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"content": "\u003cp>Travelers across the U.S. are feeling the effects \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057777/with-a-government-shutdown-looming-heres-how-the-bay-area-could-be-affected\">of the government shutdown\u003c/a> as air traffic controllers are calling out sick, said the nation’s top transportation official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Monday press conference, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said there has already been a small uptick in controllers — essential federal employees who are required to work without pay throughout the shutdown — calling out sick in a few places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollywood Burbank Airport’s air traffic control tower sat empty on Monday evening, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/politics/flight-delays-faa-shutdown.html\">reported the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Flight management at Burbank was instead performed by workers at the Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control in San Diego, resulting in average incoming delays of around two and a half hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration reported more staffing issues at airports in Nashville, Boston, Dallas, Chicago and Philadelphia, and at its air traffic control centers in Atlanta, Houston and the Dallas-Fort Worth area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is our airspace unsafe? No, but if we think there’s issues with the airspace, we will shut it down – we will close it down, we will delay,” Duffy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#Howtocheckwhatshappeningatyourairport\">How to check what’s happening at your airport\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>An FAA spokesperson confirmed “increased staffing shortages across the system” to KQED. In this event, “the FAA slows traffic into some airports to ensure safe operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057833\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/240412-OAKAirport-027-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/240412-OAKAirport-027-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/240412-OAKAirport-027-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/240412-OAKAirport-027-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers walk into the Oakland International Airport in Oakland on April 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the last government shutdown in 2018 and 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8rLnDwqO2k\">air traffic controllers calling in sick \u003c/a>caused \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/06/politics/ten-air-traffic-controllers-shutdown\">widespread flight delays and cancellations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hasn’t played out in major Bay Area airports yet. On Monday, a spokesperson for San Francisco International Airport said it hadn’t “received any such reports locally” when it came to staffing issues. The spokesperson also attributed \u003ca href=\"https://nasstatus.faa.gov/\">any delays seen at SFO on Wednesday\u003c/a> to weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport spokesperson told KQED Monday the airport didn’t expect “any screening or air traffic control services to be interrupted” due to the shutdown. At San José Mineta International Airport, “it’s business as usual,” a spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for how to make sure you’re aware of any flight delays that might affect your upcoming journey — at either your point of departure or your destination — during the government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Howtocheckwhatshappeningatyourairport\">\u003c/a>Check your airport with the FAA’s National Airspace System Status tool\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The FAA’s \u003ca href=\"https://nasstatus.faa.gov/\">National Airspace System Status\u003c/a> site allows passengers to see “active airport events” that might affect their flight — including staffing issues and weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050041\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DeltaSFOGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DeltaSFOGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DeltaSFOGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DeltaSFOGetty-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Delta Airlines plane lands at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, on July 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tool only uses three-letter airport codes, so make sure you know the code for the airport you’re departing and arriving from (i.e., “SFO” for San Francisco International Airport).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also use\u003ca href=\"https://nasstatus.faa.gov/map\"> the FAA’s map view\u003c/a> of affected airports.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keep a watchful eye on your flight’s status\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t already, sign up for email or text alerts direct from your airline so you’re informed about possible delays or cancellations as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also check the status of your flight on each airport’s website. In the Bay Area, use:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/passengers/flight-info/flight-status\">SFO Flight Status \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.iflyoak.com/fly/flight-status/\">OAK Flight Status\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.flysanjose.com/flight-status\">SJC Flight Status\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Googling your flight number — for example, “UA246” for United flight 246 — will also show you a live flight tracker, using data from flight data company \u003ca href=\"http://oag.com\">OAG\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Check live TSA wait times (where you can)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>TSA employees are federal workers who, like air traffic controllers, are generally working without pay through the shutdown. A TSA spokesperson told KQED last week that around 61,000 of the agency’s 64,000 employees are considered essential, “and TSA will continue operations to keep the traveling public safe” — with the agency’s remaining employees temporarily furloughed.[aside postID=news_12058508 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg']“While TSA is prepared to continue screening about 2.5M passengers a day, an extended shutdown could mean longer wait times at airports,” warned the spokesperson. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962810/government-shutdown-from-national-parks-and-air-travel-to-immigration-how-california-could-be-affected\">As KQED has reported during previous shutdown threats\u003c/a>, this does raise the possibility that these staff may call in sick, potentially causing delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/mobile\">The TSA’s own MyTSA app \u003c/a>usually tracks wait times at airports around the United States. However, a message on the app’s homepage said that “this website will not be actively managed” during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While SFO, OAK and SJC don’t publish security wait times on their sites, some other airports do — for example, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.jfkairport.com/\">JFK International Airport\u003c/a> — so it’s worth checking your departure airport’s website before you fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(And a reminder that if you’re flying out of SFO, any long security lines you find yourself in won’t actually be due to the shutdown — because a\u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about/airport-operations/safety-security#:~:text=Security%20Screening,website%20for%20helpful%20travel%20tips.\"> private company under contract with TSA does SFO’s bagging and screening\u003c/a>, and these workers will continue to be paid during the shutdown.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Using small rural airports? Be especially vigilant for delays\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many small rural airports around the U.S. are subsidized by \u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/policy/aviation-policy/small-community-rural-air-service/essential-air-service\">the Essential Air Service program\u003c/a>, which supports airline service to small communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the shutdown continues, “that money runs out this Sunday,” warned Secretary Duffy on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048867\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Planes are parked at Newark Liberty International Airport. \u003ccite>(Andres Kudacki/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program is especially important in Alaska, where flying is the only way to travel between many communities. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“While TSA is prepared to continue screening about 2.5M passengers a day, an extended shutdown could mean longer wait times at airports,” warned the spokesperson. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962810/government-shutdown-from-national-parks-and-air-travel-to-immigration-how-california-could-be-affected\">As KQED has reported during previous shutdown threats\u003c/a>, this does raise the possibility that these staff may call in sick, potentially causing delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/mobile\">The TSA’s own MyTSA app \u003c/a>usually tracks wait times at airports around the United States. However, a message on the app’s homepage said that “this website will not be actively managed” during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While SFO, OAK and SJC don’t publish security wait times on their sites, some other airports do — for example, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.jfkairport.com/\">JFK International Airport\u003c/a> — so it’s worth checking your departure airport’s website before you fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(And a reminder that if you’re flying out of SFO, any long security lines you find yourself in won’t actually be due to the shutdown — because a\u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about/airport-operations/safety-security#:~:text=Security%20Screening,website%20for%20helpful%20travel%20tips.\"> private company under contract with TSA does SFO’s bagging and screening\u003c/a>, and these workers will continue to be paid during the shutdown.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Using small rural airports? Be especially vigilant for delays\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many small rural airports around the U.S. are subsidized by \u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/policy/aviation-policy/small-community-rural-air-service/essential-air-service\">the Essential Air Service program\u003c/a>, which supports airline service to small communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the shutdown continues, “that money runs out this Sunday,” warned Secretary Duffy on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048867\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Planes are parked at Newark Liberty International Airport. \u003ccite>(Andres Kudacki/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program is especially important in Alaska, where flying is the only way to travel between many communities. In California,\u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2022-01/Current%20list%20of%20EAS-Eligible%20communities%20excl%20AK%20%20HI_Dec2021_0.pdf\"> these small airports include\u003c/a> Crescent City, El Centro and Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your journey relies on connections between smaller airports, be especially on the lookout for delays or cancellations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from The Associated Press and KQED’s Ted Goldberg.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> last week vetoed an initiative aimed at expanding sober housing in California, San Francisco supervisors are proposing new legislation that would all but bar new city money from funding supportive housing developments that don’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034006/san-francisco-mans-housing-struggle-relapse-put-him-back-on-streets\">require residents to be drug-free\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, San Francisco’s exclusively drug-tolerant [permanent supportive housing] model is blamed for disproportionate rates of fatal overdoses, chaotic and too often violent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>neighborhood conditions, and a wide range of drug-driven public safety challenges,” Supervisor Matt Dorsey said in a statement. “It’s time to deliver the drug-free options [permanent supportive housing] residents have long been asking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For about a decade, California has required supportive housing programs that utilize state funding to follow a “Housing First” framework, which aims to remove barriers to housing by requiring programs to accept tenants regardless of their credit score, criminal history or drug use, among other conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco legislation, co-sponsored by Board President Rafael Mandelman, aims to expand the availability of drug-free supportive housing in the city, despite Newsom’s veto of the state bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027566\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Matt Haney speaks during a press conference announcing legislation to increase nightlife in Downtown San Francisco to help the recovery of the neighborhood, in Union Square, San Francisco, on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Matt Haney’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB255\">AB 255\u003c/a>, which would have allowed cities and counties to use up to 10% of state supportive housing dollars to fund sober living centers, was returned unsigned by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney and other San Francisco leaders have long \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990693/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-sober-housing-to-be-part-of-homelessness-plan\">advocated for the expansion of state-funded sober living programs\u003c/a>, which many believe are prohibited by California’s Housing First framework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Interagency Council on Homelessness, which oversees the implementation of those guidelines in the state, said the intention is to provide housing as a starting place for all people, including those who want to seek recovery, instead of using housing as a “reward” for achieving recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many housing providers have interpreted the framework to mean they could not bar a new tenant, or evict an existing one, if they were not sober — which Haney said creates living environments that make it difficult for many people trying to get sober.[aside postID=news_12057616 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00437_TV-KQED-1.jpg']“If you know you need to get off of and away from drugs, you shouldn’t be forced into housing where drug use is allowed and where recovery is not supported,” he said. “Some folks won’t go into housing because they know that it actually is dangerous for them because they’re still experiencing an addiction. … This isn’t about having zero tolerance to drug use. It’s about having environments where recovery is explicitly supported, and that is the goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Newsom, jurisdictions can already use state dollars to “support recovery housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was news to most cities and counties,” Haney said after \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB255\">AB 255\u003c/a> was vetoed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said in his veto message that he believes “recovery-focused” housing is essential, but that Haney’s legislation would require the state to establish a separate — and costly — certification and oversight process. The Senate Appropriations Committee estimated that creating the new regulatory system would have cost more than $4 million in its first year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he pointed to guidance the California Interagency Council on Homelessness published in July, which allows jurisdictions to access state funding for recovery housing already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962415\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A series of tents lined up along a city sidewalk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment on a sidewalk in San Francisco on Sept. