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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dire water conditions, missed deadlines and uncertainty on the Colorado River are complicating critical water decisions in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No single state, water agency or federal official has shown the power, or the will, to break the deadlock among Colorado River basin states over how to share the dwindling supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years of fraught negotiations have failed to yield consensus even as major reservoir storage plummets \u003ca href=\"https://www.colorado.edu/center/gwc/media/832\">to record lows\u003c/a> — ratcheting up the tensions, and the stakes, for the states’ negotiators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, key agreements for managing the river are expiring at the end of this year. These include agreements reached in 2007 that lasted nearly two decades, which took fewer than three years to craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This round of talks has already taken longer — and, so far, produced nothing so durable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the federal steward for the river under the Department of the Interior, last week \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/reclamation-publishes-final-environmental-impact-statement-future-colorado-river\">released\u003c/a> a \u003ca href=\"https://www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/post2026/final-eis/docs/ES/P26_FEIS_ExecSummary_508.pdf\">10-year framework\u003c/a> that establishes rough parameters for managing the river, but imposes no specific long-term plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11627648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal.jpg\" alt=\"The All American Canal, which carries Colorado River water into the Imperial Valley in Southern California. California uses more Colorado River water than any other state.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-960x601.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-240x150.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-375x235.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-520x325.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The All-American Canal, which carries Colorado River water into the Imperial Valley in Southern California. California uses more Colorado River water than any other state. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The federal provisions include cuts of up to 40% to the shared supply of California, Arizona and Nevada in the lower basin. They also allow releases from Lake Powell, which collects flows from the upper basin, to dip low enough they risk violating a legally required threshold for water deliveries to downstream states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These dramatic cuts are an upper limit for future operations: The federal government plans to roll out more detailed management plans every two years if the states continue their impasse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency will release the first of those plans any day, imposing cuts in the downstream states of California, Arizona and Nevada — an estimated 10% cut to California’s supply through 2028, or roughly 440,000 acre-feet a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No mandatory cuts are expected in the upper basin states of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico, according to those involved in negotiations. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-07-23/colorado-river-cuts\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> first reported the split.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It reflects the limits of federal power and political will: The Interior Department can force cuts in the lower basin, but has no comparable authority to impose cuts in the upper basin states — the limits of which the Congressional Research Service said are the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45546#_Toc230185744\">“ongoing debate\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the long-term plan that California’s water suppliers were hoping for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950460\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Colorado River\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-800x556.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-1020x709.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-1536x1068.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-2048x1424.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-1920x1335.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water in Shadow Mountain Lake continues into the Colorado River and flows into Lake Granby to the south on May 13, 2023 near Granby, Colorado. \u003ccite>(Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Building anything to store, move or make more water typically takes decades and billions of dollars. Without longer-term certainty about how states will share the river’s water supply among 40 million people, millions of acres of agriculture, and two states in Mexico — cities and irrigation providers are struggling to plan how to close the gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A cut is never fun, but you can deal with it. But not if you say, ‘Well, we have a cut here, and then maybe a cut in two years, and maybe another cut in two more years,’” said Bill Hasencamp, Metropolitan Water District’s manager of Colorado River resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to plan for our future. And this deal does not let us do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The future of Southern California’s water\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, where the availability of water is never certain, nature-defying engineering keeps dry parts of the state flush with water even when little falls from the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of that engineering converges around one Southern California supplier: the Metropolitan Water District. The giant wholesaler imports water from Northern California and the Colorado River to supply cities and other retailers serving 19 million people across six counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metropolitan’s imports are so central to the region that when its Northern California supplies dropped to a trickle during the most recent drought, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/04/southern-california-conserve-water/\">6 million Southern Californians faced unprecedented water restrictions in 2022.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of New Bullards Bar Reservoir in the Tahoe National Forest near Camptonville, California, on Aug. 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Southern California isn’t facing such serious shortfalls again yet. But uncertainty over the Colorado River compounds the risks the next drought will bring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a good chance it’ll be as bad as it’s been, and there’s a reasonable chance that it’ll be worse,” said Hasencamp’s colleague, Keith Nobriga, whose job as an operations manager at Metropolitan is helping the district prepare for the future amid climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty also throws a wrench in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration’s water machinations to the north. Metropolitan’s board will play an outsized role in deciding the fates of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/california-sites-reservoir/\">Sites Reservoir\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2026/05/newsom-california-delta-tunnel-water/\">Delta tunnel\u003c/a> because of the district’s water needs and spending power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both multibillion-dollar projects, decades in the making, aim to send more of Northern California’s water south. Metropolitan is also planning a large-scale water recycling and reuse program, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.mwdh2o.com/press-releases/metropolitan-completes-environmental-review-for-pure-water-southern-california\">Pure Water Southern California\u003c/a>, with the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metropolitan has already committed hundreds of millions of dollars to the Delta tunnel’s planning costs and about $31 million for Sites. The board hasn’t committed to receiving water or contributing to construction for either yet, though board votes on whether to approve the tunnel and recycled water project could come as soon as next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2255px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2255\" height=\"1458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211.jpg 2255w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211-800x517.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211-1020x659.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211-1536x993.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211-2048x1324.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211-1920x1241.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2255px) 100vw, 2255px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ship moves through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near Bethel Island, Contra Costa County, March 12, 2008. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration now says it will cost more than $20 billion to build a giant tunnel so the state can catch more water when it rains and store it to better prepare for longer droughts caused by climate change. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Subtracting one part of the equation,such as the Colorado River, could change the calculus for the others. But Metropolitan has to know how much water it stands to lose, and for how long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequences of picking the wrong path could leave Southern California thirsty during the next drought, on one hand, or unnecessarily increase water rates, on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobriga compares his job to insurance planning. The costs of nudging these water projects along, he says, are like paying an insurance premium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll keep these projects alive. We’ll keep looking down the road,” he said. “And if it gets to a point where we really think these droughts are imminent, then we’ll … construct and pay the big money for one or several of these projects. And we don’t know which ones yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Agriculture in limbo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California uses the largest share of the Colorado River’s water among the states. And the Imperial Irrigation District uses the largest share of that to supply half a million acres of alfalfa, grasses, winter vegetables and other crops in the southeast corner of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As climate change and a megadrought plunged the Colorado River into its driest decades in over a century, the Biden administration struck a deal with the Imperial Irrigation District, trading more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/programs/LCBConservation&EfficiencyProgram/Phase1_SCIA.pdf\">half a billion federal dollars\u003c/a> for short-term water conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growers cut irrigation to their alfalfa and other forage crops for weeks at a time, and the district conserved enough water to add more than 12 feet to Lake Mead on the Colorado River, according to Tina Shields, water manager for the irrigation district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10524572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10524572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/16469741542_36b2d4c6f4_o-e1431555015254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1079\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Luis Reservoir, just west of the San Joaquin Valley town of Los Banos, is California’s sixth-largest reservoir and stores water pumped south from the Delta by the federal Central Valley Project and State Water Project. