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"content": "\u003cp>Ten days after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025377/huge-martinez-refinery-fire-renews-neighbors-fear-frustration\">a refinery fire\u003c/a> injured six employees and prompted a shelter-in-place order for thousands of Martinez residents, Contra Costa County health officials released new details on Tuesday about toxic chemicals released during the four days it took to put the fire out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cchealth.org/Home/Components/News/News/886/415\">a statement \u003c/a>on the incident that the Martinez Refining Co., which operates the facility where the Feb. 1 fire occurred, reported that the cloud of thick black smoke that billowed over the East Bay community contained petroleum products at various stages of refinement and several other hazardous chemicals, including benzene, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and xylene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials said some of the substances that were released can cause cancer and heart and lung disease, but they also noted that weather conditions at the time of the fire may have limited local exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Health Director Dr. Ori Tzvieli said the wind blew most of the smoke away from populated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This could have been much worse,” Tzvieli said. “We got lucky this time. But our community shouldn’t have to rely on luck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s disclosure marks the first time health authorities have gotten a detailed look at what was in the plume that wafted over the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230921-PBF-MARTINEZ-REFINERY-MD-04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Martinez Refinery Co., owned by PBF Energy in Martinez, California, touches residential neighborhoods on Sept. 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fifteen minutes after the fire started on Feb. 1, a refinery employee told the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services that a flaring incident had released more than 500 pounds of sulfur dioxide. The report also noted that it was “unknown if any other material is releasing due to the fire other than sulfur dioxide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sulfur dioxide has adverse health effects on humans and animals, and high-level exposure can result in heart problems and an increased risk of death, according to studies cited by the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/sulfur-dioxide-and-health#:~:text=Sulfur%20dioxide%20(SO2)%20is,sulfur%20oxides%20(SOX).\">California Air Resources Board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual effects on residents, refinery workers and first responders depended on how much sulfur dioxide they were exposed to and for how long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024233 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ElkhornSlough-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after the fire started, Contra Costa Health hazardous materials employees who were investigating reports of a sulfur smell near the refinery reported feeling dizzy and left the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventy-two hours after the start of the fire, the refinery company filed a report with the county, attributing the fire to an incident involving two workers who tried to restart an idle unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While opening the equipment, hydrocarbon material \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025273/martinez-refining-company-investigating-if-leak-during-maintenance-contributed-to-fire\">started to leak\u003c/a>,” the report said. “The two workers immediately evacuated the area, and the material subsequently caught fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the report lacked any new information about what substances might have burned during the fire. The report also lacked chemical safety data sheets required by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials responded last Wednesday with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cchealth.org/home/showpublisheddocument/31494\">letter\u003c/a> to the company requesting a list of everything inside the refinery that might have burned and giving the company until Monday to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The information being requested has been deemed essential for assessing health impacts that may have occurred as a result of that incident,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Martinez Refining Company in Martinez, California, on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In its response, the refinery reported that the fire released several substances produced in the refining process, including naphtha and petroleum distillates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The combustion byproducts from the fire — including benzene, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and xylene — pose the greatest public health concern, Contra Costa Health’s statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It added that the department is assessing whether there may be any long-term health effects from the chemicals, including potential impacts to soil and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery is scheduled to provide a 30-day follow-up report in early March. The county said it would hire an outside firm to investigate how the incident happened and what steps can be taken to prevent it from happening again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air District and Contra Costa Health have each launched an investigation into the fire and have restricted access to the area where the fire burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025294\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-800x553.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/475966196_17941090172958161_4612211217959910985_n-e1738464480621-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contra Costa County Fire Department firefighters outside the Martinez Refining Company as smoke billows from the refinery on Saturday in Martinez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of Martinez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The refinery, which operates as the Martinez Refining Co., also has an incident investigation into the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working urgently and thoroughly to identify the root cause(s) and take appropriate corrective actions,” an update on the company’s website reads. “Personnel continue to monitor the scene of the recent incident to assess equipment and ensure the safety of the general area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all of the refinery’s operating units have been shut down, but MRC warned there could be more flaring over the next several weeks as workers drain operating units.[aside postID=news_11998887 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ShellRefineryMartinez-1020x765.jpg']The Martinez refinery, which is more than a century old, was owned by Shell until 2020 when it was acquired by the current owners, New Jersey’s PBF Energy. The company describes itself as “one of the largest independent petroleum refiners and suppliers of unbranded transportation fuels, heating oil, petrochemical feedstocks, lubricants and other petroleum products in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBF owns six refineries, including one in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company describes its Martinez refinery as “one of the most complex refineries in the United States” in statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery has had a series of incidents that have drawn widespread criticism in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 24, 2022, the refinery released a cloud of spent catalyst that blanked the town in a powdery white substance that looked like ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 11, 2023, and Oct. 6, 2023, the refinery unintentionally released petroleum coke dust — a refining byproduct that looks like soot and is made up of particulate matter that can irritate lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after the fire started, Contra Costa Health hazardous materials employees who were investigating reports of a sulfur smell near the refinery reported feeling dizzy and left the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventy-two hours after the start of the fire, the refinery company filed a report with the county, attributing the fire to an incident involving two workers who tried to restart an idle unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While opening the equipment, hydrocarbon material \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025273/martinez-refining-company-investigating-if-leak-during-maintenance-contributed-to-fire\">started to leak\u003c/a>,” the report said. “The two workers immediately evacuated the area, and the material subsequently caught fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the report lacked any new information about what substances might have burned during the fire. The report also lacked chemical safety data sheets required by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials responded last Wednesday with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cchealth.org/home/showpublisheddocument/31494\">letter\u003c/a> to the company requesting a list of everything inside the refinery that might have burned and giving the company until Monday to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The information being requested has been deemed essential for assessing health impacts that may have occurred as a result of that incident,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Martinez Refining Company in Martinez, California, on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In its response, the refinery reported that the fire released several substances produced in the refining process, including naphtha and petroleum distillates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The combustion byproducts from the fire — including benzene, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and xylene — pose the greatest public health concern, Contra Costa Health’s statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It added that the department is assessing whether there may be any long-term health effects from the chemicals, including potential impacts to soil and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery is scheduled to provide a 30-day follow-up report in early March. 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At the bottom, it said it was signed by Donald Trump, using a cursive typeface but not his actual signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Rob Bonta (second from right), City Attorney David Chiu (center), Gabriel Medina from La Raza immigration services and others, at a press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, to announce preliminary injunction against President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A San Francisco Rapid Response Network infographic on Instagram debunked the message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fake reports have been born of legitimate concern — the rapid response team hears from concerned residents every day, including when a San Francisco public school student told school officials they had seen an ICE agent on the 29 Sunset Muni bus last month. Though quickly squashed, the rumor prompted a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DFL1mQ5y4vg/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">district email to some school communities\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/23/ice-agent-muni-bus-visitacion-valley/\">media frenzy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have had more questionable intentions. Last week, a man wearing a windbreaker with “ICE Immigration” across the back and chest and a red baseball hat embroidered with “Trump Won” was spotted eating at a taqueria in the Mission District, which has significant Latinx and immigrant communities. 