California Focus: Ironic recall bears likely pluses for Gov. Newsom
A recall could make him a political hero and a martyr to many members of this state’s dominant Democratic Party.
Thomas D. Elias
California Focus: State vows to end vaccine discrimination, but can it?
The entire enterprise looks like an exercise in economic discrimination and classism.
California Focus: On vaccines for seniors, a historic bait & switch
If this was an inside job aimed at stoking the recall petition drive against Newsom, it could not have been carried out more effectively.
California Focus: The big price when scofflaws don’t enforce the law
The list of California law enforcement agencies refusing to enforce current stay-at-home, crowd-size and masking orders from Gov. Gavin Newsom and county health officials numbers
California Focus: Will Feinstein add to the musical chairs?
It now looks like an even bet, with California's senior US senator noncommittal so far.
California Focus: Nursing home residents need high vaccine priority
The proportion of disease victims and the degree of isolation among denizens of nursing homes has been staggering.
California Focus: Will flailing at the virus do much good?
Some of the tactics ordered by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the state health department and many county health officers look a lot like guesswork.
California Focus: Becerra, Padilla early favorites for Harris seat
With Kamala Harris now vice president-elect, Californians may wonder who Gov. Newsom will appoint as the state’s new junior U.S. senator.
California Focus: State GOP makes a bit of congressional headway
The big bounceback they expected this fall from the party’s significant congressional defeats of 2018 may be a halfway thing.
California Focus: Polls fairly accurate in California, but in few other places
It didn’t take a genius to know that California would vote big against Donald Trump, and that’s just what every pre-election poll showed. But the
