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"content": "\u003cp>Several months after Mikey Burke’s house burned down in Lahaina, her husband got a text message out of the blue. It was an offer to buy their property with no inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s gotten a couple of those,” Burke says. “Fighting against speculators and large developers coming in is nothing new for us, but we’ve never had it where it’s been this important to our very being as this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke and her family are among hundreds in Lahaina who are navigating the long and arduous process of rebuilding. More than seven months after the wildfire that took 101 lives, hundreds of properties are still covered in piles of debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fire survivors have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/1231191740/maui-fire-survivors-struggle-to-find-long-term-housing-half-a-year-after-the-bla\">moved into rental properties outside Lahaina\u003c/a>. Others are finding new jobs or schools elsewhere on Maui or in the continental U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/23/1195387894/lahaina-residents-worry-developers-will-scoop-up-land-after-the-recent-wildfires#:~:text=Transcript-,NPR's%20Leila%20Fadel%20talks%20to%20Tiare%20Lawrence%2C%20who%20belongs%20to,land%20after%20the%20recent%20wildfires.\">Many Lahaina residents worry\u003c/a> that developers will buy up properties as they become available, changing the makeup of a community that was once the historic capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have enough of that happening, the village we grew up in is not going to be the village that we want to raise our kids in,” Burke says. “This community is so important to who we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979614\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979614\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Maui is a center of the tourism industry, raising concerns in the community that developers will buy properties destroyed in the fire as they come up for sale. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, some community members are \u003ca href=\"https://lahainacommunitylandtrust.org/\">working on a way to buy properties\u003c/a> so they can remain affordable and available to local residents. It’s a nonprofit community land trust modeled after ones \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/09/1168839399/community-land-trusts-are-providing-a-solution-to-gentrification\">used around the country for affordable housing.\u003c/a> Land trusts purchase properties and then sell or rent the houses. When the homes are for purchase, the trust keeps ownership of the land they’re built on, so the overall sale price is less than comparable homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community land trusts have emerged in a handful of other places recovering from disasters, like \u003ca href=\"https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/community-land-trusts-are-building-disaster-resilient-neighborhoods\">Houston\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/news/2018-08-16/in-post-irma-keys-one-tiny-new-home-is-cause-for-major-celebration\">Florida Keys\u003c/a> after both places were hit by hurricanes. The challenge is mobilizing financial resources in time to purchase properties in the crucial years post-disaster when properties go up for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number of units destroyed that are housing people affordably always outnumbers the amount that you rebuild,” says Steve Kirk, president of Rural Communities, an affordable housing nonprofit affiliated with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.affordablekeys.org/\">Florida Keys Community Land Trust\u003c/a>. “There are individuals and corporations with strike capital that can step into that void and acquire that land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979616\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-2048x676.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maui’s striking volcano and scenic beaches are a major draw for tourists. Half of all condo sales on the island are to out-of-state buyers. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Challenges to rebuilding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Life is still in upheaval for Burke and her family. For months after the fire, her family of four kids and four dogs lived in two hotel rooms. Recently, they moved into a longer-term rental north of Lahaina. Her kids go to a Hawaiian language immersion school right next to the burn zone, so all four are doing distance learning by computer from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re still grappling with memories from the day of the fire. As the smoke approached their house, Burke loaded the kids into the car. But the traffic was at a standstill in the rush to evacuate Lahaina. They watched as the flames kept getting closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was telling the kids: if mommy opens the door, you run straight and you run to the ocean,” she says. “I will never forget that feeling because I didn’t know if it was OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their house was destroyed. The burned debris is still awaiting removal, like hundreds of other properties in Lahaina. But Burke’s family is already navigating the rebuilding process. Burke says they received a dollar estimate for what their insurance company will pay them, but they’re not sure if it will be enough to cover the cost of rebuilding with contractors in such high demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course in August, everyone was like: yeah, we’re going to rebuild,” Burke says. “But now, we’re looking at the actual money we have to rebuild and have to make a decision. Do we rebuild? What can we even rebuild? 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Having worked on housing policy, Ness and Auweloa were aware of the community land trust model and decided to start one for Lahaina. The goal of land trusts is to keep housing affordable in the long term since the buyer agrees to sell the home at a restricted price whenever they choose to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979618\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/0b6a1287-copy_custom-7c5e76759d3a2dbfed0a6152c4ae0608e71982f0-s1000-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/0b6a1287-copy_custom-7c5e76759d3a2dbfed0a6152c4ae0608e71982f0-s1000-c85-copy.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/0b6a1287-copy_custom-7c5e76759d3a2dbfed0a6152c4ae0608e71982f0-s1000-c85-copy-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/0b6a1287-copy_custom-7c5e76759d3a2dbfed0a6152c4ae0608e71982f0-s1000-c85-copy-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Ness, who has worked on housing and local food policy on Maui, says the land trust would be led by the Lahaina community as it re-envisions its future. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cltweb.org/clt-directory/\">Dozens of community land trusts\u003c/a> have been established around the country to boost the affordable housing supply. As climate-driven disasters have taken a bigger and bigger toll, land trusts are getting new attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ness says the wildfires only increased the already-existing pressure on Maui’s housing market. With its stunning ocean views and rich history, Lahaina was a tourism hotspot. Short-term rentals, driven by Airbnb and VRBO, \u003ca href=\"https://uhero.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/TheHawaiiHousingFactbook.pdf\">made up 40% of the total housing supply (PDF)\u003c/a> in Lahaina’s zip code. And in Maui County more broadly, half of all condominium sales \u003ca href=\"https://uhero.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/TheHawaiiHousingFactbook.pdf\">are to out-of-state buyers (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen Lahaina be sold to investors parcel by parcel over the last couple of generations, so it was just like: oh my god, we’re super vulnerable,” Ness says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://lahainacommunitylandtrust.org/\">Lahaina Community Land Trust\u003c/a>, as they’ve named it, is still in the early stages and is starting to raise money through donations. Ness says it could do more than just build housing. They could buy some properties that are of cultural value to Native Hawaiians and preserve them for the community. They could buy other properties at risk of being flooded by sea level rise and not build on them at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Autumn Ness\"]‘We’ve seen Lahaina be sold to investors parcel by parcel over the last couple of generations, so it was just like: oh my god, we’re super vulnerable.’[/pullquote]“People talk about the land trust as a way to sell in, instead of selling out,” Ness says. “If you have to sell — not your fault, no judgment. How can we make sure you have what you need and the land stays in the highest and best interest of the community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke decided to join the effort to develop the land trust, which she says will hopefully lessen the pain for neighbors who choose to leave Lahaina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know we can’t save every parcel that’s gonna come up to be sold,” Burke says. “But if we’re an option on somebody’s table so if they have to walk away, they can do it in good conscience, that’s all we’re there for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Land trusts are growing after disasters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When hurricanes, floods and wildfires destroy housing, the ensuing upheaval can permanently shift the makeup of a community. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans in 2005, \u003ca href=\"https://www.riskproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Graif_Popul_Environ_2016.pdf\">a third of displaced residents (PDF)\u003c/a> still had not returned after three years, and lower-income residents were the most vulnerable to being displaced. Neighborhoods damaged by flooding \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098018800445?journalCode=usja\">were also more likely to experience gentrification\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hurricane Irma hit the Florida Keys in 2017, the Florida Keys Community Land Trust was established. Like in Lahaina, land values are high there, driven by tourism and restrictions on development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vacation rentals command so much money that even in the absence of any storm, we are losing service worker housing on a month-to-month basis,” says Kirk, who works on the land trust as well as affordable housing around Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979619\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979619\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-2048x676.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community land trusts are used widely around the US, but have only recently started in communities hit by disasters like wildfires and hurricanes. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The trust built 31 affordable units on property that went up for sale after the hurricane. It began with a private donation, but the trust eventually secured a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/comm_planning/cdbg-dr\">federal grant earmarked for disaster recovery\u003c/a>. Kirk says securing funding quickly is key since many properties are put up for sale within just a few years of a disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public funding is really a necessity in order to preserve land in the aftermath of a disaster, particularly in an affluent location,” Kirk says. “Because in the absence of that, market conditions will cause speculators and others to step into that land and end up serving a completely different income level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Lahaina, Burke says organizers aren’t sure how many properties the land trust might be able to buy, but they hope to start within the next six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we’re at a place where we can’t come back and still make this a beautiful, vibrant community,” Burke says. “We’re gonna need help and we’re going to continue to need help for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Several months after Mikey Burke’s house burned down in Lahaina, her husband got a text message out of the blue. It was an offer to buy their property with no inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s gotten a couple of those,” Burke says. “Fighting against speculators and large developers coming in is nothing new for us, but we’ve never had it where it’s been this important to our very being as this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke and her family are among hundreds in Lahaina who are navigating the long and arduous process of rebuilding. More than seven months after the wildfire that took 101 lives, hundreds of properties are still covered in piles of debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fire survivors have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/1231191740/maui-fire-survivors-struggle-to-find-long-term-housing-half-a-year-after-the-bla\">moved into rental properties outside Lahaina\u003c/a>. Others are finding new jobs or schools elsewhere on Maui or in the continental U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/23/1195387894/lahaina-residents-worry-developers-will-scoop-up-land-after-the-recent-wildfires#:~:text=Transcript-,NPR's%20Leila%20Fadel%20talks%20to%20Tiare%20Lawrence%2C%20who%20belongs%20to,land%20after%20the%20recent%20wildfires.\">Many Lahaina residents worry\u003c/a> that developers will buy up properties as they become available, changing the makeup of a community that was once the historic capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have enough of that happening, the village we grew up in is not going to be the village that we want to raise our kids in,” Burke says. “This community is so important to who we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979614\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979614\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Maui is a center of the tourism industry, raising concerns in the community that developers will buy properties destroyed in the fire as they come up for sale. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, some community members are \u003ca href=\"https://lahainacommunitylandtrust.org/\">working on a way to buy properties\u003c/a> so they can remain affordable and available to local residents. It’s a nonprofit community land trust modeled after ones \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/09/1168839399/community-land-trusts-are-providing-a-solution-to-gentrification\">used around the country for affordable housing.\u003c/a> Land trusts purchase properties and then sell or rent the houses. When the homes are for purchase, the trust keeps ownership of the land they’re built on, so the overall sale price is less than comparable homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community land trusts have emerged in a handful of other places recovering from disasters, like \u003ca href=\"https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/community-land-trusts-are-building-disaster-resilient-neighborhoods\">Houston\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/news/2018-08-16/in-post-irma-keys-one-tiny-new-home-is-cause-for-major-celebration\">Florida Keys\u003c/a> after both places were hit by hurricanes. The challenge is mobilizing financial resources in time to purchase properties in the crucial years post-disaster when properties go up for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number of units destroyed that are housing people affordably always outnumbers the amount that you rebuild,” says Steve Kirk, president of Rural Communities, an affordable housing nonprofit affiliated with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.affordablekeys.org/\">Florida Keys Community Land Trust\u003c/a>. “There are individuals and corporations with strike capital that can step into that void and acquire that land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979616\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-2048x676.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maui’s striking volcano and scenic beaches are a major draw for tourists. