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The order from the FAA requires them to nix 4% of flights Friday, increasing to 10% by Nov. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts, which will also affect Los Angeles International Airport, along with major airports in New York, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, according to the list obtained by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-reduced-flights-a082a6817d960101968a923f7dfd8ef0\">\u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>come as airports deal with air traffic control staffing shortages exacerbated by the lapse in federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those who travel will see that we’ve had more delays, we’ve had more cancellations,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told reporters Wednesday. “We don’t want that, but our number one priority is to make sure when you travel, you travel safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFO, Oakland San Francisco Bay and San José Mineta International Airports all told KQED on Thursday that they hadn’t received any formal communication from the FAA about impacts at their sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12063307 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GETTYIMAGES-2244764792-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GETTYIMAGES-2244764792-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GETTYIMAGES-2244764792-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GETTYIMAGES-2244764792-KQED-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A United Airlines plane takes off from the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco on November 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yakel, SFO’s public information officer, said the order to reduce traffic will be handled individually by each airline and suggested passengers reach out to their carrier directly for more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Travelers at SFO on Thursday were already receiving updates that their travel might be affected. 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"content": "\u003cp>Former House Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a>, who has represented San Francisco in Congress for 38 years, announced Thursday morning that she will not seek reelection. Pelosi delivered the news in a video message framed as a “Dear San Francisco” letter, reflecting on the city’s progress and challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco — know your power,” she said. “We have made history. We have always led the way. And now we must continue to do so. By remaining full participants in our democracy and fighting for the American ideals we hold dear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First elected in 1987 to fill a seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Sala Burton, Pelosi, 85, leaves a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892317/nancy-pelosi-on-threats-to-democracy-and-tough-legislative-choices-at-kqed-live\">voluminous legacy of accomplishment\u003c/a> highlighted by the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, which continues to provide health care to tens of millions of Americans who otherwise could not afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, Pelosi successfully fought for vastly more federal funding for HIV/AIDS and oversaw the bipartisan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029839/san-franciscos-presidio-trust-defends-existence-response-trump-order\">transformation of the shuttered Presidio Army base\u003c/a> into a vibrant public park with housing, restaurants and nonprofit organizations — a financially self-sufficient operation managed by the Presidio Trust in partnership with the National Park Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one — period, full stop — delivered more for San Francisco and the state of California than Nancy Pelosi, by factors of almost infinity in terms of actually delivering real results for real people,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom recently on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061434/newsom-trump-sending-troops-to-monitor-californias-election-is-a-2026-preview\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062673\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-48-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a rally in support of Proposition 50 at IBEW Local 6 in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her first campaign, Pelosi was known mostly to political insiders, heavyweights like Phil Burton, who, along with his brother, John, masterminded a campaign operation that helped push Pelosi to victory. Fourteen candidates entered the race, including four San Francisco supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some disparaged Pelosi as a political dilettante, a white, wealthy woman who could not possibly relate to the average person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s never met a payroll. She’s never had to worry about child care,” Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver said during a heated debate televised by KQED in 1987. “She’s never worried about the things that worry most of the people in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054908\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1749\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty2-1536x1343.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Pelosi and John Burton, right, and her husband Paul Pelosi, in the middle, at election headquarters on election night on June 2, 1987. \u003ccite>(Eric Luse/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi held her ground and dismissed the criticism as a bump along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My attitude is, they’ll take the low road, and I’ll take the high road, and I will get the Congress before them,” Pelosi said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she did. Years later, her reputation as a street fighter in designer clothing and heels was well established.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to know how to take a punch and throw a punch,” she said on KQED’s Political Breakdown in 2018.[aside postID=news_12027864 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DSC_1576_qed-1-1020x676.jpg']Pelosi’s career in Washington began in the depths of despair for San Francisco — the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when HIV infection was essentially a death sentence. She made increased AIDS funding and improving the social safety net a top priority. And she delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernest Hopkins of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation said Pelosi’s fingerprints are on all of the major federal initiatives helping to fight the epidemic, including “being one of the principle supporters of the \u003ca href=\"https://ryanwhite.hrsa.gov/about/legislation\">Ryan White Care Act\u003c/a>, initiation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/hopwa/\">Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/\">Americans with Disabilities Act \u003c/a>— I mean critical components of what we would call the health safety net that have been used over the years to support probably millions of people living with HIV,” Hopkins said, adding that her advocacy went far beyond her own district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understood that we could not end the HIV epidemic without addressing the epidemic in Black and Latino communities. And so she was all in,” Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s rise to power within the Democratic Party did not come easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other people came to me and said, ‘You must run for leadership.’ And when I did run for a high office and leadership, some of the men said, ‘Who said she could run?’ Well, that just lit my fire, really. Who said she can run? We don’t need permission,” she recalled in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Pelosi stands on the floor of the House dressed in white, in a long shot showing her colleagues applauding her around her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-1536x1034.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, delivers remarks from the House Chambers of the U.S. Capitol Building on November 17, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Pelosi spoke on the future of her leadership plans in the House of Representatives and said she will not seek a leadership role in the upcoming Congress. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi disrupted the traditional pecking order of power in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2006 midterm elections, when Pelosi led her caucus to a resounding victory — reclaiming a majority in the House for the first time in 12 years — her selection as the next speaker was sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She didn’t do that by being shy or deferential,” said journalist Susan Page, author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Madam-Speaker-Nancy-Pelosi-Lessons/dp/1538750694\">\u003cem>Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “She did that by being tough and direct and fearless. And those are characteristics she brought to the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her image as a partisan warrior, Pelosi often set aside party affiliation to do what she thought was right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She derailed efforts in her caucus to impeach President George W. Bush over the Iraq War. And in 2008, when the economy was cratering due to the subprime mortgage crisis, she rounded up enough Democratic votes to pass the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008\">Troubled Asset Relief Program\u003c/a>, which Democratic critics described as a Wall Street bailout, to help shore up financial institutions crippled by “toxic assets.”[aside postID=news_12061112 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-SCOTTWIENER-03-BL-KQED.jpg']That willingness to set aside party differences was noted by former Republican Speaker John Boehner at the unveiling of Pelosi’s official portrait in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve been a fierce warrior for your party, but when the stakes were highest, you were willing to put the interests of the nation first and take the heat for it. Now that’s leadership,” Boehner said, adding, “No other speaker of the House in the modern era, Republican or Democrat, has wielded the gavel with such authority or with such consistent results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, the things Pelosi did worst — like media interviews — were the things most people saw, while her strengths were seen by few: cultivating relationships and understanding how to win enough votes to pass legislation. It’s what made her, in her own words, a “master legislator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to understand people’s motivation, their district, their priorities,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Democrats retook the House in 2018, Pelosi was again elected speaker. She guided investigations into President Donald Trump, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855099/watch-live-house-is-expected-to-impeach-trump-a-second-time-heres-how-it-will-work\">two successful impeachments\u003c/a> in the House that ultimately failed in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Joe Biden’s administration, Pelosi again wielded enormous power, helping the House pass landmark legislation, including COVID-19 funding, climate change initiatives and the CHIPS Act, which provided incentives for domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors — essential computer components made mostly overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11997229 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1239105918-scaled-e1762294977631.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, introduces President Joe Biden before he addresses the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi and Biden were close political allies for decades. But in 2024, after the president’s disastrous debate performance against Trump, it was Pelosi who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993449/pelosi-suggests-time-is-running-short-for-biden-to-reconsider-campaign\">opened the door to Biden dropping out\u003c/a> during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” saying “time is running short” for the president to decide whether he would run again — even though he had already said he would. Pelosi’s subtle yet unmistakable nudge for Biden to step aside succeeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She tried to get others to go raise this issue with President Biden, saying that he shouldn’t run again, and no one would make it as directly as she would,” Page said. “So she finally did it herself, not just in private, but in public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, Biden is reportedly angry with Pelosi over her role in pushing him aside. “In retrospect, turns out she was right. He shouldn’t have run again,” Page said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the speaker’s family paid the price of rising political violence when David DePape broke into the Pelosi home in San Francisco and attacked her husband, Paul, with a hammer, fracturing his skull. DePape said he was looking for Nancy Pelosi, who was out of town at the time, and wanted to “break her kneecaps.” DePape was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987892/paul-pelosis-attacker-apologizes-at-resentencing-but-prison-term-is-unchanged\">sentenced to 30 years\u003c/a> in federal prison and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002363/callousness-of-paul-pelosi-attack-justifies-potential-life-sentence-judge-says\">life in state prison\u003c/a> without the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Pelosi made history as the first woman and the first Californian to become Speaker of the House. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pelosi’s career in Washington began in the depths of despair for San Francisco — the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when HIV infection was essentially a death sentence. She made increased AIDS funding and improving the social safety net a top priority. And she delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernest Hopkins of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation said Pelosi’s fingerprints are on all of the major federal initiatives helping to fight the epidemic, including “being one of the principle supporters of the \u003ca href=\"https://ryanwhite.hrsa.gov/about/legislation\">Ryan White Care Act\u003c/a>, initiation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/hopwa/\">Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/\">Americans with Disabilities Act \u003c/a>— I mean critical components of what we would call the health safety net that have been used over the years to support probably millions of people living with HIV,” Hopkins said, adding that her advocacy went far beyond her own district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understood that we could not end the HIV epidemic without addressing the epidemic in Black and Latino communities. And so she was all in,” Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s rise to power within the Democratic Party did not come easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other people came to me and said, ‘You must run for leadership.’ And when I did run for a high office and leadership, some of the men said, ‘Who said she could run?’ Well, that just lit my fire, really. Who said she can run? We don’t need permission,” she recalled in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Pelosi stands on the floor of the House dressed in white, in a long shot showing her colleagues applauding her around her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1442267994-1-1-1536x1034.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, delivers remarks from the House Chambers of the U.S. Capitol Building on November 17, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Pelosi spoke on the future of her leadership plans in the House of Representatives and said she will not seek a leadership role in the upcoming Congress. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi disrupted the traditional pecking order of power in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2006 midterm elections, when Pelosi led her caucus to a resounding victory — reclaiming a majority in the House for the first time in 12 years — her selection as the next speaker was sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She didn’t do that by being shy or deferential,” said journalist Susan Page, author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Madam-Speaker-Nancy-Pelosi-Lessons/dp/1538750694\">\u003cem>Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “She did that by being tough and direct and fearless. And those are characteristics she brought to the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her image as a partisan warrior, Pelosi often set aside party affiliation to do what she thought was right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She derailed efforts in her caucus to impeach President George W. Bush over the Iraq War. And in 2008, when the economy was cratering due to the subprime mortgage crisis, she rounded up enough Democratic votes to pass the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008\">Troubled Asset Relief Program\u003c/a>, which Democratic critics described as a Wall Street bailout, to help shore up financial institutions crippled by “toxic assets.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That willingness to set aside party differences was noted by former Republican Speaker John Boehner at the unveiling of Pelosi’s official portrait in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve been a fierce warrior for your party, but when the stakes were highest, you were willing to put the interests of the nation first and take the heat for it. Now that’s leadership,” Boehner said, adding, “No other speaker of the House in the modern era, Republican or Democrat, has wielded the gavel with such authority or with such consistent results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, the things Pelosi did worst — like media interviews — were the things most people saw, while her strengths were seen by few: cultivating relationships and understanding how to win enough votes to pass legislation. It’s what made her, in her own words, a “master legislator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to understand people’s motivation, their district, their priorities,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Democrats retook the House in 2018, Pelosi was again elected speaker. She guided investigations into President Donald Trump, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855099/watch-live-house-is-expected-to-impeach-trump-a-second-time-heres-how-it-will-work\">two successful impeachments\u003c/a> in the House that ultimately failed in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Joe Biden’s administration, Pelosi again wielded enormous power, helping the House pass landmark legislation, including COVID-19 funding, climate change initiatives and the CHIPS Act, which provided incentives for domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors — essential computer components made mostly overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11997229 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1239105918-scaled-e1762294977631.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, introduces President Joe Biden before he addresses the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pelosi and Biden were close political allies for decades. But in 2024, after the president’s disastrous debate performance against Trump, it was Pelosi who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993449/pelosi-suggests-time-is-running-short-for-biden-to-reconsider-campaign\">opened the door to Biden dropping out\u003c/a> during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” saying “time is running short” for the president to decide whether he would run again — even though he had already said he would. Pelosi’s subtle yet unmistakable nudge for Biden to step aside succeeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She tried to get others to go raise this issue with President Biden, saying that he shouldn’t run again, and no one would make it as directly as she would,” Page said. “So she finally did it herself, not just in private, but in public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, Biden is reportedly angry with Pelosi over her role in pushing him aside. “In retrospect, turns out she was right. He shouldn’t have run again,” Page said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the speaker’s family paid the price of rising political violence when David DePape broke into the Pelosi home in San Francisco and attacked her husband, Paul, with a hammer, fracturing his skull. DePape said he was looking for Nancy Pelosi, who was out of town at the time, and wanted to “break her kneecaps.” DePape was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987892/paul-pelosis-attacker-apologizes-at-resentencing-but-prison-term-is-unchanged\">sentenced to 30 years\u003c/a> in federal prison and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002363/callousness-of-paul-pelosi-attack-justifies-potential-life-sentence-judge-says\">life in state prison\u003c/a> without the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Pelosi made history as the first woman and the first Californian to become Speaker of the House. But it’s what she did with that power — for her district, her state and her nation — that mattered most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can never take that for granted,” Newsom said in assessing Pelosi’s impact. “It will take 40, 50 years for someone to build the kind of credibility that she’s built and the influence and the capacity to deliver that as Nancy Pelosi.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a much-anticipated decision, Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> announced Thursday that he has appointed Isabella “Beya” Alcaraz as the next District 4 supervisor to represent the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selection of a relatively unknown 29-year-old comes after a decisive recall election in September, when District 4 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055340/san-francisco-supervisor-joel-engardio-braces-for-tuesday-recall-vote\">residents voted to remove Supervisor Joel Engardio\u003c/a>, leaving a seat open on the powerful Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall election stemmed from local residents’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041124/sunset-residents-weigh-recall-of-supervisor-engardio-over-great-highway-closure\">frustration over Engardio’s support\u003c/a> for closing the Upper Great Highway to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036078/san-francisco-opens-controversial-new-park\">open a park\u003c/a>, but ultimately touched on everything from housing policy to racial dynamics on the westside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to ensure that people can still drive to work and get to the doctor. That affordable housing exists for the next generation. Too many of these decisions have been made without us from the top down,” Alcaraz said at a press conference on Thursday. “I want to hear your concerns and design community-informed solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie swore in the new supervisor at the press conference outside the Ortega library branch on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beya will be a bridge between generations, between the long-time residents like her family, who helped build this community, and the young people who will carry it forward,” Lurie said. “She’s a bridge between small business owners, working families, and our city government. She is a bridge to the future of the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella “Beya” Alcaraz, right, takes the oath of office as the next District 4 supervisor, representing the Sunset district, at Ortega Branch Library on Nov. 6, 2025. Alcaraz is the first Filipina-American to serve on the Board of Supervisors. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz, a lifelong Sunset resident, is the first Filipina-American to serve on the Board of Supervisors and one of the youngest. (Former Sunset supervisors Carmen Chiu and Katy Tang were also 29 when they joined the board. In 2000, Chris Daly was the youngest person elected to the Board of Supervisors, at age 28.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s announcement marks an important milestone for the Sunset District’s diverse communities to come together to advance shared goals,” Tang said. “Beya’s steadfast commitment to public service, prioritization of residents’ voices, and collaborative approach will drive meaningful progress and long-term improvement across District 4.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to her appointment, Alcaraz owned and operated a pet supply store called the Animal Connection in her neighborhood. She sold the business in 2025 and, more recently, taught art and music lessons for children. She was not a major public voice in the recall election.[aside postID=news_12062042 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-24-BL_qed.jpg']Following the successful recall, many speculated over who the mayor might pick to steer the Sunset forward. Lurie could use another vote on the Board of Supervisors to help pass his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062042/report-projects-weak-housing-production-under-san-francisco-zoning-plan-over-next-20-years\">Family Zoning Plan\u003c/a>, which would increase height and density regulations to make way for thousands of new homes on the westside. Some recall supporters and Sunset residents have challenged the plan, saying it poses threats to the community, and were eager to see someone appointed who would oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A source familiar with Alcaraz said she supports bringing more housing to the Sunset, but could introduce amendments to the current plan that’s under deliberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alcaraz comes to the position with relatively little experience in governance or campaigning, she also brings little political baggage. Some recall supporters, such as local business owner Albert Chow, had also put their names out for Lurie’s consideration, but could have been controversial due to their direct ties to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s received early support from some of the neighborhood’s Chinese Americans, who played a pivotal role in the recall election, and business leaders like Ed Siu, chairman of the Chinatown Merchants United Association of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961411 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses is photographed as other people pass on a busy city sidewalk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Siu, president of the Chinatown Merchants United Association, stands on a busy corner of Stockton Street in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a former small business owner, Beya knows firsthand the challenges local merchants face and the vital role they play in keeping our neighborhoods strong and vibrant,” Siu said in a statement. “Beya also has deep respect and understanding for the needs and values of our Chinese community here in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz has not shared how she voted in the recall election. But at a night market shortly after, she directly approached the mayor and said she wanted to be his pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This neighborhood deserves to be represented by one of its own. Someone grounded in people, not politics. Someone who can bring a fresh perspective to City Hall and who’s ready to put in the work,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz will serve as supervisor until the next local election in June 2026, when voters will decide if she or someone else will permanently hold the District 4 seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new supervisor will have to guide the divided community through an ongoing battle over the Great Highway, which led to Engardio’s fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors are seen during the grand opening of the Sunset Dunes Park along the former Upper Great Highway, in San Francisco, on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2024, voters across the city approved a ballot measure that closed off the Upper Great Highway to make way for a beachside park now known as Sunset Dunes. But the majority of voters in the Sunset, who live closest to the park, voted against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many who supported the recall said that the change has affected their commute times — even though a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency study shows traffic has not significantly changed since the road closure — and that they felt their voices were not represented by their supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A source familiar with Alcaraz said she believed the city’s former compromise to allow cars on the Great Highway on weekdays, but close it off for recreation on the weekends, worked well and would be open to revisiting the issue to bring cars back to the thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents are already nervously anticipating the new supervisor’s plans for the Great Highway, but welcoming her with cautious optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re encouraged that she wants to engage directly with her constituents rather than prescribing top-down solutions from City Hall,” Lucas Lux, president of Friends of Sunset Dunes, said in a statement. “We want to be crystal clear: Allowing cars on the park in any way is not a ‘compromise.’ It’s a park closure … Our community deserves better: a permanent coastal park that San Francisco can be proud of, not a return to a halfway measure that left our neighborhood embroiled in argument for five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play on a tree branch at the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matt Lopez, a lifetime Sunset resident who runs two bars in the neighborhood, said he was initially against the park and closing off the Great Highway. But since it’s open, he said he frequently visits with his baby and enjoys the open space. Still, he’s sympathetic to the drivers who have had their commutes to work affected by the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He likes the idea of having a local resident and small business owner step into City Hall to represent the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything she said in her speech really resonated with me,” said Lopez, who attended the press conference on Thursday. “The Sunset was a forgotten neighborhood for a really long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Alcaraz’s top priorities, and toughest tests, will be uniting the Sunset after the tense election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sunset has shown that we are ready to rally from the ground up. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to ensure that people can still drive to work and get to the doctor. That affordable housing exists for the next generation. Too many of these decisions have been made without us from the top down,” Alcaraz said at a press conference on Thursday. “I want to hear your concerns and design community-informed solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie swore in the new supervisor at the press conference outside the Ortega library branch on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beya will be a bridge between generations, between the long-time residents like her family, who helped build this community, and the young people who will carry it forward,” Lurie said. “She’s a bridge between small business owners, working families, and our city government. She is a bridge to the future of the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_SFD4SUPERVISOR_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella “Beya” Alcaraz, right, takes the oath of office as the next District 4 supervisor, representing the Sunset district, at Ortega Branch Library on Nov. 6, 2025. Alcaraz is the first Filipina-American to serve on the Board of Supervisors. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz, a lifelong Sunset resident, is the first Filipina-American to serve on the Board of Supervisors and one of the youngest. (Former Sunset supervisors Carmen Chiu and Katy Tang were also 29 when they joined the board. In 2000, Chris Daly was the youngest person elected to the Board of Supervisors, at age 28.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s announcement marks an important milestone for the Sunset District’s diverse communities to come together to advance shared goals,” Tang said. “Beya’s steadfast commitment to public service, prioritization of residents’ voices, and collaborative approach will drive meaningful progress and long-term improvement across District 4.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to her appointment, Alcaraz owned and operated a pet supply store called the Animal Connection in her neighborhood. She sold the business in 2025 and, more recently, taught art and music lessons for children. She was not a major public voice in the recall election.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Following the successful recall, many speculated over who the mayor might pick to steer the Sunset forward. Lurie could use another vote on the Board of Supervisors to help pass his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062042/report-projects-weak-housing-production-under-san-francisco-zoning-plan-over-next-20-years\">Family Zoning Plan\u003c/a>, which would increase height and density regulations to make way for thousands of new homes on the westside. Some recall supporters and Sunset residents have challenged the plan, saying it poses threats to the community, and were eager to see someone appointed who would oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A source familiar with Alcaraz said she supports bringing more housing to the Sunset, but could introduce amendments to the current plan that’s under deliberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alcaraz comes to the position with relatively little experience in governance or campaigning, she also brings little political baggage. Some recall supporters, such as local business owner Albert Chow, had also put their names out for Lurie’s consideration, but could have been controversial due to their direct ties to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s received early support from some of the neighborhood’s Chinese Americans, who played a pivotal role in the recall election, and business leaders like Ed Siu, chairman of the Chinatown Merchants United Association of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961411 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses is photographed as other people pass on a busy city sidewalk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-011-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Siu, president of the Chinatown Merchants United Association, stands on a busy corner of Stockton Street in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a former small business owner, Beya knows firsthand the challenges local merchants face and the vital role they play in keeping our neighborhoods strong and vibrant,” Siu said in a statement. “Beya also has deep respect and understanding for the needs and values of our Chinese community here in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz has not shared how she voted in the recall election. But at a night market shortly after, she directly approached the mayor and said she wanted to be his pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This neighborhood deserves to be represented by one of its own. Someone grounded in people, not politics. Someone who can bring a fresh perspective to City Hall and who’s ready to put in the work,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz will serve as supervisor until the next local election in June 2026, when voters will decide if she or someone else will permanently hold the District 4 seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new supervisor will have to guide the divided community through an ongoing battle over the Great Highway, which led to Engardio’s fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors are seen during the grand opening of the Sunset Dunes Park along the former Upper Great Highway, in San Francisco, on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2024, voters across the city approved a ballot measure that closed off the Upper Great Highway to make way for a beachside park now known as Sunset Dunes. But the majority of voters in the Sunset, who live closest to the park, voted against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many who supported the recall said that the change has affected their commute times — even though a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency study shows traffic has not significantly changed since the road closure — and that they felt their voices were not represented by their supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A source familiar with Alcaraz said she believed the city’s former compromise to allow cars on the Great Highway on weekdays, but close it off for recreation on the weekends, worked well and would be open to revisiting the issue to bring cars back to the thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents are already nervously anticipating the new supervisor’s plans for the Great Highway, but welcoming her with cautious optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re encouraged that she wants to engage directly with her constituents rather than prescribing top-down solutions from City Hall,” Lucas Lux, president of Friends of Sunset Dunes, said in a statement. “We want to be crystal clear: Allowing cars on the park in any way is not a ‘compromise.’ It’s a park closure … Our community deserves better: a permanent coastal park that San Francisco can be proud of, not a return to a halfway measure that left our neighborhood embroiled in argument for five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play on a tree branch at the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matt Lopez, a lifetime Sunset resident who runs two bars in the neighborhood, said he was initially against the park and closing off the Great Highway. But since it’s open, he said he frequently visits with his baby and enjoys the open space. Still, he’s sympathetic to the drivers who have had their commutes to work affected by the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He likes the idea of having a local resident and small business owner step into City Hall to represent the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything she said in her speech really resonated with me,” said Lopez, who attended the press conference on Thursday. “The Sunset was a forgotten neighborhood for a really long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Alcaraz’s top priorities, and toughest tests, will be uniting the Sunset after the tense election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sunset has shown that we are ready to rally from the ground up. In the spirit of healing and moving forward, I will work to bring all the residents of this district together to secure the future of the Sunset,” she said. “This is our chance to have a seat at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Alex Padilla’s surprise Election Day \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062840/alex-padilla-says-he-wont-run-for-california-governor-in-2026\">announcement\u003c/a> that he is not running for governor is just one piece of the larger political chessboard being shuffled in California ahead of the 2026 midterms now that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50\">Proposition 50\u003c/a> campaign is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new maps \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062781/proposition-50-passes-in-california-boosting-democrats-in-fight-for-us-house-control\">approved by voters\u003c/a> under the ballot measure will upend a number of congressional races as incumbents and candidates on both sides of the aisle decide where to run under the new maps, shrinking California’s field of battleground seats down to just a few districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The end of the Proposition 50 campaign, which has consumed the Democratic establishment in California for the past two months, also clears the way for the 2026 governor’s race to begin in earnest. And the measure’s resounding victory gives its top proponent, Gov. Gavin Newsom, wind in his sails as he looks ahead to a likely 2028 presidential run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking in Sacramento after Proposition 50 won, Newsom already seemed to be looking beyond Tuesday’s election. He tore into President Donald Trump, tying a number of his moves — aggressive immigration raids, dispatching \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-suen-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">armed troops\u003c/a> to U.S. cities, sending \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061445/newsom-says-trump-is-rigging-the-election-with-federal-poll-monitors\">election monitors\u003c/a> to blue states on Tuesday — to the redistricting fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why