THE BUZZ: The California Legislature approved Governor Gavin Newsom an incredibly debatable decision.
California may soon allow sanctioned drug use sites in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland if those cities/counties allow it. Or they may be prohibited from doing so. Now it’s new, with the state Senate sending the governor’s bill allowing California to adopt an increasingly popular but still contentious technique for drug addiction.
During the 2018 election campaign, candidate Newsom spoke out “very, very open” to politics, a notable difference for the government of the day. Jerry Brown, who denounced what he called the folly of “allowing the use of illegal and destructive drugs. “by vetoing a previous bill. A Newsom firm would align him with local leaders whose cities would oversee the pilot projects. San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who holds Newsom’s previous position, has been a vocal supporter.
But campaigning is not governing. Newsom declined to comment on his position Monday. Future votes are coming: Newsom is in the poll in November and is widely noted for keeping his domestic functions open (though he strenuously denies any interest in running for the White House in 2024). Newsom is very likely to win a momentary term, Senate Bill 57 carries a political threat in a difficult year for Democrats: It passed the Senate with an absolute minimum of 21 votes. Several Democrats in defiant campaigns resisted.
There is a developing momentum to deal with substance abuse from an attitude of harm relief rather than focusing on punishment. The U. S. Department of Justice The U. S. Department of Homeland Security conveyed some openness to safe injection earlier this year. President Joe Biden’s new drug czar has shown enthusiasm, sometimes last week that he “anticipates” the Justice Department’s decision. It is becoming increasingly common to find fentanyl control strips in dining room bathrooms.
Advocates see safe injection sites as a must-have tool to stop an overdose outbreak. This national crisis has hit California cities like San Francisco, where the ubiquity of fentanyl has increased the number of deaths and where public opioid abuse is virtually inevitable in the Tenderloin neighborhood. Sen. Scott Wiener argued that his bill would reduce the number of deaths and strengthen treatment while eliminating the painful visual features of drug abuse, such as syringes lying on the floor and other people shooting on sidewalks.
But critics see what Jerry Brown has noticed: the government encourages illegal behavior. This counterargument resonates with Californians who see public drug use among a growing homeless population as a sign of the failure of basic government (gubernatorial candidate Michael Shellenberger attracted national attention and about 300,000 votes through campaigns on this point). Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk denounced the bill as “one of the most damaging of the bill I’ve seen sent to the governor. “
Newsom thrives on touting California progressivism as a national model, but it’s not hard to believe that Republican classified ads attack the governor who legalizes drug use. invoice that deciphers vagrancy with the aim of prostituting oneself. We’ll soon see if the legislature sends Newsom the law deciphering hallucinogens and MDMA.
GOOD MORNING, smart Tuesday morning. In Sacramento, the legislature today passed the tobacco industry’s costly referendum to overturn California’s flavored tobacco ban. In San Francisco, the school board will rebuke embattled member Ann Hsu for her racist comments.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is no explanation as to why Beijing turns a perspective in line with long-standing US policy into some kind of crisis or uses it as a pretext to develop competitive military activity in or around the Taiwan Strait. “National Security Council spokesman John F. Kirby on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plans to go to Taiwan.
TWEET OF THE DAY: Member of the @laurafriedman43 Assembly on the National Conference of State Legislatures: “Not everything is rosy in @NCSLorg. I just had a seminar where personal corporations told legislators that other people were leaving public school because we brought politics into the classroom with sexual schooling, CRT, etc. public schooling will have to be ‘reimagined’ and privatised. ‘
WHERE IS GAVIN? Nothing announced.
Governor Newsom and the California Legislature: With a $54 billion climate budget, Californians deserve investments that prioritize grid resilience, not short-sighted spending on unreliable fossil fuels. disadvantaged communities. We can keep lighting fixtures on, reduce expenses, and maintain communities with: $1 billion for solar and storage, $1 billion for healthy home improvements and equitable decarbonization of buildings, and $1 billion for grid resilience centers.
PELOSI’S TRIP – The White House promises Pelosi a ‘safe’ vacation to Taiwan, if she goes, via POLITICO’s Matt Berg: “At a White House press conference, [National Security Council spokesman John] Kirthrough continually refused to verify whether Pelosi would do it to Taiwan, which POLITICO showed the day before through officials familiar with the route. But when asked by a reporter if the speaker was in danger of being attacked in China, Kirthrough showed that the government would provide protection.
MONKEYPOX – California declares a state of emergency for monkeypox, through Victoria Colliver of Politico: [Governor. Gavin Newsom] said.
“One Last Journey: Gabriella Walsh’s Decision to Die – and Celebrate Life – on Her Own Terms,” via Marisa Gerber of the Los Angeles Times: “Within two hours, I would drink a deadly dose of medication prescribed during California’s death, along with the Dignity Act, which allows some terminally ill patients to apply for life-ending medication.
And FOLLOW: First, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, with a Florida TV ad. Then the Western States Petroleum Association attacked Newsom’s energy policies on Florida’s radio airwaves. Acquisition of focused virtual advertising that usurps the Florida Newsom site to highlight California’s problems. Take a look.
TEAMWORK: Frontline Democratic House candidate and Assembly member Adam Gray defied $50,000 to pass the legislature’s amendment to enshrine abortion in the California constitution. At the end of April, Gray’s election measurement committee had about $400,000.
SWING BACK – “In a key changing district, Katie Porter clashes with the Republican opponent over inflation and ‘Orange County values,'” via NBC’s Sahil Kapur: “California’s new 47th district stands at the crossroads of the cross currents shaping the 2022 election. As President Joe Biden’s economic pain and unpopularity threaten Democrats’ grip on power, cultural issues like abortion, as well as Trump’s enduring control over the party, may limit GOP clients in the suburbs.
