The Urban Legend

Newsom shuts down extending pay to low-income jurors

Eliot Solomon, Opinions Editor • December 9, 2023

Throughout the month of October, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed 145 bills of the roughly 900 proposed bills created and passed by the state legislature. One of these bills, Assembly Bill (AB)...

Humboldt Polytechnic: A bid for survival

Ezra Bergson-Michelson, Staff Writer • April 26, 2022

Humboldt State University will either increase attendance or shut down, there is no in-between. A financial and educational gem of the Northern California coast, Humboldt State is the largest educational...

Newsom recall election draws mixed reactions

Mira Chandriani, Editor in Chief, Creative • May 10, 2021

Since stay-at-home orders and lockdown restrictions blanketed California over a year ago, Gavin Newsom, governor of California, has received judgment and criticism for his handling of the pandemic. He...

California to ban the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035

Simon Hereford, Staff Writer • November 19, 2020

chart As historic wildfires burned throughout California over the last few months, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an unprecedented order seeking to cut carbon emissions statewide by banning the sale of...

Looking to the future: California’s plans to reopen after Coronavirus

Sydney Riemer, Editor-in-Chief, Online • May 18, 2020

It has been nearly sixteen weeks since the first case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was diagnosed in the United States and more than two months since California’s stay-at-home order began on Tuesday,...

California’s game-changing law allows payment of college athletes

Loki Olin, Editor-in-Chief, Print • October 29, 2019

On Monday, Sep. 30, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB-206, a bill that will allow athletes at California colleges to profit off the commercial use of their names, images, and likenesses. Newsom...