Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman who is the 40th governor of California, serving since January 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
Editorial: Tough decisions, uncertainty ahead
None of us have ever seen anything like this. Neither the AIDS epidemic, 9/11, the dot-com bust, nor the 2008 financial crisis posed an existential threat of comparable scale facing individuals and economies.
The coronavirus pandemic is a lethal combination of public health crisis and economic free-fall. The Bay Area transformed from a bustling region to a ghost town in less than a week, after the region and Governor Gavin Newsom ordered all non-essential workers to stay home.The economic.
