Caitlyn Jenner Nixes Possible Run for California Governor

“We will be doubling down on mask wearing,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday, “not arguing to follow the example of Texas and other states that I think are making a terrible mistake.”

Southern California counties and others across the state could be cleared to open more businesses and lift other restrictions sooner than anticipated under a plan announced on Thursday by Governor Gavin Newsom.

The official recall campaign against California Governor Gavin Newsom has now gathered more than 1,927,000 signatures, organizers announced on Wednesday evening.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said today the state is having “advanced conversations” with Major League Baseball and local health authorities around California, and he expressed confidence that if Covid-19 trends continue downward, fans will be back in the seats of outdoor stadiums when baseball season begins.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state on Tuesday discovered the first New York variants of the virus in Southern California. He did not specify where the cases were found.

Just minutes after California announced that seven counties — including San Francisco — were being allowed to reopen further due to dropped Covid-19 numbers, Governor Gavin Newsom excoriated a Tuesday decision by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to lift that state’s mask mandate.

Los Angeles could be next.

San Francisco movie theaters can now reopen.

“You can’t reopen your economy unless you get your schools reopened,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom at the top of his press conference with legislative leaders on Monday to announce a multibillion-dollar deal aimed at enticing schools to resume in-person instruction for young students by April 1. The agreement, however, may end up penalizing districts like LA Unified.

Nick Jonas pulled double duty as the host AND musical guest on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live.

On Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state will receive a large shipment of the one shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.

Last Wednesday, as California Governor Gavin Newsom gave one of his regular Covid-19 updates, he expressed surprise at “something not a lot of folks are paying attention to.” That “something” is the growth of the so-called West Coast variant of Covid-19.

On October 30, California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a new $120 million, 134,000 sq. foot coronavirus testing facility in Valencia, north of L.A.

On Friday evening — the witching hour for bad news — California Secretary of State Shirley Weber reported that 1,094,457 signatures had been received in the effort to recall Governor Gavin Newsom. Of those signatures 668,202 had been verified by local election officials, a process which must take place before they can be counted. About 140,000 additional signatures were found to be invalid.

California Governor Gavin Newsom was asked on Wednesday if he thinks the entire state might be out of the most restrictive purple tier of his Blueprint for a Safer Reopening by the first day of spring.

California announced late Monday that Blue Shield had been chosen as the state’s third party administrator for vaccine distribution. Governor Gavin Newsom has been promising for weeks to release details of the contract. Those details were made public yesterday, a holiday, the same day no-bid contract went into effect.

Caitlyn Jenner is shooting down rumors that she's planning to run for governor in California. The "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" alum was rumored to be eyeing Gov. Gavin Newsom's job.