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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:35 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015108/bomb-cyclone-fuels-heavy-storm-slamming-northern-california-echoing-2021-deluge\">atmospheric river storm\u003c/a> that has dumped heavy rainfall on Northern California for two straight days is expected to wrap up by early Friday when another storm will move into the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Wednesday and Thursday, parts of the North Bay could receive 20 inches of rain, elevating the risk from the next round of rain, UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said Thursday. The deluge is prompting major flood concerns in counties north of the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this atmospheric river were to intensify and stall, not just sort of wiggle around, but just sit in the same place for three days, we could see escalation from minor flooding to more significant moderate and even major flooding,” Swain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That appears to be what is happening because this atmospheric river truly has stalled out and will continue to be there for another 24 hours,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The greatest flooding risk will be in the hardest hit areas from Marin County north “as the peak of this system moves through in the early to mid-morning hours,” Swain said. The two storms could break rainfall records and will likely move south over the Greater Bay Area midday Friday into the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11893594\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg\" alt=\"Large tree branch fallen on red parked car on rain-soaked two-way street.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Category 5 atmospheric river brings heavy precipitation, high winds and power outages to the San Francisco Bay Area. The storm is expected to bring anywhere between 2 and 5 inches of rain to many parts of the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re lucky this isn’t coming on the heels of a very wet pattern, but in and of itself, it’s going to be enough to create significant and life-threatening flooding in some places,” Swain said. “How’s that for the first storm of the season with any significance?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rain won’t immediately stop over the Bay Area this weekend. Instead, showers are expected into early next week. For now, the rain will continue over the North Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The momentum of the whole system itself has slowed down; all that rain is just holding out on the North Bay right now,” said Brayden Murdock, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1859724161884778783\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already this week, the North Bay has seen more than 16 inches of rain at the highest elevations of the coastal mountains and over 10 inches of rain on Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday, the storm dropped several more inches over the Napa and Sonoma areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rainfall totals are hitting those mountains, but luckily, it’s not happening within a short time,” Murdock said. “We’re even starting to see the prolonged effects, which are starting to add up, where we see some loosening of rocks around roads and some shallow landslides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cori Reed, public information officer for CalTrans District 1, covering the northernmost part of the state, said rivers are rising, and the threat of flooding could lead to potential highway closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might get to flood stage by midnight tonight or 3 a.m. Friday morning,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1935067 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/ARstormcurrent-672x372.gif']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James White, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Eureka, said Thursday that over the next 24 hours, the agency will be closely watching the Eel River, which is “expected to reach a major flood stage later tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the river floods and roads are closed, he said, it could be difficult for people to move around the northern part of the state, leading to a “dangerous situation,” especially if there are landslides or rockslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not uncommon that Eureka and the North Coast gets cut off,” he said. “This is just kind of an extra long event, so folks just need to be prepared to lose power. Don’t travel around; just stay safe and hunker down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the storm began, PG&E has \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/newsroom/currents/safety/pg-e-readies-resources-and-crews-ahead-of-atmospheric-river-stor.html\">restored power to about 130,000 customers\u003c/a>, according to the utility. Its \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/\">outage tracker\u003c/a> showed thousands more without power on Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The week’s second intense storm is expected to pick up Friday, when it will shift south and hit the rest of the Bay Area more directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the strong winds downed trees, which crushed at least one home and damaged power lines in Santa Rosa, said Paul Lowenthal, division chief fire marshal for the Santa Rosa Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had one tree come down that took out power lines, knocking out power to a couple of dozen individuals,” he said. “However, given the conditions, it could have been a lot worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the rain ramps up Friday, the potential for damage from falling limbs and flooding will only grow, Lowenthal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week’s second storm system, moving south from the Gulf of Alaska, will veer toward the greater Bay Area on Friday and drop as much as 2 inches in San Francisco and 3 at higher elevations around San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tomorrow’s looking to be a lot wetter than initially believed,” Lowenthal said. “A lot of those same trouble spots we are dealing with will likely back up again and lead to another round of flooding and ponding in roadways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1859645315269394682\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since soils are now more saturated than they were two days ago, the likelihood of flooding is much higher when the storm ramps up later Friday, said Rachel Kennedy, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office. She said the weather service is paying close attention to rivers and streams nearing flood stages in Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Windsor and Forestville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the soil is saturated, it can absorb less water, which would lead to increased runoff, which could lead to faster rises in creeks and rivers, as well as ponding on roadways and nuisance flooding,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water managers in the North Bay are gearing up for the second round of extreme rain but aren’t too worried about major waterways, like the Russian River, overwhelming their banks because reservoirs are way below capacity this early in the rainy season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We’ll take this early rainfall and knock on wood to continue this rainfall pattern into the winter,” said Brad Sherwood, assistant general manager for Sonoma Water. “We want this storm door to remain open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherwood said the early rain could be a sign of a wet year, but “with the weather whiplash” California is known for, water managers are well aware that just a few years ago, the state was in a four-year drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting [a massive] atmospheric river this early in the season is fairly rare,” he said. “So we’re always cognitive of climate change and extreme weather patterns. 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"content": "\u003cp>Near-final ballot returns show Oakland’s City Council president slightly ahead in her bid for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, setting her up for a win that would throw into question \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014241/what-happens-now-oaklands-mayor-recalled-could-get-messy\">who will lead the city\u003c/a> after Mayor Sheng Thao’s recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As council president, Nikki Fortunato Bas is set to become interim mayor once \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">Thao’s recall\u003c/a> is certified next month. But if she wins a seat on the Board of Supervisors, she would be sworn in just weeks later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bas stopped short of declaring victory over Emeryville Councilmember John Bauters on Wednesday night after the latest ballot returns, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Nikkiforallofus/status/1859402441072181610\">posting on X\u003c/a> that it “appears” voters have selected her as their next supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One year ago, I answered the call from community-based advocates and Labor leaders to advance a vision of an equitable, prosperous and healthy future for every Alameda County family,” Bas wrote. “I will bring an unflagging commitment and engage the community to serve every resident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/races#supervisor-5th-district\">leads the District 5 race by 415 votes\u003c/a>, and Alameda County Registrar Tim Dupuis estimates that about 4,800 ballots are outstanding across the entire county. Those ballots all have signature errors — like mismatching signatures or lack of a signature at all — that must be cured before they can be counted, Dupuis said, and those that are won’t be added to the online tally until Dec. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-144_qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao listens to City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas speak in front of city hall during a city-led “Welcome Back Wednesday” event to promote the recovery of the city’s downtown area on April 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know how many of these 4,836 votes are within that district, and we also don’t know how those folks ended up voting,” he told KQED. “We’ll just have to see what comes in by Dec. 3. That’s just how this works, every vote counts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until then, Oakland elected officials will be waiting with bated breath to see if they’ll have to select a new interim leader to inherit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015103/oakland-is-at-risk-of-financial-insolvency-is-bankruptcy-on-the-table\">a serious budget crisis\u003c/a>, weather political fracturing and lead a fairly novice council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s city charter said that when a mayor vacates the office, the council president will serve until the city holds a special election, which will take place mid-April. But if Bas vacates her seat, the council will have to select a new president from its ranks in January. As council president, that person would step in as interim mayor to lead the city until voters choose a representative to serve out Thao’s term, which ends in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes for choosing a new council president and president pro tempore will be high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without Bas, the council would be under entirely new leadership since current President Pro Tem Dan Kalb and Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan both chose not to run for another term. And Oakland has big decisions to make before the spring, most notably getting the city back on a fiscally responsible path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12015103 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1020x573.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials raised a red flag this week, telling the council that Oakland is at risk of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015103/oakland-is-at-risk-of-financial-insolvency-is-bankruptcy-on-the-table\">financial insolvency\u003c/a> if there aren’t major budget reductions by the end of the calendar year. Spending at its current rate, the city is set to add $93 million to its already significant deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interim mayor will also have to take over Thao’s role in orchestrating the stalled sale of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a> to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, which the city’s year-end budget is significantly reliant on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the outstanding votes in Alameda County are enough to swing Bas’ race, leaving her on the City Council, is unknown. Dupuis said the ballots span the county’s five districts, and it isn’t clear how many are District 5 residents. There’s also a chance some people won’t cure their ballots before the Dec. 3 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elections office reaches out to voters whose ballots have errors via phone, email and paper mail, urging them to submit signature verification statements by the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, “people are very interested in having their vote counted for a particular race, and sometimes they may feel that the election is over, and they don’t get around to doing it,” Dupuis told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the race’s margin remains close, Alameda County has no threshold for triggering an automatic recount. Instead, anyone can request a recount — as long as they pay for it. If that’s the case, Dupuis said the person would have to reach out to the registrar within five days of election certification. Then, his office would meet with the requester to discuss whether they want a hand or machine count and how they plan to fund it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, a requested recount in the Oakland mayoral election that narrowly put Thao into office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935550/oakland-mayoral-recount-forfeited-after-supporters-fall-short-of-covering-cost\">was called off\u003c/a> after its supporters couldn’t foot the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter what, Dupuis said, the county will post final unofficial results on the evening of Dec. 3, and he will certify elections on Dec. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Prior to the pandemic, about 12% of students were chronically absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is good news,” said Hedy Chang, director of Attendance Works, a nonprofit that advocates for school attendance. “I’m pleasantly surprised. … To benefit from all the services that schools are offering, kids have to show up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic, schools across the state have been doubling down on efforts to lure students back to school. Many used their federal and state COVID-19 relief money to hire outreach workers, add bus routes, host pizza parties and otherwise make it easier and more enticing to come to school. Some districts had\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/09/soaring-chronic-absenteeism-in-california-schools-is-at-pivotal-moment/\"> social workers connect directly with parents\u003c/a> to solve transportation and other obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/2uJPe/5/\" height=\"500\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those efforts paid off, Chang said. While the pizza parties helped, she pointed to many schools’ focus on improving campus climate overall. That includes counseling, social-emotional learning, stronger relationships between school staff and families, and health and wellness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pandemic relief \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/09/pandemic-relief/\">grants expired this year\u003c/a>, so some districts will be scrambling to maintain these programs going forward. But the state’s recent investments in community schools, arts education, transitional kindergarten and other services will help, Chang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recognition for long-term English learners\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another noteworthy item in the dashboard is the inclusion of a new student group: long-term English learners or students who were not fluent in English after seven years. The reasons for these students’ delays vary, but in general, they’re not receiving adequate help learning English and, as a result, lag far behind their peers academically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10% of students who were ever classified as English learners were considered long-term English learners last year, according to state data. Those students had some of the lowest math and English language arts scores of any of California’s 13 other student groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re celebrating this significant milestone, that long-term English learners get the spotlight they deserve and they are no longer invisible,” said Martha Hernandez, director of Californians Together, which advocates for students who are English learners. “But now the work begins to ensure their needs are met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools need to do a better job helping families who are recent immigrants by finding translators, providing counseling to students, boosting bilingual education and bringing in tutors to help with English and academic skills, said Lindsay Tornatore, director of systems improvement and student success at California County Superintendents, which represents county office of education superintendents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should be mindful this is a student group that’s in the greatest need of support,” Tornatore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Not good enough’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere on the dashboard, the graduation rate was 86.4%, up a bit from the previous year and higher than the pre-pandemic rate of 84.2%. However, a related item on the dashboard raised alarm bells with researchers. The number of students meeting the requirements for admission to California’s public universities was up only slightly — an increase of just 3,700 students among a graduating class of 438,000. Close to half of high school graduates are ineligible for the University of California or California State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s just not good enough,” said Alix Gallagher, interim managing director at the nonpartisan think tank Policy Analysis for California Education. “It means the recovery has been anemic, and that’s a problem. 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"content": "\u003cp>For those gathered under umbrellas on the steps of San Francisco City Hall to remember the lives of transgender people lost to violence over the past year, the somber event felt not only like a vigil but like a preparation for struggles to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 150 people came together for the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11097157/for-transgender-day-of-remembrance-watch-video-of-2-undergoing-transitions\">Transgender Day of Remembrance\u003c/a> event, holding pink, blue and white trans pride flags, electric candles, and signs bearing the names and images of victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bad news is, this weather is very appropriate: we have a storm to weather,” trans activist KaiKai Bee Michaels said to attendees. “I think that we have some hard times ahead of us. That kind of sucks. It builds strength. We have a lot of work to do. And I think we’re going to do that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender Day of Remembrance comes at a frightening time for the community as it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014337/what-can-trans-folks-do-to-prepare-for-another-trump-administration\">braces for a second Donald Trump presidency\u003c/a>. Throughout the 2024 campaign, trans people were a target of Trump and the Republican Party’s culture war rhetoric — stoking fears about trans women in sports, promising to pull federal funding from hospitals that perform gender-affirming care, and accusing schools of sexualizing children by speaking with them about gender identity and sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) \u003ca href=\"https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1484\">announced\u003c/a> that Capitol Hill restrooms and changing rooms would be restricted by “biological sex,” essentially barring trans people from using facilities that match their gender identity — just two weeks after Sarah McBride (D–R.I.) was elected as the first trans member of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California prepares to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">lead the fight\u003c/a> against many of Trump’s political promises, San Francisco will also likely be at the forefront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a> makes it a place many trans folks come to when they don’t feel safe in their hometowns, according to Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcela Ruiz listens to speakers during a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because they are not able to access the health care that they need, families have trans kids who live in states where their state legislatures are enforcing bans on health care, bans on sports, or even the ability for them to transition socially in schools,” she told KQED. “They’re making plans to move to places like San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event held Wednesday honored trans people who have died due to violence and oppression. Its organizers said it was a space to “remember, grieve, and heal — while also imagining a future of safety and liberation for trans communities,” according to a post on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DCCnVbRSlVq/?hl=en\">social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first Trans Day of Remembrance that Susan Spencer, 77, has attended. She said that recent events had made it important for her to show up in support of trans members of her church, St. Aidan’s Episcopal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the laws that have been passed. It is the deaths that have occurred. It is the abuse on the streets of people,” Spencer told KQED. “So many things that aren’t allowing people to be free and to be who they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-16-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gathered for a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance hold candles in the air in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the country, 36 trans and gender-expansive people have been killed in acts of violence in the past year, and a similar number died in 2023, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/hrcs-2024-epidemic-of-violence-report-fatal-violence-against-transgender-and-gender-non-conforming-people-continues-with-black-trans-women-comprising-nearly-half-of-the-deaths\">Human Rights Campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes Michelle Henry, who was 25 years old when she was found dead in a downtown San Francisco residence in May, according to an SFPD news release. 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For her life to be cut short at 25, in a very violent way, was really disturbing for a lot of people here in San Francisco, in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gather for a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990260/a-conversation-with-banko-browns-chosen-family\">Banko Brown\u003c/a>, a Black trans man, was shot and killed by a security guard at a Walgreens store in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that for many of us today, Trans Day of Remembrance, is a really tough time,” Mahogany said during the rally. “Many of us know people who have passed, many of us know people who have passed due to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014337 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1258626528.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that these deaths are a reminder of the dangers that anti-trans rhetoric carries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her hope is for the city to rally around the trans community and defy the fear-mongering and divisive language coming from prominent Republican representatives and right-wing interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘We continue to fight back against anti-trans rhetoric or any kind of rhetoric that seeks to divide us,” she told KQED. “Divide and conquer has proven a very effective strategy. It is the way that fascism comes to the front, but it’s also a way in which those who are powerful, those with a lot of money, those with interests in keeping the working class and the middle-class populace down — that’s the way that they maintain their power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bwatt\">\u003cem>Brian Watt\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Throughout the 2024 campaign, trans people were a target of Trump and the Republican Party’s culture war rhetoric — stoking fears about trans women in sports, promising to pull federal funding from hospitals that perform gender-affirming care, and accusing schools of sexualizing children by speaking with them about gender identity and sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) \u003ca href=\"https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1484\">announced\u003c/a> that Capitol Hill restrooms and changing rooms would be restricted by “biological sex,” essentially barring trans people from using facilities that match their gender identity — just two weeks after Sarah McBride (D–R.I.) was elected as the first trans member of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California prepares to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">lead the fight\u003c/a> against many of Trump’s political promises, San Francisco will also likely be at the forefront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a> makes it a place many trans folks come to when they don’t feel safe in their hometowns, according to Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcela Ruiz listens to speakers during a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because they are not able to access the health care that they need, families have trans kids who live in states where their state legislatures are enforcing bans on health care, bans on sports, or even the ability for them to transition socially in schools,” she told KQED. “They’re making plans to move to places like San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event held Wednesday honored trans people who have died due to violence and oppression. Its organizers said it was a space to “remember, grieve, and heal — while also imagining a future of safety and liberation for trans communities,” according to a post on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DCCnVbRSlVq/?hl=en\">social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first Trans Day of Remembrance that Susan Spencer, 77, has attended. She said that recent events had made it important for her to show up in support of trans members of her church, St. Aidan’s Episcopal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the laws that have been passed. It is the deaths that have occurred. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">View the full episode transcript\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever wondered what the San Francisco Bay sounds like beneath the water’s surface? The Wave Organ, a sound sculpture maintained by San Francisco’s Exploratorium, has 25 pipes that shoot down into the bay, creating a unique sonic experience for visitors above. You can find the sculpture, made of recycled granite, at the end of the man-made jetty across the street from the Palace of Fine Arts. There, you can put your ear to a pipe made of PVC and concrete to hear the “music” of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wave Organ is nothing like the trumpeting organs in a church. The art installation stretches about 60 feet across and is made of rock slabs with different seating levels that visitors can climb on. The artists behind the sculpture chose to use recycled debris from the 1906 earthquake, and remnants of headstones leftover from century-old cemetery relocations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the sound the organ makes — you probably wouldn’t call it musical. This art piece features an orchestra of gurgles, splashes, and booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014153\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12014153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque for the Wave Organ in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Wave Organ’s origins\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Understanding the Wave Organ’s origins requires a little lesson in San Francisco art history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This environmental sculpture was created in 1986 by artist Peter Richards in collaboration with master stonemason George Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards was inspired to create the Wave Organ after moving to San Francisco in 1970. He was fascinated by how the tides in the bay showed an intimate connection between the sea and the moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014150\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12014150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-1536x1002.