Weekly CA-COVID Update 10/4/22

 

California

Young adults in California experience mental health challenges at alarming rates, with more than three-quarters reporting anxiety in the last year, more than half reporting depression, 31 percent experiencing suicidal thinking and 16 percent self-harm, according to the results of a survey commissioned by the California Endowment…

California governor Gavin Newsom signed multiple pieces of legislation Friday, 9/30, to improve higher education in the state for certain underserved student populations…

California’s most vexing budget problem of the summer was how to spend a record surplus…

Deputy Schools Superintendent Malia Vella's pledge that the department will release the scores next month comes in the wake of a report last week that raised the possibility state officials might not release the data until after the November election…

After its driest three-year stretch on record, California braces for another year with below-average snow and rain…

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Friday, 9/30, a bill to further reform remedial education at California community colleges…

Gov. Newsom is calling for California regulators to speed up the transition to cheaper winter-blend gasoline as prices at the pump keep rising…

The San Joaquin Valley could see the greatest impact from a law meant to make it easier for farmworkers to vote in union elections, a regional labor expert said…

The killing sparked outrage as yet another example of unwarranted deadly force by US law enforcement…

Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Sen. Brian Dahle, will face off at KQED on 10/23, after Dahle yesterday, 10/3,  accepted an invitation to debate the incumbent Democrat…

Coronavirus

Yesterday, 10/3, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it had ended its COVID-19 country travel health notices as fewer countries reported enough data for accurate assessments…