Hundreds of Calif. Pizza Hut restaurants to lay off delivery drivers

Hundreds of Calif. Pizza Hut restaurants to lay off delivery drivers

More than 1,200 Pizza Hut delivery drivers in California are slated to be laid off in February. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Pizza Hut operators will lay off more than 1,200 delivery drivers at hundreds of franchises across California in February, the company confirmed.  San Ramon-based PacPizza and Southern California Pizza Co., which operate Pizza Hut restaurants … Read more

Gavin Newsom owns California’s $68 billion budget deficit

Gavin Newsom owns California’s  billion budget deficit

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political future could be determined by how he responds to Assembly Republicans’ call for a special legislative session to address California’s staggering budget shortfall. Newsom owns this mess. At the start of last year, he was bragging about the state’s $98 billion budget surplus. Last week, Legislative Analyst Gabriel Petek warned that … Read more

Unpacking the California and Texas alliance in A24’s ‘Civil War’ movie trailer

Unpacking the California and Texas alliance in A24’s ‘Civil War’ movie trailer

A still from the new A24 Films movie “Civil War.” SFGATE politics reporter Alec Regimbal unpacks the film’s fictional military alliance between California and Texas.  Courtesy of A24 Films Seemingly, the only thing California and Texas have in common these days is their disdain for one another. Forget our similar origins, rooted in an unflagging pioneer spirit … Read more

A good week for Kamala Harris, a bad week for Kevin McCarthy

A good week for Kamala Harris, a bad week for Kevin McCarthy

Kamala Harris Oakland-born vice president, the nation’s first female and Black VP, makes history again by casting her 32nd tie-breaking vote in the US Senate, breaking the record of John C. Calhoun, a South Carolina slavery advocate who served from 1825 to 1832.         Kevin McCarthy Bakersfield Republican, who was Speaker of … Read more