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The concert marked the release of a new album, Horizontes, along with the 40th anniversary of the launch of Santos’ label, Machete Records. The sextet features bassist Saul Sierra, drummer David Flores, flutist John Calloway, saxophonist Charlie Gurke, and pianist and trumpeter Marco Diaz. The band was joined by percussionist Javier Navarrette; pianist Marcel Joao, Santos’ 17-year-old son; vocalists Maria Cora, Christelle Durandy and Juan Luis Pérez; cuatro player Pedro Pastrana; violinist Anthony Blea; and timbales legend Orestes Vilató. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Artists are often credited with fueling the soul and character of a place, but in the Bay Area, artists are regularly forced to flee the high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sat down with Salazar and Santos in their home earlier this year to find out more about how they thrive as a couple — and as working artists in the Bay Area. Art, they said, brought them together as a spiritual practice, a creative practice and a vehicle for social justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar’s books, including \u003cem>The Moon Within\u003c/em>, \u003cem>A Seed in the Sun\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Ultraviolet\u003c/em>, focus on the experiences of young Latinos navigating everything from their menstrual cycles to immigration to toxic masculinity. Her children’s book, \u003cem>Jovita Wore Pants\u003c/em>, tells the story of her distant aunt who dressed as a man to fight in a civil war over religious rights in 1920s Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021877 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-009-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santos, 69, was born and raised in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. His mother’s family was originally from Puerto Rico, and his father’s from Cape Verde, a small island nation off the coast of West Africa. He learned traditional Caribbean and African rhythms from the various professional musicians in his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met in 2000 in Los Angeles, where Salazar grew up. At 27, she was an artist who made a living producing cultural events for nonprofits and arts organizations. At the time, she had a rule of not dating musicians or actors because they “didn’t know when to stop performing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John came in to do a performance at the museum where I was helping produce a concert series,” Salazar, now 52, continued. “He had an energy about him that was really awesome. I had to take him around to different gigs throughout the weekend, and he just made me laugh. He was so down-to-earth and so charismatic. 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In retrospect, the purchase was fortuitous, given how much home values have risen in Oakland.[aside postID=news_12014006 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Rogelio_Garcia_-_Convivir1-e1731360269373-1020x616.png']Santos’ focus on Latin jazz and Afro-Caribbean music could have pulled him to New York City, but he never had the desire to leave the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not interested in the commercial aspect of music. I’m not interested in winning a Grammy. I’m not interested in breaking records sales because I know that’s not realistic,” he said. “I’ve never felt limited being in the Bay Area. It’s kind of in my DNA. 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Their son, Marcel Joao, 17, studies music at the Oakland School for the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We facilitated them to find their own artistic path, and they became artists not because we wanted them to, but just because we were able to expose them to a world of the arts,” Salazar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar plans to release \u003cem>Stream,\u003c/em> her fifth novel, next year. Santos hopes to perform at SF Jazz for his 70th birthday in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re lucky to be still doing what we’re doing,” Santos said. “I feel fortunate to have met Aida, who I respect greatly for being an artist. It’s [an] ideal situation because we are coming from the same place in terms of how we see art and the role of art in the community and how it’s such an important voice for sanity and for peace in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A police chase that ended in a crash at a bar in San Francisco’s Mission District on Sunday was one of the first major incidents since voters passed a controversial ballot measure \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/propositions-e-and-f-in-san-francisco-appear-headed-for-victory\">to expand vehicle pursuits\u003c/a> in March and could serve as a warning about its impact on public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six people were injured when a silver SUV smashed into the outdoor parklet seating at the Napper Tandy’s Irish pub, where football fans were watching the Super Bowl. Police said the Audi crashed through the outdoor area after an attempted traffic stop escalated across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers responded to a call of a wanted vehicle near Stonestown Galleria just after 3 p.m. on Sunday, according to spokesperson Allison Maxie. The department’s investigation has identified that the vehicle was reported stolen out of Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maxie said the pursuit began when the driver “failed to yield” to officers’ attempt to pull over the car, fleeing east to the Mission before crashing into the parklet near 24th and South Van Ness streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire structure, the parklet, collapsed on all the people who were within that structure itself,” said San Francisco Fire Department Lt. Mariano Elias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026617\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026617 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250209-SF-PARKLET-CRASH-NK-01-KQED-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250209-SF-PARKLET-CRASH-NK-01-KQED-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250209-SF-PARKLET-CRASH-NK-01-KQED-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250209-SF-PARKLET-CRASH-NK-01-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250209-SF-PARKLET-CRASH-NK-01-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250209-SF-PARKLET-CRASH-NK-01-KQED.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of the parklet at the Napper Tandy Irish bar in San Francisco on Feb. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Nisa Khan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fire officials triaged everyone in the parklet and found that six people — including a child — had minor to moderate injuries. They were transferred to a nearby hospital and are all recovering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw footage of the crash, I’ve spoken to witnesses, and it is a miracle no one died yesterday,” Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who was on the scene following the incident in her district, wrote on X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her campaign last year, Fielder was a critic of San Francisco’s Proposition E, which expanded the police’s ability to chase vehicles when it passed in March after being put on the ballot by former Mayor London Breed. Previously, officers could only pursue the vehicle of suspects in violent felonies, but Proposition E enables them to chase a suspect in any felony or “violent” misdemeanor — a term not defined in the California penal code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU of Northern California led the charge against the measure, saying more police chases would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/propositions-e-and-f-in-san-francisco-appear-headed-for-victory\">endanger lives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2024 presentation, Lt. Bassey Obot reported that between 2018 and 2022, under the stricter pursuit policy, the SFPD was involved in 20 to 40 pursuits per year. During that time, two people were killed and 34 were injured. In 2023, a May chase in the Mission killed one person and injured four others, and in October, another person died in a chase near the Highway 101 off-ramp at San Bruno Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Fielder \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/04/meet-the-district-9-candidates-best-and-worst-elements-of-prop-e/\">told \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that Proposition E “expanded the language to give SFPD basically free reign to pursue anyone in a car chase, despite a \u003cem>Chronicle \u003c/em>investigation showing police pursuits frequently go wrong, killing an average of nearly two people a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024586 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-36-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I continue to have serious questions related to why SFPD needed to engage in a dangerous high speed chase in a residential neighborhood that sent six people to the hospital and could have killed someone,” she told KQED in a statement on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD spokesperson Maxie said that the driver and a passenger of the SUV were arrested following the crash, and both had existing arrest warrants in other jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor Ross, 32, of San Francisco, was arrested on five felony charges, including reckless evasion of a police officer, fleeing from the scene of an accident, and driving a stolen vehicle. She was also arrested on outstanding warrants — for assault with a deadly weapon, grand theft and carjacking, among other charges — in Alameda and Sacramento counties and San Pablo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eureeka Abrams, 29, of Bay Point. was arrested for resisting arrest, as well as an outstanding warrant in Los Angeles for grand theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians cross South Van Ness Avenue near The Napper Tandy bar in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is the second time a vehicle has crashed into the parklet outside Napper Tandy’s, which sits near the corner of a bustling intersection. In April 2021, a red sedan crashed into the outdoor seating at the bar, hitting two people who were hospitalized with minor injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An employee told KQED they did not want to speak about the incident, and owner Marissa McGarr did not respond to a request for comment. It’s unclear whether the parklet will be rebuilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kmonahan\">\u003cem>Katherine Monahan\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers responded to a call of a wanted vehicle near Stonestown Galleria just after 3 p.m. on Sunday, according to spokesperson Allison Maxie. The department’s investigation has identified that the vehicle was reported stolen out of Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maxie said the pursuit began when the driver “failed to yield” to officers’ attempt to pull over the car, fleeing east to the Mission before crashing into the parklet near 24th and South Van Ness streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire structure, the parklet, collapsed on all the people who were within that structure itself,” said San Francisco Fire Department Lt. Mariano Elias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026617\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026617 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250209-SF-PARKLET-CRASH-NK-01-KQED-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250209-SF-PARKLET-CRASH-NK-01-KQED-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250209-SF-PARKLET-CRASH-NK-01-KQED-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250209-SF-PARKLET-CRASH-NK-01-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250209-SF-PARKLET-CRASH-NK-01-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250209-SF-PARKLET-CRASH-NK-01-KQED.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of the parklet at the Napper Tandy Irish bar in San Francisco on Feb. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Nisa Khan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fire officials triaged everyone in the parklet and found that six people — including a child — had minor to moderate injuries. They were transferred to a nearby hospital and are all recovering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw footage of the crash, I’ve spoken to witnesses, and it is a miracle no one died yesterday,” Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who was on the scene following the incident in her district, wrote on X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her campaign last year, Fielder was a critic of San Francisco’s Proposition E, which expanded the police’s ability to chase vehicles when it passed in March after being put on the ballot by former Mayor London Breed. Previously, officers could only pursue the vehicle of suspects in violent felonies, but Proposition E enables them to chase a suspect in any felony or “violent” misdemeanor — a term not defined in the California penal code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU of Northern California led the charge against the measure, saying more police chases would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/propositions-e-and-f-in-san-francisco-appear-headed-for-victory\">endanger lives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2024 presentation, Lt. Bassey Obot reported that between 2018 and 2022, under the stricter pursuit policy, the SFPD was involved in 20 to 40 pursuits per year. During that time, two people were killed and 34 were injured. In 2023, a May chase in the Mission killed one person and injured four others, and in October, another person died in a chase near the Highway 101 off-ramp at San Bruno Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Fielder \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/04/meet-the-district-9-candidates-best-and-worst-elements-of-prop-e/\">told \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that Proposition E “expanded the language to give SFPD basically free reign to pursue anyone in a car chase, despite a \u003cem>Chronicle \u003c/em>investigation showing police pursuits frequently go wrong, killing an average of nearly two people a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I continue to have serious questions related to why SFPD needed to engage in a dangerous high speed chase in a residential neighborhood that sent six people to the hospital and could have killed someone,” she told KQED in a statement on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD spokesperson Maxie said that the driver and a passenger of the SUV were arrested following the crash, and both had existing arrest warrants in other jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor Ross, 32, of San Francisco, was arrested on five felony charges, including reckless evasion of a police officer, fleeing from the scene of an accident, and driving a stolen vehicle. She was also arrested on outstanding warrants — for assault with a deadly weapon, grand theft and carjacking, among other charges — in Alameda and Sacramento counties and San Pablo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eureeka Abrams, 29, of Bay Point. was arrested for resisting arrest, as well as an outstanding warrant in Los Angeles for grand theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_06-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians cross South Van Ness Avenue near The Napper Tandy bar in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is the second time a vehicle has crashed into the parklet outside Napper Tandy’s, which sits near the corner of a bustling intersection. In April 2021, a red sedan crashed into the outdoor seating at the bar, hitting two people who were hospitalized with minor injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An employee told KQED they did not want to speak about the incident, and owner Marissa McGarr did not respond to a request for comment. It’s unclear whether the parklet will be rebuilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kmonahan\">\u003cem>Katherine Monahan\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Fremont city leaders are expected Tuesday to consider a \u003ca href=\"https://fremontcityca.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=&MeetingID=2006&MediaPosition=&ID=5341&CssClass=\">camping ban\u003c/a> that legal advocates say could be among the harshest in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would restrict camping on not only public property but also private property for more than three consecutive nights. And, it would prohibit anyone from “permitting, aiding, abetting or concealing” camping on those lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city council adopts the new rules on Tuesday, they would go into effect in 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public frustration with widespread homelessness has led cities across California to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">crack down\u003c/a> on encampments. And, the Supreme Court last summer gave local officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">more power to do so\u003c/a>. However, advocates say Fremont’s proposed plan goes further than most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Tars, policy director for the National Homelessness Law Center, said that, while other cities may have general clauses in their municipal codes prohibiting “aiding and abetting” any violation, they aren’t generally enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So making it this clear and explicit around people needing to live outside can only mean Fremont is trying to do something different,” he wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for people experiencing homelessness say the proposed law would make it more difficult for them to do their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If my staff gives someone a blanket so they don’t freeze at night or a bottle of water, that would be considered aiding, right?” said Vivian Wan, CEO of Abode Services, which runs a shelter and other housing programs in Fremont. “If we don’t disclose where someone is sleeping outside, would that be concealing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont Mayor Raj Salwan refuted the characterization of the plan as uniquely harsh, pointing out that Fremont’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/Fremont/html/Fremont01/Fremont0110.html\">existing law\u003c/a> is like other cities’ that prohibit people from aiding and abetting any code violation. He said the language was only restated in this ordinance for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/home/showdocument?id=17280&t=638745346086012766\">sake of transparency\u003c/a> and dismissed concerns that advocates’ work would be impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is not to penalize people for giving water or food or a tent or some support services,” he said. “Absolutely not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim, he said, is to give the city another tool to deal with the camps that have received the most complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If somebody is doing something that’s not safe, we can say, ‘Hey, you can’t do that.’ And at least they will have some concern that there may be some repercussions,” Salwan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026496 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Unhoused-Ban_DMB_00457.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Unhoused-Ban_DMB_00457.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Unhoused-Ban_DMB_00457-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Unhoused-Ban_DMB_00457-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Unhoused-Ban_DMB_00457-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Unhoused-Ban_DMB_00457-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Unhoused-Ban_DMB_00457-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devante Booth practices the acoustic guitar outside of his makeshift shelter near Quarry Lakes Drive in Fremont, California, on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. In addition to playing the guitar, Booth collects Lego sets and repairs bicycles for others in the community. On Feb. 11, 2025, Fremont city leaders are expected to vote on a proposed public camping ban that extends punishment beyond those living on the streets to people who facilitate or conceal encampments in what is being described as a first-in-the-state ban. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sabyl Landrum, an attorney for the East Bay Community Law Center’s homelessness unit, argued that the ordinance is overly broad, especially with respect to the inclusion of aiding and abetting and private property. The plan bars camping on private property for more than three consecutive nights, so Landrum said residents could potentially be cited for letting a family member stay in an RV in their driveway or pitch a tent in their backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside label=’More Housing Coverage' tag='housing']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if that’s not officials’ intention, she said, “They are enacting an ordinance that can be used that way. 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Its next hearing is scheduled for Feb. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy announced by the National Institutes of Health would set a 15% cap on overhead reimbursements going to research institutions. The money, also referred to as indirect cost reimbursements, is used by grantees to cover non-research-related costs such as waste management and electricity. Previously, reimbursement rates were determined through negotiations between the NIH and individual research institutions, and it is still unclear whether the agency has the legal authority to do away with those regulatory procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research institutions in California rely on federal funding to offset operating costs, and the NIH provides a significant portion of those federal grants, according to a press release issued by Bonta’s office. The University of California, for example, received over $2 billion in contract and grant funding in the last academic year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These time-honored University partnerships have led to some of the most powerful and impactful research discoveries in human history,” the UC Office of the President said in a statement on Monday. “Life-saving treatments for cancer, diabetes, heart attacks, and strokes, including in children, and new technologies and industries that translate into hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs are all at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University administration also expressed concerns about what the NIH’s indirect funding cap could mean for its research initiatives. In a statement released Saturday, Stanford leadership said the cuts would amount to $160 million, which would have otherwise gone toward research infrastructure, including lab equipment and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benjamin Good, an assistant professor of applied physics at Stanford who studies the evolution of the human microbiome, said the NIH provides his lab with the majority of its funding — the same is true for other small labs and research projects. Without sizable NIH grants, a lot of these labs are in jeopardy, and that could mean losing out on new research and medical advancements, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By cutting out investment in these basic discoveries now, we could really be hampering our nation’s competitiveness in the kinds of technologies we could have access to down the road,” Good said. “Science is a public good. … It’s really important that our country keeps contributing to it in the future. It’s one of the main ways we’ve been as successful as we have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at California State University, which received nearly $160 million in NIH funds in the last audited year, said in a statement on Monday that cuts to funding jeopardize not only critical groundbreaking research but also opportunities for student innovation. The reduction in administrative overhead cost reimbursements will short the university of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the NIH policy announcement, the federal agency spent more than $35 billion on research grants in 2023, and nearly $9 billion of the allocated funds were used by institutions to cover administrative overhead, which can be difficult for the NIH to steward. Under the new policy, the NIH would change its rates to align with private grant institutions, many of which set indirect cost reimbursement rates at 15% or below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research, and its reach and impact cannot be compared to that of private donors, said Dr. Elena Fuentes-Afflick, a chief officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges. Grant foundations fund a small percentage of research projects, and those research initiatives tend to be more narrow than the ones funded by the NIH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of NIH funding on Americans cannot be overstated,” Fuentes-Afflick said. “If you have had diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases … chances are that your treatment, your evaluation and your diagnostic testing has been impacted by research funded by the NIH.