Investment manager and accountant who has a law degree. Lost to Newsom in 2018, in addition to failed bids for Congress, U.S. Senate and the presidency. Founder of a Rebuilding Together chapter, which repairs homes for low-income seniors and people with disabilities. Father to four daughters, and an active member...
Meet Kevin Faulconer
Mayor of San Diego from 2014 to 2020, after 12 years on the city council. Pushed for more development to boost San Diego’s housing supply, increased the city’s number of shelter beds and called for stricter enforcement against “tent cities.” Fluent in Spanish, his dad was an assistant city manager,...
Meet Caitlyn Jenner
Olympic gold medalist in 1976. Transitioned in 2015, becoming one of the most prominent transgender public figures. Television personality with roles in “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” and later her own TV documentary series, “I Am Cait.” Age: 71 Party: Republican Home: Malibu Likes: Deregulation, flying planes, Trump in 2024...
Buckle Up: A Big Day for California
Today is a big day for California. First, it’s the deadline for local elections offices to start sending mail-in ballots for the Sept. 14 recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom. Ballots have already started hitting mailboxes in many parts of the state, prompting Newsom and his leading challengers to turbocharge...
Dust to Dust: Will California Lawmakers Legalize Human Composting — Transforming Bodies Into Soil?
Two wheelbarrows full — that’s how much soil a composted human body creates. In California, it could soon be legal for people to be transformed into soil after death. Only three after-death options are available now in California: burial and cremation — by fire or water. But a bill moving...
Newsom Recall Basics: How to Vote in California’s Election
Here are the answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the upcoming recall election. When is the Recall Election? Sept. 14, though local election offices must start sending out mail ballots by Aug. 16. How Do You Vote? Every registered voter will get a ballot in the mail. You can track...
Top Four Takeaways From the First Newsom Recall Debate
After months of build-up, California voters got their first prime-time glimpse at the major candidates vying to become governor in the upcoming recall election. Some of them, anyway. In the first — and conceivably only — debate before ballots begin hitting mailboxes later this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom, the focal...
Bears, Merch and Consultants: How Newsom Recall Candidates Are Spending Campaign Cash
With six weeks to go before Californians decide whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, the favorite of major GOP donors is still Kevin Faulconer. The former San Diego mayor has amassed more than $3 million in contributions. While most of his haul has come from big spenders, the median contribution...
Community Colleges Offer Cash, Textbooks to Students Who Get Vaccinated
Jaime Barrientos, a psychology student at Los Angeles Mission College, was searching for information on fall classes a couple weeks ago when he noticed that coronavirus vaccines were being offered during on-campus registration. He messaged a friend who was also unvaccinated and hadn’t planned on getting the shot, and the...
California’s 2020 Fire Siege: Wildfires by the Numbers
The most telltale number is 4.2 million. That’s the stop-in-your-tracks figure — the total acreage burned — from last year’s fire siege, the worst year in California’s long history of wildfires. 2020 was a fire year of unforgettable and awful superlatives. In the new world of mega-fires, a series of...