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How did you get to the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vincent Salimi:\u003c/strong> My life, it’s similar to a lot of Iranians who suffered the consequences of the Islamic Republic of Iran. My father studied civil engineering in Germany in the ‘60s and went back to Iran [and] married my mother. I [also] have an older sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1984, the family moved to France because the situation was becoming horrible in Iran, and in early 2000, I moved to the Bay Area by myself with $500. I didn’t speak very good English, and all I had was just a hope of a better tomorrow. I had the opportunity to go anywhere, but like Tony Bennett said, I left my heart in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you decide to get involved in local politics?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I left Iran in 1984, I had this fire inside, to do something. After I became a U.S. citizen in 2018, I had the opportunity to get the endorsement of the Democratic Party and [several] unions. I campaigned for three months against other candidates, and then, I was elected.[aside postID=news_12075199 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2263689274-2000x1367.jpg']\u003cstrong>Tell me more about this proclamation that you had the city of Pinole issue back in 2022. It also focuses on the rights of women.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 47 years, [Iran] went back 5,000 years. I come from a strong mother who has given me all the energy that I have today. A society without women’s rights, it’s not a healthy society. I have a daughter. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salimi referred to Feb. 28, the first day of the U.S. and Israel’s joint military campaign against Iran, as “a day that people will remember for thousands of years in Iranian history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the owner of a construction management company, Salimi, supported a 2022 city of Pinole \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.newswire.com/files/x/b9/35/0a58c87752dba3accf0636f6d82c.jpg\">proclamation\u003c/a> that advocated for women’s rights and a “Free Secular Democratic Republic of Iran.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He talked more about this effort while in office for the Contra Costa County city and the ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, with KQED morning host Brian Watt. Their conversation has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters rally in response to U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on March 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt: \u003c/strong>What’s your origin story? How did you get to the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vincent Salimi:\u003c/strong> My life, it’s similar to a lot of Iranians who suffered the consequences of the Islamic Republic of Iran. My father studied civil engineering in Germany in the ‘60s and went back to Iran [and] married my mother. I [also] have an older sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1984, the family moved to France because the situation was becoming horrible in Iran, and in early 2000, I moved to the Bay Area by myself with $500. I didn’t speak very good English, and all I had was just a hope of a better tomorrow. I had the opportunity to go anywhere, but like Tony Bennett said, I left my heart in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you decide to get involved in local politics?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I left Iran in 1984, I had this fire inside, to do something. After I became a U.S. citizen in 2018, I had the opportunity to get the endorsement of the Democratic Party and [several] unions. I campaigned for three months against other candidates, and then, I was elected.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me more about this proclamation that you had the city of Pinole issue back in 2022. It also focuses on the rights of women.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 47 years, [Iran] went back 5,000 years. I come from a strong mother who has given me all the energy that I have today. A society without women’s rights, it’s not a healthy society. I have a daughter. I love her, and I think the bare minimum for society to be able to move forward in a secular way is to also understand the rights of women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you in touch with family back in Iran right now or others who you are close to?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am talking to them on a daily basis. Most of the people are safe. They are not going outside, but the most important thing [is] they are relieved. Many of them were telling me that they were waiting for a long time for that strike, and that we’re hoping that could have happened sooner. And they are just hoping for a better tomorrow, and they know that it’s the beginning of the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There is clearly a lot of relief. But how do you think that the Iranian community that is not inside Iran is processing this, where there are going to be a lot of different viewpoints about what’s going on?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s going to be a lot of viewpoints for many reasons, because we have two types of people who are proud of Iran. We have the ones who were born before the revolution and remember what Iran used to be. And we have the second generation, like me, who basically were born after the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I think the people who were brought before the revolution had consequences mentally and suffered from it. So they are way more emotional than the second generation. I think this work will [need] the help of the people who were there before the revolution, but also the new generation needs to take over that country and help rebuild that society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055982/supervisors-proposal-seeks-to-address-housing-death-spiral-in-san-francisco\">infamously slow\u003c/a> building permitting process may be getting faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city study published Thursday found that between January 2024 and August 2025, the timeline on permit approvals for new housing in San Francisco was cut by half — from an average of 605 days down to around 280 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And permit applications that were filed within that 19-month window had even shorter turnaround times, at 114 days on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has addressed much of the “low-hanging fruit” to speed up its operation over the last two years, said San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who commissioned the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he said the city still has a backlog of years-old permit applications, and tens of thousands of entitled units without approval to build — issues he said could require a ballot measure to fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re also now getting to this point where, despite all of those changes, we’re still the slowest city to build,” he said. “We have to now take a stab at the harder problems, including Charter reform, to enable us to be able to make those changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, city leaders have lambasted San Francisco’s permitting process as disjointed and archaic. 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In February, his office introduced an online portal that allows people to apply for certain types of permits. The state also passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965492/san-francisco-takes-forever-to-approve-new-housing-california-officials-are-forcing-change\">new laws in 2023\u003c/a> aimed at expediting the application review process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a marked improvement, Mahmood said the process still takes significantly longer than other cities analyzed in the report — including San Diego, where permitting approvals took an average of 134 days, and Austin, Texas, where the same process spanned just 91 days.[aside postID=news_12075043 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/026_KQED_Vallejo_FactoryOS_08062020_qed.jpg']“Yes, we’re getting faster at the ones we’re approving, but there’s still a lot that aren’t even approved,” he said. Mahmood said that the report’s timeline is based on about 740 permits approved in that time, but there’s a backlog of more than 1,300 applications that haven’t yet been issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those pending applications have been in the pipeline since 2017 — as of Oct. 29, the average number of days that those permits had been awaiting approval was 1,489 days, or more than four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also needs to allow for more than 80,000 new housing units by 2031, in line with the state’s mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, five city departments are involved in approving a permit application, with no single point of contact that oversees applications all the way from filing to permit issuance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, one or more departments start their review process later than others, the report said, causing delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said it can also be complicated for developers to communicate with the many departments and fulfill requests of each of their reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the ways he’s proposed to ease these problems is by consolidating the number of departments involved in the process. In January, Lurie announced plans to merge the Planning Department, the Department of Building Inspection and Permit Center, an effort he said would “mean better coordination, time and cost savings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11965531 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1282775801-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The TransAmerica Pyramid peeks out behind wooden walls as workers construct two affordable housing developments in San Francisco in February 2020. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But to achieve that goal, Mahmood said, voters would need to approve reforms to the city’s charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the charter outlines each department’s responsibilities. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s the Year of the Fire Horse, and the Bay Area will be celebrating with a long-standing tradition: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027348/san-francisco-celebrates-the-lunar-new-year-with-iconic-chinatown-parade\">the Chinese New Year Parade\u003c/a> in San Francisco on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many different cultures observe \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/lunar-new-year\">Lunar New Year\u003c/a>, and this year is the Year of the Fire Horse, representing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/02/16/nx-s1-5713534/on-the-streets-of-beijing-many-wish-for-economic-stability-this-lunar-new-year\">action, risk-taking\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.elle.com/uk/horoscopes/a70327986/year-of-the-fire-horse/\">even financial positivity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Past Fire Horse years \u003ca href=\"https://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/social_customs/zodiac/horse.htm\">include\u003c/a> 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002 and 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(And for some fun further reading, take a look at how \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/04/harry-potter-draco-malfoy-mascot-year-of-horse-china\">Harry Potter’s Draco Malfoy character\u003c/a> has somehow become a Year of the Horse \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/abc/status/2024084429493170330?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">meme mascot for 2026\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Parade Grand Marshall will be San Francisco-born \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU3W3fjiG-O/\">Eileen Gu\u003c/a>, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072038/2026-winter-olympics-how-to-watch-bay-area-athletes-tahoe-figure-skating-skiing-snowboarding-cortina\">Olympic gold medalist and freestyle skier.\u003c/a> The parade is always free, so you should expect large crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks are seen above a string of red lanterns.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks go off in Chinatown during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what to know about the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade this weekend, including the parade route map and street closures that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For timely updates, you can follow the Chinese New Year Festival and Parade’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chineseparade/\">official social media pages\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatstheSanFranciscoChineseNewYearparaderoute\"> What’s the San Francisco Chinese New Year parade route?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whatstreetswillbeclosedfortheparade\"> What streets will be closed for the parade?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhatstheSanFranciscoChineseNewYearparaderoute\">\u003c/a>What is the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade route?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The parade starts at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, March 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">route\u003c/a> begins at Second and Market streets, goes around Union Square and ends at Kearny Street and Columbus Avenue. The total route is around 1.3 miles long.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do I need tickets to the San Francisco Chinese New Year parade?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The parade is \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">a free event\u003c/a>. However, if you want to sit on the bleachers, you’ll need paid tickets to be assigned a specific section (but not a specific seat).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are four bleacher sections, each on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Washington and Jackson streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California and Sacramento streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kearny and Grant streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Stockton and Powell streets\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Tickets range from $45 to $75, and \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/tickets/\">can be bought online\u003c/a> for email delivery. The more expensive options include a gift bag. Bleacher seating is \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/tickets/\">free for children under two\u003c/a>, as long as they are sitting on the lap of a caregiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers suggest that if you buy tickets, you’ll need to check in and be seated early on Saturday, close to 4 p.m., to be ready for the start of the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977013\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks go off at the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All sections of the bleachers will have wheelchair seating, but you will need a ticket regardless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need accessible spaces, you will also need a ticket. Portable restrooms will be available near the bleachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whatstreetswillbeclosedfortheparade\">\u003c/a>How can I get to the San Francisco Chinese New Year parade? Are there street closures?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chinese New Year Parade organizers \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/transportation/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">strongly encourage public transportation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and all Muni rides (except for cable cars) will be \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/free-muni-march-7-chinese-new-year-parade-learn-details\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">free that day\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you are driving, there will \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/free-muni-march-7-chinese-new-year-parade-learn-details\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">also be street closures\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> around the area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’d like an idea of what to expect, last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024779/2025-san-francisco-chinese-new-year-parade-map-route-closures-events\">the following areas\u003c/a> were closed:[aside postID=arts_13986607 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/020626GOLDEN-AGE-OF-ASIAN-STYLE-HIGH-TEA_GH_037-KQED.jpg']\u003cstrong>From 2 p.m. to around 9:30 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> 2nd Street between Market and Mission streets\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From 3 p.m. to around 9:30 p.m\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Market Street between 2nd and Geary streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Geary Street between Market and Powell streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Powell Street between Geary and Post streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Post Street between Kearny and Powell streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kearny Street between Geary and Pacific streets.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/project-updates/chinese-new-year-parade-service-alert\">the 2025 SFMTA guidance\u003c/a>, the easiest way to get to the parade is through the Market Street Subway at Montgomery Station, near the beginning of the parade. However, SFMTA also recommends using nearby Powell Station, “just a few blocks from where the Parade goes around Union Square,” which is the transfer point between the Central Subway and the Market Street Subway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/free-muni-march-7-chinese-new-year-parade-learn-details\">The bus routes to the parade\u003c/a> are 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 14R, 15, 30, 31, 38R and 45. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s the Year of the Fire Horse, and the Bay Area will be celebrating with a long-standing tradition: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027348/san-francisco-celebrates-the-lunar-new-year-with-iconic-chinatown-parade\">the Chinese New Year Parade\u003c/a> in San Francisco on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many different cultures observe \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/lunar-new-year\">Lunar New Year\u003c/a>, and this year is the Year of the Fire Horse, representing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/02/16/nx-s1-5713534/on-the-streets-of-beijing-many-wish-for-economic-stability-this-lunar-new-year\">action, risk-taking\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.elle.com/uk/horoscopes/a70327986/year-of-the-fire-horse/\">even financial positivity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Past Fire Horse years \u003ca href=\"https://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/social_customs/zodiac/horse.htm\">include\u003c/a> 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002 and 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(And for some fun further reading, take a look at how \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/04/harry-potter-draco-malfoy-mascot-year-of-horse-china\">Harry Potter’s Draco Malfoy character\u003c/a> has somehow become a Year of the Horse \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/abc/status/2024084429493170330?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">meme mascot for 2026\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Parade Grand Marshall will be San Francisco-born \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU3W3fjiG-O/\">Eileen Gu\u003c/a>, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072038/2026-winter-olympics-how-to-watch-bay-area-athletes-tahoe-figure-skating-skiing-snowboarding-cortina\">Olympic gold medalist and freestyle skier.\u003c/a> The parade is always free, so you should expect large crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks are seen above a string of red lanterns.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-25-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks go off in Chinatown during the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what to know about the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade this weekend, including the parade route map and street closures that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For timely updates, you can follow the Chinese New Year Festival and Parade’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chineseparade/\">official social media pages\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatstheSanFranciscoChineseNewYearparaderoute\"> What’s the San Francisco Chinese New Year parade route?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whatstreetswillbeclosedfortheparade\"> What streets will be closed for the parade?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhatstheSanFranciscoChineseNewYearparaderoute\">\u003c/a>What is the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade route?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The parade starts at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, March 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">route\u003c/a> begins at Second and Market streets, goes around Union Square and ends at Kearny Street and Columbus Avenue. The total route is around 1.3 miles long.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do I need tickets to the San Francisco Chinese New Year parade?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The parade is \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">a free event\u003c/a>. However, if you want to sit on the bleachers, you’ll need paid tickets to be assigned a specific section (but not a specific seat).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are four bleacher sections, each on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Washington and Jackson streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California and Sacramento streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kearny and Grant streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Stockton and Powell streets\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Tickets range from $45 to $75, and \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/tickets/\">can be bought online\u003c/a> for email delivery. The more expensive options include a gift bag. Bleacher seating is \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/tickets/\">free for children under two\u003c/a>, as long as they are sitting on the lap of a caregiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers suggest that if you buy tickets, you’ll need to check in and be seated early on Saturday, close to 4 p.m., to be ready for the start of the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977013\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240224-ChineseNYParade-60-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks go off at the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All sections of the bleachers will have wheelchair seating, but you will need a ticket regardless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need accessible spaces, you will also need a ticket. Portable restrooms will be available near the bleachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whatstreetswillbeclosedfortheparade\">\u003c/a>How can I get to the San Francisco Chinese New Year parade? Are there street closures?