Gavin Newsom

Trump Administration Ends Funding for LGBTQ+ Suicide Hotline
The Trump administration has ordered the end of federal funding for The Trevor Project, a national LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline, while California lawmakers have taken steps to ensure LGBTQ+ students have access to the help they need.

In a First, California Moves Toward Paying Incarcerated Firefighters Minimum Wage
California is moving to pay incarcerated firefighters the federal minimum wage of $7.25 during active fires, a policy change that follows years of advocacy to improve pay and working conditions for incarcerated labor.

San Francisco Democrats Want To Push The Party Further Right
Mayor Daniel Lurie of San Francisco is advocating for a new centrist approach to the Democratic Party called “new pragmatism,” which could lead to larger police budgets, the criminalization of homelessness, and the writing of blank checks to developers, potentially shifting the city to the right of some GOP governors and former Presidential Candidate Ron DeSantis.

San Francisco Has Bused Out 55 Unhoused Residents Since August 1st
San Francisco’s Journey Home busing program has relocated 55 homeless people since August 1st, with most heading to other parts of California, but critics have expressed concerns about the city offloading its homeless population onto other counties.

Kamala Harris Brings In $12 Million During San Francisco Fundraiser
You can call San Francisco a lot of things, but you certainly can’t call the City by the Bay broke. It isn’t, for better or worse, its cup runneth over, and that’s precisely why politicians run to it. Even Donald Trump, for all the vitriolic bile he has for the

Journey Home-less: What Really Happens to San Francisco’s Exiled?
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has recently dusted off a Newsom-era homeless relocation policy and rechristened it Journey Home. It began in 2005 under the similarly saccharine-named Homeward Bound. Portland, Seattle, Las Vegas and New York enacted similar policies, sending unhoused people across the United States. According to the SF

Newsom Becomes Spokesman for Men’s Warehouse
Move over runway models, there’s a new icon in town, and he’s gubernatorially good-looking. Men’s Wearhouse has the most unexpected, yet totally expected new spokesperson: The Bay Area’s own…Gavin Newsom. Upon hearing the news of Newsom’s collaboration with Men’s Warehouse, one might initially be shocked, but upon further reflection, it

Will California Follow Oregon’s ‘Strategic’ Approach to Psychedelics?
Jim Carroccio was desperate. After decades of cognitive therapy, his struggles with PTSD and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder were as acute and debilitating as ever. So it was time to take a trip.
Literally and figuratively.