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As of Wednesday evening, there were no new negotiation sessions scheduled, Lucas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Drenda Sims, receptionist, Kaiser’s OB-GYN department in Oakland\"]‘We have employees sleeping in their cars because they can’t afford the cost of living. We need a raise. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area will soon be home to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962612/its-time-bay-area-sports-fans-buzzing-over-possibility-of-warriors-adding-wnba-team\">WNBA’s first new team in over a decade\u003c/a>, officials from the league announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new professional women’s basketball team is set to begin playing games at Chase Center beginning in 2025. It will be part of the Golden State Warriors franchise, but the team’s official name and brand has yet to be confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Joe Lacob, co-executive chairman and CEO, Golden State Warriors\"]‘Women’s basketball and women’s sports in general have had a big upswing that’s different than it was five or 10 years ago.’[/pullquote]“We have been interested in a WNBA franchise for several years, due in part to the rich history of women’s basketball in the Bay Area, and believe now is the ideal time to execute that vision and build upon the legacy,” said Warriors Co-Executive Chairman and CEO Joe Lacob in a press announcement on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the team will play its games at the San Francisco Warriors facility, their practice venue and business operations headquarters will be at the Warriors’ Oakland facility, where the men’s team practiced from 1997–2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://wnba.com/goldenstate\">Season tickets\u003c/a> for the new WNBA team’s 2025 season are already available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it will still be many months before the team fills its 12 roster spots and nails down a timeline for practices. After the WNBA finals, which kick off this weekend, the league will have a draft lottery followed by an expansion draft to pull in more players to the league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to reporters on Thursday, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert called the Bay Area a “hub for women’s sports,” citing successful collegiate programs at Stanford, UC Berkeley and the University of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is partially to give new opportunities to that next generation coming out of the NCAA,” Engelbert said at Thursday’s press conference. “The depth of the talent in this league has never been better. This is a very good problem to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commissioner confirmed rumors that the WNBA is looking to add a 14th team by 2025, and that she has had conversations with leaders in Denver, Portland, Toronto, Sacramento and Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed celebrated the new team alongside the commissioner and Warriors executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just one step further to making sure that the public understands and realizes the value of San Francisco,” Breed told reporters. “It’s a beacon of hope for the next generation and a big step forward for women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basketball fans and local government leaders have long been pushing for the WNBA team. In September 2022, Oakland’s Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan introduced a resolution urging the league to make Oakland the home for its newest team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao was invited but could not attend Thursday’s press conference, according to Brandon Schneider, chief operating officer for the Warriors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The WNBA team joins a growing list of women’s sports teams in the Bay Area, including the recently-launched second-tier women’s soccer team, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandsoulsc.com/\">Oakland Soul\u003c/a>, and a professional women’s soccer team, \u003ca href=\"https://bayfc.com/\">Bay FC\u003c/a>, which will begin playing in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the NFL Raiders left Oakland in 2019 and the city’s baseball team, the A’s, have expressed intentions to leave as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"wnba, sports\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]“We’re the Bay’s team,” Schneider said Thursday at the press briefing when pressed about the organization’s presence in Oakland. “We will have one of the best practice facilities in the WNBA,” in Oakland, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area expansion will be the WNBA’s 13th team and marks the league’s first expansion since 2008 with the Atlanta Dream. The Bay Area has never had a professional women’s basketball team, and Sacramento’s WNBA team, the Monarchs, folded in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials did not disclose exactly how much the franchise expansion cost to secure, but Engelbert said more than any deal in the league’s nearly 26-year history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women’s basketball and women’s sports in general have had a big upswing that’s different than it was five or 10 years ago,” Lacob told reporters at a press conference. “It’s a very different time. The league is poised to take off in a different way. We are ready, they are ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women’s basketball saw record-breaking viewership in the 2023 regular season. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly 23,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963308/kaiser-strike-if-youre-a-patient-what-medical-services-would-be-affected\">Kaiser Permanente\u003c/a> X-ray operators, surgical technicians, nursing assistants and other health care workers in the Bay Area began striking Wednesday morning as contract negotiations continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have committed to a three-day strike,” said Timothy Regan, a Kaiser health educator of 25 years who was picketing outside the San Francisco Medical Center before dawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees will be striking across the Bay Area from Wednesday until 6 a.m. on Saturday, including at Kaiser hospitals in Oakland, Antioch, Fremont, Manteca, Redwood City, Richmond, San Francisco, South San Francisco, San José, Santa Clara, Santa Rosa, Vallejo and Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Kaiser workers are pushing for increased staffing and pay increases to prevent burnout after millions of health care workers left their jobs during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963407\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11963407 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people hold signs in front of a large modern looking building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser workers strike in front of the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023 \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lily Young, Kaiser member\"]‘I support the workers and their right to unionize, the right to get fair wages and get compensation, most certainly. But the reality is that it does have an impact on patients.’[/pullquote]“Short staffing is the biggest thing that affects patient care and quality of care,” Edith Hurtado, a medical assistant at Kaiser, told KQED while picketing outside the San Francisco facility on Wednesday. “Patients have a long wait period or [are] not getting the care they need and have to wait for a medication or injection. The quality of patient care does diminish when we don’t have a full staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the three-day strike is expected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963152/looming-kaiser-strike-could-delay-covid-flu-shots\">exacerbate vaccine wait times\u003c/a> for many patients at Kaiser, which serves more than 9.4 million people across California and is one of the largest private employers in the state. Non-emergency health services including elective surgeries have been rescheduled at some locations as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some laboratory, radiology and optical locations may be closed or operating at reduced hours during the strike, a spokesperson for Kaiser told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting vaccines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lily Young has been struggling to find a booster shot for her two young children at her local Kaiser facilities in Sacramento. The strike has made her feel “very nervous” about their ability to get vaccinated before a scheduled trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About half of my friends are Kaiser members and we are all just scrambling and trying to get these COVID shots,” said Young. “I support the workers and their right to unionize, the right to get fair wages and get compensation, most certainly. But the reality is that it does have an impact on patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963445\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11963445 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser workers strike in front of the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023 \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Employees like Hurtado, who is also a Kaiser patient, said they hope the strike will put pressure on executives to improve conditions for workers, and by extension, patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a patient here. My family are patients here. We want better quality care and full staffing,” she said. “We’re here to fight not only for us as health care workers, but for our patients as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Kaiser received its supply of COVID-19 doses in the last two weeks and currently is only accepting walk-ins. But for kids 11 and younger, an immunization appointment must be scheduled online, according to \u003ca href=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/ncal/covid-19-vaccine-locations/\">the