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chinese New Year Parade organizers \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/transportation/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">strongly encourage public transportation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and all Muni rides (except for cable cars) will be \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/free-muni-march-7-chinese-new-year-parade-learn-details\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">free that day\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you are driving, there will \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/free-muni-march-7-chinese-new-year-parade-learn-details\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">also be street closures\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> around the area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’d like an idea of what to expect, last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024779/2025-san-francisco-chinese-new-year-parade-map-route-closures-events\">the following areas\u003c/a> were closed:\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From 2 p.m. to around 9:30 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> 2nd Street between Market and Mission streets\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From 3 p.m. to around 9:30 p.m\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Market Street between 2nd and Geary streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Geary Street between Market and Powell streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Powell Street between Geary and Post streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Post Street between Kearny and Powell streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kearny Street between Geary and Pacific streets.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/project-updates/chinese-new-year-parade-service-alert\">the 2025 SFMTA guidance\u003c/a>, the easiest way to get to the parade is through the Market Street Subway at Montgomery Station, near the beginning of the parade. However, SFMTA also recommends using nearby Powell Station, “just a few blocks from where the Parade goes around Union Square,” which is the transfer point between the Central Subway and the Market Street Subway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/free-muni-march-7-chinese-new-year-parade-learn-details\">The bus routes to the parade\u003c/a> are 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 14R, 15, 30, 31, 38R and 45. The metro and streetcar lines are F, J, K, L, M, N and T.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can use \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/muni/routes-stops\">SFMTA’s website\u003c/a> or call 311 to plan out your route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closest BART stations are Montgomery Station (at Market and 2nd streets), Embarcadero and Powell St.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is there any parking for the Chinese New Year parade?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/transportation/\">parking garages\u003c/a> at:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny Street in Chinatown, which will also provide\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/free-muni-march-7-chinese-new-year-parade-learn-details\"> one hour of free parking through Sunday\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Union Square at 123 O’Farrell St.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chinatown at 250 Clay St. and 733 Kearny St.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>North Beach at 735 and 766 Vallejo St.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can also get \u003ca href=\"https://spothero.com/search?kind=destination&id=81237&%243p=a_hasoffers&%24affiliate_json=http%3A%2F%2Ftracking.spothero.com%2Faff_c%3Foffer_id%3D1%26aff_id%3D1391%26file_id%3D28%26source%3Dchinesenewyearfestival%26aff_sub2%3Dparkingpage%26aff_sub3%3Dlink%26format%3Djson&_branch_match_id=1553116847317693714&utm_source=Partnerships&utm_campaign=Tune_Platform&utm_medium=paid+advertising&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA42RTU%2FDMAyGf01z3NqEjQ0pQgjEkQviXLmpu4R1SUhSpl3223E66PgSQsohfu04j1%2FrlHy8ms%2Bjd0ljcDPwftYbu52nWHn%2B8PKI1fXGQc8lZwW%2FEF5CrSG6rsMQWVQadyh17sK2xrayxZiMhWScZUfVG7WtTSurklei5etlxUXJVwIWZYcNL0XZ8MWKRTcEhVJpYzGixf0BIXS50yv0bAj96YdC3BT8ns4PWtLOvIWgmkVmLcTdJ9qCL8cLAVGionACzPGfiGOxi6lWQwho1YFePD3eTTJxDkhamZWIytkWwqH2Q9ObSKiUokzUUEPXmd5AwndpHJ3uvw9PFaP7VMDZB72smIek5Zep2Vc%2BSXR5YdN39XN0dvRxsjEFULS0zWzyU7kd6fSmVuTiN7eyfArEOsfUGE8CX%2F1rktwgDk0exkPIP3vY4DkhKHHa5rJzYQeJ4kzNNE0mfyydfbJelox8WdHuLtkxIHEHal83we0jBnmrg9vhG20%2FjF%2FtAgAA&view=dl\">a parking pass on websites like SpotHero\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 24px\">What will the weather be like on Saturday for the Chinese New Year parade?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade will happen rain or shine, according to \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">the Chinese New Year parade’s official website\u003c/a> — but luckily, \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.7800771&lon=-122.4201615\">the weather forecast for San Francisco\u003c/a> on Saturday promises sunshine, and highs of 78 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can keep an eye out for the weather on \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/mtr/\">the National Weather Service website\u003c/a>, but remember: it’s the Bay Area, and layers are always helpful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also adorn yourself in \u003ca href=\"https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/chinese-new-year-fashion-red-and-gold-runway-looks\">lucky colors like red and gold\u003c/a> to mark the Lunar New Year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I not bring to the Chinese New Year parade?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The parade is a public event, so organizers say you should not bring things like weapons, firearms, explosives or drones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027366\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-09-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Several women dressed in dance costumes perform on the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-09-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-09-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-09-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-09-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-09-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250215-ChineseNewYear-09-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Xiaopei Chinese Dance perform in the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Out of consideration for others, we request that large items that may encroach on others’ space—such as oversized cushions, coolers, pets, selfie sticks or camera tripods—are not brought into the bleacher sections,” \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/faq/\">the website reads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For more than 80 years, the best launching pad for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074679/new-poll-finds-race-for-california-governor-remains-deadlocked\">aspiring governors\u003c/a> of California has been a statewide office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Hollywood-sized exceptions of Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, every winning gubernatorial candidate in California since 1942 held an office elected by voters statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By first serving as attorney general, lieutenant governor or U.S. senator, politicians from Pat Brown to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom \u003c/a>built resumes and rolodexes that would help them win the state’s top job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in this year’s wide-open \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912790/how-prop-50-and-governors-race-are-shaping-early-midterm-projections\">governor’s race\u003c/a>, the Democratic frontrunners are forging a new path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top-polling Democrats (Republicans face little prospect of winning a general election in this reliably blue state) are Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/eric-swalwell\">Eric Swalwell\u003c/a>, former Rep. Katie Porter and investor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tom-steyer\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a> — none of whom has ever won a statewide election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074217\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Steyer addresses attendees during the California Democratic Party 2026 State Convention on Feb. 21, 2026, in San Francisco. Steyer received about 13% of the vote in the party’s gubernatorial endorsement contest, which ended without a candidate reaching the 60% threshold required for endorsement. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, former Attorney General \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074132/xavier-becerra-on-why-his-upbringing-and-career-give-him-an-edge-over-other-gubernatorial-candidates\">Xavier Becerra\u003c/a>, former state Controller \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKYq2riTwYk\">Betty Yee\u003c/a> and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond have lagged in the polls — and other statewide officeholders have either quit the race or decided against running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the stepping stone process has changed,” said Steve Maviglio, a Democratic strategist. “There are a lot of people that are in a hurry to get to higher ranks in the political circles, and they bypass the usual [process of] building on their experience and building up their support because they can go directly to the voters.”[aside postID=news_12074132 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260220-XAVIER-BECERRA-ON-PB-MD-04_qed.jpg']While Steyer has tapped his own vast wealth to air TV ads across the state, the potential path for Swalwell and Porter would be unique in recent California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of spending years building experience on state issues and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069984/who-will-labor-support-in-the-race-for-california-governor\">cultivating relationships\u003c/a> with powerful interest groups in Sacramento, Swalwell and Porter established their reputations in the House of Representatives as outspoken critics of President Donald Trump — and then sought higher office: Swalwell briefly ran for president in 2020, and Porter lost her bid for the U.S. Senate in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair took advantage of an increasingly nationalized political media environment to parlay cable news hits and social media followers into a network of small-dollar donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Katie Porter and Eric Swalwell both have national followings — they weren’t just a local congressperson bringing home the bacon,” Maviglio said. “They went after national figures, got national attention, were very vocal on some of the Trump-related issues…so their name recognition and their mailing list go far beyond their constituency in their respective districts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The ‘Aspiring Governor’ path\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The path from statewide office to the governor’s mansion has been a constant across disparate eras of California politics. Newsom, Gray Davis and Goodwin Knight were lieutenant governors; Pete Wilson was a U.S. senator; Jerry Brown was California’s secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No position has served as a more reliable stepping stone to the pinnacle of state office than attorney general — a job often referred to as “Aspiring Governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1934, an ambitious Oakland prosecutor named Earl Warren convinced California voters to bestow new powers on the office — transforming the attorney general from the state’s legal advocate to top cop: a crime fighter and consumer advocate who could bust gangs one day and sue banks the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858229\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47011_GettyImages-519108270-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47011_GettyImages-519108270-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47011_GettyImages-519108270-qut-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47011_GettyImages-519108270-qut-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47011_GettyImages-519108270-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47011_GettyImages-519108270-qut-1536x1013.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-Gov. Jerry Brown signs a bill on April 4, 2016, to incrementally raise California’s minimum wage to $15-an-hour by 2022. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Warren later vaulted from the AG’s office he had refashioned to become governor, as did Pat Brown in 1958, George Deukmejian in 1982 and Jerry Brown in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, 2026 has been a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910873/california-governors-race-shifts-as-harris-kounalakis-say-theyre-not-running\">ended her campaign\u003c/a> for governor in August to pivot to a run for state treasurer. U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062840/alex-padilla-says-he-wont-run-for-california-governor-in-2026\">he would pass\u003c/a> on a run in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after months of speculation, and amid polls showing he had not yet broken through the field, Attorney General Rob Bonta said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069366/attorney-general-rob-bonta-announces-he-wont-run-for-governor\">he would not enter the race\u003c/a> either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra, Yee and Thurmond have each won millions of votes in previous runs for statewide office. But recent polls conducted by campaigns have found the three remain unknown to large swaths of voters — even Democrats — leaving them with the challenge of making an introduction with just two months until voting begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072282\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Xavier Becerra, Steve Hilton, Matt Mahan, Tom Steyer, Tony Thurmond, Antonio Villaraigosa and Betty Yee stand on the stage during the California gubernatorial candidate debate on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A survey conducted by EMC Research for the Swalwell campaign found that 30% of registered Democrats had no opinion of or had never heard of Becerra, and nearly half were unfamiliar with Thurmond and Yee. Meanwhile, the share of Democrats unfamiliar with Swalwell stood at 21% — and just 12% for Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra’s campaign attempted to frame his relative political anonymity as a positive when it released a poll from Tavern Research last month showing nearly half of voters who planned to vote for a Democrat were unfamiliar with the former attorney general — compared to 43% for Swalwell and 30% for Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the remaining 49% unfamiliar voters learn about him, the data points towards substantial growth,” Emma Harris, Becerra’s campaign manager, wrote in a memo accompanying the poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A nationalized political media\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Swalwell and Porter’s ability to build name identification with voters beyond the boundaries of their congressional districts is in part a product of the nationalization of political media, said Danielle Vinson, a professor of politics and international affairs at Furman University and author of “Congress and the Media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the last century, members of Congress — particularly those outside of House leadership — weren’t interested in attention from national outlets and tended to focus on local press, Vinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040807\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California State Capitol in Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the decline of local news and the rise of cable television and social media changed that equation — and made House members like Porter, Swalwell, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene some of the most famous politicians in their home states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago, Nancy Mace is going to have to work a whole lot harder to get people in South Carolina to know who she is, Katie Porter is going to have to work a whole lot harder, Swalwell would have to work a whole lot harder to get that statewide attention,” Vinson said.[aside postID=news_12075174 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260226-GovRaceForum-14-BL_qed.jpg']“But now they’ve already made a name for themselves in the national press — and the reality is most people these days are getting their news either from social media or national media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viral moments have served as catalysts for members of Congress to become regular guests on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC (now MS NOW) and attract donors from across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swalwell was an impeachment manager during Trump’s 2021 impeachment trial and in 2025 clashed dramatically with FBI Director Kash Patel over the Epstein files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Porter grilled JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon about worker pay and became synonymous with a whiteboard she wielded during questioning of pharmaceutical executives and Trump administration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Members of Congress in the last 10 years have gotten really good at learning how to get those viral moments and Swalwell and Porter are excellent examples of that,” Vinson said. “You pick fights with the right people, you pick fights with Donald Trump, you pick fights with his appointees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simultaneously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/05/the-number-of-full-time-statehouse-reporters-at-u-s-newspapers-has-declined-34-since-2014/\">coverage of state capitols\u003c/a> has endured a decadeslong decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Irvine, smiles as she prepares to address supporters at an election night party, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Long Beach, California. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California’s old Capitol press room, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678180/mid-century-style-hidden-away-in-state-capitol\">known as 1190\u003c/a>, rows of desks were adorned with placards carrying the names of dozens of local newspapers, radio and television stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the room was demolished amid an ongoing renovation, many of those outlets no longer maintained a bureau — or even existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decline of local journalism can be directly tied to the way office-seekers and elected officials are now seeking to get their name out,” said Maviglio, who served as press secretary for then-Gov. Gray Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘How are you using that airtime?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the shifting dynamics of political media have boosted Swalwell and Porter, their advantage in the governor’s race is hardly insurmountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, Porter had enough notoriety to be instantly competitive in her 2024 run for U.S. Senate, but she struggled to eclipse 20% support in most public polling and ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978232/california-senate-seat-schiff-moves-on-to-general-election-with-garvey-leading-porter-for-second-spot\">finished in third place\u003c/a> with 15% of the vote, behind Republican Steve Garvey and fellow Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marisol Samayoa, a Democratic strategist who worked for Schiff during that campaign, agreed that building a national profile and talking about Trump “gets you in the door” with voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012474\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Adam Schiff speaks with KQED politics reporter Scott Shafer at the KQED offices in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“But really, what is going to be important is how you continue to introduce yourself to Californians across the state,” Samayoa said. “Yes, they may know you for being a household name on cable or national outlets, but how are you using that airtime to talk about the issues that really matter to Californians?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already well known to California Democrats as a leading Trump opponent in the House, Samayoa said Schiff used much of his Senate campaign to talk about affordability and the cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She drew a parallel to two other former congressmembers who made their names in the Trump era — Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the pair were elected as governor of New Jersey and Virginia, respectively, after campaigns that focused on the price of housing and electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072288\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right, Matt Mahan, Tom Steyer and Tony Thurmond participate in the California gubernatorial candidate debate on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yes, those are members of the House that went on to be governors, but they talked about what they were going to do and deliver for their constituents across New Jersey and Virginia,” Samayoa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the very least, Swalwell and Porter’s national political fame has bought them time to make that affirmative case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That luxury may be dwindling for Becerra, Thurmond, Yee and other Democrats polling in single digits: this week, California Democratic Party Chair Rusty Hicks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075174/democratic-candidates-for-california-governor-defy-pressure-to-end-campaigns\">urged candidates\u003c/a> without a “viable path” to the general election to make plans to end their campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While Steyer has tapped his own vast wealth to air TV ads across the state, the potential path for Swalwell and Porter would be unique in recent California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of spending years building experience on state issues and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069984/who-will-labor-support-in-the-race-for-california-governor\">cultivating relationships\u003c/a> with powerful interest groups in Sacramento, Swalwell and Porter established their reputations in the House of Representatives as outspoken critics of President Donald Trump — and then sought higher office: Swalwell briefly ran for president in 2020, and Porter lost her bid for the U.S. Senate in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair took advantage of an increasingly nationalized political media environment to parlay cable news hits and social media followers into a network of small-dollar donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Katie Porter and Eric Swalwell both have national followings — they weren’t just a local congressperson bringing home the bacon,” Maviglio said. “They went after national figures, got national attention, were very vocal on some of the Trump-related issues…so their name recognition and their mailing list go far beyond their constituency in their respective districts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The ‘Aspiring Governor’ path\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The path from statewide office to the governor’s mansion has been a constant across disparate eras of California politics. Newsom, Gray Davis and Goodwin Knight were lieutenant governors; Pete Wilson was a U.S. senator; Jerry Brown was California’s secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No position has served as a more reliable stepping stone to the pinnacle of state office than attorney general — a job often referred to as “Aspiring Governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1934, an ambitious Oakland prosecutor named Earl Warren convinced California voters to bestow new powers on the office — transforming the attorney general from the state’s legal advocate to top cop: a crime fighter and consumer advocate who could bust gangs one day and sue banks the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858229\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47011_GettyImages-519108270-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47011_GettyImages-519108270-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47011_GettyImages-519108270-qut-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47011_GettyImages-519108270-qut-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47011_GettyImages-519108270-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47011_GettyImages-519108270-qut-1536x1013.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-Gov. Jerry Brown signs a bill on April 4, 2016, to incrementally raise California’s minimum wage to $15-an-hour by 2022. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Warren later vaulted from the AG’s office he had refashioned to become governor, as did Pat Brown in 1958, George Deukmejian in 1982 and Jerry Brown in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, 2026 has been a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910873/california-governors-race-shifts-as-harris-kounalakis-say-theyre-not-running\">ended her campaign\u003c/a> for governor in August to pivot to a run for state treasurer. U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062840/alex-padilla-says-he-wont-run-for-california-governor-in-2026\">he would pass\u003c/a> on a run in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after months of speculation, and amid polls showing he had not yet broken through the field, Attorney General Rob Bonta said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069366/attorney-general-rob-bonta-announces-he-wont-run-for-governor\">he would not enter the race\u003c/a> either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra, Yee and Thurmond have each won millions of votes in previous runs for statewide office. But recent polls conducted by campaigns have found the three remain unknown to large swaths of voters — even Democrats — leaving them with the challenge of making an introduction with just two months until voting begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072282\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Xavier Becerra, Steve Hilton, Matt Mahan, Tom Steyer, Tony Thurmond, Antonio Villaraigosa and Betty Yee stand on the stage during the California gubernatorial candidate debate on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A survey conducted by EMC Research for the Swalwell campaign found that 30% of registered Democrats had no opinion of or had never heard of Becerra, and nearly half were unfamiliar with Thurmond and Yee. Meanwhile, the share of Democrats unfamiliar with Swalwell stood at 21% — and just 12% for Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra’s campaign attempted to frame his relative political anonymity as a positive when it released a poll from Tavern Research last month showing nearly half of voters who planned to vote for a Democrat were unfamiliar with the former attorney general — compared to 43% for Swalwell and 30% for Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the remaining 49% unfamiliar voters learn about him, the data points towards substantial growth,” Emma Harris, Becerra’s campaign manager, wrote in a memo accompanying the poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A nationalized political media\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Swalwell and Porter’s ability to build name identification with voters beyond the boundaries of their congressional districts is in part a product of the nationalization of political media, said Danielle Vinson, a professor of politics and international affairs at Furman University and author of “Congress and the Media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the last century, members of Congress — particularly those outside of House leadership — weren’t interested in attention from national outlets and tended to focus on local press, Vinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040807\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California State Capitol in Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the decline of local news and the rise of cable television and social media changed that equation — and made House members like Porter, Swalwell, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene some of the most famous politicians in their home states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago, Nancy Mace is going to have to work a whole lot harder to get people in South Carolina to know who she is, Katie Porter is going to have to work a whole lot harder, Swalwell would have to work a whole lot harder to get that statewide attention,” Vinson said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“But now they’ve already made a name for themselves in the national press — and the reality is most people these days are getting their news either from social media or national media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viral moments have served as catalysts for members of Congress to become regular guests on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC (now MS NOW) and attract donors from across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swalwell was an impeachment manager during Trump’s 2021 impeachment trial and in 2025 clashed dramatically with FBI Director Kash Patel over the Epstein files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Porter grilled JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon about worker pay and became synonymous with a whiteboard she wielded during questioning of pharmaceutical executives and Trump administration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Members of Congress in the last 10 years have gotten really good at learning how to get those viral moments and Swalwell and Porter are excellent examples of that,” Vinson said. “You pick fights with the right people, you pick fights with Donald Trump, you pick fights with his appointees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simultaneously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/05/the-number-of-full-time-statehouse-reporters-at-u-s-newspapers-has-declined-34-since-2014/\">coverage of state capitols\u003c/a> has endured a decadeslong decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Irvine, smiles as she prepares to address supporters at an election night party, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Long Beach, California. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California’s old Capitol press room, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678180/mid-century-style-hidden-away-in-state-capitol\">known as 1190\u003c/a>, rows of desks were adorned with placards carrying the names of dozens of local newspapers, radio and television stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the room was demolished amid an ongoing renovation, many of those outlets no longer maintained a bureau — or even existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decline of local journalism can be directly tied to the way office-seekers and elected officials are now seeking to get their name out,” said Maviglio, who served as press secretary for then-Gov. Gray Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘How are you using that airtime?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the shifting dynamics of political media have boosted Swalwell and Porter, their advantage in the governor’s race is hardly insurmountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, Porter had enough notoriety to be instantly competitive in her 2024 run for U.S. Senate, but she struggled to eclipse 20% support in most public polling and ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978232/california-senate-seat-schiff-moves-on-to-general-election-with-garvey-leading-porter-for-second-spot\">finished in third place\u003c/a> with 15% of the vote, behind Republican Steve Garvey and fellow Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marisol Samayoa, a Democratic strategist who worked for Schiff during that campaign, agreed that building a national profile and talking about Trump “gets you in the door” with voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012474\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-07-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For many people, one of the best parts about living in the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\"> Bay Area\u003c/a> is its proximity to Lake Tahoe — for endless skiing, hiking and beach-laying opportunities, just a few hours away.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But anyone who’s a Tahoe regular knows that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://renonr.com/2025/05/29/the-trouble-with-tahoe-traffic-experts-and-jurisdictions-are-floating-solutions-to-a-complex-problem/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fighting traffic \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">— both en route to the region and while you’re there — is often the worst part of the visit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And with many Tahoe-area ski resorts also now requiring hard-to-get parking reservations on weekends and holidays, you might be extra tempted to investigate taking public transit to the region instead.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you’re looking for a car-free alternative to visiting Tahoe, keep reading for what to know about getting to — and then getting around — Tahoe without a car.\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"#OnceImtherehowcanIgetaroundTahoewithoutacar\">Jump straight to: Once I’m there, how can I get around Tahoe without a car?\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Method #1: Taking the train to Tahoe\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a smooth ride that offers beautiful views, you can take the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amtrak.com/california-zephyr-train\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California Zephyr\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an Amtrak train, from Emeryville or Richmond and get off at Truckee. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ride takes at least 5 hours, so bring a book or podcast and just enjoy the scenery as you glide up to the Sierra. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075342\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4706.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4706.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4706-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4706-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers enjoy the mountain views on the way to Truckee in the observation car of the California Zephyr on Feb. 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Sarah Wright/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One-way train tickets range from around $30 to $50 each, depending on demand, putting your total trip cost to around $100.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What else to know about taking the train to Tahoe:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>This train runs just once per day\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Zephyr leaves the Bay Area or Truckee in the morning with no additional services — so make sure this kind of inflexibility fits your schedule before booking. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The eastbound route leaves Richmond at 8:35 a.m., and the westbound Zephyr departs Truckee at 10:33 a.m. each day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Once you get in the mountains, hang out in the observation car \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The California Zephyr’s observation car is one of the most beautiful, wholesome places I have ever been. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you’re on the fence about taking the train to Tahoe — maybe you’re concerned that some of the hassle isn’t worth it — let those views be the one reason that convinces you to switch things up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075351\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-916055530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1329\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-916055530.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-916055530-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-916055530-1536x1031.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Zephyr Train with Snow-Capped Mountains in Utah, USA, 1964. \u003ccite>(GHI/Universal History Archive via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To make sure you get a prime seat in time for the scenic mountain views, consider ditching your seat a bit early, around the Roseville stop on the way up, to find a seat in the observation car: a special car with large windows and swiveling seats, where you can make the most of the mountain views. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don’t expect to work or get too much done in the observation car. This space tends to have somewhat of a calm, sacred air about it, with passengers actually tuned into their surroundings and even chatting casually with strangers. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You might see lots of kids and retirees filling the seats and commingling over the sweeping views. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>All trains have outlets, but there is no WiFi onboard\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">… and cell service can be spotty along the route. (Another reason you probably won’t get much work done.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If connecting from BART, use Richmond \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking BART to Amtrak? I recommend booking your ticket from Richmond to Truckee rather than Emeryville, as the BART station is conveniently connected to the Amtrak platform, making getting on board pretty seamless.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4665.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4665.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4665-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4665-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers enjoy the mountain views on the way to Truckee in the observation car of the California Zephyr on Feb. 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Sarah Wright/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(But if you’re coming from San Francisco, you’d rather save a few dollars on BART fare, there’s an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amtrak.com/stations/sfc\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amtrak shuttle bus\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the Emeryville station to downtown San Francisco, which is included in your ticket.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Method #2: Taking the ‘ski bus’ to Tahoe\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want the faster, more reliable option for skiing, take the ski bus. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://shop.sportsbasement.com/collections/sports-basement-outdoors-ski-bus?srsltid=AfmBOorx83gfaX5q3awev73ZvScJ4wrWSo6AoxHyMdNGvNzYnnCTHhcn\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sports Basement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> runs its Tahoe ski bus directly from its retail locations across the Bay Area to Palisades Tahoe, Kirkwood, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Northstar, Bear Valley and Sugar Bowl resorts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-2.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-2-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-2-1536x1023.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear Valley Mountain Resort is one of the smaller Central Sierra resorts offered on the Cali Pass. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bear Valley Mountain Resort)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Onboard, you can expect outlets, bathrooms and some beverages. Ski buses run rain or shine, but they are affected by traffic and road closures. Round-trip tickets on the ski bus are around $100.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What else to know about taking the ski bus:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>It’s a weekend-only option — and for the day only\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buses depart at 5 a.m. from the Bay Area and leave the resort at around 4 p.m. after lifts close. But these buses don’t run on weekdays, and while you can theoretically take the bus one way, you’ll have to pay the price of a round-trip ticket regardless.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980519\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow blanketed South Lake Tahoe in California on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And your ticket is only valid for the same day, so if you wanted to stay overnight and get the next day’s afternoon ski bus, you’d need to pay for \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">two \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">round-trip tickets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Your ticket could get you cheaper skiing\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bus tickets come with discounted lift tickets from some participating ski resorts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sports Basement also offers discounted 4-pack ski bus tickets if you plan on using this travel method multiple times in the season. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Method #3: Taking the train + bus combo\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want more flexible timing and don’t mind a transfer, take the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capitolcorridor.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol Corridor\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> train to Sacramento — and then the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capitolcorridor.org/busschedule/Bus_Schedules.pdf?v=26012026v2\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amtrak bus\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Truckee or South Lake Tahoe. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This way, you’ll get a speedy (and scenic) ride to Sacramento, then hop on the bus for the remainder of your trip.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977893\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2053478681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2053478681.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2053478681-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2053478681-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2053478681-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk along Donner Pass Road as snow continues to fall in downtown Truckee on Saturday, March 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And because the Capital Corridor runs more frequently than the California Zephyr, and has both morning and afternoon trains that’ll get you into Truckee at around 2 p.m. or 6 p.m., depending on your preference, you can tailor your journey more closely to your needs. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the most flexible option, with Capital Corridor trains in the morning and afternoon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What else to know about taking the Capitol Corridor and the Amtrak bus:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>There’s onboard WiFi on the train\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">….unlike on the Zephyr. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You could save money\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not only is the train portion reliably fast, and the schedule more flexible than the Zephyr, but tickets tend to be cheap. One-way mixed service tickets are around $50 each way, for a total trip cost of $100. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Yes, the transfer can be a hassle\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Especially if you’ve brought a lot of gear for your trip, having to unload your stuff off the train and onto the Amtrak bus is the biggest downside of this travel method.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>What else to know about taking public transit to Tahoe \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Expect delays and stay flexible\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No matter which option you choose, be aware that weather conditions \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">affect your journey. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because it’s a cross-country train that comes all the way from Chicago, the California Zephyr can be especially prone to severe delays on its westbound route back to the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075345\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075345\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4654.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4654.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4654-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4654-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mountain views on the way to Truckee in the observation car of the California Zephyr on Feb. 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Sarah Wright/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meaning that while you should be on time going east to Tahoe, your return trip from Truckee may be many hours behind due to weather elsewhere in the country, even if the Sierra is clear.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ski bus isn’t immune to delays either — and, unlike the Zephyr, can get caught in busy traffic on Highway 80 during busy weekends.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Don’t plan a flying visit\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unless you’re the Sports Basement bus for the day, you’ll probably have to take off on Friday and Monday to get the most out of a weekend trip. If you’re able to swing remote work, lots of people on the train are working and power outlets are plentiful (but double check beforehand whether your transit method of choice has WiFi – the California Zephyr does not.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bring your own food — or expect to pay onboard\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No matter which route you go, consider packing your own food for the journey.[aside postID=news_12073376 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/B-Peter-Grubb-Hut_resized.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will save you time and stress, and you can think of it like a picnic to enjoy while you watch the scenery slip by.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That said, both the Capitol Corridor and the California Zephyr have \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amtrak.com/cafe-car\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cafe cars\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where you can buy basic meals and beverages. But be warned: the meals, in my experience, tend to be somewhat overpriced for what you get. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Yes, you can still bring lots of luggage\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don’t worry if you’re bringing your entire family and ski setup — all of the transit options at your disposal have \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amtrak.com/bring-skis-and-snowboards-on-train\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">plenty of room\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for luggage, and are in fact expecting it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most trains and buses also allow you to bring a bike if you’re planning to ride while you’re up at the lake. Just be sure to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amtrak.com/bring-your-bicycle-onboard\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">make a reservation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that includes a bike.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And be aware that if you’re choosing the “Capitol Corridor + Amtrak bus” route, you’ll have to transfer yourself and all your stuff onto your next mode of transportation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"OnceImtherehowcanIgetaroundTahoewithoutacar\">\u003c/a>Once I’m there, how can I travel around Tahoe on public transit?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What happens once you arrive in Truckee or South Lake Tahoe and you don’t have a car? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uber, Lyft and taxis do operate in Tahoe, but wait times can be extremely long, and rides are expensive, so I wouldn’t recommend relying on this option alone. But don’t stress: There are ample transportation options around the lake. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bus systems around Tahoe\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you’re around the north shore of Lake Tahoe, near spots like Truckee or Tahoe City, the main bus system you’ll be using is called TART: the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://tahoetruckeetransit.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tahoe Area Regional Transportation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These routes serve ski resorts like Northstar, Palisades Tahoe and there’s even a shuttle to Sugar Bowl Resort.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the South Shore, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tahoetransportation.org/transit/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tahoe Transportation District\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also operates a few buses that service South Lake Tahoe and Heavenly Valley Resort.