Central Valley producers took home awards while families scrambled after a sudden change to Sacramento\u2019s motel shelter program. In other news, what does the future hold for California\u2019s state workers?<\/p>\n
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Eight Central Valley producers took home honors at the 2026 Good Food Awards<\/a>, including first-time winners Real Mojo Foods and Pasta Therapy. Repeat honorees included La Tourangelle, Grumpy Goats Farm, Calivirgin, Enzo Olive Oil and Tsar Nicoulai Caviar.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The three gubernatorial front-runners<\/a> for California governor offer sharply different futures for state workforce. Democrat Xavier Becerra pledges to honor collective bargaining agreements, Republican Steve Hilton wants a \u201cCal DOGE\u201d program to drastically shrink the state workforce, and Democrat Tom Steyer has the backing of SEIU and the state attorneys union.<\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Valley producers took home awards while families scrambled after a sudden change to Sacramento\u2019s motel shelter program.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2926,512,121,123,122,84373,141988,141987],"class_list":["post-346169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california-governor","tag-central-valley","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-state-workers","tag-state-workforce","tag-sudden-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}