tax — the amount so far unspecified — will end up on what promises to be a lengthy Denver ballot in this presidential election year.
Protesters organized by a Colorado State University group staged a “die-in” demonstration over the weekend outside a Fort Collins company. They chanted, held signs accusing the company of having blood on its hands, and displayed fake body bags and red-stained dolls, according to a report by CSU’s student newspaper.
What was behind the protest?
Demonstrators were motivated by purported connections between the company, Woodward, and a component of a bomb dropped by Israel on a camp in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, in late May.
The Denver Post looked into the connections to the Fort Collins-headquartered aerospace and industrial manufacturer.