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075347\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251209-SNOWY-TAHOE-CS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251209-SNOWY-TAHOE-CS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251209-SNOWY-TAHOE-CS-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251209-SNOWY-TAHOE-CS-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kings Beach on the north shore of Lake Tahoe in 2022. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just make sure to check schedules well in advance, as many of the routes on both the south and north shores run infrequently — typically once per hour or every half hour at peak times, so don’t miss your ride.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, your patience and flexibility will be rewarded: Both transit systems are entirely free to ride. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your accommodations are flexible, consider staying near a TART or TTD stop so you can hop directly on the bus from your hotel or rental home.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>‘Microtransit’ routes and shuttles\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you’re far away from a main bus stop, or just want more flexible options, there are now also several so-called microtransit options around the lake. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One is the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://tahoetruckeetransit.com/parkandride/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TART Park and Ride program,\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said Sara Van Siclen, executive director of the Truckee North Tahoe Transportation Management Association.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53524_olympic-sign-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53524_olympic-sign-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53524_olympic-sign-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53524_olympic-sign-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53524_olympic-sign-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53524_olympic-sign-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Olympic symbol at Palisades Tahoe reminds visitors today of the ski resort’s history as host of the 1960 Winter Games. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These shuttles get skiers from the transit centers in places like Tahoe City and Truckee to ski resorts like Palisades Tahoe and Northstar on weekends and Sugar Bowl Resort every day all winter long, with added shuttles on holiday weekends. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are no reservations required, and the shuttles are completely free.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“With the implementation of parking reservations at the resorts, this has just helped get people who already know that they don’t have a place to go to have another option to get to the resort,” Van Siclen said. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“And it’s helped reduce some of the traffic that we see, especially on that [Highway] 89 corridor.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In South Lake Tahoe, free on-demand service \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ss-tma.org/lake-link/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lake Link\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> takes passengers from downtown as far as Zephyr Cove. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just download the app and request a ride — but make sure you do so with some time buffer, to avoid waiting too long.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the North Shore, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://tahoetruckeetransit.com/tart-connect/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TART Connect\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can take you around Truckee, Tahoe City and Kings Beach. This microtransit option is zone-based, so you won’t be able to get between the cities themselves using microtransit. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(One thing to know: TART Connect is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.moonshineink.com/tahoe-news/why-nevadas-tart-connect-disappeared/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">no longer available\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Incline Village because of a lapse in funding, so if you’re staying in Incline, you’ll have to rely on the main TART bus routes only.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018143\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Heavenly gondola of Heavenly ski resort in South Lake Tahoe, California, on Jan. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you’re staying in Olympic Valley or Alpine Meadows to access Palisades Tahoe, you can call a free \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mountaineertransit.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mountaineer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shuttle to get you to the resort and, in the evenings, between its two base areas. (To get out to Truckee or Tahoe City, you’ll have to use TART Connect.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of these microtransit options, Van Siclen said, are meant to be “curb to curb” services connecting transit riders to bus stops that can then get them anywhere they’d like to go. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or, if you’re just trying to make a short trip — for example, to a dinner reservation — she said, microtransit can get you there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you’ve decided to fly in and out of the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://northlaketahoeexpress.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Lake Tahoe Express\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can take you from the airport to the north shore. One-way shuttles cost $99 per person, and make sure you have a reservation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you’re looking for a car-free alternative to visiting Tahoe, keep reading for what to know about getting to — and then getting around — Tahoe without a car.\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"#OnceImtherehowcanIgetaroundTahoewithoutacar\">Jump straight to: Once I’m there, how can I get around Tahoe without a car?\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Method #1: Taking the train to Tahoe\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a smooth ride that offers beautiful views, you can take the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amtrak.com/california-zephyr-train\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California Zephyr\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an Amtrak train, from Emeryville or Richmond and get off at Truckee. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ride takes at least 5 hours, so bring a book or podcast and just enjoy the scenery as you glide up to the Sierra. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075342\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4706.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4706.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4706-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4706-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers enjoy the mountain views on the way to Truckee in the observation car of the California Zephyr on Feb. 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Sarah Wright/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One-way train tickets range from around $30 to $50 each, depending on demand, putting your total trip cost to around $100.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What else to know about taking the train to Tahoe:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>This train runs just once per day\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Zephyr leaves the Bay Area or Truckee in the morning with no additional services — so make sure this kind of inflexibility fits your schedule before booking. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The eastbound route leaves Richmond at 8:35 a.m., and the westbound Zephyr departs Truckee at 10:33 a.m. each day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Once you get in the mountains, hang out in the observation car \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The California Zephyr’s observation car is one of the most beautiful, wholesome places I have ever been. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you’re on the fence about taking the train to Tahoe — maybe you’re concerned that some of the hassle isn’t worth it — let those views be the one reason that convinces you to switch things up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075351\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-916055530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1329\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-916055530.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-916055530-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-916055530-1536x1031.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Zephyr Train with Snow-Capped Mountains in Utah, USA, 1964. \u003ccite>(GHI/Universal History Archive via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To make sure you get a prime seat in time for the scenic mountain views, consider ditching your seat a bit early, around the Roseville stop on the way up, to find a seat in the observation car: a special car with large windows and swiveling seats, where you can make the most of the mountain views. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don’t expect to work or get too much done in the observation car. This space tends to have somewhat of a calm, sacred air about it, with passengers actually tuned into their surroundings and even chatting casually with strangers. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You might see lots of kids and retirees filling the seats and commingling over the sweeping views. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>All trains have outlets, but there is no WiFi onboard\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">… and cell service can be spotty along the route. (Another reason you probably won’t get much work done.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If connecting from BART, use Richmond \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking BART to Amtrak? I recommend booking your ticket from Richmond to Truckee rather than Emeryville, as the BART station is conveniently connected to the Amtrak platform, making getting on board pretty seamless.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4665.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4665.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4665-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4665-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers enjoy the mountain views on the way to Truckee in the observation car of the California Zephyr on Feb. 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Sarah Wright/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(But if you’re coming from San Francisco, you’d rather save a few dollars on BART fare, there’s an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amtrak.com/stations/sfc\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amtrak shuttle bus\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the Emeryville station to downtown San Francisco, which is included in your ticket.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Method #2: Taking the ‘ski bus’ to Tahoe\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want the faster, more reliable option for skiing, take the ski bus. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://shop.sportsbasement.com/collections/sports-basement-outdoors-ski-bus?srsltid=AfmBOorx83gfaX5q3awev73ZvScJ4wrWSo6AoxHyMdNGvNzYnnCTHhcn\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sports Basement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> runs its Tahoe ski bus directly from its retail locations across the Bay Area to Palisades Tahoe, Kirkwood, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Northstar, Bear Valley and Sugar Bowl resorts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-2.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-2-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-2-1536x1023.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear Valley Mountain Resort is one of the smaller Central Sierra resorts offered on the Cali Pass. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bear Valley Mountain Resort)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Onboard, you can expect outlets, bathrooms and some beverages. Ski buses run rain or shine, but they are affected by traffic and road closures. Round-trip tickets on the ski bus are around $100.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What else to know about taking the ski bus:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>It’s a weekend-only option — and for the day only\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buses depart at 5 a.m. from the Bay Area and leave the resort at around 4 p.m. after lifts close. But these buses don’t run on weekdays, and while you can theoretically take the bus one way, you’ll have to pay the price of a round-trip ticket regardless.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980519\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1244621245_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow blanketed South Lake Tahoe in California on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And your ticket is only valid for the same day, so if you wanted to stay overnight and get the next day’s afternoon ski bus, you’d need to pay for \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">two \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">round-trip tickets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Your ticket could get you cheaper skiing\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bus tickets come with discounted lift tickets from some participating ski resorts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sports Basement also offers discounted 4-pack ski bus tickets if you plan on using this travel method multiple times in the season. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Method #3: Taking the train + bus combo\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want more flexible timing and don’t mind a transfer, take the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capitolcorridor.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol Corridor\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> train to Sacramento — and then the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.capitolcorridor.org/busschedule/Bus_Schedules.pdf?v=26012026v2\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amtrak bus\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Truckee or South Lake Tahoe. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This way, you’ll get a speedy (and scenic) ride to Sacramento, then hop on the bus for the remainder of your trip.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977893\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2053478681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2053478681.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2053478681-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2053478681-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2053478681-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk along Donner Pass Road as snow continues to fall in downtown Truckee on Saturday, March 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And because the Capital Corridor runs more frequently than the California Zephyr, and has both morning and afternoon trains that’ll get you into Truckee at around 2 p.m. or 6 p.m., depending on your preference, you can tailor your journey more closely to your needs. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the most flexible option, with Capital Corridor trains in the morning and afternoon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What else to know about taking the Capitol Corridor and the Amtrak bus:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>There’s onboard WiFi on the train\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">….unlike on the Zephyr. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You could save money\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not only is the train portion reliably fast, and the schedule more flexible than the Zephyr, but tickets tend to be cheap. One-way mixed service tickets are around $50 each way, for a total trip cost of $100. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Yes, the transfer can be a hassle\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Especially if you’ve brought a lot of gear for your trip, having to unload your stuff off the train and onto the Amtrak bus is the biggest downside of this travel method.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>What else to know about taking public transit to Tahoe \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Expect delays and stay flexible\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No matter which option you choose, be aware that weather conditions \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">affect your journey. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because it’s a cross-country train that comes all the way from Chicago, the California Zephyr can be especially prone to severe delays on its westbound route back to the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075345\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075345\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4654.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4654.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4654-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/IMG_4654-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mountain views on the way to Truckee in the observation car of the California Zephyr on Feb. 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Sarah Wright/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meaning that while you should be on time going east to Tahoe, your return trip from Truckee may be many hours behind due to weather elsewhere in the country, even if the Sierra is clear.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ski bus isn’t immune to delays either — and, unlike the Zephyr, can get caught in busy traffic on Highway 80 during busy weekends.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Don’t plan a flying visit\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unless you’re the Sports Basement bus for the day, you’ll probably have to take off on Friday and Monday to get the most out of a weekend trip. If you’re able to swing remote work, lots of people on the train are working and power outlets are plentiful (but double check beforehand whether your transit method of choice has WiFi – the California Zephyr does not.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bring your own food — or expect to pay onboard\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No matter which route you go, consider packing your own food for the journey.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will save you time and stress, and you can think of it like a picnic to enjoy while you watch the scenery slip by.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That said, both the Capitol Corridor and the California Zephyr have \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amtrak.com/cafe-car\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cafe cars\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where you can buy basic meals and beverages. But be warned: the meals, in my experience, tend to be somewhat overpriced for what you get. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Yes, you can still bring lots of luggage\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don’t worry if you’re bringing your entire family and ski setup — all of the transit options at your disposal have \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amtrak.com/bring-skis-and-snowboards-on-train\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">plenty of room\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for luggage, and are in fact expecting it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most trains and buses also allow you to bring a bike if you’re planning to ride while you’re up at the lake. Just be sure to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amtrak.com/bring-your-bicycle-onboard\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">make a reservation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that includes a bike.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And be aware that if you’re choosing the “Capitol Corridor + Amtrak bus” route, you’ll have to transfer yourself and all your stuff onto your next mode of transportation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"OnceImtherehowcanIgetaroundTahoewithoutacar\">\u003c/a>Once I’m there, how can I travel around Tahoe on public transit?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What happens once you arrive in Truckee or South Lake Tahoe and you don’t have a car? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uber, Lyft and taxis do operate in Tahoe, but wait times can be extremely long, and rides are expensive, so I wouldn’t recommend relying on this option alone. But don’t stress: There are ample transportation options around the lake. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bus systems around Tahoe\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you’re around the north shore of Lake Tahoe, near spots like Truckee or Tahoe City, the main bus system you’ll be using is called TART: the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://tahoetruckeetransit.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tahoe Area Regional Transportation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These routes serve ski resorts like Northstar, Palisades Tahoe and there’s even a shuttle to Sugar Bowl Resort.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the South Shore, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tahoetransportation.org/transit/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tahoe Transportation District\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also operates a few buses that service South Lake Tahoe and Heavenly Valley Resort.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075347\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251209-SNOWY-TAHOE-CS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251209-SNOWY-TAHOE-CS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251209-SNOWY-TAHOE-CS-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251209-SNOWY-TAHOE-CS-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kings Beach on the north shore of Lake Tahoe in 2022. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just make sure to check schedules well in advance, as many of the routes on both the south and north shores run infrequently — typically once per hour or every half hour at peak times, so don’t miss your ride.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, your patience and flexibility will be rewarded: Both transit systems are entirely free to ride. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your accommodations are flexible, consider staying near a TART or TTD stop so you can hop directly on the bus from your hotel or rental home.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>‘Microtransit’ routes and shuttles\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you’re far away from a main bus stop, or just want more flexible options, there are now also several so-called microtransit options around the lake. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One is the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://tahoetruckeetransit.com/parkandride/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TART Park and Ride program,\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said Sara Van Siclen, executive director of the Truckee North Tahoe Transportation Management Association.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53524_olympic-sign-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53524_olympic-sign-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53524_olympic-sign-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53524_olympic-sign-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53524_olympic-sign-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53524_olympic-sign-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Olympic symbol at Palisades Tahoe reminds visitors today of the ski resort’s history as host of the 1960 Winter Games. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These shuttles get skiers from the transit centers in places like Tahoe City and Truckee to ski resorts like Palisades Tahoe and Northstar on weekends and Sugar Bowl Resort every day all winter long, with added shuttles on holiday weekends. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are no reservations required, and the shuttles are completely free.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“With the implementation of parking reservations at the resorts, this has just helped get people who already know that they don’t have a place to go to have another option to get to the resort,” Van Siclen said. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“And it’s helped reduce some of the traffic that we see, especially on that [Highway] 89 corridor.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In South Lake Tahoe, free on-demand service \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ss-tma.org/lake-link/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lake Link\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> takes passengers from downtown as far as Zephyr Cove. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just download the app and request a ride — but make sure you do so with some time buffer, to avoid waiting too long.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the North Shore, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://tahoetruckeetransit.com/tart-connect/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TART Connect\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can take you around Truckee, Tahoe City and Kings Beach. This microtransit option is zone-based, so you won’t be able to get between the cities themselves using microtransit. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(One thing to know: TART Connect is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.moonshineink.com/tahoe-news/why-nevadas-tart-connect-disappeared/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">no longer available\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Incline Village because of a lapse in funding, so if you’re staying in Incline, you’ll have to rely on the main TART bus routes only.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018143\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Heavenly gondola of Heavenly ski resort in South Lake Tahoe, California, on Jan. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you’re staying in Olympic Valley or Alpine Meadows to access Palisades Tahoe, you can call a free \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mountaineertransit.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mountaineer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shuttle to get you to the resort and, in the evenings, between its two base areas. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before sleek \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11933882/beyond-vaccines-biotech-is-booming-in-the-bay-area-despite-a-cooling-economy\">biotech campuses\u003c/a> and venture capital arrived, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/south-san-francisco\">South San Francisco\u003c/a> had a very different identity. For much of the 20th century, it absorbed the Bay Area’s mess — industries that were noisy, dirty, politically inconvenient, or simply unwanted elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slaughterhouses. Steel mills. Shipyards. Freight terminals. Businesses that needed elbow room and cheap land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1923, the city declared its role in giant white letters on a hillside above town: “South San Francisco The Industrial City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“South San Francisco, like Emeryville, were industrial suburbs,” said Richard Walker, a professor emeritus of economic and urban geography at the University of California, Berkeley. “These were set up expressly to shelter industry from taxes, from protest, from labor, and they worked very effectively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Town councils limited housing, zoned big swaths for heavy industry, and kept taxes and rules light. The idea was to park loud, polluting businesses far from residential neighborhoods — and make them easy to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260304-South-San-Francisco-Archival-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260304-South-San-Francisco-Archival-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1473\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260304-South-San-Francisco-Archival-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260304-South-San-Francisco-Archival-01-KQED-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260304-South-San-Francisco-Archival-01-KQED-1536x1131.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of South San Francisco’s Sign Hill, circa 1930. \u003ccite>(Courtesy South San Francisco Public Library Local History Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond town borders, the Bay Area as a whole was comfortable with risk and experimentation, a mindset that goes all the way back to the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had a lot of young people, a lot of skilled workers, and a lot of capital,” Walker said of the Bay Area. “So this was an intellectual center, an industrial center, a capitalist center because of Bank of America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A risk-tolerant region meets a risky science\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those conditions mattered when a new science arrived in the 1970s. Biotechnology required not just smart people and money, but a tolerance for uncertainty and perceived risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists were learning how to cut and paste genes — editing code, but for living things. The technique, called recombinant DNA, made it possible to insert genetic instructions into bacteria and harness them to manufacture human hormones and medicines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early days, that power was both thrilling and unsettling. Scientists worried that engineered microbes could behave unpredictably — escape the lab, spread through air or water, or create entirely new biological risks they didn’t yet know how to contain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concerns were serious enough that, in 1975, many molecular biologists took an extraordinary step: they voluntarily halted their own research. About 150 scientists gathered at an oceanside retreat in Pacific Grove called Asilomar. For four days, they debated the dangers, negotiated boundaries, and ultimately agreed on a set of guidelines for conducting recombinant DNA research safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Public backlash\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But then the public learned about what was happening inside labs. To some, tinkering with DNA felt apocalyptic because scientists might create new life they couldn’t control. News headlines leaned into worst-case scenarios: superbugs and lab accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the era of the Andromeda Strain,” said Robin Wolfe Scheffler, historian of biology and medicine at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[aside postID=news_12074947 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260221-SUNNYSIDECONSERVATORY00252_TV-KQED.jpg']Trust in science and government was low. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861810/no-the-tuskegee-study-is-not-the-top-reason-some-black-americans-question-the-covid-19-vaccine\">Tuskegee syphilis study\u003c/a> had recently been exposed, revealing profound abuses. Americans were reckoning with the health impacts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11617827/this-vietnam-paratrooper-was-exposed-to-agent-orange-today-he-lives-with-parkinsons\">Agent Orange\u003c/a>. Nuclear anxiety lingered after the meltdown at \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/three/\">Three Mile Island\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backlash spread quickly. Cities began debating whether they should regulate or ban genetic engineering. In Cambridge, Mass., officials considered outlawing it altogether. In Berkeley and San Francisco, protesters marched, chanting slogans like, “We will not be cloned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For researchers hoping to commercialize their discoveries, this created a bottleneck. Biotech startups needed large laboratories, sewer hookups, industrial equipment, and stable local rules. They needed places without residential neighbors ready to revolt. A place like South San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Proof of concept\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By the mid-1970s, South San Francisco’s leaders were actively searching for a new economic base. The steel mills were mostly gone. Meatpacking was shrinking. Shipping was slowing. When a young venture capitalist named Bob Swanson arrived with an idea that scared much of the country, they didn’t recoil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson was newly laid off from a venture capital firm and living in San Francisco, broke and uncertain about his future. Convinced biotechnology was poised to take off, he cold-called a scruffy, long-haired biochemist named Herbert Boyer at the University of California, San Francisco, who agreed to a 20-minute meeting on a Friday afternoon. The casual meeting was so successful that they decided to pool $1,000 and start a new company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260224-SOUTHSF00325_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074375\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260224-SOUTHSF00325_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260224-SOUTHSF00325_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260224-SOUTHSF00325_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260224-SOUTHSF00325_TV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Genentech headquarters at 1 DNA Way in South San Francisco on Feb. 23, 2026. South San Francisco was historically an industrial area, housing shipyards, slaughterhouses and a steel mill. Now it’s a biotech hub. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Swanson floated the name Herbob — for Herb and Bob. Boyer vetoed it and suggested Genentech, short for Genetic Engineering and Technology. More marketable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They couldn’t afford office space in San Francisco. Plus, keeping a private company inside UCSF’s public labs raised thorny questions about who owned the science. (Those tensions would later surface in a long-running patent dispute between UCSF and Genentech tied to some of the earliest recombinant DNA research, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/1999/11/genentech-pays-off-ucsf/\">a case\u003c/a> the two sides settled in 1999.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They landed in South San Francisco. Genentech’s first office sat off East Grand Avenue, next door to a pornography studio. There were few residents to complain, and plenty of industrial space suitable for fermentation tanks and pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the national debate over genetic engineering raged, Genentech’s scientists worked quietly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1977, they produced the first synthetic human insulin using genetically engineered bacteria, a breakthrough that transformed diabetes care and proved biotechnology could work at scale. Until then, people with diabetes relied on insulin extracted from cows and pigs: lifesaving, but imperfect. Genentech’s insulin was identical to the human version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success triggered a cascade. Former Genentech scientists founded new companies nearby to develop drugs for HIV and cancer. Warehouses filled. A cluster emerged. Today, South San Francisco is one of the most valuable square miles in American science, with more than 250 biotechnology companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hey everyone. I’m Olivia Allen-Price, and this is Bay Curious.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today we head to South San Francisco. You pass it when you’re driving north from the airport along Highway 101– there are giant white letters carved into a hillside. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They read: “The Industrial City.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Faris Alikhan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It used to be meatpacking plants and steel foundries.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Faris Alikhan grew up in South San Francisco, went to high school there — and about half his graduating class went on to work in biotech. His mom did too.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Faris Alikhan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why did it become this hub of biotechnology? People move here from all around the world to work in that one industry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biotechnology is a process. Scientists take a living cell, like yeast or bacteria, and program them to make medicine. They grow those cells in massive tanks — like a brewery — and harvest what the cells produce to make vaccines, antibiotics, and cancer treatments. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, there are more than 250 biotech companies in South San Francisco, including Genentech. Faris wondered why \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">South San Francisco\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and not closer to an educational hub, like Stanford or Berkeley? How and why did this stretch of waterfront become the birthplace of biotechnology? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turns out he’s not alone in wondering this. Today’s question won a public voting round on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://baycurious.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">BayCurious.org\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED health correspondent Lesley McClurg headed to South San Francisco to find out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> When you drive down DNA way in South San Francisco it’s a little like a science fiction set. Shuttle buses glide between glass towers. Doctoral students sip matcha with CEOs. Researchers slip in workouts between experiments. Every amenity is available inside a self-contained city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Low rumble of a freight train\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But 100 years ago this stretch of land was nicknamed the smokestack capital of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Peninsula\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peninsula\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">… Freight terminals. Shipyards. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>Archival clip:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> By July 1944 nearly 16,000 men and women were employed in the shipyards all playing a role in the country’s victory.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a dirty, loud, industrial area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Richard Walker:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> South San Francisco, like Emeryville, they were industrial suburbs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richard Walker is a professor emeritus of economic and urban geography at UC Berkeley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Richard Walker:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> These were these were set up expressly to shelter industry from taxes, from protest, from labor and they worked very effectively. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the early and mid-20th century, local governments actively steered factories, warehouses, and refineries into these fringe cities. Town councils zoned big swaths of land for heavy industry. They limited housing, and kept taxes and rules light. The idea was to park the loud, dirty stuff far from residential neighborhoods — and make it easy for companies to operate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beyond the town’s borders, Walker says the Bay Area as a region was also unusually comfortable with risk and experimentation, a mindset that goes all the way back to the Gold Rush.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Richard Walker: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You had a lot of young people, a lot of skilled workers, and a lot of capital. So this was an intellectual center, an industrial center, a capitalist center because of Bank of America, lots of capital available through San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of that mattered when a new science came along in the 70s. Biotech needed smart people and money — AND it needed places willing to tolerate risk. And that’s where South San Francisco stood apart. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robin Wolfe Scheffler is a historian of biology and medicine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A community that was very used to dealing with potentially hazardous or unpleasant and industrial neighbors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And those industries were already in flux. The steel mills were mostly gone. Meatpacking was shrinking. Shipping was slowing. South San Francisco had space, infrastructure that was up for grabs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For people seeking to work with recombinant DNA in the late 1970s, that was actually perfect. Because many of the cities next to academic centers of molecular biology research were very concerned about its potential health hazards.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Genetic research was controversial. And in some cities, like Berkely or Palo Alto, very unwelcome.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>NewsHour clip:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The hottest scientific controversy since man learned to split the atom is now raging over a new branch of biology called genetic engineering. This tampering with the most basic ingredients of life raises moral and ethical problems as grave as nuclear fission did.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scientists had just learned how to cut and paste genes — kind of like editing code, but for living things. This technique, called recombinant DNA, allows researchers to use special enzymes to slip pieces of genetic material into bacteria. Suddenly it seemed possible to rewrite the instructions inside living things. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was both exciting and terrifying. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>NewsHour clip: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It might be a new drug of tremendous value in fighting disease, or it might be a new virus terribly dangerous to man. Some scientists want the research banned, and a large number want it controlled. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even molecular biologists were spooked by the possibilities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The scientific community was divided over how hazardous this potential technique was.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were so worried that they called a halt to their own work – and decided to convene a meeting. In 1975, about 150 scientists gathered in California at an oceanside retreat in Pacific Grove called Asilomar. For four days they argued, negotiated, and finally agreed on a set of guidelines for doing recombinant DNA research safely.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then the public learned about what was happening inside labs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the era of the Andromeda strain, this is the era of Three Mile Island, this is a a moment when overall there’s a huge amount of social concern over the impact of technology and science on the environment. and trust in the institutions of science and technology to regulate themselves is at a low ebb.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Americans had learned that the government had secretly let Black men suffer and die in the Tuskegee syphilis study. They were also just beginning to reckon with the health fallout of Agent Orange from the Vietnam War. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To some, tinkering with DNA felt apocalyptic. People worried engineered bacteria could escape the lab — through the air, water, or sewers — and make people sick. Others feared scientists were crossing an ethical line, creating new life they couldn’t control. Headlines leaned into worst-case scenarios: superbugs and lab accidents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By 1975, there is a national conversation about what regulations should be placed on the use of recombinant DNA technology, and individual municipalities begin to consider whether or not they can regulate it as well. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Cambridge, Massachusetts, city officials considered banning the new technology altogether. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The debate over the new experiments has filled over into the streets. “We science for the people are here to try to bring the issues of this controversy to the public. To the people. Because the people are at risk and will benefit from the experiments that are being done with recombinant DNA.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The same was true in San Francisco and Berkeley. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People marching down the street chanting, we will not be cloned. And so this is a concern for anybody seeking to move outside of an academic laboratory to set up a fledgling biotechnology company because these companies need laboratories, they need space to work. They want to connect to sewers, they want to have the assurance that they’re going to be able to sort of operate on a stable basis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cue South San Francisco. It’s a community that was very used to dealing with potentially hazardous or unpleasant products. Plus, the 1970s were a time of deindustrialization and so…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city leaders were very concerned to find a new economic base.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So when a young venture capitalist came knocking with an idea that could revive South San Francisco – city leaders welcomed him.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music starts\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> When we return – a behemoth is born. Stay with us.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sponsor message\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the 1970s, South San Francisco leaders were concerned about the dwindling industries that propped up its tax base. Little did they know the next big thing was waiting at their doorstep. KQED’s Lesley McClurg.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the time Bob Swanson was an unemployed MIT graduate living in San Francisco. He’d just been laid off by the venture capital firm Kleiner and Perkins. According to his wife Judy he was living on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Judy Swanson: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He had no extra money, and he was really scared that what am I going to do next? I don’t want to be a failure in life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He started reading about biotechnology. And was quickly convinced this was the moment it could take off. So, he called a scruffy long haired biochemist named Herb Boyer at UCSF, who agreed to a 20 minute meeting on a Friday afternoon. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Judy Swanson: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bob showed up in his you know three piece vests outfit and and they hit it off. They decided to go get a beer afterwards. So the two of them decided to put what money they had which was five hundred dollars each to create a company.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bob wanted to call it Herbob. For Herb and Bob. Herb thought that was a terrible idea. His suggestion was Genentech for Genetic Engineering and Technology. They couldn’t afford office space in San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And keeping a private company inside UCSF’s public labs raised thorny questions about who owned the science. Those tensions would later surface in a long-running patent dispute between UCSF and Genentech tied to some of the earliest recombinant DNA research, a case the two sides settled in 1999. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Long before the lawyers got involved, Bob looked south of the city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Judy Swanson: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He rented the most inexpensive office space that he could rent, which was in South San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The offices were in a nondescript building off East Grand Avenue.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Judy Swanson: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">South San Francisco was nothing then really, and they were welcoming, you know, of any idea. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Genentech’s new office was next door to a pornography studio. Because there were so few residential areas – nobody griped about what was in their backyard. And most importantly — there were plenty of empty warehouses large enough to handle vats, pipes, and fermentation columns that are key to biotechnology.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, as the nation argued over the risks of genetic engineering. Scientists at Genentech were quietly at work in South San Francisco, on the verge of transforming diabetes care.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>NBC News clip from 1977: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scientists around the country today were paying close attention to reports from California that genetic engineering in a laboratory may be able to produce an insulin gene that could have all kinds of effects.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until then, people with diabetes relied on insulin taken from cow and pig pancreases. It kept them alive, but it wasn’t an exact match for human insulin and could trigger immune reactions. Genentech made the first synthetic human insulin — identical to what our bodies produce, using genetically engineered bacteria. Production began in 1978. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>NBC News, 1977:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Genetic engineering has become big business\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Within a decade, companies founded by former Genentech scientists began filling nearby warehouses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>NBC News, 1977: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">nd entirely new firms have emerged solely devoted to genetic engineering.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A cluster formed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And over time, South San Francisco became one of the most valuable square miles in American science.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the years that followed, work done here led to HIV drugs that changed the course of the AIDS epidemic. 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This month, here’s what’s up for consideration…\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Question 1: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why is there truly a taco truck on every corner in San Francisco and San Mateo?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Question 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why are there huge fans over the tunnels near the Golden Gate Bridge?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Question 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What’s the story with the abandoned cop car in front of the airport off of 101? Everyone knows no actual cop is in it, so what’s the scoop with leaving there?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voting takes just a click — no registering or drama, I promise. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hey everyone. I’m Olivia Allen-Price, and this is Bay Curious.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today we head to South San Francisco. You pass it when you’re driving north from the airport along Highway 101– there are giant white letters carved into a hillside. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They read: “The Industrial City.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Faris Alikhan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It used to be meatpacking plants and steel foundries.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Faris Alikhan grew up in South San Francisco, went to high school there — and about half his graduating class went on to work in biotech. His mom did too.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Faris Alikhan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why did it become this hub of biotechnology? People move here from all around the world to work in that one industry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biotechnology is a process. Scientists take a living cell, like yeast or bacteria, and program them to make medicine. They grow those cells in massive tanks — like a brewery — and harvest what the cells produce to make vaccines, antibiotics, and cancer treatments. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, there are more than 250 biotech companies in South San Francisco, including Genentech. Faris wondered why \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">South San Francisco\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and not closer to an educational hub, like Stanford or Berkeley? How and why did this stretch of waterfront become the birthplace of biotechnology? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turns out he’s not alone in wondering this. Today’s question won a public voting round on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://baycurious.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">BayCurious.org\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED health correspondent Lesley McClurg headed to South San Francisco to find out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> When you drive down DNA way in South San Francisco it’s a little like a science fiction set. Shuttle buses glide between glass towers. Doctoral students sip matcha with CEOs. Researchers slip in workouts between experiments. Every amenity is available inside a self-contained city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Low rumble of a freight train\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But 100 years ago this stretch of land was nicknamed the smokestack capital of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Peninsula\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peninsula\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">… Freight terminals. Shipyards. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>Archival clip:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> By July 1944 nearly 16,000 men and women were employed in the shipyards all playing a role in the country’s victory.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a dirty, loud, industrial area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Richard Walker:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> South San Francisco, like Emeryville, they were industrial suburbs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richard Walker is a professor emeritus of economic and urban geography at UC Berkeley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Richard Walker:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> These were these were set up expressly to shelter industry from taxes, from protest, from labor and they worked very effectively. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the early and mid-20th century, local governments actively steered factories, warehouses, and refineries into these fringe cities. Town councils zoned big swaths of land for heavy industry. They limited housing, and kept taxes and rules light. The idea was to park the loud, dirty stuff far from residential neighborhoods — and make it easy for companies to operate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beyond the town’s borders, Walker says the Bay Area as a region was also unusually comfortable with risk and experimentation, a mindset that goes all the way back to the Gold Rush.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Richard Walker: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You had a lot of young people, a lot of skilled workers, and a lot of capital. So this was an intellectual center, an industrial center, a capitalist center because of Bank of America, lots of capital available through San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of that mattered when a new science came along in the 70s. Biotech needed smart people and money — AND it needed places willing to tolerate risk. And that’s where South San Francisco stood apart. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robin Wolfe Scheffler is a historian of biology and medicine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A community that was very used to dealing with potentially hazardous or unpleasant and industrial neighbors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And those industries were already in flux. The steel mills were mostly gone. Meatpacking was shrinking. Shipping was slowing. South San Francisco had space, infrastructure that was up for grabs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For people seeking to work with recombinant DNA in the late 1970s, that was actually perfect. Because many of the cities next to academic centers of molecular biology research were very concerned about its potential health hazards.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Genetic research was controversial. And in some cities, like Berkely or Palo Alto, very unwelcome.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>NewsHour clip:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The hottest scientific controversy since man learned to split the atom is now raging over a new branch of biology called genetic engineering. This tampering with the most basic ingredients of life raises moral and ethical problems as grave as nuclear fission did.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scientists had just learned how to cut and paste genes — kind of like editing code, but for living things. This technique, called recombinant DNA, allows researchers to use special enzymes to slip pieces of genetic material into bacteria. Suddenly it seemed possible to rewrite the instructions inside living things. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was both exciting and terrifying. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>NewsHour clip: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It might be a new drug of tremendous value in fighting disease, or it might be a new virus terribly dangerous to man. Some scientists want the research banned, and a large number want it controlled. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even molecular biologists were spooked by the possibilities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The scientific community was divided over how hazardous this potential technique was.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were so worried that they called a halt to their own work – and decided to convene a meeting. In 1975, about 150 scientists gathered in California at an oceanside retreat in Pacific Grove called Asilomar. For four days they argued, negotiated, and finally agreed on a set of guidelines for doing recombinant DNA research safely.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then the public learned about what was happening inside labs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the era of the Andromeda strain, this is the era of Three Mile Island, this is a a moment when overall there’s a huge amount of social concern over the impact of technology and science on the environment. and trust in the institutions of science and technology to regulate themselves is at a low ebb.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Americans had learned that the government had secretly let Black men suffer and die in the Tuskegee syphilis study. They were also just beginning to reckon with the health fallout of Agent Orange from the Vietnam War. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To some, tinkering with DNA felt apocalyptic. People worried engineered bacteria could escape the lab — through the air, water, or sewers — and make people sick. Others feared scientists were crossing an ethical line, creating new life they couldn’t control. Headlines leaned into worst-case scenarios: superbugs and lab accidents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By 1975, there is a national conversation about what regulations should be placed on the use of recombinant DNA technology, and individual municipalities begin to consider whether or not they can regulate it as well. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Cambridge, Massachusetts, city officials considered banning the new technology altogether. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News clip: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The debate over the new experiments has filled over into the streets. “We science for the people are here to try to bring the issues of this controversy to the public. To the people. Because the people are at risk and will benefit from the experiments that are being done with recombinant DNA.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The same was true in San Francisco and Berkeley. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People marching down the street chanting, we will not be cloned. And so this is a concern for anybody seeking to move outside of an academic laboratory to set up a fledgling biotechnology company because these companies need laboratories, they need space to work. They want to connect to sewers, they want to have the assurance that they’re going to be able to sort of operate on a stable basis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cue South San Francisco. It’s a community that was very used to dealing with potentially hazardous or unpleasant products. Plus, the 1970s were a time of deindustrialization and so…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Robin Wolfe Scheffler: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city leaders were very concerned to find a new economic base.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So when a young venture capitalist came knocking with an idea that could revive South San Francisco – city leaders welcomed him.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music starts\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> When we return – a behemoth is born. Stay with us.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sponsor message\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the 1970s, South San Francisco leaders were concerned about the dwindling industries that propped up its tax base. Little did they know the next big thing was waiting at their doorstep. KQED’s Lesley McClurg.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the time Bob Swanson was an unemployed MIT graduate living in San Francisco. He’d just been laid off by the venture capital firm Kleiner and Perkins. According to his wife Judy he was living on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Judy Swanson: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He had no extra money, and he was really scared that what am I going to do next? I don’t want to be a failure in life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He started reading about biotechnology. And was quickly convinced this was the moment it could take off. So, he called a scruffy long haired biochemist named Herb Boyer at UCSF, who agreed to a 20 minute meeting on a Friday afternoon. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Judy Swanson: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bob showed up in his you know three piece vests outfit and and they hit it off. They decided to go get a beer afterwards. So the two of them decided to put what money they had which was five hundred dollars each to create a company.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bob wanted to call it Herbob. For Herb and Bob. Herb thought that was a terrible idea. His suggestion was Genentech for Genetic Engineering and Technology. They couldn’t afford office space in San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And keeping a private company inside UCSF’s public labs raised thorny questions about who owned the science. Those tensions would later surface in a long-running patent dispute between UCSF and Genentech tied to some of the earliest recombinant DNA research, a case the two sides settled in 1999. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Long before the lawyers got involved, Bob looked south of the city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Judy Swanson: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He rented the most inexpensive office space that he could rent, which was in South San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The offices were in a nondescript building off East Grand Avenue.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Judy Swanson: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">South San Francisco was nothing then really, and they were welcoming, you know, of any idea. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Genentech’s new office was next door to a pornography studio. Because there were so few residential areas – nobody griped about what was in their backyard. And most importantly — there were plenty of empty warehouses large enough to handle vats, pipes, and fermentation columns that are key to biotechnology.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, as the nation argued over the risks of genetic engineering. Scientists at Genentech were quietly at work in South San Francisco, on the verge of transforming diabetes care.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>NBC News clip from 1977: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scientists around the country today were paying close attention to reports from California that genetic engineering in a laboratory may be able to produce an insulin gene that could have all kinds of effects.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until then, people with diabetes relied on insulin taken from cow and pig pancreases. It kept them alive, but it wasn’t an exact match for human insulin and could trigger immune reactions. Genentech made the first synthetic human insulin — identical to what our bodies produce, using genetically engineered bacteria. Production began in 1978. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>NBC News, 1977:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Genetic engineering has become big business\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Within a decade, companies founded by former Genentech scientists began filling nearby warehouses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>NBC News, 1977: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">nd entirely new firms have emerged solely devoted to genetic engineering.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley McClurg:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A cluster formed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And over time, South San Francisco became one of the most valuable square miles in American science.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the years that followed, work done here led to HIV drugs that changed the course of the AIDS epidemic. And cancer treatments were developed that are now standard care.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While much of the country hesitated, South San Francisco made room. What had been noisy, polluted, and overlooked proved well suited for a risky new science — one that grew into a multibillion-dollar industry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That was KQED Health Correspondent Lesley McClurg. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This question was part of a Bay Curious voting round. Did you know we have a new one up on our website every month? This month, here’s what’s up for consideration…\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Question 1: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why is there truly a taco truck on every corner in San Francisco and San Mateo?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Question 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why are there huge fans over the tunnels near the Golden Gate Bridge?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Question 3: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What’s the story with the abandoned cop car in front of the airport off of 101? Everyone knows no actual cop is in it, so what’s the scoop with leaving there?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voting takes just a click — no registering or drama, I promise. Do it at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://baycurious.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">BayCurious.org\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. You can become a member today, and enjoy all sorts of nice benefits — the biggest one though. Those warm fuzzies you get knowing you support shows like ours. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly every member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> congressional delegation said they will be voting yes on Wednesday on a resolution authored by South Bay Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ro-khanna\">Ro Khanna\u003c/a> that calls for President Donald Trump to end \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075251/iranian-americans-react-to-us-israel-war-on-iran\">military action against Iran\u003c/a> unless he seeks authorization from Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House vote comes one day after the U.S. Senate failed to pass a similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/98/cosponsors\">resolution \u003c/a>cosponsored by California’s Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/38/text\">resolution \u003c/a>coauthored by Khanna and Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie also calls for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iran. While unlikely to pass —and almost certainly be vetoed by the president if it did — the resolution asserts Congress’s power to declare war under the Constitution and calls for an end to military action “unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or specific authorization for use of military force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if it fails, the resolution will symbolically force lawmakers to go on the record and take a position on the war in Iran ahead of what’s expected to be a competitive midterm election to decide the control of Congress for the second half of Trump’s term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In remarks on the House floor on Wednesday, Khanna — a longtime opponent of foreign military intervention — framed the decision before lawmakers as not a procedural vote, but a “profoundly moral” one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world needs a new moral vision. America needs a new vision. We are seeing militarism erode the soul of our nation, leading to a regime change war in Iran and utter human devastation in Gaza. Simply put, we have lost our way. We’re back to the law of the jungle, where might makes right and where the Middle East descends into a Hobbesian war of all against all,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A prayer is held during a rally in response to U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on March 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Six American soldiers have died since military strikes began last weekend, according to the Pentagon, and nearly 800 people are believed to have been killed in Iran, including 160 children and staff at a school. 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We are at war, having no authorization by Congress, a power explicitly given by our founders to the Congress to declare war,” he said. “This resolution is about stopping that war, but it is also about reasserting Congress’s vital role as a check on the executive and the abuse of the authority to bring a nation to war.”