The Trump-era plan for more drilling in California suspended in the deal, via POLITICO’s Camille von Kaenel: Environmental teams also reached a separate agreement requiring the federal firm to conduct more investigations before authorizing drilling on 4,000 leased acres in December. 2020 in Kern County.
PEOPLE & PLACES – “Here’s why Austin and Seattle are building so much more housing than San Francisco,” via Adriana Rezal of the San Francisco Chronicle: “Experts say the city’s main barriers to housing production come from opposition from local groups, geographic boundaries, and complex regulatory processes.
California’s plan to control supervised injection sites is headed toward the governor, via POLITICO’s Victoria Colliver: Proponents of this “harm reduction” technique argue that the sites will combat the explosion of opioid-related overdose deaths in California and across the country. More than 5,500 Californians have died from opioid-related overdoses since 2020. Opponents have argued that they will not only be ineffective, but exacerbate drug use and illegal activities in surrounding areas.
SINGLE-TRACK COVID: “How Some Parents Changed Their Policy During the Pandemic,” via Sheera Frenkel of the New York Times: “Almost everyone in the crowd of more than 3 dozen parents. And as they protested on a recent Friday in the Bay Area suburb of Orinda, California, they had the same refrain: They were there for their children.
— “The lack of disclosure of evidence in the homicide case led to a thorough review of the paintings of DA Brooke Jenkins under Chesa Boudin,” via Michael Barba of the San Francisco Standard: “There is no indication that she deliberately concealed evidence or committed a fault, still Jenkins resigned from her expired task last year without giving the defense a lot of evidence, adding handwritten notes from a police inspector and video footage, according to emails and court records received through The Standard.
“Landslides, precipitation, motorists trapped as an intense monsoon typhoon hits California,” via Nathan Solis of the Los Angeles Times: “About 30 drivers were trapped in their cars Sunday as heavy rains sent dust and debris down Highway 38 to Big Bear. San Bernardino’s Angelus Oaks Domain saw just over an inch of rain, according to the National Weather Service, enough to send the dust dripping from the 2020 burn scar left by the El Dorado fire.
– “The antiviral drug Monkeypox TPOXX promises a cure, if you can locate it,” via Catherine Ho of the San Francisco Chronicle: “The challenge is not the source but the bureaucracy that health care providers have to navigate to prescribe the drug, two-weekly course of pills, which can prevent injuries from getting worse.
GEICO is the latest insurance office in California and is laying off many of them. The state is following the situation,” via Sacramento Bee’s Randy Diamond: “We continue to write policies in California and remain available through our direct channels to the more than 2. 18 million California consumers recently insured with us,” the company said in an unsigned email sent to The Sacramento Bee.
Has Biden just boosted the American generation, or has he funded a Solyndras organization?By BOB Davis of POLITICO: Industrial policy has an ancient lineage in the United States, but it had largely fallen out of favor in recent decades, especially after the attacks of reagan management. For hardline conservatives, it smelled like the Soviet economy; many other conflicting parties rejected it because the government opted for winners and losers. But the political environment has replaced him in recent times.
CRISIS AFTER CRISIS: “Citing the ‘climate crisis,’ Harris Announces Billion Dollars in Grants to Respond to Floods and Fires,” via Matthew Daly of the Los Angeles Times: “The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, or BRIC, program supports states, local communities, tribes and territories in projects to lessen climate-related hazards and prepare for herbal mistakes, such as floods and forest fires.
Amazon hires a key Senate judiciary member who is running on tech antitrust bills, through Politico’s John Sisco: The law, the most serious attempt to bolster oversight of the tech industry in years, would prevent those corporations from prioritizing their products over their competition than they count on corporations to succeed on customers. Amazon, for example, would be banned from selling its own personally branded products on competing pieces on its e-commerce platform.
— “How will social media platforms react to election disinformation?It’s clear,” via PolitiFact’s Hana Stepnick: “Major social media platforms have policies that prohibit spreading lies about elections. But the implementation of those policies varies and is difficult to follow.
— “L. A. Unified estimates that tens of thousands of students are absent from back-to-school lists,” via Howard Blume of the Los Angeles Times.
“How to Make Genuine Los Angeles Friends, According to Angelenos Who Swear It’s Possible,” via Nicole Kagan of the Los Angeles Times.
– “Large new apartment construction planned for the ‘most degraded land’ in downtown Sacramento,” through Ryan Lillis of the Sacramento Bee.
WITH WEATHER AND WEATHER – “California’s Sierra Alta was once the best for hiking in August. Here’s why it all changed,” via Kate Galbraith of the San Francisco Chronicle.
I CAN’T STAND IT – “Chronicle: Why make the grizzly bear the animal of the state of California, after they have all stayed?”by Nicholas Goldberg of the Los Angeles Times.
WAIT FOR THE BOTTOM SIDE: “How the Economic Slowdown Is Affecting Theme Parks This Summer,” via Brady Macdonald of the Orange County Recorder.
“Mo Ostin, the executive who turned Warner Bros. into a respected record label, dies at age 95,” via Melissa Gomez of the Los Angeles Times.
California is a leader in solar energy, but lags behind Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Washington, D. C. in the progression of grid solar systems that prioritize investments in blank energy in disadvantaged communities, reduce energy costs, and increase grid reliability.
Instead, California has committed a portion of the $54 billion climate budget to make coastal fossil fuel plants bigger.
There is a major to meet the demand for electric power, a fairArray that reduces pollutants and increases the resilience of the grid.
Government Newsom and the California Legislature: Make things better by investing in grid climate responses, such as sun and grid storage, energy efficiency, and home renovations aimed at low-income consumers and renters.
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