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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump administration\u003c/a> sued \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> last week, threatening to end key benefits for students without legal status, Michelle was scrolling social media when she saw a video that made her panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.475466/gov.uscourts.caed.475466.1.0.pdf\">is challenging\u003c/a> California’s policy of providing in-state tuition, scholarships and subsidized loans to immigrants without legal status — including Michelle, an immigrant who is a community college student in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-mateo-county\">San Mateo County\u003c/a>. CalMatters has agreed to withhold her full name because she fears drawing attention to her legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On TikTok, rumors swirled. Michelle saw a video of a young man, around her age, asking if the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@king.squidwardd/video/7574821777012985118?q=is%20fafsa%20getting%20taken%20away%20king.squidwardd&t=1764088724748\">is gone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, FAFSA is still around, and while the new lawsuit could affect some students’ financial aid, some top legal experts say the Trump administration is unlikely to win. Regardless, the court process may take weeks or much longer to resolve the government’s claims against California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the lawsuit, the U.S. Department of Justice alleges that California’s policy of granting in-state tuition and financial aid for some students without legal status is unconstitutional. Federal lawyers also argue that California’s policies violate a 1996 federal law, which bars states from providing benefits to residents without legal status that aren’t also available to U.S. citizens who live anywhere in the U.S. The Justice Department is arguing that California either needs to drop the policy or let all U.S. citizens, including those who are out-of-state, pay the same rate.[aside postID=news_12063723 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251110-COLLEGE-STUDENTS-CALFRESH-MD-01-KQED.jpg']In California, over \u003ca href=\"https://www.higheredimmigrationportal.org/state/california/\">100,000 college students\u003c/a> lack legal status, according to one estimate by an alliance of university leaders who advocate for immigrants. Federal assistance, such as Pell grants and federal student loans, are off-limits to anyone who isn’t a U.S. citizen or does not have permanent legal status. California has its own money for college financial aid, which it distributes according to state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As long as individuals meet certain requirements, such as attending three years of high school in California, they’re eligible for in-state tuition, saving as much as $39,000 of dollars each year \u003ca href=\"https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/tuition-financial-aid/tuition-cost-of-attendance/\">compared\u003c/a> to their out-of-state peers. Once they meet those requirements, students without legal status can also qualify for the state’s cornerstone financial aid program, known as Cal Grant, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/undocumented-student-affordability-report\">only a small fraction\u003c/a> of these students actually apply for and receive it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Kevin Johnson, a law professor at UC Davis, Trump’s actions may be more about political wins than legal ones. “The Trump administration is engaged in a full-court press on undocumented immigrants and so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, and California and Governor Newsom in particular,” Johnson said. That the U.S. Department of Justice named the suit “United States of America v. Newsom” is another indication that this is political, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others noted that states have\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/08/immigrants-california/\"> already invested\u003c/a> in students without legal status and denying them an affordable path toward a college education is a waste of resources. Economists have pointed out that immigrants without status also are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/11/immigration-california-farms/\">integral\u003c/a> to the U.S. workforce and aren’t \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/trumps-first-immigration-crackdown-shrank-californias-population-it-could-happen-again/\">easily replaceable\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We didn’t expect them to go this low’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even weak lawsuits or outright misinformation can make students nervous during November, when college and financial aid application season is in full swing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On TikTok, videos of students \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@biancadanae_/video/7351047038030597422?q=fafsa%20glitches&t=1764088866073\">panicking\u003c/a> about the financial aid system surfaced last winter, after the Biden administration delayed and botched the rollout of the new FAFSA. Among its many \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/02/federal-financial-aid/\">glitches\u003c/a>, the new form prevented students whose parents lacked a Social Security number from submitting their information.[aside postID=news_12065240 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/IMG_4486-1020x765.jpeg']After Trump was elected last November, fears about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@brisprivatediary/video/7434187434746711327?q=is%20fafsa%20getting%20taken%20away&t=1764076992930\">total demise\u003c/a> of federal financial aid swirled again on TikTok. Over the course of this year, as his administration targets universities and continues to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, those fears have \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@christian_jwalker/video/7484092163530280235?q=is%20fafsa%20getting%20taken%20away&t=1764076992930\">persisted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Trump seeks to impose a $1 billion penalty on UCLA for alleged civil rights abuses, though a federal judge recently \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/11/uc/\">handed the White House a temporary loss \u003c/a>on that front. His administration is also suing California colleges and universities for alleged antisemitism violations and has sought to freeze or curtail billions of dollars in federal research funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of those freezes have been blocked or reversed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/09/ucla-research-grants/\">by federal judges\u003c/a>, but hundreds of millions of dollars still remain \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/11/uc-tuition/#:~:text=Nearly%20800%20employees,totalling%20%24230%20million\">cut off to campuses\u003c/a>. Much, if not all, of those friction points between California and Trump could be resolved through settlements and negotiations, which are political in nature, said UCLA law professor Hiroshi Motomura in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Trump was elected, state leaders, including Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/david-alvarez-112993\">David Alvarez\u003c/a>, a Chula Vista Democrat, pushed for California to offer additional benefits to students without legal status, such as the opportunity to work \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/undocumented-students-work/\">campus jobs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with access to financial aid programs at risk for these students, Alvarez said the focus is shifting. “We didn’t expect it would go this low as to go after students that the president had previously said should be welcomed here.” In 2024, Trump told a podcast host that students should \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/theallinpod/status/1803932968794108081?lang=en\">“automatically”\u003c/a> receive “a Green Card,” otherwise known as permanent residency, when they get their college diploma.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legal scholars doubt Trump’s lawsuit will win\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit against California is the Trump administration’s sixth against states with policies allowing in-state tuition for students without legal status. The White House went after \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/texas-justice-department-lawsuit-undocumented-in-state-tuition/\">Texas first\u003c/a>, in June. Underscoring how much of a bipartisan issue in-state tuition is, Texan lawmakers were the first in the U.S. to enshrine the policy in 2001. In all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.higheredimmigrationportal.org/states/\">more than\u003c/a> 20 states passed some in-state tuition policy benefiting some residents without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s legal attacks on the policy this year prompted leaders in \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70562424/united-states-v-beshear/\">Kentucky\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/06/after-doj-sues-okla-ends-state-tuition-noncitizens\">Oklahoma\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/texas-justice-department-lawsuit-undocumented-in-state-tuition/\">Texas\u003c/a> to side with the White House to terminate the benefit in those respective states. Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/11/20/judge-lets-group-defend-kys-undocumented-state-tuition\">legal groups\u003c/a> that want to continue in-state tuition for students lacking legal status are challenging those states’ moves.[aside postID=news_12065375 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/240508-Berkeley-High-File-MD-03_qed.jpg']Trump has also sued Minnesota and Illinois, states with Democrats as governors and attorneys general who are \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.226137/gov.uscourts.mnd.226137.9.0.pdf\">challenging\u003c/a> Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilsd.106533/gov.uscourts.ilsd.106533.18.0.pdf\">lawsuits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.475466/gov.uscourts.caed.475466.1.0.pdf#page=12\">says that\u003c/a> the federal law in question bars students without legal status from receiving in-state tuition and financial aid benefits based on their living in the state. This, the federal lawyers argue, violates federal law since public campuses in California require U.S. citizens from other states to pay higher tuition rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, California’s law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB540\">Assembly Bill 540\u003c/a>, doesn’t extend in-state tuition based on where students live, scholars and a previous court ruling say. Instead, students generally need to prove that they \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/post/california-nonresident-tuition-exemption\">attended three years of high school\u003c/a> or community college in California; they also need to earn in California a high school diploma or obtain enough community college credits to be eligible for transfer into a public university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice says those three-year high school or community college requirements are tantamount to an in-state residency criteria and therefore violate the 1996 federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the California Supreme Court in 2010 already \u003ca href=\"https://cases.justia.com/california/supreme-court/S167791.PDF?ts=1462305163\">struck down that interpretation\u003c/a>. The high court observed that some students living in areas bordering California are permitted to study at California high schools. High school students from out of state enrolled in private boarding schools also satisfy the requirement; they don’t count as residents of California either. And students who were residents of California during high school but moved to a different state could still enroll in California colleges or universities paying in-state tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these scenarios require a student to complete the same AB 540 application as students who lack legal status. The only difference is that students without status must also complete an affidavit that they’ll pursue legal residency as soon as they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the University of California enrolled more students under AB 540 who were legal U.S. residents than those who weren’t, the state high court said then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Congress had intended to prohibit states entirely from making unlawful aliens eligible for in-state tuition, it could easily have done so,” the state Supreme Court wrote in 2010. But Congress didn’t do that, the court noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in California who passed AB 540 in 2001 knew what the federal law restricted, said Motomura, and they crafted a state law that wouldn’t contravene what Congress intended. “It was drafted to avoid the residency test, and it was drafted to avoid the exclusion of U.S. citizens,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s likely next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California has already signaled that it will fight the lawsuit. “The Trump Administration has once again missed the mark with its latest attack on California, and we look forward to proving it in court,” wrote Nina Sheridan, a spokesperson for the California Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the UC and the community college system said their tuition and financial aid policies have always been legally compliant. The Cal State University system did not respond to a request for comment.