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-1920x1253.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water flows out of a pipe at the Wave Organ in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time I was near a place that had tides,” said Richards, a senior artist emeritus at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, about moving to the West Coast. “I was inherently curious about [tides] and how they worked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards was also inspired by artist Bill Fontana, who had recorded the sounds of pipes in a concrete dock in Sydney, Australia, in 1976. Fontana’s sonic art piece amplified and distorted bubbling and splashing sounds from the water. Richards was intrigued by the connection between physics and art to create the acoustic rhythm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards wanted to see if he could do the same using San Francisco’s waters. So he took PVC pipes to the jetty in the city’s Marina district and began testing the sounds of different pipe configurations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12015192 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-1536x1050.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A conceptual design of the Wave Organ originally shared at the New Music ’81 Festival. (Courtesy of the Exploratorium)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What he found was that the sound from the organ pipes changed depending on the water level within the pipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How does it work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the Wave Organ, each pipe creates a vibrating column of air that amplifies sounds produced by moving water. Certain sound frequencies created by the waves are amplified, depending on the length of the pipe and water level within it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At high tides, the air columns are shorter, so the sounds are higher,” Richards explains. “The low tides produce lower frequencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12014154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pipes made of PVC and concrete at the Wave Organ in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2024. The installation has 25 organ pipes, which sound best during high tide. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richards prototyped his design for the Wave Organ and presented a rudimentary version of the sculpture for the New Music ’81 Festival in San Francisco, a festival for experimental music and instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After securing funding to create a permanent installation, Richards met fellow Bay Area-based stonemason George Gonzalez and invited him to be a collaborator on the project. Richard says that before he met Gonzalez, he had made models and drawings of what he imagined the final installation to look like, but Gonzalez brought an innovative vision and elevated the overall project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we started working on it, the first thing we did was throw the drawings away and… just allow the stonework to determine what was needed. George [had an] amazing ability to look at this beautiful stonework and be able to put it together in a very clever and functional way,” said Richards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1986, the Wave Organ opened to the public. Decades later, it is still a favorite spot for San Franciscans who stop by on their morning walks. It’s also a destination for tourists who want to get off the beaten path and a place for fishermen to cast their lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig Easley, a San Franciscan who visits the Wave Organ twice a week to fish, says, “Fish or no fish, this is heaven. It’s a little bit of paradise with a 360-degree view of the bay and the city that I love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wave Organ is free to visit. It’s one of the few Exploratorium exhibits that is located outside the walls of the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we all had our little escapes. Places away from the confines of our quarantined homes to get some fresh air … and remind us that despite the distance, the rest of the world still exists. After moving to San Francisco in 2020, Robbie Rock discovered his special spot: a public art installation called the Wave Organ. It’s at the very end of a jetty sitting out in the bay, across the way from The Palace of Fine Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robbie Rock:\u003c/strong> It’s just a really cool place to sit, watch the waves, and also to, like, hear the organ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> The Wave organ is not like the massive trumpeting organs that you’ll find in a church. Its appearance and sounds are a bit less opulent, but the organ still produces a pretty grand orchestra of gurgles, hisses, and booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[distorted gurgling from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> But after all of his visits, Robbie still never really knew what, exactly, he was listening to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robbie Rock:\u003c/strong> I just had so many questions about it. Why is it there, and how does it even work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And of course…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robbie Rock:\u003c/strong> When is the best time to hear it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’m Olivia Allen-Price. This is Bay Curious — the podcast that answers your questions about the San Francisco Bay Area. This week, we’re turning an ear to the waters of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this episode is probably going to sound best with headphones, but if you’re listening on speakers, you might just want to crank it up. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[SPONSOR MESSAGE]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> To learn more about this instrument that’s being played by the bay itself, we sent out Bay Curious intern, Ana De Almeida Amaral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Out in the Marina district of San Francisco, just off Marina Boulevard, a jetty stretches out into the bay — It’s a man-made stretch of land protecting the docks of St Francis Yacht Club. I went there on a windy morning to visit the Wave Organ. The Wave Organ is an art installation that is partially underwater at the edge of the jetty. It’s an environmental sculpture that interacts with the natural sounds of the waves to create a unique auditory experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Ambient sound of the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> I called up Ken Finn, an educator at the Exploratorium, which is the interactive science and arts museum in San Francisco. The organ is one of the few exploratorium exhibits that is outside the walls of the museum, and it’s free! I asked Ken to show me around the Wave Organ for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> A personal favorite time to come out here…[laughs] when a storm is brewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> The Wave Organ is a really unique installation. It looks kind of like a Roman ruin — with various slabs of granite creating different viewing levels and stone stairs leading down to the water’s edge. The organ itself is all around the installation. There are 25 organ pipes that peek out like periscopes. And visitors can place their ear next to each pipe in order to hear what is going on underwater. As I climbed around the installation with Ken, we approached an organ pipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> Here’s one of the first pipes. And you can see now that the tide is low. You can almost trace it in its winding path down into the bay. I’m going to give it a listen here… Oh, nice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Then, it was my turn to listen….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Distorted swishing sounds from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> That’s beautiful!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> With the tide out, the lower water level exposes the length of the pipes. Some only reach out 3 or 4 feet into the bay, while others extend out deep into the water. Then, Ken points at a stone slab on the staircase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> I like to call out that on some of these, you can see the leftover red paint, so you can tell there’s a red zone. So, some of these were old curb stones from parts of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> That’s because most of the stone slabs used to make the sculpture are recycled pieces of granite. The jetty was originally built using stone slabs from fallen buildings after the 1906 earthquake and headstone remnants from the cemetery relocations of the early 1900s. Many still had beautiful carvings and designs, and they were given a new life with the creation of the Wave Organ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wave Organ was created by artist Peter Richards in collaboration with master stonemason, George Gonzalez. Peter Richards is now a senior artist emeritus at the Exploratorium, but back in 1970 he was a recent MFA graduate and new to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> It was the first time I was near a place that had tides. So, I was inherently curious about them and how they worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> He was enamored by the changing tides and the way they revealed an intimate connection between us — and the sun and the moon. He was also inspired by a recording he had heard from artist Bill Fontana — who had recorded the sounds of cylindrical pipes he found in a concrete dock in Sydney, Australia. Peter was drawn in by the rhythmic, distorted, and almost mesmerizing qualities of this audio portrait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a little excerpt of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Splashing sounds]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Peter wanted to see if he could intentionally create this phenomenon. So he took PVC pipes out onto the jetty just across from the Exploratorium, which at the time was housed at the Palace of Fine Arts. And he began testing the sounds of different pipe lengths and configurations. What he found was that the sound from the pipes changed depending on the water level within the pipe…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> So at High tides, the air columns are shorter, so the sounds are higher. And if you go to the low tide, it produces lower frequencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> The pipes function like a pan flute. In the Wave Organ, each pipe is a vibrating column of air that amplifies the sounds produced by the moving water. Certain sound frequencies created by the waves are amplified depending on the length of the pipe. And this is what creates a distorted orchestra of underwater sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once he made this discovery, Peter built a prototype of the Wave Organ for an experimental music festival in 1981. He constructed a rudimentary version at the same spot on the jetty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> At that point, it was done very crudely. But we did mic it and run a telephone wire back to the Exploratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> The telephone wire ran across Marina Boulevard and all the way to the Palace of Fine Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> So we had the sounds from the Wave Organ sort of echoing through the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Sounds from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> And visitors loved it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> At that point the Director Frank Oppenheimer said, “Well, we’ve got to do something with this.” So that’s when I started working seriously on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> After working to secure funding, the Exploratorium was ready to break ground on a permanent installation. That is when Peter met George Gonzalez and invited him to be the stonemason on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> During the conceptual development of the project, I had built some models, and I made a drawing of what I envisioned happening. And when we started working on it, the first thing we did is to throw the drawings away and put the model away and just allow the stonework to determine what was needed there. And there was George’s amazing ability to look at this beautiful stonework and be able to put it together in a very clever and functional way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> With an attention to the beautifully carved granite slabs and to the tides… the Wave Organ rose from the rocks on the jetty in 1986. The Wave Organ is a magical integration of the natural and constructed world. It’s an art piece that sits at the center of many intersections — between the sea and moon and between science and art. And here, you get to be an audience to all of it. But before I left the Wave Organ, I had to ask Ken, the educator from the Exploratorium, the question we are all waiting for: When is the best time to hear the Wave Organ?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> Definitely check the tides. And I think that visiting the Wave Organ at high tide is the best time. And it’s definitely a lot more enjoyable to be there when the tide is high, and it’s making some tones that are much more easy for us to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> But, in case you are not able to make it out to the Wave Organ at high tide — we’ll bring it to you. Here’s 30 seconds of oceanic art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Sounds from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That was KQED’s Ana De Almeida Amaral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to Robbie Rock for asking the question and to Bill Fontana for letting us share a piece of his sonic art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Curious team is taking a little breather next week, so we won’t have a new episode.\u003cbr>\nBut, we did create a kid-friendly Spotify playlist with some of our greatest hits from over the years. If you’ve got travel plans and need to fill some time — check it out! We’ll drop a link in our show notes. We’ll be back in your feeds on Dec. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gift-buying season is on the way, and I know, at least for some of you, it’s been here since Halloween, so I’d love to humbly suggest you consider giving the Bay Curious book this year. It’s chock full of history, culture, fun facts and more all about the San Francisco Bay Area. You can find it at most local bookstores and all the big online retailers. If audiobooks are more your jam, we’ve got one of those too. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">KQED.org/BayCuriousBook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco by Ana De Almeida Amaral, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Chris Hambrick, Holly Kernan, Chris Egusa and the whole KQED family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a wonderful week!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">View the full episode transcript\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever wondered what the San Francisco Bay sounds like beneath the water’s surface? The Wave Organ, a sound sculpture maintained by San Francisco’s Exploratorium, has 25 pipes that shoot down into the bay, creating a unique sonic experience for visitors above. You can find the sculpture, made of recycled granite, at the end of the man-made jetty across the street from the Palace of Fine Arts. There, you can put your ear to a pipe made of PVC and concrete to hear the “music” of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wave Organ is nothing like the trumpeting organs in a church. The art installation stretches about 60 feet across and is made of rock slabs with different seating levels that visitors can climb on. The artists behind the sculpture chose to use recycled debris from the 1906 earthquake, and remnants of headstones leftover from century-old cemetery relocations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the sound the organ makes — you probably wouldn’t call it musical. This art piece features an orchestra of gurgles, splashes, and booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014153\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12014153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque for the Wave Organ in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Wave Organ’s origins\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Understanding the Wave Organ’s origins requires a little lesson in San Francisco art history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This environmental sculpture was created in 1986 by artist Peter Richards in collaboration with master stonemason George Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards was inspired to create the Wave Organ after moving to San Francisco in 1970. He was fascinated by how the tides in the bay showed an intimate connection between the sea and the moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014150\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12014150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-1536x1002.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED-1920x1253.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water flows out of a pipe at the Wave Organ in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time I was near a place that had tides,” said Richards, a senior artist emeritus at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, about moving to the West Coast. “I was inherently curious about [tides] and how they worked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards was also inspired by artist Bill Fontana, who had recorded the sounds of pipes in a concrete dock in Sydney, Australia, in 1976. Fontana’s sonic art piece amplified and distorted bubbling and splashing sounds from the water. Richards was intrigued by the connection between physics and art to create the acoustic rhythm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards wanted to see if he could do the same using San Francisco’s waters. So he took PVC pipes to the jetty in the city’s Marina district and began testing the sounds of different pipe configurations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12015192 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize-1536x1050.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/conceptual-1-1-resize.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A conceptual design of the Wave Organ originally shared at the New Music ’81 Festival. (Courtesy of the Exploratorium)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What he found was that the sound from the organ pipes changed depending on the water level within the pipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How does it work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the Wave Organ, each pipe creates a vibrating column of air that amplifies sounds produced by moving water. Certain sound frequencies created by the waves are amplified, depending on the length of the pipe and water level within it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At high tides, the air columns are shorter, so the sounds are higher,” Richards explains. “The low tides produce lower frequencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12014154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241112_WAVEORGAN_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pipes made of PVC and concrete at the Wave Organ in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2024. The installation has 25 organ pipes, which sound best during high tide. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richards prototyped his design for the Wave Organ and presented a rudimentary version of the sculpture for the New Music ’81 Festival in San Francisco, a festival for experimental music and instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After securing funding to create a permanent installation, Richards met fellow Bay Area-based stonemason George Gonzalez and invited him to be a collaborator on the project. Richard says that before he met Gonzalez, he had made models and drawings of what he imagined the final installation to look like, but Gonzalez brought an innovative vision and elevated the overall project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we started working on it, the first thing we did was throw the drawings away and… just allow the stonework to determine what was needed. George [had an] amazing ability to look at this beautiful stonework and be able to put it together in a very clever and functional way,” said Richards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1986, the Wave Organ opened to the public. Decades later, it is still a favorite spot for San Franciscans who stop by on their morning walks. It’s also a destination for tourists who want to get off the beaten path and a place for fishermen to cast their lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig Easley, a San Franciscan who visits the Wave Organ twice a week to fish, says, “Fish or no fish, this is heaven. It’s a little bit of paradise with a 360-degree view of the bay and the city that I love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wave Organ is free to visit. It’s one of the few Exploratorium exhibits that is located outside the walls of the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we all had our little escapes. Places away from the confines of our quarantined homes to get some fresh air … and remind us that despite the distance, the rest of the world still exists. After moving to San Francisco in 2020, Robbie Rock discovered his special spot: a public art installation called the Wave Organ. It’s at the very end of a jetty sitting out in the bay, across the way from The Palace of Fine Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robbie Rock:\u003c/strong> It’s just a really cool place to sit, watch the waves, and also to, like, hear the organ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> The Wave organ is not like the massive trumpeting organs that you’ll find in a church. Its appearance and sounds are a bit less opulent, but the organ still produces a pretty grand orchestra of gurgles, hisses, and booms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[distorted gurgling from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> But after all of his visits, Robbie still never really knew what, exactly, he was listening to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robbie Rock:\u003c/strong> I just had so many questions about it. Why is it there, and how does it even work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And of course…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robbie Rock:\u003c/strong> When is the best time to hear it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’m Olivia Allen-Price. This is Bay Curious — the podcast that answers your questions about the San Francisco Bay Area. This week, we’re turning an ear to the waters of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this episode is probably going to sound best with headphones, but if you’re listening on speakers, you might just want to crank it up. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[SPONSOR MESSAGE]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> To learn more about this instrument that’s being played by the bay itself, we sent out Bay Curious intern, Ana De Almeida Amaral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Out in the Marina district of San Francisco, just off Marina Boulevard, a jetty stretches out into the bay — It’s a man-made stretch of land protecting the docks of St Francis Yacht Club. I went there on a windy morning to visit the Wave Organ. The Wave Organ is an art installation that is partially underwater at the edge of the jetty. It’s an environmental sculpture that interacts with the natural sounds of the waves to create a unique auditory experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Ambient sound of the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> I called up Ken Finn, an educator at the Exploratorium, which is the interactive science and arts museum in San Francisco. The organ is one of the few exploratorium exhibits that is outside the walls of the museum, and it’s free! I asked Ken to show me around the Wave Organ for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> A personal favorite time to come out here…[laughs] when a storm is brewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> The Wave Organ is a really unique installation. It looks kind of like a Roman ruin — with various slabs of granite creating different viewing levels and stone stairs leading down to the water’s edge. The organ itself is all around the installation. There are 25 organ pipes that peek out like periscopes. And visitors can place their ear next to each pipe in order to hear what is going on underwater. As I climbed around the installation with Ken, we approached an organ pipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> Here’s one of the first pipes. And you can see now that the tide is low. You can almost trace it in its winding path down into the bay. I’m going to give it a listen here… Oh, nice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Then, it was my turn to listen….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Distorted swishing sounds from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> That’s beautiful!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> With the tide out, the lower water level exposes the length of the pipes. Some only reach out 3 or 4 feet into the bay, while others extend out deep into the water. Then, Ken points at a stone slab on the staircase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> I like to call out that on some of these, you can see the leftover red paint, so you can tell there’s a red zone. So, some of these were old curb stones from parts of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> That’s because most of the stone slabs used to make the sculpture are recycled pieces of granite. The jetty was originally built using stone slabs from fallen buildings after the 1906 earthquake and headstone remnants from the cemetery relocations of the early 1900s. Many still had beautiful carvings and designs, and they were given a new life with the creation of the Wave Organ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wave Organ was created by artist Peter Richards in collaboration with master stonemason, George Gonzalez. Peter Richards is now a senior artist emeritus at the Exploratorium, but back in 1970 he was a recent MFA graduate and new to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> It was the first time I was near a place that had tides. So, I was inherently curious about them and how they worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> He was enamored by the changing tides and the way they revealed an intimate connection between us — and the sun and the moon. He was also inspired by a recording he had heard from artist Bill Fontana — who had recorded the sounds of cylindrical pipes he found in a concrete dock in Sydney, Australia. Peter was drawn in by the rhythmic, distorted, and almost mesmerizing qualities of this audio portrait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a little excerpt of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Splashing sounds]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Peter wanted to see if he could intentionally create this phenomenon. So he took PVC pipes out onto the jetty just across from the Exploratorium, which at the time was housed at the Palace of Fine Arts. And he began testing the sounds of different pipe lengths and configurations. What he found was that the sound from the pipes changed depending on the water level within the pipe…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> So at High tides, the air columns are shorter, so the sounds are higher. And if you go to the low tide, it produces lower frequencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> The pipes function like a pan flute. In the Wave Organ, each pipe is a vibrating column of air that amplifies the sounds produced by the moving water. Certain sound frequencies created by the waves are amplified depending on the length of the pipe. And this is what creates a distorted orchestra of underwater sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once he made this discovery, Peter built a prototype of the Wave Organ for an experimental music festival in 1981. He constructed a rudimentary version at the same spot on the jetty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> At that point, it was done very crudely. But we did mic it and run a telephone wire back to the Exploratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> The telephone wire ran across Marina Boulevard and all the way to the Palace of Fine Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> So we had the sounds from the Wave Organ sort of echoing through the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Sounds from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> And visitors loved it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> At that point the Director Frank Oppenheimer said, “Well, we’ve got to do something with this.” So that’s when I started working seriously on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> After working to secure funding, the Exploratorium was ready to break ground on a permanent installation. That is when Peter met George Gonzalez and invited him to be the stonemason on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Richards:\u003c/strong> During the conceptual development of the project, I had built some models, and I made a drawing of what I envisioned happening. And when we started working on it, the first thing we did is to throw the drawings away and put the model away and just allow the stonework to determine what was needed there. And there was George’s amazing ability to look at this beautiful stonework and be able to put it together in a very clever and functional way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> With an attention to the beautifully carved granite slabs and to the tides… the Wave Organ rose from the rocks on the jetty in 1986. The Wave Organ is a magical integration of the natural and constructed world. It’s an art piece that sits at the center of many intersections — between the sea and moon and between science and art. And here, you get to be an audience to all of it. But before I left the Wave Organ, I had to ask Ken, the educator from the Exploratorium, the question we are all waiting for: When is the best time to hear the Wave Organ?