📣🌉TRIVIA NIGHT IN SF TOMORROW! 🌉📣

Get your tickets now & join us for a fun evening of trivia & special happy hour drink prices. Lara Korte, Jeremy B. White & I have been busy working up questions about all things CA/SF politics

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UCLA's leadership will be testifying under oath before our Committee on May 23. I am closely monitoring the horror show on that campus and will hold the Administration accountable for inaction.

I want to point out this for a while but I guess it's time now.

For those who get confused by this parody account, the Chinese characters '犯罪女王' in its name literally mean 'The queen of committing crimes' or simply 'Crime Queen.'

(cc'ed Marc Benioff Brooke Jenkins 謝安宜)

Worlds colliding

This is major: Elena Kadvany confirms with the AG that a new law will make it illegal for restaurants to charge service fees (or healthcare fees or credit card fees or takeout packaging fees...) sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

Senate Elections Chair Catherine Blakespear just got rolled after urging either her amendments -- not accepted -- or a NO vote on a Bill Dodd bill altering limits on local contributions to electeds

WASHINGTON (AP) — US drug control agency is moving to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift, AP sources say.

My new gig makes me grateful for a career spent mostly as a general assignment reporter. Being able to bounce around from topic to topic sure has come in handy. Here's my latest, a look at the battle over private equity in health care
calmatters.org/health/2024/04…

Q: I'm a California-politics-loving San Franciscan without Wednesday plans. What should I do?

A: Join us for trivia at Manny's!

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Watching today: Alameda supes to certify DA Campaign Team - Pamela Price for DA recall and (maybe) set a date.

DA Price is urging supporters to show up and demand supervisors block the 'illegal recall' from the ballot

What’s ur like being a cat? Ziggy’s on the fence

California’s Covid-era population decline fueled criticism of Democratic/Gavin Newsom governance.

Now the state is rebounding:

NEWS: California has reversed a three-year population decline thanks to a rebound in legal immigration, drop in Covid-19 deaths, and other factors.

In 2023, the state grew by 67k people.

politi.co/4dmEdwg via POLITICO

NEW: Grow ahead, California — the state has added population again, reversing a multi-year decline. ICYMI:

Why in the hell has a state agency The California Coast hired lobbyists to influence legislature and PR pros to fight them?! they have it backwards - it’s the LEGISLATURE that sets policy. Their job to implement. Not other way around. Bureaucracy out of control politico.com/newsletters/ca…

I'd like to thank my phone for giving me new anxiety dream material by getting too hot and turning off mid-interview 🌞📵

I wrote about how a new generation of big-money political groups are trying to influence SF's November election — and navigate a thicket of personal and professional ties to some of the leading mayoral candidates.

sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mod…

Telling name change here: Fight for $15 has won multiple raises for California fast food workers (now $20 an hour), but fast food unionization has largely continued to elude the movement

📢 CALLING ALL CALIFORNIA POLITICS-KNOWERS 📢

We're doing another trivia night -- this time in San Francisco. Join Dustin Gardiner, Lara Korte and me at Manny's on Wednesday to test your knowledge and see if you're more informed than Ash Kalra 🌱!

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High-ranking L.A. prosecutor - top adviser to L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón - booked on felony charges, released on $50,000 bond

latimes.com/california/sto…