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their house was destroyed. The burned debris is still awaiting removal, like hundreds of other properties in Lahaina. But Burke’s family is already navigating the rebuilding process. Burke says they received a dollar estimate for what their insurance company will pay them, but they’re not sure if it will be enough to cover the cost of rebuilding with contractors in such high demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course in August, everyone was like: yeah, we’re going to rebuild,” Burke says. “But now, we’re looking at the actual money we have to rebuild and have to make a decision. Do we rebuild? What can we even rebuild? Or do we sell?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s heard from others from Lahaina going through the same struggle. Some who are older may not be up for the long rebuilding process. Some are underinsured and won’t have enough to rebuild what they had. Burke says she’s determined to stay, but concern is high that the community she grew up in will be forever altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979617\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over 7 months after the fire, most properties that were burned in Lahaina are still covered with debris. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Selling in, instead of selling out’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Keeping the community together was on Burke’s mind when she ran into two people working on a potential way to help: Carolyn Auweloa and Autumn Ness. Having worked on housing policy, Ness and Auweloa were aware of the community land trust model and decided to start one for Lahaina. The goal of land trusts is to keep housing affordable in the long term since the buyer agrees to sell the home at a restricted price whenever they choose to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979618\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/0b6a1287-copy_custom-7c5e76759d3a2dbfed0a6152c4ae0608e71982f0-s1000-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/0b6a1287-copy_custom-7c5e76759d3a2dbfed0a6152c4ae0608e71982f0-s1000-c85-copy.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/0b6a1287-copy_custom-7c5e76759d3a2dbfed0a6152c4ae0608e71982f0-s1000-c85-copy-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/0b6a1287-copy_custom-7c5e76759d3a2dbfed0a6152c4ae0608e71982f0-s1000-c85-copy-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Ness, who has worked on housing and local food policy on Maui, says the land trust would be led by the Lahaina community as it re-envisions its future. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cltweb.org/clt-directory/\">Dozens of community land trusts\u003c/a> have been established around the country to boost the affordable housing supply. As climate-driven disasters have taken a bigger and bigger toll, land trusts are getting new attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ness says the wildfires only increased the already-existing pressure on Maui’s housing market. With its stunning ocean views and rich history, Lahaina was a tourism hotspot. Short-term rentals, driven by Airbnb and VRBO, \u003ca href=\"https://uhero.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/TheHawaiiHousingFactbook.pdf\">made up 40% of the total housing supply (PDF)\u003c/a> in Lahaina’s zip code. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the 1970s and ’80s, baseball fans got used to Steve Garvey smashing winning home runs and clutch hits in key games. In 1981, Garvey led the Los Angeles Dodgers to a World Series victory. In a nearly two-decade baseball career, Garvey was named MVP for the Dodgers and, later, the San Diego Padres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the former first baseman is headed to a very different kind of competition, a runoff election for an open U.S. Senate seat in California against Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey hopes to become the first Republican elected to represent California in the Senate since 1988. That won’t be easy in a state where \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-presprim-2024/complete-ror.pdf\">registered Democrats heavily outnumber Republicans\u003c/a> by nearly two to one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">A political outsider hopes to leverage discontent\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Marva Diaz, a political strategist who owns \u003ca href=\"https://californiatargetbook.com/\">California Target Book,\u003c/a> a nonpartisan publication tracking elections in California, said while Garvey hit a home run in the primary, a low turnout affair that skewed older and more Republican, that was the easy part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“November is a whole new ballgame, right? That turnout is going to be different. There are different things on the ballot that they’re going to be turning out for,” Diaz said, suggesting that a larger November voter turnout will help Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lanhee Chen, director of domestic policy studies, Hoover Institute Public Policy Program at Stanford\"]‘His candidacy represents something very different, I think, for California Republicans. … He also has an opportunity, I think, to draw a line on issues that (are) probably a little bit more centrist, a little bit closer to the median California voter.’[/pullquote]Adding to his challenges, Diaz said the RNC is unlikely to spend major amounts of money on a long shot campaign like Garvey’s when there are other more competitive races they are facing in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Lanhee Chen, who ran an unsuccessful bid as the Republican candidate for California’s state controller two years ago, said Garvey’s emergence despite his odds is significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His candidacy represents something very different, I think, for California Republicans,” said Chen, who is now a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen thinks Garvey can win over undecided voters by appealing to their dissatisfaction with politics as usual. In a \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/46g7q3hk\">recent poll \u003c/a>from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, 57% of voters think the state is “off on the wrong track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He also has an opportunity, I think, to draw a line on issues that (are) probably a little bit more centrist, a little bit closer to the median California voter,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a debate earlier this year, he said he would vote against a national ban on abortions. Yet Garvey has not provided a lot of specifics on other policy positions, focusing instead on trying to evoke nostalgia for what he sees as a prior golden era, promising a return to the “good old days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979594\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979594\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Garvey of the Los Angeles Dodgers bats against the New York Yankees during the World Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in October 1981. \u003ccite>(Focus on Sport via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Garvey often notes that when he came to California in the 1960s, the state was “the heartbeat of America, but now it’s just a murmur.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a Beach Boys era in Southern California history,” said GOP consultant Mike Madrid, an ardent opponent of former President Trump’s brand of Republicanism and a co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://lincolnproject.us/\">Lincoln Project, \u003c/a>adding that the state’s 1960s era no longer resonates with as many Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the exception of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who sort of transcended partisan politics, that Republican ceiling has remained remarkably consistent for the better part of 25 years,” Madrid said, referring to the actor-turned-Republican governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">Garvey faces long odds to ‘get back in the game’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In October, the low profile Garvey kept at his home near Palm Springs was interrupted when he released \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC44seizfO8&t=2s\">a video\u003c/a> announcing a run for the U.S. Senate, promising to run a “common sense campaign” for the seat held by Dianne Feinstein until her death last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time to get off the bench,” he said in the video. “It’s time to put the uniform back on. It’s time to get back in the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey entered a race dominated by three Democrats already representing California in Congress, Reps. Barbara Lee, Katie Porter and Adam Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979596\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979596\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/ap24024076937939_slide-0f04130c8f15a675564791315f8157d985b4c0e6-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/ap24024076937939_slide-0f04130c8f15a675564791315f8157d985b4c0e6-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/ap24024076937939_slide-0f04130c8f15a675564791315f8157d985b4c0e6-s1600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/ap24024076937939_slide-0f04130c8f15a675564791315f8157d985b4c0e6-s1600-c85-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/ap24024076937939_slide-0f04130c8f15a675564791315f8157d985b4c0e6-s1600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/ap24024076937939_slide-0f04130c8f15a675564791315f8157d985b4c0e6-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidates, from left, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) and former baseball player Steve Garvey, stand on stage during a televised debate on Jan. 22 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the only Republican when the candidates first faced off on the debate stage in January, Garvey sought to portray himself as a pragmatic, moderate Republican.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was one problem with that portrayal. He voted for Donald Trump twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a state where President Biden beat Trump by about 30 points in 2020, that matters. His support for Trump hounded him at all three debates before the March primary. When asked if he would vote for Trump against President Biden, Garvey replied, “I will look at the two opponents, I will determine what they did, and at that time, I will make my choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11978232,news_11978528,news_11973349\"]That prompted this sarcastic response from Congresswoman Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, California, I think what they say is true. ‘Once a Dodger, always a Dodger,'” receiving laughs from the debate audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Schiff, who built a national reputation as the former president’s leading adversary in Congress during his time as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, saw Garvey’s earlier support for Trump as an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California’s primary system, the top two finishers in the March primary will face off in November, regardless of party. And Schiff — who led in pre-election polls — knew that facing the Republican Garvey would be a much easier lift than a runoff against another Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff then spent millions of dollars on television ads highlighting Garvey’s votes for Trump and claimed that Garvey was “too conservative for California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads helped raise his profile among Republicans, elevating Garvey over other GOP candidates on the primary ballot. Porter argued that the ads actually helped consolidate Republican votes for Garvey, a view widely shared by campaign professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it worked, perhaps even better than Schiff could have imagined. Not only did it boost Garvey into the top two and a November runoff, as \u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-senate\">ballots continue to be counted, \u003c/a>Garvey and Schiff are nearly tied for first place in two separate races for the open Senate seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Steve Garvey\"]‘What you are feeling tonight is what it’s like to hit a walk-off home run. Keep in mind, this is the first game of a doubleheader, so keep the evening of Nov. 5th open.’[/pullquote]In November, voters have two Senate elections to decide who will finish the rest of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s term and who will fill a full six-year term starting in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Super Tuesday’s primary results, Schiff and Garvey are the top two candidates for both elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On election night following the primary, Garvey wasted no time celebrating the outcome — with yet more baseball metaphors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you are feeling tonight is what it’s like to hit a walk-off home run. Keep in mind, this is the first game of a doubleheader, so keep the evening of Nov. 5th open,” Garvey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">A political outsider hopes to leverage discontent\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Marva Diaz, a political strategist who owns \u003ca href=\"https://californiatargetbook.com/\">California Target Book,\u003c/a> a nonpartisan publication tracking elections in California, said while Garvey hit a home run in the primary, a low turnout affair that skewed older and more Republican, that was the easy part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“November is a whole new ballgame, right? That turnout is going to be different. There are different things on the ballot that they’re going to be turning out for,” Diaz said, suggesting that a larger November voter turnout will help Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Adding to his challenges, Diaz said the RNC is unlikely to spend major amounts of money on a long shot campaign like Garvey’s when there are other more competitive races they are facing in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Lanhee Chen, who ran an unsuccessful bid as the Republican candidate for California’s state controller two years ago, said Garvey’s emergence despite his odds is significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His candidacy represents something very different, I think, for California Republicans,” said Chen, who is now a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen thinks Garvey can win over undecided voters by appealing to their dissatisfaction with politics as usual. In a \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/46g7q3hk\">recent poll \u003c/a>from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, 57% of voters think the state is “off on the wrong track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He also has an opportunity, I think, to draw a line on issues that (are) probably a little bit more centrist, a little bit closer to the median California voter,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a debate earlier this year, he said he would vote against a national ban on abortions. Yet Garvey has not provided a lot of specifics on other policy positions, focusing instead on trying to evoke nostalgia for what he sees as a prior golden era, promising a return to the “good old days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979594\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979594\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/gettyimages-51469828_slide-862dac329cea3889068f494018dbf6f6bb4eb33e-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Garvey of the Los Angeles Dodgers bats against the New York Yankees during the World Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in October 1981. \u003ccite>(Focus on Sport via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Garvey often notes that when he came to California in the 1960s, the state was “the heartbeat of America, but now it’s just a murmur.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a Beach Boys era in Southern California history,” said GOP consultant Mike Madrid, an ardent opponent of former President Trump’s brand of Republicanism and a co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://lincolnproject.us/\">Lincoln Project, \u003c/a>adding that the state’s 1960s era no longer resonates with as many Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the exception of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who sort of transcended partisan politics, that Republican ceiling has remained remarkably consistent for the better part of 25 years,” Madrid said, referring to the actor-turned-Republican governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">Garvey faces long odds to ‘get back in the game’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In October, the low profile Garvey kept at his home near Palm Springs was interrupted when he released \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC44seizfO8&t=2s\">a video\u003c/a> announcing a run for the U.S. Senate, promising to run a “common sense campaign” for the seat held by Dianne Feinstein until her death last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time to get off the bench,” he said in the video. “It’s time to put the uniform back on. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated March 13, 2024 at 9:25 AM PT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve a bipartisan bill that would require ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, to sell the social media app or face a ban on all U.S. devices. The vote was 352–65.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rep. Mike Gallagher\"]‘What we’re after is, it’s not a ban, it’s a forced separation.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation’s fate is unclear in the Senate. The top two lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.), released a joint statement praising the House bill and urging Senate action, but the timeline is unclear. Several lawmakers have suggested that the Senate hold hearings on the legislation before moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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Both the company and China, historically, have refused to consider divestiture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TikTok has said the banning of a social media platform would amount to a violation of the free speech rights of millions of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"education_536058\" label=\"Related Story\"]Gallagher says classified and unclassified national security assessments show that the app is a threat to user privacy and that it’s been used to target journalists and interfere in elections. Top officials from intelligence and national security agencies conducted a classified briefing on their analysis for all House members on Tuesday. 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The bill gives ByteDance up to six months to divest, and if it doesn’t do that, it will no longer be available in app stores in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also sets up a process for the president to address any future threats from any foreign-owned apps if they are deemed a national security risk. It also creates a system for users to download their own data and switch to an alternate platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Opponents cite freedom of speech and the economic impact of a ban\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At 27 years old, Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost is the youngest member of Congress, and he opposes the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it is a violation of people’s First Amendment rights,” he said. “TikTok is a place for people to express ideas. I have many small businesses in my district and content creators in my district, and I think it’s going to drastically impact them, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other opponents say the bill is being rushed through and that many lawmakers don’t grasp the impact it could have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TikTok declined an interview with NPR. In a statement, a spokesperson said: “The government is attempting to strip 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression. This will damage millions of businesses, deny artists an audience, and destroy the livelihoods of countless creators across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, have called the bill “censorship plain and simple,” arguing that “jeopardizing access to the platform jeopardizes access to free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illinois Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi is the ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on China and helped write the bill. He pushed back on the company’s argument, telling NPR, “There’s no First Amendment right to espionage; there’s no First Amendment right to harm our national security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company stresses that it has established a data firewall by partnering with Austin-based software company Oracle. Dubbed “Project Texas,” the new system routes all U.S. user traffic to Oracle, which now also controls the servers storing Americans’ TikTok data. Still, the plan has not received the blessing from officials in Washington, who have said it falls short of a full breakup with ByteDance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Krishnamoorthi says he and other lawmakers reviewed the efforts and that the company’s claims about its safeguards were false. “Whether it was TikTok saying that, ‘Oh, American user data is not going to be accessible to anyone in China.’ Again, wrong. That was also proven false. And then they said that American user data is not going to be used to target anybody again. Wrong. That was false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even opponents of the bill expected it to easily clear the House, so TikTok is focused on blocking action in the Senate. According to a source familiar with the effort, CEO Shou Zi Chew was in Washington this week and on Capitol Hill to discuss the bill with lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley backs the House bill. He says he’s frustrated that Congress has failed to move tech legislation and argues TikTok is different from other apps. “The really only reason to ban it — it is a major national security concern — and that makes it very different from Google and Meta and the others who do all kinds of bad stuff, but they are not effective subsidiaries of a hostile foreign government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Presidential campaign politics could impact path for bill\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, proposed a ban in 2020 when he was in the White House. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation’s fate is unclear in the Senate. The top two lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.), released a joint statement praising the House bill and urging Senate action, but the timeline is unclear. Several lawmakers have suggested that the Senate hold hearings on the legislation before moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), who chairs the House Select Committee on China and is the lead GOP sponsor of the bipartisan bill, maintains that the bill does not amount to a ban on the video-sharing app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re after is, it’s not a ban, it’s a forced separation,” Gallagher told NPR. “The TikTok user experience can continue and improve so long as ByteDance doesn’t own the company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gallagher says classified and unclassified national security assessments show that the app is a threat to user privacy and that it’s been used to target journalists and interfere in elections. Top officials from intelligence and national security agencies conducted a classified briefing on their analysis for all House members on Tuesday. Classified information is not made public, in part, because it deals with national security matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1165579717/tiktok-congress-hearing-shou-zi-chew-project-texas\">have not\u003c/a> offered\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/29/907316522/tiktok-workers-feel-anxiety-anger-and-rage-amid-trump-crackdown\"> public\u003c/a> evidence of the Chinese Communist Party using the app for surveillance or propaganda purposes, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/02/1153448116/tiktok-la-media-briefing-project-texas\">experts say\u003c/a> it is theoretically possible that Beijing could use TikTok to push its agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI Director Christopher Wray has also publicly testified about his concerns about the app, including during an appearance last week at a Senate hearing on worldwide threats to U.S. security. In that testimony, Wray told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee that the Chinese government could use the app to control software on millions of devices, among other concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not sure that we would see many of the outward signs of it happening if it was happening,” Wray said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved the bipartisan measure last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lobbying campaign flooded offices on Capitol Hill with calls\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gallagher says the lobbying campaign that TikTok launched — with push notices using location information to connect users by phone to their member of Congress — proves why the bill is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had member offices being deluged with calls, you know, teenagers crying and one threatening suicide and one impersonating one of my colleague’s sons,” he said. “That, to me, demonstrates how the platform could be weaponized in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Protecting%20Americans%20From%20Foriegn%20Adversary%20Controlled%20Applications_3.5.24.pdf\">bipartisan bill,\u003c/a> dubbed the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” blocks any app store or web-hosting services in the U.S. for ByteDance-controlled applications, including TikTok, unless the app severs ties to ByteDance, under a designation that it’s subject to the control of a foreign adversary. The bill gives ByteDance up to six months to divest, and if it doesn’t do that, it will no longer be available in app stores in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also sets up a process for the president to address any future threats from any foreign-owned apps if they are deemed a national security risk. It also creates a system for users to download their own data and switch to an alternate platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Opponents cite freedom of speech and the economic impact of a ban\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At 27 years old, Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost is the youngest member of Congress, and he opposes the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it is a violation of people’s First Amendment rights,” he said. “TikTok is a place for people to express ideas. I have many small businesses in my district and content creators in my district, and I think it’s going to drastically impact them, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other opponents say the bill is being rushed through and that many lawmakers don’t grasp the impact it could have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TikTok declined an interview with NPR. In a statement, a spokesperson said: “The government is attempting to strip 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression. This will damage millions of businesses, deny artists an audience, and destroy the livelihoods of countless creators across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, have called the bill “censorship plain and simple,” arguing that “jeopardizing access to the platform jeopardizes access to free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illinois Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi is the ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on China and helped write the bill. He pushed back on the company’s argument, telling NPR, “There’s no First Amendment right to espionage; there’s no First Amendment right to harm our national security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company stresses that it has established a data firewall by partnering with Austin-based software company Oracle. Dubbed “Project Texas,” the new system routes all U.S. user traffic to Oracle, which now also controls the servers storing Americans’ TikTok data. Still, the plan has not received the blessing from officials in Washington, who have said it falls short of a full breakup with ByteDance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Krishnamoorthi says he and other lawmakers reviewed the efforts and that the company’s claims about its safeguards were false. “Whether it was TikTok saying that, ‘Oh, American user data is not going to be accessible to anyone in China.’ Again, wrong. That was also proven false. And then they said that American user data is not going to be used to target anybody again. Wrong. That was false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even opponents of the bill expected it to easily clear the House, so TikTok is focused on blocking action in the Senate. According to a source familiar with the effort, CEO Shou Zi Chew was in Washington this week and on Capitol Hill to discuss the bill with lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley backs the House bill. He says he’s frustrated that Congress has failed to move tech legislation and argues TikTok is different from other apps. “The really only reason to ban it — it is a major national security concern — and that makes it very different from Google and Meta and the others who do all kinds of bad stuff, but they are not effective subsidiaries of a hostile foreign government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Presidential campaign politics could impact path for bill\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, proposed a ban in 2020 when he was in the White House. But he does not support the House bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he served as president, he vowed to ban the social media app. Trump explained his new opposition in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-tiktok-national-security-threat-facebook-enemy-people-rcna142733\">an interview with CNBC \u003c/a>on Monday, saying that despite the possible security risk, he opposed a ban because it meant users would move to another platform that he considered more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of good, and there’s a lot of bad with TikTok. 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"content": "\u003cp>President Joe Biden’s pitch to 2024 voters will get an even bigger spotlight on Thursday night when he delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The address comes right on the heels of Super Tuesday, the results of which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1236192892/super-tuesday-results-analysis-trump-biden-haley\">all but guarantee a rematch\u003c/a> between Biden and former president Donald Trump in November. And it’s an opportunity for Biden to highlight his administration’s accomplishments so far, building on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/07/1155250237/biden-makes-a-pitch-to-finish-the-job-in-his-state-of-the-union-address#:~:text=President%20Biden%20delivers%20the%202023%20State%20of%20the%20Union%20address.,-Andrew%20Caballero%2DReynolds&text=In%20his%20State%20of%20the%20Union%20address%20on%20Tuesday%2C%20President,his%20unofficial%20pitch%20for%20reelection.\">last year’s refrain\u003c/a>: “Let’s finish the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep on Wednesday that Biden’s speech will also highlight his agenda for a potential second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jeff Zients, White House chief of staff\"]‘I think importantly, the president is also going to call for restoring Roe v. Wade and giving women freedom over their health care. And he’ll talk about protecting, not taking away, freedoms in other areas, as well as voting rights.’[/pullquote]“Lowering costs, continuing to make people’s lives better by investing in childcare, eldercare, paid family and medical leave, continued progress on student debt,” Zients said, listing a few. “But I think importantly, the president is also going to call for restoring Roe v. Wade and giving women freedom over their health care. 