Gov. Gavin Newsom dropped a confusing press release Thursday that made it seem like the Tijuana River sewage crisis was getting $46 million in state funding.
Media outlets nationwide jumped on the news. Except that wasn’t the case at all.
Newsom was merely announcing that the State Water Resources Control Board was now accepting applications for a piece of a $46 million pot designated to help clean up contaminated cross-border rivers. The Tijuana River isn’t the only cross-border river with a problem…