Tyler Katzenberger

1 week ago | politico.com | Tyler Katzenberger

The group is sponsoring a California Democrat’s crypto bill after successes in red states. A nonprofit with ties to President Donald Trump is sponsoring pro-crypto legislation from a California Democrat. | Mark Humphrey/AP SACRAMENTO, California — A nonprofit with ties to Donald Trump is sponsoring state legislation from a Democrat in deep-blue California on an issue the president has embraced in his Oval Office comeback: cryptocurrency.

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Tyler Katzenberger |Christine Mui

Google, for now, will drop its 2025 contribution to a fund to support local newsrooms to $10 million from $15 million, matching California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s rollback in his latest state budget plan. A sign is displayed on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, California, on Sept. 24, 2019. | Jeff Chiu/AP SACRAMENTO, California — A landmark deal to funnel millions of dollars into California newsrooms risks being downsized after Gov.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tyler Katzenberger |Christine Mui

SACRAMENTO, California — A landmark deal to funnel millions of dollars into California newsrooms risks being downsized after Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed funding cuts and Google, the initiative’s main corporate partner, slashed a third of its original commitment on Wednesday. Google, for now, will drop its 2025 contribution to the program to $10 million from $15 million.

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Emily Schultheis |Will McCarthy |Tyler Katzenberger

Gov. Gavin Newsom drew the ire of those who backed two 2024 ballot measures, Propositions 35 and 36, in his May revised budget proposal. | AP WHAT BALLOT MANDATE? — Supporters of last year’s two most popular statewide ballot initiatives found that spending tens of millions of dollars to qualify and pass their proposals wasn’t enough to keep the measures’ most high-profile critic, Gov. Gavin Newsom, from disregarding them in his latest budget proposal.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Christine Mui |Tyler Katzenberger

SACRAMENTO, California — Gavin Newsom based much of his latest budget presentation around distinguishing himself from Washington, blaming the “Trump slump” from tariffs in part for the state’s $12 billion deficit and knocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. But there was less daylight between the California governor and the president when it came to his embrace of the Golden State’s prized tech sector.