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, those conservation programs are coming to the end of their funding and regulatory lifetimes. Starting new ones would require new plans and approvals to address the environmental impact of reduced irrigation runoff that \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/saltonsea/docs/2024/salton-sea-faq.pdf\">feeds the Salton Sea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeking those permits and environmental approvals “needs to be done on a longer term, not on a two-year term,” Shields said. “Because it’ll take us at least a year to negotiate, probably longer, the environmental actions necessary to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, negotiations are ongoing with other California water users about how they’ll share the coming cuts, including who is going to pay for it, Shields said. The district has not yet committed to anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district’s perspective is: We’ve done a lot. We’re doing a lot. It’s challenging to do more,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Art of the deal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though the U.S. Department of the Interior has not yet released its plan for the river’s next two years, those involved in negotiations expect that it will call for reductions and conservation in California, Arizona and Nevada similar to what \u003ca href=\"https://crb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/20260501-lower-division-states-proposal-2026-2028.pdf\">the states proposed in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three lower-basin states then must agree among themselves and with the federal government on how to implement it. After that, individual water suppliers in California will seek approvals from their boards for their share of the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Weiner, an attorney representing the \u003ca href=\"https://tentribespartnership.org/tribes/fort-yuma-quechan-indian-tribe/\">Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe\u003c/a>, whose reservation lies on both sides of the Colorado River, compared the plan to a Band-Aid, not a long-term path to sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12094409\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12094409\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/073026-Lake-Powell-Colorado-River-GETTY-MG-CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1347\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/073026-Lake-Powell-Colorado-River-GETTY-MG-CM.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/073026-Lake-Powell-Colorado-River-GETTY-MG-CM-160x108.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/073026-Lake-Powell-Colorado-River-GETTY-MG-CM-1536x1034.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tall bleached “bathtub ring” is visible on the rocky banks of Lake Powell as boats navigate the waters in Page, Arizona on July 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To a large extent,” Weiner said, “it leaves us at the mercy of this coming winter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration relied on the states reaching consensus rather than imposing terms — an approach that so far hasn’t broken the deadlock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs called for the federal government to step in and broker a deal. But federal leverage looks different in the upper and lower basins. Lower basin stakeholders say there are other strings the federal government could pull upstream, such as forcing water out of reservoirs, but isn’t. And cloistered negotiations and hardline positions among negotiators have driven an impasse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arizona negotiator Tom Buschatzke publicly lambasted the upper basin in \u003ca href=\"https://waterbank.az.gov/sites/default/files/2025-09/03b-Director-Buschatzke-Opinion-Denver-Post.pdf\">The Denver Post\u003c/a> for failing to propose “One. Single. Gallon.” of mandatory, verifiable reductions. Colorado negotiator \u003ca href=\"https://cwcb.colorado.gov/colorado-river-commissioners-corner\">Becky Mitchell\u003c/a> wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://coloradosun.com/2026/07/07/opinion-colorado-river-compact-water-sharing/\">The Colorado Sun\u003c/a> that had the lower basin states lived within their means, “the reservoirs would not be in crisis today.”[aside postID=news_12093409 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260716_ClimateSolutionsCapTrade_GC-6-KQED.jpg']Elizabeth Koebele, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Reno said that negotiations have been most productive when participants had strong working relationships. Without clear federal leadership, she said, the same conflicts keep resurfacing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fraying relationships, she said, could stem from turnover. But years of constant crisis have also worn people down. “We have been governing in crisis for a long time, and so every time we meet at the table, there’s this big problem to solve,” she said. “The house is on fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the lower basin \u003ca href=\"https://www.inkstain.net/2025/03/the-march-24-month-study-and-the-myth-of-a-compact-call/\">may sue the upper\u003c/a> over deliveries that dip below a legally required threshold, both sides would risk the uncertain outcomes of litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In essence, this federal action has 40 million people living from paycheck to paycheck on water supply,” said Mark Gold, an environmental scientist and board member of the Metropolitan Water District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That paycheck comes due again in two years with the same states, and the same asymmetry of power, still in place. Until then, the interior secretary can still force deeper cuts on the lower basin. No one, right now, is willing to force the upper basin to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2026/08/california-colorado-river-two-year-plan-chaos/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, key agreements for managing the river are expiring at the end of this year. These include agreements reached in 2007 that lasted nearly two decades, which took fewer than three years to craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This round of talks has already taken longer — and, so far, produced nothing so durable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the federal steward for the river under the Department of the Interior, last week \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/reclamation-publishes-final-environmental-impact-statement-future-colorado-river\">released\u003c/a> a \u003ca href=\"https://www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/post2026/final-eis/docs/ES/P26_FEIS_ExecSummary_508.pdf\">10-year framework\u003c/a> that establishes rough parameters for managing the river, but imposes no specific long-term plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11627648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal.jpg\" alt=\"The All American Canal, which carries Colorado River water into the Imperial Valley in Southern California. California uses more Colorado River water than any other state.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-960x601.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-240x150.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-375x235.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/AACanal-520x325.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The All-American Canal, which carries Colorado River water into the Imperial Valley in Southern California. California uses more Colorado River water than any other state. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The federal provisions include cuts of up to 40% to the shared supply of California, Arizona and Nevada in the lower basin. They also allow releases from Lake Powell, which collects flows from the upper basin, to dip low enough they risk violating a legally required threshold for water deliveries to downstream states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These dramatic cuts are an upper limit for future operations: The federal government plans to roll out more detailed management plans every two years if the states continue their impasse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency will release the first of those plans any day, imposing cuts in the downstream states of California, Arizona and Nevada — an estimated 10% cut to California’s supply through 2028, or roughly 440,000 acre-feet a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No mandatory cuts are expected in the upper basin states of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico, according to those involved in negotiations. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-07-23/colorado-river-cuts\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> first reported the split.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It reflects the limits of federal power and political will: The Interior Department can force cuts in the lower basin, but has no comparable authority to impose cuts in the upper basin states — the limits of which the Congressional Research Service said are the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45546#_Toc230185744\">“ongoing debate\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the long-term plan that California’s water suppliers were hoping for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950460\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Colorado River\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-800x556.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-1020x709.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-1536x1068.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-2048x1424.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1490442478-1920x1335.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water in Shadow Mountain Lake continues into the Colorado River and flows into Lake Granby to the south on May 13, 2023 near Granby, Colorado. \u003ccite>(Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Building anything to store, move or make more water typically takes decades and billions of dollars. Without longer-term certainty about how states will share the river’s water supply among 40 million people, millions of acres of agriculture, and two states in Mexico — cities and irrigation providers are struggling to plan how to close the gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A cut is never fun, but you can deal with it. But not if you say, ‘Well, we have a cut here, and then maybe a cut in two years, and maybe another cut in two more years,’” said Bill Hasencamp, Metropolitan Water District’s manager of Colorado River resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to plan for our future. And this deal does not let us do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The future of Southern California’s water\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, where the availability of water is never certain, nature-defying engineering keeps dry parts of the state flush with water even when little falls from the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of that engineering converges around one Southern California supplier: the Metropolitan Water District. The giant wholesaler imports water from Northern California and the Colorado River to supply cities and other retailers serving 19 million people across six counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metropolitan’s imports are so central to the region that when its Northern California supplies dropped to a trickle during the most recent drought, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/04/southern-california-conserve-water/\">6 million Southern Californians faced unprecedented water restrictions in 2022.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of New Bullards Bar Reservoir in the Tahoe National Forest near Camptonville, California, on Aug. 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Southern California isn’t facing such serious shortfalls again yet. But uncertainty over the Colorado River compounds the risks the next drought will bring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a good chance it’ll be as bad as it’s been, and there’s a reasonable chance that it’ll be worse,” said Hasencamp’s colleague, Keith Nobriga, whose job as an operations manager at Metropolitan is helping the district prepare for the future amid climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty also throws a wrench in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration’s water machinations to the north. Metropolitan’s board will play an outsized role in deciding the fates of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/california-sites-reservoir/\">Sites Reservoir\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2026/05/newsom-california-delta-tunnel-water/\">Delta tunnel\u003c/a> because of the district’s water needs and spending power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both multibillion-dollar projects, decades in the making, aim to send more of Northern California’s water south. Metropolitan is also planning a large-scale water recycling and reuse program, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.mwdh2o.com/press-releases/metropolitan-completes-environmental-review-for-pure-water-southern-california\">Pure Water Southern California\u003c/a>, with the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metropolitan has already committed hundreds of millions of dollars to the Delta tunnel’s planning costs and about $31 million for Sites. The board hasn’t committed to receiving water or contributing to construction for either yet, though board votes on whether to approve the tunnel and recycled water project could come as soon as next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2255px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2255\" height=\"1458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211.jpg 2255w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211-800x517.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211-1020x659.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211-1536x993.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211-2048x1324.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24137831052211-1920x1241.