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ken Finn:\u003c/strong> Definitely check the tides. And I think that visiting the Wave Organ at high tide is the best time. And it’s definitely a lot more enjoyable to be there when the tide is high, and it’s making some tones that are much more easy for us to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> But, in case you are not able to make it out to the Wave Organ at high tide — we’ll bring it to you. Here’s 30 seconds of oceanic art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Sounds from the Wave Organ]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That was KQED’s Ana De Almeida Amaral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to Robbie Rock for asking the question and to Bill Fontana for letting us share a piece of his sonic art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Curious team is taking a little breather next week, so we won’t have a new episode.\u003cbr>\nBut, we did create a kid-friendly Spotify playlist with some of our greatest hits from over the years. If you’ve got travel plans and need to fill some time — check it out! We’ll drop a link in our show notes. We’ll be back in your feeds on Dec. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gift-buying season is on the way, and I know, at least for some of you, it’s been here since Halloween, so I’d love to humbly suggest you consider giving the Bay Curious book this year. It’s chock full of history, culture, fun facts and more all about the San Francisco Bay Area. You can find it at most local bookstores and all the big online retailers. If audiobooks are more your jam, we’ve got one of those too. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">KQED.org/BayCuriousBook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco by Ana De Almeida Amaral, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Chris Hambrick, Holly Kernan, Chris Egusa and the whole KQED family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a wonderful week!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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He also said the company was “fear-mongering” by suggesting that delaying the decision could result in Good Samaritan having to close down entirely because it wouldn’t meet state earthquake safety deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m troubled by the rhetoric implying that failing to pass this rezoning, especially when we were just going to postpone it a month, would result in Good Samaritan to close,” Ortiz said. “In my opinion, that’s fear-mongering of the worst kind, and you guys should be ashamed of yourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Councilmember Pam Foley, who represents the area where Good Samaritan is located, said the choice was clear for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Good Sam closes because it cannot meet the timeline, we lose access to critical health care resources. “How can I say to my constituents and the community at large, ‘Well, that’s HCA’s fault.’ How can any of us say that?” she said. “Let’s be perfectly clear. A vote against rezoning today is a vote in favor of closing Good Samaritan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HCA’s proposal entails a three-phase project to build 750,000 square feet of new hospital space across two buildings and a new 200,000-square-foot medical office while demolishing the hospital’s main building, which does not meet the state’s new seismic safety standards that go into effect between now and 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project also includes a 24,000-square-foot central utility plant and two large parking garages totaling nearly 700,000 square feet. In all, the project is set to take about six years to complete, with shovels set to hit the ground in 2025.[aside label=\"more South Bay news\" tag=\"santa-clara-county\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a deal hammered out ahead of Tuesday’s meeting, outlined in a memo from five councilmembers, HCA agreed to kick in $3 million as a sweetener to support affordable housing citywide and emergency interim housing in the area around the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your decision today is about protecting the patients that rely on Good Sam, a vital community resource, and enabling us to meet the state-mandated 2030 earthquake compliance deadline,” Jackie Van Blaricum, the head of HCA’s Far West division, told the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we may not see eye to eye on everything, surely we can agree that losing an entire hospital’s services is not in the community’s best interest,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor representatives and construction workers, along with former Good Samaritan patients, doctors and other hospital staff, all spoke in support of the project on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gopi Ayer, the chief of staff at the hospital, said while concerns from the community are “legitimate,” they should be saved for another time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what we need to do today,” Ayer told the council. “If we don’t go ahead with this, it will be like cutting off our nose to spite our face, and that is not a good bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the memo, council members said the major benefits to the city from such a project should not be overlooked, including increased property tax revenue and about 1,000 construction jobs, in addition to the ongoing jobs at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HCA’s announcement in early 2023 that it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center\">close the trauma center\u003c/a> at Regional Medical Center sparked an outcry among residents and health care workers, who said shuttering the only such trauma center on the East Side of the county would have life-threatening consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of protests, the hospital \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996422/hospital-operator-backs-off-closure-of-east-san-jose-trauma-center-after-public-outcry\">slightly reduced\u003c/a> its planned cuts and Santa Clara County officials later announced the county would move to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001214/santa-clara-county-plans-to-buy-east-san-jose-hospital-to-reverse-cuts-to-care\">purchase the hospital\u003c/a> and fold it into the public health care system, with plans to eventually restore cut services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents also recalled how the company cut labor and delivery services at the Regional Medical Center in 2020. And in 2004, it closed San José Medical Center shortly after buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other residents and mental health advocates also noted that HCA last year, citing a lack of staff, cut a 21-bed inpatient psychiatric services program at Mission Oaks Hospital in Los Gatos, which served Good Samaritan patients who needed acute mental health treatment. At the same time, it also closed Good Samaritan’s pediatric intensive care unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not against the development. 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Those who enroll before the end of the year will have coverage beginning at the start of 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We begin this open enrollment with record-high numbers of enrollees and California’s lowest uninsured rate to date. … Our total number of enrollees has risen by 15% overall in the past four years, with our largest gains among our communities of color,” Altman says. “The Greater Bay Area enrollment is up over 7% in the past four years, with over 330,000 Californians now enrolled in Covered California coverage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, many in California continue to go without health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Altman highlighted that roughly 1.3 million Californians are uninsured despite being eligible for low-cost coverage through Covered California or free insurance through Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants under DACA were granted access to Affordable Care Act plans after the Biden administration chose to expand the definition of those who are “legally present” in the country to include DACA recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of 19 states have since decided to sue the federal government over that decision. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>State officials are urging uninsured residents to sign up for health insurance through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/covered-california\">Covered California \u003c/a>despite uncertainty around the future of the subsidized health care plans under President-elect Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#sign-up-aca-daca\">How to sign up for health care through Covered California if you’re a DACA recipient\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Next year also marks the first time these subsidized plans will be available for immigrants who arrived in the country as children and have been allowed to stay under the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daca\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a> policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With open enrollment ongoing, Covered California officials spoke in San Francisco on Wednesday as part of an effort to increase awareness of the state’s insurance marketplace — established in part through the Affordable Care Act — and the new eligibility for DACA recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s incoming administration will likely target both the ACA and DACA — as he did during his first term in office — raising questions about how long the two programs will last and Californians’ access to the subsidized insurance plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Though none of us know exactly what will happen in the future, we are certain that the Affordable Care Act remains the law of the land and that Californians will have more financial assistance available to them than ever before in 2025,” says Jessica Altman, executive director of Covered California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open enrollment for Covered California began Nov. 1. Those who enroll before the end of the year will have coverage beginning at the start of 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We begin this open enrollment with record-high numbers of enrollees and California’s lowest uninsured rate to date. … Our total number of enrollees has risen by 15% overall in the past four years, with our largest gains among our communities of color,” Altman says. “The Greater Bay Area enrollment is up over 7% in the past four years, with over 330,000 Californians now enrolled in Covered California coverage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, many in California continue to go without health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Altman highlighted that roughly 1.3 million Californians are uninsured despite being eligible for low-cost coverage through Covered California or free insurance through Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants under DACA were granted access to Affordable Care Act plans after the Biden administration chose to expand the definition of those who are “legally present” in the country to include DACA recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of 19 states have since decided to sue the federal government over that decision. They argue that the expansion creates an additional burden on those states by requiring them to insure immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also argue that DACA recipients are not in the country legally and that offering them coverage through the ACA “encourages unlawfully present alien beneficiaries to remain in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until a judge rules on that lawsuit, however, Altman says California’s roughly 40,000 eligible DACA recipients are encouraged to enroll through Covered California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In fact, DACA recipients can enroll through a special enrollment period and gain coverage on Dec. 1. So if you need care, if you haven’t gotten your checkup, if you are one of our DACA recipients, we’re here for you right now,” Altman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open enrollment ends on Jan. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"sign-up-aca-daca\">\u003c/a>How to sign up for health care through Covered California if you’re a DACA recipient\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When do I have to sign up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open enrollment for health care coverage through Covered California started Nov. 1, and your last day to \u003ca href=\"http://coveredca.com\">sign up at CoveredCA.com\u003c/a> is Jan. 31. But if you qualify for Medi-Cal (California’s Medicaid program), which\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/formsandpubs/publications/Pages/Deferred-Action-for-Childhood-Arrivals-FAQ.aspx\"> DACA recipients are also eligible for,\u003c/a> you can sign up for Covered California any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If I sign up, when will my health plan start?