[aside postID=news_12063793 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251028_IMMIGRANT-MASS-_HERNANDEZ-17-KQED.jpg']The Trump administration may also seek a preliminary injunction to halt California’s in-state tuition law for nonresidents, which would again expose Californians to a seesaw of temporary court orders, sometimes contradictory in nature, while the full legal merits of the case play out slowly in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or MALDEF, thinks the U.S. Supreme Court will likely side with California despite its conservative orientation if the case goes that far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major legal question underscoring the case against California is when and how federal rules preempt or supersede state laws. The Trump White House is arguing California’s in-state policies are preempted by federal law. But the legal concept of preemption is a pillar in jurisprudence. Liberal and conservative interests benefit similarly from a consistent application of preemption as a legal concept, Saenz said. For example, businesses rely on preemption rules in situations where a state law is more progressive or consumer-friendly than a federal rule and want courts to defend them from following the more demanding state rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court is “going to be very wary of making bad law in the realm of preemption, because it could then come back to bite the right wing in protecting businesses,” Saenz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Michelle and other students without legal status navigating their own financial aid applications — and the misinformation online — a series of temporary court orders could create more panic. Financial aid is top of mind, said Michelle, but she doesn’t have time to track the legal back-and-forth of her eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to being a full-time student, Michelle works four days a week at a restaurant, saving up money not only to support herself but also her family. She’s the oldest of four kids and said she sends $500 to her parents each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College is “an opportunity for me to be someone in life, to make my parents proud,” she said. Asked about the lawsuit at the cafeteria of her college, Michelle made a choking gesture with her hand, as though the threat of losing financial aid next year could kill her. “Trump is taking that opportunity away because he doesn’t like immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadline to submit financial aid applications for community college is Sept. 2, but Michelle is already working on her application, just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/11/electric-bills-will-not-reflect-historically-low-profit-margins/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Trump administration may also seek a preliminary injunction to halt California’s in-state tuition law for nonresidents, which would again expose Californians to a seesaw of temporary court orders, sometimes contradictory in nature, while the full legal merits of the case play out slowly in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or MALDEF, thinks the U.S. Supreme Court will likely side with California despite its conservative orientation if the case goes that far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major legal question underscoring the case against California is when and how federal rules preempt or supersede state laws. The Trump White House is arguing California’s in-state policies are preempted by federal law. But the legal concept of preemption is a pillar in jurisprudence. Liberal and conservative interests benefit similarly from a consistent application of preemption as a legal concept, Saenz said. For example, businesses rely on preemption rules in situations where a state law is more progressive or consumer-friendly than a federal rule and want courts to defend them from following the more demanding state rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court is “going to be very wary of making bad law in the realm of preemption, because it could then come back to bite the right wing in protecting businesses,” Saenz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Michelle and other students without legal status navigating their own financial aid applications — and the misinformation online — a series of temporary court orders could create more panic. Financial aid is top of mind, said Michelle, but she doesn’t have time to track the legal back-and-forth of her eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to being a full-time student, Michelle works four days a week at a restaurant, saving up money not only to support herself but also her family. She’s the oldest of four kids and said she sends $500 to her parents each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College is “an opportunity for me to be someone in life, to make my parents proud,” she said. Asked about the lawsuit at the cafeteria of her college, Michelle made a choking gesture with her hand, as though the threat of losing financial aid next year could kill her. “Trump is taking that opportunity away because he doesn’t like immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadline to submit financial aid applications for community college is Sept. 2, but Michelle is already working on her application, just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/11/electric-bills-will-not-reflect-historically-low-profit-margins/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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District officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030935/our-education-matters-richmond-high-schoolers-rally-against-teacher-layoffs\">cut millions of dollars\u003c/a> from their budget to stay solvent this year, and they still face additional cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district did not respond to a request for comment from KQED, but in a Monday night letter to community members, it said that its representatives on the state fact-finding panel have been meeting with the chairperson since the last hearings on Nov. 17 and Nov. 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to continuing these discussions into next week and through the break — whatever it takes — to try to reach a fair resolution and avert a strike that would only hurt our students,” wrote Raechelle Forrest, director of district communications.[aside postID=news_12030935 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240312-RICHMOND-WALKOUT-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']Officials have also begun preparing for a potential strike, saying that the district is “committed to keeping our schools open.” WCCUSD’s school board \u003ca href=\"https://ccpulse.org/2025/10/16/wccusd-prepares-for-potential-strikes-by-upping-temporary-educators-pay/\">voted to increase pay\u003c/a> for substitute teachers last month, bumping the usual daily pay from $280 to up to $550 if the union goes on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to UTR’s members, more than a thousand other district staff members were set to strike soon after the teachers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If UTR does go on strike, it could trigger a sympathy strike by IFPTE Local 21, which represents school supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teamsters Local 856, which includes paraprofessionals and clerical staff, came to a tentative agreement with the district on Wednesday after \u003ca href=\"https://teamster.org/2025/10/teamsters-at-west-contra-costa-unified-school-district-authorize-strike/\">authorizing a strike\u003c/a> only days after UTR’s authorization. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Officials have also begun preparing for a potential strike, saying that the district is “committed to keeping our schools open.” WCCUSD’s school board \u003ca href=\"https://ccpulse.org/2025/10/16/wccusd-prepares-for-potential-strikes-by-upping-temporary-educators-pay/\">voted to increase pay\u003c/a> for substitute teachers last month, bumping the usual daily pay from $280 to up to $550 if the union goes on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to UTR’s members, more than a thousand other district staff members were set to strike soon after the teachers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If UTR does go on strike, it could trigger a sympathy strike by IFPTE Local 21, which represents school supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teamsters Local 856, which includes paraprofessionals and clerical staff, came to a tentative agreement with the district on Wednesday after \u003ca href=\"https://teamster.org/2025/10/teamsters-at-west-contra-costa-unified-school-district-authorize-strike/\">authorizing a strike\u003c/a> only days after UTR’s authorization. Local 856 also cited staffing and pay concerns as reasons for a potential strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The gains achieved by UTR and Teamsters Local 856 directly affect the compensation of our unit through our ‘me too’ clause. When they secure a higher wage increase, we will also benefit if the increase they secure is more than what we secured,” IFPTE \u003ca href=\"https://ifpte21.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Sympathy-Strike-FAQ-WCCUSD-102725.pdf\">said \u003c/a>when recommending the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mediator’s report this week isn’t binding, so the district isn’t required to offer the union a new proposal after its release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the district is unwilling to [accept those recommendations], then we’re also ready to take that next step,” Ortiz said. “We’re ready to do our part, and the district needs to do theirs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California electric rates stuck at nearly the highest in the nation, the state’s utility regulator is poised to lower the payout shareholders can receive from California’s three large investor-owned power companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M587/K323/587323962.PDF\">In a proposed decision\u003c/a>, the California Public Utilities Commission recommended dropping the “return on equity” by 0.35% each for Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric. If approved, shareholders of all three companies would see a potential return next year of just under 10%. Such returns for PG&E and Edison haven’t dipped below double digits in at least 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities said the decline would affect their ability to bring in needed investment for their work. Critics of the decision said that the decline is too small to meaningfully impact ratepayers’ bills, even if it’s a step in the right direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California and other [public utility commissions] authorize rates of return that are far in excess of the statutory requirement,” said Mark Ellis, former chief economist at Sempra, which owns San Diego Gas & Electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utility Commission is expected to vote on the decision in December.