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2255px) 100vw, 2255px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ship moves through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near Bethel Island, Contra Costa County, March 12, 2008. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration now says it will cost more than $20 billion to build a giant tunnel so the state can catch more water when it rains and store it to better prepare for longer droughts caused by climate change. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Subtracting one part of the equation,such as the Colorado River, could change the calculus for the others. But Metropolitan has to know how much water it stands to lose, and for how long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequences of picking the wrong path could leave Southern California thirsty during the next drought, on one hand, or unnecessarily increase water rates, on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobriga compares his job to insurance planning. The costs of nudging these water projects along, he says, are like paying an insurance premium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll keep these projects alive. We’ll keep looking down the road,” he said. “And if it gets to a point where we really think these droughts are imminent, then we’ll … construct and pay the big money for one or several of these projects. And we don’t know which ones yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Agriculture in limbo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California uses the largest share of the Colorado River’s water among the states. And the Imperial Irrigation District uses the largest share of that to supply half a million acres of alfalfa, grasses, winter vegetables and other crops in the southeast corner of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As climate change and a megadrought plunged the Colorado River into its driest decades in over a century, the Biden administration struck a deal with the Imperial Irrigation District, trading more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/programs/LCBConservation&EfficiencyProgram/Phase1_SCIA.pdf\">half a billion federal dollars\u003c/a> for short-term water conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growers cut irrigation to their alfalfa and other forage crops for weeks at a time, and the district conserved enough water to add more than 12 feet to Lake Mead on the Colorado River, according to Tina Shields, water manager for the irrigation district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10524572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10524572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/16469741542_36b2d4c6f4_o-e1431555015254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1079\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Luis Reservoir, just west of the San Joaquin Valley town of Los Banos, is California’s sixth-largest reservoir and stores water pumped south from the Delta by the federal Central Valley Project and State Water Project. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, those conservation programs are coming to the end of their funding and regulatory lifetimes. Starting new ones would require new plans and approvals to address the environmental impact of reduced irrigation runoff that \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/saltonsea/docs/2024/salton-sea-faq.pdf\">feeds the Salton Sea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeking those permits and environmental approvals “needs to be done on a longer term, not on a two-year term,” Shields said. “Because it’ll take us at least a year to negotiate, probably longer, the environmental actions necessary to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, negotiations are ongoing with other California water users about how they’ll share the coming cuts, including who is going to pay for it, Shields said. The district has not yet committed to anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district’s perspective is: We’ve done a lot. We’re doing a lot. It’s challenging to do more,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Art of the deal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though the U.S. Department of the Interior has not yet released its plan for the river’s next two years, those involved in negotiations expect that it will call for reductions and conservation in California, Arizona and Nevada similar to what \u003ca href=\"https://crb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/20260501-lower-division-states-proposal-2026-2028.pdf\">the states proposed in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three lower-basin states then must agree among themselves and with the federal government on how to implement it. 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Under a state law that went into effect this year, that support sets the stage for state regulators to certify the union within 30 days. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Drivers for ride-hailing giants like Uber and Lyft and other companies are classified as independent contractors and don’t qualify for overtime pay and other protections granted under federal law. However, state lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034860/california-bill-would-allow-uber-lyft-drivers-bargain-collectively\">passed AB 1340 last year\u003c/a>, giving drivers a path to form a union and bargain for protections. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2003719181.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11997574\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2003719181.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2003719181-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2003719181-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2003719181-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Members of the Rideshare Drivers United organization protest against Uber and Lyft during a demonstration in Los Angeles, California, on Feb.14, 2024. 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In 2020, voters across the state approved a measure known as Proposition 22 that confirmed drivers’ classification as contractors instead of employees, leaving them without healthcare and other benefits. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Castellanos was one of the plaintiffs who appealed the measure, calling it unconstitutional. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For six years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">Californians\u003c/a> have been able to shake up a craft cocktail at home using alcohol delivered to their doorstep. Now, it’s last call for the distillery deliveries, unless lawmakers intervene by the end of this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s unlikely, thanks to opposition from California’s wine industry, Teamsters union truck drivers and corporate alcohol wholesalers and distributors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The influential, well-funded groups lobbied the Legislature behind closed doors this year to block legislation that would have made permanent pandemic-era rules that allowed craft distillers to ship spirits directly to their customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic lockdowns, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that allowed craft distillers to ship spirits to their customers’ homes. In the years since, lawmakers passed temporary laws allowing craft distillers — defined as those that produce up to 150,000 gallons a year — to keep shipping their spirits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest extension expires Dec. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have a lot of hope that we’re going to be able to salvage this,” said Folsom Republican Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/josh-hoover-165420\">Josh Hoover\u003c/a>. He tried unsuccessfully this year to amend one of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2211\">his bills\u003c/a> to let small distillers continue shipping directly to their customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12094388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12094388\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_11_CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_11_CM.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_11_CM-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_11_CM-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bottles of spirits produced by Dry Diggins Distillery in El Dorado Hills on Aug. 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The groups blocking Hoover’s proposal have spent more than $1 million lobbying the Legislature and state government this year. They have donated at least 11 times that much to California politicians and their campaigns over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The craft distillers, who have spent a fraction as much on state politics, say all that spending from the opposition, particularly from corporate liquor distributors, appears to have paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They went directly to legislators’ offices and basically torpedoed any effort we came up with,” said Cris Steller, acting executive director of the California Distillers Association and the owner of Amador and Dry Diggings Distillery in El Dorado Hills, a family-run business that makes whiskey, brandy, vodka and gin.[aside postID=forum_2010101914751 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2022/04/California-drought.jpg']The fight is about more than whether Californians can have a bottle of whiskey or gin delivered. It illustrates how decisions are made in Sacramento, where wealthy and powerful interests can shape or kill policy in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/09/california-secret-negotiations-public-transparency/\">secret negotiations\u003c/a> with lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians, in turn, benefit when proposals die quietly because they don’t have to explain their decisions to voters. Opponents insist they aren’t using the political system to crush competitors as national \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-06-11-2026/card/alcohol-industry-s-pain-could-get-worse-before-it-gets-better-po9xhV3IQmLntTOd8v18?eafs_enabled=false\">alcohol sales slump\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, representatives of the major alcohol wholesalers and distributors that stock shelves at liquor retailers say they oppose the proposal because it primarily benefits out-of-state companies and weakens safeguards that include preventing alcohol deliveries to minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teamsters lobbyist Matt Broad said the labor group’s truck drivers aren’t opposed to allowing craft distillers to ship their product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They just want them to use established shipping companies that have actual employees, including those that employ Teamsters, such as UPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those companies have standards to ensure legal delivery, Broad said. When they employ drivers rather than use contractors, the companies — not the drivers — bear legal liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Fry, left, and his daughter Mohrgan Fry, right, examine grape clusters at their ranch Mohr-Fry Ranches, a six-generation family farming operation since 1855, in Lodi on June 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal law preempts California from mandating hiring unionized truck drivers, Broad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are absolutely not opposed to the little guys being able to ship directly to consumers, and in fact, we have a track record of supporting the proposal but with meaningful guardrails that protect our members and protect the public,” he told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California wine industry, which has been allowed to ship bottles directly to customers in California for decades, isn’t necessarily opposed either. But its representative says wine sellers are leery of giving little alcohol sellers delivery rights when big liquor companies deserve the same. Wineries of any size can ship to their customers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Big booze, big labor spend big\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Postal Service prohibits most alcohol shipments to homes, but California allows certain types of alcohol sellers to use private shipping companies. Breweries are prohibited from shipping directly to California customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover hoped his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2211\">Assembly Bill 2211\u003c/a>, a proposal to give craft distillers the ability to offer tastings and sell spirits at locations other than their distilleries, could be amended to give craft distillers a permanent direct-to-consumer provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has advanced through the Legislature without formal opposition or any lawmaker voting against it, according to CalMatters’ \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/\">Digital Democracy database\u003c/a>. The measure is pending before the full Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12094389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12094389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_17_CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_17_CM.