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And you’re going to hear the president push Congress to do just that in the State of the Union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than two years into Russia’s war in Ukraine, U.S. support for additional military aid has dwindled — especially \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/19/1199503861/zelenskyy-ukraine-aid-republican-congress-shutdown-spending\">among Republican voters and lawmakers\u003c/a> — but remains a key priority for Biden and the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zients said Biden, his team and many members of the House and Senate are “working every angle” to get Ukraine the resources it needs. He said help from other allies is no substitute for the military resources the U.S. is “uniquely positioned” to provide to its own economic benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, this is a no-brainer,” Zients added. “We need to defend democracy here at home and we need to create jobs here at home. And we need to lead the world as we always have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Biden can’t act alone at the border\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Immigration has become a top issue in the 2024 race, with both Biden and Trump making \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234518923/biden-and-trump-are-both-at-the-border-today-staking-out-ground-on-a-key-2024-is\">dueling visits to Texas border communities\u003c/a> last week to outline their competing visions for how to manage the influx of migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zients accused some Republicans of prioritizing chaos over order at the border and said the Biden administration can’t “manage the border in an orderly way” without help from Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, he said, would take the form of policy changes and more resources, such as Border Patrol agents and asylum officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The president has done many executive actions at the border,” Zients added — \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/biden-executive-actions-immigration-first-year\">nearly 300 in Biden’s first year\u003c/a> alone. “There’s no executive action that replaces the need for the resources, and also the changes in law to asylum and an emergency order to close down the border, that needs legislation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The administration defends its approach to the Israel-Hamas war\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biden is also expected to discuss the ongoing conflict in Gaza, where Israel’s military response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack has killed more than 30,700 Palestinians and displaced more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/03/gaza-israels-dehumanisation-displaced-persons-must-end-says-un-expert#:~:text=Since%20Israel%20began%20its%20military,lives%20are%20not%20mere%20statistics.\">75% of the population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His administration’s response has angered many within the president’s party, from the thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234602096/joe-biden-uncommitted-age-donald-trump-michigan-gaza-israel\">voters checking “uncommitted”\u003c/a> in protest over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war to other discouraged Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1234145544/2024-election-michigan-voters-disillusioned-biden-trump\">who may not vote at all\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jeff Zients, White House chief of staff\"]‘He will talk about his work day and night, and his team’s work, to negotiate an immediate cease-fire for at least six weeks, secure the release of the hostages, get more humanitarian aid in and hopefully be on a path to a possible end to fighting.’[/pullquote]Critics of Biden’s response to the conflict want a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, an end to unconditional U.S. military aid to Israel and a clear path to Palestinian statehood. 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That’s a gas that, in the short term, packs an even bigger planet-warming punch than carbon dioxide.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Steven Hamburg, chief scientist, Environmental Defense Fund\"]‘For the first time [we’ll] have high-quality empirical data for an entire sector across the globe.’[/pullquote]MethaneSAT — led by the Environmental Defense Fund — will focus on spotting methane from the oil and gas industry, which leaks at various parts of the fossil fuel production process. 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That will allow governments, researchers and others to have an unbiased view from space of most oil and gas operations, says \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.stanford.edu/adam-brandt\">Adam Brandt\u003c/a>, a professor in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University who was not involved with the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beauty of having MethaneSAT,” Brandt says, is “we don’t have to ask [oil companies] permission nicely to go on site and make measurements, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The decision to look at oil and gas pollution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/44216/eye_on_methane_summary.pdf?sequence=3\">About 30% of global warming\u003c/a> comes from human-caused methane pollution. \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/people/mark-brownstein\">Mark Brownstein\u003c/a>, a senior vice president at EDF, says the question for a long time was how much methane comes from the oil and gas sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other sectors also create methane pollution. Agriculture — specifically gas-belching cows and gas-emitting manure — \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases#methane\">is the single biggest source of methane in the U.S\u003c/a>., according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).[aside label='More on Climate Change' tag='climate-change']But focusing on the oil and gas sector was strategic, Hamburg says. Oil and gas have a concentrated number of players with bigger budgets to clean up their operations. “The ability to remediate is much greater, and it’s cost-effective,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past six years, EDF put together a team — including scientists from Harvard University and other groups — to build a satellite to get a better picture of the oil industry. The satellite has sensors specifically designed to pick up the fingerprint of the methane molecule. The sensors now orbiting in space will then send data back to Earth in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hope is that regulators will use this data, Hamburg says. “There’s interest. 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"content": "\u003cp>Alyssa Milano first became an activist more than 30 years ago. But she tells the story of her eureka moment like it was yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1980s, when she starred in the sitcom \u003cem>Who’s the Boss?, \u003c/em>one of her fans was a \u003ca href=\"https://ryanwhite.hrsa.gov/livinghistory/\">teenager \u003c/a>named Ryan White, who was HIV positive. The two became friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alyssa Milano, actor and UNICEF National Ambassador\"]‘It was the first time I felt that my being an actor, being on TV, had a purpose that was bigger than I was.’[/pullquote]“He asked me if I would go on TV and give him a kiss to show that you couldn’t get AIDS from casual contact,” Milano recalls. She agreed and kissed White on Phil Donahue’s national talk show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time I felt that my being an actor, being on TV, had a purpose that was bigger than I was,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/bio/alyssa-milano\">championed\u003c/a> many causes, including reproductive rights, gun reform and the #MeToo movement. Over time, she learned the good and bad of having both a high profile and a sense of purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, Milano, a UNICEF National Ambassador, used her social media platform to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyg6ricyfam/\">share\u003c/a> the NGO’s messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the backlash was swift. “I felt like every time I posted from this place of peace, I was either a terrorist sympathizer, or I did not fight strong enough for the oppression of the Palestinian people,” Milano explains. She says, while social media is a powerful tool for activism, “There’s no way to not be exposed to the vitriol” you get in return.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Celebrities are amplifiers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oscar-winning actor and \u003cem>Thelma & Louise\u003c/em> star Susan Sarandon describes her lifelong activism as something that’s ingrained in her being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a personality flaw,” she laughs, “I mean, when I was little, I thought that my dolls all came alive at midnight, and I rotated their dresses so one doll didn’t have all the nice dresses all the time. Anything that’s unfair always really hurt me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarandon has been voicing her support for Palestinians for many years, so she says she was “shocked” when she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/22/1214833761/melissa-barrera-susan-sarandon-israel-gaza\">dropped\u003c/a> by United Talent Agency (UTA) for a speech she gave at a rally calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says her words were taken out of context. Nonetheless, she issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C0VdJBjuTFa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">statement\u003c/a> on social media apologizing if she offended anyone. UTA declined NPR’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarandon says that while the “isolation from my tribe” has been “painful,” she will continue lending her voice to calls for a cease-fire. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Medea Benjamin, co-founder, CODEPINK\"]‘We’ve been walking these halls for three months, and nobody pays attention to us, especially the Congress people. But having her with us brings out the media, and we get the Congress people themselves.’[/pullquote]Sarandon recently attended a protest calling for a cease-fire on Capitol Hill organized by \u003ca href=\"https://www.codepink.org/\">CODEPINK\u003c/a>. The feminist group alerted the press she was coming. \u003cem>NBC\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Al Jazeera\u003c/em> and other outlets showed up. CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin says Sarandon’s presence was a game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been walking these halls for three months, and nobody pays attention to us, especially the Congress people. But having her with us brings out the media, and we get the Congress people themselves,” she gushes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all of the Congress people. Sarandon met with Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush. But Ritchie Torres refused to see her. Sarandon told reporters she suspected that’s because he receives money from the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. On social media, Torres says Sarandon trafficked in “anti-Semitic victim blaming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the harsh repercussions that can result, some artists are still using their star power to call for a cease-fire. Fans of \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em> actor Hunter Schafer learned that she and dozens of anti-war protesters were arrested earlier this week in the lobby of NBC’s headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, timed to President Biden’s interview on \u003cem>Late Night with Seth Meyers\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schafer’s arrest was covered by numerous media outlets, including the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hunter-schafer-arrest-protest-israel-gaza-biden-seth-myers-e1cd343fae8d02dbd322dfa7ebec4775\">\u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/02/28/hunter-schafer-arrested-anti-zionism-israel-hamas-war-rally/72772198007/\">\u003cem>USA Today\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-02-28/hunter-schafer-euphoria-arrest-in-cease-fire-30-rock-jvp\">\u003cem>The Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>amplifying the cease-fire message.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>But backlash can be swift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will and Grace \u003c/em>star Debra Messing is one of several celebrities who’ve been outspoken in their support of Israel. Others include actors Michael Rapaport and Amy Schumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the March for Israel \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJPA_gww57Q\">rally\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., last November, Messing told the crowd of some 300,000 people, “We will pray for the success of the IDF in a war Israel did not start and did not want but a war Israel will win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Messing also traveled to Israel and met with family members of hostages held by Hamas and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C1V0PoQxVCa/\">posted\u003c/a> videos of those visits on social media. She visited a tunnel built by Hamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her trip was coordinated by \u003ca href=\"https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/\">Creative Community for Peace\u003c/a> (CCFP), an organization working to “promote the arts as a bridge to peace” and “educate about rising antisemitism within the entertainment industry.” The trips to Israel are intended to help artists “bear witness to what happened in the kibbutzim to meet people and survivors of the attack,” CCFP’s executive director Ari Ingel says. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ari Ingel, executive director, Creative Community for Peace\"]‘I think a lot of Jews in the entertainment community felt abandoned, not just by their silence, but by their condemnation.’[/pullquote]While many people on social media thanked Messing for sharing stories about the hostages and their families, she was also called out for only talking about one side of the conflict and not addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza or the tens of thousands of Palestinians who Israeli forces have killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something about standing with a colonial force that is expelling people from their homes and killing thousands of civilians doesn’t exactly say ‘activist,'” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CzXy3deMR4I/\">reads one comment\u003c/a> on Messing’s Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingel says more than 2,000 artists and industry leaders, including Gal Gadot, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jerry Seinfeld, Mayim Bialik, Chris Pine and Michael Douglas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/blog/2023/10/12/israel-under-attack-open-letter/\">signed CCFP’s open letter supporting Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter calls for the “entertainment community to speak out forcefully against Hamas, to support Israel, to refrain from sharing misinformation about the war, and do whatever is in their power to urge the terrorist organization to return the innocent hostages to their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingel says celebrities who’ve spoken up in support of Israel have faced “condemnation.” He points to a \u003ca href=\"https://cnycentral.com/news/local/activists-march-for-shut-it-down-for-palestine-movement-through-downtown-syracuse\">protest\u003c/a> outside a Syracuse theater where Seinfeld performed. Equally troubling, he says, was the “silence” from individuals and organizations after the Hamas attacks. He points to the Writers Guild of America \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/wga-israel-attack-open-letter-1235756946/\">waiting\u003c/a> more than two weeks to comment on the atrocity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of Jews in the entertainment community felt abandoned, not just by their silence, but by their condemnation,” Ingel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong> ‘Taking a stand’ vs. ‘Nag, Nag, Nag’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the storied March on Washington in 1963, the late activist and entertainer Harry Belafonte \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/archival-video-harry-belafonte-speaks-march-washington-1963-45832971\">told the crowd\u003c/a> that he believed artists “revealed” society to itself. Sometimes, that means revealing things that are hard to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Fonda has done that often throughout her life. In 1973, speaking to KQED about the Vietnam War, she asked, “What business have we to try and exterminate a people?” Fonda was insistent, “My father fought against people in the Second World War who were trying to exterminate a people. I don’t think today we should repudiate everything that our fathers fought against.”