State Sen. Scott Wiener was surrounded, heckled, and physically intimidated at San Francisco's Trans March over his Israel-Gaza positions, turning political protest into harassment.

Scott Wiener joined Gavin Newsom and other critics of California's proposed billionaire tax as opposition grows to a one-time asset seizure that critics say could encourage capital flight and is no substitute for broad-based, stable taxation.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 130, exempting most urban homebuilding from CEQA reviews, a major reform to fix a long-broken rule that pushed new homes out of urban areas and into the countryside.