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that cuts in research funding would affect the economy as well. The NIH funds over 400,000 jobs, according to a report by \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/UMR-NIHs-Role-in-Sustaining-the-US-Economy-2024-Update.pdf\">United for Medical Research\u003c/a>, and the new policy could jeopardize thousands of opportunities for employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After she was injured in a car accident, a student at an East Bay chiropractic college began seeing one of her teachers for treatment. About a month into their sessions, she says, he sexually assaulted her under the guise of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman is one of at least five who reported sexual misconduct or assault by Cedric Stewart, 35, to Life Chiropractic College West in early 2023, according to a lawsuit filed last week in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One says the college’s dean told her there was nothing Life West could do. Two say they were assured that there would be an investigation, but they never heard from the school. All of them say they don’t believe any steps were taken to investigate or discipline Stewart, who represented Life West at a prospective students’ weekend and annual conference later in 2023 and appeared to teach there \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/drcedricstewart/\">until last month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women’s lawsuit against Stewart and Life West, one of the largest chiropractic schools on the West Coast, alleges that the college violated Title IX and other protective laws by allowing Stewart to remain on campus. Five accuse him of sexual misconduct at his Hayward office, and a sixth says he assaulted her in a Denver hotel room during a chiropractic conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s illegal for colleges to ignore and sweep under the rug reports of sexual assault and harassment by professors,” says Wendy Musell, one of the attorneys representing the women, who have all chosen to remain anonymous. KQED does not identify victims of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety is not a luxury; it’s a requirement, and we look forward to holding Life West accountable for its profound failures in keeping students safe,” Musell continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Stewart nor Life West responded to requests for comment from KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026491\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life Chiropractic College West, located at 25001 Industrial Blvd., on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The women allege that Stewart had a pattern of using his role as an instructor to isolate and take advantage of young female students. He often promoted his private chiropractic practice during class, they say and offered students discounted treatment. During those sessions, he would make off-color comments about his open marriage and the women’s appearances, pressure them to share about their personal lives and touch them inappropriately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before her car accident in the winter of 2021, the woman who was injured had taken two classes with Stewart during her first quarter at Life West. She says that she asked Stewart for a referral to another local chiropractor who specialized in personal injury recovery but was told he was the only practitioner in the area and had handled multiple similar cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she wasn’t able to find another professional who would take her on as a patient, she started seeing Stewart for treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few weeks into their sessions, the woman says Stewart told her that “other stressors” in her life prevented her from healing and urged her to open up to him. She told him about her relationship with her boyfriend, and he told her about his marriage, adding that he was “here for anything she needed.” The woman alleges that during their sessions, Stewart would tell her he loved her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month into treatment, while the woman was lying on her back, she says Stewart moved completely on top of her. He asked her what she would do if he tried to kiss her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The woman] was trapped under Stewart’s body, and his face was inches from her own,” the lawsuit alleges. She “tensed and froze, recognizing that she was trapped under [Stewart’s] body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told him it would frustrate her and her boyfriend, and he replied that he was kidding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022075 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ChowchillaWomensPrisonGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another session, Stewart led her into a back room for soft tissue manipulation, which he says would help his adjustments to hold better. As she laid face down, the lawsuit alleges that Stewart told the woman her boyfriend “was a lucky man” and “made a comment about how good of a view he had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he rubbed lotion onto her legs, he moved his hand up her thigh and between her legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that session, the woman says she avoided Stewart on campus and became increasingly uncomfortable at school. In February 2023, she confided in Jeana Edwards, a department chair and civil rights investigator on campus. She told Edwards about her sessions with Stewart and says she was fearful and uncomfortable around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the woman says Edwards indicated that others had complained about Stewart, she doesn’t believe any steps were taken to investigate him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the other plaintiffs were among a group of four women who reported sexual misconduct together in February 2023. They say they spoke with the school’s dean and Title IX coordinator to provide details about their encounters with Stewart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the women identified other victims who Stewart had been inappropriate toward but were afraid to come forward, and says that she doesn’t believe the school ever contacted any of those women. There are also multiple pending complaints against Stewart to the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges that when one of the women reported harassment to the school, its Title IX coordinator told her that it would “violate [Stewart’s] rights” to report him to the chiropractic licensing board or remove him from campus. Another woman says that when she told the dean that she didn’t feel safe on campus, he “openly admitted to [multiple women] that Life West had no set procedures for sexual assaults or responding to Title IX complaints,” the suit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The [women] had gone to the school and reported these issues, and as set forth in the complaint, there was a complete failure at every level for Life West to address their complaints,” Musell told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of Stewart’s actions and the school’s failure to rectify them, one of the women was diagnosed with PTSD and forced to attend classes remotely in the spring of 2023, according to the lawsuit. Another has ongoing nightmares of Stewart chasing her, and multiple have reported developing panic attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They believe that Life West violated its obligations under Title IX, the Civil Rights Act and California’s education code, all of which require that the school, which receives state funding, ensure all people have equal rights and opportunities to programs and activities on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Life West’s deliberate indifference caused [the women] to miss classes and practices, lose out on professional opportunities, suffer adverse physical and mental health impacts, and spend their days in fear as they encountered their assailant in a position of power and authority on campus,” the suit alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women are seeking damages and injunctive relief from the school and Stewart, who is accused of sexual battery, emotional distress and malpractice. 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"content": "\u003cp>Campaign finance records show former East Bay Rep. and Oakland mayoral candidate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/barbara-lee\">Barbara Lee\u003c/a> received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations during her years in Congress from a family whose members stand accused in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022612/ex-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-3-others-charged-with-bribery-sprawling-corruption-probe\">federal indictment of bribing Oakland’s former mayor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Duong and his son, Andy Duong, were charged on Jan. 9 in \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/media/1385311/dl?inline\">an eight-count indictment\u003c/a> with bribery, conspiracy and honest services mail and wire fraud in an alleged pay-to-play scheme between the Duongs, former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sheng-thao\">Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a>, who was recalled in last year’s election, and her boyfriend, Andre Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Duong is the CEO of California Waste Solutions, Oakland’s curbside recycling provider. The company has a contract with the city of Oakland through 2035.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who is running to be mayor of Oakland in an April 15 special election, served in Congress for more than 25 years before retiring and announcing her candidacy last month. A spokesperson for Lee, who opened her campaign headquarters in downtown Oakland on Saturday, said she planned to donate the most recent contributions from David Duong to Meals on Wheels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Barbara Lee has zero tolerance for any pay to play or special interest influence, has denounced these disturbing allegations, and has never been involved in any City vendor selection or contract issuance — and she fully supports strengthening City ethics practices,” Bilen Mesfin, a spokesperson for Lee’s mayoral campaign, told KQED Feb. 6. “As her final congressional term has reached its natural conclusion, her previous congressional accounts are now closed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026401 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Repr. Barbara Lee speaks to the crowd as Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, right, addresses the room at the grand opening of her campaign headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past two decades, the Duongs have been prolific donors to political campaigns and elected officials at the local, state and federal levels. Some politicians have returned those donations as an FBI investigation involving the Duongs has come into focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal campaign finance data show that since 1998, David Duong, Andy Duong and other members of the Duong family have contributed at least $66,250 to Lee. Most recently, David Duong contributed $5,000 to Lee’s unsuccessful run for Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for the $5000 donated to her senate campaign in 2023, Barbara Lee is donating that to Meals on Wheels,” Mesfin said in a follow-up email on Feb. 7, hours before Lee’s campaign launch