[aside postID=news_11969701 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/Queer-Palestinian-Artists_2-1020x659.jpg']Fonda was widely criticized for things she said about U.S. troops in Vietnam. But her antiwar stance resonated with millions of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We often see celebrities getting a lot of backlash for their activism when they speak out about foreign policy,” says Sarah King, an assistant professor of History at the University of South Carolina-Aiken who has studied celebrity activism \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pech.12458\">during\u003c/a> the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlash appears to be especially degrading toward women, King says. She notes that Fonda’s activism was described more harshly than her fellow actor Donald Sutherland’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is discussed as taking a stand, whereas Jane Fonda is described in much more negative terms,” King notes. “\u003cem>Nag, Nag, Nag,”\u003c/em> read the headline of a 1971 \u003cem>Life\u003c/em> magazine \u003ca href=\"https://www.life.com/page/29/?p=0\">article\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Should artists speak out?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We live in a time … where celebrity voices matter more than most,” says Rania Batrice, who spearheaded the Artists4Ceasefire \u003ca href=\"https://www.artists4ceasefire.org/\">letter\u003c/a> addressed to President Biden and signed by more than 300 people, including Jon Stewart, Jordan Peele, Bella Hadid, Dua Lipa, Jennifer Lopez and Bradley Cooper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, the letter cites the tens of thousands of dead and injured, “numbers that any person of conscience knows are catastrophic,” it says. “We believe all life is sacred, no matter faith or ethnicity and we condemn the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batrice says many of the artists were discouraged from signing the letter by their agents or publicists, and those who did face pushback from friends and others in the entertainment industry.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rania Batrice, activist and leader in creating the Artists4Ceasefire letter]‘I also am incredibly grateful for those artists who stepped up despite having all of these voices in their ears telling them not to do it.’[/pullquote]Still, Batrice believes if they have a platform, they should use it to help those who need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sort of have this expectation that people will step up and utilize their privilege,” Batrice says, “I also am incredibly grateful for those artists who stepped up despite having all of these voices in their ears telling them not to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actor Melissa Barrera has vowed to continue her activism. She was fired from the cast of the next \u003cem>Scream \u003c/em>movie when she posted pro-Palestinian messages on social media. But instead of retreating, she doubled down. She issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz-SbMgsjGQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">statement\u003c/a> that says she condemned “Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia” and that she would, quote, “continue to speak out for those that need it most.” She joined a protest calling for a cease-fire at the Sundance Film Festival and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/video/movie-premieres-movies-park-city-utah-melissa-barrera-6bcfc464baad4b3e87b5fb3258ce8da7\">expressed\u003c/a> no regrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I feel like I finally am becoming who I’m supposed to be in life, and the last few months have been awakening of that,” she told the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artists, a publicist told me, are “supposed to show emotion … That’s the whole point of art.” He preferred not to be identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Fonda was widely criticized for things she said about U.S. troops in Vietnam. But her antiwar stance resonated with millions of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We often see celebrities getting a lot of backlash for their activism when they speak out about foreign policy,” says Sarah King, an assistant professor of History at the University of South Carolina-Aiken who has studied celebrity activism \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pech.12458\">during\u003c/a> the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlash appears to be especially degrading toward women, King says. She notes that Fonda’s activism was described more harshly than her fellow actor Donald Sutherland’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is discussed as taking a stand, whereas Jane Fonda is described in much more negative terms,” King notes. “\u003cem>Nag, Nag, Nag,”\u003c/em> read the headline of a 1971 \u003cem>Life\u003c/em> magazine \u003ca href=\"https://www.life.com/page/29/?p=0\">article\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Should artists speak out?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We live in a time … where celebrity voices matter more than most,” says Rania Batrice, who spearheaded the Artists4Ceasefire \u003ca href=\"https://www.artists4ceasefire.org/\">letter\u003c/a> addressed to President Biden and signed by more than 300 people, including Jon Stewart, Jordan Peele, Bella Hadid, Dua Lipa, Jennifer Lopez and Bradley Cooper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, the letter cites the tens of thousands of dead and injured, “numbers that any person of conscience knows are catastrophic,” it says. “We believe all life is sacred, no matter faith or ethnicity and we condemn the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batrice says many of the artists were discouraged from signing the letter by their agents or publicists, and those who did face pushback from friends and others in the entertainment industry.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A life-size bronze statue of a cowboy sits at the center of Waimea, Hawaii. The cowboy is riding a horse, lasso in hand, pursuing a wild bull. It’s a monument to Ikua Purdy, a hometown hero who was the first Hawaiian to become a \u003ca href=\"https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/collections/awards/rodeo-hall-of-fame/inductees/5255/\">hall-of-fame rodeo roper\u003c/a>. This statue is meant to represent the spirit of the place here on Hawaii’s Big Island, which is wholly different from the tourist-laden beaches of Waikiki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waimea is primarily an agricultural town with just three stoplights and around 10,000 residents. It has lush forests filled with guava trees and torch ginger, and it’s known for being the birthplace of the Hawaiian cowboy, or paniolo. It sits thousands of feet above sea level, where misty winds often blow sideways and, on clear days, give way to expansive views of the island’s three towering volcanoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last couple of years, a mystery has been brewing in this small mountain town. Someone has been quietly buying hundreds of acres of land — stirring worries about rising housing prices and speculation among locals about what exactly is going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waimea is a tight-knit community that has a large Native Hawaiian population, and the people here say they don’t want to lose that culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first heard rumors about the land buys when I was visiting my family near there in November. My grandmother grew up in Hawaii, and I lived here as a child. I started asking around Waimea, and everyone seemed to know who was behind the purchases: billionaire Marc Benioff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce\"]‘There’s nothing owned by Salesforce in Hawaii. There never will be.’[/pullquote]He’s the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco-based Salesforce, one of the world’s largest software companies, which owns the popular messaging service Slack and is worth nearly $300 billion. He also owns \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> magazine. Benioff is hard to miss — the 59-year-old stands at a towering 6 feet, 5 inches and is often seen driving around Waimea in his white Hummer pickup, sporting his signature look of a baseball cap with his curly brown hair tumbling out back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB114852253987662635\">lives in a beachside mansion\u003c/a> down the mountain from Waimea. He built the $24.5 million, 9,800-square-foot home about 20 years ago and also bought dozens of acres of ranch land in Waimea around that time, according to public records. Since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, however, I found that Benioff has gone on a much larger — and previously unreported — shopping spree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawaii has long been a place where the world’s elite has flocked. And tech billionaires are now among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/11/hawaiis-crisis-as-a-playground-for-the-ultrawealthy\">newest cadre of migrants to buy land\u003c/a> in the islands. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns a sprawling beach mansion in Maui. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has plans to build a bunker on his land in Kauai, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-inside-hawaii-compound/\">according to \u003cem>Wired\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Benioff’s former boss, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-oracle-larry-ellison-lanai-hawaii-plans-tourism/?sref=h2AwP2mF&embedded-checkout=true\">owns 98% of Lanai\u003c/a>. And the list goes on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The billionaires stand in stark contrast to the rest of Hawaii’s residents — where on the Big Island specifically, the median household income is around $74,000, according to county data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s different here is that rather than focusing on coastal mansions in gated communities, Benioff is buying property in a rural residential town. In the majority of instances, he’s paid more than current market value, according to public records. For example, the longtime Mamane Bakery — known for its lilikoi cheesecake and mango-guava hot cross buns — shuttered after he purchased the land for more than 50% above the current market value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with several longtime residents who say they fear that these land buys will add to already sky-high housing costs and that they’ll be priced out of Waimea. Some people say a few of his neighbors had been approached about their properties, and Benioff himself says homeowners have come to him about selling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the people of Waimea understand that Benioff is behind the recent land purchases, hardly anyone seems to know his plans. Some guess he’s building a Salesforce training center and moving in engineers; others say he’s generously donating to the community and helping local schools. Most people just shake their heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s kind of how the rumor mill starts, right?” says local resident Mike Donoho, who works in natural resource planning on the islands. “When there’s not clarity or disclosure about what the intentions are of someone purchasing a property or multiple properties, then there’s that level of uncertainty. And with those gaps of information, people are filling in the blanks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all the 18 residents who spoke to me did so on the condition that I not use their names. They don’t want to be seen as talking critically about Benioff; they say he holds a lot of sway here. One person told me that, in this small town, it stems from a culture of not criticizing people in public, or what locals call “no talk stink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of them have similar sentiments about a single individual buying a lot of land in Waimea. As one person put it, “When you have the locals getting priced out of towns like this and more challenges with people moving over here, it just creates more competition in terms of trying to buy land. … At what point does Hawaii not become Hawaii anymore, if no Hawaiians are here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Benioff, he has stayed silent on the topic. Until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone’s seen the movie \u003cem>South Pacific\u003c/em>. It’s Bali Ha’i,” he tells me in a sit-down interview. “This is a place that everybody loves to be. It’s a magical place. It’s a place that people come and transform and change, evolve. They experience God. They experience nature. They experience themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ʻOhana, dolphins and Salesforce gets the aloha spirit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>People in Waimea tell me about Benioff’s land purchases, but I want to confirm them. Before speaking with him, I start combing through Waimea property maps and cross-checking the data with public records from Hawaii’s secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I find that since 2000, Benioff has bought at least 38 parcels of land through at least six anonymous limited liability companies, or LLCs, and one nonprofit. All of the property owned by the LLCs has the same mailing address — a P.O. box in the San Francisco Bay Area — and the same registered agent in Palo Alto, California. None of the documentation has Benioff’s name, but he doesn’t dispute any of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property totals more than 600 acres of land. He’s bought 29 parcels, more than 580 acres, in Waimea, and nine others, about 25 acres, at beach resorts. One of his coastal properties surrounds an entire public beach. The combined market value of this land stands at nearly $100 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first 15 years that Benioff bought land in Hawaii, he mostly focused on beach resort property. When the pandemic started, he ramped up buying residential, commercial and agricultural land in and around Waimea. Since 2020, he has purchased 22 parcels of land here — a town where inventory is low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff has long professed his love for Hawaii, which he started visiting when he was young. Salesforce’s origin story even begins with him swimming with dolphins off the Big Island in the late 1990s and having a vision of selling software as a subscription service over the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came to Hawaii for the first time and fell in love,” Benioff says. “I fell in love with the people, or what we call here in Hawaii ʻohana. I fell in love with the land that we call ʻāina. And, of course, I fell in love with the aloha spirit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That aloha spirit is a big part of Salesforce’s corporate identity. The word ʻohana, Hawaiian for “family,” is a common refrain at business meetings, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.salesforce.com/campaign/peering/\">company blogs\u003c/a> and on social media. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/salesforce-is-ditching-its-awkward-corporate-obsession-with-hawaiian-culture\">Fridays at Salesforce have been known as Aloha shirt days\u003c/a>, replete with company events that include hula dancers and Hawaiian drummers. More than once, Benioff has \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/f1b696d6-0226-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5\">thrown a Hawaiian luau\u003c/a> at the World Economic Forum confab in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual Salesforce party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When construction got underway in 2014 for the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, the city’s tallest building, Benioff had his longtime friends and Hawaiian spiritual advisers Danny Akaka Jr. and Anna Akaka bless the area. (Danny is the son of late U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka.) The Akakas have also blessed Salesforce conferences and other projects that Benioff has worked on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Hawaiians always believed that whenever you embark upon a new adventure, whether it’s a voyage or making a new canoe or building a heiau [temple], it always needs to be preceded by a blessing,” Danny Akaka Jr. told me in an interview. “Marc also felt like that too — that whatever is done should be done in a way that’s pono, that’s good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Salesforce \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/forget-the-officesalesforce-is-making-a-wellness-retreat-for-workers-11644510615\">rented a 75-acre luxury retreat center in California\u003c/a> for its employees to come together and bond. Benioff told \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em> that his vision was to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/marc-benioff-says-a-ranch-may-be-what-salesforces-work-culture-needs-11620758858?mod=article_inline\">purchase a large property\u003c/a> and build his own retreat-like ranch for his employees. One of the properties he floated was in Maui, but according to the \u003cem>Journal\u003c/em>, he hadn’t yet settled on a location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I continued to piece together Benioff’s land purchases in Waimea, a colleague at NPR got an out-of-the-blue text from him. Word had gotten back to Benioff that I was poking around town. He wanted to speak with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A “seriously zen” billionaire known for philanthropy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Benioff’s CEO persona isn’t that of your typical cutthroat winner-takes-all billionaire. He’s seen more as a socialite tech guru who hangs out with people like New Age author Deepak Chopra, Bono and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/technology/silicon-valleys-big-bold-sci-fi-bet-on-the-device-that-comes-after-the-smartphone.html\">Buddhist monk named Brother Spirit\u003c/a>. He hired actor Matthew McConaughey (who’s also regularly seen around Waimea) to be Salesforce’s brand ambassador. One of Benioff’s books is even titled \u003cem>Compassionate Capitalism\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>GQ\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.gq.com/story/marc-benioff-gq-clout\">calls him\u003c/a> “seriously zen,” \u003cem>Fortune\u003c/em> says he’s \u003ca href=\"https://fortune.com/longform/marc-benioff-salesforce-slack-acquisition-diversity-inclusion-fortune-500/\">one of few CEOs\u003c/a> who has achieved “rock star–level status” and \u003cem>Forbes\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiasavchuk/2014/06/19/san-franciscos-giant-of-generosity/\">calls him\u003c/a> a “giant of generosity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff’s current net worth is around $10.3 billion, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/marc-r-benioff/?sref=h2AwP2mF\">Bloomberg Billionaires Index\u003c/a>. And over the last year, by NPR’s calculation, his wealth has risen by an average of $9.5 million per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be hard to fathom that much money, says Rachel Sherman, a sociology professor at The New School \u003ca href=\"https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/story/tackling-the-anxieties-of-affluence/\">who studies wealth\u003c/a>. “Just like how much a billion actually is,” she says. “It’s not just a little bit more than a million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff is a well-known philanthropist. In the Bay Area, his name is plastered across the city. He and his wife, Lynne Benioff, donated $250 million to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland. He has given millions of dollars to local schools, pledged $2 million to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/gospel-of-wealth-according-to-marc-benioff/\">champion a homelessness initiative\u003c/a> and has thrown his support behind LGBTQ+ rights. Salesforce, as a company, has donated hundreds of millions too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salesforce also \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/business/davos-man-marc-benioff-book.html\">paid $0 in federal taxes\u003c/a> from 2018 to 2020, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://itep.org/55-profitable-corporations-zero-corporate-tax/\">Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy\u003c/a>. When asked for comment, a Salesforce spokesperson says the company “fully complies with all tax laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Benioff and his wife bought \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> magazine for $190 million. He doesn’t shy away from publicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, when it comes to Hawaii, Benioff is extremely private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We speak for the first time in December on a Zoom call that lasted 90 minutes. Over the following days, Benioff texts me constantly, often many times a day. The primary focus of these texts is to draw attention to his philanthropy in Hawaii, which has almost all been anonymous. He adds me to several group threads with people who know about his charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He talks about donations to the fire department, which include massive trucks that can roll over the rocky lava terrain common in the area (Benioff calls them “monster trucks”). He has given money to public schools through the state’s Department of Education and bought several homes for teachers at a local private school. He flew in 1 million masks for protection against COVID-19 during the pandemic. He works with the Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project, and there are island reforestation projects with a group called American Forests. He says he’s also working on major health care grants with Gov. Josh Green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff says he likes to find local organizations already doing the work and to give them what they need. He’s ready to go public, he says. He releases his nonprofit partners from their anonymity agreements to speak with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning, I’d explained to Benioff that I was working on this story after hearing from townspeople worried about what was happening with his land purchases in Waimea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a week after we first talked, Benioff emailed to say he had just published a news release about one of his land tracts called Ouli. “You inspired me with your idea to dispel the myths and fears,” he later texts, referring to what I’ve told him was the purpose of my story. He tops off that text conversation with an angel emoji.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2023-12-19/donors-give-nearly-300-acres-and-7m-to-expand-affordable-housing-on-hawai%CA%BBi-island\">Ouli project covers 282 acres\u003c/a> that Benioff and his wife bought and donated to the Hawaii Island Community Development Corp., which builds affordable housing on the Big Island. The organization has developed nearly 900 homes here over the last 30 years. The initial plan is to build about 40 houses on the currently uninhabited property in Ouli, but that number could grow. The project is about 6 miles out of town, and because of the terrain and scope of the project, it won’t be done for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Kato, the organization’s soft-spoken executive director, offers me a tour in his four-wheel-drive pickup. It’s a clear day, and you can see the ocean in the distance and snow glistening off the top of Mauna Kea. He shows me another subdivision that his group built, which resembles what Ouli will look like — modest single-story homes on 10,000-square-foot lots. It’s on the dry side of town, where the rainforest fades to grassland covering an ancient lava field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting that you have people who have that much wealth and that they’re actually willing to put it to use in the community,” Kato says. “So this was like a gift from heaven, so to speak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully we get some of the rumors put to bed,” he adds. The mystery around Ouli is solved, but dozens more properties remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“I’m not a prepper”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January, I pull up to a residential home that Benioff bought in Waimea in late 2020. It’s a midcentury modern house made of redwood that sits on a hillside and has sweeping views of the town below and volcanoes in the background. Bird-of-paradise flowers flourish outside, along with monstera vines and an avocado tree. A wild turkey pecks at the grass. Benioff’s Hummer is parked out front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff calls this his Waimea office, and I’m here to interview him in person. As I get situated, I meet two assistants — who are both named Kendall — and his two golden retrievers, Brandy and Honey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His artwork includes the famous anti-capitalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.artsy.net/artwork/zevs-liquidated-google-14\">\u003cem>Liquidated Google\u003c/em>\u003c/a> print by French graffiti artist Zevs and a wall-size painting by the Brazilian graffiti duo OSGEMEOS. Benioff says the Brazilian artists are his friends. He also has an array of Hawaiian art, including a collection of antique \u003ca href=\"https://hawaiialive.org/lei-niho-palaoa/\">lei niho palaoa\u003c/a> necklaces that are made with an ivory pendant strung by thick cords of intricately woven human hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We sit down on a big white semicircle couch; Brandy and Honey join us. A Salesforce adviser tunes in from New Jersey via a Zoom call. One wall of this room is papered corner to corner with magazine covers and newspaper articles about Benioff. I bring up Zuckerberg and Ellison, who have famously purchased tons of land in Hawaii, and ask Benioff how he sees himself compared with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our philosophy has always been different, which is that we’re really only here to have a home for our family and then to give,” he says. “We don’t have outsized properties. We have basically enough for ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a prepper,” he adds when I ask him about a bunker (like the ones Zuckerberg and other tech billionaires have planned).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff deflects the majority of my questions to talk about his philanthropy again. How he has donated millions to the fire department — his beachside home has nearly burned down. How his philosophy is to give unconditionally without expecting anything in return. How he has donated around $100 million in Hawaii and has been able to remain anonymous until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s adamant that he’s not building a Salesforce facility in Waimea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing owned by Salesforce in Hawaii. There never will be,” Benioff says. “Unfortunately, let me tell you the reality of Waimea and Hawaii: We wouldn’t be able to do it. There isn’t enough land, and there isn’t enough housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So for people who say to me, and many have, ‘Oh, I heard you’re going to bring a Salesforce campus here — you’re bringing over 50 people or 100 people.’ They don’t understand what’s going on in this town and this state,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I ask Benioff about the properties in the anonymous LLCs, things seem to take a turn. He starts speaking more quickly and fidgets with a piece of paper in his hand. He’s reluctant to go through the holdings, and his adviser on the Zoom call jumps in to say we can discuss it later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He does give me some tidbits. He says he has a private ranch with 10 horses where he lets a local family run their cattle. He says that he has family living here and that he’s starting a community meeting center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of days before the interview, Benioff texted the same NPR colleague again, asking for intel on my story. Then he called me and demanded to know the title of this piece. During that call, he also mentioned he knew the exact area where I was staying. Unnerved, I asked how he knew, and he said, “It’s my job. You have a job and I have a job.” During the interview, he brings up more personal details about me and my family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I leave the meeting disconcerted and still unclear about what exactly is happening with his land in Waimea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day, I drive around with a photographer to take pictures of the town and Benioff’s projects. We go to the property he described as a community center and are confronted by one of his employees. The photographer explains we’re there to take photos of the outside of the building. Shortly afterward, I get a text from Benioff. His employee seemed to think we were “snooping,” and he says he’s escalating the incident to NPR CEO John Lansing. Lansing confirmed he spoke with Benioff without going into detail — the NPR newsroom operates independently, and the CEO is not involved in editorial decision-making. Benioff didn’t respond to my question about the purpose of this call.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s at stake\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hawaii has gone through major demographic shifts over the last few years. More Native Hawaiians now \u003ca href=\"https://kawaiola.news/cover/kanaka-come-home/\">live outside the state\u003c/a> than on the islands, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Kamehameha Schools’ Strategy & Transformation Group, which studies Native Hawaiian well-being, \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/ksbe.edu/wellbeing2018/migration\">looked at why they may be leaving\u003c/a> and found that the state’s high cost of living and lack of affordable housing are major factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, median home prices have risen by at least 22% from pre-pandemic prices, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/state/Hawaii/housing-market\">Redfin\u003c/a>. In Waimea, it appears especially dire. Median home prices \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/city/19780/HI/Waimea/housing-market\">topped $1 million\u003c/a> in January, up 87% from prices before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Richards, a state senator and sixth-generation Hawaii resident whose family has lived in the Waimea area for the last 100 years, says the beginning of the pandemic is when things really changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw an influx of people coming from the mainland who wanted to get someplace that was, I guess, more isolated,” Richards says. “We saw a huge uptick of house sales and huge uptick of median price. … And that poses a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What young couple can afford that? Seriously. The answer is nobody,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I tick through Benioff’s property, I tabulate that 11 of the 38 land parcels are for philanthropy and centered on affordable housing. Those include a cluster for the Ouli project and five residential properties, which were gifted to a private school in Waimea in 2022. He says one parcel of land adjacent to Ouli, which is 158 acres, is also planned for philanthropic use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff also bought commercial property in town in 2022, which included the Mamane Bakery, which shut down after he purchased it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is now the location of the community center that Benioff says he’s establishing. When I visit, his employee refers to it as a Jewish community center and I see Hebrew writing on the wall, but Benioff says it will have many different uses. Although it’s not yet finished, Benioff says the center has already been open for “all community use” since September and has served many different religious and secular groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff’s 24 remaining parcels of land, about 165 acres, are set aside for him and his family members. There’s the private ranch with horses and about a dozen homes scattered across Waimea and down by the beach. He says his anonymity has been motivated by his desire to maintain his family’s privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, the majority of Benioff’s land buys haven’t been about Salesforce or his philanthropy — but rather for personal use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three weeks ago, he texts me saying, “I just read this report and thought it would interest you.” The \u003ca href=\"https://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2022/08/outsider-theory-hawaii-housing-crisis/\">report\u003c/a> is by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, a conservative think tank. It analyzes housing in the state and concludes that “regulatory barriers” are causing the housing crisis and “there is no evidence that outside buyers are the driving factor in Hawaii’s high housing costs or lack of affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think back to that statue in the center of Waimea depicting Ikua Purdy roping the wild bull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statue’s plaque tells the story of cattle first arriving in Hawaii in 1793, given as gifts to King Kamehameha I. But soon the cattle overran the land. “It was not long before they overpopulated and plundered the countryside from the mountains to the seashores,” the plaque reads. It’s hard not to think about the parallels to the islands’ long history of newcomers arriving, and of today, with billionaires buying up the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Richards about Waimea and what happened with the cattle. It was the Hawaiian cowboys, the paniolos, he tells me, who learned to subdue them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Waimea was and still is, in large part, a cow town,” he says. But, he adds, if we don’t pay attention to what’s happening, “we will lose the fabric that makes Hawaii, Hawaii.