At a press conference on the steps of Santa Barbara City Hall, union members say that KEYT’s parent company, News-Press & Gazette, isn’t coming to the table to negotiate.
Politics By
Maya C. Miller and Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters
Newsom has already vowed to tank a proposed ballot initiative that would impose a 5% wealth tax on the state’s billionaires to bolster Medi-Cal. Progressive lawmakers and their allies in labor and health seem hopeful that Newsom could support a different long-shot funding idea.