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_17_CM-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_17_CM-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cris Steller, owner of Dry Diggins Distillery, talks about the various products that are made in his distillery. \u003ccite>( Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There may be no formal opposition, but reports filed with the California secretary of state show an extensive behind-the-scenes lobbying effort aimed at preventing any changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least six groups, including some of the biggest national alcohol distributors, have reported lobbying on Hoover’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reports show those groups spent more than $1 million on lobbying this year. State ethics laws only require entities to report the total amount they spent lobbying the government in a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re not required to report how much they spent on specific legislation, so it’s unclear how much they spent trying to influence lawmakers as they considered AB 2211 and its never-published direct-shipping amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those groups, along with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Wine Institute, have given at least $11 million to both Democrats and Republicans in California since 2000, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#giver%5B%5D=oid--3042&giver%5B%5D=oid--10867&giver%5B%5D=oid--12807&giver%5B%5D=oid--4150&giver%5B%5D=oid--2053&giver%5B%5D=oid--3104&giver%5B%5D=oid--15176&giver%5B%5D=oid--15115\">according to Digital Democracy\u003c/a>, including at least $738,000 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#giver%5B%5D=oid--3042&giver%5B%5D=oid--10867&giver%5B%5D=oid--12807&giver%5B%5D=oid--4150&giver%5B%5D=oid--2053&giver%5B%5D=oid--3104&giver%5B%5D=oid--15115&giver%5B%5D=oid--15176&year%5B%5D=2026&year%5B%5D=2025\">since 2025\u003c/a>, the start of the current two-year legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, California’s craft distillers reported spending $54,000 on lobbying this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12094390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12094390\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_13_CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_13_CM.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_13_CM-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_13_CM-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bottles are filled with whiskey in the bottling area of Dry Diggins Distillery in El Dorado Hills on Aug. 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#giver%5B%5D=oid--21811&giver%5B%5D=oid--21812\">They reported just three donations\u003c/a> to lawmakers in the past decade, according to Digital Democracy. One was a $42 bottle of whiskey in 2022 to former Napa Democratic Sen. Bill Dodd, who now lobbies on behalf of the craft distillery industry. In 2023, Assembly Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/robert-rivas-165041\">Robert Rivas\u003c/a> received $215 in tequila. Democratic Assemblymember-turned U.S. Rep. Adam Gray received a $1,300 campaign donation in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover said he has been trying since last year to add language to his bill that would allow craft distillers to permanently keep shipping. He succeeded last year in getting the extension that expires Dec. 31, but this year he’s been unable to overcome the opposition to expanding the tasting room measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m always open to figuring this out, if there’s a way that we can make this work. … but I don’t have a lot of hope that this bill is going to preserve those provisions this year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With less than a month left before the Legislature finishes for the year on Aug. 31, Democratic leaders would likely need to sign off on changes to Hoover’s tasting room measure. They’ve offered little indication they intend to intervene for craft distillers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas, who’s received at least \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#receiver%5B%5D=pid-165041&giver%5B%5D=oid--3042&giver%5B%5D=oid--10867&giver%5B%5D=oid--12807&giver%5B%5D=oid--4150&giver%5B%5D=oid--2053&giver%5B%5D=oid--3104&giver%5B%5D=oid--15115&giver%5B%5D=oid--15176\">$108,000\u003c/a> in donations over the years from opponents of Hoover’s unpublished proposal, declined CalMatters’ request for an interview. Senate President Pro Tem \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/monique-limon-13069\">Monique Limón\u003c/a>, who’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#receiver%5B%5D=pid-13069&giver%5B%5D=oid--3042&giver%5B%5D=oid--10867&giver%5B%5D=oid--12807&giver%5B%5D=oid--4150&giver%5B%5D=oid--2053&giver%5B%5D=oid--3104&giver%5B%5D=oid--15115&giver%5B%5D=oid--15176\">received at least $33,000\u003c/a>, responded to an interview request with an emailed statement saying she is aware of the pending deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020596\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A giant welcome sign is seen in Napa Valley, California, on Oct. 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This bill will continue to work its way through the legislative process as intended,” it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/susan-rubio-165042\">Susan Rubio\u003c/a> and her sister, Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/blanca-rubio-100932\">Blanca Rubio\u003c/a>, oversee the committees that regulate California’s alcohol industry. When Hoover’s measure passed through their committees, the chairs could have allowed Hoover to add the direct-to-consumer amendment. They did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Rubio has received at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#receiver%5B%5D=pid-165042&giver%5B%5D=oid--3042&giver%5B%5D=oid--10867&giver%5B%5D=oid--12807&giver%5B%5D=oid--4150&giver%5B%5D=oid--2053&giver%5B%5D=oid--3104&giver%5B%5D=oid--15115&giver%5B%5D=oid--15176\">least $65,000\u003c/a> in donations from the groups blocking the direct-shipping proposal, according to Digital Democracy. Blanca Rubio has received \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#receiver%5B%5D=pid-100932&giver%5B%5D=oid--3042&giver%5B%5D=oid--10867&giver%5B%5D=oid--12807&giver%5B%5D=oid--4150&giver%5B%5D=oid--2053&giver%5B%5D=oid--3104&giver%5B%5D=oid--15115&giver%5B%5D=oid--15176\">at least $129,000\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Rubio’s spokesperson, Giovanni Ruiz Reyes, responded to interview requests with emailed statements. The first said “conversations between stakeholders are ongoing” and that she “looks forward” to reviewing potential legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Reyes said in a second statement Thursday that she’s supported four previous extensions of the craft distiller shipping policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is currently no bill or amendment before the committee seeking another extension,” Ruiz Reyes said. “Accordingly, it would be inaccurate to suggest that Senator Rubio or the committee has blocked or refused to hear an extension when no such proposal is currently before the committee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Rubio didn’t return interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fewer Americans are drinking\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The liquor industry is facing a nationwide decline as more \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/693362/drinking-rate-new-low-alcohol-concerns-surge.aspx\">Americans cut back on drinking\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that difficult business climate, corporate liquor wholesalers and distribution companies lobbied “to obliterate competition,” said Dodd, the former state senator from wine country lobbying on behalf of craft distillers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We oppose any effort to make DTC (direct to consumer) permanent,” the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, the California Beer & Beverage Distributors and the California Family Beer Distributors wrote in a joint statement to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_1518-scaled-e1740760488516.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wine industry leaders, particularly grape growers, say California is still at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with the world’s other wine regions, like Spain, France, Italy, Chile and Argentina. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Craft distilleries’ direct shipping “was always meant to be temporary pandemic relief, and it’s expiring exactly as designed, six years later” said the groups, which represent local and national companies that move many of America’s best-known beer, wine and liquor brands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue that after the law expires, spirits can still be delivered to customers through services such as DoorDash. DoorDash is listed as a member of the Wine & Spirit Wholesalers of America on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups’ representative, Kevin Luckey, declined an interview request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Gross, president and CEO of the Wine Institute, said the wine industry has worked hard over the decades to have large and small wine sellers treated equally under California and national alcohol distribution laws.[aside postID=news_12087134 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-8-KQED.jpg']He said it would undermine his industry’s efforts if small distillers get delivery rights in California when large ones don’t have them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have the option to go in and try and fight for a bill that we and others could also support,” Gross said. “They’ve chosen not to because those larger distillers are not their members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wine Institute is a lobbying group that represents more than 700 large and small wine sellers, including one of the world’s largest, Modesto-based Gallo Winery. Craft distillers say they’ve tried to work with the groups blocking their bill to address their concerns, but they have gotten nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Steller, the El Dorado Hills distiller, has already started pulling back on shipping bottles to his customers because the Legislature won’t budge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to keep putting money into a program that’s going to get yanked,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/08/california-craft-distillery-deliveries-lobbying/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The fight is about more than whether Californians can have a bottle of whiskey or gin delivered. It illustrates how decisions are made in Sacramento, where wealthy and powerful interests can shape or kill policy in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/09/california-secret-negotiations-public-transparency/\">secret negotiations\u003c/a> with lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians, in turn, benefit when proposals die quietly because they don’t have to explain their decisions to voters. Opponents insist they aren’t using the political system to crush competitors as national \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-06-11-2026/card/alcohol-industry-s-pain-could-get-worse-before-it-gets-better-po9xhV3IQmLntTOd8v18?eafs_enabled=false\">alcohol sales slump\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, representatives of the major alcohol wholesalers and distributors that stock shelves at liquor retailers say they oppose the proposal because it primarily benefits out-of-state companies and weakens safeguards that include preventing alcohol deliveries to minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teamsters lobbyist Matt Broad said the labor group’s truck drivers aren’t opposed to allowing craft distillers to ship their product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They just want them to use established shipping companies that have actual employees, including those that employ Teamsters, such as UPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those companies have standards to ensure legal delivery, Broad said. When they employ drivers rather than use contractors, the companies — not the drivers — bear legal liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Fry, left, and his daughter Mohrgan Fry, right, examine grape clusters at their ranch Mohr-Fry Ranches, a six-generation family farming operation since 1855, in Lodi on June 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal law preempts California from mandating hiring unionized truck drivers, Broad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are absolutely not opposed to the little guys being able to ship directly to consumers, and in fact, we have a track record of supporting the proposal but with meaningful guardrails that protect our members and protect the public,” he told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California wine industry, which has been allowed to ship bottles directly to customers in California for decades, isn’t necessarily opposed either. But its representative says wine sellers are leery of giving little alcohol sellers delivery rights when big liquor companies deserve the same. Wineries of any size can ship to their customers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Big booze, big labor spend big\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Postal Service prohibits most alcohol shipments to homes, but California allows certain types of alcohol sellers to use private shipping companies. Breweries are prohibited from shipping directly to California customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover hoped his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2211\">Assembly Bill 2211\u003c/a>, a proposal to give craft distillers the ability to offer tastings and sell spirits at locations other than their distilleries, could be amended to give craft distillers a permanent direct-to-consumer provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has advanced through the Legislature without formal opposition or any lawmaker voting against it, according to CalMatters’ \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/\">Digital Democracy database\u003c/a>. The measure is pending before the full Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12094389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12094389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_17_CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_17_CM.