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Daniel Wood contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+tech+billionaire+is+quietly+buying+up+land+in+Hawaii.+No+one+knows+why&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He’s the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco-based Salesforce, one of the world’s largest software companies, which owns the popular messaging service Slack and is worth nearly $300 billion. He also owns \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> magazine. Benioff is hard to miss — the 59-year-old stands at a towering 6 feet, 5 inches and is often seen driving around Waimea in his white Hummer pickup, sporting his signature look of a baseball cap with his curly brown hair tumbling out back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB114852253987662635\">lives in a beachside mansion\u003c/a> down the mountain from Waimea. He built the $24.5 million, 9,800-square-foot home about 20 years ago and also bought dozens of acres of ranch land in Waimea around that time, according to public records. Since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, however, I found that Benioff has gone on a much larger — and previously unreported — shopping spree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawaii has long been a place where the world’s elite has flocked. And tech billionaires are now among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/11/hawaiis-crisis-as-a-playground-for-the-ultrawealthy\">newest cadre of migrants to buy land\u003c/a> in the islands. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns a sprawling beach mansion in Maui. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has plans to build a bunker on his land in Kauai, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-inside-hawaii-compound/\">according to \u003cem>Wired\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Benioff’s former boss, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-oracle-larry-ellison-lanai-hawaii-plans-tourism/?sref=h2AwP2mF&embedded-checkout=true\">owns 98% of Lanai\u003c/a>. And the list goes on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The billionaires stand in stark contrast to the rest of Hawaii’s residents — where on the Big Island specifically, the median household income is around $74,000, according to county data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s different here is that rather than focusing on coastal mansions in gated communities, Benioff is buying property in a rural residential town. In the majority of instances, he’s paid more than current market value, according to public records. For example, the longtime Mamane Bakery — known for its lilikoi cheesecake and mango-guava hot cross buns — shuttered after he purchased the land for more than 50% above the current market value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with several longtime residents who say they fear that these land buys will add to already sky-high housing costs and that they’ll be priced out of Waimea. Some people say a few of his neighbors had been approached about their properties, and Benioff himself says homeowners have come to him about selling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the people of Waimea understand that Benioff is behind the recent land purchases, hardly anyone seems to know his plans. Some guess he’s building a Salesforce training center and moving in engineers; others say he’s generously donating to the community and helping local schools. Most people just shake their heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s kind of how the rumor mill starts, right?” says local resident Mike Donoho, who works in natural resource planning on the islands. “When there’s not clarity or disclosure about what the intentions are of someone purchasing a property or multiple properties, then there’s that level of uncertainty. And with those gaps of information, people are filling in the blanks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all the 18 residents who spoke to me did so on the condition that I not use their names. They don’t want to be seen as talking critically about Benioff; they say he holds a lot of sway here. One person told me that, in this small town, it stems from a culture of not criticizing people in public, or what locals call “no talk stink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of them have similar sentiments about a single individual buying a lot of land in Waimea. As one person put it, “When you have the locals getting priced out of towns like this and more challenges with people moving over here, it just creates more competition in terms of trying to buy land. … At what point does Hawaii not become Hawaii anymore, if no Hawaiians are here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Benioff, he has stayed silent on the topic. Until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone’s seen the movie \u003cem>South Pacific\u003c/em>. It’s Bali Ha’i,” he tells me in a sit-down interview. “This is a place that everybody loves to be. It’s a magical place. It’s a place that people come and transform and change, evolve. They experience God. They experience nature. They experience themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ʻOhana, dolphins and Salesforce gets the aloha spirit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>People in Waimea tell me about Benioff’s land purchases, but I want to confirm them. Before speaking with him, I start combing through Waimea property maps and cross-checking the data with public records from Hawaii’s secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I find that since 2000, Benioff has bought at least 38 parcels of land through at least six anonymous limited liability companies, or LLCs, and one nonprofit. All of the property owned by the LLCs has the same mailing address — a P.O. box in the San Francisco Bay Area — and the same registered agent in Palo Alto, California. None of the documentation has Benioff’s name, but he doesn’t dispute any of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property totals more than 600 acres of land. He’s bought 29 parcels, more than 580 acres, in Waimea, and nine others, about 25 acres, at beach resorts. One of his coastal properties surrounds an entire public beach. The combined market value of this land stands at nearly $100 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first 15 years that Benioff bought land in Hawaii, he mostly focused on beach resort property. When the pandemic started, he ramped up buying residential, commercial and agricultural land in and around Waimea. Since 2020, he has purchased 22 parcels of land here — a town where inventory is low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff has long professed his love for Hawaii, which he started visiting when he was young. Salesforce’s origin story even begins with him swimming with dolphins off the Big Island in the late 1990s and having a vision of selling software as a subscription service over the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came to Hawaii for the first time and fell in love,” Benioff says. “I fell in love with the people, or what we call here in Hawaii ʻohana. I fell in love with the land that we call ʻāina. And, of course, I fell in love with the aloha spirit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That aloha spirit is a big part of Salesforce’s corporate identity. The word ʻohana, Hawaiian for “family,” is a common refrain at business meetings, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.salesforce.com/campaign/peering/\">company blogs\u003c/a> and on social media. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/salesforce-is-ditching-its-awkward-corporate-obsession-with-hawaiian-culture\">Fridays at Salesforce have been known as Aloha shirt days\u003c/a>, replete with company events that include hula dancers and Hawaiian drummers. More than once, Benioff has \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/f1b696d6-0226-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5\">thrown a Hawaiian luau\u003c/a> at the World Economic Forum confab in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual Salesforce party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When construction got underway in 2014 for the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, the city’s tallest building, Benioff had his longtime friends and Hawaiian spiritual advisers Danny Akaka Jr. and Anna Akaka bless the area. (Danny is the son of late U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka.) The Akakas have also blessed Salesforce conferences and other projects that Benioff has worked on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Hawaiians always believed that whenever you embark upon a new adventure, whether it’s a voyage or making a new canoe or building a heiau [temple], it always needs to be preceded by a blessing,” Danny Akaka Jr. told me in an interview. “Marc also felt like that too — that whatever is done should be done in a way that’s pono, that’s good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Salesforce \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/forget-the-officesalesforce-is-making-a-wellness-retreat-for-workers-11644510615\">rented a 75-acre luxury retreat center in California\u003c/a> for its employees to come together and bond. Benioff told \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em> that his vision was to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/marc-benioff-says-a-ranch-may-be-what-salesforces-work-culture-needs-11620758858?mod=article_inline\">purchase a large property\u003c/a> and build his own retreat-like ranch for his employees. One of the properties he floated was in Maui, but according to the \u003cem>Journal\u003c/em>, he hadn’t yet settled on a location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I continued to piece together Benioff’s land purchases in Waimea, a colleague at NPR got an out-of-the-blue text from him. Word had gotten back to Benioff that I was poking around town. He wanted to speak with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A “seriously zen” billionaire known for philanthropy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Benioff’s CEO persona isn’t that of your typical cutthroat winner-takes-all billionaire. He’s seen more as a socialite tech guru who hangs out with people like New Age author Deepak Chopra, Bono and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/technology/silicon-valleys-big-bold-sci-fi-bet-on-the-device-that-comes-after-the-smartphone.html\">Buddhist monk named Brother Spirit\u003c/a>. He hired actor Matthew McConaughey (who’s also regularly seen around Waimea) to be Salesforce’s brand ambassador. One of Benioff’s books is even titled \u003cem>Compassionate Capitalism\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>GQ\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.gq.com/story/marc-benioff-gq-clout\">calls him\u003c/a> “seriously zen,” \u003cem>Fortune\u003c/em> says he’s \u003ca href=\"https://fortune.com/longform/marc-benioff-salesforce-slack-acquisition-diversity-inclusion-fortune-500/\">one of few CEOs\u003c/a> who has achieved “rock star–level status” and \u003cem>Forbes\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiasavchuk/2014/06/19/san-franciscos-giant-of-generosity/\">calls him\u003c/a> a “giant of generosity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff’s current net worth is around $10.3 billion, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/marc-r-benioff/?sref=h2AwP2mF\">Bloomberg Billionaires Index\u003c/a>. And over the last year, by NPR’s calculation, his wealth has risen by an average of $9.5 million per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be hard to fathom that much money, says Rachel Sherman, a sociology professor at The New School \u003ca href=\"https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/story/tackling-the-anxieties-of-affluence/\">who studies wealth\u003c/a>. “Just like how much a billion actually is,” she says. “It’s not just a little bit more than a million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff is a well-known philanthropist. In the Bay Area, his name is plastered across the city. He and his wife, Lynne Benioff, donated $250 million to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland. He has given millions of dollars to local schools, pledged $2 million to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/gospel-of-wealth-according-to-marc-benioff/\">champion a homelessness initiative\u003c/a> and has thrown his support behind LGBTQ+ rights. Salesforce, as a company, has donated hundreds of millions too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salesforce also \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/business/davos-man-marc-benioff-book.html\">paid $0 in federal taxes\u003c/a> from 2018 to 2020, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://itep.org/55-profitable-corporations-zero-corporate-tax/\">Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy\u003c/a>. When asked for comment, a Salesforce spokesperson says the company “fully complies with all tax laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Benioff and his wife bought \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> magazine for $190 million. He doesn’t shy away from publicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, when it comes to Hawaii, Benioff is extremely private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We speak for the first time in December on a Zoom call that lasted 90 minutes. Over the following days, Benioff texts me constantly, often many times a day. The primary focus of these texts is to draw attention to his philanthropy in Hawaii, which has almost all been anonymous. He adds me to several group threads with people who know about his charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He talks about donations to the fire department, which include massive trucks that can roll over the rocky lava terrain common in the area (Benioff calls them “monster trucks”). He has given money to public schools through the state’s Department of Education and bought several homes for teachers at a local private school. He flew in 1 million masks for protection against COVID-19 during the pandemic. He works with the Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project, and there are island reforestation projects with a group called American Forests. He says he’s also working on major health care grants with Gov. Josh Green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff says he likes to find local organizations already doing the work and to give them what they need. He’s ready to go public, he says. He releases his nonprofit partners from their anonymity agreements to speak with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning, I’d explained to Benioff that I was working on this story after hearing from townspeople worried about what was happening with his land purchases in Waimea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a week after we first talked, Benioff emailed to say he had just published a news release about one of his land tracts called Ouli. “You inspired me with your idea to dispel the myths and fears,” he later texts, referring to what I’ve told him was the purpose of my story. He tops off that text conversation with an angel emoji.