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the guidance, recovery housing programs “may include sobriety requirements; however, the decision to pursue sobriety must be made by the participant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea, it said, is that choice is central to the Housing First framework — “This includes the choice to participate in recovery housing and sober living programs, programs with a focus on implementing harm reduction methods, or other programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People using substances or in recovery from substance use disorders have diverse needs, goals, and interests and should be provided with meaningful choice within the housing and services options available to them,” the guidance continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the veto, Haney and San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who co-sponsored the bill, both said they were disappointed but would continue to create housing “across the spectrum” at the city level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation announced Tuesday appears poised to do just that.[aside postID=news_12057448 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-24-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Dorsey said he and Mandelman — with support from Supervisors Stephen Sherrill and Danny Sauter — would propose legislation to prevent San Francisco officials from using city dollars to open new non-sober housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city already generates independent revenue for sober housing through Proposition C, which voters passed in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said that since he took office, “We’ve stood up over 300 new beds, the right kind of beds, treatment beds, recovery beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not offered a new drug-free supportive program that provides the sort of permanent housing that Dorsey’s proposal would apply to, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, it would prohibit the use of city funds for drug-tolerant permanent supportive housing sites and more clearly separate the models of permanent supportive housing projects in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Dorsey’s office, there would be three: state-funded housing that prohibits evictions of tenants found using illegal drugs; drug-free sites that disallow use of illegal drugs but allow legal substances like alcohol and marijuana; and sober, recovery-oriented housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort — and sobriety restrictions on housing in general — could invite more pushback from homelessness advocates, like Coalition on Homelessness Executive Director Jennifer Friedenbach, who opposed the less-restrictive Assembly bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people are at a place where they would love to have sober housing, so let’s do that, but let’s not rob Peter to pay Paul,” she said. “Let’s find funding for that and expand it so there are those options available for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney pushed back on Friedenbach’s assertion that his state bill would have carved out a portion of already-thin funding exclusively for those in recovery. 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"content": "\u003cp>California Attorney General \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/rob-bonta\">Rob Bonta\u003c/a> said Monday that President Donald Trump’s ongoing attempts to seize control of state National Guard troops and deploy them to Democratic-led cities are part of a larger plan to consolidate executive power and normalize the sight of armed forces on American streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s comments came one day after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058715/trumps-order-to-deploy-california-national-guard-to-oregon-sparks-legal-showdown\">a federal judge barred Trump\u003c/a> from dispatching hundreds of California National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, and as Illinois and Chicago \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/10/06/illinois-sues-trump-over-national-guard-deployment\">filed a separate lawsuit\u003c/a> to prevent the deployment of hundreds of Texas National Guard members to Chicago. Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-memphis-national-guard-deployment-crime-washington-f678a17a66d3e49b2f67930a6ea70e6b\">also sent troops to Memphis, Tenn.\u003c/a>, over the objections of local Democratic officials but with the support of the state’s Republican governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/trump-insurrection-act-national-guard-00595241\">said he would be willing to invoke the Insurrection Act\u003c/a> if courts or state officials block his deployments. “If I had to enact it, I’d do it, if people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054322/judge-rules-trump-violated-law-by-sending-troops-to-los-angeles\">ruled\u003c/a> that guard members and U.S. Marines had been illegally deployed to Los Angeles to quell immigration protests and police civilian populations. That case is being appealed, but in the meantime, the court has allowed troops to remain in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump does think that the military is his personal police force and his personal army,” Bonta said Monday. “And he wants that force behind his policy decisions. … And I think he wants to weaponize the military against blue states and blue cities. That’s where he’s sending them. Exclusively, that is where he’s sending them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043426\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty-1536x1145.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom (right) speaks as Attorney General Rob Bonta looks on during a news conference on April 16, 2025, in Ceres, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom joined Oregon’s lawsuit over the weekend, after the Trump administration attempted to get around an \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/04/portland-national-guard-deployment-judge-decision/\">earlier court ruling that barred the president \u003c/a>from seizing control of the Oregon National Guard and deploying 200 of its members to Portland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that ruling by U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut, a Trump appointee, the president ordered at least 200 previously federalized California guard members to deploy to Portland — a move Newsom called a “breathtaking abuse of the law and power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immergut blocked that deployment, too, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/05/california-and-oregon-sue-trump-administration-to-block-national-guard-deployment-to-portland/\">tense hearing late Sunday\u003c/a> where she pressed lawyers for the administration as to why the California deployment shouldn’t be seen as the president’s attempt to circumvent her earlier order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Immergut \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/05/national-guard-oregon-california-rurling-00594606?nname=california-playbook&nid=00000150-384f-da43-aff2-bf7fd35a0000&nrid=00000150-96ca-ddf1-abdc-bedb22030001\">blocked\u003c/a> the president from deploying any federalized National Guard troops to Oregon and refused to stay the order while the president appeals.[aside postID=news_12058604 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2237687579-2000x1333.jpg']She set a hearing in the case for Oct. 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s rationale for the deployments is not entirely consistent. He often talks about crime problems and lawlessness in Democratic-led cities, including \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115276694936263266\">calling Portland “war-ravaged.”\u003c/a> Last week, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgq044n72po\">told\u003c/a> a gathering of top military brass that he wants to use American cities as “training grounds” for the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/StephenM/status/1975054022672281980\">other public statements\u003c/a> and in court filings, the administration has argued that the troops need to be sent to Portland to protect an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office from ongoing protests. In general, the Trump administration has argued that protests outside ICE facilities — and in some cases, in communities where immigration enforcement actions are taking place — are preventing the president from enforcing immigration law, though judges have found little evidence to support such claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all due respect to that judge, I think her opinion is untethered in reality and in the law,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Monday, adding that the president “has the right to call up the National Guard in cases where he deems it’s appropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if you look at what has happened in Portland, Oregon, for more than 100 nights — I was talking to our law enforcement team about it this morning — for more than 100 days, night after night after night, the ICE facility has been really under siege by these anarchists outside. They have been disrespecting law enforcement. They’ve been inciting violence,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC02098-scaled-e1755897157954.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California National Guard patrols downtown Los Angeles on June 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aisha Wallace-Palomares/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While there have been some fights and other instances of violence at protests, local officials say the situation is \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/03/portland-protests-court-national-guard-case-dueling-narratives/\">well within their control\u003c/a>, and some protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/05/federal-tactics-on-protesters-escalates-hours-after-judge-rules-against-trump/\">worry that federal agents are the ones escalating the situation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson said that while there are multiple legal cases pending in numerous states, they all have one central question in common: How much power does Trump have to federalize a state’s National Guard?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the \u003ca href=\"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section12406&num=0&edition=prelim\">statute\u003c/a> is a pretty broad grant of authority from Congress to the president, to federalize the National Guard under certain circumstances, like there’s an invasion or the possibility of a rebellion— and this is where a lot of litigation is — the president is unable through the regular forces to execute federal law,” Levinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the similarities, Levinson said it’s likely that for now all these lawsuits will continue on separate tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-2231662199-scaled-e1759794960302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the National Guard armed with rifles and sidearms patrol the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 26, 2025. The Trump administration deployed federal officers and National Guard units to the District to place the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and assist with crime prevention efforts in the nation’s capital. \u003ccite>(Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It essentially can’t be decided nationwide in the sense that I think the question of whether or not a president has the power to federalize the National Guard fundamentally depends on the facts on the ground in a specific jurisdiction,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said California’s position is that the president lacks authority to seize control of the National Guard from state governors or use the military to police civilians. He also criticized Trump’s rhetoric on crime as inconsistent with his efforts to cut billions of dollars in federal law enforcement and \u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-celebrates-key-victory-lawsuit-challenging-illegal\">victims’ services\u003c/a> funding from states that have \u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-sues-trump-administration-over-illegal-new-retroactive\">policies he disagrees with\u003c/a>..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an outrageous gap and delta and distance between what Trump says he stands for and what he purports to be. He wants to be a pro-public safety president, a tough-on-crime president,” Bonta said. “His actions completely undermine that image that he’s trying to present to the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta noted Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5276336/donald-trump-jan-6-rape-assault-pardons-rioters\">pardons of Jan. 6 rioters\u003c/a> as well as his moves to strip money\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045032/she-left-her-abuser-now-the-shelter-that-helped-her-is-losing-federal-funds-under-trump\"> from programs that help victims of domestic violence\u003c/a>, seek \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-slashed-federal-funding-gun-violence-prevention-2025-07-29/\">to reduce violent street crime\u003c/a>, and help \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/judge-orders-trump-administration-to-preserve-233m-in-fema-grants-it-attempted-to-pull-from-blue-states-00588438\">communities prepare for natural disasters and terror attacks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054322/judge-rules-trump-violated-law-by-sending-troops-to-los-angeles\">ruled\u003c/a> that guard members and U.S. Marines had been illegally deployed to Los Angeles to quell immigration protests and police civilian populations. That case is being appealed, but in the meantime, the court has allowed troops to remain in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump does think that the military is his personal police force and his personal army,” Bonta said Monday. “And he wants that force behind his policy decisions. … And I think he wants to weaponize the military against blue states and blue cities. That’s where he’s sending them. Exclusively, that is where he’s sending them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043426\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty-1536x1145.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom (right) speaks as Attorney General Rob Bonta looks on during a news conference on April 16, 2025, in Ceres, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom joined Oregon’s lawsuit over the weekend, after the Trump administration attempted to get around an \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/04/portland-national-guard-deployment-judge-decision/\">earlier court ruling that barred the president \u003c/a>from seizing control of the Oregon National Guard and deploying 200 of its members to Portland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that ruling by U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut, a Trump appointee, the president ordered at least 200 previously federalized California guard members to deploy to Portland — a move Newsom called a “breathtaking abuse of the law and power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immergut blocked that deployment, too, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/05/california-and-oregon-sue-trump-administration-to-block-national-guard-deployment-to-portland/\">tense hearing late Sunday\u003c/a> where she pressed lawyers for the administration as to why the California deployment shouldn’t be seen as the president’s attempt to circumvent her earlier order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Immergut \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/05/national-guard-oregon-california-rurling-00594606?nname=california-playbook&nid=00000150-384f-da43-aff2-bf7fd35a0000&nrid=00000150-96ca-ddf1-abdc-bedb22030001\">blocked\u003c/a> the president from deploying any federalized National Guard troops to Oregon and refused to stay the order while the president appeals.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She set a hearing in the case for Oct. 