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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Bay Area air regulators voted 16-1 Wednesday to delay the state’s first phaseout of gas water heaters by a year and let up to half of property owners who replace one skip the switch to electric heat pumps.  The rule, adopted in 2023, […] The post New deadline for phaseout of gas water heaters gives Bay Area homeowners one more year  appeared first on Pleasanton Weekly.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California Democrats went all in on redistricting last year in a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s call for Republicans to gerrymander red states and preserve their U.S. House majority.  Ultimately, though, it appears such a gamble wasn’t even necessary.  The “blue tsunami” that […] The post Democrats’ blue wave beat Texas’ GOP gerrymanders. Did California even need Prop. 50? appeared first on

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The proponents of a California billionaire tax didn’t just lose their campaign to impose a first-in-the-nation tax on wealthy people’s assets. They also appear to have lost a campaign that will make it harder for them to try again in the future.  Proposition […] The post California billionaires faced down a tax and won new protections for their wealth appeared first on Pleasanton Weekly.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article is also available in English. Read it here. Xavier Becerra es el próximo gobernador de California tras conseguir una victoria contundente que garantiza que los demócratas continúen su racha de 16 años controlando el estado. Con casi la mitad de los […] The post Es oficial: California elige a Xavier Becerra para reemplazar a Gavin Newsom. appeared first on Pleasanton Weekly.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article is also available in English. Read it here. Los votantes están decidiendo el destino de 14 propuestas estatales, incluido el polémico impuesto a los multimillonarios. Las campañas a favor y en contra de estas propuestas han gastado un total de casi […] The post Lo que sabemos sobre los resultados de las 14 propuestas electorales de California appeared first on Pleasanton Weekly.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California Gov.-elect Xavier Becerra will take the reins during a delicate time for California.  He faces the prospect of deeper federal healthcare cuts, skyrocketing wildfire costs and a persistent cost-of-living crisis. But many of the specifics of his policies are still unknown after […] The post Xavier Becerra is California’s next governor: Five things to know appeared first on Pleasanton Weekly.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article is also available in English. Read it here. El gobernador electo de California, Xavier Becerra, tomará las riendas en un momento delicado para California. Se enfrenta a la perspectiva de recortes más profundos en la sanidad federal, un aumento vertiginoso de […] The post Xavier Becerra será el próximo gobernador de California: cinco cosas que debes saber. appeared first on Pleasanton Weekly.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article is also available in English. Read it here. Las escuelas de California evitaron un fuerte recorte de ingresos el martes, después de que los votantes extendieran de forma permanente un impuesto sobre la renta para los ricos. La Proposición 3 , […] The post Las escuelas recibirán miles de millones en fondos con la aprobación de la Propuesta 3 appeared first on Pleasanton Weekly.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In the end, it wasn’t shady bogeymen stuffing ballot boxes or federal agents who caused disruptions on election night in the rural Northern California Republican stronghold of Shasta County.  It was the seeming incompetence of Clint Curtis, the county’s election-denying elections chief who’s […] The post California has one ballot-counting trouble spot. It’s the one run by an election denier appeared

Sen. Aisha Wahab has declared victory against Melissa Hernandez in the race for Congressional District 14, but Hernandez said she’s not ready to concede as the Alameda County Registrar of Voters continues to count ballots. The post Wahab claims victory in CD 14 race, but Hernandez says contest isn’t over appeared first on Pleasanton Weekly.