else is he trying to rig the midterm elections before one single vote is even cast?” Newsom said. “One thing he never counted on, though, was the state of California. We stood tall and we stood firm in response to Donald Trump’s recklessness. And tonight, after poking the bear, this bear roared. … None of us, however, are naive. This is a pattern. This is practice. Donald Trump’s efforts to rig the midterm election continue to this day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those midterm elections were exactly why Newsom and other Democrats pushed so hard for Proposition 50 to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A race to lead California begins in earnest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first domino in California’s midterms fell hours before polls closed Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla surprised a gaggle of reporters in the U.S. Capitol who were awaiting an update on the government shutdown by announcing that he would not be joining the crowded Democratic field vying to succeed Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flanked by his wife, Angela, Padilla said he would remain in the Senate, despite receiving an “outpouring of encouragement and offers of support” over the last two months to make a run for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Alex Padilla speaks at a press briefing in San Francisco on June 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the Proposition 50 campaign over and Padilla out, the long-anticipated governor’s contest can finally pick up steam, Democratic strategist Michael Trujillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For much of 2025, the California governor’s race has been in a freezer — whether that was Vice President Kamala Harris making her decision [whether] to run for governor, and now with Proposition 50 freezing donors and freezing decisions on who might run or who might not run,” Trujillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as donors and candidates stayed on the sidelines, the governor’s race played out quietly in the background of the ballot measure campaign.[aside postID=news_12062781 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-60-BL.jpg']Padilla was prominently featured in a series of pro-Proposition 50 advertisements, fueling speculation he was preparing a run. Investor Tom Steyer spent over $12 million to star in a pair of commercials, and Los Angeles developer Rick Caruso sent voters in the Southland his own Yes on 50 mailer. Both billionaires are thought to be considering a leap into the governor’s race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was a question about Proposition 50 that sent former Rep. Katie Porter into a meltdown during an interview and threatened to upend her status as a frontrunner in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059479/katie-porters-viral-video-shakes-up-governors-race\">viral moment\u003c/a> amplified chatter that Padilla might enter the campaign as a steady hand and known commodity in Sacramento, where he spent more than a decade as a state senator and secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Trujillo said, Capitol insiders and interest groups will have to pick from a crowded field of Democrats that includes Xavier Becerra, the state’s former attorney general; Antonio Villaraigosa, the former Assembly speaker and mayor of Los Angeles; Betty Yee, the former state controller; and Tony Thurmond, California’s superintendent of public instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what Sacramento is worried about is they’re so used to a coronation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now they kind of have to pick, they kind of have to put on their political spidey-sense and pick a candidate,” Trujillo said. “[And] maybe be wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Congressional musical chairs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most immediate impact of Proposition 50’s passage, though, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052376/here-is-how-democrats-plan-to-redraw-californias-congressional-map\">a new congressional map\u003c/a> that gives Democrats a chance to flip up to five seats currently held by Republicans — while simultaneously easing the path to reelection for a handful of incumbent Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This could certainly determine who controls the House in 2027,” said Erin Covey, U.S. House editor at the \u003cem>Cook Political Report\u003c/em>. “Of course, there are a number of other states that have taken up redistricting as well, but in most of those states, the outcome of a new map would maybe result in just one or two seats flipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So California’s map is really going to be incredibly important next year,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11929971\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/IMG_6108-scaled-e1762374935415.jpg\" alt=\"a white man stands in a campaign office with signs reading 'Calvert for Congress'\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Calvert in his campaign headquarters in Corona, California, on Sept. 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jonathan Linden)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new map presents difficult choices for a handful of Republican incumbents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, the 41st District will be moved from the Inland Empire into Los Angeles County, making it virtually impossible for incumbent Rep. Ken Calvert to win reelection there. Calvert announced Wednesday that he will run in the 40th Congressional District, setting up a primary clash with Rep. Young Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the northern part of the state, Rep. Doug LaMalfa faces a similar predicament, as the addition of tens of thousands of liberal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052702/california-redistricting-plan-may-swing-on-this-sonoma-county-shakeup\">Sonoma County voters\u003c/a> to his district likely closes off his chances of winning next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic strategist Orrin Evans said the immediate question in California’s battleground seats is whether these GOP incumbents dig in for an uphill reelection fight — or begin making their case for an appointment in the Trump administration.[aside postID=news_12062703 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-BAYAREAVOTERS-06-BL-KQED.jpg']Those decisions could be especially important in the new 3rd District around Sacramento and the 48th District, which spans from San Diego County to Palm Springs. There, Republican incumbents Kevin Kiley and Darrell Issa face narrow but still winnable paths to reelection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issa bowed out of a reelection campaign in 2018, when he faced strong Democratic headwinds in a coastal San Diego district. And Kiley could likewise help Democrats by opting to run in the neighboring 5th District, a safe Republican seat held by Rep. Tom McClintock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if incumbents such as Issa and Kiley decide to run in their current seats, “these become general election scenarios that you can’t take for granted,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Democratic DNA of these districts will be very tough for any Republican incumbent to win,” said Evans. “But … it requires [Democrats] in these safer seats to spend a little bit more money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next few weeks are likely to provide answers to questions beyond the state’s swing districts — such as whether former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decides to retire after representing San Francisco in Congress for nearly four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking beyond 2026\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not on the ballot next year: Newsom, who is entering his final year in office and will be a lame-duck governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the passage of Proposition 50 — and the national attention it garnered — is a huge win for the famously ambitious politician. Newsom recently said, for the first time, that he is seriously considering a White House run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a turnaround from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">Newsom’s rough start to the year\u003c/a>: First, the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, then a series of attacks from the White House, and backlash within his own party over the controversial MAGA guests he invited on his new podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062992 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244069197_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244069197_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244069197_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244069197_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a “Yes On Prop 50” volunteer event at the L.A. Convention Center on Nov. 1, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Jill Connelly/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043766/newsom-tries-to-find-political-footing-in-clash-with-trump\">Newsom seemed to regain his footing\u003c/a> after Trump dispatched armed troops to Los Angeles in early summer, sparking a very public fight. Newsom leaned into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054630/in-picking-a-fight-with-trump-newsom-gambles-on-his-own-political-future\">the high-profile clash\u003c/a>, including on social media, where his zingy posts mimicking Trump’s style caught fire, angering the right and endearing him to frustrated Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom capitalized on that Democratic enthusiasm — and his party base’s desire to take on Trump — in the Proposition 50 campaign. The ballot measure became something of a litmus test of Newsom’s popularity and Trump’s unpopularity in California, said Mark Baldassare, who directs the Public Policy Institute of California’s poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldassare said PPIC’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062049/polls-show-prop-50-leading-ahead-of-tuesdays-election\">most recent poll\u003c/a> ahead of the election reflected an incredibly partisan split: Democrats were in favor, and Republicans were opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s going very much along partisan lines, but also along the lines of how people feel about President Trump and how they feel about Gov. Newsom,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1679108716-scaled-e1762375365136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1352\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorena Gonzalez speaks on stage at the SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles Solidarity March and Rally on Sept. 13, 2023, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(David Livingston/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California Labor Federation President Lorena Gonzalez, a former state Assembly member who often sparred with Newsom in the Legislature, said the governor showed a side of himself in recent months that Democrats have been hungry to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not the same governor from a year ago, right? This is somebody … who’s willing to fight, get in a street fight, take on the president, take on these notions of unfairness and what’s going on, mock the other side,” she said. “And I think it’s showing that people really want that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covey, of the Cook Political Report, said the Proposition 50 campaign has not only improved Newsom’s image nationally among Democrats, but has also given him a chance to expand his list of small-dollar donors across the country. The governor raised an eye-popping $38 million in small donations — and collected all of their contact information as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Democrats who are frustrated with their leaders and their view not doing enough to fight back against Trump are happy with someone like Gov. Newsom, who has really led the charge on this redistricting effort,” Covey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the question for not only Newsom, but also for Democrats more broadly, is whether they can rebuild their own brand ahead of 2028 — not just run against Trump, who won’t be on the ballot again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You never want to run a political party on being against somebody or something, but the anti-Trump stuff really works, right?” Gonzalez said. “I don’t think people are flocking to the Democratic Party. That’s still an issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Those decisions could be especially important in the new 3rd District around Sacramento and the 48th District, which spans from San Diego County to Palm Springs. There, Republican incumbents Kevin Kiley and Darrell Issa face narrow but still winnable paths to reelection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issa bowed out of a reelection campaign in 2018, when he faced strong Democratic headwinds in a coastal San Diego district. And Kiley could likewise help Democrats by opting to run in the neighboring 5th District, a safe Republican seat held by Rep. Tom McClintock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if incumbents such as Issa and Kiley decide to run in their current seats, “these become general election scenarios that you can’t take for granted,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Democratic DNA of these districts will be very tough for any Republican incumbent to win,” said Evans. “But … it requires [Democrats] in these safer seats to spend a little bit more money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next few weeks are likely to provide answers to questions beyond the state’s swing districts — such as whether former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decides to retire after representing San Francisco in Congress for nearly four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking beyond 2026\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not on the ballot next year: Newsom, who is entering his final year in office and will be a lame-duck governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the passage of Proposition 50 — and the national attention it garnered — is a huge win for the famously ambitious politician. Newsom recently said, for the first time, that he is seriously considering a White House run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a turnaround from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">Newsom’s rough start to the year\u003c/a>: First, the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, then a series of attacks from the White House, and backlash within his own party over the controversial MAGA guests he invited on his new podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062992 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244069197_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244069197_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244069197_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244069197_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. 