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s rationale for the deployments is not entirely consistent. He often talks about crime problems and lawlessness in Democratic-led cities, including \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115276694936263266\">calling Portland “war-ravaged.”\u003c/a> Last week, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgq044n72po\">told\u003c/a> a gathering of top military brass that he wants to use American cities as “training grounds” for the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/StephenM/status/1975054022672281980\">other public statements\u003c/a> and in court filings, the administration has argued that the troops need to be sent to Portland to protect an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office from ongoing protests. In general, the Trump administration has argued that protests outside ICE facilities — and in some cases, in communities where immigration enforcement actions are taking place — are preventing the president from enforcing immigration law, though judges have found little evidence to support such claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all due respect to that judge, I think her opinion is untethered in reality and in the law,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Monday, adding that the president “has the right to call up the National Guard in cases where he deems it’s appropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if you look at what has happened in Portland, Oregon, for more than 100 nights — I was talking to our law enforcement team about it this morning — for more than 100 days, night after night after night, the ICE facility has been really under siege by these anarchists outside. They have been disrespecting law enforcement. They’ve been inciting violence,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC02098-scaled-e1755897157954.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California National Guard patrols downtown Los Angeles on June 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aisha Wallace-Palomares/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While there have been some fights and other instances of violence at protests, local officials say the situation is \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/03/portland-protests-court-national-guard-case-dueling-narratives/\">well within their control\u003c/a>, and some protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/05/federal-tactics-on-protesters-escalates-hours-after-judge-rules-against-trump/\">worry that federal agents are the ones escalating the situation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson said that while there are multiple legal cases pending in numerous states, they all have one central question in common: How much power does Trump have to federalize a state’s National Guard?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the \u003ca href=\"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section12406&num=0&edition=prelim\">statute\u003c/a> is a pretty broad grant of authority from Congress to the president, to federalize the National Guard under certain circumstances, like there’s an invasion or the possibility of a rebellion— and this is where a lot of litigation is — the president is unable through the regular forces to execute federal law,” Levinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the similarities, Levinson said it’s likely that for now all these lawsuits will continue on separate tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-2231662199-scaled-e1759794960302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the National Guard armed with rifles and sidearms patrol the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 26, 2025. The Trump administration deployed federal officers and National Guard units to the District to place the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and assist with crime prevention efforts in the nation’s capital. \u003ccite>(Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It essentially can’t be decided nationwide in the sense that I think the question of whether or not a president has the power to federalize the National Guard fundamentally depends on the facts on the ground in a specific jurisdiction,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said California’s position is that the president lacks authority to seize control of the National Guard from state governors or use the military to police civilians. He also criticized Trump’s rhetoric on crime as inconsistent with his efforts to cut billions of dollars in federal law enforcement and \u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-celebrates-key-victory-lawsuit-challenging-illegal\">victims’ services\u003c/a> funding from states that have \u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-sues-trump-administration-over-illegal-new-retroactive\">policies he disagrees with\u003c/a>..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an outrageous gap and delta and distance between what Trump says he stands for and what he purports to be. 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"content": "\u003cp>Families are calling on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> lawmakers for support nearly a week after their loved ones, who were part of a global flotilla aiming to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, were detained by Israeli military forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sidney Hollar told KQED that her son Logan Hollarsmith, who grew up in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood, was detained early Wednesday while captaining the Ohwayla, a boat carrying U.S. veterans, as part of the high-profile maritime initiative that also included Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollar said that since the detentions, U.S. lawmakers in California and Washington have done little to ensure that the citizens are able to return to the U.S. safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“United States citizens are being held in an Israeli prison — the whole United States Senate should have been up in arms,” she said Monday morning. “There should have been pressure on [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio and [U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike] Huckabee. 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Ro Khanna holds a town hall meeting at the MLK Community Center in Bakersfield on March 23, 2025, the first of three town hall events Khanna was set to have in Republican-held congressional districts across the state. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Hollarsmith, 33, now resides in Tucson, Arizona, his mother still lives in San Francisco. She said she has made repeated attempts to contact legislators, including California senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, for support after he was detained. As of Monday morning, she said she had not heard from either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just find it appalling [that] we’ve received very little from our United States government to help get our citizens, especially the ones that were the United States [veterans], home,” Hollar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla’s office confirmed Monday evening that it had been in contact with Hollar, as well as the State Department and the Israeli Embassy, regarding the detentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re continuing to relay information to the families of the activists regarding their state of well-being, transfer status, and are urgently calling for the US Government to do everything in its power to facilitate their transfer back to the United States,” spokesperson Edgar Rodriguez said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollarsmith is one of about 500 activists, humanitarians and citizens from more than 40 countries who launched the Global Sumud Flotilla this summer, aiming to break a yearslong Israeli blockade. The fleet was aiming to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, where hunger is widespread and the United Nations Secretary General has \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165702\">declared a famine\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12058616 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1.jpg']Hundreds of the flotilla’s participants were detained and reportedly arrested last week after the activists said the Israeli navy blocked and illegally entered a number of vessels. According to the California lawmakers’ letter, the majority of the fleet was in international waters, about 70 nautical miles from shore, when it was boarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers confirmed that California residents David Adler, Windfield Beaver, Tommy Marcus and Geraldine Ramirez were among the Americans detained. Advocacy organization Veterans for Peace said \u003ca href=\"https://www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2025/09/12/usmc-veteran-aid-flotilla-struck-twice-israel?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">McCall Nichols,\u003c/a> a California Army veteran aboard the Ohwayla, was also detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the flotilla said Beaver had been released, but believed that Adler was still being held on Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Adler’s] mother tells me: ‘David is now in an Israeli prison and his U.S. senators (Schiff and Padilla) are not being helpful,’” journalist Peter Beinart wrote on X on Friday. “‘The EU is all over the prison and our embassy has not shown up at all.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, Adler’s sister, Laura, told Khanna that her family had been \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RoKhanna/status/1974661890933424175\">unable to contact\u003c/a> Adler since Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day, Adler wrote on X, where he had been documenting the flotilla’s journey, that his ship was just 120 nautical miles away from Gaza, and that Israeli authorities had intercepted multiple vessels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992647\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_NoPrideinGenocide_GC-15-KQED.jpg\" alt='Several people march down the street holding signs and banners. One red and black sign says \"Ceasefire Now.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_NoPrideinGenocide_GC-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_NoPrideinGenocide_GC-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_NoPrideinGenocide_GC-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_NoPrideinGenocide_GC-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_NoPrideinGenocide_GC-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_NoPrideinGenocide_GC-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march on 18th Street during the “No Pride in Genocide” protest in San Francisco on June 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As I write this, we are preparing ourselves for such an imminent attack,” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/davidrkadler\">posted on social media.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of lawyers representing the flotilla participants say that detainees, many of whom were taken to Ketziot Prison outside of Beersheba, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DPcfzh7CLXE/?img_index=1\">reported mistreatment\u003c/a> — including having food, water and medications withheld, not being allowed to contact family and having to sleep in crowded cells or on floors — in the detention facility. They say that last week, a tribunal reviewing the detainees’ detention orders illegally held hearings without their representatives present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Israeli Foreign Ministry refuted claims of mistreatment on X, calling them “brazen lies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the detainees’ legal rights are fully upheld,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/IsraelMFA?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">the ministry wrote\u003c/a> on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollar said she heard from the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem early Monday that Hollarsmith and the other U.S. citizens still in detention were expected to be deported in the next 24 hours. She said that she was told they would be flown out of the country, but not given information about where they would land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, the U.S. would “loan them money for a hotel and for a flight home,” she said. She called the prospect “outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t fund a little chartered flight to get our U. S. citizens, including U.S. vets, home?” Hollar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Americans are being punished by the American government for delivering humanitarian aid,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tucked between Highway 101, a BevMo and a car dealership, about 45 RV parking spots line both sides of a one-lane road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homes at the RV Park of San Rafael are tiny, some decorated with potted plants, most sit behind short fences. On a recent evening, children ran in and out of the park’s laundromat as their parents threw piles of clothes into washing machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yessica Pérez was seven when her parents moved the family there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the beginning, I think we were the only children in the neighborhood because there were a lot of seniors living here,” she said. “Then, just little by little, there were a lot of Hispanic kids running around here, so it was really nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was nearly two decades ago. Back then, rent was just $300 a month, she said. It was affordable enough that her parents could eventually buy a second home in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00526_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00526_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00526_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00526_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00526_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the family RV homes that Yessica Pérez’s family owns stands on 742 Francisco Blvd. West in San Rafael on Sept. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, Pérez lives there with her sister, surrounded by memories of the community she grew up in. Life at the park was peaceful until 2021, when Harmony Communities took over the park’s management, Pérez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family was among several others to receive 60-day eviction notices for both properties for violations that included storing a broom outside and having a porch attached to their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would fix the violation,” she said. “Seven days later, we would receive another violation on top of another violation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez and her family fought back, challenging the eviction notices, along with other residents at the park. What followed has been a years-long battle that last month culminated in a lawsuit against Harmony Communities and the park’s owner, accusing them of harassment, illegal rent increases, and violating the terms of a past legal settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For residents, the lawsuit represents a turning point in their fight to defend one of Marin County’s few affordable housing options in a region where rents are among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.attomdata.com/news/most-recent/top-10-counties-with-the-highest-rental-rates-in-2024/\">highest in the nation\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12034694 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/F84AEA38-15C9-48B4-905A-8EA8C37A0B0F-SCALED-KQED-1020x765.jpg']“We’ve heard what they’ve done in other places. We know what they do in other parks,” said Herman Privette, who’s lived at the park since 1976, adding that he has little sympathy for the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Rural Legal Assistance Attorney Mariah Thompson, who is helping represent the park residents, said what’s happening in San Rafael mirrors patterns she’s seen at other parks Harmony owns or manages across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see the same tactics playing out over and over again, with slight variation,” she said. “The major themes are attempts to increase rent beyond what is permissible by rent control or deny that local rent control applies to specific parks, spaces, or homes based on what they see as perceived loopholes in the laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Harmony first took over management of the RV Park of San Rafael, residents say the company issued repeated violation notices for minor infractions, tried raising rents beyond legal limits, and filed eviction notices. In a statement to KQED, Harmony disputed those claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Ubaldi, a spokesperson for Harmony, said in an email that the eviction notices focused on health and safety issues and the company continues “to welcome low-income families into the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These notices address severe health and safety violations to prevent incidents,” Ubaldi wrote. “We would be negligent not to enforce compliance with serious health and safety codes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-HARMONYSANRAFAEL_00458_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058543\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-HARMONYSANRAFAEL_00458_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-HARMONYSANRAFAEL_00458_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-HARMONYSANRAFAEL_00458_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-HARMONYSANRAFAEL_00458_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herman Privette, poses for a portrait at RV home in San Rafael on Oct. 1, 2025. Privette, who has lived in this San Rafael RV park for over 30 years, is fighting a possible eviction from Harmony Housing Development, which has recently taken new ownership of the properties. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Legal Aid of Marin Attorney DeMarco García, who began helping families in July as co-counsel with California Rural Legal Assistance, said Harmony often singled out residents who were least likely to push back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They first started with the tenants that don’t speak a lick of English,” he said. “People were afraid, with everything going on with immigration, that they just stayed kind of hidden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privette said he’d never seen the community shrink so much. Staring at the strip of road, he pointed to vacant spaces where families were either evicted or left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Starting with the one by the mail room, there’s an empty space there, and another where that truck is,” he said. “I’ve never seen it like this in all my years here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the community has been classified as a mobile home park. The designation means residents own their homes but rent the land underneath them, giving them protections under California’s Mobilehome Residency Law and the city’s rent control ordinance.[aside postID=news_11977464 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_2976-1020x765.jpg']Back in 2004, a Marin County Superior Court judge ruled that despite its name, the “RV park” was in fact a mobile home park, subject to local rent control. The court noted the park had been built in the 1940s, long before modern regulations on lot size and setbacks, and said those older “legacy conditions,” like narrow spaces, small lots, and additions, were legally grandfathered in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the state’s housing department has also consistently treated the property as a mobile home park, and city zoning does not allow RV parks within San Rafael city limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Harmony raised rents beyond what the city’s ordinance allows, residents and city officials saw it as a direct violation of those long-standing protections. Ubaldi, of Harmony, disputes any violation occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not impose the rent increase,” Ubaldi wrote. “We requested it and sought a city hearing to determine a fair outcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city and Harmony went to court, kicking off a two-year legal battle. In 2023, the two sides reached a settlement that required Harmony to dismiss pending evictions and uphold rent-control protections. But by then, several families had already left the park, García said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Thompson said Harmony soon resumed the same practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>They start issuing these same notices,” she said. “For things that [the state’s Housing and Community Development Department] has come and done an inspection on and has said we’re all cleared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson said she hopes the new lawsuit will force Harmony to finally comply with the settlement and ensure the company follows through on its promises to the community. According to court documents, residents are suing to protect their property rights as homeowners and to put an end to Harmony’s “unlawful business practices and displacement campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yessica Pérez poses for a portrait in one of her family’s RV homes in San Rafael, on Sept. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Without this court’s assistance, [the residents] will likely lose their protections under rent control, if not lose their homes and community entirely,” the lawsuit reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Pérez, each new eviction notice from Harmony chips away at the stability her parents hoped for when they first came to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult because they really thought this was gonna be a retirement home for them,” Pérez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for neighbors like Privette, the lawsuit is about more than legal protections. It’s about preserving one of the few affordable places to live in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To live in your own place and be able to live with an affordable rent is something I would like to see more people have,” Privette said. “I’d be happy for other people to be as lucky as I’ve been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Back in 2004, a Marin County Superior Court judge ruled that despite its name, the “RV park” was in fact a mobile home park, subject to local rent control. The court noted the park had been built in the 1940s, long before modern regulations on lot size and setbacks, and said those older “legacy conditions,” like narrow spaces, small lots, and additions, were legally grandfathered in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the state’s housing department has also consistently treated the property as a mobile home park, and city zoning does not allow RV parks within San Rafael city limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Harmony raised rents beyond what the city’s ordinance allows, residents and city officials saw it as a direct violation of those long-standing protections. Ubaldi, of Harmony, disputes any violation occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not impose the rent increase,” Ubaldi wrote. “We requested it and sought a city hearing to determine a fair outcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city and Harmony went to court, kicking off a two-year legal battle. In 2023, the two sides reached a settlement that required Harmony to dismiss pending evictions and uphold rent-control protections. But by then, several families had already left the park, García said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Thompson said Harmony soon resumed the same practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>They start issuing these same notices,” she said. “For things that [the state’s Housing and Community Development Department] has come and done an inspection on and has said we’re all cleared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson said she hopes the new lawsuit will force Harmony to finally comply with the settlement and ensure the company follows through on its promises to the community. According to court documents, residents are suing to protect their property rights as homeowners and to put an end to Harmony’s “unlawful business practices and displacement campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250926-HARMONYSANRAFAEL00183_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yessica Pérez poses for a portrait in one of her family’s RV homes in San Rafael, on Sept. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Without this court’s assistance, [the residents] will likely lose their protections under rent control, if not lose their homes and community entirely,” the lawsuit reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Pérez, each new eviction notice from Harmony chips away at the stability her parents hoped for when they first came to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult because they really thought this was gonna be a retirement home for them,” Pérez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for neighbors like Privette, the lawsuit is about more than legal protections. It’s about preserving one of the few affordable places to live in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To live in your own place and be able to live with an affordable rent is something I would like to see more people have,” Privette said. “I’d be happy for other people to be as lucky as I’ve been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The sun was just rising over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara\u003c/a> Valley Medical Center when nurse Emiko Rivera arrived to begin her shift at the hospital’s burn center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As one of the few certified burn centers in Northern California, Rivera’s team treats patients from across the region, caring for their wounds while also providing counseling and support to help them return to their jobs or schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our burn patients come in and sometimes are with us for months at a time with their injuries,” she said. “As a burn nurse, it is being with them day by day, being with their families, providing support in addition to providing their care and building those relationships so that we can have a successful recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, a pall of uncertainty has spread over the sprawling Santa Clara Valley Medical Center campus. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed by President Donald Trump in July, enacted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033802/how-cuts-medicaid-republican-gains-california\">historic cuts\u003c/a> to Medicaid, the health care program for people with low incomes and disabilities. Medicaid — known as Medi-Cal in California — is the single largest revenue source for Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, the county health system that serves patients regardless of their ability to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing about burn injuries is that nobody is immune to a burn injury,” Rivera said. “It doesn’t matter if you are houseless or if you have millions of dollars. Everybody’s going to the same place, and that’s our burn center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058628\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burn nurse Emiko Rivera treats patients at one of the region’s few certified burn centers. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For years, hospitals providing expensive emergency services to Medicaid patients have struggled to balance their books, especially in rural areas. But the latest federal cuts have spread the crisis to Silicon Valley, where local leaders are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051250/santa-clara-county-voters-could-pay-more-sales-tax-due-to-trump-cuts\">asking voters to provide a lifeline\u003c/a> in the form of Measure A, a sales tax increase on the ballot in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the single largest revenue loss for the county organization, and therefore the services that we’re able to provide to the community, since the passage of Proposition 13,” Santa Clara County Executive James Williams told the Board of Supervisors in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comparison to Proposition 13 is chilling for government finance officials. The 1978 ballot measure limited property tax increases and severely constricted local revenues. County leaders fear the Medicaid cuts could devastate California hospitals in the same way Proposition 13 decimated funding for the state’s public schools.[aside postID=news_12033802 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']That’s especially true for public hospitals like Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Facilities such as Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and San Mateo Medical Center make up just 6% of hospitals in the state, but they operate more than half of California’s trauma and burn centers — and provide more than a third of hospital care for Medicaid patients or those without insurance, according to the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is this: Medicaid is the most significant revenue source for our health and hospital system,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Williams’ warning, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to place Measure A on the Nov. 4 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would raise the county sales tax by 0.625% for five years, bringing in an estimated $330 million annually. Supporters say that money is vital to avoid hospital closures, though it won’t make up for cuts projected to reach over $1 billion annually for Santa Clara County by the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of Measure A argue that the absence of federal support should force the county to re-evaluate whether it needs to operate four hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Federal cuts reverberate statewide\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Across California, the Medicaid cuts are hitting struggling hospital systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near Death Valley, the last hospital providing emergency care in southern Inyo County \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/09/inyo-hospital-closure-financial/\">has run out\u003c/a> of money. In Riverside, leaders of the Palo Verde Hospital recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/health/2025/10/01/palo-verde-healthcare-district-files-for-bankruptcy-notifies-state-of-blythe-hospital-closure/86467143007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z115501p117650c117650e006800v115501b0035xxd003565&gca-ft=147&gca-ds=sophi\">filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a>. And in Modoc County, the CEO of California’s smallest hospital, Surprise Valley Community Hospital, said its one emergency bed \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource/federal-medicaid-cuts-would-devastate-health-care-systems-californias-vast-rural-north/\">could close\u003c/a> because of the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara Valley Medical Center stands on 751 South Bascom Avenue in San José on Sept. 29, 2025. Nurses and doctors such as Emiko Rivera from Santa Clara Valley Medical Center are supporting Measure A, a sales tax to raise county revenue in the face of Medicaid cuts. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s no magic way to print money to offset the federal government backing away from their promise to be a partner for those that are most fragile in our community,” said Graham Knaus, CEO of the California State Association of Counties. “It makes the whole system collapse, and that’s exactly what we’re starting to see — first in some of these rural areas, but it’s not going to be limited to those areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, formally known as H.R. 1, requires adult Medicaid recipients to prove they are working, volunteering or going to school. County workers will have to process the new eligibility checks, adding workloads that could cost counties hundreds of millions of dollars annually, according to the California State Association of Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Medicaid recipients lose eligibility, as expected, counties such as Santa Clara will receive fewer direct payments and reimbursements for services. Additionally, the federal share of emergency services for certain undocumented adults without children will drop from 90% to 50%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That too will be upwards of a $200 million-plus cost shift,” Knaus said. “And in health settings where they’re barely making it today before all this is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said many counties could backfill health care funding by cutting from other parts of their budgets. Other hospitals could limit services or close altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A fight to keep hospitals open\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, officials say Measure A is the only way to keep all four public hospitals and 13 clinics open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other counties, their response to this — to close the budget gap — is to close down their hospitals, close down emergency departments,” Supervisor Betty Duong said. “This county cannot let that happen without a fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duong said cutbacks to Santa Clara Valley Healthcare could also strain private hospitals, which would suddenly face increased demand for emergency services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032773\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center campus in San José on March 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Measure A has been endorsed by dozens of South Bay elected officials and labor groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yes on A campaign has raised over $2 million, with the largest contribution of $300,000 coming from SEIU 521, the union representing county health care workers. The Silicon Valley Community Foundation, developer and philanthropist John Sobrato, and the Valley Physicians Group have also each contributed more than $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those donations have funded a campaign leaning into anti-Trump messaging. A recent Yes on A mailer declared, “Trump’s Cuts = Local Crisis.” Supporters hope turnout for Proposition 50, the redistricting measure also on the November ballot, boosts Democratic participation in reliably blue Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a chance for the residents of this county to say, ‘Hey, federal administration, we’re not going to take this lying down,’” Duong said.[aside postID=news_12051250 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20240324_SantaClaraMedicalStrike_GC-33_qed.jpg']Opponents question whether county leaders are bailing water out of a sinking ocean liner. Over the past six years, the county purchased three private hospitals on the brink of closure — O’Connor Hospital and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001214/santa-clara-county-plans-to-buy-east-san-jose-hospital-to-reverse-cuts-to-care\">Regional Medical Center in San José\u003c/a> and St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy — to prevent a loss of emergency access that would have sent patients streaming to Valley Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those purchases significantly ballooned county payroll costs, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/09/14/4-charts-that-shows-how-california-counties-spent-45-billion-on-employees-last-year/\">Bay Area News Group analysis\u003c/a> found. And the expansion was predicated on federal Medicaid funding that no longer exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to decide — do we need all four hospitals?” said Cupertino Mayor Liang Chao, who opposes Measure A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chao said a sales tax increase will fall disproportionately on lower-income residents, and as a general-purpose tax, the revenue could technically be spent for any purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are saying [Measure A] is targeted for health care, but it could be spent on anything,” Chao said. “So that’s kind of not very honest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign against Measure A has not reported any financial contributions, but several former mayors — including Lydia Kou of Palo Alto, Rishi Kumar of Saratoga and Liz Lawler of Monte Sereno — have aligned against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is like a knee-jerk reaction to something happening in the federal government,” Chao said. “It’s kind of taking advantage of the federal cut as an excuse to tax the voters, rather than really looking at how do we solve a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, nearby hospitals are already buckling. Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in San Benito is teetering after a private buyer \u003ca href=\"https://www.hazelhawkins.com/news/2025/august/insight-health-steps-away-from-lease-to-purchase/\">backed away\u003c/a> from a rescue deal, citing uncertainty in the wake of federal cuts. Williams, the Santa Clara County executive, predicts that could push more patients to Santa Clara’s hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Valley Med, a $40 million burn unit expansion is underway to expand the unit from eight beds to 14. Rivera, the nurse, said she’s worried about how the cuts will affect the unit she has worked in for the last 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of unknowns right now and uncertainty,” Rivera said. “But we will all be directly impacted in some way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, a pall of uncertainty has spread over the sprawling Santa Clara Valley Medical Center campus. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed by President Donald Trump in July, enacted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033802/how-cuts-medicaid-republican-gains-california\">historic cuts\u003c/a> to Medicaid, the health care program for people with low incomes and disabilities. Medicaid — known as Medi-Cal in California — is the single largest revenue source for Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, the county health system that serves patients regardless of their ability to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing about burn injuries is that nobody is immune to a burn injury,” Rivera said. “It doesn’t matter if you are houseless or if you have millions of dollars. Everybody’s going to the same place, and that’s our burn center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058628\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burn nurse Emiko Rivera treats patients at one of the region’s few certified burn centers. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For years, hospitals providing expensive emergency services to Medicaid patients have struggled to balance their books, especially in rural areas. But the latest federal cuts have spread the crisis to Silicon Valley, where local leaders are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051250/santa-clara-county-voters-could-pay-more-sales-tax-due-to-trump-cuts\">asking voters to provide a lifeline\u003c/a> in the form of Measure A, a sales tax increase on the ballot in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the single largest revenue loss for the county organization, and therefore the services that we’re able to provide to the community, since the passage of Proposition 13,” Santa Clara County Executive James Williams told the Board of Supervisors in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comparison to Proposition 13 is chilling for government finance officials. The 1978 ballot measure limited property tax increases and severely constricted local revenues. County leaders fear the Medicaid cuts could devastate California hospitals in the same way Proposition 13 decimated funding for the state’s public schools.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s especially true for public hospitals like Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Facilities such as Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and San Mateo Medical Center make up just 6% of hospitals in the state, but they operate more than half of California’s trauma and burn centers — and provide more than a third of hospital care for Medicaid patients or those without insurance, according to the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is this: Medicaid is the most significant revenue source for our health and hospital system,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Williams’ warning, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to place Measure A on the Nov. 4 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would raise the county sales tax by 0.625% for five years, bringing in an estimated $330 million annually. Supporters say that money is vital to avoid hospital closures, though it won’t make up for cuts projected to reach over $1 billion annually for Santa Clara County by the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of Measure A argue that the absence of federal support should force the county to re-evaluate whether it needs to operate four hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Federal cuts reverberate statewide\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Across California, the Medicaid cuts are hitting struggling hospital systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near Death Valley, the last hospital providing emergency care in southern Inyo County \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/09/inyo-hospital-closure-financial/\">has run out\u003c/a> of money. In Riverside, leaders of the Palo Verde Hospital recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/health/2025/10/01/palo-verde-healthcare-district-files-for-bankruptcy-notifies-state-of-blythe-hospital-closure/86467143007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z115501p117650c117650e006800v115501b0035xxd003565&gca-ft=147&gca-ds=sophi\">filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a>. And in Modoc County, the CEO of California’s smallest hospital, Surprise Valley Community Hospital, said its one emergency bed \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource/federal-medicaid-cuts-would-devastate-health-care-systems-californias-vast-rural-north/\">could close\u003c/a> because of the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara Valley Medical Center stands on 751 South Bascom Avenue in San José on Sept. 29, 2025. Nurses and doctors such as Emiko Rivera from Santa Clara Valley Medical Center are supporting Measure A, a sales tax to raise county revenue in the face of Medicaid cuts. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s no magic way to print money to offset the federal government backing away from their promise to be a partner for those that are most fragile in our community,” said Graham Knaus, CEO of the California State Association of Counties. “It makes the whole system collapse, and that’s exactly what we’re starting to see — first in some of these rural areas, but it’s not going to be limited to those areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, formally known as H.R. 1, requires adult Medicaid recipients to prove they are working, volunteering or going to school. County workers will have to process the new eligibility checks, adding workloads that could cost counties hundreds of millions of dollars annually, according to the California State Association of Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Medicaid recipients lose eligibility, as expected, counties such as Santa Clara will receive fewer direct payments and reimbursements for services. Additionally, the federal share of emergency services for certain undocumented adults without children will drop from 90% to 50%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That too will be upwards of a $200 million-plus cost shift,” Knaus said. “And in health settings where they’re barely making it today before all this is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said many counties could backfill health care funding by cutting from other parts of their budgets. Other hospitals could limit services or close altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A fight to keep hospitals open\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, officials say Measure A is the only way to keep all four public hospitals and 13 clinics open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other counties, their response to this — to close the budget gap — is to close down their hospitals, close down emergency departments,” Supervisor Betty Duong said. “This county cannot let that happen without a fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duong said cutbacks to Santa Clara Valley Healthcare could also strain private hospitals, which would suddenly face increased demand for emergency services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032773\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center campus in San José on March 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Measure A has been endorsed by dozens of South Bay elected officials and labor groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yes on A campaign has raised over $2 million, with the largest contribution of $300,000 coming from SEIU 521, the union representing county health care workers. The Silicon Valley Community Foundation, developer and philanthropist John Sobrato, and the Valley Physicians Group have also each contributed more than $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those donations have funded a campaign leaning into anti-Trump messaging. A recent Yes on A mailer declared, “Trump’s Cuts = Local Crisis.” Supporters hope turnout for Proposition 50, the redistricting measure also on the November ballot, boosts Democratic participation in reliably blue Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a chance for the residents of this county to say, ‘Hey, federal administration, we’re not going to take this lying down,’” Duong said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Opponents question whether county leaders are bailing water out of a sinking ocean liner. Over the past six years, the county purchased three private hospitals on the brink of closure — O’Connor Hospital and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001214/santa-clara-county-plans-to-buy-east-san-jose-hospital-to-reverse-cuts-to-care\">Regional Medical Center in San José\u003c/a> and St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy — to prevent a loss of emergency access that would have sent patients streaming to Valley Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those purchases significantly ballooned county payroll costs, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/09/14/4-charts-that-shows-how-california-counties-spent-45-billion-on-employees-last-year/\">Bay Area News Group analysis\u003c/a> found. And the expansion was predicated on federal Medicaid funding that no longer exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to decide — do we need all four hospitals?” said Cupertino Mayor Liang Chao, who opposes Measure A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chao said a sales tax increase will fall disproportionately on lower-income residents, and as a general-purpose tax, the revenue could technically be spent for any purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are saying [Measure A] is targeted for health care, but it could be spent on anything,” Chao said. “So that’s kind of not very honest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign against Measure A has not reported any financial contributions, but several former mayors — including Lydia Kou of Palo Alto, Rishi Kumar of Saratoga and Liz Lawler of Monte Sereno — have aligned against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is like a knee-jerk reaction to something happening in the federal government,” Chao said. “It’s kind of taking advantage of the federal cut as an excuse to tax the voters, rather than really looking at how do we solve a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, nearby hospitals are already buckling. Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in San Benito is teetering after a private buyer \u003ca href=\"https://www.hazelhawkins.com/news/2025/august/insight-health-steps-away-from-lease-to-purchase/\">backed away\u003c/a> from a rescue deal, citing uncertainty in the wake of federal cuts. Williams, the Santa Clara County executive, predicts that could push more patients to Santa Clara’s hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Valley Med, a $40 million burn unit expansion is underway to expand the unit from eight beds to 14. Rivera, the nurse, said she’s worried about how the cuts will affect the unit she has worked in for the last 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of unknowns right now and uncertainty,” Rivera said. “But we will all be directly impacted in some way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alcatraz Island reopened to visitors on Friday after more than two days of closures during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058291/san-francisco-national-parks-government-shutdown-bay-area-muir-woods-redwoods-fort-point\">federal government shutdown\u003c/a>, but some tourists and the businesses that rely on them continued to be frustrated by the back-and-forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first day of the shutdown, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058298/at-muir-woods-tourists-heartbroken-over-national-park-closure-during-shutdown\">shuttered several popular National Park Service sites\u003c/a>, including Muir Woods, \u003ca href=\"http://nps.gov\">NPS.gov\u003c/a> noted that Alcatraz would close for one day, Wednesday, due to a “planned project,” then reopen “for its regular schedule on Oct. 2 with all facilities OPEN.