in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a room full of supporters at her new campaign headquarters on Saturday, Lee spoke of regaining public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to make sure that all of the issues around ethics and transparency, the gaps are closed in this city. Because we have to restore trust and confidence with our residents,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the citys contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Campaign finance records released so far do not show Lee has received donations from the Duongs during her run for mayor, and the past donations themselves are not an indication of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the Duongs are long-standing donors to Lee, often giving at the maximum allowed,” said Brendan Glavin, director of insights at OpenSecrets, which tracks money in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glavin reviewed campaign finance data for Barbara Lee’s political campaigns since 1998 at KQED’s request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal election finance documents show that Lee’s congressional campaign committee was \u003ca href=\"https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/389/202411050300227389/202411050300227389.pdf\">terminated as of November\u003c/a>. However, a committee for Lee’s Senate run, which remains open, had $48,791.98 cash on hand and $91,035.13 in debts as of Dec. 31, according to the most recent data available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors allege that David and Andy Duong financed negative political mailers targeting Thao’s opponents in the 2022 mayoral election and that following the election, the Duongs and a person identified as “co-conspirator 1” paid $95,000 to Jones for a no-show job. The unnamed co-conspirator appears to be local businessman and political operative Mario Juarez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Jones, longtime partner of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, leaves the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In exchange, Thao allegedly promised to extend the Duongs’ recycling company’s contract with the city, give the Duongs and the co-conspirator influence over city appointments and use public money to purchase housing units from another company owned by the Duongs and the co-conspirator, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lorenmtaylor/status/1887565988570513462\">post on social media platform X on Thursday\u003c/a>, former Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor, one of Lee’s opponents in the mayor’s race, said the scandal had caused the public to lose trust in Oakland city government and pressed Lee to return the donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m calling on all East Bay officials — including my opponent in the upcoming special election, Former Congresswoman Barbara Lee — who have received money from the Duong family to donate those funds to charity,” Taylor said. “We must demonstrate to residents that we have learned from these events and that the public can trust us to lead Oakland during the difficult time that lies ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to campaign finance records, the Duongs have donated to politicians at almost every level of government for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State campaign finance data show members of the family have contributed often to big-name Democrats like Rob and Mia Bonta, Jerry Brown and Kamala Harris, while David Duong has donated to both Democrats and Republicans at the federal level, including $250,000 to a committee called Trump Victory in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rep. Barbara Lee, center right, receives a welcome hug from Oakland District 4 Councilmember Janani Ramachandran at the grand opening of the Barbara Lee Campaign Headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission produced a report in support of a finding of probable cause alleging that Andy Duong, between at least 2016 and 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">orchestrated an elaborate campaign contribution laundering scheme\u003c/a> for the benefit of California Waste Solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report describes how Duong allegedly sought out people to write campaign contribution checks and then reimbursed them with cash to bypass campaign donation limits while CWS had ongoing business with Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, Duong allegedly provided committees and candidates with checks at campaign fundraisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Duong and CWS concealed the true source of the contributions, Duong ensured the targeted candidates were aware of his commitment to raise money for their campaign by attending candidate fundraisers, bringing individuals to campaign fundraisers, and at times hosting campaign fundraisers,” the report reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is still open and under investigation, a spokesperson for FPPC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campaign door hangers are on display at the grand opening of the headquarters for the Barbara Lee campaign headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was opened as a joint investigation with the Oakland Public Ethics Commission, which the FBI credited at a January press conference for the initial information that led to the agency’s multiyear investigation of Thao, Jones and the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, after the FBI raided Thao’s home and three addresses associated with the Duongs and their business, several elected officials returned donations they received from the Duongs, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta returned $155,100 “out of an abundance of caution,” according to then-spokesperson Nathan Click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Congressman Ro Khanna donated $5,800 in contributions from the Duongs to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action, Maitri and Community Seva, a spokesperson for the congressman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022900 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00001-1020x681.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for then-Senate candidate Adam Schiff’s campaign \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/silicon-valley-san-jose-politicians-give-back-donations-following-fbi-raids-david-duong-california-waste-solutions/\">told the \u003cem>San José Spotlight\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last year that “following public news reports, the campaign will be giving $26,000 — the total contributions received from Mr. Duong and his family — to a local nonprofit helping address housing and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s review of campaign finance records at the city, state and federal level did not uncover documentation of other candidates in the current Oakland mayors’ race receiving donations from the Duongs in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that almost anyone else in local politics who wants to reassure their constituents that they are clean and above board should consider doing the same thing,” said Dan Schnur, professor of political communication at USC and UC Berkeley and the former chair of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission. “It sounds like the Lee campaign decided that avoiding unnecessary bad publicity is more valuable than the $5,000. That is a wise decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous photos posted to Andy Duong’s Instagram account show him posing with major Democratic politicians at the state and federal level, including Hillary Clinton, Rob Bonta, Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Taylor and Lee also appear in photos posted to the account. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BsXKPmcAvGN/?img_index=3\">Jan. 7, 2019 post\u003c/a>, Thao, Taylor and former Oakland City Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas, now an Alameda County supervisor, appear in selfies with Andy Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was when the three of us — Nikki Bas, myself and Sheng Thao — were inaugurated. That was when we were first sworn into office as new council members,” Taylor said. “So there was a lot of photos being taken with a lot of people that I didn’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said that after Bonta returned donations from the Duongs, his staff reviewed their campaign financial records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as I know, I have never received any financial contributions from the Duong family,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Lee’s campaign did not respond to questions about the extent and nature of her relationship with members of the Duong family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BVvmt3Zgf3f/?hl=en\">June 24, 2017\u003c/a> photo, Andy Duong appears next to Lee at her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six days later, campaign finance records show, he contributed $2,700 to Lee’s reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who is running to be mayor of Oakland in an April 15 special election, served in Congress for more than 25 years before retiring and announcing her candidacy last month. A spokesperson for Lee, who opened her campaign headquarters in downtown Oakland on Saturday, said she planned to donate the most recent contributions from David Duong to Meals on Wheels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Barbara Lee has zero tolerance for any pay to play or special interest influence, has denounced these disturbing allegations, and has never been involved in any City vendor selection or contract issuance — and she fully supports strengthening City ethics practices,” Bilen Mesfin, a spokesperson for Lee’s mayoral campaign, told KQED Feb. 6. “As her final congressional term has reached its natural conclusion, her previous congressional accounts are now closed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026401 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Repr. Barbara Lee speaks to the crowd as Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, right, addresses the room at the grand opening of her campaign headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past two decades, the Duongs have been prolific donors to political campaigns and elected officials at the local, state and federal levels. Some politicians have returned those donations as an FBI investigation involving the Duongs has come into focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal campaign finance data show that since 1998, David Duong, Andy Duong and other members of the Duong family have contributed at least $66,250 to Lee. Most recently, David Duong contributed $5,000 to Lee’s unsuccessful run for Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for the $5000 donated to her senate campaign in 2023, Barbara Lee is donating that to Meals on Wheels,” Mesfin said in a follow-up email on Feb. 7, hours before Lee’s campaign launch in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a room full of supporters at her new campaign headquarters on Saturday, Lee spoke of regaining public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to make sure that all of the issues around ethics and transparency, the gaps are closed in this city. Because we have to restore trust and confidence with our residents,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the citys contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Campaign finance records released so far do not show Lee has received donations from the Duongs during her run for mayor, and the past donations themselves are not an indication of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the Duongs are long-standing donors to Lee, often giving at the maximum allowed,” said Brendan Glavin, director of insights at OpenSecrets, which tracks money in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glavin reviewed campaign finance data for Barbara Lee’s political campaigns since 1998 at KQED’s request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal election finance documents show that Lee’s congressional campaign committee was \u003ca href=\"https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/389/202411050300227389/202411050300227389.pdf\">terminated as of