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_17_CM-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_17_CM-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cris Steller, owner of Dry Diggins Distillery, talks about the various products that are made in his distillery. \u003ccite>( Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There may be no formal opposition, but reports filed with the California secretary of state show an extensive behind-the-scenes lobbying effort aimed at preventing any changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least six groups, including some of the biggest national alcohol distributors, have reported lobbying on Hoover’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reports show those groups spent more than $1 million on lobbying this year. State ethics laws only require entities to report the total amount they spent lobbying the government in a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re not required to report how much they spent on specific legislation, so it’s unclear how much they spent trying to influence lawmakers as they considered AB 2211 and its never-published direct-shipping amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those groups, along with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Wine Institute, have given at least $11 million to both Democrats and Republicans in California since 2000, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#giver%5B%5D=oid--3042&giver%5B%5D=oid--10867&giver%5B%5D=oid--12807&giver%5B%5D=oid--4150&giver%5B%5D=oid--2053&giver%5B%5D=oid--3104&giver%5B%5D=oid--15176&giver%5B%5D=oid--15115\">according to Digital Democracy\u003c/a>, including at least $738,000 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#giver%5B%5D=oid--3042&giver%5B%5D=oid--10867&giver%5B%5D=oid--12807&giver%5B%5D=oid--4150&giver%5B%5D=oid--2053&giver%5B%5D=oid--3104&giver%5B%5D=oid--15115&giver%5B%5D=oid--15176&year%5B%5D=2026&year%5B%5D=2025\">since 2025\u003c/a>, the start of the current two-year legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, California’s craft distillers reported spending $54,000 on lobbying this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12094390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12094390\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_13_CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_13_CM.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_13_CM-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/080426_drinks-by-mail_FG_13_CM-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bottles are filled with whiskey in the bottling area of Dry Diggins Distillery in El Dorado Hills on Aug. 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#giver%5B%5D=oid--21811&giver%5B%5D=oid--21812\">They reported just three donations\u003c/a> to lawmakers in the past decade, according to Digital Democracy. One was a $42 bottle of whiskey in 2022 to former Napa Democratic Sen. Bill Dodd, who now lobbies on behalf of the craft distillery industry. In 2023, Assembly Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/robert-rivas-165041\">Robert Rivas\u003c/a> received $215 in tequila. Democratic Assemblymember-turned U.S. Rep. Adam Gray received a $1,300 campaign donation in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover said he has been trying since last year to add language to his bill that would allow craft distillers to permanently keep shipping. He succeeded last year in getting the extension that expires Dec. 31, but this year he’s been unable to overcome the opposition to expanding the tasting room measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m always open to figuring this out, if there’s a way that we can make this work. … but I don’t have a lot of hope that this bill is going to preserve those provisions this year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With less than a month left before the Legislature finishes for the year on Aug. 31, Democratic leaders would likely need to sign off on changes to Hoover’s tasting room measure. They’ve offered little indication they intend to intervene for craft distillers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas, who’s received at least \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#receiver%5B%5D=pid-165041&giver%5B%5D=oid--3042&giver%5B%5D=oid--10867&giver%5B%5D=oid--12807&giver%5B%5D=oid--4150&giver%5B%5D=oid--2053&giver%5B%5D=oid--3104&giver%5B%5D=oid--15115&giver%5B%5D=oid--15176\">$108,000\u003c/a> in donations over the years from opponents of Hoover’s unpublished proposal, declined CalMatters’ request for an interview. Senate President Pro Tem \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/monique-limon-13069\">Monique Limón\u003c/a>, who’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#receiver%5B%5D=pid-13069&giver%5B%5D=oid--3042&giver%5B%5D=oid--10867&giver%5B%5D=oid--12807&giver%5B%5D=oid--4150&giver%5B%5D=oid--2053&giver%5B%5D=oid--3104&giver%5B%5D=oid--15115&giver%5B%5D=oid--15176\">received at least $33,000\u003c/a>, responded to an interview request with an emailed statement saying she is aware of the pending deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020596\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A giant welcome sign is seen in Napa Valley, California, on Oct. 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This bill will continue to work its way through the legislative process as intended,” it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/susan-rubio-165042\">Susan Rubio\u003c/a> and her sister, Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/blanca-rubio-100932\">Blanca Rubio\u003c/a>, oversee the committees that regulate California’s alcohol industry. When Hoover’s measure passed through their committees, the chairs could have allowed Hoover to add the direct-to-consumer amendment. They did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Rubio has received at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#receiver%5B%5D=pid-165042&giver%5B%5D=oid--3042&giver%5B%5D=oid--10867&giver%5B%5D=oid--12807&giver%5B%5D=oid--4150&giver%5B%5D=oid--2053&giver%5B%5D=oid--3104&giver%5B%5D=oid--15115&giver%5B%5D=oid--15176\">least $65,000\u003c/a> in donations from the groups blocking the direct-shipping proposal, according to Digital Democracy. Blanca Rubio has received \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/financials#receiver%5B%5D=pid-100932&giver%5B%5D=oid--3042&giver%5B%5D=oid--10867&giver%5B%5D=oid--12807&giver%5B%5D=oid--4150&giver%5B%5D=oid--2053&giver%5B%5D=oid--3104&giver%5B%5D=oid--15115&giver%5B%5D=oid--15176\">at least $129,000\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Rubio’s spokesperson, Giovanni Ruiz Reyes, responded to interview requests with emailed statements. The first said “conversations between stakeholders are ongoing” and that she “looks forward” to reviewing potential legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Reyes said in a second statement Thursday that she’s supported four previous extensions of the craft distiller shipping policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is currently no bill or amendment before the committee seeking another extension,” Ruiz Reyes said. “Accordingly, it would be inaccurate to suggest that Senator Rubio or the committee has blocked or refused to hear an extension when no such proposal is currently before the committee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Rubio didn’t return interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fewer Americans are drinking\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The liquor industry is facing a nationwide decline as more \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/693362/drinking-rate-new-low-alcohol-concerns-surge.aspx\">Americans cut back on drinking\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that difficult business climate, corporate liquor wholesalers and distribution companies lobbied “to obliterate competition,” said Dodd, the former state senator from wine country lobbying on behalf of craft distillers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We oppose any effort to make DTC (direct to consumer) permanent,” the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, the California Beer & Beverage Distributors and the California Family Beer Distributors wrote in a joint statement to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_1518-scaled-e1740760488516.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wine industry leaders, particularly grape growers, say California is still at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with the world’s other wine regions, like Spain, France, Italy, Chile and Argentina. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Craft distilleries’ direct shipping “was always meant to be temporary pandemic relief, and it’s expiring exactly as designed, six years later” said the groups, which represent local and national companies that move many of America’s best-known beer, wine and liquor brands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue that after the law expires, spirits can still be delivered to customers through services such as DoorDash. DoorDash is listed as a member of the Wine & Spirit Wholesalers of America on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups’ representative, Kevin Luckey, declined an interview request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Gross, president and CEO of the Wine Institute, said the wine industry has worked hard over the decades to have large and small wine sellers treated equally under California and national alcohol distribution laws.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Electric-vehicle-curious Californians can now receive an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091276/how-does-californias-3500-ev-rebate-work\">instant $3,500 rebate\u003c/a> when they purchase their first EV through a new state program.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that $135.5 million is available for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/myfirstev/about\">“MyFirstEV\u003c/a>,” enough to pay for about 73,000 new zero-emission vehicles. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>These rebates come after President Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091276/how-does-californias-3500-ev-rebate-work\">ended\u003c/a> federal tax credits for a number of clean energy technologies, including a $7,500 tax credit for new EVs and a $4,000 tax credit for used EVs. Trump also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997300/trump-blocks-californias-ev-rules-state-sues-in-response\">attempted\u003c/a> to block the state’s EV sales mandate and its diesel engine rules, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996968/senate-votes-block-californias-electric-vehicle-mandate\">California is currently\u003c/a> fighting these challenges in court. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/072922-Tesla-EV-Charging-RL-CM-18.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12072642\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/072922-Tesla-EV-Charging-RL-CM-18.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/072922-Tesla-EV-Charging-RL-CM-18-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/072922-Tesla-EV-Charging-RL-CM-18-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Tesla charging at a station in Sacramento, on July 29, 2022. (Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite federal headwinds, California is pushing forward with its own incentives to protect \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/myfirstev\">public health\u003c/a>, reduce the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979516/california-fails-to-meet-climate-change-mandates-and-greenhouse-emission-goals-study-finds\">greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a> and, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom, support California-based companies and reduce dependence on petrol states — a nod to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12080093/as-some-oil-deliveries-to-us-stop-flowing-california-braces-for-an-energy-crisis\">impacts\u003c/a> the war in Iran had on fuel prices across the country. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re past the debate,” Newsom said Friday in Alameda County, at a press conference where he called gasoline an inferior product. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also said that this purchase credit is about giving consumers a choice. In July, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/news/2026-07/ev-sales-rebound-trumps-war-iran-rages\">California Energy Commission\u003c/a> reported that EVs currently represent 19% of new car sales — a 3% increase just this year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The state program covers both battery electric vehicles and hydrogen-powered, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091276/how-does-californias-3500-ev-rebate-work\">fuel cell\u003c/a> electric vehicles model year 2026 and newer that are under $50,000. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It also covers used vehicles, though the rebate will only go up to $1,750 for pre-loved EVs that cost less than $25,000. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Low-income residents are eligible for larger incentives through the existing \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/fact-sheets/clean-cars-4-all\">Clean Cars 4 All\u003c/a> program.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Research indicates that Californians could see savings for years after purchase. A \u003ca href=\"https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/whats-cheaper-fueling-your-car-with-gas-or-electricity/\">report\u003c/a> from Yale found that the electric equivalent of a gallon of gasoline is just $2.72 in California. The average price of gasoline in the state, by comparison, has not consistently dipped below $4.00 since 2021, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPMR_PTE_SCA_DPG&f=W\">Energy Information Administration\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The vehicles must be purchased through one of the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/myfirstev-participating-manufacturers\">15\u003c/a> participating automakers, who will match the government’s investment dollar-for-dollar. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians interested in buying their first EV can check out KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091276/how-does-californias-3500-ev-rebate-work\">guide\u003c/a> for more information on the credits and how to get one.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford said its own data never traveled that way, but Rapport acknowledged the capability existed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Flock is built as a shared network, she said, “even if that’s not how we chose to use it,” while the new system does not have third-party access built into its architecture.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Flock disputed that framing. A company spokesperson said customers control their own sharing settings, that those relationships are opt-in, and that an agency can change or revoke them at any time. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The spokesperson said Flock has since added California-specific safeguards, disabling its National Lookup feature for California agencies, blocking out-of-state discoverability and preventing new out-of-state or federal sharing arrangements. California agencies cannot use the platform to share data outside the state or with federal authorities, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Flock declined to say when Stanford’s service ended or whether the university paid anything to get out of the contract, saying it does not discuss specifics of customer accounts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under Genetec, still images from cameras installed at campus entrances will sit in a cloud server for under an hour before moving to a server Stanford controls, where the university said it will keep them for 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rapport said cameras were not installed on university property beyond the main campus.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://police.stanford.edu/pdf/Flock%20Annual%20Report%202024-25.pdf\">university report\u003c/a> covering September 2024 through August 2025 logged 1,742 individual searches in the Flock system across 129 investigations by 20 employees, used in property crime, violent crime, and stalking cases, as well as welfare checks and missing person searches. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-STANFORDFILE00607_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12067141\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-STANFORDFILE00607_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-STANFORDFILE00607_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-STANFORDFILE00607_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hoover Tower at Stanford University in Palo Alto on Dec. 10, 2025. 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Santa Cruz became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069705/santa-cruz-the-first-in-california-to-terminate-its-contract-with-flock-safety\">first California city\u003c/a> to cancel its Flock contract in January, after officials confirmed out-of-state agencies had reached its data. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072077/as-california-cities-grow-wary-of-flock-safety-cameras-mountain-views-shuts-its-off\">Mountain View shut\u003c/a> its cameras off in February following a similar discovery. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074467/santa-clara-county-leaders-cut-out-flock-safety-in-new-surveillance-policy\">Santa Clara County supervisors\u003c/a> amended their surveillance policy to effectively bar Flock as a vendor in Cupertino, Saratoga and Los Altos Hills. Asked whether that county action forced Stanford’s hand, Rapport said the policy does not apply to the campus.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Flock said the departures are outpaced by new business. So far this year, the company said, new city partnerships have exceeded nonrenewals by roughly seven to one.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a fluorescent yellow coat holds a black machine.\" class=\"wp-image-11984097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Flock Safety worker holds up a new automated license plate reader that was being installed in East San José on April 23, 2024. 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"content": "\u003cp>Alameda County supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to begin sending \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">cash payments\u003c/a> to the last surviving homeowners forced out of Russell City, the unincorporated community dismantled by the county and the city of Hayward six decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The vote approved a memorandum of understanding with Hayward that sets up shared governance of a $1.3 million \u003ca href=\"https://reparations.alamedacountyca.gov/reparations-for-wrongfully-evicted-russell-city-residents-nbc-bay-area/\">redress fund\u003c/a>, seeded by all five supervisors, the city and the Alameda County Office of Education, to make amends to residents who had property seized during the 1960s. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supervisors also authorized the county to issue a first round of payments of up to $25,000 per household. Russell City \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922175/remembering-russell-city-a-thriving-east-bay-town-razed-by-racist-government\">once stood on the Hayward shoreline\u003c/a>, south of the modern Hayward Regional Shoreline Park. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, county authorities declared Russell City blighted and used eminent domain to acquire close to 700 parcels, displacing roughly 1,400 residents and converting the land into an industrial park annexed by Hayward in 1964. Today, nothing of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051329/displaced-russell-city-residents-set-to-receive-cash-reparations\">the historic Black and Latino community\u003c/a> survives, except the name of the Calpine Russell City Energy Center, a natural gas power plant.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_2829-scaled-e1638419681640.jpg\" alt='A board reads, \"Russell City: The city may be gone, but the memories live on.\"' class=\"wp-image-11897865\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A board honoring the families that lived in Russell City is displayed during the annual Russell City reunion picnic at Kennedy Park in Hayward on Sept. 3, 2017. (Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Fifth Amendment allows the government to seize private property for public use and requires it to pay “just compensation” in return. Research by the city of Hayward found some Russell City homeowners received around $2,000 for their homes, and some as little as $250.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in 1853, Russell City was named for a Gold Rush-era schoolteacher, Joel Russell. The neighborhood filled in as World War II drew workers to nearby factories. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At a time when racial covenants and redlining shut Black and Latino families out elsewhere, unincorporated Russell City became one of the few places in the East Bay where they could buy property and build. Families kept sheep, chickens, pigs and rabbits, and tended gardens big enough to feed neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-megaphone wp-block-embed-megaphone\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4087576125&light=true\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Decades later, Hayward and Alameda County issued formal \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/nov21/hayward-city-council-issues-formal-apology-citys-role-racial-discrimination-0\">apologies\u003c/a> to community members in 2021 and 2023, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez, who represents Hayward, Newark, Union City and parts of Fremont, and who supported the reparations plan, said the vote moves the county toward action.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“No payment can fully repair the harm caused by the destruction of Russell City,” she said. “But these first redress payments represent an important step toward acknowledging that harm, honoring the resilience of former residents and advancing justice for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Márquez’s voice broke as she explained why the first round goes only to the oldest survivors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When families come together, we don’t ask elders to get in line,” she said. “They are served first.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez speaks during a press conference in Hayward, California, on March 2, 2026. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://alamedacountyca.gov/board/bos_calendar/documents/RussellCMOU\">The first phase\u003c/a> of reparations is deliberately narrow. To qualify, an applicant must have both lived in and personally owned a home in Russell City between Jan. 1, 1961, and Dec. 31, 1964, and had that property taken by eminent domain during those years. Money is allocated by household rather than by person, and split evenly among qualifying residents of the same home. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Márquez said the county is “not anticipating a large number this first round” because applicants must still be living and must have owned their home. Once those payments go out, she said, the working group will release criteria for a second phase that includes descendants, though that will require another board vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several speakers pressed the board on how the money will be divided. Priscilla Figueroa, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/your-government/staff/priscilla-figueroa\">Hayward resident\u003c/a> whose late husband’s family lived in Russell City, noted that $1.3 million divided by $25,000 covers only 52 households, and questioned how the county would determine who receives the full amount. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deborah Harris, who grew up in Russell City with her parents, asked how the county will handle households where the original landowner has died, adding that “probably all of the original landowners are deceased at this point.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hayward Councilmember \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedacountyca.gov/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_08_04_26/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Set%20Matter%20Calendar/Supervisor%20M%c3%a1rquez_409832.pdf\">Angela Andrews\u003c/a>, who spoke at the meeting on Hayward’s behalf, said the city’s 2021 apology was not enough on its own. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“An apology is nothing without action,” she said. She urged philanthropic partners, the real estate industry and the business community to contribute to the fund, saying they benefited from the displacement.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nate Miley committed another $250,000, and Márquez said she would match it, which would bring the fund to $1.8 million. 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Families kept sheep, chickens, pigs and rabbits, and tended gardens big enough to feed neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-megaphone wp-block-embed-megaphone\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4087576125&light=true\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Decades later, Hayward and Alameda County issued formal \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/nov21/hayward-city-council-issues-formal-apology-citys-role-racial-discrimination-0\">apologies\u003c/a> to community members in 2021 and 2023, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez, who represents Hayward, Newark, Union City and parts of Fremont, and who supported the reparations plan, said the vote moves the county toward action.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“No payment can fully repair the harm caused by the destruction of Russell City,” she said. “But these first redress payments represent an important step toward acknowledging that harm, honoring the resilience of former residents and advancing justice for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Márquez’s voice broke as she explained why the first round goes only to the oldest survivors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When families come together, we don’t ask elders to get in line,” she said. “They are served first.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Márquez speaks during a press conference in Hayward, California, on March 2, 2026. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://alamedacountyca.gov/board/bos_calendar/documents/RussellCMOU\">The first phase\u003c/a> of reparations is deliberately narrow. To qualify, an applicant must have both lived in and personally owned a home in Russell City between Jan. 1, 1961, and Dec. 31, 1964, and had that property taken by eminent domain during those years. Money is allocated by household rather than by person, and split evenly among qualifying residents of the same home. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Márquez said the county is “not anticipating a large number this first round” because applicants must still be living and must have owned their home. Once those payments go out, she said, the working group will release criteria for a second phase that includes descendants, though that will require another board vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several speakers pressed the board on how the money will be divided. Priscilla Figueroa, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/your-government/staff/priscilla-figueroa\">Hayward resident\u003c/a> whose late husband’s family lived in Russell City, noted that $1.3 million divided by $25,000 covers only 52 households, and questioned how the county would determine who receives the full amount. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deborah Harris, who grew up in Russell City with her parents, asked how the county will handle households where the original landowner has died, adding that “probably all of the original landowners are deceased at this point.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hayward Councilmember \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedacountyca.gov/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_08_04_26/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Set%20Matter%20Calendar/Supervisor%20M%c3%a1rquez_409832.pdf\">Angela Andrews\u003c/a>, who spoke at the meeting on Hayward’s behalf, said the city’s 2021 apology was not enough on its own. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“An apology is nothing without action,” she said. 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(Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“What it shows is that Democrats are united across California to support the billionaire tax,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12093303/the-union-man-taking-on-the-democratic-establishment-with-a-billionaire-tax\">union President Dave Regan\u003c/a> told KQED. “All of the efforts by people to give a different impression have just shown to be false.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nancy Tung, chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party and one of the voting executive board members, disputed that framing, pointing to how contentious and tight the final vote was. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t say there’s overwhelming support,” Tung said. “That ignores the fact that this barely passed.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The endorsement followed a first vote that fell short at 59.2%. A follow-up motion to take “no position, ” which needed a supermajority vote, also failed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The 235 executive board members represent a small percentage of the thousands of Democratic State Central Committee members. The board includes both Democratic elected officials and activists from county Democratic committees and party caucuses.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The e-board is made up of people who are very committed to the party,” Democratic strategist Andrew Acosta said. “They’re not your average bear; they’re probably more progressive than the rest of the world, but I don’t know if they’re as progressive as the Progressive Caucus within the Democratic Party.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rep. Maxine Waters of Los Angeles attended the Sunday board meeting, helping the Proposition 40 campaign whip the votes needed to secure an endorsement. She joins other high-ranking Democrats supporting the measure, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and South Bay Rep. 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(David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“A Democratic Party endorsement in California is always going to help a ballot proposition because there are so many Democrats in the state,” Grose said. “It’s not as strong of a signal when there’s high-profile Democrats who are also opposed.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The party endorsement doesn’t come with additional funding, messaging or organizing muscle. It allows the Proposition 40 campaign to claim party support on their mailers and ads instead of listing individual Democratic endorsers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Now what? The party is not going to spend $10 million to go promote Yes on Prop. 40,” Acosta said. “So whatever the Yes on Prop. 40 campaign wants to do with that endorsement, they’re going to have to figure out how to go tell the rest of the world what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Public opinion polls show early support for the measure. A May poll from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/press-release/becerra-hilton-lead-governors-race-majority-back-billionaire-wealth-tax/\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> shows 54% of likely voters and 76% of Democrats would vote for it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Opponents argue the measure, if passed, will push wealthy residents and their tax dollars out of the state. Newsom has also argued a billionaire tax should be enacted at the federal, not state, level. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The opposition, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has already spent more than $100 million to undermine the measure and is expected to shell out tens of millions more before November. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t say there’s overwhelming support,” Tung said. “That ignores the fact that this barely passed.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The endorsement followed a first vote that fell short at 59.2%. A follow-up motion to take “no position, ” which needed a supermajority vote, also failed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The 235 executive board members represent a small percentage of the thousands of Democratic State Central Committee members. The board includes both Democratic elected officials and activists from county Democratic committees and party caucuses.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The e-board is made up of people who are very committed to the party,” Democratic strategist Andrew Acosta said. “They’re not your average bear; they’re probably more progressive than the rest of the world, but I don’t know if they’re as progressive as the Progressive Caucus within the Democratic Party.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rep. Maxine Waters of Los Angeles attended the Sunday board meeting, helping the Proposition 40 campaign whip the votes needed to secure an endorsement. She joins other high-ranking Democrats supporting the measure, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On the other side, Newsom, gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra and labor groups including the California Teachers Association oppose it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This divide within the party complicates the value of the endorsement, according to Christian Grose, a political science professor at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Xavier-Becerra-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12086476\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Xavier-Becerra-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Xavier-Becerra-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Xavier-Becerra-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Xavier Becerra, a candidate for governor, speaks to supporters on election night on June 2, 2026. (David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“A Democratic Party endorsement in California is always going to help a ballot proposition because there are so many Democrats in the state,” Grose said. “It’s not as strong of a signal when there’s high-profile Democrats who are also opposed.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The party endorsement doesn’t come with additional funding, messaging or organizing muscle. It allows the Proposition 40 campaign to claim party support on their mailers and ads instead of listing individual Democratic endorsers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Now what? The party is not going to spend $10 million to go promote Yes on Prop. 40,” Acosta said. “So whatever the Yes on Prop. 40 campaign wants to do with that endorsement, they’re going to have to figure out how to go tell the rest of the world what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Public opinion polls show early support for the measure. A May poll from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/press-release/becerra-hilton-lead-governors-race-majority-back-billionaire-wealth-tax/\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> shows 54% of likely voters and 76% of Democrats would vote for it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Opponents argue the measure, if passed, will push wealthy residents and their tax dollars out of the state. Newsom has also argued a billionaire tax should be enacted at the federal, not state, level. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The opposition, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has already spent more than $100 million to undermine the measure and is expected to shell out tens of millions more before November. The state party also voted Sunday to oppose two measures funded by Brin, Propositions 41 and 42, seen as poison pill attempts to undercut the billionaire tax measure. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256657926.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070782\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256657926.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256657926-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256657926-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to the press on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on Jan. 20, 2026. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Governor Newsom, Democratic Candidate for Governor Xavier Becerra, the California Teachers Association, California Professional Firefighters, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, and so many others are standing together against Prop. 40 because it’s bad for our budget, bad for our economy, and bad for our future,” the No on 40 campaign said in a statement. “We need smart, durable solutions to our biggest challenges, not unreliable, untested schemes that shortchange healthcare, education, and public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office did not respond to a request for an interview. Becerra’s office pointed to his earlier \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2026/01/16/gov-field-isnt-buying-the-wealth-tax-00733083\">statement to \u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2026/01/16/gov-field-isnt-buying-the-wealth-tax-00733083\">Politico\u003c/a> \u003c/em>warning against “half measures.