Renée C. Byer

2 days ago | sanluisobispo.com | Renee Byer |Renée C. Byer

Carolyn Lambert holds a sign comparing Gov. Gavin Newsom to a chararcter from the film “Office Space” outside CalHR offices in Sacramento on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, as she joined hundreds protesting the governor’s order directing state workers to return to their offices four days a week. RENÉE C. BYER [email protected] AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Gov. Newsom's return-to-office order delayed to July 2026 for state attorneys.

2 days ago | miamiherald.com | Renee Byer |Renée C. Byer

The United States owes the Afghan people who helped us in our failed 20-year effort to democratize and modernize their benighted country. Now controlled by the same Taliban who allowed the 9/11 plot to be hatched there, the Muslim extremist government continues to persecute anyone with ties to the United States. Faced with the dire situation in Afghanistan, Donald Trump’s first instinct when he took office in January was to make it worse.

4 days ago | sanluisobispo.com | Renee Byer |Renée C. Byer

A “no more war” sign on the corner of 16th and J streets on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Sacramento. RENÉE C. BYER [email protected] The warmongers are at it again: Bombs are falling on foreign cities; politicians are being assassinated; tanks are paraded through Washington; and troops are “liberating” Los Angeles. “Game on,” Senator Lindsey Graham said, cheering the prospect of going “all-in” against Iran. Warmongers see a world of enemies engaged in constant battle.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Renee Byer |Renée C. Byer

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday night accused President Trump of intentionally fanning the flames of the Los Angeles protests and "pulling a military dragnet across" the city endangering peaceful protesters and targeting hardworking immigrant families. The Democratic governor's comments were a forceful rebuke to the president's claims that deploying the California National Guard and U.S. Marines to the city was necessary to control the civil unrest.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Renee Byer |Renée C. Byer

California is suing President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for sending 2,000 California National Guard members to put down immigration protests in Los Angeles over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s objections. Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a virtual press conferenceMonday he and Newsom would ask a federal judge to block and declare illegal Trump’s memorandum federalizing guard members for up to 60 days.