health care provider’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other retail pharmacies are gearing up to provide additional shots while the strike is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Places like Walgreens will accept Kaiser insurance for vaccines and offer free shots to people who are uninsured. But some clinics charge a steep fee, and not all accept Kaiser insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Young tried to get a COVID-19 vaccine at her local Rite Aid, she was told that Kaiser was no longer reimbursing shots there. The pharmacy said the out-of-pocket cost for the shot was $190. She decided to wait it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did try to make an online appointment, and there’s just nothing available,” Young told KQED. “Now I’m just at the mercy of Kaiser to hopefully get myself, my husband, my 4-year-old and my 9-month-old vaccinated and they have been historically really slow with vaccinations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent union survey of employees showed nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2022-04_Report_Staffing-Survey-10.1_DIGITAL.pdf?emci=11db37e0-b5df-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=%7B%7BContactsEmailID%7D%7D\">65% of respondents have seen patients’ care delayed or denied (PDF)\u003c/a> due to recent staffing shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963406\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11963406 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg\" alt='A person holds up a sign that reads \"Kaiser Workers on ULP Strike.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jones strikes at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve caught COVID twice and I still work for Kaiser. I put my life to risk coming to work,” Michael Jones, a Kaiser medical assistant who works with autistic children, told KQED outside Oakland Medical Center on Wednesday. “For Kaiser to say they can find other workers who don’t care, that they’ll find other workers who are better and cheaper, that’s a slap in the face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wage increases for staff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Close to 75,000 Kaiser workers in California — as well as in Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C. — are now demanding their employer to increase staffing and are pushing for a 6.5% wage increase in the first two years of this next contract, and a 5.75% increase the following two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees are also seeking to raise the minimum wage across the board to $26 by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grover Woods, who works in the operating room at Kaiser in Oakland, said workers like him “are overworked and underpaid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inflation is going all the way up, everything is high. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Short staffing is the biggest thing that affects patient care and quality of care,” Edith Hurtado, a medical assistant at Kaiser, told KQED while picketing outside the San Francisco facility on Wednesday. “Patients have a long wait period or [are] not getting the care they need and have to wait for a medication or injection. The quality of patient care does diminish when we don’t have a full staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the three-day strike is expected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963152/looming-kaiser-strike-could-delay-covid-flu-shots\">exacerbate vaccine wait times\u003c/a> for many patients at Kaiser, which serves more than 9.4 million people across California and is one of the largest private employers in the state. Non-emergency health services including elective surgeries have been rescheduled at some locations as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some laboratory, radiology and optical locations may be closed or operating at reduced hours during the strike, a spokesperson for Kaiser told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting vaccines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lily Young has been struggling to find a booster shot for her two young children at her local Kaiser facilities in Sacramento. The strike has made her feel “very nervous” about their ability to get vaccinated before a scheduled trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About half of my friends are Kaiser members and we are all just scrambling and trying to get these COVID shots,” said Young. “I support the workers and their right to unionize, the right to get fair wages and get compensation, most certainly. But the reality is that it does have an impact on patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963445\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11963445 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser workers strike in front of the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023 \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Employees like Hurtado, who is also a Kaiser patient, said they hope the strike will put pressure on executives to improve conditions for workers, and by extension, patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a patient here. My family are patients here. We want better quality care and full staffing,” she said. “We’re here to fight not only for us as health care workers, but for our patients as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers across six states, including California, plan to strike beginning Oct. 4 if ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961243/california-kaiser-workers-authorize-strike-as-contract-negotiations-continue\">contract negotiations\u003c/a> don’t result in an agreement very soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impending strike, which could be the largest health care strike in U.S. history, would impact nearly 68,000 employees in California — ranging from optometrists to emergency room technicians and housekeeping workers — for at least three days. While Kaiser is prepared to continue most health services, a strike could impact some care needs, including COVID vaccines and flu shots, Kaiser representatives told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be some disruption to care that’s not urgent,” Janet Coffman, professor at the Healthforce Center at UCSF, told KQED. “The bigger issue is how long the strike will be. If it goes beyond three days, then I think we are looking at more disruptions and more difficulties for people to get the COVID-19 vaccine and other care services they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, employees represented by Kaiser’s coalition of labor unions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961243/california-kaiser-workers-authorize-strike-as-contract-negotiations-continue\">overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike\u003c/a> if a deal was not reached by Sept. 30, when their contract expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Savonnda Blaylock, Kaiser pharmacy technician\"]‘We are suffering. We have had a lot of people leave during and after the pandemic. Unfortunately, those physicians have not been replaced and we don’t know if they will ever be replaced.’[/pullquote]The Coalition began bargaining in April. As of Oct. 2, a new contract had not yet been reached and negotiations are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting Wednesday, Kaiser employees plan to picket outside facilities across the Bay Area, including in Antioch, Fremont, Oakland, Richmond, Redwood City, San Francisco, South San Francisco, San José, San Leandro, Santa Clara, Walnut Creek, Vacaville, Manteca, Roseville, Santa Rosa and Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understaffing and wages are two issues Kaiser workers say they are most concerned about as negotiations continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savonnda Blaylock, a pharmacy technician at Kaiser in Tracy, helps order flu and COVID vaccines for her facility. But due to staffing shortages, she said patients already face delays in order to receive shots that they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are suffering. We have had a lot of people leave during and after the pandemic. 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He pledged to shoot robbers as they leave stores if he becomes president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The word that ‘they shoot you’ will get out within minutes and our nation in one day will be an entirely different place. There must be retribution for theft and destruction and the ruination of our country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting the loyalty of Trump’s base here, Gary-Pandol said she wasn’t offended by the former president’s blunt and sometimes violent rhetoric — though she did acknowledge she disagrees with Trump that robbers should be shot immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say that I agree with that, but I do agree that crime needs to be illegal again and we need to enforce our laws. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Follow live ongoing coverage: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies\">Senator Dianne Feinstein dies at 90: Live Updates\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein, a champion of gun control who broke glass ceilings for women in local, state and national politics, died Thursday night, KQED has confirmed. She was 90 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, Senator Feinstein passed away last night at her home in Washington, D.C.,” Feinstein’s chief of staff James Sauls wrote in a statement Friday. “Her passing is a great loss for so many, from those who loved and cared for her to the people of California that she dedicated her life to serving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein was elected to the U.S. Senate from California in 1992 on a wave of support for female candidates nationwide known as the “Year of the Woman” and went on to become the longest serving U.S. Senator in California history. But her rise in politics began in 1978 when the city was jolted by two assassinations at City Hall. As president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, it was left to Feinstein to announce the stunning news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing before a crowd of reporters outside the mayor’s office in San Francisco City Hall on November 27, 1978 — long before news traveled around the world instantaneously — Feinstein’s announcement was delivered with both anguish and self-control, an image that would define her political reputation as a strong leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946694\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 683px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404.jpg 683w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianne Feinstein bows her head for a moment of silence in memory of slain Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, just before the supervisors meeting on the day of the killings, Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Jerry Telfer/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk have been shot and killed,” she said as cries of shock and dismay rang out. “The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes earlier, Feinstein found Milk’s body down the hall from her office. It was a day seared into her memory. “I remember leaning over his body. … this is San Francisco, how can this be? How can this be? But it was,” Feinstein \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701374/i-get-things-done-dianne-feinstein-on-her-history-political-style-and-the-future-of-compromise-in-the-senate\">recounted to KQED in 2018.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon Mayor George Moscone’s death, Feinstein became mayor — a job she held for nearly a decade, first as acting mayor before being elected twice to full four-year terms. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — a longtime political ally of hers — said Feinstein’s handling of the assassinations crisis cemented her reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a dramatic demonstration of how, in the face of total and complete disaster, somebody could stand up to settle the ship,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s really a healer,” said Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman in 2023 after Feinstein announced her retirement from the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wunderman, who worked for Feinstein at City Hall when she was mayor, said “she first and foremost sees the opportunities to be able to bring people together in very difficult situations to solve extremely challenging problems. And she doesn’t shy away from it. You know, she kind of runs at the problem rather than running away from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman in a red suit dress speaks at a press conference.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-160x113.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) speaks as Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) looks on at a news conference on gun control at the US Capitol June 20, 2016 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Feinstein governed from the center — winning support from business groups, law enforcement unions and the city’s more moderate-to-conservative voters. In a 2001 interview with C-SPAN, Feinstein attributed her political philosophy to her upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother was a Democrat. My father was a Goldwater Republican. So we had a split family. It made for some very interesting dinner conversations,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Goldman was born in San Francisco in 1933, the oldest of three girls. Her father Leon Goldman was a surgeon and her mother, Betty, was a Russian immigrant who worked as a model. She did not have a particularly happy childhood. Years later Feinstein recounted how her mother would fly into fits of alcohol-fueled rage.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dianne Feinstein\"]‘You have to rise from your own ashes. You have to learn in the process. And you have to really care. Really care that the government serves the people. That the government is honest. And I really believe that to my depth.’[/pullquote]Feinstein graduated from Stanford University in 1955 after studying political science. She eloped with her first husband, attorney Jack Berman, but they soon divorced. The two had a daughter, Katherine, who took the name of Feinstein’s second husband Bert Feinstein, who died of cancer in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein’s first foray into elected office came in 1969 when she ran a successful campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. By then she had established policy credentials as a member of state and local boards focused on criminal justice issues. In a crowded field of candidates, Feinstein finished first and became the first woman to be president of the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein tried to parlay that early success into higher office, running for mayor of San Francisco in 1971. She came in third. In 1973 she once again became president of the board of supervisors after topping the field. Two years later she waged a second campaign for mayor, but once again finished a disappointing third in an election that was eventually won by State Senator George Moscone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1978, just hours before the City Hall assassinations, Feinstein mentioned that she was thinking of leaving politics altogether. The murders changed everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Feinstein focused largely on the nuts and bolts of running a city. She took a hands-on interest in the workings of local government, regularly showing up at major fires and monitoring police radio calls. When the city’s renowned but aging cable cars were faced with extinction, Feinstein successfully rallied the business community to raise funds to refurbish them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then the AIDS epidemic was ravaging her city. The federal government under President Ronald Reagan mostly ignored it. As a young physician at San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Paul Volberding often briefed Mayor Feinstein on what was needed to fight the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t recall any moment in the early epidemic when I was told, ‘No, we can’t do that because we don’t have the resources.’ And that really goes to her leadership and a great credit to her,” said Volberding, who has since retired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1984, San Francisco hosted the Democratic National Convention. Feinstein landed on the cover of \u003cem>Time Magazine\u003c/em>, making the short list to become presidential nominee Walter Mondale’s running mate, a position that ultimately went to Geraldine Ferraro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946698\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204.jpg\" alt='A white woman speaks to supporters at a convention with signs around her that read \"Dianne\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianne Feinstein, then mayor of San Francisco, addresses the Democratic National Convention. She would be elected to the Senate in November of 1992. \u003ccite>(Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1990, after leaving the mayor’s office, Feinstein ran for governor. She won the Democratic primary but lost narrowly in November to Republican U.S. Senator Pete Wilson. But a year later, the political climate changed with the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When law professor Anita Hill accused Thomas of sexual misconduct when they worked together, the Judiciary Committee questioned Hill’s integrity and motivation, as did Democratic Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you a scorned woman? Do you have a militant attitude relative to the area of civil rights?” Heflin said in one of many out-of-touch comments by senators that infuriated women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein used those widely criticized hearings as a springboard to the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people took a look at that all-male Judiciary Committee and frankly felt they badly botched the job,” Feinstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaigning for the Senate in San Diego in 1992, Feinstein championed legislation to codify a woman’s right to an abortion into federal law.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11941047,news_11941247,news_11942511\"]“The Congress must pass it and the president must sign it. And if he vetoes it, we must override that veto,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein rode the moment to victory, part of a wave that tripled the number of women in the U.S. Senate from two to six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, she championed gun control, overcoming stiff odds to pass a federal ban on assault weapons in 1994. Later that year she almost lost reelection to a self-funded millionaire, Michael Huffington, a Republican member of Congress from Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, D.C., Feinstein developed a reputation as a workhorse, someone who did her homework and wasn’t afraid to rock the boat. She sponsored the Desert Protection Act, which successfully protected 9.6 million acres of open space in California, creating among other things the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her career Feinstein had to deal with men who underestimated and talked down to her. In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence in 2013, Feinstein chastised Texas Senator Ted Cruz who belittled her understanding of guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a sixth grader. Senator, I’ve been on this committee for 20 years. I was a mayor for nine years. I walked in. I saw people shot. I’ve looked at bodies that have been shot with these weapons,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, over objections from the Obama administration, she took to the Senate floor to release a comprehensive report on torture by the CIA following the 9/11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman in a red suit opens her arms to embrace an African American man in a blue suit on a runway.