Author: Dave Mason | The Center Square

(The Center Square) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday the deployment of 18 more urban search-and-rescue team members to Texas to help with recovery from the devastating Independence Day flooding. The members are in addition to the nine members deployed Monday from the cities of Riverside and Oakland, according to a news release from the Governor’s…

(The Center Square) – For Gavin Newsom, it’s personal. The California governor, who has wrestled with his own dyslexia since childhood, Thursday stressed the need to do a better job with literacy throughout the state. “I don’t read speeches [when delivering them] because I can’t, but that didn’t stop me from getting through high school and…

(The Center Square) – It pays to be both bipartisan and persistent, according to a Democratic governor who once sneaked into the White House in the back of U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer’s car. “I was rolled back there like a burrito,” said New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who was then a member of the House.…

(The Center Square) – Lines have formed at California Department of Motor Vehicles offices as people try to meet the deadline for their REAL IDs. Starting Wednesday, Americans will need the ID to go on domestic flights or enter secure federal facilities or certain military bases. The deadline for the REAL IDs, which Congress adopted after 9/11, has…

(The Center Square) – San Francisco lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump’s nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights, emphasized her career in defending vulnerable populations at a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing that covered everything from voting rights to U.S. history. Questions fell Wednesday morning along party lines during the approximately three-hour Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where…

(The Center Square) – Progress, or lack thereof, being made in California counties and cities on homelessness, housing and behavioral health can be tracked on a new website, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. Local governments are being provided $118.7 million for 14 projects to move people out of encampments and into shelters and housing, the…

(The Center Square) – A ban on students using smartphones took effect Tuesday in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The nation’s second largest school district voted 5-2 in June in favor of the ban on using cellphones, smartwatches, AirPods and earbuds during school hours. Students are required to keep their phones off and stored…

(The Center Square) – A storm starting overnight Tuesday in California is expected to bring a high risk of debris flows later this week to the burn areas from the Los Angeles County fires. Between 2 and 3 inches of rain is expected to fall in the Palisades Fire area and between 3.5 to 5…