Renters
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised state budget, brimming with cash from a booming stock market, has $5.2 billion in new funds to help low-income renters pay back-rent, and $2 billion to help with past-due utility bills.
Dianne Feinstein
New poll shows just 35% of California voters — an increasingly younger and liberal group — approve of the job Feinstein is doing, the lowest point since she was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992.
Health officers
After suffering exhaustion, stress and threats by kooks, health officers see progress as two-thirds of California adults are now vaccinated. But Newsom’s flush new budget provides them no new money.