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Barack Obama is greeted by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) upon arriving at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, on Nov. 25, 2013. \u003ccite>(JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Releasing this report is an important step to restore our values and show the world that we are, in fact, a just and lawful society,” Feinstein said on the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 500-page summary report by the Senate Intelligence Committee Feinstein chaired revealed in stark detail CIA mistreatment of prisoners, things like waterboarding and sleep deprivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Blanton, who heads the National Security Archive at George Washington University, says the investigation Feinstein directed made the intelligence community accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the Senate torture report was probably the high point of Senator Feinstein’s entire Senate career,” Blanton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman smiles while surrounded by journalists holding microphones to her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with reporters after sharing a report on the CIA and its torture methods, Dec. 9, 2014. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite that leadership, Feinstein was often regarded as too conservative, especially for the Democratic Party, especially in California. And the election of Donald Trump in 2016 put Feinstein’s brand of bipartisanship even further out of step within her own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the summer of 2017 Trump’s pattern of lies and racist comments was well established. During an onstage interview at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, when Feinstein was asked about how Democrats should deal with Trump, her response triggered audible gasps in the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, this man is going to be president most likely for the rest of this term. I just hope he has the ability to learn. And if he does, he can be a good president. And that’s my hope,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her comments prompted critics to say that Feinstein was hopelessly out of touch with her state, which voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947243\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947243\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with a pink blazer jacket and red scarf seated in front of a microphone with a middle aged in a shirt and tie standing but bent over beside her saying something into a microphone.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) during recordings at the KQED studios for tapings of KQED Newsroom and Political Breakdown on Oct. 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democrats who hoped Feinstein would step aside for a new generation of candidates were disappointed — even angry — when she sought and won another six-year term in 2018 at the age of 85. During her final term in office it was clear to many that Feinstein was not fully up to the task of representing 40 million Californians in the U.S. Media reports detailed concern among her colleagues that Feinstein, who was once a formidable presence in Washington, was losing her short-term memory and her effectiveness as a Senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this year, a serious bout of shingles forced Feinstein to miss nearly a hundred votes while she recovered at home in San Francisco. When she returned to Washington three months later, she appeared even more frail with lingering side effects from shingles that limited her ability to work. Feinstein might have hoped her return to work would silence calls for her to resign, but her obviously diminished state only fueled concerns that she was unable to do the job. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former aide Jim Lazarus believes her reasons for staying in office, rather than enjoying retirement, were intensely personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t think she could see what else to do on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. She felt well enough and alert enough and strong enough to serve,” Lazarus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2001 interview with CSPAN, Feinstein compared herself to the city’s symbol of resilience — the phoenix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to rise from your own ashes. You have to learn in the process. And you have to really care. Really care that the government serves the people. That the government is honest. And I really believe that to my depth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947240\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with a blue dress suit seen from the right profile, waist up.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) leaves the Senate Chamber following a vote in the US Capitol on Feb. 14, 2023 in Washington, DC, the day Feinstein announced that she will not seek reelection in 2024. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Feinstein’s most enduring legacy may be that she opened more doors for women in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malia Cohen, who served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors before becoming State Controller in 2022, remembers meeting Feinstein at City Hall on a third grade field trip, where Feinstein told her class one of \u003cem>them\u003c/em> could be mayor one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that I’m standing on her shoulders. And I wouldn’t be here without her leadership,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some Democrats felt Feinstein was too moderate and stayed in office too long, she’ll also be remembered as a woman who led her city through moments of extraordinary grief and crises, and became an effective champion for important national issues in the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Follow live ongoing coverage: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies\">Senator Dianne Feinstein dies at 90: Live Updates\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein, a champion of gun control who broke glass ceilings for women in local, state and national politics, died Thursday night, KQED has confirmed. She was 90 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, Senator Feinstein passed away last night at her home in Washington, D.C.,” Feinstein’s chief of staff James Sauls wrote in a statement Friday. “Her passing is a great loss for so many, from those who loved and cared for her to the people of California that she dedicated her life to serving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein was elected to the U.S. Senate from California in 1992 on a wave of support for female candidates nationwide known as the “Year of the Woman” and went on to become the longest serving U.S. Senator in California history. But her rise in politics began in 1978 when the city was jolted by two assassinations at City Hall. As president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, it was left to Feinstein to announce the stunning news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing before a crowd of reporters outside the mayor’s office in San Francisco City Hall on November 27, 1978 — long before news traveled around the world instantaneously — Feinstein’s announcement was delivered with both anguish and self-control, an image that would define her political reputation as a strong leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946694\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 683px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404.jpg 683w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianne Feinstein bows her head for a moment of silence in memory of slain Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, just before the supervisors meeting on the day of the killings, Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Jerry Telfer/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk have been shot and killed,” she said as cries of shock and dismay rang out. “The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes earlier, Feinstein found Milk’s body down the hall from her office. It was a day seared into her memory. “I remember leaning over his body. … this is San Francisco, how can this be? How can this be? But it was,” Feinstein \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701374/i-get-things-done-dianne-feinstein-on-her-history-political-style-and-the-future-of-compromise-in-the-senate\">recounted to KQED in 2018.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon Mayor George Moscone’s death, Feinstein became mayor — a job she held for nearly a decade, first as acting mayor before being elected twice to full four-year terms. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — a longtime political ally of hers — said Feinstein’s handling of the assassinations crisis cemented her reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a dramatic demonstration of how, in the face of total and complete disaster, somebody could stand up to settle the ship,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s really a healer,” said Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman in 2023 after Feinstein announced her retirement from the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wunderman, who worked for Feinstein at City Hall when she was mayor, said “she first and foremost sees the opportunities to be able to bring people together in very difficult situations to solve extremely challenging problems. And she doesn’t shy away from it. You know, she kind of runs at the problem rather than running away from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman in a red suit dress speaks at a press conference.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-160x113.