[aside postID=science_1998536 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GavinNewsomGetty.jpg']Californians pay \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a\">the second-highest electric rates\u003c/a> in the U.S. after Hawaii, according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. A number of factors go into those rates, including \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/12/pge-utilities-wildfire-prevention-customer-bills-california/\">wildfire mitigation costs\u003c/a>. PG&E in particular has attracted the ire of California customers for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/pge-rate-hikes-2025-19993571.php\">frequent rate hikes\u003c/a> within the last year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baked into those bills is the return on equity, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/electricity-bills-include-bonuses-for-utility-companies/\">money meant to compensate shareholders\u003c/a> for the risk of doing business. These shareholder return rates are set by each state’s utility regulators and hover nationally around 10%. If approved, PG&E’s rate would be 9.93% (down from 10.28%), Edison would be 9.98% (down from 10.33%), and San Diego Gas & Electric would be 9.88% (down from 10.23%). These rates are not automatically guaranteed – utilities can fall short of this return if they don’t keep down costs, such as project overruns or unexpected lawsuit fees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small change in this rate can be a difference of millions of dollars for ratepayers. The return is a percentage of the rate base, the total value of a utility’s assets it can earn a return on; this includes projects such as building a new power plant, for example. The rate bases for California’s three large investor-owned utilities have steadily grown each year as they add new customers and projects, increasing the amount that shareholders can receive. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, for example, had a 10% shareholder return in 2023, a possible return of about $125 million. Had it been 1% lower, the potential return would have been $12.5 million less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposed cost of capital decision needs refinement to better reflect California’s unique risks and market realities,” said Edison spokesperson Jeff Monford. “Making those refinements in the final decision will enhance SCE’s ability to finance essential infrastructure projects for a more reliable, resilient and ready electric grid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesperson Jennifer Robison echoed this sentiment, saying the decision “fails to acknowledge current elevated risks to help attract the needed investment for California’s energy systems.”[aside postID=news_12060292 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/ClimateBill_lede.jpg']Anthony Wagner, spokesperson at San Diego Gas & Electric, said, “A decision that accurately reflects these realities is essential to enabling investments that reduce wildfire risk, strengthen reliability, replace aging infrastructure and advance California’s clean energy transition for the benefit of the communities we serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities routinely request these rates be pushed higher because they are a key part of what goes into utilities’ credit rating, affecting the interest they pay on loans for infrastructure investments. But in recent years, experts and consumer advocates point to a mismatch – the utility industry is typically considered low-risk, but critics say the shareholder return rates don’t reflect that. Rates for U.S. 10-year treasury bonds, which are considered the benchmark for a risk-free investment, are about half of the national average for approved utility shareholder return rates. And it’s costing utility ratepayers across the country \u003ca href=\"https://haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/WP329.pdf\">as much as $7 billion annually\u003c/a>, according to academics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellis, the former Sempra economist, said there is a way to lower shareholder returns while keeping customer bills in check and maintaining credit ratings that the commission has not yet explored – changing the balance of debt and equity each utility has. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really need to understand credit,” he said. “This is where they’re going to get you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission is allowed to set the debt-equity balance when it determines shareholder returns, but it left this unchanged for all three utilities in its proposed decision for 2026. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-county\">a Los Angeles County jury\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26277158-jury-verdict/\">awarded $2.34 million\u003c/a> to an 84-year-old nursing home resident named Betsy Jentz, finding that the facility had violated her rights on 132 occasions, at times leading to serious injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six months later, an Alameda County jury found another facility had violated the rights of 71-year-old James Doherty, Sr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26092434-60650058-08-18-2025-special-verdict-form-1-from-jurors-v3/\">more than 1,400 times\u003c/a>. That included seven instances in which staff failed to transport him, causing him to miss chemotherapy treatments, court documents said. Doherty died following the development of a large pressure sore. His family was awarded $7.6 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a jury in Shasta County is scheduled to hear a case against a nursing home \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21069802-complaint-2/\">accused of negligence\u003c/a> in the 2020 COVID-19 deaths of 24 patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And next spring, trial is scheduled to begin in the case of a 79-year-old dementia patient, referred to as \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284981-answer-to-cheryl-doe/\">Cheryl Doe\u003c/a>, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26276978-doe-complaint-2-2-24/\">allegedly raped twice in another Alameda County facility\u003c/a>; a second case against the same facility alleges that \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26276976-williams-complaint-6-26-24/\">excessive sedation\u003c/a> of 64-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284980-williams-defendants-answer-to-plaintiffs-complaint1455624141/\">Alando Williams\u003c/a> led to his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these facilities have one thing in common: state records list Shlomo Rechnitz as an owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court documents show Rechnitz and his companies have denied all allegations in all of the cases. Mark Johnson, an attorney representing Rechnitz’ facilities and one of his main companies, Brius LLC, said in an email that facilities cannot comment on active litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065135\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-James-Doherty-CM.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-James-Doherty-CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065135\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-James-Doherty-CM.jpeg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-James-Doherty-CM-160x200.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-James-Doherty-CM-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jury in August held the nursing home Alameda Healthcare & Wellness Center responsible for the death of James Doherty, 71, an Air Force veteran. The jury awarded his family $7.6 million.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Photo via Lanzone Morgan, LLP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is accurate that nursing homes are the target of abusive lawsuits that accomplish nothing but depleting resources for patient care,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson sought to distance his clients from the cases, saying that Rechnitz and his wife, Tamar, “are passive owners of the facilities” and have “absolutely no role in operations or management.” Johnson said “the licensees” contract with a company to manage the facilities, adding that “each facility has all the necessary resources for patients and staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rechnitz has been on the state’s radar for years. In 2014, then-Attorney General Kamala Harris attempted to prevent him from purchasing new homes. In 2018, the State Auditor’s Office found his companies had significantly higher rates of federal deficiencies and complaints than the rest of the state’s care facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-oversight-nursing-homes/\">CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> documented that the state Department of Public Health allowed Rechnitz and his companies to operate 18 nursing homes while delaying a decision on granting licenses to them. The state had kept the license applications in a “pending” status for seven years after he acquired the homes. Rechnitz and his companies were allowed to continue operating five additional homes even after the state denied licenses to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/09/nursing-home-licensing-bill/\">signed a law\u003c/a> meant to address the issue, but state regulators in 2023 granted Rechnitz’ companies the licenses to operate the homes just before the measure took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now elder care advocates say he is Exhibit A in how regulators at the Department of Public Health are failing some of California’s most vulnerable citizens. They say the state could push for greater accountability, including withholding licenses from owners they deem to be bad actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy York, a Sacramento attorney specializing in nursing home abuse, said that watching elderly and disabled residents repeatedly suffer the same types of injuries in these facilities “feels like a broken record. It feels like Groundhog Day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>York brought \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21069802-complaint-2/\">the lawsuit \u003c/a>in 2021 alleging that one of Rechnitz’ companies’ facilities, Windsor Redding Care Center, was responsible for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/10/rechnitz-nursing-home-lawsuit-covid-licensing/\">the COVID-related deaths of some 24 elderly and dependent residents\u003c/a>. Johnson, the attorney for Rechnitz’ facilities, previously said the company “vehemently” disagrees with the allegations in the case, which is headed to trial early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are “government agencies who are responsible for their oversight,” York said, but “at the end of the day, it feels like we’re the ones who are doing the enforcement.”[aside postID=news_12064693 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251115-DEADLY-LUNG-DISEASE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg']Johnson called it “crucial to note that California is one of the only states in the country to provide zero liability protection for healthcare providers during the unprecedented pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is particularly noteworthy since nursing homes were the front line in trying to protect our frail and elderly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one of the cases against Rechnitz’ facilities includes allegations about his own conduct. A man suing Rechnitz and his companies over a relative’s injuries wrote in a sworn declaration filed in court that Rechnitz attempted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26092439-pocket-brief-re-witness-biasfiled/\">intimidate and bribe him\u003c/a> with Lakers tickets during an unexpected phone call on the eve of his scheduled testimony in Los Angeles County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, the attorney representing Rechnitz’ facilities, called allegations about threats “completely false and defamatory.” A judge ruled the conversation could not be introduced as evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another case, Rechnitz and his wife Tamar in discovery disclosed their net worth: $786 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Chicotel, a senior staff attorney for California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, said that dollar figure hasn’t been divulged publicly before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least in some of these chains, the money that was meant to go for patient care is being stripped away and sent up top to the ownership,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, the attorney for Rechnitz’ facilities, did not comment on the disclosure of the family’s wealth when CalMatters asked him.