Emily Hoeven
CalMatters ReporterEmily Hoeven writes the daily WhatMatters newsletter for CalMatters. Her reporting, essays, and opinion columns have been published in San Francisco Weekly, the Deseret News, the San Francisco Business Times, the Flathead Beacon, the Daily Pennsylvanian, and the Mercury News. Emily graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English and French and studied English at the University of Cambridge, England as a Thouron Summer Prize fellow. She speaks French fluently and spent a year teaching English in Châteauroux, France.
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California’s statewide mask mandate is set to expire on Feb. 15, and state health officials may not extend it in an endemic COVID strategy. -
Citing a possible surge in COVID cases and short-staffed hospitals, Newsom extended parts of his emergency order through March 2022. -
California's largest investor-owned utility, PG&E, is facing a federal probe — news that comes amid a global summit on climate change. -
Republican candidates are counting on voters to blame Gavin Newsom for backlogged unemployment claims and billions in fraud. -
So far this year, California has seen 1,812 fires that charred nearly 9,400 acres — a massive uptick from the 1,159 fires that burned nearly 1,700 acres during the same time period last year, according to state data. That increase is even more sobering when one considers that last year’s fire season rewrote the record books.