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your health plan starts the first day of the month after you submit your application. So, if you want health care through Covered California on Dec. 1, you’ll have to sign up before November is over. If you sign up in December, your coverage will begin in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As a DACA recipient, what will I be asked when submitting my application?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://hbex.coveredca.com/toolkit/downloads/DACA_Fact_Sheet_ENG.pdf\">You’ll be “asked to provide document information\u003c/a> or a copy of your documents to show proof of immigration or lawful presence,” according to Covered California, and you can use either:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Your Notice of Action (I-797), issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), that shows that your “deferred action” status was approved\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your Employment Authorization Document (I-766), or EAD, that shows you’re authorized to work in the U.S.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if I don’t have those documents right now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should still apply, Covered California says. If you can’t provide the documentation during your application process, you’ll be considered “conditionally eligible” \u003cem>if \u003c/em>you meet all other eligibility requirements and will get 95 days to submit the required documentation once you’ve obtained it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does applying for Covered California make me a public charge?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/learning-center/information-for-immigrants/public-charge/\">No, the state says\u003c/a>: “In general, applying for health insurance coverage through Covered California and receiving financial assistance for a Covered California health plan or receiving low- or no-cost coverage through Medi-Cal will not make an individual a ‘\u003ca href=\"https://documentedny.com/2021/04/04/public-charge-rule-explained/\">public charge\u003c/a>.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It won’t affect your immigration status or your future chances of becoming a lawful permanent resident or a naturalized citizen, Covered California says. The only exceptions to this are if you receive long-term care in a nursing home through Medi-Cal or if you don’t tell the truth on your Covered California application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://coveredca.com\">Read more FAQs for DACA recipients on CoveredCA.com.\u003c/a>\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 report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "Oakland Is at Risk of Financial Insolvency. Is Bankruptcy on the Table?",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland is at risk of financial insolvency if it does not significantly slash its spending by the end of the calendar year, a top city official warned this week, raising the stakes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">a budget crisis that has threatened major cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dire warning came at a special City Council meeting on Tuesday, where council members were told that Oakland is looking at a $93 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year that ends in June if the city continues to spend at its current rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a significant preexisting structural issue as an organization…. Now is the time that we have to take action to solve it,” City Administrator Jestin Johnson said. “We must take action over the course of the next month and a half to preserve our solvency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a few days, the fiscal crisis raised the specter of bankruptcy after a draft of the city’s latest financial report was erroneously posted Friday, mentioning the Chapter 9 process as a possibility. Oakland officials now say the city is not discussing bankruptcy, and the city has removed the language from its report — and clarified that the discussion is “premature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">Oakland’s money problems are real\u003c/a> and must be addressed quickly. Here’s what that could look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where does Oakland stand?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the 2023–24 fiscal year, the city overspent by more than $27.5 million and had to dip into emergency reserves to pay its bills. City policy requires that these reserves stay above 7.5% of the city’s general purpose fund. If it isn’t restored by the end of this fiscal year, Oakland will have to declare a fiscal emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a resolution adopted in 2023 on the use of one-time revenues to plug budget holes, Oakland defines a fiscal emergency as the “last and most severe stage of a government entity’s financial solvency problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An unusual, unanticipated and seemingly insurmountable event or hardship of the city, one such as a natural disaster, ‘acts of god’ or war, public emergency or other unforeseen catastrophic event requiring the use of Emergency Reserves to sustain the most basic operations,” the definition continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Finance Director Erin Roseman said the City Council will need to identify roughly $115 million in cuts to balance this year’s budget and replenish the emergency fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid an irrecoverable financial state, the council will need to make these decisions before the end of December, according to Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What’s going on with the Coliseum sale?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland already triggered a contingency budget plan that made some fairly drastic cuts in September after the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amended its deal to sell its share of the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>. Revenue from that sale to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group was budgeted to fill this year’s shortfall, but now, the funds won’t be available until May at the earliest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the contingency, which Johnson previously described as pulling the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">emergency brake\u003c/a>” on spending, Oakland has implemented a hiring freeze, delayed a police academy class, halted unfinalized contracts and grant agreements and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not made the significant public safety cuts included in the contingency plan yet, but Johnson said that since the police and fire departments are the city’s biggest spenders, that will become unavoidable. The Fire Department is expected to exceed its budget by $34 million this fiscal year, and the Police Department is on track to overspend by $52 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a question of whether that sale could fall through altogether. AASEG sent the city a first payment of $5 million upon signing the deal in July but has missed originally scheduled payments since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">revised sale agreement\u003c/a> with AASEG pushed back the payment schedule and consolidated it so that the deal would close within the fiscal year, but it also delayed a payment expected in September, triggering the contingency. Under the new schedule, the second payment was due Nov. 7. That $10 million still has not been received by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland said this is because AASEG is also buying the Oakland A’s 50% stake in the Coliseum, which can only be sold with the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ approval. That body has delayed setting a time to vote on approving the deal, and it is unclear if it will happen before the end of the year. Supervisor David Haubert told ABC 7 News on Nov. 12 that he is pushing for the \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/alameda-county-board-supervisors-delay-approval-oakland-coliseum-sale/15541600/\">vote within weeks\u003c/a>, not months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So why are people talking about bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The draft of Oakland’s first-quarter fiscal report that the city posted Friday said the quarter’s spending indicated that immediate action was needed to “avoid the Chapter 9 process,” referring to filing for bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Failure to take dramatic and immediate steps to reduce expenditures will almost certainly result in insolvency,” it continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the report was quickly replaced by a new version without mention of Chapter 9, Johnson very clearly told council members on Tuesday that they needed to take swift and strong budget action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also noted looming federal changes under the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> administration that could hurt Oakland’s budget, including a potential reduction of federal funds for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009791/california-congressman-fights-to-protect-head-start-amid-project-2025-concerns\">programs like Head Start\u003c/a> and Community Development Block Grants, as well as impacts to the local economy and the city’s spending costs if President-elect Trump’s tariff plan is executed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump carries out planned mass deportations, it could have even more dire consequences, Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The economic impacts of a tenth of that action will make the other things I mentioned look small,” he said. “None of that is factored in. There are downside impacts that we have to consider as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98178\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/vallejo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1978\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia Street in downtown Vallejo, which filed for bankruptcy in 2008. (Justin Sulivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Is this precedented?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Oakland were to file for bankruptcy, it would be the fourth major California city to do so and the third in Northern California. In the throes of the Great Recession, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101864150/forum-on-the-road-vallejos-bankruptcy-10-years-later\">Vallejo filed for bankruptcy in 2008\u003c/a>, and Stockton wasn’t far behind in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those cities have worked their way back to fiscal health, and now Stockton’s budget is larger than Oakland’s. But according to former Stockton Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/michael-tubbs\">Michael Tubbs\u003c/a>, it has been a long road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to work together and make really hard, painful, difficult decisions that the city is still recovering from,” said Tubbs, who joined the City Council in 2013 and served as mayor while the city was exiting bankruptcy, from 2017 to 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that’s for certain is that those would be painful cuts, and there will be sort of a baseline level of service delivery that will be very meager,” he continued. “And that is not what the citizens deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens in a municipal bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When a city files for bankruptcy, it has to enter into a settlement agreement with all of its claimants — the people or entities to whom the city owes or pays money. These include bondholders, bargaining units, individuals or companies who have pending litigation with the city and capital market creditors, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bankruptcy judge must approve all of the settlements as part of the city’s plan of adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Tubbs said, city officials have to make significant budget reductions, which he called “draconian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11777793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11777793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, 29, stands in front of City Hall. Soon his staff will move out to make way for new lofts and other downtown developments. Tubbs says the key to revitalizing the city is lifting people out of poverty.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Tubbs, then Stockton’s mayor, in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/California Dream)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What could get cut?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This includes service reductions pretty much across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to close down libraries, cut parks and recreation programs, we weren’t able to do maintenance,” Tubbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton also had to lay off city staff, including roughly a third of public safety officers, Tubbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw longer response times. We saw a triage situation where officers weren’t able to respond to all crimes and had to really prioritize violent crimes,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vallejo declared bankruptcy, it had to close three of its eight fire stations, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/07/11/156621232/what-happens-when-a-city-declares-bankruptcy#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20when%20the%20city,medical%20emergency%20or%20a%20fire.\">interview\u003c/a> with then-City Manager Phil Batchelor on NPR’s \u003cem>Talk of the Nation\u003c/em> in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklanders are especially concerned with cuts to the fire and police departments. The city already has a struggling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003276/oaklands-beleaguered-911-dispatch-still-far-behind-state-standards-but-improving\">911 dispatch system\u003c/a>, and multiple council members pointed out that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010151/oakland-fire-spreads-to-nearby-homes-amid-dry-windy-conditions\">five-alarm fire in the Oakland Hills\u003c/a> last month would have been nearly impossible to fight with the contingency budget’s cuts in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other side effects?