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Heightened monitoring’ for two years\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Health has for years refused CalMatters’ requests for an interview about licensing issues related to Rechnitz’ companies’ homes. They again declined requests for an interview for this story. They did not provide a reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, spokesman Mark Smith, said in an emailed statement that the department “remains committed to transparency and accountability for all providers, and to the health and safety of all nursing home residents in California.” In response to CalMatters’ questions about facilities in which Rechnitz is listed as an owner, Smith noted that the department had “negotiated for and obtained \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CHOW-Settlement-Agreement-MAJ-SR-KRS-CD-signed-FINAL.pdf\">heightened monitoring authority and additional enforcement powers\u003c/a>, beyond those applicable to other skilled nursing facilities, for a period of two years at 24 of this provider’s locations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/102525_NursingHomeEmpire_FM_CM_14-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A stone-faced building with a sign that reads “Alameda Healthcare & Wellness Center” sits behind trees and shrubs on a rainy day. Blurred plant leaves frame the foreground. A “Bike Lane Begin” sign is posted near the corner of the building.\">\u003cfigcaption>Alameda Healthcare & Wellness Center, a Shlomo Rechnitz-owned nursing home, in Alameda on Oct. 25, 2025. Photo by Florence Middleton for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That period has ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This does not mean our department will avoid holding this provider or their facilities accountable,” he said. “We will continue to monitor these locations as appropriate, enforce and cite for regulatory violations if needed, and take further corrective action if necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/CalMatters/data-rechnitz-nursing-homes\">CalMatters analysis\u003c/a> of data from both the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/CalHealthFind/Pages/Home.aspx\">state health department\u003c/a> and the federal \u003ca href=\"https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/4pq5-n9py\">Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services\u003c/a> found 78 California facilities in which Shlomo Rechnitz or his wife, Tamar, were listed as having an ownership stake. On average the facilities fared poorly on several key quality metrics compared to the state overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In the past three years, the 78 nursing homes received an average of 12.4 citations for facility-reported incidents, compared with 6.1 for all nursing homes statewide.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A higher proportion of these facilities has received a federal fine in the last three years than the state’s overall rate. Two-thirds of the facilities received at least one federal fine in the last three years, compared to half of all facilities across the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The facilities have been fined an average of $47,897 during the last three years, compared to an average of $29,573 for all California facilities.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The facilities had comparably low \u003ca href=\"https://www.cms.gov/medicare/health-safety-standards/certification-compliance/five-star-quality-rating-system\">federal quality ratings\u003c/a>: Almost 58% of these facilities had recent ratings of one or two stars (out of five), compared with slightly over 37% of facilities statewide.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Johnson, the attorney for Rechnitz’ facilities, noted in his email that a large percentage of these facilities are located in Los Angeles County, which he said issues deficiencies at a higher rate than any county in California, many of which are overturned on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that “Mr. Rechnitz’ facilities self-report at a significantly higher rate than other comparable facilities,” which, in turn, could lead them to have a higher number of deficiencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kamala Harris’ intervention\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 2014, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-oversight-nursing-homes/\">Rechnitz bid on 18 Country Villa \u003c/a>nursing homes in federal bankruptcy court. Then Attorney General Harris was so concerned with his track record that she filed an emergency motion to prevent him from purchasing or managing the homes, describing him as “\u003ca href=\"https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20447183-emergency-motion-calif-ag-8-28-14#document/p4/a2018884\">a serial violator of rules within the skilled nursing industry\u003c/a>.” At the time, Rechnitz’ attorney characterized the remarks as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20447182-emergency-motion-rechnitz-response-8-29-14#document/p9/a2025411\">defamatory\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20447182-emergency-motion-rechnitz-response-8-29-14#document/p2/a2018889\">outrageous\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The purchase went through.[aside postID=news_12064768 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/008_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023_qed.jpg']Rechnitz then submitted \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Pending-CHOWS-CDPH.pdf\">change-of-ownership applications\u003c/a> seeking licenses to run those homes. Rather than approving or denying them, CalMatters found that the state Department of Public Health simply left his applications in “pending” status for years. Despite that, his companies were allowed to continue operating the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, he applied for \u003ca href=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/20473863-windsor-chico-creek-care-and-rehabilitation-center-llc-denied_redacted\">licenses for five Windsor \u003c/a>nursing homes. The next year, the department denied the change of ownership applications, but again allowed Rechnitz’ companies to operate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her scathing 2018 report, the state auditor Elaine Howle criticized the California Department of Public Health, saying weak oversight and licensing lapses increased risk to nursing home residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to address these issues, the Legislature passed a law in 2022 to close a loophole that had allowed nursing home operators to run facilities without first receiving licenses. The law required the Department of Public Health to look at an applicant’s track record over several years before granting a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before that law took effect the following year, the Department of Public Health suddenly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/06/nursing-homes-california/\">granted Rechnitz\u003c/a> and his companies \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CHOW-Settlement-Agreement-MAJ-SR-KRS-CD-signed-FINAL.pdf\">many of the licenses\u003c/a> it had previously left pending or outright denied. The group includes nursing homes that were the focus of recent lawsuits, such as Country Villa Wilshire, the Los Angeles-area facility where a jury awarded $2.34 million after a woman allegedly fell repeatedly due to understaffing; Windsor Redding, where the 24 patients died during a COVID outbreak; and Windsor Healthcare Center of Oakland, where complaints filed in Alameda County Superior Court allege a woman was sexually assaulted twice and a man died after being given too much medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Dudensing, a Sacramento-based attorney who specializes in elder abuse in nursing homes, is bringing the case in Alameda County Superior Court alleging that neglect and poor staffing allowed a fellow patient to rape 79-year-old Cheryl Doe on multiple occasions while she stayed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284981-answer-to-cheryl-doe/\">Windsor Healthcare Center of Oakland\u003c/a>. He is also representing the family of 64-year-old Alando Williams \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284980-williams-defendants-answer-to-plaintiffs-complaint1455624141/\">in the lawsuit \u003c/a>against the same facility alleging overmedication and wrongful death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudensing has three other active cases against facilities affiliated with Rechnitz and his web of companies alleging neglect, abuse and wrongful death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of them, 78-year-old Barbara Pendley allegedly died after \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26276972-pendley-complaint-fac-8-4-23/\">suffering severe dehydration\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284983-northpoint-answer/\">North Point Healthcare & Wellness Centre\u003c/a> in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Point was another facility that the state opted to grant Rechnitz and his companies the license for under the 2023 settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rechnitz and his companies have filed legal responses denying allegations in all of these cases, several of which are scheduled to go to trial in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve just got to keep fighting,” Dudensing said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a time when there was a lot of scrutiny and that’s obviously well-documented,” he said. “But he managed to slip through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassie Dunham, the previous deputy director of the Center for Health Care Quality for the California Department of Public Health, last year became chief executive and president of the California Association of Health Facilities, the industry’s lobbying group. Through a spokesperson, Dunham declined an interview for this story citing her involvement with the development of departmental policy during the time that the state granted Rechnitz the licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey Egel, a spokesman for the industry group and himself a former spokesman for the Department of Public Health, said in a statement that the association “supports strong, transparent oversight but believes the system would benefit from clearer timelines, more consistent application of standards, and more efficient resolution of pending cases — so that regulatory goals and resident care priorities can both be met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Patient lawsuit at newly licensed nursing home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Among the facilities that Rechnitz’companies received a state license to run in 2023 was Country Villa Wilshire, an 81-bed Los Angeles nursing home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26276977-complaint-jentz/\">a lawsuit against the facility\u003c/a>, 84-year-old Betsy Jentz landed there in November 2020 after she fell and fractured her ribs and hip. Prior to her injuries, the complaint stated that Jentz had been in excellent health; her attorneys said she had run 27 marathons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during the next year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26287898-plaintiffs-trial-brief/\">a plaintiff’s brief\u003c/a>, Jentz fell at least 10 times. On some of these occasions, she hit her head, suffered a fractured and dislocated shoulder and a fractured pelvis. The complaint also described malnutrition and severe pressure ulcers. It attributed those injuries to neglect. In court filings, Rechnitz and his companies have denied all responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065138\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1334px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-Betsy-Jentz-CM-01.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-Betsy-Jentz-CM-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1334\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065138\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-Betsy-Jentz-CM-01.jpeg 1334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-Betsy-Jentz-CM-01-160x240.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-Betsy-Jentz-CM-01-1025x1536.jpeg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Los Angeles jury in February 2024 ordered a Los Angeles nursing home to pay Betsy Jentz $2.3 million, finding the facility had violated her rights and contributed to serious injuries.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Photo via Lanzone Morgan, LLP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the evening of Jan. 28, 2024, Jentz’ great nephew Derek Skylar Aud was preparing to testify in court the next morning. Then, according to court documents, he received an unexpected phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man on the other end of the line introduced himself as Shlomo Rechnitz, Aud later wrote in a declaration filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of more than an hour, Rechnitz allegedly told Aud that “things would get very nasty” for him and Jentz if Aud testified, the declaration said. Rechnitz allegedly said he would prolong the case for years and bring to light damaging information his private investigators had collected about Jentz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said his private investigators had learned that Jentz loved basketball, and said she could receive courtside Lakers tickets “right next to LeBron James” if she agreed to a side deal, Aud told the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Rechnitz then said ‘listen, I get it, we really fucked up and I’m accepting full responsibility, but I want the remedy or accountability to be on my terms and cut all these outrageous attorney’s fees out of the picture,’” Aud said in the declaration. “He also said ‘we fucked up and I accept responsibility, we were severely understaffed.