Kaiser Permanente nurses and other health care workers in Riverside continued to picket today, joined by nurses across California and Hawaii, in the second day of an open-ended strike.

Newsom touted a 9% reduction in unsheltered homelessness, cheaper insulin and increased clean energy use in California as among his accomplishments, in a speech delivered with an eye toward higher office.

While few victims of last year’s fires are back in their homes, that’s not unusual following natural disasters; permitting changes appear to be helping.