Gavin Newsom
After a booming stock market sends capital gains taxes soaring, governor gets a record $75 billion budget surplus, while new polls show him increasingly likely to survive the recall election.
Santa Clara University
President Kevin O’Brien resigns under a cloud, but storied Jesuit university refuses to clearly tell public, students or faculty why, sparking confusion and harming credibility.
Middle schoolers
Kids 12 to 15 have been stuck in front of Zoom screens for a year, as Newsom, lawmakers and teachers’ unions dawdle on re-opening. But now they can get the Pfizer vaccine!