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rechnitz did not directly respond to these allegations in court, and the judge ultimately did not allow the jury to consider the phone call to Aud in making its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys from Lanzone Morgan, a Long Beach law firm that specializes in nursing home abuse, represented Jentz and Aud in their case against Country Villa Wilshire. They said that the judge accepted defense attorneys’ argument that the call constituted “confidential settlement discussions” and did not allow the jury to hear testimony about it. Gittler & Berg and Ekpebe Law Group, the law firms that represented Rechnitz and his companies in the case, did not respond to CalMatters’ requests for comment. The jury’s $2.34 million verdict is now being appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lanzone Morgan also brought the case against Alameda Healthcare & Wellness that ended in the $7.6 million judgment in August. The case is in a post-trial phase in which the judge is determining how to apportion the liability among defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rockport Healthcare Services, the administrative services company for many of the homes, is also named in some of the lawsuits, including the one against Alameda Healthcare & Wellness. Rockport is owned by Steven Stroll, who has also served as Rechnitz’ accountant. Rockport has \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26287892-ca-sup-alm-23cv051024-d42813823e717-answer-filed-by-alameda-healthcare-wellness-center/\">filed responses in court\u003c/a> denying responsibility for the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Kim, an attorney with Lanzone Morgan, said she wants to see the Department of Public Health stop issuing licenses to Rechnitz and “other bad actors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s shocking to me that he’s able to get licenses after he pretty much runs many of his facilities into the ground,” she said. She referred to an Aug. 22 trial in which Rechnitz acknowledged owning a private plane and having recently sold a home in Los Angeles for $23 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her client, Aud, whose great aunt Jentz died in January 2025 a few months after the jury made its decision, wrote in\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26092439-pocket-brief-re-witness-biasfiled/\"> his declaration to the court\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I continue to feel uneasy about the calls and threats and I carry the fear of retaliation with me daily…I do live in fear that Mr. Rechnitz is now even more furious and that he will make good on his threats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters Data Reporter Erica Yee contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About the data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides court records, the data on Rechnitz-owned facilities in this story is based on state and federal databases. \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/CalMatters/data-rechnitz-nursing-homes\">See full methodology and download the data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/11/nursing-home-shlomo-rechnitz/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-county\">a Los Angeles County jury\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26277158-jury-verdict/\">awarded $2.34 million\u003c/a> to an 84-year-old nursing home resident named Betsy Jentz, finding that the facility had violated her rights on 132 occasions, at times leading to serious injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six months later, an Alameda County jury found another facility had violated the rights of 71-year-old James Doherty, Sr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26092434-60650058-08-18-2025-special-verdict-form-1-from-jurors-v3/\">more than 1,400 times\u003c/a>. That included seven instances in which staff failed to transport him, causing him to miss chemotherapy treatments, court documents said. Doherty died following the development of a large pressure sore. His family was awarded $7.6 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a jury in Shasta County is scheduled to hear a case against a nursing home \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21069802-complaint-2/\">accused of negligence\u003c/a> in the 2020 COVID-19 deaths of 24 patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And next spring, trial is scheduled to begin in the case of a 79-year-old dementia patient, referred to as \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284981-answer-to-cheryl-doe/\">Cheryl Doe\u003c/a>, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26276978-doe-complaint-2-2-24/\">allegedly raped twice in another Alameda County facility\u003c/a>; a second case against the same facility alleges that \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26276976-williams-complaint-6-26-24/\">excessive sedation\u003c/a> of 64-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284980-williams-defendants-answer-to-plaintiffs-complaint1455624141/\">Alando Williams\u003c/a> led to his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these facilities have one thing in common: state records list Shlomo Rechnitz as an owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court documents show Rechnitz and his companies have denied all allegations in all of the cases. Mark Johnson, an attorney representing Rechnitz’ facilities and one of his main companies, Brius LLC, said in an email that facilities cannot comment on active litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065135\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-James-Doherty-CM.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-James-Doherty-CM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065135\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-James-Doherty-CM.jpeg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-James-Doherty-CM-160x200.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-James-Doherty-CM-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jury in August held the nursing home Alameda Healthcare & Wellness Center responsible for the death of James Doherty, 71, an Air Force veteran. The jury awarded his family $7.6 million.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Photo via Lanzone Morgan, LLP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is accurate that nursing homes are the target of abusive lawsuits that accomplish nothing but depleting resources for patient care,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson sought to distance his clients from the cases, saying that Rechnitz and his wife, Tamar, “are passive owners of the facilities” and have “absolutely no role in operations or management.” Johnson said “the licensees” contract with a company to manage the facilities, adding that “each facility has all the necessary resources for patients and staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rechnitz has been on the state’s radar for years. In 2014, then-Attorney General Kamala Harris attempted to prevent him from purchasing new homes. In 2018, the State Auditor’s Office found his companies had significantly higher rates of federal deficiencies and complaints than the rest of the state’s care facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-oversight-nursing-homes/\">CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> documented that the state Department of Public Health allowed Rechnitz and his companies to operate 18 nursing homes while delaying a decision on granting licenses to them. The state had kept the license applications in a “pending” status for seven years after he acquired the homes. Rechnitz and his companies were allowed to continue operating five additional homes even after the state denied licenses to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/09/nursing-home-licensing-bill/\">signed a law\u003c/a> meant to address the issue, but state regulators in 2023 granted Rechnitz’ companies the licenses to operate the homes just before the measure took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now elder care advocates say he is Exhibit A in how regulators at the Department of Public Health are failing some of California’s most vulnerable citizens. They say the state could push for greater accountability, including withholding licenses from owners they deem to be bad actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy York, a Sacramento attorney specializing in nursing home abuse, said that watching elderly and disabled residents repeatedly suffer the same types of injuries in these facilities “feels like a broken record. It feels like Groundhog Day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>York brought \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21069802-complaint-2/\">the lawsuit \u003c/a>in 2021 alleging that one of Rechnitz’ companies’ facilities, Windsor Redding Care Center, was responsible for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/10/rechnitz-nursing-home-lawsuit-covid-licensing/\">the COVID-related deaths of some 24 elderly and dependent residents\u003c/a>. Johnson, the attorney for Rechnitz’ facilities, previously said the company “vehemently” disagrees with the allegations in the case, which is headed to trial early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are “government agencies who are responsible for their oversight,” York said, but “at the end of the day, it feels like we’re the ones who are doing the enforcement.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Johnson called it “crucial to note that California is one of the only states in the country to provide zero liability protection for healthcare providers during the unprecedented pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is particularly noteworthy since nursing homes were the front line in trying to protect our frail and elderly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one of the cases against Rechnitz’ facilities includes allegations about his own conduct. A man suing Rechnitz and his companies over a relative’s injuries wrote in a sworn declaration filed in court that Rechnitz attempted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26092439-pocket-brief-re-witness-biasfiled/\">intimidate and bribe him\u003c/a> with Lakers tickets during an unexpected phone call on the eve of his scheduled testimony in Los Angeles County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, the attorney representing Rechnitz’ facilities, called allegations about threats “completely false and defamatory.” A judge ruled the conversation could not be introduced as evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another case, Rechnitz and his wife Tamar in discovery disclosed their net worth: $786 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Chicotel, a senior staff attorney for California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, said that dollar figure hasn’t been divulged publicly before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least in some of these chains, the money that was meant to go for patient care is being stripped away and sent up top to the ownership,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, the attorney for Rechnitz’ facilities, did not comment on the disclosure of the family’s wealth when CalMatters asked him.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Heightened monitoring’ for two years\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Health has for years refused CalMatters’ requests for an interview about licensing issues related to Rechnitz’ companies’ homes. They again declined requests for an interview for this story. They did not provide a reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, spokesman Mark Smith, said in an emailed statement that the department “remains committed to transparency and accountability for all providers, and to the health and safety of all nursing home residents in California.” In response to CalMatters’ questions about facilities in which Rechnitz is listed as an owner, Smith noted that the department had “negotiated for and obtained \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CHOW-Settlement-Agreement-MAJ-SR-KRS-CD-signed-FINAL.pdf\">heightened monitoring authority and additional enforcement powers\u003c/a>, beyond those applicable to other skilled nursing facilities, for a period of two years at 24 of this provider’s locations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/102525_NursingHomeEmpire_FM_CM_14-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A stone-faced building with a sign that reads “Alameda Healthcare & Wellness Center” sits behind trees and shrubs on a rainy day. Blurred plant leaves frame the foreground. A “Bike Lane Begin” sign is posted near the corner of the building.