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tubbs said bankruptcy also carries a stigma. Fewer businesses want to come into the city, and residents are less trusting of the government — and, therefore, less likely to pass tax measures that would increase its revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Stockton, he said, “Every time there’s a tax measure, it’s a fight. The tax measure we ran to fund our bankruptcy [recovery] didn’t get 90% of the vote. I think it passed like 53% to 52%. It becomes very difficult to earn back trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recovery is possible, though. Stockton now has one of the most solvent budgets in the state and has instituted policies that protect it from dipping into dangerous spending again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tubbs said the keys are not spending one-time funds on long-term costs — one of the largest criticisms of the Coliseum deal — along with having a reserve equal to a third of the city’s budget and creating a tool that provides a long-range forecast of how new spending would affect cash flow long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010225\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao (left) and Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington address the press at the Keller Fire in Oakland on Oct. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What will happen in Oakland?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are lots of unknowns surrounding what the next few make-or-break weeks will look like for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s meeting, Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan set an agenda item for December to consider moving up to $30 million from the city’s self-insurance liability fund to its general purpose fund reserve to patch the leftover deficit and avoid a fiscal emergency. Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas seemed to show support for the move, but Councilmember Dan Kalb said he wouldn’t feel comfortable moving a full $30 million for that purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will also be big leadership changes before the end of the year. After Mayor Sheng Thao was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">recalled by voters\u003c/a> this month, Bas is set to take over as interim mayor until a special election is held. This could be thrown into question, though, since she is awaiting final results in a race for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014241/what-happens-now-oaklands-mayor-recalled-could-get-messy\">Alameda County Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> that is still too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she is elected supervisor, she could theoretically serve as interim mayor for a few weeks, but once sworn onto the board in January, the city will have to appoint a different interim leader at this critical time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Oakland officials and Tubbs expressed that there’s still time for the city to back off of its fiscal cliff — if it navigates the situation urgently and carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is too important of a city for California to be left bankrupt,” Tubbs said. “We have to get this right in Oakland…. It’s a place of culture. It’s a place of activism. It’s a place where justice is found. It’s a place of creativity. It’s a place of diversity. It’s a place that is so important, particularly at this moment. So we have to make sure that it works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland is at risk of financial insolvency if it does not significantly slash its spending by the end of the calendar year, a top city official warned this week, raising the stakes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">a budget crisis that has threatened major cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dire warning came at a special City Council meeting on Tuesday, where council members were told that Oakland is looking at a $93 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year that ends in June if the city continues to spend at its current rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a significant preexisting structural issue as an organization…. Now is the time that we have to take action to solve it,” City Administrator Jestin Johnson said. “We must take action over the course of the next month and a half to preserve our solvency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a few days, the fiscal crisis raised the specter of bankruptcy after a draft of the city’s latest financial report was erroneously posted Friday, mentioning the Chapter 9 process as a possibility. Oakland officials now say the city is not discussing bankruptcy, and the city has removed the language from its report — and clarified that the discussion is “premature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">Oakland’s money problems are real\u003c/a> and must be addressed quickly. Here’s what that could look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where does Oakland stand?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the 2023–24 fiscal year, the city overspent by more than $27.5 million and had to dip into emergency reserves to pay its bills. City policy requires that these reserves stay above 7.5% of the city’s general purpose fund. If it isn’t restored by the end of this fiscal year, Oakland will have to declare a fiscal emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a resolution adopted in 2023 on the use of one-time revenues to plug budget holes, Oakland defines a fiscal emergency as the “last and most severe stage of a government entity’s financial solvency problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An unusual, unanticipated and seemingly insurmountable event or hardship of the city, one such as a natural disaster, ‘acts of god’ or war, public emergency or other unforeseen catastrophic event requiring the use of Emergency Reserves to sustain the most basic operations,” the definition continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Finance Director Erin Roseman said the City Council will need to identify roughly $115 million in cuts to balance this year’s budget and replenish the emergency fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid an irrecoverable financial state, the council will need to make these decisions before the end of December, according to Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What’s going on with the Coliseum sale?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland already triggered a contingency budget plan that made some fairly drastic cuts in September after the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amended its deal to sell its share of the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>. Revenue from that sale to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group was budgeted to fill this year’s shortfall, but now, the funds won’t be available until May at the earliest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the contingency, which Johnson previously described as pulling the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009486/oaklands-finances-significant-risk-report-warns-coliseum-sale-raises-questions\">emergency brake\u003c/a>” on spending, Oakland has implemented a hiring freeze, delayed a police academy class, halted unfinalized contracts and grant agreements and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not made the significant public safety cuts included in the contingency plan yet, but Johnson said that since the police and fire departments are the city’s biggest spenders, that will become unavoidable. The Fire Department is expected to exceed its budget by $34 million this fiscal year, and the Police Department is on track to overspend by $52 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a question of whether that sale could fall through altogether. AASEG sent the city a first payment of $5 million upon signing the deal in July but has missed originally scheduled payments since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">revised sale agreement\u003c/a> with AASEG pushed back the payment schedule and consolidated it so that the deal would close within the fiscal year, but it also delayed a payment expected in September, triggering the contingency. Under the new schedule, the second payment was due Nov. 7. That $10 million still has not been received by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland said this is because AASEG is also buying the Oakland A’s 50% stake in the Coliseum, which can only be sold with the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ approval. That body has delayed setting a time to vote on approving the deal, and it is unclear if it will happen before the end of the year. Supervisor David Haubert told ABC 7 News on Nov. 12 that he is pushing for the \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/alameda-county-board-supervisors-delay-approval-oakland-coliseum-sale/15541600/\">vote within weeks\u003c/a>, not months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So why are people talking about bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The draft of Oakland’s first-quarter fiscal report that the city posted Friday said the quarter’s spending indicated that immediate action was needed to “avoid the Chapter 9 process,” referring to filing for bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Failure to take dramatic and immediate steps to reduce expenditures will almost certainly result in insolvency,” it continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the report was quickly replaced by a new version without mention of Chapter 9, Johnson very clearly told council members on Tuesday that they needed to take swift and strong budget action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also noted looming federal changes under the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> administration that could hurt Oakland’s budget, including a potential reduction of federal funds for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009791/california-congressman-fights-to-protect-head-start-amid-project-2025-concerns\">programs like Head Start\u003c/a> and Community Development Block Grants, as well as impacts to the local economy and the city’s spending costs if President-elect Trump’s tariff plan is executed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump carries out planned mass deportations, it could have even more dire consequences, Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The economic impacts of a tenth of that action will make the other things I mentioned look small,” he said. “None of that is factored in. There are downside impacts that we have to consider as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98178\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/vallejo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1978\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia Street in downtown Vallejo, which filed for bankruptcy in 2008. (Justin Sulivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Is this precedented?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Oakland were to file for bankruptcy, it would be the fourth major California city to do so and the third in Northern California. In the throes of the Great Recession, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101864150/forum-on-the-road-vallejos-bankruptcy-10-years-later\">Vallejo filed for bankruptcy in 2008\u003c/a>, and Stockton wasn’t far behind in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those cities have worked their way back to fiscal health, and now Stockton’s budget is larger than Oakland’s. But according to former Stockton Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/michael-tubbs\">Michael Tubbs\u003c/a>, it has been a long road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to work together and make really hard, painful, difficult decisions that the city is still recovering from,” said Tubbs, who joined the City Council in 2013 and served as mayor while the city was exiting bankruptcy, from 2017 to 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that’s for certain is that those would be painful cuts, and there will be sort of a baseline level of service delivery that will be very meager,” he continued. “And that is not what the citizens deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens in a municipal bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When a city files for bankruptcy, it has to enter into a settlement agreement with all of its claimants — the people or entities to whom the city owes or pays money. These include bondholders, bargaining units, individuals or companies who have pending litigation with the city and capital market creditors, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bankruptcy judge must approve all of the settlements as part of the city’s plan of adjustment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Tubbs said, city officials have to make significant budget reductions, which he called “draconian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11777793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11777793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton.jpg\" alt=\"Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, 29, stands in front of City Hall. Soon his staff will move out to make way for new lofts and other downtown developments. Tubbs says the key to revitalizing the city is lifting people out of poverty.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Michael-Tubbs-Stockton-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Tubbs, then Stockton’s mayor, in front of City Hall. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon/California Dream)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What could get cut?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This includes service reductions pretty much across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to close down libraries, cut parks and recreation programs, we weren’t able to do maintenance,” Tubbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton also had to lay off city staff, including roughly a third of public safety officers, Tubbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw longer response times. We saw a triage situation where officers weren’t able to respond to all crimes and had to really prioritize violent crimes,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vallejo declared bankruptcy, it had to close three of its eight fire stations, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/07/11/156621232/what-happens-when-a-city-declares-bankruptcy#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20when%20the%20city,medical%20emergency%20or%20a%20fire.