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THE BUZZ THE BIG REVEAL: Gov. Gavin Newsom has been on a victory lap around the state all week, touting and teasing his highly anticipated May budget revision. Today, he’ll finally fill in the details and likely face some hard questions on the massive ‘21-’22 financial plan for the state that he says is “roaring back” from the Covid pandemic.
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THE BUZZ: From state legislators to reluctantly homeschooling parents to mask-weary residents, Californians have a common coronavirus query: Are we there yet?
California’s miniscule transmission rate has us on the brink of a wide-scale reopening. Much of the state’s population already lives in the least-restrictive tier, which allows businesses to operate at the maximum pandemic capacity. Gov.
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05/12/2021 09:23 AM EDT
THE BUZZ REALITY BITES, PART II: It’s been a rough couple of weeks since Caitlyn Jenner made the official move from reality TV star to gubernatorial candidates. And, it’s brutal out there especially for a newcomer TV star who wants to jump into the piranha pond of CA politics. Because it means constantly confronting one thing that doesn’t exist in reality TV: fact-checking.
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The U.S Treasury on Monday began to accept applications from state and local governments for the use of $350 billion in federal aid, money that was made available as part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan law signed by President Joe Biden in March.
According to the guidelines for the program, the Treasury “will distribute funds to eligible state, territorial, metropolitan city, county, and Tribal governments.” States will receive about $195 billion of the funds, while counties will get $65 billion and cities will get $45 billion. Tribal governments, territories and non-entitlement units of local government (cities with fewer than 50,000 people and counties with fewer than 200,000) will divide the remaining $45 billion.