Our first take on Newsom's plan this year to offset California's $45 billion budget deficit by eliminating 10K state worker jobs, reducing funding for the prison system and pausing money for subsidized childcare.

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California Supreme Court to rule on high-stakes battle over ballot measure restricting tax increases latimes.com/california/sto…

He has always rejected the idea of gentrification, “but now I’m on the other end, and I want the gentrification. And I want condos.” latimes.com/politics/story…

Saying the stakes could not be higher, Newsom to speak at Vatican climate summit latimes.com/california/sto…

NEW: Saying the stakes could not be higher, Newsom to speak at Vatican climate summit latimes.com/california/sto…

Stories often focus on people or places, but this Los Angeles Times Column One puts objects center stage: notebooks kept by a farmworker. Xavier Martinez writes about his abuelo, whose notebooks essentially became a diary of a family's struggle and rise. latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Incredible, incredible story Los Angeles Times — beautifully told, both through words, and a grandfather's meticulous notebooks, rediscovered: How a migrant farmworker built generational wealth, penny by penny latimes.com/world-nation/s…

“Local governments have told us that they have plans to reduce unsheltered homelessness,” said Jason Elliott, Newsom’s deputy chief of staff. “They’ve written that down, and they’ve signed on the dotted line. This reform is about making sure that those promises get fulfilled.”

NEW: Newsom calls for increased oversight of local homelessness efforts latimes.com/california/sto…

Google says it will reduce some user access to California news sites latimes.com/entertainment-…

Hundreds of thousands of court hearings in California are being held without any precise record of what occurred - undercutting litigants' legal rights in high-stakes cases including domestic violence restraining orders and child custody disputes.

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This is so petty.

'Google is temporarily blocking California-based news outlets’ content... to try to derail such bills in places like Canada and Australia that require online platforms to pay journalism outlets for articles featured on their websites.' politi.co/3xwjSnU

California saw a surge in abortions after Dobbs. Providers are bracing for more latimes.com/california/sto…

‼️HAVING TROUBLE FINDING THE NEWS? Google is 'removing links to California news websites' on Friday for some users to protest California Journalism Preservation Act blog.google/products/news/…

Newsom called it a ‘gimmick.’ Now he’s using the trick to lower California’s massive deficit

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The Capitol Correspondents Association of California has been asking for a journalist workspace for years.

It’s embarassing that we have to work on the floor in the capitol of the world’s fifth largest economy.

Love to see it 👏👏

Melody is one of the most talented and ethical reporters in the biz.

New from me in Los Angeles Times. ParisHilton is coming to the CA Capitol soon. She'll be there to advocate for what’s become her political focal point in recent years. Read my latest: latimes.com/california/sto…