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) speaks as Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The Congress must pass it and the president must sign it. And if he vetoes it, we must override that veto,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein rode the moment to victory, part of a wave that tripled the number of women in the U.S. Senate from two to six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, she championed gun control, overcoming stiff odds to pass a federal ban on assault weapons in 1994. Later that year she almost lost reelection to a self-funded millionaire, Michael Huffington, a Republican member of Congress from Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, D.C., Feinstein developed a reputation as a workhorse, someone who did her homework and wasn’t afraid to rock the boat. She sponsored the Desert Protection Act, which successfully protected 9.6 million acres of open space in California, creating among other things the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her career Feinstein had to deal with men who underestimated and talked down to her. In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence in 2013, Feinstein chastised Texas Senator Ted Cruz who belittled her understanding of guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a sixth grader. Senator, I’ve been on this committee for 20 years. I was a mayor for nine years. I walked in. I saw people shot. I’ve looked at bodies that have been shot with these weapons,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, over objections from the Obama administration, she took to the Senate floor to release a comprehensive report on torture by the CIA following the 9/11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman in a red suit opens her arms to embrace an African American man in a blue suit on a runway.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Barack Obama is greeted by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) upon arriving at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, on Nov. 25, 2013. \u003ccite>(JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Releasing this report is an important step to restore our values and show the world that we are, in fact, a just and lawful society,” Feinstein said on the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 500-page summary report by the Senate Intelligence Committee Feinstein chaired revealed in stark detail CIA mistreatment of prisoners, things like waterboarding and sleep deprivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Blanton, who heads the National Security Archive at George Washington University, says the investigation Feinstein directed made the intelligence community accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the Senate torture report was probably the high point of Senator Feinstein’s entire Senate career,” Blanton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman smiles while surrounded by journalists holding microphones to her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with reporters after sharing a report on the CIA and its torture methods, Dec. 9, 2014. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite that leadership, Feinstein was often regarded as too conservative, especially for the Democratic Party, especially in California. And the election of Donald Trump in 2016 put Feinstein’s brand of bipartisanship even further out of step within her own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the summer of 2017 Trump’s pattern of lies and racist comments was well established. During an onstage interview at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, when Feinstein was asked about how Democrats should deal with Trump, her response triggered audible gasps in the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, this man is going to be president most likely for the rest of this term. I just hope he has the ability to learn. And if he does, he can be a good president. And that’s my hope,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her comments prompted critics to say that Feinstein was hopelessly out of touch with her state, which voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947243\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947243\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with a pink blazer jacket and red scarf seated in front of a microphone with a middle aged in a shirt and tie standing but bent over beside her saying something into a microphone.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) during recordings at the KQED studios for tapings of KQED Newsroom and Political Breakdown on Oct. 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democrats who hoped Feinstein would step aside for a new generation of candidates were disappointed — even angry — when she sought and won another six-year term in 2018 at the age of 85. During her final term in office it was clear to many that Feinstein was not fully up to the task of representing 40 million Californians in the U.S. Media reports detailed concern among her colleagues that Feinstein, who was once a formidable presence in Washington, was losing her short-term memory and her effectiveness as a Senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this year, a serious bout of shingles forced Feinstein to miss nearly a hundred votes while she recovered at home in San Francisco. When she returned to Washington three months later, she appeared even more frail with lingering side effects from shingles that limited her ability to work. Feinstein might have hoped her return to work would silence calls for her to resign, but her obviously diminished state only fueled concerns that she was unable to do the job. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former aide Jim Lazarus believes her reasons for staying in office, rather than enjoying retirement, were intensely personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t think she could see what else to do on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. She felt well enough and alert enough and strong enough to serve,” Lazarus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2001 interview with CSPAN, Feinstein compared herself to the city’s symbol of resilience — the phoenix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to rise from your own ashes. You have to learn in the process. And you have to really care. Really care that the government serves the people. That the government is honest. And I really believe that to my depth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947240\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with a blue dress suit seen from the right profile, waist up.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) leaves the Senate Chamber following a vote in the US Capitol on Feb. 14, 2023 in Washington, DC, the day Feinstein announced that she will not seek reelection in 2024. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Feinstein’s most enduring legacy may be that she opened more doors for women in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malia Cohen, who served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors before becoming State Controller in 2022, remembers meeting Feinstein at City Hall on a third grade field trip, where Feinstein told her class one of \u003cem>them\u003c/em> could be mayor one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that I’m standing on her shoulders. And I wouldn’t be here without her leadership,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some Democrats felt Feinstein was too moderate and stayed in office too long, she’ll also be remembered as a woman who led her city through moments of extraordinary grief and crises, and became an effective champion for important national issues in the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Few corners of the U.S. may be less hospitable to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> than California, where he lost by more than 5 million votes in the 2020 election. But as the former president seeks to return to the White House, the state may give him an unlikely boost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state GOP rule change has opened the possibility that Trump could sweep each of the state’s 169 delegates on March 5, when California is among more than a dozen states participating in the so-called \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-republicans-desantis-trump-super-tuesday-297403b2df67925ecb2b53b4b0c50b85\">Super Tuesday\u003c/a> contests. With Trump already \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/video/new-york-city-joe-biden-2020-united-states-presidential-election-michael-pence-mike-pence-1f1960ffc6594fac895bdb153d8d636b\">leading his rivals\u003c/a> in many state and national polls, a dominant performance in California could move him much closer to the GOP nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This race is quickly consolidating,” said GOP fundraiser Charles Moran, a Trump delegate in 2016 and 2020. With a win in California, he added, “I truly think Trump could take the nomination on Super Tuesday — then this is over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/election-2024\">less than four months\u003c/a> before the Iowa caucuses officially kick off the GOP nomination process, the dynamics of the race could still change. But Trump is keeping a close eye on the state. While Trump is skipping the debate, he has made sure to be in California on Friday to appear at the state’s GOP convention, where many of the people who will ultimately serve as delegates will be in attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what would be an ironic twist, the state where the former president is widely loathed outside his conservative base could help him tighten his grip on the Republican White House nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, who is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-investigations-other-charges-b8b064a00caad4306fb54d2f6a320468\">facing criminal charges\u003c/a> in four separate cases, has long had a conflicted relationship with California, the nation’s most populous state, where Democrats haven’t lost a statewide election since 2006 and outnumber registered Republicans by about 2-to-1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was home to the so-called \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/218628ed691e4ae39d3c85be781db511\">Trump resistance\u003c/a> during his time in office, and Trump often depicts