November\u003c/a>. However, a committee for Lee’s Senate run, which remains open, had $48,791.98 cash on hand and $91,035.13 in debts as of Dec. 31, according to the most recent data available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors allege that David and Andy Duong financed negative political mailers targeting Thao’s opponents in the 2022 mayoral election and that following the election, the Duongs and a person identified as “co-conspirator 1” paid $95,000 to Jones for a no-show job. The unnamed co-conspirator appears to be local businessman and political operative Mario Juarez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Jones, longtime partner of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, leaves the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In exchange, Thao allegedly promised to extend the Duongs’ recycling company’s contract with the city, give the Duongs and the co-conspirator influence over city appointments and use public money to purchase housing units from another company owned by the Duongs and the co-conspirator, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lorenmtaylor/status/1887565988570513462\">post on social media platform X on Thursday\u003c/a>, former Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor, one of Lee’s opponents in the mayor’s race, said the scandal had caused the public to lose trust in Oakland city government and pressed Lee to return the donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m calling on all East Bay officials — including my opponent in the upcoming special election, Former Congresswoman Barbara Lee — who have received money from the Duong family to donate those funds to charity,” Taylor said. “We must demonstrate to residents that we have learned from these events and that the public can trust us to lead Oakland during the difficult time that lies ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to campaign finance records, the Duongs have donated to politicians at almost every level of government for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State campaign finance data show members of the family have contributed often to big-name Democrats like Rob and Mia Bonta, Jerry Brown and Kamala Harris, while David Duong has donated to both Democrats and Republicans at the federal level, including $250,000 to a committee called Trump Victory in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rep. Barbara Lee, center right, receives a welcome hug from Oakland District 4 Councilmember Janani Ramachandran at the grand opening of the Barbara Lee Campaign Headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission produced a report in support of a finding of probable cause alleging that Andy Duong, between at least 2016 and 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">orchestrated an elaborate campaign contribution laundering scheme\u003c/a> for the benefit of California Waste Solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report describes how Duong allegedly sought out people to write campaign contribution checks and then reimbursed them with cash to bypass campaign donation limits while CWS had ongoing business with Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, Duong allegedly provided committees and candidates with checks at campaign fundraisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Duong and CWS concealed the true source of the contributions, Duong ensured the targeted candidates were aware of his commitment to raise money for their campaign by attending candidate fundraisers, bringing individuals to campaign fundraisers, and at times hosting campaign fundraisers,” the report reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is still open and under investigation, a spokesperson for FPPC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campaign door hangers are on display at the grand opening of the headquarters for the Barbara Lee campaign headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was opened as a joint investigation with the Oakland Public Ethics Commission, which the FBI credited at a January press conference for the initial information that led to the agency’s multiyear investigation of Thao, Jones and the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, after the FBI raided Thao’s home and three addresses associated with the Duongs and their business, several elected officials returned donations they received from the Duongs, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta returned $155,100 “out of an abundance of caution,” according to then-spokesperson Nathan Click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Congressman Ro Khanna donated $5,800 in contributions from the Duongs to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action, Maitri and Community Seva, a spokesperson for the congressman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for then-Senate candidate Adam Schiff’s campaign \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/silicon-valley-san-jose-politicians-give-back-donations-following-fbi-raids-david-duong-california-waste-solutions/\">told the \u003cem>San José Spotlight\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last year that “following public news reports, the campaign will be giving $26,000 — the total contributions received from Mr. Duong and his family — to a local nonprofit helping address housing and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s review of campaign finance records at the city, state and federal level did not uncover documentation of other candidates in the current Oakland mayors’ race receiving donations from the Duongs in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that almost anyone else in local politics who wants to reassure their constituents that they are clean and above board should consider doing the same thing,” said Dan Schnur, professor of political communication at USC and UC Berkeley and the former chair of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission. “It sounds like the Lee campaign decided that avoiding unnecessary bad publicity is more valuable than the $5,000. That is a wise decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous photos posted to Andy Duong’s Instagram account show him posing with major Democratic politicians at the state and federal level, including Hillary Clinton, Rob Bonta, Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Taylor and Lee also appear in photos posted to the account. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BsXKPmcAvGN/?img_index=3\">Jan. 7, 2019 post\u003c/a>, Thao, Taylor and former Oakland City Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas, now an Alameda County supervisor, appear in selfies with Andy Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was when the three of us — Nikki Bas, myself and Sheng Thao — were inaugurated. That was when we were first sworn into office as new council members,” Taylor said. “So there was a lot of photos being taken with a lot of people that I didn’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said that after Bonta returned donations from the Duongs, his staff reviewed their campaign financial records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as I know, I have never received any financial contributions from the Duong family,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Lee’s campaign did not respond to questions about the extent and nature of her relationship with members of the Duong family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BVvmt3Zgf3f/?hl=en\">June 24, 2017\u003c/a> photo, Andy Duong appears next to Lee at her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six days later, campaign finance records show, he contributed $2,700 to Lee’s reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>President Donald Trump returned to office last month with a major show of force on immigration, issuing numerous orders and directives to dramatically increase enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve sparked glee from his supporters, condemnation from his opponents, fear from immigrant communities amid nationwide raids — and also \u003ca href=\"https://www.mynspr.org/news/2025-01-31/north-state-ice-sightings-circulating-on-social-media-likely-false-claims\">plenty of false alarms\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flurry of new policies — some pushing long-held legal boundaries — are part of a “shock and awe” strategy meant to amplify the promises of a military-assisted mass deportation, experts said. Among the administration’s goals is for fearful immigrants to “voluntarily depart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The big issue is this basically full-court press (from the administration) on immigration enforcement and the fear it’s generated,” said UC Davis immigration law professor Kevin Johnson. “(The fear) probably is the biggest impact of all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty over immigrants’ futures has led communities to question whether workers should continue to show up to businesses, children to school and patients to doctors’ offices — and whether there will be economic disruptions and school funding consequences as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/immigrant-communities-hiding-ice.html\">are staying home\u003c/a>. Others have little choice but to continue their routines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kern County, an immigrant citrus picker who spoke on the condition that her name not be used because she fears deportation said, like many of her coworkers, she stayed home for a day in the wake of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/\">a Border Patrol operation last month\u003c/a> — conducted before Trump took office — that seemed to target farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she has bills to pay, so she’s continued going to work and sending her child to daycare. Rumors of immigration authority sightings have also continued to spread, including one that prompted the contractor she works for to keep her crew in the orange grove at the end of a recent workday. The contractor didn’t release them to go home until checking that the roads were clear, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody goes out with fear,” she said. “But one has needs. And my needs are bigger than the fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s actions have the potential to drastically remake the immigration landscape. Here’s what’s changed so far and how California is responding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Targeting birthright citizenship\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Trump’s first-day executive orders sought to end the century-plus-old practice of granting citizenship to all children born on U.S. soil, even if their parents are undocumented. Courts have affirmed the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship since 1898, in the case of a San Francisco man whose parents were from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two federal judges, responding to separate lawsuits, quickly halted the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third lawsuit, brought by 18 states, including California and the city of San Francisco, was heard in a Massachusetts federal court last Friday. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office says the executive order would strip citizenship rights from about 24,500 children who are born in California each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Expanding ICE’s reach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration has directed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement to \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-01720.pdf\">expand\u003c/a> use of a process called “expedited removal”: deportations that are allowed to bypass immigration courts, where a judge would normally decide the merit of allowing someone to stay in the country. In the past, immigrants without legal status and who do not make an asylum claim can be placed in this process if they’re arrested within 14 days of entering the country and within 100 miles of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That already covered most of California. The new order expands the process to the entire country and to immigrants arrested within two years of entering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That could have a huge effect” on the number of people authorities can arrest and put in the fast-tracked deportation process far from the border, said UCLA law professor Ahilan Arulanantham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration courts have a longstanding backlog that, in \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12492\">late 2024, rose to 3.5 million cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Trump actions could also dramatically increase those cases:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>He revoked a policy prohibiting agents from making arrests in “sensitive locations” such as churches, schools and hospitals;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And he signed the Laken Riley Act, a GOP bill that had some Democratic support, directing ICE to detain and deport immigrants who are charged — not just convicted — with certain crimes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Experts say much of how this is carried out still depends on how much Congress is willing to allow ICE to spend. The agency, which operates on about $9 billion a year, estimates it needs $27 billion to carry out the Laken Riley Act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/16/nx-s1-5262921/laken-riley-act-deportation-ice\">NPR has reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reach of ICE’s recent activity is also unclear. The agency in the last week of January posted daily arrest numbers on the social media platform X, showing nationwide an average of about 800 arrests a day. 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An NBC News report in late January \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/ice-trump-deportations-numbers-rcna188937\">found for one of the days\u003c/a>, nearly half of those arrested were nonviolent offenders or had no criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cancelling legal immigration paths\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to targeting immigrants without legal status, Trump is revoking pathways for immigrants to arrive legally, often on humanitarian grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump suspended refugee admissions in one Day-One order. In other actions, he’s gone after the temporary legal statuses of immigrants whom the Biden administration allowed to enter. Trump’s administration has called those statuses another way to allow illegal immigration under the guise of government support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, his Homeland Security department canceled the temporary status of about 300,000 Venezuelans that had allowed them protections from deportation and work permits. 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The contractor didn’t release them to go home until checking that the roads were clear, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody goes out with fear,” she said. “But one has needs. And my needs are bigger than the fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s actions have the potential to drastically remake the immigration landscape. Here’s what’s changed so far and how California is responding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Targeting birthright citizenship\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Trump’s first-day executive orders sought to end the century-plus-old practice of granting citizenship to all children born on U.S. soil, even if their parents are undocumented. Courts have affirmed the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship since 1898, in the case of a San Francisco man whose parents were from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two federal judges, responding to separate lawsuits, quickly halted the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third lawsuit, brought by 18 states, including California and the city of San Francisco, was heard in a Massachusetts federal court last Friday. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office says the executive order would strip citizenship rights from about 24,500 children who are born in California each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Expanding ICE’s reach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration has directed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement to \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-01720.pdf\">expand\u003c/a> use of a process called “expedited removal”: deportations that are allowed to bypass immigration courts, where a judge would normally decide the merit of allowing someone to stay in the country. In the past, immigrants without legal status and who do not make an asylum claim can be placed in this process if they’re arrested within 14 days of entering the country and within 100 miles of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That already covered most of California. 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The agency, which operates on about $9 billion a year, estimates it needs $27 billion to carry out the Laken Riley Act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/16/nx-s1-5262921/laken-riley-act-deportation-ice\">NPR has reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reach of ICE’s recent activity is also unclear. The agency in the last week of January posted daily arrest numbers on the social media platform X, showing nationwide an average of about 800 arrests a day. 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"content": "\u003cp>Armed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024327/san-jose-council-taps-engineering-executive-carl-salas-vacant-seat\">with a new council majority\u003c/a>, San José Mayor Matt Mahan will propose permanently reshaping the city’s strategy to reduce homelessness in his upcoming budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his first two years in office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">Mahan has centered his plan to reduce street homelessness on steering Measure E tax dollars\u003c/a> away from the construction of affordable apartments toward the development of interim housing and shelter. The mayor now wants to make that shift permanent, a move that could end yearly budget fights with supporters of affordable housing and cement his vision for homeless spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our strategy for ending unsheltered homelessness in San José has shifted dramatically,” Mahan told KQED. “The council has voted in line with that strategy, but now we need to actually make permanent the Measure E funding to sustain it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan wants funds from Measure E, a tax on property sales of $2 million or more, to pay for the costs of interim shelter. Only once those costs are covered will excess transfer tax revenue go to building affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the ‘nice to have,’” Mahan said. “The ‘need to have’ is getting people into a safe, dignified place today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Hall in San José, California, on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San José currently has 499 units of interim housing spread across six communities — which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">typically consist of small studios with in-unit bathrooms and communal kitchens\u003c/a>. City officials plan to open several new sites this year, in addition to a second managed parking lot for people living in their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Measure E tax revenue can technically be spent on any city service, voters approved it in 2020 specifically to increase housing affordability and reduce homelessness. Under the current formula, 75% of Measure E revenue goes to affordable housing, 15% to shelter and 10% to homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first two budgets, Mahan pushed to temporarily change this allocation. In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">he was largely rebuffed by the council\u003c/a>, but last year, he secured unanimous support for spending 65% of Measure E revenue on temporary housing and shelter — arguing that short-term projects were necessary to clear \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">encampments along the city’s waterways\u003c/a> and avoid water quality fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12026053 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/MPFD0580-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">council backed Mahan’s funding shift last year\u003c/a>, they also approved an amendment clarifying that the Measure E spending formula favoring affordable housing would remain the default heading into this year’s budget talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a policy decision as to whether or not we’re going to have this fight every single year and have Groundhog Day — or we just acknowledge that this is our strategy and we need to make clear how we’re going to fund it,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan appears to have a six-vote path to implementing these changes in the budget year beginning July 1. Last month, the council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024327/san-jose-council-taps-engineering-executive-carl-salas-vacant-seat\">appointed Carl Salas, an engineering executive supported by Mahan\u003c/a>, to the vacant District 3 seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his interview for the job, Salas told the council he agreed with Mahan that the city needs to focus its funding on short-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s proposal will likely draw pushback from affordable housing advocates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing\">who have called Mahan’s strategy shortsighted\u003c/a>. Without city funding for the construction of new affordable apartments, they argue that people experiencing homelessness won’t have a place to go after staying in shelters and tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It slows the housing production in our community down to a crawl,” said Ray Bramson, chief operating officer of housing nonprofit Destination: Home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a lot of great projects off the ground and running, but now they’re struggling to find that local funding that is so necessary so that they can apply for tax credits and move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan said the shift would allow the city to shave $40 million from an estimated $60 million budget shortfall. That’s because the council previously voted to absorb the construction and operating costs of interim housing into the general fund — an ongoing cost without a dedicated funding source. A city budget forecast released last year found that without a change to Measure E, the interim housing program will require increasing amounts of general fund spending — reaching $70 million in the 2028-29 fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what we knew was going to happen all along,” Bramson said. “As you build more of these [interim] sites and more of these units, there is a fixed cost you are committing yourself to in perpetuity to keep these places running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan will provide details of his spending plan when he releases his proposed budget in early March. On Tuesday, the council will review updated budget estimates and begin discussion on closing the $60 million shortfall. The deficit is largely the result of weaker-than-expected sales tax revenue, according to the city manager’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan wants funds from Measure E, a tax on property sales of $2 million or more, to pay for the costs of interim shelter. Only once those costs are covered will excess transfer tax revenue go to building affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the ‘nice to have,’” Mahan said. “The ‘need to have’ is getting people into a safe, dignified place today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Hall in San José, California, on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San José currently has 499 units of interim housing spread across six communities — which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">typically consist of small studios with in-unit bathrooms and communal kitchens\u003c/a>. City officials plan to open several new sites this year, in addition to a second managed parking lot for people living in their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Measure E tax revenue