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Thursday morning, NPS said \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/alca/index.htm\">Alcatraz Island was now “closed due to lapse in federal appropriations.”\u003c/a> The park service offered no timeframe for the closure and said any ticket purchases through the ferry company that operates boat service to the island, Alcatraz City Cruises, would be refunded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityexperiences.com/san-francisco/city-cruises/alcatraz/tour-options/alcatraz-day-tour/\"> Alcatraz City Cruises’ website said tours to the island had finally resumed at 10:30 a.m.\u003c/a> The company did not respond to KQED’s queries about reopening on Friday, but a message on its website said, “All Alcatraz Tours are operating as scheduled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10:30 a.m. opening meant the first four boat rides to Alcatraz Island — for which tickets had already been sold — were canceled, resulting in long lines at Pier 33’s Alcatraz Landing ferry dock. Rachel Giblett, visiting San Francisco from Australia, was one of those who discovered this firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12058259 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251001_PARKSSHUTDOWN_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251001_PARKSSHUTDOWN_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251001_PARKSSHUTDOWN_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251001_PARKSSHUTDOWN_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourists wait around Pier 33 at the Alcatraz Ferry landing on Oct. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This was the second time her group’s Alcatraz tour had been rescheduled this week after they originally bought tickets for Thursday. The tour was pushed to 8:40 a.m. Friday, and they were only notified that the tickets were being moved again around 40 minutes before that, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has now pushed out our time in San Francisco, which means that our future plans are pushed out,” said Giblett, who was concerned about their plans to visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058508/yes-yosemite-is-open-during-the-shutdown-but-with-lots-of-changes-for-visitors\">Yosemite National Park\u003c/a> next. “It’s really unfortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day closure allowed NPS staff to work with the organizations that provide services to and on Alcatraz and finalize plans to keep the island open to the public, said Christine Lehnertz, president and CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.[aside postID=news_12058291 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GGBridgeGetty.jpg']“It just took some time to put in place the agreements that we can continue to do that work,” said Lehnertz, whose nonprofit membership organization supports parks within the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/park-status-during-2025-lapse.htm\">Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/a>. Considering the need for plans to move from the park to the regional NPS offices to the Department of the Interior, “frankly, it moved pretty quickly,” Lehnertz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservancy confirmed Friday that, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058291/san-francisco-national-parks-government-shutdown-bay-area-muir-woods-redwoods-fort-point\">unlike other national parks\u003c/a>, the reopened Alcatraz will be “operating as normal” during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan for national park closures during the shutdown has meant that while some sites like Muir Woods and Fort Point have been completely closed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058291/san-francisco-national-parks-government-shutdown-bay-area-muir-woods-redwoods-fort-point\">others remain open \u003c/a>but with parking lots blocked, bathrooms locked or staff greatly reduced. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058137/government-shutdown-2025-national-parks-planning-memo\">Advocates had previously expressed alarm \u003c/a>about the Interior Department’s last-minute shutdown contingency planning for national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sftravel.ent.box.com/s/n3xqgl7cnjxl9wwd3kodkxkooswrp2ca\">San Francisco received 23.3 million total visitors in 2024, \u003c/a>according to SF Travel. And with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/central-to-visitor-access-stabilizing-1939-alcatraz-island-wharf.htm\">an estimated 1.6 million visitors per year\u003c/a>, Alcatraz remains one of the city’s biggest tourist draws. During the 2018–19 government shutdown,\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/24/alcatraz-cancelled-shutdown-san-francisco-bay-area-muir-woods/\"> Alcatraz remained open, though night tours were canceled.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A government shutdown is hard on everybody who loves parks,” Lehnertz said. “It limits access for visitors. It certainly creates real hardships for National Park Service staff. And they’re the frontline stewards of these places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Lehnertz, president & CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, stands in Muir Woods National Monument on Sept. 12, 2025. The park is home to some of the last remaining stands of old-growth coast redwoods in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And “there’s only so much that we can do as a nonprofit when parks are shuttered,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brendan David, owner of local tour company San Francisco Excursions, said local tour companies like his had been overwhelmed over the last few days trying to deal with the swift and often-changing closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closures have meant 50% of his tour itinerary — which takes visitors around San Francisco, Muir Woods, Sausalito and Alcatraz — has been off the table for the last several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s affecting us business-wise — like, really bad with cancellations [and] having to give 25% off,” David said.[aside postID=news_12058508 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg']Tour guides offering visits to Yosemite National Park have also reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/yosemite-national-park-shutdown-21081255.php\">cancellations in recent days\u003c/a>. While Yosemite remains open during the shutdown, extremely reduced staffing means that entry gates are unmanned, with no fees being collected, and visitor centers are locked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International visitors have often been outright confused by the idea of a government shutdown itself, David said. “Really, the worst part is just seeing the people coming [from] all around the world and the disappointment they have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to advertise San Francisco, the Bay Area, United States, and it’s really hard to do that right now,” he said. “And a lot of them just don’t understand how a country like ours is in such a mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commenting on the shutdown and its impact, Australian tourist Giblett said she was “just concerned for the American people, really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehnertz stressed that anyone planning to visit a national park during the shutdown should expect to “visit in a way that’s probably a little different than you might have planned” — and to consider themselves “acting park rangers right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Visitors are the people who can help to preserve and protect and steward these parks,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those connections to nature and each other are really important — and these disruptions are difficult,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Amanda Hernandez contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Alcatraz Island reopened to visitors on Friday after more than two days of closures during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058291/san-francisco-national-parks-government-shutdown-bay-area-muir-woods-redwoods-fort-point\">federal government shutdown\u003c/a>, but some tourists and the businesses that rely on them continued to be frustrated by the back-and-forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first day of the shutdown, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058298/at-muir-woods-tourists-heartbroken-over-national-park-closure-during-shutdown\">shuttered several popular National Park Service sites\u003c/a>, including Muir Woods, \u003ca href=\"http://nps.gov\">NPS.gov\u003c/a> noted that Alcatraz would close for one day, Wednesday, due to a “planned project,” then reopen “for its regular schedule on Oct. 2 with all facilities OPEN.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Thursday morning, NPS said \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/alca/index.htm\">Alcatraz Island was now “closed due to lapse in federal appropriations.”\u003c/a> The park service offered no timeframe for the closure and said any ticket purchases through the ferry company that operates boat service to the island, Alcatraz City Cruises, would be refunded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityexperiences.com/san-francisco/city-cruises/alcatraz/tour-options/alcatraz-day-tour/\"> Alcatraz City Cruises’ website said tours to the island had finally resumed at 10:30 a.m.\u003c/a> The company did not respond to KQED’s queries about reopening on Friday, but a message on its website said, “All Alcatraz Tours are operating as scheduled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10:30 a.m. opening meant the first four boat rides to Alcatraz Island — for which tickets had already been sold — were canceled, resulting in long lines at Pier 33’s Alcatraz Landing ferry dock. Rachel Giblett, visiting San Francisco from Australia, was one of those who discovered this firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12058259 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251001_PARKSSHUTDOWN_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251001_PARKSSHUTDOWN_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251001_PARKSSHUTDOWN_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251001_PARKSSHUTDOWN_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourists wait around Pier 33 at the Alcatraz Ferry landing on Oct. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This was the second time her group’s Alcatraz tour had been rescheduled this week after they originally bought tickets for Thursday. The tour was pushed to 8:40 a.m. Friday, and they were only notified that the tickets were being moved again around 40 minutes before that, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has now pushed out our time in San Francisco, which means that our future plans are pushed out,” said Giblett, who was concerned about their plans to visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058508/yes-yosemite-is-open-during-the-shutdown-but-with-lots-of-changes-for-visitors\">Yosemite National Park\u003c/a> next. “It’s really unfortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day closure allowed NPS staff to work with the organizations that provide services to and on Alcatraz and finalize plans to keep the island open to the public, said Christine Lehnertz, president and CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It just took some time to put in place the agreements that we can continue to do that work,” said Lehnertz, whose nonprofit membership organization supports parks within the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/park-status-during-2025-lapse.htm\">Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/a>. Considering the need for plans to move from the park to the regional NPS offices to the Department of the Interior, “frankly, it moved pretty quickly,” Lehnertz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservancy confirmed Friday that, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058291/san-francisco-national-parks-government-shutdown-bay-area-muir-woods-redwoods-fort-point\">unlike other national parks\u003c/a>, the reopened Alcatraz will be “operating as normal” during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan for national park closures during the shutdown has meant that while some sites like Muir Woods and Fort Point have been completely closed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058291/san-francisco-national-parks-government-shutdown-bay-area-muir-woods-redwoods-fort-point\">others remain open \u003c/a>but with parking lots blocked, bathrooms locked or staff greatly reduced. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058137/government-shutdown-2025-national-parks-planning-memo\">Advocates had previously expressed alarm \u003c/a>about the Interior Department’s last-minute shutdown contingency planning for national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sftravel.ent.box.com/s/n3xqgl7cnjxl9wwd3kodkxkooswrp2ca\">San Francisco received 23.3 million total visitors in 2024, \u003c/a>according to SF Travel. And with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/central-to-visitor-access-stabilizing-1939-alcatraz-island-wharf.htm\">an estimated 1.6 million visitors per year\u003c/a>, Alcatraz remains one of the city’s biggest tourist draws. During the 2018–19 government shutdown,\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/24/alcatraz-cancelled-shutdown-san-francisco-bay-area-muir-woods/\"> Alcatraz remained open, though night tours were canceled.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A government shutdown is hard on everybody who loves parks,” Lehnertz said. “It limits access for visitors. It certainly creates real hardships for National Park Service staff. And they’re the frontline stewards of these places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Lehnertz, president & CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, stands in Muir Woods National Monument on Sept. 12, 2025. The park is home to some of the last remaining stands of old-growth coast redwoods in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And “there’s only so much that we can do as a nonprofit when parks are shuttered,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brendan David, owner of local tour company San Francisco Excursions, said local tour companies like his had been overwhelmed over the last few days trying to deal with the swift and often-changing closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closures have meant 50% of his tour itinerary — which takes visitors around San Francisco, Muir Woods, Sausalito and Alcatraz — has been off the table for the last several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s affecting us business-wise — like, really bad with cancellations [and] having to give 25% off,” David said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of ride-hailing app drivers gained a path to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034860/california-bill-would-allow-uber-lyft-drivers-bargain-collectively\">negotiate a first union contract\u003c/a> with Uber and Lyft, even as they remain classified as independent contractors, under legislation signed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law was hailed as a milestone for app-based drivers in their yearslong battle to expand workplace rights, though critics of the measure said drivers will face serious hurdles to convince the tech giants to raise their pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are now empowered to affect the conditions and the wages of the drivers,” said Joseph Augusto, who has driven for Uber and Lyft in the Bay Area for more than 10 years. “We are looking forward to building a union and trying to negotiate with Uber and Lyft. This is a step forward. It’s going to take a lot more work, but this is the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ride-hail drivers in California have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11928844/rideshare-drivers-rally-for-rights-announce-new-statewide-union\">formed unions\u003c/a> in the past, but the app-based transportation giants weren’t required to bargain with them. AB 1340 by Assemblymembers Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, and Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, will change that starting Jan. 1 for drivers’ unions certified by a state board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber, Lyft and other gig companies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034860/california-bill-would-allow-uber-lyft-drivers-bargain-collectively\">successfully fought\u003c/a> to classify drivers as independent contractors in a 2020 California ballot measure. Under federal law, most private sector employees have the right to collectively bargain and receive benefits such as minimum wage and overtime; independent contractors typically do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033653\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_1196-scaled-e1759530132238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uber’s headquarters in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood on Oct. 