\">\u003cfigcaption>Alameda Healthcare & Wellness Center, a Shlomo Rechnitz-owned nursing home, in Alameda on Oct. 25, 2025. Photo by Florence Middleton for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That period has ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This does not mean our department will avoid holding this provider or their facilities accountable,” he said. “We will continue to monitor these locations as appropriate, enforce and cite for regulatory violations if needed, and take further corrective action if necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/CalMatters/data-rechnitz-nursing-homes\">CalMatters analysis\u003c/a> of data from both the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/CalHealthFind/Pages/Home.aspx\">state health department\u003c/a> and the federal \u003ca href=\"https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/4pq5-n9py\">Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services\u003c/a> found 78 California facilities in which Shlomo Rechnitz or his wife, Tamar, were listed as having an ownership stake. On average the facilities fared poorly on several key quality metrics compared to the state overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In the past three years, the 78 nursing homes received an average of 12.4 citations for facility-reported incidents, compared with 6.1 for all nursing homes statewide.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A higher proportion of these facilities has received a federal fine in the last three years than the state’s overall rate. Two-thirds of the facilities received at least one federal fine in the last three years, compared to half of all facilities across the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The facilities have been fined an average of $47,897 during the last three years, compared to an average of $29,573 for all California facilities.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The facilities had comparably low \u003ca href=\"https://www.cms.gov/medicare/health-safety-standards/certification-compliance/five-star-quality-rating-system\">federal quality ratings\u003c/a>: Almost 58% of these facilities had recent ratings of one or two stars (out of five), compared with slightly over 37% of facilities statewide.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Johnson, the attorney for Rechnitz’ facilities, noted in his email that a large percentage of these facilities are located in Los Angeles County, which he said issues deficiencies at a higher rate than any county in California, many of which are overturned on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that “Mr. Rechnitz’ facilities self-report at a significantly higher rate than other comparable facilities,” which, in turn, could lead them to have a higher number of deficiencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kamala Harris’ intervention\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 2014, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-oversight-nursing-homes/\">Rechnitz bid on 18 Country Villa \u003c/a>nursing homes in federal bankruptcy court. Then Attorney General Harris was so concerned with his track record that she filed an emergency motion to prevent him from purchasing or managing the homes, describing him as “\u003ca href=\"https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20447183-emergency-motion-calif-ag-8-28-14#document/p4/a2018884\">a serial violator of rules within the skilled nursing industry\u003c/a>.” At the time, Rechnitz’ attorney characterized the remarks as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20447182-emergency-motion-rechnitz-response-8-29-14#document/p9/a2025411\">defamatory\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20447182-emergency-motion-rechnitz-response-8-29-14#document/p2/a2018889\">outrageous\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The purchase went through.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Rechnitz then submitted \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Pending-CHOWS-CDPH.pdf\">change-of-ownership applications\u003c/a> seeking licenses to run those homes. Rather than approving or denying them, CalMatters found that the state Department of Public Health simply left his applications in “pending” status for years. Despite that, his companies were allowed to continue operating the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, he applied for \u003ca href=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/20473863-windsor-chico-creek-care-and-rehabilitation-center-llc-denied_redacted\">licenses for five Windsor \u003c/a>nursing homes. The next year, the department denied the change of ownership applications, but again allowed Rechnitz’ companies to operate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her scathing 2018 report, the state auditor Elaine Howle criticized the California Department of Public Health, saying weak oversight and licensing lapses increased risk to nursing home residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to address these issues, the Legislature passed a law in 2022 to close a loophole that had allowed nursing home operators to run facilities without first receiving licenses. The law required the Department of Public Health to look at an applicant’s track record over several years before granting a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before that law took effect the following year, the Department of Public Health suddenly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/06/nursing-homes-california/\">granted Rechnitz\u003c/a> and his companies \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CHOW-Settlement-Agreement-MAJ-SR-KRS-CD-signed-FINAL.pdf\">many of the licenses\u003c/a> it had previously left pending or outright denied. The group includes nursing homes that were the focus of recent lawsuits, such as Country Villa Wilshire, the Los Angeles-area facility where a jury awarded $2.34 million after a woman allegedly fell repeatedly due to understaffing; Windsor Redding, where the 24 patients died during a COVID outbreak; and Windsor Healthcare Center of Oakland, where complaints filed in Alameda County Superior Court allege a woman was sexually assaulted twice and a man died after being given too much medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Dudensing, a Sacramento-based attorney who specializes in elder abuse in nursing homes, is bringing the case in Alameda County Superior Court alleging that neglect and poor staffing allowed a fellow patient to rape 79-year-old Cheryl Doe on multiple occasions while she stayed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284981-answer-to-cheryl-doe/\">Windsor Healthcare Center of Oakland\u003c/a>. He is also representing the family of 64-year-old Alando Williams \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284980-williams-defendants-answer-to-plaintiffs-complaint1455624141/\">in the lawsuit \u003c/a>against the same facility alleging overmedication and wrongful death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudensing has three other active cases against facilities affiliated with Rechnitz and his web of companies alleging neglect, abuse and wrongful death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of them, 78-year-old Barbara Pendley allegedly died after \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26276972-pendley-complaint-fac-8-4-23/\">suffering severe dehydration\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284983-northpoint-answer/\">North Point Healthcare & Wellness Centre\u003c/a> in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Point was another facility that the state opted to grant Rechnitz and his companies the license for under the 2023 settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rechnitz and his companies have filed legal responses denying allegations in all of these cases, several of which are scheduled to go to trial in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve just got to keep fighting,” Dudensing said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a time when there was a lot of scrutiny and that’s obviously well-documented,” he said. “But he managed to slip through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassie Dunham, the previous deputy director of the Center for Health Care Quality for the California Department of Public Health, last year became chief executive and president of the California Association of Health Facilities, the industry’s lobbying group. Through a spokesperson, Dunham declined an interview for this story citing her involvement with the development of departmental policy during the time that the state granted Rechnitz the licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey Egel, a spokesman for the industry group and himself a former spokesman for the Department of Public Health, said in a statement that the association “supports strong, transparent oversight but believes the system would benefit from clearer timelines, more consistent application of standards, and more efficient resolution of pending cases — so that regulatory goals and resident care priorities can both be met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Patient lawsuit at newly licensed nursing home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Among the facilities that Rechnitz’companies received a state license to run in 2023 was Country Villa Wilshire, an 81-bed Los Angeles nursing home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26276977-complaint-jentz/\">a lawsuit against the facility\u003c/a>, 84-year-old Betsy Jentz landed there in November 2020 after she fell and fractured her ribs and hip. Prior to her injuries, the complaint stated that Jentz had been in excellent health; her attorneys said she had run 27 marathons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during the next year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26287898-plaintiffs-trial-brief/\">a plaintiff’s brief\u003c/a>, Jentz fell at least 10 times. On some of these occasions, she hit her head, suffered a fractured and dislocated shoulder and a fractured pelvis. The complaint also described malnutrition and severe pressure ulcers. It attributed those injuries to neglect. In court filings, Rechnitz and his companies have denied all responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065138\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1334px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-Betsy-Jentz-CM-01.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-Betsy-Jentz-CM-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1334\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065138\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-Betsy-Jentz-CM-01.jpeg 1334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-Betsy-Jentz-CM-01-160x240.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/111725-Betsy-Jentz-CM-01-1025x1536.jpeg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Los Angeles jury in February 2024 ordered a Los Angeles nursing home to pay Betsy Jentz $2.3 million, finding the facility had violated her rights and contributed to serious injuries.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Photo via Lanzone Morgan, LLP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the evening of Jan. 28, 2024, Jentz’ great nephew Derek Skylar Aud was preparing to testify in court the next morning. Then, according to court documents, he received an unexpected phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man on the other end of the line introduced himself as Shlomo Rechnitz, Aud later wrote in a declaration filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of more than an hour, Rechnitz allegedly told Aud that “things would get very nasty” for him and Jentz if Aud testified, the declaration said. Rechnitz allegedly said he would prolong the case for years and bring to light damaging information his private investigators had collected about Jentz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said his private investigators had learned that Jentz loved basketball, and said she could receive courtside Lakers tickets “right next to LeBron James” if she agreed to a side deal, Aud told the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Rechnitz then said ‘listen, I get it, we really fucked up and I’m accepting full responsibility, but I want the remedy or accountability to be on my terms and cut all these outrageous attorney’s fees out of the picture,’” Aud said in the declaration. “He also said ‘we fucked up and I accept responsibility, we were severely understaffed.