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Every Californian must pay their fair share, and no billionaire should pay taxes at rates lower than teachers, firefighters or nurses. But this is sketchy policy,” Becerra said in the statement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Regan said he hopes Newsom and Becerra will reconsider their positions to align with “the people who they relied on to be elected to office.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that Gov. Newsom and Secretary Becerra are opposed, I think, says more about them than it does about Democrats,” Regan said. “They are clearly out of step with a supermajority of the voters.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/east-bay\">Hayward\u003c/a> resident Lyle Prijoles was 40 years old when he was killed in a military operation in the Philippines, along with 18 other people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lyle spent years traveling to the Philippines to document the conditions impacting rural farming communities. In April, he went to Negros Occidental, planning to stay for about three months and live among sugarcane workers. On April 19, he was killed there in a Philippine Army operation. Another American, 26-year-old Kai Sorem of Seattle, was also killed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Three months later, in a \u003ca href=\"https://jayapal.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Toboso-Killings-Letter.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> delivered to Philippine Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle, and 10 other members of Congress urged the Philippine government to ensure an “independent, impartial, and credible” inquiry into the killings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>What exactly happened in Toboso remains disputed. According to reporting by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/communist-new-peoples-army-rebels-philippines-americans-71d868ad48c27476348ea2ae16ee7b97\">\u003cem>the Associated Press\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> the Philippine government’s National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict suspected those 19 people to be part of the New People’s Army — the armed wing of the Philippines’ communist insurgency. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The 79th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry Division carried out the operation, according to Troy Osaki with the People’s Lawyers of the Philippines. Osaki added that reports indicate up to nine of those killed were civilians, including a local journalist, a university student, two land rights activists and two minors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12083275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Activists in the Bay Area remember Lyle Prijoles. Lawmakers signed a letter demanding an independent and credible investigation from an entity outside of the Philippine government. (Courtesy of Bayan USA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sen. Adam Schiff signed the July 21 letter, along with Sens. Jeff Merkley, Chris Van Hollen and eight U.S. House members. Families of both Prijoles and Sorem, along with human rights lawyers and union members, held an online press conference on Thursday to push the letter into public view. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Human rights organizations, including the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines, BAYAN USA and Malaya Movement USA, described the operation as a “massacre executed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines who conducted indiscriminate firing.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Philippine Commission on Human Rights opened its own \u003ca href=\"https://chr.gov.ph/statement-of-the-commission-on-human-rights-on-the-armed-clash-in-negros-occidental/\">investigation\u003c/a> on April 26, citing “inconsistencies in the identities of those dead” and reports that more than a hundred families were displaced. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Prijoles was the youngest of three siblings in a family that settled in San Diego. He followed his sister, Lily, to the Bay Area and enrolled at San Francisco State University, where he joined the League of Filipino Students on campus. He also worked as a box office manager at Bindlestiff Studio, a Filipino American theater in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The family first traveled to the Philippines together in 2000, Lily told KQED. “He just wanted to make the Philippines a better place,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She rejects any suggestion that her brother wandered into something he did not understand. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is the work he dedicated his heart to,” she said. “He understood the sacrifice he might have to make.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The family learned of his death two days after it happened, when Lyle’s wife got word through Filipino community organizations. She then drove from Union City to Lily’s home in Hercules at 3 a.m, to deliver the news of Lyle’s passing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lily and her sister-in-law flew to the Philippines to identify and claim his body. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Our family has come to terms that we will never get the type of justice found with a jury and a judge or even jail time,” she said at the press conference. “The Philippine Army should not be shooting at civilians and hiding their mistakes.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 passed a resolution condemning the Army’s actions in Negros, where sugar farmers have long organized. The resolution passed during ILWU Local 6’s strike at the C&H sugar refinery in Crockett, California, which sources sugar from Negros. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Negros produces more than 2 million metric tons of sugar a year, and the Crockett refinery sources close to 100,000 metric tons of it annually, according to Local 10’s resolution. The union passed it during a strike by Local 6 warehouse workers in Crockett that began June 15.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jayapal’s letter argued that inquiry from within the Philippine government cannot stand on its own, pointing to a lack of cooperation from security forces and their refusal to hand over key evidence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We really cannot expect a fair and independent and thorough investigation from these agencies,” said AK Guillen, an attorney with the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in the Philippines, “because any investigation conducted by the Philippine government is spearheaded by the very same agencies leading the Philippine counterinsurgency campaign.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Both families describe a chaotic recovery. Lily Prijoles said relatives were told that if her brother’s body remained unclaimed, it would be placed in a mass grave, and that a local organizer was the only person permitted at the scene after two days of restricted access. She said her brother’s body had been dressed in a shirt that was not his, and that she was never able to obtain his clothing or belongings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12083272\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Activists in the Bay Area hold a memorial for activist Lyle Prijoles. (Courtesy of Bayan USA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>PJ Sorem, Kai’s sibling, said their sister’s body was wrapped in a sheet with no clothing when the family identified her. Both families confirmed that another family affected had received the wrong body entirely.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Her humanity was stripped from her along with her clothes,” PJ Sorem said. Neither family says it received meaningful help from the U.S. government. Lily Prijoles said the embassy was “not much help.” PJ said the embassy in Manila made contact but misspelled the family’s name, and that community organizations and Filipino human rights lawyers did the work of locating the bodies and handling paperwork.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Independent investigators were denied access to the scene immediately after the killings, according to a statement from the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, read at the press conference. Dr. Raquel Fortun, a forensic pathologist, conducted autopsies in April, at the request of victims’ relatives, presenting her initial findings on May 7. She said the bodies were decomposed, misidentified, left in water and missing clothing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For Filipino Americans in the Bay Area, the case is not the first of its kind. Prijoles met\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Brandon Lee, a San Francisco activist, in an Asian American studies class in 2004. Lee moved to the Philippines and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767453/bay-area-filipinos-stand-up-for-activist-shot-in-the-philippines\">shot outside his home in 2019\u003c/a>, an attack that left him quadriplegic.. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rev. Sadie Stone, pastor of Jones Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco and a friend of Prijoles for more than a decade, said she flew to Manila on May 12 to join an international fact-finding mission into the killings and was stopped at immigration, questioned about her human rights work and denied entry. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I carry a Bible and a passport, not a weapon,” Stone said. “You shut out witnesses when you are afraid of what they will find.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://ph.usembassy.gov/fact-sheet-u-s-philippines-defense-and-security-partnership/\">U.S. Embassy data\u003c/a>, the Philippines is the largest recipient of U.S. military assistance in the Indo-Pacific region. Since 2015, it has received more than $1.14 billion (the equivalent of 57 billion Philippine pesos) in equipment, training and defense funding.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>PJ said justice would mean answers through an impartial investigation, and an end to U.S. military funding of the Philippine armed forces. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For Lily, she said she wants to see actual evidence, including the shirt her brother was wearing when he was shot. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We just want someone to acknowledge your family member matters,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">\u003cem>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He also worked as a box office manager at Bindlestiff Studio, a Filipino American theater in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The family first traveled to the Philippines together in 2000, Lily told KQED. “He just wanted to make the Philippines a better place,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She rejects any suggestion that her brother wandered into something he did not understand. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is the work he dedicated his heart to,” she said. “He understood the sacrifice he might have to make.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The family learned of his death two days after it happened, when Lyle’s wife got word through Filipino community organizations. She then drove from Union City to Lily’s home in Hercules at 3 a.m, to deliver the news of Lyle’s passing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lily and her sister-in-law flew to the Philippines to identify and claim his body. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Our family has come to terms that we will never get the type of justice found with a jury and a judge or even jail time,” she said at the press conference. “The Philippine Army should not be shooting at civilians and hiding their mistakes.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 passed a resolution condemning the Army’s actions in Negros, where sugar farmers have long organized. 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She said her brother’s body had been dressed in a shirt that was not his, and that she was never able to obtain his clothing or belongings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12083272\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Activists in the Bay Area hold a memorial for activist Lyle Prijoles. 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Sadie Stone, pastor of Jones Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco and a friend of Prijoles for more than a decade, said she flew to Manila on May 12 to join an international fact-finding mission into the killings and was stopped at immigration, questioned about her human rights work and denied entry. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I carry a Bible and a passport, not a weapon,” Stone said. “You shut out witnesses when you are afraid of what they will find.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://ph.usembassy.gov/fact-sheet-u-s-philippines-defense-and-security-partnership/\">U.S. Embassy data\u003c/a>, the Philippines is the largest recipient of U.S. military assistance in the Indo-Pacific region. 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