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Newsom,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1679108716-scaled-e1762375365136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1352\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorena Gonzalez speaks on stage at the SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles Solidarity March and Rally on Sept. 13, 2023, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(David Livingston/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California Labor Federation President Lorena Gonzalez, a former state Assembly member who often sparred with Newsom in the Legislature, said the governor showed a side of himself in recent months that Democrats have been hungry to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not the same governor from a year ago, right? This is somebody … who’s willing to fight, get in a street fight, take on the president, take on these notions of unfairness and what’s going on, mock the other side,” she said. “And I think it’s showing that people really want that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covey, of the Cook Political Report, said the Proposition 50 campaign has not only improved Newsom’s image nationally among Democrats, but has also given him a chance to expand his list of small-dollar donors across the country. The governor raised an eye-popping $38 million in small donations — and collected all of their contact information as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Democrats who are frustrated with their leaders and their view not doing enough to fight back against Trump are happy with someone like Gov. 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SNAP and Food Stamps provide nutrition benefits to supplement the budgets of disadvantaged families. \u003ccite>(Jet City Image/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do anticipate the best-case scenario at this point, and everything is changing, that we are several weeks away from any kind of distribution, if there is a distribution,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cards will initially be loaded with 50% of the total funds, then reloaded with each half of the remaining funding weekly for the following two weeks. It wasn’t clear whether recipients would receive the full dollar amount they usually do through CalFresh, but Contra Costa County households received just over $21 million in electronic benefit transfers in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recipients will be able to pick up the cards at the county’s Employment & Human Services Department (EHSD) buildings in Richmond, Hercules, Pleasant Hill and Antioch every weekday next week between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The supervisors asked EHSD staff to consider adding weekend hours to the pick-up schedule, though whether they will be able to do so wasn’t determined before the vote.[aside postID=news_12062685 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-SNAP-RECIPIENTS-MD-03-KQED.jpg']To help households get through this week, Stuart said the county has already purchased the equivalent of 10,000 food boxes from the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano and begun distributing their contents. She said the food should be enough to serve about 40,000 people for two weeks, and estimated it would likely last through the middle of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county will load the debit cards using millions of dollars from COVID-19 reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other unallocated money in its general fund set aside for contingencies to pay for the cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While all of the supervisors agreed the lapse in CalFresh funding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062685/eating-for-survival-with-november-snap-delays-how-will-bay-area-families-cope\">constituted a crisis\u003c/a> worth spending this funding on, multiple raised questions about the sustainability of spending such large sums to cover federal shortfalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that there’s an urgent need, and we are in a crisis in so many ways,” Supervisor Ken Carlson said. “I also want to be thinking that we’re 10 months into this crisis. We do not know what court order, what action [is coming]; what Congress, what this president will do. I want to be very thoughtful of how we proceed, because we might be here three months from now for a totally different issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere across the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062577/bay-area-counties-pour-millions-into-food-aid-assistance-as-clock-runs-out-on-snap\">counties have taken similar steps\u003c/a> to support households whose usual electronic benefit transfers aren’t arriving this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmark Bernante (left) and Megan Feria sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is also providing direct aid, sending $18 million in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062743/shutdown-san-francisco-sf-cal-fresh-snap-november-grocery-card-ebt-meals-prepaid-debit-contra-costa\">electronic gift cards\u003c/a> to CalFresh recipients. Alameda County, meanwhile, is sending $10 million in emergency funding to local food banks and food assistance programs, and it has raised an additional $1.5 million, partly through philanthropic support, for an emergency food program to support food banks and smaller, community-based organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Marin County supervisors allocated $800,000 to send prepaid cards to the county’s 15,000 CalFresh recipients. The program will be facilitated through the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, and funding will be issued in $200,000 increments for four weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local jurisdictions and the state have quickly mobilized to help people continue to put food on the table, how long they’ll be able to do so is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a Band-Aid,” Contra Costa Supervisor Diane Burgis said. “Are we also working on if this is to continue for another month or two, what we would do? This is four weeks. So what is the next plan after that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the uncertainty, Contra Costa County will allocate up to $21 million to provide debit cards to households on CalFresh, California’s iteration of SNAP, beginning next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The loss of CalFresh benefits threatens the food security of over 110,000 county residents,” said Marla Stuart, the director of East Bay County’s Employment & Human Services Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the U.S. Department of Agriculture issues partial SNAP benefits for November, she said, those are not likely to hit recipients’ accounts during the usual window during the first 10 days of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SNAP and EBT Accepted here sign. SNAP and Food Stamps provide nutrition benefits to supplement the budgets of disadvantaged families. \u003ccite>(Jet City Image/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do anticipate the best-case scenario at this point, and everything is changing, that we are several weeks away from any kind of distribution, if there is a distribution,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cards will initially be loaded with 50% of the total funds, then reloaded with each half of the remaining funding weekly for the following two weeks. It wasn’t clear whether recipients would receive the full dollar amount they usually do through CalFresh, but Contra Costa County households received just over $21 million in electronic benefit transfers in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recipients will be able to pick up the cards at the county’s Employment & Human Services Department (EHSD) buildings in Richmond, Hercules, Pleasant Hill and Antioch every weekday next week between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The supervisors asked EHSD staff to consider adding weekend hours to the pick-up schedule, though whether they will be able to do so wasn’t determined before the vote.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To help households get through this week, Stuart said the county has already purchased the equivalent of 10,000 food boxes from the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano and begun distributing their contents. She said the food should be enough to serve about 40,000 people for two weeks, and estimated it would likely last through the middle of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county will load the debit cards using millions of dollars from COVID-19 reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other unallocated money in its general fund set aside for contingencies to pay for the cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While all of the supervisors agreed the lapse in CalFresh funding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062685/eating-for-survival-with-november-snap-delays-how-will-bay-area-families-cope\">constituted a crisis\u003c/a> worth spending this funding on, multiple raised questions about the sustainability of spending such large sums to cover federal shortfalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that there’s an urgent need, and we are in a crisis in so many ways,” Supervisor Ken Carlson said. “I also want to be thinking that we’re 10 months into this crisis. We do not know what court order, what action [is coming]; what Congress, what this president will do. I want to be very thoughtful of how we proceed, because we might be here three months from now for a totally different issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere across the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062577/bay-area-counties-pour-millions-into-food-aid-assistance-as-clock-runs-out-on-snap\">counties have taken similar steps\u003c/a> to support households whose usual electronic benefit transfers aren’t arriving this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmark Bernante (left) and Megan Feria sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is also providing direct aid, sending $18 million in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062743/shutdown-san-francisco-sf-cal-fresh-snap-november-grocery-card-ebt-meals-prepaid-debit-contra-costa\">electronic gift cards\u003c/a> to CalFresh recipients. Alameda County, meanwhile, is sending $10 million in emergency funding to local food banks and food assistance programs, and it has raised an additional $1.5 million, partly through philanthropic support, for an emergency food program to support food banks and smaller, community-based organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Marin County supervisors allocated $800,000 to send prepaid cards to the county’s 15,000 CalFresh recipients. The program will be facilitated through the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, and funding will be issued in $200,000 increments for four weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local jurisdictions and the state have quickly mobilized to help people continue to put food on the table, how long they’ll be able to do so is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a Band-Aid,” Contra Costa Supervisor Diane Burgis said. “Are we also working on if this is to continue for another month or two, what we would do? This is four weeks. So what is the next plan after that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A sales tax increase in Santa Clara County appeared headed for victory on Tuesday, signaling a willingness among South Bay voters to help backfill federal cuts to food and health care safety net programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/measure-a\">Measure A\u003c/a> was leading 57% to 43% in early returns on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re calling it!” Supervisors Betty Duong and Susan Ellenberg said after results flashed across a flatscreen TV at a Yes on Measure A party in San José’s Willow Glen neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would increase the county sales tax by five-eighths of a cent for every one dollar spent, raising roughly $330 million annually. County leaders \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051250/santa-clara-county-voters-could-pay-more-sales-tax-due-to-trump-cuts\">placed it on the ballot\u003c/a> after President Donald Trump approved cuts to Medicaid and SNAP that will reduce county revenues by $1 billion a year by the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Home to four public hospitals, Santa Clara County \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059539/with-measure-a-santa-clara-county-hopes-to-keep-hospitals-afloat\">was uniquely vulnerable\u003c/a> to the historic cuts to Medicaid, the nation’s health care program for low-income residents and people with disabilities. Supporters of Measure A billed the measure as an opportunity for residents of the liberal county to push back against Republicans in Washington. The campaign closely aligned its messaging with the successful measure to redraw the state’s congressional lines to help Democrats win control of the U.S. House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is affirmation that the people of Santa Clara County are going to determine their own future, and they’ve decided that we will not allow for our health care system to go down,” Duong told KQED. “Had we not had the results we had tonight, had Measure A gone the other way, we would be looking at which hospital to close right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of Measure A acknowledged the new revenue would not fully make up for the loss of federal funding. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act that Trump signed this summer is expected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997707/how-will-trumps-mega-bill-impact-health-care-in-california\">reduce the number of people\u003c/a> eligible for Medicaid, known as Medi-Cal in California. As a result, the county will receive fewer direct payments and reimbursements for services, and county leaders said cuts to county health services are likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The road ahead of us is daunting,” said Santa Clara County Executive James Williams. “We are facing hundreds of millions in cuts even with the passage of Measure A, but this gives us the fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016848\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-1230183080.jpg\" alt=\"A large hospital building that says 'Santa Clara Valley Medical Center' in front.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-1230183080.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-1230183080-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-1230183080-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-1230183080-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara Valley Medical Center stands on 751 South Bascom Avenue in San José on Sept. 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Neal Waters/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Measure A supporters argued the sales tax would allow the county to keep all four of its public hospitals open. In recent years, the county expanded its health system beyond Valley Medical Center to acquire struggling hospitals in the region: O’Connor Hospital and Regional Medical Center in San José and St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians from across the South Bay’s political spectrum endorsed Measure A, including Assemblymember Patrick Ahrens, Rep. Ro Khanna, San José Mayor Matt Mahan and the entire Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.[aside label=\"2025 California Special Election\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/measure-a,Learn about Measure A in Santa Clara County' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Aside-2025-Special-Election-Voter-Guide-Santa-Clara-County-Measure-A-1200x675-1.png]Opponents of Measure A included Cupertino Mayor Liang-Fang Chao and a handful of former mayors and city council members, including Rishi Kumar of Saratoga and Lydia Kou of Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They noted that because Measure A is a general tax, the revenue can technically be spent on any county service. They also argued a sales tax would fall disproportionately on lower-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents also questioned the long-term viability of the county’s health system after the Medicaid cuts. The three hospital acquisitions have ballooned county health care spending, they said, and the sales tax increase was a Band-Aid solution that sidestepped a more serious reevaluation of county health spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those messages were largely drowned out by a well-funded campaign in support of Measure A. The main campaign committee raised over $2.6 million through Oct. 31, including $525,000 from the Valley Health Foundation, a nonprofit supporting the county health system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign against Measure A reported virtually no fundraising beyond a $357 loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the closing weeks of the campaign, opponents accused county leaders of improperly advocating for the sales tax hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kumar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060326/measure-a-opponents-criticize-county-mailer-ahead-of-election\">criticized a taxpayer-funded mailer\u003c/a> from the county that warned residents of looming health cuts in language closely mirroring the pro-Measure A arguments. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would increase the county sales tax by five-eighths of a cent for every one dollar spent, raising roughly $330 million annually. County leaders \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051250/santa-clara-county-voters-could-pay-more-sales-tax-due-to-trump-cuts\">placed it on the ballot\u003c/a> after President Donald Trump approved cuts to Medicaid and SNAP that will reduce county revenues by $1 billion a year by the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Home to four public hospitals, Santa Clara County \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059539/with-measure-a-santa-clara-county-hopes-to-keep-hospitals-afloat\">was uniquely vulnerable\u003c/a> to the historic cuts to Medicaid, the nation’s health care program for low-income residents and people with disabilities. Supporters of Measure A billed the measure as an opportunity for residents of the liberal county to push back against Republicans in Washington. The campaign closely aligned its messaging with the successful measure to redraw the state’s congressional lines to help Democrats win control of the U.S. House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is affirmation that the people of Santa Clara County are going to determine their own future, and they’ve decided that we will not allow for our health care system to go down,” Duong told KQED. “Had we not had the results we had tonight, had Measure A gone the other way, we would be looking at which hospital to close right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of Measure A acknowledged the new revenue would not fully make up for the loss of federal funding. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act that Trump signed this summer is expected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997707/how-will-trumps-mega-bill-impact-health-care-in-california\">reduce the number of people\u003c/a> eligible for Medicaid, known as Medi-Cal in California. As a result, the county will receive fewer direct payments and reimbursements for services, and county leaders said cuts to county health services are likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The road ahead of us is daunting,” said Santa Clara County Executive James Williams. “We are facing hundreds of millions in cuts even with the passage of Measure A, but this gives us the fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016848\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-1230183080.jpg\" alt=\"A large hospital building that says 'Santa Clara Valley Medical Center' in front.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-1230183080.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-1230183080-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-1230183080-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-1230183080-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara Valley Medical Center stands on 751 South Bascom Avenue in San José on Sept. 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Neal Waters/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Measure A supporters argued the sales tax would allow the county to keep all four of its public hospitals open. In recent years, the county expanded its health system beyond Valley Medical Center to acquire struggling hospitals in the region: O’Connor Hospital and Regional Medical Center in San José and St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians from across the South Bay’s political spectrum endorsed Measure A, including Assemblymember Patrick Ahrens, Rep. Ro Khanna, San José Mayor Matt Mahan and the entire Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> voters resoundingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50\">Proposition 50\u003c/a>, the ballot measure championed by Democrats to enact new congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterms — a fight that became as much a referendum on President Donald Trump as a question of redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In passing Proposition 50, voters agreed to temporarily set aside the maps drawn just a few years ago by the state’s popular independent redistricting commission and approve congressional boundaries aimed at giving Democrats five more seats in the House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, championed by Gov. 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Speaking a short time later at the California Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento, Newsom said he was proud of Californians for sending a “powerful message to an historic president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not just a victory tonight for the Democratic Party, it was a victory for the United States of America, for the people of this country and the principles that our founding fathers lived and died for,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244069197_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244069197_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244069197_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244069197_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a “Yes On Prop. 50” volunteer event at the L.A. Convention Center on Nov. 1, 2025. (Jill Connelly/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom devoted much of his speech to attacking Trump and linking the president’s redistricting push to broader assaults on democratic norms, including aggressive immigration raids and deploying troops to Democratic-led cities such as Los Angeles. He noted that on Tuesday, as Californians headed to the polls, Trump issued a statement calling the vote a “giant scam” and threatening investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of agonizing over the state of our nation, we organized in an unprecedented way,” Newsom said. “We stood tall and we stood firm in response to Donald Trump’s recklessness. And tonight, after poking the bear, this bear roared — with an unprecedented turnout, in a special election with an extraordinary result. None of us, however, are naive. This is a pattern. This is practice. Donald Trump’s efforts to rig the midterm election continue to this day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans, however, were fuming. GOP Assemblymember David Tangipa, who represents a district stretching south from the Sierra foothills along the eastern edge of Central California, accused Newsom and Democrats of misleading voters with “emotionally charged arguments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sad day,” he said. “The people of California have been lied to. They’ve been lied to by Gov. 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And I think it’s this high because Proposition 50 is not just about what’s going on in the state. It’s about what is going on in the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Proposition 50 said that was the message they carried to voters during the shortened campaign. SEIU California President David Huerta said union members knocked on nearly 160,000 doors and sent millions of texts and calls in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This election proves what SEIU members know: People power will be the way to stop fascism and save democracy,” he said. “As Trump and MAGA Republicans aim to rig the midterm election to amass more power, escalate their attacks on our communities and march us down the path to unchecked authoritarianism, SEIU members’ thousands of volunteer hours helped Californians send a resounding message back to Washington, D.C.: Not on our watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bakersfield Republican Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The polarization is very much in line with what we have seen in candidate races,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldassare said that for 20 years, the PPIC poll has asked voters the same question when there’s a ballot measure: How important is the outcome to you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the case of Proposition 50, 68% of likely voters said that the outcome of this election is very important to them,” he said. “I’ve never seen a number this high. And I think it’s this high because Proposition 50 is not just about what’s going on in the state. It’s about what is going on in the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Proposition 50 said that was the message they carried to voters during the shortened campaign. SEIU California President David Huerta said union members knocked on nearly 160,000 doors and sent millions of texts and calls in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This election proves what SEIU members know: People power will be the way to stop fascism and save democracy,” he said. “As Trump and MAGA Republicans aim to rig the midterm election to amass more power, escalate their attacks on our communities and march us down the path to unchecked authoritarianism, SEIU members’ thousands of volunteer hours helped Californians send a resounding message back to Washington, D.C.: Not on our watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bakersfield Republican Rep. Vince Fong said the ballot measure will leave large parts of the state without representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Prop. 50 has shown us anything, it’s that Gavin Newsom is so desperate to be president that he’s willing to steamroll the state constitution and rural communities in pursuit of his personal ambition,” Fong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passage of the measure now kicks off a scramble in the five newly drawn districts. Congressional hopefuls must declare their candidacy by early March to appear on the June primary ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Covey, who leads The Cook Political Report’s coverage of the U.S. House, said California could be hugely consequential next year as Democrats and Republicans fight for control of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because, in addition to the five districts drawn to give Democrats an edge, the new maps made eight other congressional districts already held by Democrats even safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So this could certainly determine who controls the house in 2027,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wedrell James has fond memories of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Francisco\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> City Hall. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His father worked as a custodian in the building, and James remembers walking down the marbled halls with him, listening to stories about the workings of local government. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“So I have a great feeling about this place,” said James, 71. “My parents always voted, so it was just something I grew up with.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James, a resident of the city’s Bayview neighborhood, returned to those same marbled halls on Thursday to cast his ballot in favor of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California’s Proposition 50\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He characterized the ballot measure as a fight for the future of democracy itself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“ They’re trying to steal our government from us. And if we don’t do something, we’re going to lose it,” James said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062362\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-BAYAREAVOTERS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-BAYAREAVOTERS-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-BAYAREAVOTERS-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-BAYAREAVOTERS-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wedrell James stands near the City Hall Voting Center in San Francisco on Oct. 30, 2025, after casting a ballot in the statewide special election. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Across the Bay Area and beyond, Californians turned out Tuesday in the final day of voting in this statewide special election. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At issue is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061715/california-divided-heres-whats-at-stake-for-californians-whose-districts-could-get-rewritten-by-prop-50\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proposition 50\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which would temporarily redraw current congressional maps in the state to favor Democrats. The new maps would be in effect for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 House elections. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ordinarily, California’s redistricting is handled at the end of each decade by a nonpartisan, citizen-led commission. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State legislators \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053140/california-lawmakers-pass-redistricting-plan-now-it-heads-to-voters\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">moved to change that over the summer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by putting Proposition 50 on the ballot after Texas Gov. Greg Abbot and lawmakers made good on a request from President Trump to redraw that state’s congressional maps to favor Republicans.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure would move the boundaries of multiple congressional districts in the Bay Area. Over 100,000 voters in Antioch and Pittsburg would be shuffled out of the current \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060266/proposition-50-would-shift-antioch-pittsburg-to-aid-democrats-in-congress\">8th Congressional District\u003c/a>, which includes other cities along the Carquinez Strait, into the 9th Congressional District, in an attempt to safeguard the seat of Rep. Josh Harder, a Central Valley Democrat seen as politically vulnerable.[aside postID=news_12062572 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2242991186-2000x1333.jpg']Much of Sonoma County would be moved into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052702/california-redistricting-plan-may-swing-on-this-sonoma-county-shakeup\">1st Congressional District\u003c/a>, an injection of Democratic voters that could unseat Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a Republican who represents a wide swath of northeastern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco resident Sarah Mohr voted no, but when she emerged from her polling place in the Dogpatch neighborhood around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, she was conflicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like it was kind of a decision between what I felt was morally right and what I wanted to see happen at the federal level,” she said, adding that she flip-flopped out on how to vote for weeks, unsure even as she ate her morning oatmeal Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes gerrymandering anywhere is wrong, and congressional maps shouldn’t be redrawn outside of their usual timelines. But she’s also aware that her decision to vote no, which she felt was “morally” right, could have consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do feel kind of guilty, to be completely honest, because I see what’s happening at the federal level and I don’t like what I see,” she told KQED. “I know that if Prop 50 were not to be passed, I think what’s currently happening would just continue to happen more extremely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimmy Tran of Oakland, who works in the city, also voted no on the measure last week. Dropping off his ballot at City Hall, he said he too is opposed to gerrymandering in both Texas and California, but that Proposition 50 would lead to less representation in California for Republicans like himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062368\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-BAYAREAVOTERS-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-BAYAREAVOTERS-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-BAYAREAVOTERS-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-BAYAREAVOTERS-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County voter Jimmy Tran drops off a ballot at City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 30, 2025, ahead of the statewide special election. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The people that I’m around, their views are more Republican, but I don’t think the [Legislature] in California represents that, and I think the [Legislature] of California should represent the people of California,” said Tran, who voted for President Donald Trump in the last election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many voters who ultimately made a different decision, voting in support of the measure, admitted that they agreed with Mohr’s and Tran’s dislike of gerrymandering generally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexandra Wolfe of Oakland said after casting her vote: “There are times where the practical reality of your life is more important than your philosophies, and this feels like one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s a good result out of this,” said Norbert Szmyt, who voted in the Dogpatch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he said, Democrats have put a lot of focus on “just trying to do the quote-unquote right thing. And that’s just caused everybody on the other side to do whatever they want. They haven’t followed the rules, so we [have] got to do something and stop being walked over.”[aside postID=news_12062201 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SUPERVISORCOE-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Others, like Mark Salomon, who lives in the city’s Mission District, blamed Democrats for putting voters in the position to have to support Prop 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the Democrats had put together a political and economic appeal that resonated with voters then they wouldn’t need to be doing this,” he said, casting his ballot at City Hall last week. “Instead of coming forth with a political program on Medicare for all, expanding social security, education and housing issues, they’ve got nothing. So instead they have to rig the game to fight a guy who’s rigging the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062049/polls-show-prop-50-leading-ahead-of-tuesdays-election\">Polls\u003c/a> are indicating that Proposition 50 is likely to pass. Gov. Gavin Newsom has campaigned heavily in support of the measure, also known as the Election Rigging Response Act. Speaking on Monday at a get-out-the-vote event in San Francisco, he framed it as a way to fight back against the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“ People are on edge. Communities of color are on edge. Folks [are] scared to death to go out trick or treating, scared to walk their dogs, go to a playground, go to a loved one’s funeral because they might be disappeared on the basis of what they look like, where they congregate, the language they speak in the United States of America today,” Newsom said, referencing increased immigration enforcement by the Trump administration.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-37-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-37-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-37-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-37-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Others, like Mark Salomon, who lives in the city’s Mission District, blamed Democrats for putting voters in the position to have to support Prop 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the Democrats had put together a political and economic appeal that resonated with voters then they wouldn’t need to be doing this,” he said, casting his ballot at City Hall last week. “Instead of coming forth with a political program on Medicare for all, expanding social security, education and housing issues, they’ve got nothing. So instead they have to rig the game to fight a guy who’s rigging the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062049/polls-show-prop-50-leading-ahead-of-tuesdays-election\">Polls\u003c/a> are indicating that Proposition 50 is likely to pass. Gov. Gavin Newsom has campaigned heavily in support of the measure, also known as the Election Rigging Response Act. Speaking on Monday at a get-out-the-vote event in San Francisco, he framed it as a way to fight back against the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“ People are on edge. Communities of color are on edge. Folks [are] scared to death to go out trick or treating, scared to walk their dogs, go to a playground, go to a loved one’s funeral because they might be disappeared on the basis of what they look like, where they congregate, the language they speak in the United States of America today,” Newsom said, referencing increased immigration enforcement by the Trump administration.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-37-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-37-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-37-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-37-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a rally in support of Proposition 50 at IBEW Local 6 in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shidume Lozada, said given the stakes, she had no misgivings about voting yes on 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like extreme measures need to be taken right now,” Lozada said, who voted early. “I feel like the Republican Party is playing extremely dirty. It’s beyond un-American. So if this is what needs to happen, then this is what needs to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither did Jenny Morales in Oakland, who said she was voting for her friends who rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, which are being impacted by the federal government shutdown, and immigrants like her parents, who are being targeted by increased immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is giving me a slight little hope as a chance to fight back,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mlagos\">\u003cem>Marisa Lagos\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The most high-profile of the attacks was against Yik Oi Huang, whose brutal beating in a Visitacion Valley park put the largely Asian community on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gathron faced more than two dozen counts ranging from elder abuse and felony robbery to murder, which was upgraded from attempted murder after Huang died a year following the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasanna Yee, Huang’s granddaughter, said after the jury read its verdict that her family could finally take a sigh of relief, nearly seven years after Huang’s beating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said repeated delays to the trial in recent years felt like they “constantly open[ed] the wound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so we feel a sense of closure, we can take a deep breath. And now we wait for sentencing,” she told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960635\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Several people walk up a sidewalk next to a grassy park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Older adults walk around Yik Oi Huang Peace and Friendship Park in San Francisco on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Formerly Visitacion Valley Park, it was renamed in May 2022 in memory of Yik Oi Huang, an older person who was brutally beaten at the park and, a year later, died from her injuries. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After reading their verdict, the jury had to return to deliberation to clear up confusion related to one count regarding whether Gathron used a firearm during one of the attacks. That decision is expected to be finalized on Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gathron’s sentencing has not yet been set. He could face life in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His attacks, including against Huang, were never officially charged as hate crimes, but Asian Justice Movement organizer Charles Jung said the pattern of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961693/californias-anti-asian-hate-crimes-decline-but-long-term-pattern-persists\">attacking Asian victims\u003c/a> speaks for itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone allegedly victimizes multiple people of the same ethnicity in rapid succession, as is alleged, the impact is the same, I would say,” he told KQED at the trial’s opening. “It has the impact of terrorizing a community and making people feel unsafe because of who they are.”[aside postID=news_12057083 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS47911_011_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-qut-1020x680.jpg']The first attack came Jan. 3, 2019, when Gathron hit Dhung My Chung from behind, stole his keys and drove off in his car, San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Nathan Quigley told the jury during the weekslong proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day, he robbed Guifeng Yu, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the next few weeks, he also stole the car of a man dropping his wife off at a Sunset District bus stop and took two minors’ cellphones at gunpoint. Quigley said he let a third teenager — his only non-Asian victim — go with her phone after she told him she needed it for school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack against Huang occurred on Jan. 8 of that year. Quigley told the court that Gathron attacked the 88-year-old known affectionately by Visitacion Valley neighbors as “Grandma Huang” as she practiced her usual qigong, a traditional Chinese exercise that combines movement, breathing and meditation, at a local park before sunrise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huang had walked to the Leland Avenue park across the street from her home as she did most mornings, where Gathron is said to have approached her, beaten her and stolen her keys. He left her lying in the sand under a slide, bloodied and hidden from street view by a recycling bin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huang was treated and placed in long-term care until she died almost a year later, on Jan. 3, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A play structure in a grassy park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The playground at Yik Oi Huang Peace and Friendship Park is seen in San Francisco on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huang had been a fixture of the Visitacion Valley neighborhood for nearly two decades. She’d purchased the home about a decade after immigrating from Toisan, China, in 1986, settling first in a Chinatown SRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over nearly 20 years, Huang became a community presence, her family said — often walking with friends around the park or leading the Visitacion Valley Friendship Club, an advocacy and senior group serving her Chinese immigrant neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her death, the community renamed the park in her honor. The Yik Oi Peace & Friendship Park was dedicated in June 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The renaming effort is unifying us with the goals of ending cycles of violence and healing long-simmering cultural and racial divisions,” said Anne Seeman, co-founder of Visitacion Valley Greenway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasanna Yee, Huang’s granddaughter, said after the jury read its verdict that her family could finally take a sigh of relief, nearly seven years after Huang’s beating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said repeated delays to the trial in recent years felt like they “constantly open[ed] the wound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so we feel a sense of closure, we can take a deep breath. And now we wait for sentencing,” she told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960635\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Several people walk up a sidewalk next to a grassy park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Older adults walk around Yik Oi Huang Peace and Friendship Park in San Francisco on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Formerly Visitacion Valley Park, it was renamed in May 2022 in memory of Yik Oi Huang, an older person who was brutally beaten at the park and, a year later, died from her injuries. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After reading their verdict, the jury had to return to deliberation to clear up confusion related to one count regarding whether Gathron used a firearm during one of the attacks. That decision is expected to be finalized on Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gathron’s sentencing has not yet been set. He could face life in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His attacks, including against Huang, were never officially charged as hate crimes, but Asian Justice Movement organizer Charles Jung said the pattern of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961693/californias-anti-asian-hate-crimes-decline-but-long-term-pattern-persists\">attacking Asian victims\u003c/a> speaks for itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone allegedly victimizes multiple people of the same ethnicity in rapid succession, as is alleged, the impact is the same, I would say,” he told KQED at the trial’s opening. “It has the impact of terrorizing a community and making people feel unsafe because of who they are.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The first attack came Jan. 3, 2019, when Gathron hit Dhung My Chung from behind, stole his keys and drove off in his car, San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Nathan Quigley told the jury during the weekslong proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day, he robbed Guifeng Yu, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the next few weeks, he also stole the car of a man dropping his wife off at a Sunset District bus stop and took two minors’ cellphones at gunpoint. Quigley said he let a third teenager — his only non-Asian victim — go with her phone after she told him she needed it for school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack against Huang occurred on Jan. 8 of that year. Quigley told the court that Gathron attacked the 88-year-old known affectionately by Visitacion Valley neighbors as “Grandma Huang” as she practiced her usual qigong, a traditional Chinese exercise that combines movement, breathing and meditation, at a local park before sunrise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huang had walked to the Leland Avenue park across the street from her home as she did most mornings, where Gathron is said to have approached her, beaten her and stolen her keys. He left her lying in the sand under a slide, bloodied and hidden from street view by a recycling bin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huang was treated and placed in long-term care until she died almost a year later, on Jan. 3, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A play structure in a grassy park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The playground at Yik Oi Huang Peace and Friendship Park is seen in San Francisco on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huang had been a fixture of the Visitacion Valley neighborhood for nearly two decades. She’d purchased the home about a decade after immigrating from Toisan, China, in 1986, settling first in a Chinatown SRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over nearly 20 years, Huang became a community presence, her family said — often walking with friends around the park or leading the Visitacion Valley Friendship Club, an advocacy and senior group serving her Chinese immigrant neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her death, the community renamed the park in her honor. The Yik Oi Peace & Friendship Park was dedicated in June 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The renaming effort is unifying us with the goals of ending cycles of violence and healing long-simmering cultural and racial divisions,” said Anne Seeman, co-founder of Visitacion Valley Greenway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>State labor regulators have found Costco, the membership-only wholesale retailer, liable for the underpayment of dozens of delivery drivers in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-diego\">San Diego\u003c/a> region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Labor Commissioner jointly cited Costco Wholesale Corporation, a delivery contractor and a trucking subcontractor, for nearly $870,000, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2025/2025-111.html\">announcement\u003c/a> Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators found Mega Nice Trucking LLC misclassified 58 drivers as independent contractors, denying them employee rights such as minimum wage, overtime pay and other benefits for a two-year period between August 2022 and September 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also held Costco and contractor Ryder Last Mile Inc. equally responsible as employers for the alleged wage theft, because they closely monitored the drivers’ performance, scheduled deliveries and mandated uniforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Companies that exert control over workers cannot evade responsibility by hiding behind layers of subcontracting,” Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower said in a statement. “Misclassification strips workers of their rights and protections, and employers who direct and control their workforce are responsible for paying all wages owed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costco, Ryder Last Mile and Mega Nice Trucking did not respond to requests for comment. All three companies have appealed the citation. That process will determine the amount each employer may ultimately pay, according to an agency spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10770963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10770963 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco.jpg\" alt=\"A Costco store\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1283\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-1440x962.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Costco-960x642.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Costco, along with a delivery contractor and a trucking subcontractor, was jointly cited for nearly $870,000 by the California Labor Commissioner, officials announced Thursday. \u003ccite>(Mike Mozart via Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.everee.com/blog/ab5-abc-test/\">state law\u003c/a>, most drivers for trucking and logistics companies should be considered employees, as their labor is engaged in the core activity of the firm’s operations. (App-based companies such as Uber and DoorDash carved out an exemption through a 2020 voter-approved ballot measure.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, tens of thousands of truck and delivery drivers in California could be misclassified as independent contractors because it’s cheaper for the hiring entity, said Steve Viscelli, a sociologist and industry expert at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers do not have to pay for an independent contractor’s sick days, workers’ compensation insurance or share of social security taxes. In trucking, the costs of fuel, insurance costs and vehicle repairs are also passed on to these workers, Viscelli said, which further decreases their earnings.[aside postID=news_12060714 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230718-CAR-WASH-WAGE-THEFT-Getty-GM-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“A lot of times, you can see drivers who are working for really subpar wages. 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Martin Medina, Mega Nice Trucking’s CEO, was also named as an individual in the $868,000 citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 75% of the proposed penalties would be payable to the impacted workers, according to the agency. But restitution is often elusive, as the Labor Commissioner’s Office, also known as the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979626/workers-lost-millions-to-californias-worst-known-wage-thief-and-hes-still-in-business\">plagued with delays\u003c/a> and understaffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small companies in trucking, construction and other industries that are cited for wage theft often close down and resurface with a different name to avoid paying penalties, according to experts. 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