[aside postID=news_12075199 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2263689274-2000x1367.jpg']Among the coauthors of Khanna’s House resolution are eight Democratic members of Congress from the Bay Area: Pelosi, Oakland Rep. Lateefah Simon, Napa Rep. Mike Thompson, East Bay Reps. Mark DeSaulnier, John Garamendi and Eric Swalwell, North Bay Rep. Jared Huffman, and South Bay Rep. Zoe Lofgren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045408/im-furious-bay-area-leaders-criticize-trump-for-foregoing-congress-on-iran-strikes\">Many of those same lawmakers\u003c/a> cosponsoring the resolution also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074989/bay-area-lawmakers-rebuke-trump-over-iran-strikes-war-authority\">spoke out against the war \u003c/a>over the weekend, in the immediate aftermath of the first American strikes\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are two debates going on here,” Pelosi said on the House floor on Wednesday. “One is a debate as to the Constitution of the United States. The other is whether Iran should have a nuclear weapon, which we all agree they should not. But that doesn’t mean the Constitution of the United States should be a casualty of that because you want to take a shortcut to the war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservatives have attacked Pelosi’s position in recent days, noting that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosis-war-powers-flip-flop-exposed-resurfaced-obama-era-clip-contradicts-trump-criticism\">defended\u003c/a> former President Barack Obama’s unilateral decision to bomb Libya in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her spokesman, Ian Krager, said there’s a difference between those limited operations in Libya and “a broader, escalating war” with Iran, and that she’s been consistent in her position that Congress should weigh in when there is the prospect of “expansive or prolonged hostilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244433247-scaled-e1762811972609.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaks during a campaign event in support of Proposition 50 in San Francisco, on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And on Wednesday, Pelosi said on the House floor that there should be a debate about the merits of the actions in Iran — after Congress asserts its power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if it fails, the resolution will symbolically force lawmakers to go on the record and take a position on the war in Iran ahead of what’s expected to be a competitive midterm election to decide the control of Congress for the second half of Trump’s term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In remarks on the House floor on Wednesday, Khanna — a longtime opponent of foreign military intervention — framed the decision before lawmakers as not a procedural vote, but a “profoundly moral” one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world needs a new moral vision. America needs a new vision. We are seeing militarism erode the soul of our nation, leading to a regime change war in Iran and utter human devastation in Gaza. Simply put, we have lost our way. We’re back to the law of the jungle, where might makes right and where the Middle East descends into a Hobbesian war of all against all,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A prayer is held during a rally in response to U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on March 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Six American soldiers have died since military strikes began last weekend, according to the Pentagon, and nearly 800 people are believed to have been killed in Iran, including 160 children and staff at a school. Scores more have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-people-have-been-killed-us-israel-war-iran-2026-03-03/\">killed \u003c/a>across the region as the conflict spreads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In comments on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Schiff slammed the Trump administration for not making the case for war to the American public or to Congress before it began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at war, having had no national debate over whether we should enter into war. We are at war, having no authorization by Congress, a power explicitly given by our founders to the Congress to declare war,” he said. “This resolution is about stopping that war, but it is also about reasserting Congress’s vital role as a check on the executive and the abuse of the authority to bring a nation to war.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But that doesn’t mean the Constitution of the United States should be a casualty of that because you want to take a shortcut to the war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservatives have attacked Pelosi’s position in recent days, noting that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosis-war-powers-flip-flop-exposed-resurfaced-obama-era-clip-contradicts-trump-criticism\">defended\u003c/a> former President Barack Obama’s unilateral decision to bomb Libya in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her spokesman, Ian Krager, said there’s a difference between those limited operations in Libya and “a broader, escalating war” with Iran, and that she’s been consistent in her position that Congress should weigh in when there is the prospect of “expansive or prolonged hostilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244433247-scaled-e1762811972609.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaks during a campaign event in support of Proposition 50 in San Francisco, on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And on Wednesday, Pelosi said on the House floor that there should be a debate about the merits of the actions in Iran — after Congress asserts its power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Rep. Sam Liccardo said he was troubled that the Trump administration has not clearly articulated the objectives of the war, calling such an explanation necessary both under the Constitution and morally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069211/after-maduros-capture-venezuela-faces-old-u-s-shadows-and-uncertain-future\">U.S. military operations in Venezuela\u003c/a>, he said in a written statement that the American public doesn’t have the appetite for “more protracted engagement,” and called for “immediate action” from Congress on the war powers resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a> jury on Wednesday returned mostly guilty verdicts against a Los Gatos woman accused of hosting drunken parties with sexual activity for her teenage son and his friends, in what became known as the “Party Mom” case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury convicted Shannon O’Connor of 48 charges, including the most serious charges of sexually assaulting two girls by proxy because she allowed them to get so intoxicated that they were unable to consent. She was also found guilty of additional charges, including annoying and molesting a child and dissuading witnesses from testifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/video/fmc-fbtmfdt48cx7bie6\">press conference\u003c/a> after the verdict reading, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said O’Connor is likely to face 30 years or more in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This defendant took advantage of children, manipulated children, hurt children emotionally, mentally, physically and did that for her own perverse reasons,” Rosen said. “And today, there’s justice for what she had done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The verdict followed a four-month trial featuring testimony from some of the dozen-plus victims — many of whom were around 14 years old — who were invited to parties O’Connor hosted between 2020 and 2021 at her Los Gatos home, short-term rentals and hotels. Jurors viewed video recordings showing teenagers so intoxicated that they were falling over, vomiting and in some cases, losing consciousness, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors contended that O’Connor not only supplied alcohol but also fostered an environment where minors were vulnerable and facilitated sexual encounters that she sometimes watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Connor would have rooms available at her parties for the minors to perform sexual acts, and pressure girls to go in, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://files.santaclaracounty.gov/exjcpb1551/migrated/SOF-O'Connor_0.pdf?VersionId=lib6tTnkU2qtAdvIwqesS6TvMF8AByWo\">statement of facts\u003c/a> by investigator Christina Hanks. At one party in December 2020, O’Connor was present when a boy digitally penetrated a girl in the hot tub while she was so intoxicated that she struggled to keep her head above water, Hanks wrote. At another, she handed an underage boy a condom and pushed him into a room with an intoxicated girl.[aside postID=news_12073875 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260208-superbowlsunday00908_TV_qed.jpg']The document also shows that O’Connor communicated with the teenagers on Snapchat, encouraging them to lie to their parents and discussing their sexual interests. She bullied and threatened to spread rumors about minors who broke her rule of not telling anyone about the parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the trial, O’Connor’s attorney, Stephen Prekoski, focused on disputing the most serious felony charges, including sexual assault-related charges, annoying and molesting a child charges, witness dissuasion and felony child endangerment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s obviously not the result we were hoping for,” Prekoski told reporters outside the courthouse on Wednesday. He noted that O’Connor received four favorable verdicts, but said those were not the charges the defense considered their highest priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Connor was arrested in 2021 in Idaho and was extradited to Santa Clara County, where she has remained in jail for four and a half years. She pleaded not guilty to all charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did not testify at trial. However, in December, she told \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/31/los-gatos-mom-party-shannon-oconnor-trial/\">\u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a> she intended to create a “safe space” for teenagers struggling during pandemic lockdowns. She acknowledged poor judgment in allowing alcohol but denied criminal intent, arguing that the teens were incentivized to blame her in order to avoid consequences themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the guilty verdicts, O’Connor now faces decades in prison and will have to register as a sex offender. She will be sentenced later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>SUNNYVALE — Sitting on the sofa in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sunnyvale\">Sunnyvale\u003c/a> apartment, Aby Peña blew a kiss into her pink cellphone as she said goodbye to her husband, Ulises Peña López, 2,000 miles away in Uruapan, Mexico. It wasn’t their first call of the day, and it wouldn’t be their last. They’ve talked often since Ulises, 31, was deported in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a year since the couple woke up together in this apartment and began what they thought would be a mundane morning of family errands. Ulises, a carpenter, went downstairs to warm up the car, while Aby got their then-3-year-old daughter Emily ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour later, Ulises would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028303/ice-arrest-left-bay-area-man-hospitalized-struggling-breathe-attorney-says\">in the emergency room\u003c/a> at El Camino Health in Mountain View, barely conscious, with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stationed near his bed. His lawyers would later tell a court that ICE agents had beaten Ulises so severely he suffered a heart attack and a stroke, allegations the agency has denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Aby would be on the phone with the local Rapid Response Network, frantically trying to locate her husband while soothing her wailing daughter, who had watched from the window as the agents forced her father from the car at gunpoint, wrestled him into handcuffs and drove away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened that February day, in the early weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, prefigured the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5566785/ice-dhs-immigration-tactics-more-violent\">often-violent immigration arrests\u003c/a> that have unfolded across the country over the past year. And the lasting trauma, upheaval and financial strain for this one Bay Area family is an early example of how Trump’s campaign of mass deportation has upended life for countless American children and families in the months that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, the right side of my body is paralyzed. I’ve lost vision and hearing and sensation,” Ulises said by phone from Mexico. “Before that day, I was a normal person working in construction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 400,000 people were arrested by ICE last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-1st-year\">more than four times\u003c/a> the number in 2024. Public attention has focused on the crackdown in cities like Los Angeles and Minneapolis, where federal agents have killed at least two people and observers have documented their use of aggressive tactics. But even in Northern California, where a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061294/federal-immigration-agents-in-the-bay-what-we-know-and-dont-know\">planned Border Patrol\u003c/a> surge was called off at the last minute last fall, immigration arrests have more than doubled. Ulises’ detention was just one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074619\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña leaves her husband’s belongings as he left them at their home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the help of pro bono lawyers, Ulises has appealed his deportation and the family has filed personal injury claims against ICE. KQED reviewed legal filings in those cases, as well as government documents, and interviewed Ulises, Aby, their lawyers and outside experts about what the last year has been like for the family and how it illustrates \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/12/25/nx-s1-5645006/how-trumps-mass-deportation-efforts-have-affected-families-this-year#:~:text=Transcript-,The%20centerpiece%20of%20the%20Trump%20administration's%20second%20term%20has%20been,Good%20morning.\">what is now unfolding\u003c/a> for tens of thousands of other families across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under previous administrations, ICE sometimes violated the civil rights of immigrants — and its own policies — said Elena Hodges, an immigration attorney with Pangea Legal Services who’s part of the team representing Ulises. But now the intensity is escalating, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This level of violence is becoming more common and is increasingly embraced as just the routine course of operations,” she said. “High-profile harms to people, where they end up in the hospital, their car window is smashed … that tracks with a new level of political acceptance and encouragement that we’re seeing from the Trump administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, the administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/policywatch/trump-administration-closes-three-dhs-offices-focused-on-civil-rights-and-oversight/\">dismantled\u003c/a> many of the internal watchdog offices at the Department of Homeland Security, enabling agents to act with impunity, said Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we are seeing them be more aggressive and less likely to be called to account,” Meissner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The arrest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was a little after 7 a.m. on Feb. 21, 2025. Ulises was in the carport starting up his red Ford Explorer when unmarked SUVs suddenly blocked him in and armed men surrounded the car, shouting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when it all started,” Ulises said. He said officers yelled racist epithets, pushed him to the ground, kicked him, then yanked him up and handcuffed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said they did not show a warrant (the administrative warrant ICE eventually produced was dated four days after the arrest).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña sits in the kitchen at her home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aby looked on in horror from the terrace outside their second-floor apartment as her daughter watched from the window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember seeing him shaking really bad,” she said. “I didn’t know, was it a panic attack or what was happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aby said she screamed to the agents that Ulises had a life-threatening medical condition and an important appointment the following day. Doctors had recently diagnosed a tear inside an artery in his neck that put him at risk of a stroke, court filings show. They were treating him with medications and closely monitoring him, Aby said. As the arrest was unfolding, she ran to the bathroom, threw his prescriptions in a plastic bag and handed them to an officer.[aside postID=news_12073728 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260218-George-Retes-01-KQED.jpg']Ulises said officers drove him to a nearby alley and beat him again, his hands still cuffed behind his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought they were going to kill me,” he said. “Suddenly, I couldn’t feel anything. I couldn’t see anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He came to with an officer pressing on his chest, performing CPR. He heard another man call an ambulance. The next thing he knew, he was in the hospital, hooked up to tubes and wires and handcuffed to the bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s arrest report tells the story differently. There’s no mention of officers striking Ulises. The report said they handcuffed him without incident, but once he was in the ICE vehicle, Ulises told them he had a heart condition and “appeared to be panicking.” They gave him a pill from one of the prescription bottles, but he started coughing and spitting out pill fragments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE said Ulises threw up a red substance and began convulsing, at which point officers uncuffed him and laid him on the ground. He began “violently coughing up phlegm and grabbing his chest,” ICE said. When he lost consciousness, they performed chest compressions until an ambulance arrived, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not reply to requests for comment for this story. Last year, shortly after the arrest, ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028303/ice-arrest-left-bay-area-man-hospitalized-struggling-breathe-attorney-says\">responded\u003c/a> to KQED and denied mistreating Ulises. At the time, an ICE spokesperson called the allegation that Ulises was beaten by officers “absolutely inaccurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The aftermath\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the hospital, according to Ulises’ appeal to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, “his hands and arms were bandaged, his face was swollen, and he could not move his right arm or hand.” A doctor indicated that Ulises had had a heart attack, the brief said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hodges, the attorney, said she waited many hours before ICE allowed her to see her client at the hospital — briefly, with armed officers present. Likewise, she said, ICE prevented him from speaking privately with doctors or his wife. When Aby was finally allowed 30 minutes with him the next morning, ICE officers took her cellphone away so she couldn’t photograph him, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Ulises was transported to Golden State Annex, a privately run immigration jail in northern Kern County, where his lawyers say he didn’t receive consistent medication or meaningful follow-up care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family photos hang on the wall at Aby Peña and Ulises Peña Lopez’s home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Peña Lopez was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the following days, ICE took Ulises to a local emergency room twice, for chest pain, trouble breathing and neurological symptoms. “A CT scan confirmed that he had had a stroke — either that day or during his arrest, or both,” according to his legal brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the nearly eight months Ulises spent in ICE detention, first at Golden State Annex and then east of Bakersfield at the California City Detention Center, his pain and neurological symptoms worsened, Hodges said. He suffered nightmares and flashbacks to the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ICE officers’ physical assaults and verbal abuse during the arrest, “shock the conscience,” according to his claim for damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act. And California Democrats, including Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna, have recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069220/south-bay-rep-ro-khanna-horrified-after-visit-to-california-city-ice-detention-center\">called out deplorable conditions\u003c/a> at ICE detention centers, including at California City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Ulises said, he walks with a cane, still in pain. Unable to work, he has no health insurance in Mexico. An aunt took him in. And Aby sends some money. But the doctors he needs are expensive, and a two-hour bus ride away in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m certain that if I had gotten adequate medical attention at the time, I wouldn’t be suffering like this now,” he said. “It would be a totally different story if I’d gotten care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Those left behind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not only the physical ailments that linger. Aggressive immigration enforcement not only harms immigrants, but their family members, many of whom — like Aby and Emily — are U.S.-born citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrupt family separations are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/66102/how-immigration-raids-traumatize-even-the-youngest-children\">traumatic for children\u003c/a>, said Dr. Lisa Fortuna, who chairs the psychiatry department at UC Riverside. But when a young child like Emily watches the violent arrest of a parent, the experience can leave lasting scars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Providing treatment early and effectively can really help children,” Fortuna said. “But it is an emotional injury nonetheless, and it’s quite serious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña holds a pink dress she bought for her daughter’s next birthday at her home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike many children who witness immigration arrests, Emily sees a therapist. But the little girl who used to sleep peacefully now wakes up screaming nightly. She’s fearful of strangers and jumpy when a car door slams. A year on, she is still replaying the event in her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a video call just two days ago, and my daughter asked, ‘Papi, are the men going to come back and hit you again? Does it still hurt?’” Ulises said. “That just broke me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dislocation in Emily’s life only compounded after her father’s arrest. Aby, 32, who’d been a stay-at-home mom, had to go back to work as a licensed vocational nurse. Needing child care on an unpredictable schedule, she moved Emily in with her parents in Chico. Aby typically works three 14-hour shifts, then drives the four hours north to spend a couple of days with her daughter before starting the work week again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She doesn’t have me or her dad nearby now,” Aby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrangement runs counter to therapists’ suggestion that Emily’s recovery depends on a predictable routine, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s always having to say goodbye,” Aby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Aby is home in Sunnyvale, the apartment feels empty. Her daughter’s closet is still full of toys and small pink dresses. Her husband’s watch is still on his nightstand, his razor in the bathroom – comforting reminders of the life they used to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair met a decade ago when she went to a restaurant where he was working. She was in nursing school, and he was training with the carpenters’ union. She admired that he was a hard worker and was happy to find that he loved to cook. When Emily was born, and Aby was recovering from a difficult pregnancy, Ulises soothed the baby to sleep on his chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ulises was 18 when he came to the U.S. in 2013. According to his appeal to the Ninth Circuit, he was fleeing the Jalisco Cartel after its members extorted his family and beat him, then — when he reported it to the police — murdered his uncle and cousins. Lawyer Priya Patel, with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, believes Ulises should have been considered for asylum at the time. Instead, he was swiftly deported under an expedited removal order. He crossed the border again, undetected, came to the Bay Area and built a life, unaware of that deportation order or the fact that it could be reinstated at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal documents show that early last year, ICE’s Law Enforcement Support Center flagged Ulises’ whereabouts for the San Francisco field office. The ICE arrest report mentions several misdemeanor convictions from his 20s. The most serious is a 2019 assault. Patel said Ulises pleaded no contest, following a verbal fight with his wife after he’d been out drinking. He was given a suspended sentence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña speaks by phone with her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, from their home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Peña Lopez was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are four convictions, none of them resulted in jail time, other than one day,” Patel said. “And none of it involved physical violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the convictions may have marked Ulises as a target for ICE, under priorities spelled out by Trump’s border czar Tom Homan early last year to focus on convicted criminals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homan’s pledge to stay focused on the “worst of the worst” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071374/under-trump-ice-is-far-more-likely-to-arrest-people-with-no-criminal-record-data-shows\">buckled\u003c/a> in the face of Trump’s call for a million deportations in his first year, though. As of Jan. 6, just \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-1st-year\">one in four people\u003c/a> in ICE detention had a criminal conviction, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Ulises’ misdemeanors put him in that category.