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2023-12-19/donors-give-nearly-300-acres-and-7m-to-expand-affordable-housing-on-hawai%CA%BBi-island\">Ouli project covers 282 acres\u003c/a> that Benioff and his wife bought and donated to the Hawaii Island Community Development Corp., which builds affordable housing on the Big Island. The organization has developed nearly 900 homes here over the last 30 years. The initial plan is to build about 40 houses on the currently uninhabited property in Ouli, but that number could grow. The project is about 6 miles out of town, and because of the terrain and scope of the project, it won’t be done for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Kato, the organization’s soft-spoken executive director, offers me a tour in his four-wheel-drive pickup. It’s a clear day, and you can see the ocean in the distance and snow glistening off the top of Mauna Kea. He shows me another subdivision that his group built, which resembles what Ouli will look like — modest single-story homes on 10,000-square-foot lots. It’s on the dry side of town, where the rainforest fades to grassland covering an ancient lava field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting that you have people who have that much wealth and that they’re actually willing to put it to use in the community,” Kato says. “So this was like a gift from heaven, so to speak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully we get some of the rumors put to bed,” he adds. The mystery around Ouli is solved, but dozens more properties remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“I’m not a prepper”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January, I pull up to a residential home that Benioff bought in Waimea in late 2020. It’s a midcentury modern house made of redwood that sits on a hillside and has sweeping views of the town below and volcanoes in the background. Bird-of-paradise flowers flourish outside, along with monstera vines and an avocado tree. A wild turkey pecks at the grass. Benioff’s Hummer is parked out front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff calls this his Waimea office, and I’m here to interview him in person. As I get situated, I meet two assistants — who are both named Kendall — and his two golden retrievers, Brandy and Honey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His artwork includes the famous anti-capitalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.artsy.net/artwork/zevs-liquidated-google-14\">\u003cem>Liquidated Google\u003c/em>\u003c/a> print by French graffiti artist Zevs and a wall-size painting by the Brazilian graffiti duo OSGEMEOS. Benioff says the Brazilian artists are his friends. He also has an array of Hawaiian art, including a collection of antique \u003ca href=\"https://hawaiialive.org/lei-niho-palaoa/\">lei niho palaoa\u003c/a> necklaces that are made with an ivory pendant strung by thick cords of intricately woven human hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We sit down on a big white semicircle couch; Brandy and Honey join us. A Salesforce adviser tunes in from New Jersey via a Zoom call. One wall of this room is papered corner to corner with magazine covers and newspaper articles about Benioff. I bring up Zuckerberg and Ellison, who have famously purchased tons of land in Hawaii, and ask Benioff how he sees himself compared with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our philosophy has always been different, which is that we’re really only here to have a home for our family and then to give,” he says. “We don’t have outsized properties. We have basically enough for ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a prepper,” he adds when I ask him about a bunker (like the ones Zuckerberg and other tech billionaires have planned).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff deflects the majority of my questions to talk about his philanthropy again. How he has donated millions to the fire department — his beachside home has nearly burned down. How his philosophy is to give unconditionally without expecting anything in return. How he has donated around $100 million in Hawaii and has been able to remain anonymous until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s adamant that he’s not building a Salesforce facility in Waimea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing owned by Salesforce in Hawaii. There never will be,” Benioff says. “Unfortunately, let me tell you the reality of Waimea and Hawaii: We wouldn’t be able to do it. There isn’t enough land, and there isn’t enough housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So for people who say to me, and many have, ‘Oh, I heard you’re going to bring a Salesforce campus here — you’re bringing over 50 people or 100 people.’ They don’t understand what’s going on in this town and this state,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I ask Benioff about the properties in the anonymous LLCs, things seem to take a turn. He starts speaking more quickly and fidgets with a piece of paper in his hand. He’s reluctant to go through the holdings, and his adviser on the Zoom call jumps in to say we can discuss it later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He does give me some tidbits. He says he has a private ranch with 10 horses where he lets a local family run their cattle. He says that he has family living here and that he’s starting a community meeting center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of days before the interview, Benioff texted the same NPR colleague again, asking for intel on my story. Then he called me and demanded to know the title of this piece. During that call, he also mentioned he knew the exact area where I was staying. Unnerved, I asked how he knew, and he said, “It’s my job. You have a job and I have a job.” During the interview, he brings up more personal details about me and my family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I leave the meeting disconcerted and still unclear about what exactly is happening with his land in Waimea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day, I drive around with a photographer to take pictures of the town and Benioff’s projects. We go to the property he described as a community center and are confronted by one of his employees. The photographer explains we’re there to take photos of the outside of the building. Shortly afterward, I get a text from Benioff. His employee seemed to think we were “snooping,” and he says he’s escalating the incident to NPR CEO John Lansing. Lansing confirmed he spoke with Benioff without going into detail — the NPR newsroom operates independently, and the CEO is not involved in editorial decision-making. Benioff didn’t respond to my question about the purpose of this call.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s at stake\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hawaii has gone through major demographic shifts over the last few years. More Native Hawaiians now \u003ca href=\"https://kawaiola.news/cover/kanaka-come-home/\">live outside the state\u003c/a> than on the islands, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Kamehameha Schools’ Strategy & Transformation Group, which studies Native Hawaiian well-being, \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/ksbe.edu/wellbeing2018/migration\">looked at why they may be leaving\u003c/a> and found that the state’s high cost of living and lack of affordable housing are major factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, median home prices have risen by at least 22% from pre-pandemic prices, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/state/Hawaii/housing-market\">Redfin\u003c/a>. In Waimea, it appears especially dire. Median home prices \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/city/19780/HI/Waimea/housing-market\">topped $1 million\u003c/a> in January, up 87% from prices before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Richards, a state senator and sixth-generation Hawaii resident whose family has lived in the Waimea area for the last 100 years, says the beginning of the pandemic is when things really changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw an influx of people coming from the mainland who wanted to get someplace that was, I guess, more isolated,” Richards says. “We saw a huge uptick of house sales and huge uptick of median price. … And that poses a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What young couple can afford that? Seriously. The answer is nobody,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I tick through Benioff’s property, I tabulate that 11 of the 38 land parcels are for philanthropy and centered on affordable housing. Those include a cluster for the Ouli project and five residential properties, which were gifted to a private school in Waimea in 2022. He says one parcel of land adjacent to Ouli, which is 158 acres, is also planned for philanthropic use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff also bought commercial property in town in 2022, which included the Mamane Bakery, which shut down after he purchased it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is now the location of the community center that Benioff says he’s establishing. When I visit, his employee refers to it as a Jewish community center and I see Hebrew writing on the wall, but Benioff says it will have many different uses. Although it’s not yet finished, Benioff says the center has already been open for “all community use” since September and has served many different religious and secular groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff’s 24 remaining parcels of land, about 165 acres, are set aside for him and his family members. There’s the private ranch with horses and about a dozen homes scattered across Waimea and down by the beach. He says his anonymity has been motivated by his desire to maintain his family’s privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, the majority of Benioff’s land buys haven’t been about Salesforce or his philanthropy — but rather for personal use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three weeks ago, he texts me saying, “I just read this report and thought it would interest you.” The \u003ca href=\"https://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2022/08/outsider-theory-hawaii-housing-crisis/\">report\u003c/a> is by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, a conservative think tank. It analyzes housing in the state and concludes that “regulatory barriers” are causing the housing crisis and “there is no evidence that outside buyers are the driving factor in Hawaii’s high housing costs or lack of affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think back to that statue in the center of Waimea depicting Ikua Purdy roping the wild bull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statue’s plaque tells the story of cattle first arriving in Hawaii in 1793, given as gifts to King Kamehameha I. But soon the cattle overran the land. “It was not long before they overpopulated and plundered the countryside from the mountains to the seashores,” the plaque reads. It’s hard not to think about the parallels to the islands’ long history of newcomers arriving, and of today, with billionaires buying up the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Richards about Waimea and what happened with the cattle. It was the Hawaiian cowboys, the paniolos, he tells me, who learned to subdue them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Waimea was and still is, in large part, a cow town,” he says. But, he adds, if we don’t pay attention to what’s happening, “we will lose the fabric that makes Hawaii, Hawaii.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1231974416/supreme-court-trump-immunity#:~:text=Trump%20appeals%20immunity%20ruling%20to%20the%20Supreme%20Court&text=At%20issue%20in%20the%20case,in%20on%20such%20a%20claim.\">U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments \u003c/a>the week of April 22 in a high-stakes dispute over whether former President Donald Trump enjoys immunity from federal criminal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order from the court on Wednesday keeps Trump’s prosecution in the Jan. 6 case on hold for at least a few more months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices said, in an unsigned order, that their review would be limited to a single question: “Whether and if so, to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is one of first impression for the Supreme Court since no former president has ever faced criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision amounts to, at minimum, another short-term victory for Trump, and it means the trial originally set to begin in Washington, D.C., in early March could be delayed until late summer or even after Election Day in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, the Republican front-runner in this year’s presidential election, has argued that the case amounts to election interference and that going to trial this year would burden his ability to run a political campaign. His attorneys said it would be a challenge to sift through the heavy volume of documents in this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is fighting 91 criminal charges in four jurisdictions. The charges are related to his effort to cling to power after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden and other alleged misdeeds that involve retention of classified documents and hush money payments to an adult film actress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special counsel Jack Smith had urged the Supreme Court to swiftly reject Trump’s claims, arguing the charged crimes “strike at the heart of our democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Delay in the resolution of these charges threatens to frustrate the public interest in a speedy and fair verdict — a compelling interest in every criminal case and one that has unique national importance here, as it involves federal criminal charges against a former President for alleged criminal efforts to overturn the results of the Presidential election, including through the use of official power,” Smith and his team wrote in a recent filing to the justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1223904739/trump-immunity-ruling\">Three judges on the federal appeals court \u003c/a>in Washington, D.C., unanimously sided with prosecutors this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"US Court of Appeals DC Circuit judges\"]‘We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter. … [This] would collapse our system of separated powers by placing the President beyond the reach of all three branches.’[/pullquote]“We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter,” the D.C. circuit judges wrote. 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They called the appellate court decision a “stunning breach of precedent and historical norms.” And they noted that no prior president has ever been prosecuted for his official acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>President Richard Nixon was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate scandal that saw many of his highest-ranking aides go to prison. But after Nixon resigned, he was pardoned by President Gerald Ford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the question of presidential immunity has never been resolved by the Supreme Court. In 1974, the justices ruled unanimously that Nixon, then still in office, had to comply with a subpoena for 64 White House tape recordings that were subsequently used as evidence in the prosecution of many top administration officials. The Nixon tapes case thus became the leading precedent suggesting that presidents do not have complete immunity for acts they commit while in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contrary precedent, cited by Trump’s lawyers, is a civil case that was decided eight years later and also involving Nixon. In that case, the court ruled 5-to-4 that the former president could not be sued by an air force whistleblower who claimed he was fired in retaliation for his disclosures about cost overruns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11975149,forum_2010101904337,news_11971063\"]The consequences of Wednesday’s Supreme Court action remain murky at best. A judge in New York already has ordered jury selection to begin March 25 in a separate state case accusing Trump of recordkeeping violations for hush-money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels weeks before the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge in the D.C. election interference case, Tanya Chutkan, has not yet indicated when a trial could begin. But in court papers, she’s suggested she will give Trump’s attorneys a few more months to prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that can be said with certainty now is that the clock is ticking. If Trump regains the White House, he could order his Justice Department to drop the case related to the Jan. 6, 2021, siege on the Capitol or even attempt to pardon himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immunity issue is far from the only question involving Trump to reach the nation’s highest court. The justices have yet to decide a separate dispute about whether Trump is disqualified from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/08/1229176555/supreme-court-trump-colorado-ballot\">primary ballot in Colorado \u003c/a>over his efforts to cling to power after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’ve scheduled an argument in another case related to the Capitol riot for April 16. In that case, they’ll consider whether prosecutors overreached when they used an obstruction law Congress passed after financial scandals to charge hundreds of people with disrupting the electoral count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the four charges against Trump in the D.C. prosecution could be wiped away if a majority of the Supreme Court determines that the Justice Department’s charging strategy went too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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