California as representing all he sees wrong in America. As president, he called the homeless crises in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other big cities disgraceful, and threatened to intercede — faulting the “liberal establishment” for what he described as a “terrible situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He berated state Democrats who supported funding health care for some adults who entered the U.S. illegally, and challenged California’s authority to reduce car emissions. Then-state Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed more than 50 lawsuits against the Trump administration, targeting initiatives on immigration, health care and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles sits on the Pacific coast south of the city. And even in losing California in a landslide in 2020, Trump received over 6 million votes — more than any Republican presidential candidate before him — with his margins topping 70% in some rural counties that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889147/almost-like-two-states-recall-results-highlight-californias-geopolitical-divisions\">typically favor conservative candidates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former president was conspicuously absent — once again — for the second Republican \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/republican-second-presidential-debate-2024-46ce9209b5150d577d5ff361522f6bed\">presidential debate on Wednesday night\u003c/a>, held near his golf course, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and attended by seven of his GOP rivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-2024-election-president-republican-debate-5ecec325ce60121bf38a94b63c1dd388\">who was in San Francisco on Wednesday raising campaign cash\u003c/a>, has been increasingly calling out Trump by name and referring to him as his “likely opponent” in 2024, signaling a likely rematch from four years earlier and warning of what he sees as major dangers to the nation if he is not reelected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California will probably be an afterthought in November 2024 — the state’s lopsided electorate makes it a virtual lock for Democrats on Election Day. You’d have to go back to 2000 to find a Republican nominee pushing hard to win California, when George W. Bush invested millions in the state then lost to Democrat Al Gore by 12 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the rule change, a Republican presidential candidate who pulls in more than 50% of the primary vote would be awarded all 169 delegates. If no candidate hits that threshold, delegates will be awarded proportionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a winner-take-all rule didn’t exist in recent presidential elections in the state. Previously, the California GOP primary amounted to dozens of separate races on a single day — one in each congressional district across the sprawling state, and then one statewide. The winner in each district collected three delegates; the candidate who received the largest number of votes statewide claimed a bonus of about a dozen more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That created a competitive environment where Democratic Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a>’s district in San Francisco awarded the same number of GOP delegates as a rural, conservative heartland district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the change was adopted in late July, state party Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson predicted it would lure GOP presidential candidates to California to campaign, drive turnout and make the state relevant in picking the party’s 2024 nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others believe it has had the opposite effect, stifling competition in a state where buying media advertising across half a dozen markets comes at a huge, prohibitive cost. The vastness of the state, home to nearly 1-in-8 Americans, makes it hard to get to all the regions. The \u003ca href=\"https://bakersfieldnow.com/amp/news/local/once-forgotten-a-california-primary-could-sway-2016-contest\">previous guidelines\u003c/a> encouraged candidates to target specific districts — now, one candidate can collect them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The effect of the change has been to effectively terminate the Republican primary in California,” said conservative activist Jon Fleishman, a former executive director of the state GOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state party — strongly influenced by House Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/apnews.com/hub/kevin-mccarthy\">Kevin McCarthy\u003c/a> of Bakersfield, a Trump loyalist — “shifted everything to help Donald Trump,” Fleishman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sign of the fallout, a super PAC supporting Florida Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/ron-desantis\">Ron DeSantis\u003c/a>, Never Back Down, recently curtailed operations in California. The committee says it had knocked on over 100,000 doors over several months but has shifted its focus elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump team came in to rig the rules in their favor,” Ken Cuccinelli, who was deputy secretary of Homeland Security during the Trump administration and founded the PAC, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"politics, Trump\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Similar rule changes seen as benefiting the Trump campaign are \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-2024-nevada-republicans-43adbee9a837d17decdd5c6d0dcb79a9\">playing out elsewhere\u003c/a>, including in Michigan and Nevada, where some GOP leaders fear changing guidelines could confuse voters. The California rules are expected to be challenged at a state party convention next week, though reversing course is seen as unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody is seriously trying to repeal it,” said longtime conservative activist Steve Frank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home turf of former Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, California was once reliably Republican in presidential elections. Pronounced demographic shifts, particularly a boom in the Hispanic population, and a shifting economy that included the collapse of the defense industry, changed everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of Hispanics, Blacks and Asian Americans combined has outnumbered whites in California since 1998, and Latinos alone have outnumbered the white population for about a decade. Most new voters are Democrats or left-leaning independents. Democrats hold every statewide office and dominate the Legislature and the congressional delegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Republican Party has been in decline for years, and GOP voters account for just 23.8% of the statewide total, slightly ahead of independents. Infighting between conservatives and moderates persists, and dueling factions are expected to brawl at the state party convention over a proposed rewrite of the party platform, moving it toward the political center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last Republican to win a presidential contest in California was George H.W. Bush, in 1988. Since then, it’s been a long string of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-road-to-270-gops-california-dream-has-long-proven-2016jun20-story.html\">Election Day misery\u003c/a>: John McCain, the 2008 GOP nominee against Barack Obama, boasted about competing in California but lost by 24 points. Mitt Romney suffered a 23-point loss to Obama in 2012. Trump lost there to Hillary Clinton in 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2016-general/sov/17-presidential-formatted.pdf\">by 30 points (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, pockets of Republican strength remain, including in the vast Central Valley farm belt and the so-called Inland Empire running east and north of Los Angeles. Despite his penchant for California-bashing, \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2020-general/sov/18-presidential.pdf\">Trump won 23\u003c/a> of the state’s 58 counties in 2020, mostly in the state’s farm belt and rural interior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the primary is over, California’s relevance may lie in a string of competitive House seats, including several in Orange County southeast of Los Angeles, which are expected to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-house-2024-election-b6211c2fa126ad6c422c174c309a9da7\">play into control\u003c/a> of the closely divided chamber next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The state’s 116 community colleges lost more than 13,000 students between the ages of 20 and 30 last year, about a 2% decline in that population compared to the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/15153595/embed#?secret=63WRe3iOG5\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a demographic shift across the community college system. For over a decade, it was students between 20 and 30 years old who made up the plurality of students on campus. Last year, it was students under 20 who represented the largest group. These youth, particularly those in high school, have become central to the strategy of California Community College Chancellor Sonya Christian, who has said she wants to require \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/enroll-every-9th-grader-in-a-college-course-says-californias-incoming-community-college-chancellor/691065\">every ninth-grader in California to enroll in a community college course\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Low unemployment means low enrollment for some colleges\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Administrators say there is no single explanation as to why this generation of twentysomethings is lagging behind the rest. For one, the age group isn’t monolithic, and students with different racial or ethnic backgrounds showed differing trends. The population of Asian and Filipino students in their 20s declined by 6% and 12%, respectively, while the number of African American and Native students in the same age group increased by a few percentage points compared to the previous year. Another possible explanation comes from a recent survey of the state’s community college students, which found that \u003ca href=\"https://ccleague.org/sites/default/files/images/basic_needs_among_california_community_college_students-final-2023.pdf?