[aside postID=news_12073215 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY2-KQED.jpg']That’s likely to make his appeal harder. But his lawyers hope to convince the judges of the Ninth Circuit that Ulises was deported without due consideration of the risk of persecution he faced in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Aby keeps working to support her daughter and herself and help Ulises get the medical care he needs in Mexico. She wonders if she should move to Chico to be with Emily. And then she wonders if she and Emily should move to Mexico to be with Ulises — though he doesn’t want his daughter to grow up there. Mostly, she’s hoping against hope that her husband will someday be able to return to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trauma and strain Aby, Ulises and Emily are experiencing, a year after the arrest, is multiplied thousands of times across the country, as the government’s mass deportation campaign continues, said Fortuna, the psychiatry professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a public health issue,” she said. “It’s creating psychological distress, at minimum, for youth and children and families and whole communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the future uncertain, Aby and Ulises try to stay connected through frequent calls and — when his internet connection is strong enough — video chats. And both agree, their prime motivation is ensuring Emily gets well and has a bright future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever I call them, I can hear their smiles,” Ulises said. “I know what it means to be a parent: Your children are the engine that drives you, and you never give up. And that’s how it is for my wife and me. Whatever happens, we’re not giving up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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I’ve lost vision and hearing and sensation,” Ulises said by phone from Mexico. “Before that day, I was a normal person working in construction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 400,000 people were arrested by ICE last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-1st-year\">more than four times\u003c/a> the number in 2024. Public attention has focused on the crackdown in cities like Los Angeles and Minneapolis, where federal agents have killed at least two people and observers have documented their use of aggressive tactics. But even in Northern California, where a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061294/federal-immigration-agents-in-the-bay-what-we-know-and-dont-know\">planned Border Patrol\u003c/a> surge was called off at the last minute last fall, immigration arrests have more than doubled. Ulises’ detention was just one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074619\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña leaves her husband’s belongings as he left them at their home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the help of pro bono lawyers, Ulises has appealed his deportation and the family has filed personal injury claims against ICE. KQED reviewed legal filings in those cases, as well as government documents, and interviewed Ulises, Aby, their lawyers and outside experts about what the last year has been like for the family and how it illustrates \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/12/25/nx-s1-5645006/how-trumps-mass-deportation-efforts-have-affected-families-this-year#:~:text=Transcript-,The%20centerpiece%20of%20the%20Trump%20administration's%20second%20term%20has%20been,Good%20morning.\">what is now unfolding\u003c/a> for tens of thousands of other families across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under previous administrations, ICE sometimes violated the civil rights of immigrants — and its own policies — said Elena Hodges, an immigration attorney with Pangea Legal Services who’s part of the team representing Ulises. But now the intensity is escalating, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This level of violence is becoming more common and is increasingly embraced as just the routine course of operations,” she said. “High-profile harms to people, where they end up in the hospital, their car window is smashed … that tracks with a new level of political acceptance and encouragement that we’re seeing from the Trump administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, the administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/policywatch/trump-administration-closes-three-dhs-offices-focused-on-civil-rights-and-oversight/\">dismantled\u003c/a> many of the internal watchdog offices at the Department of Homeland Security, enabling agents to act with impunity, said Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we are seeing them be more aggressive and less likely to be called to account,” Meissner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The arrest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was a little after 7 a.m. on Feb. 21, 2025. Ulises was in the carport starting up his red Ford Explorer when unmarked SUVs suddenly blocked him in and armed men surrounded the car, shouting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when it all started,” Ulises said. He said officers yelled racist epithets, pushed him to the ground, kicked him, then yanked him up and handcuffed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said they did not show a warrant (the administrative warrant ICE eventually produced was dated four days after the arrest).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña sits in the kitchen at her home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aby looked on in horror from the terrace outside their second-floor apartment as her daughter watched from the window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember seeing him shaking really bad,” she said. “I didn’t know, was it a panic attack or what was happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aby said she screamed to the agents that Ulises had a life-threatening medical condition and an important appointment the following day. Doctors had recently diagnosed a tear inside an artery in his neck that put him at risk of a stroke, court filings show. They were treating him with medications and closely monitoring him, Aby said. As the arrest was unfolding, she ran to the bathroom, threw his prescriptions in a plastic bag and handed them to an officer.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ulises said officers drove him to a nearby alley and beat him again, his hands still cuffed behind his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought they were going to kill me,” he said. “Suddenly, I couldn’t feel anything. I couldn’t see anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He came to with an officer pressing on his chest, performing CPR. He heard another man call an ambulance. The next thing he knew, he was in the hospital, hooked up to tubes and wires and handcuffed to the bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s arrest report tells the story differently. There’s no mention of officers striking Ulises. The report said they handcuffed him without incident, but once he was in the ICE vehicle, Ulises told them he had a heart condition and “appeared to be panicking.” They gave him a pill from one of the prescription bottles, but he started coughing and spitting out pill fragments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE said Ulises threw up a red substance and began convulsing, at which point officers uncuffed him and laid him on the ground. He began “violently coughing up phlegm and grabbing his chest,” ICE said. When he lost consciousness, they performed chest compressions until an ambulance arrived, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not reply to requests for comment for this story. Last year, shortly after the arrest, ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028303/ice-arrest-left-bay-area-man-hospitalized-struggling-breathe-attorney-says\">responded\u003c/a> to KQED and denied mistreating Ulises. At the time, an ICE spokesperson called the allegation that Ulises was beaten by officers “absolutely inaccurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The aftermath\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the hospital, according to Ulises’ appeal to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, “his hands and arms were bandaged, his face was swollen, and he could not move his right arm or hand.” A doctor indicated that Ulises had had a heart attack, the brief said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hodges, the attorney, said she waited many hours before ICE allowed her to see her client at the hospital — briefly, with armed officers present. Likewise, she said, ICE prevented him from speaking privately with doctors or his wife. When Aby was finally allowed 30 minutes with him the next morning, ICE officers took her cellphone away so she couldn’t photograph him, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Ulises was transported to Golden State Annex, a privately run immigration jail in northern Kern County, where his lawyers say he didn’t receive consistent medication or meaningful follow-up care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family photos hang on the wall at Aby Peña and Ulises Peña Lopez’s home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Peña Lopez was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the following days, ICE took Ulises to a local emergency room twice, for chest pain, trouble breathing and neurological symptoms. “A CT scan confirmed that he had had a stroke — either that day or during his arrest, or both,” according to his legal brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the nearly eight months Ulises spent in ICE detention, first at Golden State Annex and then east of Bakersfield at the California City Detention Center, his pain and neurological symptoms worsened, Hodges said. He suffered nightmares and flashbacks to the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ICE officers’ physical assaults and verbal abuse during the arrest, “shock the conscience,” according to his claim for damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act. And California Democrats, including Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna, have recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069220/south-bay-rep-ro-khanna-horrified-after-visit-to-california-city-ice-detention-center\">called out deplorable conditions\u003c/a> at ICE detention centers, including at California City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Ulises said, he walks with a cane, still in pain. Unable to work, he has no health insurance in Mexico. An aunt took him in. And Aby sends some money. But the doctors he needs are expensive, and a two-hour bus ride away in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m certain that if I had gotten adequate medical attention at the time, I wouldn’t be suffering like this now,” he said. “It would be a totally different story if I’d gotten care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Those left behind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not only the physical ailments that linger. Aggressive immigration enforcement not only harms immigrants, but their family members, many of whom — like Aby and Emily — are U.S.-born citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrupt family separations are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/66102/how-immigration-raids-traumatize-even-the-youngest-children\">traumatic for children\u003c/a>, said Dr. Lisa Fortuna, who chairs the psychiatry department at UC Riverside. But when a young child like Emily watches the violent arrest of a parent, the experience can leave lasting scars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Providing treatment early and effectively can really help children,” Fortuna said. “But it is an emotional injury nonetheless, and it’s quite serious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña holds a pink dress she bought for her daughter’s next birthday at her home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike many children who witness immigration arrests, Emily sees a therapist. But the little girl who used to sleep peacefully now wakes up screaming nightly. She’s fearful of strangers and jumpy when a car door slams. A year on, she is still replaying the event in her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a video call just two days ago, and my daughter asked, ‘Papi, are the men going to come back and hit you again? Does it still hurt?’” Ulises said. “That just broke me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dislocation in Emily’s life only compounded after her father’s arrest. Aby, 32, who’d been a stay-at-home mom, had to go back to work as a licensed vocational nurse. Needing child care on an unpredictable schedule, she moved Emily in with her parents in Chico. Aby typically works three 14-hour shifts, then drives the four hours north to spend a couple of days with her daughter before starting the work week again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She doesn’t have me or her dad nearby now,” Aby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrangement runs counter to therapists’ suggestion that Emily’s recovery depends on a predictable routine, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s always having to say goodbye,” Aby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Aby is home in Sunnyvale, the apartment feels empty. Her daughter’s closet is still full of toys and small pink dresses. Her husband’s watch is still on his nightstand, his razor in the bathroom – comforting reminders of the life they used to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair met a decade ago when she went to a restaurant where he was working. She was in nursing school, and he was training with the carpenters’ union. She admired that he was a hard worker and was happy to find that he loved to cook. When Emily was born, and Aby was recovering from a difficult pregnancy, Ulises soothed the baby to sleep on his chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ulises was 18 when he came to the U.S. in 2013. According to his appeal to the Ninth Circuit, he was fleeing the Jalisco Cartel after its members extorted his family and beat him, then — when he reported it to the police — murdered his uncle and cousins. Lawyer Priya Patel, with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, believes Ulises should have been considered for asylum at the time. Instead, he was swiftly deported under an expedited removal order. He crossed the border again, undetected, came to the Bay Area and built a life, unaware of that deportation order or the fact that it could be reinstated at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal documents show that early last year, ICE’s Law Enforcement Support Center flagged Ulises’ whereabouts for the San Francisco field office. The ICE arrest report mentions several misdemeanor convictions from his 20s. The most serious is a 2019 assault. Patel said Ulises pleaded no contest, following a verbal fight with his wife after he’d been out drinking. He was given a suspended sentence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña speaks by phone with her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, from their home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. 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As of Jan. 6, just \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-1st-year\">one in four people\u003c/a> in ICE detention had a criminal conviction, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Ulises’ misdemeanors put him in that category.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Low-polling Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074679/new-poll-finds-race-for-california-governor-remains-deadlocked\">candidates for governor\u003c/a> of California struck a defiant tone on Tuesday in the face of mounting pressure from party leaders to drop out before a key deadline this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With nine major Democrats still vying for the state’s top job, party insiders have fretted for weeks about a splintered primary vote that could result in the two leading Republicans — commentator \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071133/former-fox-news-host-steve-hilton-lays-out-vision-for-california-governorship\">Steve Hilton\u003c/a> and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco — finishing first and second in the June 2 primary and ensuring a GOP victor in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://cadem.org/open-letter-to-the-democratic-candidates-for-governor/\">open letter\u003c/a> to campaigns published Tuesday, California Democratic Party Chair Rusty Hicks called that scenario implausible, but “not impossible” and urged Democratic candidates to make an honest assessment of their chances before Friday — the deadline to file and officially appear on the ballot in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you do not have a viable path to make it to the General Election, do not file to place your name on the ballot for the Primary Election,” Hicks wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But candidates who have been mired in single-digits for months, including State Superintendent of Public Instruction \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962489/california-education-chief-tony-thurmond-announces-run-for-governor-in-2026-race\">Tony Thurmond\u003c/a> and former state Controller \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073301/former-state-controller-betty-yee-says-shes-the-best-gubernatorial-candidate-to-fix-californias-budget-deficit\">Betty Yee\u003c/a>, showed no immediate signs of heading toward the exits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Alameda County Registrar of Voters office in Oakland, Yee filed the paperwork to officially place her name on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-67-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-67-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-67-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-67-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Yee, former California State Controller, speaks during a state gubernatorial forum at the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2026. The Urban League of the Bay Area hosted the forum. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I was signing the declaration of candidacy, my hands were shaking, because I just thought about my mother, who is 102, and how within a generation she’s able to see her daughter do this,” Yee told KQED. “We’re undergoing a process of constant assessment, and every time we do that, we just see that this is still a wide-open race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond, who is Black and Latino, accused the state party of “essentially telling every candidate of color in the race for governor to drop out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aren’t we supposed to be the party who embraces democracy — a party of, by, and for the people?” Thurmond said in \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TonyThurmond/status/2028941112845713495\">a video\u003c/a> posted to social media. “Well, the establishment might not be, but our campaign is, and that’s why we’re in this race to win it.”[aside postID=news_12074679 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-09-KQED.jpg']Hicks did not call on any specific candidates to leave the race, but asked those who continue their campaigns beyond this week to “be prepared to suspend your campaign and endorse another candidate on or before April 15 if your campaign cannot show meaningful progress towards winning the Primary Election in the coming weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chair’s plea comes weeks after Democratic delegates failed to agree on an endorsement at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073986/california-democrats-descend-on-sf-as-party-rifts-emerge\">state party convention\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, polling in the race has been largely static, with investor Tom Steyer (who has spent tens of millions of dollars on television ads) being the only Democrat to see significant traction in recent surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Eric Swalwell, former Rep. Katie Porter and Steyer were the top polling Democrats in polls released last month by Emerson College and the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below that trio is a crowded field of Democratic hopefuls that includes Thurmond and Yee, along with former Health and Human Services Secretary \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074132/xavier-becerra-on-why-his-upbringing-and-career-give-him-an-edge-over-other-gubernatorial-candidates\">Xavier Becerra\u003c/a>, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, San José Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071306/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-announces-run-for-california-governor\">Matt Mahan\u003c/a> and former Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073866/californias-first-millennial-lawmaker-ian-calderon-makes-his-case-for-governor\">Ian Calderon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Hilton and Bianco have faced little competition for the Republican primary vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Slavet, a GOP tech entrepreneur who was polling at around 1%, suspended his campaign on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072282\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Xavier Becerra, Steve Hilton, Matt Mahan, Tom Steyer, Tony Thurmond, Antonio Villaraigosa and Betty Yee stand on the stage during the California gubernatorial candidate debate on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The last few months have been a gift,” said Slavet, in a video posted on social media. “It’s also shown me that building a winning coalition, brick by brick, will take time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Slavet out of the field, a primary election \u003ca href=\"https://toptwoca.com/\">simulator\u003c/a> created by Paul Mitchell, vice president of Political Data Inc., \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/paulmitche11/status/2028854561059053751?s=20\">put the chances\u003c/a> of a Republican vs. Republican general election at roughly 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter, Hicks said a Bianco-Hilton general election would not only upend Democratic leadership of state government, but also depress Democratic turnout in the California congressional districts that the party is hoping to flip in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The result would present a real risk to winning the congressional seats required and imperil Democrats’ chances to retake the House, cut Donald Trump’s term in half, and spare our Nation from the pain many have endured since January 2025,” Hicks wrote. “We simply can’t let that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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