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rechnitz did not directly respond to these allegations in court, and the judge ultimately did not allow the jury to consider the phone call to Aud in making its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys from Lanzone Morgan, a Long Beach law firm that specializes in nursing home abuse, represented Jentz and Aud in their case against Country Villa Wilshire. They said that the judge accepted defense attorneys’ argument that the call constituted “confidential settlement discussions” and did not allow the jury to hear testimony about it. Gittler & Berg and Ekpebe Law Group, the law firms that represented Rechnitz and his companies in the case, did not respond to CalMatters’ requests for comment. The jury’s $2.34 million verdict is now being appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lanzone Morgan also brought the case against Alameda Healthcare & Wellness that ended in the $7.6 million judgment in August. The case is in a post-trial phase in which the judge is determining how to apportion the liability among defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rockport Healthcare Services, the administrative services company for many of the homes, is also named in some of the lawsuits, including the one against Alameda Healthcare & Wellness. Rockport is owned by Steven Stroll, who has also served as Rechnitz’ accountant. Rockport has \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26287892-ca-sup-alm-23cv051024-d42813823e717-answer-filed-by-alameda-healthcare-wellness-center/\">filed responses in court\u003c/a> denying responsibility for the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Kim, an attorney with Lanzone Morgan, said she wants to see the Department of Public Health stop issuing licenses to Rechnitz and “other bad actors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s shocking to me that he’s able to get licenses after he pretty much runs many of his facilities into the ground,” she said. She referred to an Aug. 22 trial in which Rechnitz acknowledged owning a private plane and having recently sold a home in Los Angeles for $23 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her client, Aud, whose great aunt Jentz died in January 2025 a few months after the jury made its decision, wrote in\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26092439-pocket-brief-re-witness-biasfiled/\"> his declaration to the court\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I continue to feel uneasy about the calls and threats and I carry the fear of retaliation with me daily…I do live in fear that Mr. Rechnitz is now even more furious and that he will make good on his threats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters Data Reporter Erica Yee contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About the data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides court records, the data on Rechnitz-owned facilities in this story is based on state and federal databases. \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/CalMatters/data-rechnitz-nursing-homes\">See full methodology and download the data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/11/nursing-home-shlomo-rechnitz/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve spent any time around the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tahoe\">Tahoe\u003c/a> region in the last few years, you’ll know: Skiing and snowboarding have gotten \u003cem>really \u003c/em>expensive. And a huge part of those costs are the resort passes themselves, which offer access to the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As ski season rapidly approaches, companies like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ikonpass.com/en/shop-passes/ikon-pass\">Ikon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.epicpass.com/pass-results/passes.aspx?ef_id=Cj0KCQiAq7HIBhDoARIsAOATDxD4QLmZDRZiFd723Lspb1wUR7E057a7jaLrYfjfJgLaZPtaQsiPPmUaAmYnEALw_wcB:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!11600!3!780941002272!e!!g!!epic%20pass%20tahoe!22264120545!180590021732&CMPID=PPC&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22264120545&gbraid=0AAAAADQhkiBbM5W5bM1u7D0uZyVqkuxW3&gclid=Cj0KCQiAq7HIBhDoARIsAOATDxD4QLmZDRZiFd723Lspb1wUR7E057a7jaLrYfjfJgLaZPtaQsiPPmUaAmYnEALw_wcB\">Epic\u003c/a> — which represent the biggest resorts in the Lake Tahoe region — will be ending their multi-resort pass sales around early to mid-December. For the 2025–26 season, a full Ikon pass offering unlimited access at 18 resorts worldwide, including Palisades Tahoe and Sierra-at-Tahoe, is a steep $1,519. The Epic Pass, which includes unrestricted access to 42 resorts, including Tahoe’s Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood, is $1,185. And both Ikon and Epic’s pass prices have increased with each passing year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs of these passes have driven many skiers and snowboarders into the backcountry, outside of the resorts’ boundaries. But backcountry skiing, while free of pass costs, also requires \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972590/with-tahoe-winter-storm-warning-this-weekend-what-to-know-about-avalanche-risk\">a considerable degree of navigation and safety knowledge, including avalanche training\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what are the options for Bay Area skiers or snowboarders who still want all the convenience of a resort without breaking the bank on a pass, or battling the crowds and traffic of the larger Tahoe destinations?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for our alternatives to the major resort passes on offer this winter. And remember: If you’re thinking about any of these options, you’re better off buying sooner rather than later, as some resorts sell out of season passes — or raise their prices further as the season looms closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Findalearntoskiprogramthatincludespasscosts\">Find a learn-to-ski program that includes pass costs\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Discoveralternativepassesforresortsfurtherafield\">Discover ‘alternative’ passes for resorts further afield\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Howtogetdiscountsonthebigresortpasses\">How to get discounts on the big resort passes\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Find cheaper passes — and a different vibe — at Tahoe’s independent resorts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Luckily for Bay Area residents, Tahoe has a wealth of ski resorts — each with its own charm and strengths. So you might consider buying a season pass to a mountain that’s independent of the big companies like Vail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For high-level skiers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sugarbowl.com/home\">Sugar Bowl Ski Resort\u003c/a> near Donner Pass, \u003ca href=\"https://skirose.com/\">Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe\u003c/a> on the way to Reno, \u003ca href=\"https://www.diamondpeak.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=sem&utm_campaign=Google-IVGID-DP-Evergreen-SEM-25/26&utm_id=RSA&utm_term=Evergreen&utm_content=paidmedia&utm_source=google&utm_medium=sem&utm_campaign=Google-IVGID-DP-Evergreen-SEM-25/26&utm_id=RSA&utm_term=Evergreen&utm_content=paidmedia&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23138431652&gbraid=0AAAABALTMWiQcCU1eh1-QKGgmoGcgjdx1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAq7HIBhDoARIsAOATDxBFYqTWKi8qH5Zbyw8ma893nO65uFPJFFpWW9XtWPdEtnUF3DyEJagaAvHsEALw_wcB\">Diamond Peak Ski Resort\u003c/a> in Incline Village and \u003ca href=\"https://skihomewood.com/\">Homewood Mountain Resort\u003c/a> on the lake’s West Shore — reopening this year after being closed last season — are all great options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Slaughter, director of marketing for Sugar Bowl, said lots of skiers choose his mountain because it’s among the closest to the Bay Area — reducing the travel time for commuters significantly. And being near the top of Donner Summit has another perk: Lots of snowfall, bringing an average of around 500 inches per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Sugar-Bowl-1-barta_g_DSC1224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Sugar-Bowl-1-barta_g_DSC1224.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Sugar-Bowl-1-barta_g_DSC1224-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Sugar-Bowl-1-barta_g_DSC1224-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sugar Bowl is among the closest ski resorts to the Bay Area, reducing the travel time for commuters significantly. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sugar Bowl Resort)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Storms basically push up against the crest of the Sierra, and before they dump over, they just dump snow right on Sugar Bowl,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slaughter also lauded the resort’s diverse terrain options and advanced areas that are sectioned off so skiers of all levels have something to enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have two 10-year-olds and I’m happy to just let them go ski wherever, and I’m not worried about it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://shop.sugarbowl.com/s/season-pass\">full adult season pass\u003c/a> at Sugar Bowl this year still goes for $1,400, exceeding even the costs of the Epic Pass. But the resort also offers discounted passes, including a $600 option that only allows for midweek skiing, a midweek three-day pass option for $300, and an anytime three-pack pass for $600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another plus of Sugar Bowl? The mountain is independently owned by the local community, creating a “spirit” that is felt across the mountain, Slaughter said. “There’s just a different feeling when you’re here versus some of the other resorts in the area,” he said.[aside postID=news_11937204 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-2013486739-1020x765-1-672x372.jpg']That’s also the case for Diamond Peak in Incline Village, which is owned and managed by the Incline Village General Improvement District: essentially the town’s government and utility wrapped into one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community-owned resort is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and all its events — including the annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.diamondpeak.com/event/dummy-downhill/\">Dummy Downhill\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.diamondpeak.com/event/ullr-fest/\">Ullr Fest\u003c/a> — will be “retro” themed in honor of the anniversary, Paul Raymore, Diamond Peak’s marketing and communications manager, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full adult season pass to Diamond Peak is $733, and passholders can also get a trio of \u003ca href=\"https://www.diamondpeak.com/tickets-passes-rentals/season-passes/reciprocal-partners/\">bonus days to 50 similarly sized resorts\u003c/a> nationwide. They also sell a three-day pass and a $1,300 transferable pass for large families or businesses for their employees, as well as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.diamondpeak.com/tickets-passes-rentals/special-offers/\">Parent Interchangeable Lift Ticket\u003c/a> for parents of young kids who may want to take turns on the slopes versus the lodge for the day. In honor of this year’s anniversary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.diamondpeak.com/event/60th-anniversary-60-days/\">$60 lift tickets\u003c/a> will also be available on select days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymore said Diamond Peak’s layout, which funnels all skiers down to the main base lodge, makes it great for families or groups with differing skill levels since it’s “almost impossible to get lost,” by allowing folks “to ski potentially different runs, but all meet up at the bottom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike the major resorts full of local and traveling passholders, “the lift lines at Diamond Peak never get out of hand,” he said. “If you are able to come midweek, non-holiday, it’s almost like a private ski resort experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want an even smaller, even more “local” Tahoe experience? Try an adult pass at \u003ca href=\"https://www.tahoedonner.com/skiseasonpasses/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23138916203&gbraid=0AAAAADpsX2kvwb1UE-ORFwkCE4g_Hf5vu&gclid=Cj0KCQiAq7HIBhDoARIsAOATDxBI25iih3z9PaKfW6kcQ260Vd93xWsTuPkOS1OCjHlhGXQfe3JKSX0aApxhEALw_wcB\">Tahoe Donner \u003c/a>($408), \u003ca href=\"https://www.donnerskiranch.com/\">Donner Ski Ranch\u003c/a> ($600), \u003ca href=\"https://www.skisodasprings.com/\">Soda Springs\u003c/a> ($340), or \u003ca href=\"https://www.skytavern.org/\">Sky Tavern \u003c/a>($275).