{"id":395649,"date":"2026-07-12T14:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395649\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T14:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:26:09","slug":"california-has-a-new-top-water-official-as-a-silicon-valley-congressman-bets-on-the-wrong-horse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395649\/","title":{"rendered":"California has a new top water official, as a Silicon Valley congressman bets on the wrong horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline_third lazyautosizes alignleft lazyload\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/arrow.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tom Gibson<\/p>\n<p>Longtime state water attorney is sworn in as the new director of state Department of Water Resources, as feds announce a 97% chance of a strong El Ni\u00f1o this year, boosting the chances of a wet winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline_third lazyautosizes alignleft lazyload\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/arrowdown.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ro Khanna<\/p>\n<p>The Silicon Valley congressman was one of the most prominent backers of progressive Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, only to see him end his campaign over allegations of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline_third lazyautosizes alignleft lazyload\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/arrow-sideways.png\" \/>James Beere<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year veteran of the Oakland Police Department is named chief of police by Mayor Barbara Lee. But it\u2019s a tough job: OPD has only 618 officers \u2014 down from 720 five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Gibson Longtime state water attorney is sworn in as the new director of state Department of Water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[126425,2452,158133,59978,88,90,89,159065],"class_list":["post-395649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-graham-platner","tag-oakland-police","tag-oakland-police-chief","tag-ro-khanna","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-tom-gibson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395649","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=395649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}