
Nicole Nixon
California Politics Reporter at The Sacramento Bee
☀️California politics @sacbee_news • @CCACalifornia board • Previously: @capradionews @kuer • [email protected]
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2 days ago |
sacbee.com | Nicole Nixon |Molly Gibbs |Kate Wolffe
California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom reached a final budget agreement Tuesday that avoids some steep cuts to higher education and health care services to fill an estimated $12 billion deficit.
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2 days ago |
sacbee.com | David Lightman |Nicole Nixon
More than 16 million acres of California forests, parks and other public federal lands could be at risk of being sold under the “Big, Beautiful” tax and spending bill the Senate is considering this week, says the Wilderness Society, which opposes the effort. But supporters of the plan say the group, whose mission is to protect wilderness areas, is promoting claims that are wildly overblown.
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1 week ago |
gazettextra.com | Nicole Nixon
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Democratic state lawmakers and LGBTQ advocates slammed a Wednesday decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that upholds a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender youth, calling the ruling "horrifying" and "bigoted."In a 6-3 decision, the court sided with the state of Tennessee over a 2023 law prohibiting doctors from prescribing treatments such as hormone therapy, medications to delay puberty or surgery to patients under 18, even with parental consent.
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1 week ago |
sacbee.com | Nicole Nixon
Democratic state lawmakers and LGBTQ advocates slammed a Wednesday decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that upholds a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender youth, calling the ruling “horrifying” and “bigoted.” In a 6-3 decision, the court sided with the state of Tennessee over a 2023 law prohibiting doctors from prescribing treatments such as hormone therapy, medications to delay puberty or surgery to patients under 18, even with parental consent.
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1 week ago |
sacbee.com | David Lightman |Nicole Nixon
Good morning and welcome to the A.M. Alert!FUNDRAISING AMID THE FALLOUT Few things drive money in politics like outrage, and politicians on both sides of the aisle aimed to capitalize on the events that unfolded in Los Angeles last week. As Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed back on the Trump administration’s deployment of U.S. Marines and National Guard soldiers in the courts and on social media, he also blasted out updates and requests for donations via email, text messagesand ads online.
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Newsom will not be at the CADEM convention in Anaheim this weekend, a spokesman confirmed. It’s the second consecutive state convention he’ll skip. @sacbee_news

CA Democrats organize Trump opposition this weekend. Gavin Newsom won’t be there https://t.co/kAcrN61MC6

“If you were writing out the fan-fiction for (a third Trump term), it would start with him fighting states about the administration of elections,” @paulmitche11 said. https://t.co/L2kIBjla46

RT @akoseff: It didn't start with Newsom's podcast remarks yesterday. @dustingardiner and @jonesblakej report that some of his senior staff…