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=d3f14c6de2-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-d3f14c6de2-151973567&mc_cid=d3f14c6de2&mc_eid=cafd8c3942\">roughly one-third of students between the ages of 21 and 30 had experienced homelessness in the past year (PDF)\u003c/a> — a higher rate than any other age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most college administrators agree that the economy is often a leading factor. Historically, \u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/easyblog/why-enrollment-declined-what-can-we-do.html\">college enrollment fluctuates with the economy\u003c/a>. A good economy and ample job opportunities mean students often choose work over school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing increased wages in occupations that don’t require a bachelor’s or an associate degree,” said Don Miller, vice president of academic affairs at Rio Hondo College, located near Whittier in eastern Los Angeles County. He cited rising wages in the service industry, such as at Starbucks, as well as for entry-level openings at logistics companies, such as Amazon or UPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logistics in particular has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/pushed-by-pandemic-amazon-goes-on-a-hiring-spree-without-equal.html\">a boost in hiring and wages since the start of the pandemic\u003c/a> as more people shifted to online shopping. New shipping warehouses opened in the Inland Empire, making Amazon the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/magazine/amazon-workers-employees-covid-19.html#:~:text=Nowhere%20in%20the,logistics%20air%20hubs\">largest private employer in the region\u003c/a>, and some Central Valley cities are close behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962569\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11962569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"External view of Amazon building with blue sky in the background. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon SMF1 facility in Sacramento on Sept. 25, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At East Los Angeles College, logistics and technology professor Leo Medina said his classes, which prepare students to work at places like Amazon and UPS, used to enroll more than 800 students a year before the pandemic. He lost about a quarter of his students in 2020 but said some are starting to return, often with encouragement or financial incentives from their employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You hit the ceiling if you don’t have a certain amount of education or skill,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerra started out in an entry-level position at Amazon, but after a year working the night shift, she got promoted. First, she became a data analyst and then an operations supervisor, where she made about $22 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, her managers at Amazon encouraged her to go back to school. While the company covers tuition, books, and fees for many of its employees, Guerra said she was unsure whether she wanted to go back to school or instead try to advance internally through more promotions. Her mentality changed this spring, when she lost her job and had to search for a new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have all these skills that I’ve learned, but there’s all these jobs that don’t want to hire me because I don’t have a degree,” she said. She found a position as a receptionist at a property management company in Sacramento and plans to enroll in college at some point next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Losing the ‘drive’ for community college\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Community colleges have collectively spent millions of dollars, much of it part of COVID relief funds, to draw back students like Guerra. They run recruitment events at churches, community centers and rodeos. They’ve set up call centers to reach out to students and are plastering billboards \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/08/california-community-colleges-2/\">with eye-catching puns\u003c/a> along highways and on buses. The Sacramento-area community college district flew a drone display in the image of a cap and gown to woo spectators at a professional soccer match. The efficacy of those marketing efforts is up for debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"education, community-college\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]But research has found a few clear trends in college recruitment. Only 13% of students who drop out of college re-enroll in school within five years, according to a\u003ca href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/SCND_Report_2019.pdf\"> 2019 analysis (PDF)\u003c/a> by the National Student Clearinghouse. Once students leave high school and put off going to college, it becomes \u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/delaying-college-enrollment-earnings-trajectories.pdf\">harder to convince them to enroll (PDF)\u003c/a>, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter Garcia, 22, enrolled at Butte College near Chico in the fall of 2019 after seeing a flier that advertised the school. He dropped out in the midst of the pandemic after starting his third semester and soon began working the night shift at a nearby Walmart warehouse. He didn’t feel safe at night near his apartment, and since he didn’t have a car, he walked to work each day around sunset, waiting until 10 p.m. to start his nine-hour shift. After six months, he quit. But by then, he said he felt too isolated and exhausted to restart an online education. “I just lost the drive,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many colleges are rethinking the structure of college: trying to fit school around the student, instead of the traditional model, which asks students to schedule their lives around school. In one of the most innovative approaches, eight community colleges in California have opted into a pilot program that aims to redesign part of their curricula so students can gain a degree \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/09/community-colleges/\">without ever attending class\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most colleges are making simpler changes, such as offering more flexible hours, more online classes and new courses that are more easily applicable in the workforce. One school is offering higher wages for student tutors in an effort to keep them on campus and keep them from seeking higher-paying jobs elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia has no intentions of going back to school in the near future, though he hasn’t ruled it out entirely. He works as a carpenter now, making around $25 an hour, but he says it’s not much easier than his previous job at Walmart. “My body won’t be able to keep up with this forever,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erica Yee contributed to this reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Adam Echelman covers California’s community colleges in partnership with Open Campus, a nonprofit newsroom focused on higher education.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At its lowest point following the start of the pandemic, the California Community Colleges system had lost just over 417,000 students, an 18.5% drop compared to the 2018–19 academic year. That was a 30-year low. The decline means colleges risk losing state funds in the near future, since their funding is pegged in part to enrollment. In the long-term, it means employers may grapple with a less educated or less skilled workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enrollment numbers grew by about 5% in the 2022–23 school year, according to data provided by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. It’s the most recent data available, though numbers are not yet official. Early estimates from various community college districts show enrollment gains continuing into this fall, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that rebound is uneven: it stems largely from high school students who are taking college classes, and to a lesser extent, from adults over 30 who are returning to college after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/06/community-college-enrollment-2/\">leaving at record rates\u003c/a> during the pandemic. Meanwhile, students in their 20s, like Guerra, continued to leave college. The state’s 116 community colleges lost more than 13,000 students between the ages of 20 and 30 last year, about a 2% decline in that population compared to the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/15153595/embed#?secret=63WRe3iOG5\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a demographic shift across the community college system. For over a decade, it was students between 20 and 30 years old who made up the plurality of students on campus. Last year, it was students under 20 who represented the largest group. These youth, particularly those in high school, have become central to the strategy of California Community College Chancellor Sonya Christian, who has said she wants to require \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/enroll-every-9th-grader-in-a-college-course-says-californias-incoming-community-college-chancellor/691065\">every ninth-grader in California to enroll in a community college course\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Low unemployment means low enrollment for some colleges\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Administrators say there is no single explanation as to why this generation of twentysomethings is lagging behind the rest. For one, the age group isn’t monolithic, and students with different racial or ethnic backgrounds showed differing trends. The population of Asian and Filipino students in their 20s declined by 6% and 12%, respectively, while the number of African American and Native students in the same age group increased by a few percentage points compared to the previous year. Another possible explanation comes from a recent survey of the state’s community college students, which found that \u003ca href=\"https://ccleague.org/sites/default/files/images/basic_needs_among_california_community_college_students-final-2023.pdf?