can technically be spent on any city service, voters approved it in 2020 specifically to increase housing affordability and reduce homelessness. Under the current formula, 75% of Measure E revenue goes to affordable housing, 15% to shelter and 10% to homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first two budgets, Mahan pushed to temporarily change this allocation. In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">he was largely rebuffed by the council\u003c/a>, but last year, he secured unanimous support for spending 65% of Measure E revenue on temporary housing and shelter — arguing that short-term projects were necessary to clear \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">encampments along the city’s waterways\u003c/a> and avoid water quality fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alarm bells rang in Jeff Leopold’s mind when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> slapped a new 10% tariff on Chinese imports last week. Planned tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025404/canada-tariffs-paused-california-wineries-fear-trade-dispute-would-be-crushing\">paused\u003c/a>, but that didn’t put Leopold, who owns six Ace Hardware stores in the Bay Area, at ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the products he sells are imported from other countries, including China, Canada and Mexico. Leopold calculated how much more he would have to pay for a shipment of outdoor summer furniture that he had ordered on its way from China. He said he’ll have to pass the extra costs on to customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a margin we have to work off to make a living,” said Leopold, 58. “And you get a retail item at a certain price point, it just doesn’t sell. But we don’t have an option when the tariffs are just thrown at us like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Trump claimed that tariffs — a fee on goods imported to the United States — would be paid by other countries. However, Americans are likely to be stuck paying higher prices on imports such as consumer electronics, cars, toys and more. A recent \u003ca href=\"https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tariffs-trade-war/\">analysis of Trump’s tariffs\u003c/a> published by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation found that the levies would cause employers to cut jobs and U.S. households to pay more in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has argued tariffs on China, and potentially on Mexico and Canada, are needed to force those countries to do more to stem the flow of illegal immigration, fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. That doesn’t ring true for Leopold, whose family has experienced the devastation caused by a fentanyl overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026036 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Store owner Michelle Leopold works with Noah Gowe, a store employee at the Standard 5 & 10 Ace, a family-owned hardware store in San Francisco’s Laurel Heights neighborhood, on Feb. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Further complicating matters for business owners is an already existing tariff imposed by the first Trump administration on certain Chinese imports, which Leopold said raises the total duties on his furniture shipment to 35%. Then, there are the sweeping fees on all imports from Mexico and Canada that may take effect in less than a month. The \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/business/economy/trump-steel-aluminum-tariffs.html\">reported\u003c/a> Trump is ready to impose tariffs of 25% on steel and aluminum imports on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retail’s tough right now. People aren’t spending as much because interest rates are higher. People are uncertain about politics and the economy,” said Leopold, who learned the business as a kid helping at his dad’s hardware store in San Francisco, which he now runs. “And then you throw something like this on it, it doesn’t help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the nation’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-top-import-partner-every-u-s-state/#google_vignette\">top importer\u003c/a> of Chinese goods, the administration’s trade maneuvering means uncertainty for many businesses. The state imported nearly $200 billion in goods from China, Mexico and Canada in 2023, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calchamberalert.com/2024/02/16/california-trade-down-in-2023-but-state-still-a-top-exporter/#:~:text=California%20Imports,%24147.77%20billion%20the%20previous%20year.&text=Mexico%20imports%20increased%20to%20%2461.51%20billion%20from%20%2460.46%20billion%20in%202022.&text=Imports%20from%20Taiwan%20were%20up,from%20%2428.59%20billion%20in%202022.\">data\u003c/a> compiled by the California Chamber of Commerce. The previous year, it was $232 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before the tariffs on America’s largest trading partners were to go into effect, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 members of her country’s National Guard to the border. 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The photos include his son Trevor, who died from fentanyl poisoning in 2019. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s not a trade issue, but he’s linked it to trade,” said Kyle Handley, who teaches economics at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. “And so now you brought in a whole host of other issues where we’ve got to think about policing on the border, narcotics and drugs and things like that. And there’s no trade solution for those problems. There’s just a trade threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Leopold and his wife, Michelle Leopold, the issue is personal. Their 18-year-old son, Trevor, died of an accidental fentanyl overdose in his freshman dorm at Sonoma State University five years ago. Trevor thought he was buying an OxyContin pill and took it before bed, Michelle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never woke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Leopolds, who live near their San Rafael store, doubt Trump’s approach will make much of a dent in fentanyl trafficking. Since Trevor’s death, Michelle has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wearenotalone.community/\">volunteered\u003c/a> to educate parents, high school students, Boy Scouts and others about fentanyl poisoning. She has trained their employees how to use Narcan to reverse opioid overdoses, and the medicine is part of first aid kits at their stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the federal government should increase education on the issue and make Narcan widely available in communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see any connection between stopping fentanyl and the tariffs. 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They may not make the investments that they would have made. They’ll just hold off on all that. And that’s ultimately bad for economic growth and bad for people in the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Ports of Entry handled a third of all Chinese imports that entered the U.S. in 2024, a whopping $159 billion in goods, according to data analyzed by Handley. If the new tariff causes trade volume to drop, logistics, transportation, warehousing and other businesses could be directly hurt, he said.[aside postID=forum_2010101908786 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/02/iStock-2189862167-1-1020x574.jpg']Some store owners in Oakland told KQED they believed the tariffs could lead to more manufacturing jobs for American workers as Trump wants, but many economists doubt the positions will materialize. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Trump claimed that tariffs — a fee on goods imported to the United States — would be paid by other countries. However, Americans are likely to be stuck paying higher prices on imports such as consumer electronics, cars, toys and more. A recent \u003ca href=\"https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tariffs-trade-war/\">analysis of Trump’s tariffs\u003c/a> published by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation found that the levies would cause employers to cut jobs and U.S. households to pay more in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has argued tariffs on China, and potentially on Mexico and Canada, are needed to force those countries to do more to stem the flow of illegal immigration, fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. That doesn’t ring true for Leopold, whose family has experienced the devastation caused by a fentanyl overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026036 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Store owner Michelle Leopold works with Noah Gowe, a store employee at the Standard 5 & 10 Ace, a family-owned hardware store in San Francisco’s Laurel Heights neighborhood, on Feb. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Further complicating matters for business owners is an already existing tariff imposed by the first Trump administration on certain Chinese imports, which Leopold said raises the total duties on his furniture shipment to 35%. Then, there are the sweeping fees on all imports from Mexico and Canada that may take effect in less than a month. The \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/business/economy/trump-steel-aluminum-tariffs.html\">reported\u003c/a> Trump is ready to impose tariffs of 25% on steel and aluminum imports on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retail’s tough right now. People aren’t spending as much because interest rates are higher. People are uncertain about politics and the economy,” said Leopold, who learned the business as a kid helping at his dad’s hardware store in San Francisco, which he now runs. “And then you throw something like this on it, it doesn’t help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the nation’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-top-import-partner-every-u-s-state/#google_vignette\">top importer\u003c/a> of Chinese goods, the administration’s trade maneuvering means uncertainty for many businesses. The state imported nearly $200 billion in goods from China, Mexico and Canada in 2023, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calchamberalert.com/2024/02/16/california-trade-down-in-2023-but-state-still-a-top-exporter/#:~:text=California%20Imports,%24147.77%20billion%20the%20previous%20year.&text=Mexico%20imports%20increased%20to%20%2461.51%20billion%20from%20%2460.46%20billion%20in%202022.&text=Imports%20from%20Taiwan%20were%20up,from%20%2428.59%20billion%20in%202022.\">data\u003c/a> compiled by the California Chamber of Commerce. The previous year, it was $232 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before the tariffs on America’s largest trading partners were to go into effect, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 members of her country’s National Guard to the border. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1886529228193022429\">said\u003c/a> Canada would expand a $1.3 billion plan — announced in December — to reinforce the border, appoint a “Fentanyl Czar” and list drug cartels as terrorist organizations to appease Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026034\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12026034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family photos hang on the wall of Jeff Leopold’s office at Standard 5 & 10 Ace, a family-owned hardware store in San Francisco’s Laurel Heights neighborhood, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. The photos include his son Trevor, who died from fentanyl poisoning in 2019. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s not a trade issue, but he’s linked it to trade,” said Kyle Handley, who teaches economics at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. “And so now you brought in a whole host of other issues where we’ve got to think about policing on the border, narcotics and drugs and things like that. And there’s no trade solution for those problems. There’s just a trade threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Leopold and his wife, Michelle Leopold, the issue is personal. Their 18-year-old son, Trevor, died of an accidental fentanyl overdose in his freshman dorm at Sonoma State University five years ago. 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