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new legislation requires app-based transportation companies and certified unions to negotiate in good faith over issues such as driver deactivations, paid leave and earnings. It also protects gig drivers from retaliation and offers the opportunity to reach an industry-wide contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Employment Relations Board is set to enforce the provisions, including by overseeing union elections and bargaining, mediating disputes and determining whether any unfair labor practices occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft initially opposed the measure, arguing that it would increase the price of rides and exclude most drivers who don’t work a significant number of hours per week. But the companies changed their stance in August, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/08/29/governor-newsom-pro-tem-mcguire-speaker-rivas-announce-support-for-legislation-empowering-gig-workers-improving-rideshare-affordability/\">in exchange\u003c/a> for significant reductions in insurance requirements through another bill, SB 371.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents to that bill argued that the concessions, which are expected to save the companies money by lowering the underinsured motorist coverage from $1 million to $60,000 per person, will shift the financial burden from serious accidents to vulnerable Californians and hospitals. The companies said the move will help them reduce the price of ride-hail services.[aside postID=news_12033648 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240625-UBERSANJOSE-JG-1-1-1020x680.jpg']“AB 1340 and SB 371 together represent a compromise that lowers costs for riders while creating stronger voices for drivers — demonstrating how industry, labor, and lawmakers can work together to deliver real solutions,” Ramona Prieto, Uber’s head of public policy for California, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Uber and Lyft, drivers enjoy the flexibility to set their own schedules and an employee model threatens the companies’ survival. The 2020 ballot measure backed by the companies, Proposition 22, promised drivers would receive at least 120% of the local minimum wage, a health care stipend of up to $426 for those working a certain number of hours and accident insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many ride-hail drivers say they have seen their real wages slip since, while the companies became profitable. Researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/gig-passenger-and-delivery-driver-pay-in-five-metro-areas/\">found\u003c/a> last year that California passenger drivers made less than the state’s minimum wage, after car expenses and excluding tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1340 restricts the organizations that may be certified to represent drivers to those that have experience negotiating a labor contract or that are affiliated with such a union. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“AB 1340 and SB 371 together represent a compromise that lowers costs for riders while creating stronger voices for drivers — demonstrating how industry, labor, and lawmakers can work together to deliver real solutions,” Ramona Prieto, Uber’s head of public policy for California, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Uber and Lyft, drivers enjoy the flexibility to set their own schedules and an employee model threatens the companies’ survival. The 2020 ballot measure backed by the companies, Proposition 22, promised drivers would receive at least 120% of the local minimum wage, a health care stipend of up to $426 for those working a certain number of hours and accident insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many ride-hail drivers say they have seen their real wages slip since, while the companies became profitable. Researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/gig-passenger-and-delivery-driver-pay-in-five-metro-areas/\">found\u003c/a> last year that California passenger drivers made less than the state’s minimum wage, after car expenses and excluding tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1340 restricts the organizations that may be certified to represent drivers to those that have experience negotiating a labor contract or that are affiliated with such a union. Supporters of the measure said the requirements will ensure legitimate organizations have the resources to represent what could become a very large statewide bargaining bloc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rideshare Drivers United, an organization with more than 20,000 California gig driver members, said the conditions could unduly benefit the Service Employees International Union, a major labor group that sponsored AB 1340 and backed a similar initiative in Massachusetts that voters approved last fall. Jason Munderloh, who began driving for Uber and Lyft in San Francisco 11 years ago, said he is also concerned that the new law \u003ca href=\"https://www.caaa.org/?pg=latestnews&blAction=showEntry&blogEntry=130853#:~:text=AB%201340%20offers%20a%20state,the%20traditional%20workers'%20compensation%20system.\">does not guarantee\u003c/a> the right to strike, a key to union leverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/001_SanFrancisco_GigWorkersProtest_11032021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A car with a Lyft sign drives with a black flag in the window.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/001_SanFrancisco_GigWorkersProtest_11032021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/001_SanFrancisco_GigWorkersProtest_11032021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/001_SanFrancisco_GigWorkersProtest_11032021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/001_SanFrancisco_GigWorkersProtest_11032021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/001_SanFrancisco_GigWorkersProtest_11032021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rideshare drivers form a row to block the street in front of the DoorDash headquarters in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2021, during a protest for fair wages and employee protections. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a missed opportunity,” said Munderloh, who volunteers with Rideshare Drivers United. “We’re going to be in what might be a very long fight. We need to start on the right foot. And we need a very strong [law]. And I just don’t see that that’s the way AB 1340 is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munderloh pointed to the difficulties unionized employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act have had in securing a first contract with Starbucks, Amazon and other large corporations. Employer \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/research/bronfenbrenner-outlines-employer-anti-union-efforts-congress\">opposition\u003c/a> and the lack of financial penalties for unfair labor practices under that federal law make it difficult for some employees to ever win a first union contract, according to researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s new legislation allows ride-hail drivers to engage in protected union activities, such as a work stoppage. But the state can’t guarantee the right to strike because of federal antitrust laws, according to Scott Kronland, an attorney with Altshuler Berzon in San Francisco who advised the SEIU on AB 1340.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Alexander, who had worked for more than two years as an ambassador for the nonprofit contracted by the city to help improve safety and cleanliness on downtown streets, died Tuesday of his injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Urban Alchemy ambassadors work every day to provide safe passage for [the Tenderloin’s students], to make sure that families feel that there is somebody looking out for them as they move about this community,” Jenkins \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/video/1718055?taid=68df37894406150001618cbb&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter\">told reporters on Thursday\u003c/a>. “To have one of those ambassadors who has come back into the community after once serving time in prison and now coming back to give back to the community, be hurt and be tragically killed in this way, of course, is very disheartening and alarming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander was manning his usual post outside San Francisco’s main library on Larkin Street just before 5 p.m. Friday when he approached Bowen, who was allegedly using drugs on the street, according to the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Alexander asked him not to, Bowen pulled a shotgun out of his bag, said “F— Urban Alchemy” and shot Alexander, an Urban Alchemy spokesperson said. According to the district attorney’s office, Bowen was standing about 20 feet from Alexander when he fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowen was arrested shortly after the shooting and has remained in custody since. He also faces an assault charge after another nearby worker said they were injured by shrapnel from his shotgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058454\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1499px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/URBAN-ALCHEMY-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1499\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/URBAN-ALCHEMY-02-KQED.jpg 1499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/URBAN-ALCHEMY-02-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/URBAN-ALCHEMY-02-KQED-1151x1536.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1499px) 100vw, 1499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleagues said Joey Alexander, left, was a beloved coworker and friend. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Urban Alchemy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alexander was rushed to the hospital, where doctors treated him for multiple days before he died Tuesday, according to Jess Montejano, a spokesperson for the nonprofit. He is at least the third Urban Alchemy employee to be shot on the job. Montejano said he believes Alexander is the first to die from related injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Alexander was a beloved member of our team, and it’s a devastating loss,” Montejano said. “[He] was an exceptional employee, … loved his job, loved giving back and serving the community and doing his work. [He was] just beloved among everyone that worked with him and that knew him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many Urban Alchemy employees, Alexander had lived through some of the same challenging experiences — like homelessness, addiction and incarceration — as the people he aimed to serve, Montejano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/prison-found-new-life-s-f-came-shotgun-blast-21078628.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Alexander had previously spent 23 years in prison. 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It’s an unfortunate reality that, yes, we do experience hate and sometimes violence in the line of work that we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins said Thursday that the shooting raises concerns about these workers’ safety, and she said the city should ensure police are in a position to “serve as a buffer” to protect them.[aside postID=news_12058145 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20231128-Muni-002-JY_qed.jpg']However, she said, the nonprofit’s model for patrolling the neighborhood is worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are people who make [Tenderloin residents] feel safer,” Jenkins said. “And what we do know is that we are over 500 [police] officers short, and so we have to do something as a city to supplement the shortage in police staffing who can also help us maintain our street conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting comes at an inflection point for Urban Alchemy, once heralded for its breakthrough community-centered approach to tackling homelessness and drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco first contracted with a predecessor of the nonprofit, Hunters Point Family, then \u003ca href=\"https://urban-alchemy.us/who-we-are/our-people/dr-lena-miller/\">led by Urban Alchemy’s Executive Director\u003c/a>, Dr. Lena Miller, in 2014. At the time, it was tasked with operating and cleaning public toilets throughout the city overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its founding in 2018, Urban Alchemy’s responsibilities have steadily mounted, from stationing practitioners during daytime hours downtown to dissuade public drug use and clean up streets to operating \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.archive.sf.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Consent-Item-11.1-UA-Safe-Parking-@-Candlestick.pdf\">safe RV parking sites\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5363341&GUID=0F3A493D-A9D0-4090-AED9-B465E2D61842\">homeless shelters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has expanded to nine cities in six states, and received \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odRmLmrPEz8\">praise from former Mayor London Breed\u003c/a> and community activists in the Tenderloin. A 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://urban-alchemy.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Stanford-Data-Press-Release.pdf\">Stanford University study\u003c/a> found that when its practitioners are present on street corners, crime dropped significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also struggled to live up to its lofty mission in recent years. Friday’s tragic incident comes as the nonprofit has faced backlash for overspending, management struggles and employee misconduct allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Urban Alchemy lost contracts with Bay Area Rapid Transit to provide bathroom and elevator attendants at San Francisco stations and in August, the city placed it on a nonprofit “watch list,” citing serious fiscal or programmatic concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dormitory at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center at the corner of Embarcadero and Beale Street in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2020. 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The nonprofit disputed the claim, saying it requested $800,000 in budget increases after being asked to run a larger operation but overspent by only $336,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of last month, Austin, Texas, opted not to renew contracts with the company to operate emergency centers after finding it misrepresented client exit data,\u003ca href=\"https://www.statesman.com/news/local/article/city-end-contracts-urban-alchemy-three-years-21051321.php\"> according to the \u003cem>Austin American-Statesman.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the city controller in Los Angeles, another of Urban Alchemy’s outposts, launched an investigation into the organization after a video circulated of an employee spraying water toward an unhoused person as they scrambled to collect their things on a sidewalk in the Skid Row neighborhood, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-23/after-worker-sprays-water-near-unhoused-person-l-a-city-controller-launches-investigation?