\">interview\u003c/a> with then-City Manager Phil Batchelor on NPR’s \u003cem>Talk of the Nation\u003c/em> in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklanders are especially concerned with cuts to the fire and police departments. The city already has a struggling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003276/oaklands-beleaguered-911-dispatch-still-far-behind-state-standards-but-improving\">911 dispatch system\u003c/a>, and multiple council members pointed out that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010151/oakland-fire-spreads-to-nearby-homes-amid-dry-windy-conditions\">five-alarm fire in the Oakland Hills\u003c/a> last month would have been nearly impossible to fight with the contingency budget’s cuts in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other side effects?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tubbs said bankruptcy also carries a stigma. Fewer businesses want to come into the city, and residents are less trusting of the government — and, therefore, less likely to pass tax measures that would increase its revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Stockton, he said, “Every time there’s a tax measure, it’s a fight. The tax measure we ran to fund our bankruptcy [recovery] didn’t get 90% of the vote. I think it passed like 53% to 52%. It becomes very difficult to earn back trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recovery is possible, though. Stockton now has one of the most solvent budgets in the state and has instituted policies that protect it from dipping into dangerous spending again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tubbs said the keys are not spending one-time funds on long-term costs — one of the largest criticisms of the Coliseum deal — along with having a reserve equal to a third of the city’s budget and creating a tool that provides a long-range forecast of how new spending would affect cash flow long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010225\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-KELLER-FIRE-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao (left) and Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington address the press at the Keller Fire in Oakland on Oct. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What will happen in Oakland?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are lots of unknowns surrounding what the next few make-or-break weeks will look like for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s meeting, Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan set an agenda item for December to consider moving up to $30 million from the city’s self-insurance liability fund to its general purpose fund reserve to patch the leftover deficit and avoid a fiscal emergency. Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas seemed to show support for the move, but Councilmember Dan Kalb said he wouldn’t feel comfortable moving a full $30 million for that purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will also be big leadership changes before the end of the year. After Mayor Sheng Thao was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">recalled by voters\u003c/a> this month, Bas is set to take over as interim mayor until a special election is held. This could be thrown into question, though, since she is awaiting final results in a race for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014241/what-happens-now-oaklands-mayor-recalled-could-get-messy\">Alameda County Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> that is still too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she is elected supervisor, she could theoretically serve as interim mayor for a few weeks, but once sworn onto the board in January, the city will have to appoint a different interim leader at this critical time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Oakland officials and Tubbs expressed that there’s still time for the city to back off of its fiscal cliff — if it navigates the situation urgently and carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is too important of a city for California to be left bankrupt,” Tubbs said. “We have to get this right in Oakland…. It’s a place of culture. It’s a place of activism. It’s a place where justice is found. It’s a place of creativity. It’s a place of diversity. It’s a place that is so important, particularly at this moment. So we have to make sure that it works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California has a notoriously slow ballot counting process — one that Kim Alexander describes as “a pig in the python.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This giant wad of ballots that all arrive at once, that all have to move through the process, and you can’t speed it up,” said Alexander, president of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation. “You have to do every single step, otherwise you lose the integrity of the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help voters understand and trust that process, Alexander’s group launched a tracker this election that monitors the vote count in California’s close contests between Election Day and certification of county results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubbed the Close Count Transparency Project, the tracker — which debuted as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.calvoter.org/content/close-count-transparency-project#2022\">pilot program in 2022\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://www.calvoter.org/content/close-count-transparency-project\">provides daily updates\u003c/a> on the results of 11 competitive U.S. House races and seven state legislative races, as well as the statewide vote count status. The tool tracks candidates’ vote share, votes counted and the number of unprocessed ballots in each county the districts cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of late Tuesday, an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/unprocessed-ballots-status\">570,500 ballots statewide\u003c/a> were yet to be counted, according to the Secretary of State’s office. More than 126,000 ballots needed to be “cured” — they had been rejected for missing or mismatched signatures, and \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2024-primary/trusted-info-mismatched-signature.pdf\">voters had time to submit a form to verify their signatures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of eight key contests remained uncalled by the Associated Press as of late Tuesday, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012387/california-will-help-decide-control-of-congress-but-multiple-seats-too-close-to-call\">two congressional races\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/11/california-election-results-november-2024/\">five legislative races\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012822/california-prop-roundup-heres-what-passed-and-what-got-rejected\">one statewide ballot measure.\u003c/a> (CalMatters and other news outlets use AP to declare winners while the vote count is ongoing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By making the vote count more transparent, the close contest tracker aims to inoculate against unfounded conspiracy theories about election fraud in California, Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some prominent conservatives, including GOP U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, are spreading unproven claims that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/1858001277851926844\">Democrats are “stealing” the 45th Congressional District race\u003c/a> in Southern California, where Democrat Derek Tran is leading by a razor-thin margin over Republican Rep. Michelle Steel after trailing her for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to create a record of where the vote count stood each day so that if someone came along later and said, ‘Something hinky is going on here,’ there would be a reliable source of information people could turn to to see how the vote count evolved over time,” Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tracker also comes as frustration about the lengthy process grows in California. State Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/joe-patterson-133512?_gl=1*1g0qcdr*_gcl_au*MTM4NjY4NjMyNi4xNzI4OTIxNDUy*_ga*NDc4MzA3MTIxLjE3Mjg5MjE0NTI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczMjEyNDU0MC4xOS4xLjE3MzIxMjYzODUuNDcuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczMjEyNDU0MC4yMC4xLjE3MzIxMjYzODQuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczMjEyNDU0MC4xOS4xLjE3MzIxMjYzODQuMC4wLjA.\">Joe Patterson\u003c/a>, a Rocklin Republican, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Patterdude/status/1858253695991029779\">called the procedure “dumb”\u003c/a> on social media, arguing that winners of state legislative races will be sworn in on Dec. 2 before the results are certified by the Secretary of State. The lengthy process “sows distrust” in the state’s election system, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/californias-vote-count-secretary-of-state-2024/62912146\">he told KCRA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Assembly and Senate already held a joint freshman orientation last week for incoming lawmakers, while the five legislative races remain too close to call, Assembly Republicans spokesperson Jim Stanley confirmed to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a real problem for incoming lawmakers if they miss out on that,” Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why it takes so long to count — and how to speed it up\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While voters and campaigns want to see results sooner, it is particularly challenging in California, Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is home to more than \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-gen-2024/complete-ror.pdf\">22 million registered voters\u003c/a>, according to the state Secretary of State’s office. As of Tuesday afternoon, a total of \u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/unprocessed-ballots-status\">15 million ballots\u003c/a> had been counted — a number bigger than the populations of 46 other states, \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/popclock/\">Census data shows\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has also made it easier for voters to cast their ballots in recent years. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB37\">A 2021 law\u003c/a> made universal vote-by-mail permanent in California, meaning every registered voter receives a mail-in ballot roughly a month before Election Day, and the ballots are counted as long as they arrive at county elections offices within seven days after Election Day. In the March primary, almost 90% of all voters voted by mail, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/historical-absentee\">according to the Secretary of State\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widespread use of vote-by-mail slows down the vote count, Alexander said, because they take longer to process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to open the envelopes, we have to verify the signature, and all of those things before we can actually accept that ballot,” \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vn2uVIDC4n3CtN8rXzBx1tDj4Gc3Am3w/view\">Secretary of State Shirley Weber\u003c/a> said in a press conference last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, election officials have to first complete counting mail-in ballots before they move onto ballots cast by voters who register the same day they voted to make sure no voter votes twice, said Jesse Salinas, president of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials and clerk-recorder in Yolo County. The number of same-day registered voters has grown over the years, further slowing down the vote count, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013684]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the slow vote count is also because races are closer than more than a decade ago, Alexander said. The state’s independent redistricting commission drew more competitive districts after the 2020 Census, she said, and the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/06/california-primary-top-two/\">top-two primary process\u003c/a> was designed to boost candidates who could appeal to a broader range of voters in the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2002 and 2010, before voters approved the independent redistricting commission, there was an average of one or two close congressional races per general election, Alexander said. But following the 2011 redistricting and the 2012 adoption of the top-two primary, there was an average of five close contests per election cycle, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would be less patient with our long vote count if we had more decisive victories, but we don’t,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, county election officials could benefit from more staffing and funding for better equipment, Alexander said. Kern County, for example, has acquired \u003ca href=\"https://www.turnto23.com/news/in-your-neighborhood/bakersfield/kern-county-prepares-for-election-day-testing-the-future-of-voting\">high-speed ballot scanners\u003c/a> to tabulate votes faster, she said. As of Tuesday, Kern had processed nearly 280,000 ballots and had only about 8,500 to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state could also benefit from spending big on voter outreach, urging voters to mail in their ballots sooner, which would help county officials pre-process more ballots and reduce the workload post-election, Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more importantly, she said, the state should allow voters to opt out of vote-by-mail if they want, although she acknowledged that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB626\">under current law\u003c/a>, voters have the option to cast the ballot they received in the mail in person instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t want to vote by mail, and then you are stuck with this ballot, and that confuses voters,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/sameea-kamal/\">Sameea Kamal\u003c/a> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Of those cases for which researchers had race and location data, 7.6% of children were handcuffed before an ambulance arrived, but rates were disproportionately high for Black children and those in more disadvantaged neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a UCSF pediatric emergency physician, Watkins was interested in what happens before a child ends up in the hospital, a context he refers to as “social determinants of health,” but he said law enforcement response, such as handcuffing, is largely invisible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t show up really at the hospital because those handcuffs are gone,” Watkins said.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014858 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For clues, Watkins’ team shifted their focus to Emergency Medical Services. 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