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=d3f14c6de2-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-d3f14c6de2-151973567&mc_cid=d3f14c6de2&mc_eid=cafd8c3942\">roughly one-third of students between the ages of 21 and 30 had experienced homelessness in the past year (PDF)\u003c/a> — a higher rate than any other age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have protected some immigrants from federal authorities if they’re released from prison under state criminal justice reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (D-Los Angeles), the bill’s author, said she was disappointed in Newsom’s decision to veto \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946255/california-bill-would-protect-immigrants-freed-under-criminal-justice-reforms-from-being-handed-to-ice\">AB 1306, known as the HOME Act\u003c/a>, saying collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement amounts to “double punishment” for immigrants who have earned parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was never the intention of the Legislature to exclude immigrants from restorative justice reform policies,” Carrillo said. “I am committed to re-introducing the policy and ending a dual system of justice in California that treats immigrants as less than and unworthy of a second chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"ICE Out of California Coalition\"]‘The Governor may claim that he supports rehabilitation and second chances. Yet he cannot praise rehabilitation in one breath, but condone the racist targeting of immigrants for detention and deportation in the next.’[/pullquote]The bill would have required the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to let noncitizens return to their homes and communities, as U.S. citizens do, if they earn clemency from the governor or resentencing under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714104/jerry-brown-will-leave-lasting-impact-on-criminal-justice-in-california\">recent laws aimed at rehabilitation and reducing mass incarceration\u003c/a> and racial disparities in sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current practice, prison officials alert federal authorities and arrange to transfer noncitizen inmates to immigration custody upon their release. Even longtime legal residents with green cards can spend months or years in ICE detention, and many are eventually deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom vetoed the bill Friday evening and issued a statement explaining the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill would prevent information sharing and coordination upon a person’s release from CDCR custody for a significant number of people and, as a result, would impede CDCR’s interaction with a federal law enforcement agency charged with assessing public safety risks,” he wrote. “I believe current law strikes the right balance on limiting interaction to support community trust and cooperation between law enforcement and local communities. For this reason, I cannot sign this bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates called Newsom’s veto a calculated move to protect his presidential aspirations. A statement from the ICE Out of California Coalition reads in part: “We denounce Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>As a social worker connecting residents to public assistance programs in Marin County, Amy Gramajo frequently helps families apply for free or low-cost child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those families typically qualify for subsidized child care, but they wind up waiting for months, or even years before they land an open spot at a child care program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Amy Gramajo, social worker, Marin County\"]‘I don’t have any close family nearby to help me. If the center closes I don’t think I can maintain a full-time job or continue paying for an apartment here.’[/pullquote]The shortage of affordable child care in one of the most expensive counties in the Bay Area is weighing heavily on Gramajo. A center where she sends her 5- and 8-year-old daughters for child care is at risk of closing after losing its lease last month, putting dozens of working parents like her on edge about whether they’ll be able to find alternative care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any close family nearby to help me. If the center closes I don’t think I can maintain a full-time job or continue paying for an apartment here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For five decades, the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center has played a vital role in the lives of hundreds of lower-income families who rely on its early education and after-school programs. It’s one of just a few subsidized child care centers in Marin. Parents and students cherish the close-knit community and the fact that it’s located in a county park at the foot of Mount Tamalpais, giving children ample space to play outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re surrounded by all these amazing trees and hiking trails, just being so close to nature is such an important part of any human’s development,” said Vesta Torres, 29, one of several teachers who started coming to the center as babies and who now work there to raise the next generation of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For single or working parents with school-age kids, the center crucially fills in the gap during the afternoon hours or periods when school is out. Eva Polony said the center helped her get through the pandemic by providing a place for her teenage sons to go. 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You know your kids’ needs are gonna be met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the center’s future is uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eva Polony, resident, Marin County\"]‘They are here for the essential workers and then some. They’re just the foundation for families to keep working and to be able to feel secure. You know your kids’ needs are gonna be met.’[/pullquote]Its aging buildings have structural issues that led the Ross Valley School District, which owns the campus, to terminate the center’s lease on Aug. 31. The school board president, Shelley Hamilton, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2mxmguLyVw&t=1457s\">at a recent hearing\u003c/a> that there were no immediate plans to evict the nonprofit organization that runs the center, but by operating without a lease, the group was exposing itself to increased safety and liability risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center was holding out hope that the county Office of Education would buy the property and lease it back to the center. The office scrapped its plan, however, after a building inspection report concluded it might cost at least $14 million to bring the property up to current safety standards — an amount that John Carroll, the superintendent of Marin County schools, said his office doesn’t have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Tomsky, the center’s executive director, disputes the findings of the report. She said inspectors were holding the buildings to more stringent standards reserved for schools, rather than for a licensed child care program like the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961416 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair interacts with two children in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Director Heidi Tomsky works with children on an art project at the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center. The center is one of the few to offer low-cost, subsidized child care in Marin County and is facing eviction after losing its lease on Aug. 31. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under state law, child care centers undergo random inspections by the Department of Social Services’ Community Care Licensing division to ensure they meet all health and safety requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the buildings need renovations. 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(A local taxpayer group \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/past-elections/page-data/tabs-collection/past2016/nov-8/measure/measurea\">argued in voters’ pamphlets \u003c/a>that if the measure passed “many will flock to Marin for free child care.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left with limited resources, local nonprofits such as the Marin Community Foundation instead focused on \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincf.org/buck-family-fund-grants/economic-opportunity/access-to-quality-child-care\">funding $1.5 million each year on financial assistance, particularly for single, working parents and training early educators\u003c/a> in subsidized programs. The philanthropic organization will phase out the program so it can develop and implement a strategic plan to expand access to child care in Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on Bay Area Child Care' tag='child-care']Gaidmore said her agency used \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/21/fact-sheet-american-rescue-plan-funds-provided-a-critical-lifeline-to-200000-child-care-providers-helping-millions-of-families-to-work/\">federal pandemic aid\u003c/a> to help family child care homes get properly licensed to increase the kind of facilities set up for infant care. It’s also administering a guaranteed income program for 21 entry-level early educators, giving them $8,000 in stipends per year over a three-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to focus on teachers who were just coming into the field and how we could encourage them to stay there,” Gaidmore said. “We know that they’re the lowest paid. 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