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Governor touts $100B recovery Plan includes stimulus checks, rent relief By Edward Booth Enterprise staff writer Gov. Gavin Newsom announced at a press conference Monday that California is sitting on a $75.7 billion projected budget surplus, a stark difference from the $54.3 billion projected shortfall in May last year. Accordingly, the governor proposed a $100 billion California Comeback Plan, utilizing another $26 billion in relief coming from the federal government. The first parts of this proposed plan include $600 stimulus checks to state households making up to $75,000, $2 billion in financial assistance with utility bills, and paying off unpaid back rent to landlords that tenants have accumulated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“California’s not just coming back, California’s going to come roaring back,” Newsom said. The $600 tax rebates would go to California households who earn up to $75,000 in gross income per year, according to Newsom. An additional $500 would go to families with kids. Overall, Newsom said, about 80 percent of California tax filers will receive a stimulus payment. He said the plan is the largest economic recovery package in California history. The move is a proposed expansion of the state’s existing Golden State Stimulus program, authorized in February, which has focused on sending $600 payments to Californians who earn less than $30,000 a year. On Tuesday, Newsom announced the second part of the plan, which involves using $12 billion to take on the state’s homelessness crisis. The plan would pour $8.75 billion into buying up at least 46,000 new
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Pioneer jurist Reynoso dead at 90 Former UCD professor was first Latino California Supreme Court justice By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer
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Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to the media Monday at San Luis Reservoir in Merced County, part of week-long tour highlighting the administration’s recovery plan.
Yolo still in orange tier as data worsens By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Yolo County’s lengthy stay in the orange tier of the state’s color-coded COVID-19 blueprint will be extended yet again as the county’s metrics worsened this week. Both the adjusted case rate and the countywide test positivity rate increased during the week ending May 1. The adjusted case rate of 3.3 per 100,000 residents — up from 2.7 the week before — is the highest the county has seen since mid-March. Meanwhile, the test positivity rate increased from 0.6 percent to 0.7 percent. One spot of good news: the health equity quartile, which measures test positivity in the county’s most disadvantaged communities, declined from 2.5 percent to 2.4. County and UC Davis health officials have cited the spread of
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more infectious variants in the county, particularly the B.1.1.7 or UK variant, as a reason why
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County ready to vaccinate people as young as 12 Yolo County adolescents between 12 and 15 could begin receiving the Pfizer vaccine as soon as Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday expanded the emergency-use authorization for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to everyone ages 12 and up. Previously the vaccine was limited to those ages 16 and over, while the Moderna and Johnson and Johnson vaccines remain limited to those 18 and up. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee is expected to meet Wednesday to make a final recommendation and “we
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accounted for 75 percent of local cases. With case numbers remaining stubbornly high, the soonest the county can move to the least-restrictive yellow tier — which requires an adjusted case rate below 2 — is now May 26. Moving to yellow would allow businesses like gyms, movie theaters, museums and stadiums to operate at higher indoor capacity and allow others like bars that don’t serve meals to open for the first time in a very long time. Yolo County has been in the orange tier since March 24. The cities of Woodland and West Sacramento continue to account for the majority of new cases. Since April 9, Woodland has reported 195 new cases and West Sacramento 137, while Davis has reported 55 and
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Cruz Reynoso, a former professor at the UC Davis School of Law and a civil rights icon who became the first Latino justice on the California Supreme Court, died Friday at an elder care facility in Oroville, according to his family. He was 90 years old. A REYNOSO cause of death has Legal titan not been disclosed. Reynoso taught at the UC Davis School of Law from 2001 to 2006. As a professor emeritus, he maintained his connection to the school until recently, teaching students, speaking at events and leading special projects. In 2000, Reynoso received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from president Bill Clinton. He also
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