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">\u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander was manning his usual post outside San Francisco’s main library on Larkin Street just before 5 p.m. Friday when he approached Bowen, who was allegedly using drugs on the street, according to the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Alexander asked him not to, Bowen pulled a shotgun out of his bag, said “F— Urban Alchemy” and shot Alexander, an Urban Alchemy spokesperson said. According to the district attorney’s office, Bowen was standing about 20 feet from Alexander when he fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowen was arrested shortly after the shooting and has remained in custody since. He also faces an assault charge after another nearby worker said they were injured by shrapnel from his shotgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058454\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1499px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/URBAN-ALCHEMY-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1499\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/URBAN-ALCHEMY-02-KQED.jpg 1499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/URBAN-ALCHEMY-02-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/URBAN-ALCHEMY-02-KQED-1151x1536.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1499px) 100vw, 1499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleagues said Joey Alexander, left, was a beloved coworker and friend. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Urban Alchemy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alexander was rushed to the hospital, where doctors treated him for multiple days before he died Tuesday, according to Jess Montejano, a spokesperson for the nonprofit. He is at least the third Urban Alchemy employee to be shot on the job. Montejano said he believes Alexander is the first to die from related injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Alexander was a beloved member of our team, and it’s a devastating loss,” Montejano said. “[He] was an exceptional employee, … loved his job, loved giving back and serving the community and doing his work. [He was] just beloved among everyone that worked with him and that knew him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many Urban Alchemy employees, Alexander had lived through some of the same challenging experiences — like homelessness, addiction and incarceration — as the people he aimed to serve, Montejano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/prison-found-new-life-s-f-came-shotgun-blast-21078628.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Alexander had previously spent 23 years in prison. An Oakland resident, Alexander worked for Urban Alchemy as a “street practitioner” for more than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our entire team really shares a higher purpose of giving back to the community and serving these vulnerable populations because many of them share that same experience that these people in crisis are going through themselves,” Montejano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many street practitioners can connect with people and manage crises situations based on their own life experience, Montejano said the employees, who do not have law enforcement training, are sometimes put in dangerous situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our practitioners serve some of the most tough neighborhoods impacted by addiction, poverty, homelessness and crime in San Francisco,” he said. “They are trained with their lived experience … to bring more peace, safety and cleanliness on the streets. It’s an unfortunate reality that, yes, we do experience hate and sometimes violence in the line of work that we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins said Thursday that the shooting raises concerns about these workers’ safety, and she said the city should ensure police are in a position to “serve as a buffer” to protect them.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, she said, the nonprofit’s model for patrolling the neighborhood is worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are people who make [Tenderloin residents] feel safer,” Jenkins said. “And what we do know is that we are over 500 [police] officers short, and so we have to do something as a city to supplement the shortage in police staffing who can also help us maintain our street conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting comes at an inflection point for Urban Alchemy, once heralded for its breakthrough community-centered approach to tackling homelessness and drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco first contracted with a predecessor of the nonprofit, Hunters Point Family, then \u003ca href=\"https://urban-alchemy.us/who-we-are/our-people/dr-lena-miller/\">led by Urban Alchemy’s Executive Director\u003c/a>, Dr. Lena Miller, in 2014. At the time, it was tasked with operating and cleaning public toilets throughout the city overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its founding in 2018, Urban Alchemy’s responsibilities have steadily mounted, from stationing practitioners during daytime hours downtown to dissuade public drug use and clean up streets to operating \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.archive.sf.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Consent-Item-11.1-UA-Safe-Parking-@-Candlestick.pdf\">safe RV parking sites\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5363341&GUID=0F3A493D-A9D0-4090-AED9-B465E2D61842\">homeless shelters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has expanded to nine cities in six states, and received \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odRmLmrPEz8\">praise from former Mayor London Breed\u003c/a> and community activists in the Tenderloin. A 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://urban-alchemy.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Stanford-Data-Press-Release.pdf\">Stanford University study\u003c/a> found that when its practitioners are present on street corners, crime dropped significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also struggled to live up to its lofty mission in recent years. Friday’s tragic incident comes as the nonprofit has faced backlash for overspending, management struggles and employee misconduct allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Urban Alchemy lost contracts with Bay Area Rapid Transit to provide bathroom and elevator attendants at San Francisco stations and in August, the city placed it on a nonprofit “watch list,” citing serious fiscal or programmatic concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dormitory at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center at the corner of Embarcadero and Beale Street in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2020. San Francisco plans to expand a program pairing shelter beds at the Adante Hotel on Geary Street in Lower Nob Hill with access to addiction treatment, to intervene in the city’s drug crisis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/urban-alchemy-gave-800k-in-bump-to-shelter-staff-21055295.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/em>reported\u003c/a> that the organization gave staff pay raises that overspent its contract to operate a shelter in Lower Nob Hill by about $800,000, despite warnings not to by city analysts. The nonprofit disputed the claim, saying it requested $800,000 in budget increases after being asked to run a larger operation but overspent by only $336,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of last month, Austin, Texas, opted not to renew contracts with the company to operate emergency centers after finding it misrepresented client exit data,\u003ca href=\"https://www.statesman.com/news/local/article/city-end-contracts-urban-alchemy-three-years-21051321.php\"> according to the \u003cem>Austin American-Statesman.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the city controller in Los Angeles, another of Urban Alchemy’s outposts, launched an investigation into the organization after a video circulated of an employee spraying water toward an unhoused person as they scrambled to collect their things on a sidewalk in the Skid Row neighborhood, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-23/after-worker-sprays-water-near-unhoused-person-l-a-city-controller-launches-investigation?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">\u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported. Urban Alchemy denounced the incident at the time and said that it had fired the involved employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last February, a man who had lived at a homeless encampment in Sausalito managed by Urban Alchemy \u003ca href=\"https://wraphome.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Filed-Scan-Arthur-Bruce-v-Urban-Alchemy-et-al.pdf\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> alleging that an employee assaulted him after raising concerns that the nonprofit’s staff had engaged in dealing methamphetamine and sexually exploited unhoused residents. Urban Alchemy said it is seeking to have the suit dismissed and noted the court has already dismissed multiple of the initial complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montejano said the nonprofit’s “community-based” safety models are proven and data-driven. He said he doesn’t expect Alexander’s death to mean any change in the way it operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doubling down on the mission and the model, and we’re making sure that Mr. Alexander’s death isn’t in vain,” he told KQED. “We always train our employees to be safe; we are not the police. But we’re going to continue to work on our mission, our model that we know is effective, and providing safety, cleanliness and connections to care and support, and housing in some instances, for the communities that we serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058294/its-going-to-be-painful-day-one-of-government-shutdown-hits-the-bay-area\">federal government shut down\u003c/a> on Wednesday, official channels moved quickly to send a clear, united message to panicked Americans: the “Radical Left in Congress” was to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bright red banners went live across federal agencies’ homepages with the message, and over the first two days of the shutdown, Republican lawmakers flooded social media, issued statements and made TV appearances, accusing Democrats of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/research/democrats-government-shutdown-halts-the-bipartisan-appropriations-process/\">derailing appropriations bills\u003c/a>” and “[shutting] down the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bay Area Democrats aren’t taking the heat, instead pointing the finger at Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump and Republicans are now inflicting a painful shutdown on the American people because they refuse to protect America’s health care,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said Thursday at San Francisco’s North East Medical Center in North Beach. “If Congress doesn’t extend the Affordable Care’s enhanced premium tax credits immediately, hundreds of thousands of families [in] California [alone] will lose their health care. Millions more will see their costs skyrocket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, it has provided health care premium tax credits to more than 20 million people, along with expanding coverage to low-income Americans through Medicare and Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058422\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251002-pelosishutdown_00384_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251002-pelosishutdown_00384_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251002-pelosishutdown_00384_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251002-pelosishutdown_00384_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congressman Jared Huffman speaks at North East Medical Services on the second day since the government shutdown in San Francisco on Oct. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2014, the federal government subsidized health plans for people who purchase insurance through the ACA marketplace. Premiums are capped on a sliding scale based on income, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/aca-marketplace-premium-payments-would-more-than-double-on-average-next-year-if-enhanced-premium-tax-credits-expire/\">according to the Kaiser Family Foundation\u003c/a>. In 2021, the Inflation Reduction Act expanded those credits to middle-income Americans and significantly increased them for existing enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the enhanced premium tax credits, which more than doubled ACA marketplace enrollment in the past four years, are set to expire at the end of December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said that invoices that began going out Oct. 1 show premiums for millions of Americans could double next year. Rep. Kevin Mullen, who represents parts of San Francisco and the Peninsula, said some of his constituents could see increases up to 600%.[aside postID=news_12058291 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GGBridgeGetty.jpg']That could drastically change coverage rates for tens of thousands of Bay Area residents who rely on the capped premiums, like Lori Bremner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bremner, diagnosed with Leukemia in college, said she survived because she had coverage through her parents. She has since struggled to maintain affordable insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My situation is not uncommon,” she said, standing alongside the Bay Area lawmakers on Thursday. “I’m a single mother, I’m self-employed, and I have a pre-existing condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was denied coverage over and over again until the passage of the Affordable Care Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because she is self-employed, Bremner, who is the sole provider for her family of four, doesn’t have access to a workplace health plan. She doesn’t qualify for Medicare or Medicaid. Without ACA subsidies, coverage would be out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can still feel the excitement I felt on that day when I navigated the newly live Covered California website,” she said. “I was nervous, too. What was it going to cost? Could I afford it? … Then I saw it: I qualified for a significant tax credit. That tax credit was life-changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the enhanced credits expire, the premium costs will be completely out of reach for some, said Amanda Webb, who spoke on behalf of a family friend who lives in the Bay Area. The family is not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid, but the father, a contingent worker at a tech company, doesn’t receive the same benefits as full employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251002-pelosishutdown_00197_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251002-pelosishutdown_00197_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251002-pelosishutdown_00197_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251002-pelosishutdown_00197_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenneth Tai, Chief Health Officer of Medical, speaks at North East Medical Services in San Francisco on Oct. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’ve done everything right,” Webb said. “They’ve worked hard, applied for coverage, made responsible choices, and yet without these subsidies, they could still fall through the cracks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans say that extending the tax credits, which would cost an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/02/nx-s1-5559810/shutdown-aca-health-care-premium-subsidies\">estimated $350 billion\u003c/a> over the next decade, is too expensive. Others, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, have said they’re willing to continue discussions around the program but have refused to tie it to the annual spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After some Democrats broke ranks in March to help pass a Republican spending bill and avert an earlier lapse in funding, party leaders appear to be using the current shutdown as one of their few bargaining chips with a Republican-controlled Congress and White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the way [Trump] negotiates,” East Bay Rep. Mark DeSaulnier \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911415/federal-government-shutdown-looms-large-ahead-of-midnight-deadline\">said Wednesday on KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>. “And we’re not having it because every time we try, he wants more. 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