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Findalearntoskiprogramthatincludespasscosts\">\u003c/a>Enroll in a learn-to-ski program that includes a pass\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Palisades Tahoe will be teeming with Ikon Pass holders this winter, its sister mountain, Alpine Meadows, has far fewer crowds — and also offers a unique opportunity for anyone still learning to ski who wants to get as many days in as possible this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.palisadestahoe.com/plan-your-visit/snowboard-ski-lessons/camps-clinics-and-seasonal-programs/perfect-progression-program\">Perfect Progression Program\u003c/a> is for first-timer adults and costs $799 for three half-day beginner ski or snowboard lessons, which include beginner lift tickets, rentals and lunch. But the real kicker is this: Upon completion of your three lessons, you’ll get a \u003cem>full \u003c/em>season pass to use across both Alpine and Palisades — plus half off additional group lessons all season long. The only way to enroll in this under-the-radar program is to call the resort at 1-800-403-0206.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Dodge-Ridge-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Dodge-Ridge-1.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Dodge-Ridge-1-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Dodge-Ridge-1-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dodge Ridge Mountain Resort is one of the smaller Central Sierra resorts offered on the Cali Pass. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dodge Ridge Mountain Resort)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Patrick Lacey, spokesperson for Palisades Tahoe, said the program is intended to get brand-new skiers and snowboarders on the right track from the very beginning — while avoiding the risks of injury, both physical and emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You never teach your significant other how to ski,” Lacey said. “That either ends up in a divorce or a breakup. And you can avoid a medical bill in the future if you are skiing and riding the correct way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boreal offers a similar program, called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.rideboreal.com/lessons/group-lessons/take-3-ride-free/\">Take 3 Ride Free\u003c/a>,” which offers new skiers and snowboarders three beginner lessons, including rentals and lift tickets for three days, along with a free season pass upon completion of the final lesson. The cost of Boreal’s program is $419.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boreal’s is the deal recommended by Tim Pham, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.snowpals.org/\">SnowPals\u003c/a>, a platform that connects Bay Area skiers and snow enthusiasts who want to share rides, ski leases or days out on the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Boreal is so easy to get to,” Pham said. “It’s like, the first resort that you see when you get off 80, and is great on a powder day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Discoveralternativepassesforresortsfurtherafield\">\u003c/a>Discover further-flung resorts (and lower prices) with an ‘alternative’ ski pass bundle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re the type of skier who thrives at a small local resort, Pham also recommends the \u003ca href=\"https://www.powderalliance.com/\">Powder Alliance\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.indyskipass.com/\">Indy Pass\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecalipass.com/\">Cali Pass\u003c/a>. The $789 adult Cali Pass gives you unlimited access to several Central Sierra resorts — \u003ca href=\"https://www.bearvalley.com/\">Bear Valley Mountain Resort\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://dodgeridge.com/\">Dodge Ridge Mountain Resort\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.skichinapeak.com/\">China Peak Mountain Resort\u003c/a> — plus \u003ca href=\"https://www.mthigh.com/site\">Mountain High Resorts\u003c/a> in Southern California. Plus, you get three days each at 14 more small resorts around the West, including Sierra-at-Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of the partner resorts are more tailored toward beginners, “these resorts have expert runs too,” Pham said. “They may not have a double black diamond, but they have pretty challenging terrain too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-1.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-1-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-1-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear Valley Mountain Resort is one of the smaller Central Sierra resorts offered on the Cali Pass. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bear Valley Mountain Resort)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John McColly, vice president of sales and marketing for the Cali Pass, said the idea grew out of the older \u003ca href=\"https://www.powderalliance.com/\">Powder Alliance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were all friends” at the smaller resorts, McColly said. “We said, ‘Hey, we need to come up with something to battle these big multi-mega passes that are starting to pop up.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McColly said the Cali Pass is ideal for beginners and experts alike looking for skiing that’s accessible and affordable, “people that want to enjoy the mountain, to get up, get away from the crowds, experience amazing powder and a real skiing experience without all the frills, the fluff.”[aside postID=news_11972590 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1358858502-1020x507.jpg']The \u003ca href=\"https://mountaincollective.com/\">Mountain Collective\u003c/a> is another pass bundle that’s less popular than Ikon or Epic. For $729, it offers just two days at each resort, included but without any blackout dates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This pass is likely best for travelers who want to go to a new destination each weekend they ski and don’t balk at hours spent on the road to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sugar Bowl is the only Tahoe resort on the Mountain Collective pass, but Slaughter said if you buy a Sugar Bowl pass, it also includes 50% off at any Mountain Collective resort — so you could visit locations like Sun Valley in Idaho or Alta in Utah for a discounted weekend away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skiers “don’t have to buy anything extra for that,” he said. “That’s just a perk of being at Sugar Bowl.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like the major passes, however, these ones also rise in price the longer you wait, and are at risk of selling out before the season starts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Howtogetdiscountsonthebigresortpasses\">\u003c/a>Dig into the big resorts’ discounted passes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re dead set on getting to visit Tahoe’s largest and busiest resorts, you can always get a limited version of an Ikon or Epic pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both companies offer discounted passes that exclude “peak dates” like during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Presidents Day. Epic’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.epicpass.com/Passes/Epic-Local-Pass.aspx\">Local Pass\u003c/a>” is currently going for $920, while Ikon’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ikonpass.com/en/shop-passes/ikon-base-pass\">Base Pass\u003c/a>” version is $1,099.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-2.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-2-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Bear-Valley-2-1536x1023.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear Valley Mountain Resort is one of the smaller Central Sierra resorts offered on the Cali Pass. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bear Valley Mountain Resort)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While you may miss out on some three-day weekend skiing with these options, they can be ideal for anyone already deterred by crowds and traffic, or who don’t have a traditional 9–5 weekday workweek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, you can always purchase those highly coveted holiday weekend tickets at a discounted rate if you change your mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most useful to Bay Area residents, this year, Epic is selling a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.epicpass.com/Passes/Tahoe-Value-Pass.aspx\">Tahoe Value Pass\u003c/a>” for $649 that allows access to Heavenly except on holidays, and Northstar and Kirkwood outside of Saturdays and holidays. But you’ll have to make a decision quickly, because Epic is ending pass sales on Dec. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Don’t want to commit to a pass? Make some friends and share Buddy Passes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By joining a group like Pham’s Snow Pals, you can find like-minded skiers who may be willing to share their “Buddy Passes” that come with their own passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buddy tickets typically grant around 25% off on day rates to non-passholders. Snow Pals requires a one-time $20 membership fee, but once you’re in, you’ll have access to a message board full of Bay Area residents looking for ski companions and willing to share their access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Skiing is an expensive sport, so we tried to get people together to ride share and also share lodging to cut down the cost,” Pham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the benefit of joining a group — you benefit from the discount.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what are the options for Bay Area skiers or snowboarders who still want all the convenience of a resort without breaking the bank on a pass, or battling the crowds and traffic of the larger Tahoe destinations?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for our alternatives to the major resort passes on offer this winter. And remember: If you’re thinking about any of these options, you’re better off buying sooner rather than later, as some resorts sell out of season passes — or raise their prices further as the season looms closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Findalearntoskiprogramthatincludespasscosts\">Find a learn-to-ski program that includes pass costs\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Discoveralternativepassesforresortsfurtherafield\">Discover ‘alternative’ passes for resorts further afield\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Howtogetdiscountsonthebigresortpasses\">How to get discounts on the big resort passes\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Find cheaper passes — and a different vibe — at Tahoe’s independent resorts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Luckily for Bay Area residents, Tahoe has a wealth of ski resorts — each with its own charm and strengths. So you might consider buying a season pass to a mountain that’s independent of the big companies like Vail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For high-level skiers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sugarbowl.com/home\">Sugar Bowl Ski Resort\u003c/a> near Donner Pass, \u003ca href=\"https://skirose.com/\">Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe\u003c/a> on the way to Reno, \u003ca href=\"https://www.diamondpeak.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=sem&utm_campaign=Google-IVGID-DP-Evergreen-SEM-25/26&utm_id=RSA&utm_term=Evergreen&utm_content=paidmedia&utm_source=google&utm_medium=sem&utm_campaign=Google-IVGID-DP-Evergreen-SEM-25/26&utm_id=RSA&utm_term=Evergreen&utm_content=paidmedia&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23138431652&gbraid=0AAAABALTMWiQcCU1eh1-QKGgmoGcgjdx1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAq7HIBhDoARIsAOATDxBFYqTWKi8qH5Zbyw8ma893nO65uFPJFFpWW9XtWPdEtnUF3DyEJagaAvHsEALw_wcB\">Diamond Peak Ski Resort\u003c/a> in Incline Village and \u003ca href=\"https://skihomewood.com/\">Homewood Mountain Resort\u003c/a> on the lake’s West Shore — reopening this year after being closed last season — are all great options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Slaughter, director of marketing for Sugar Bowl, said lots of skiers choose his mountain because it’s among the closest to the Bay Area — reducing the travel time for commuters significantly. And being near the top of Donner Summit has another perk: Lots of snowfall, bringing an average of around 500 inches per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Sugar-Bowl-1-barta_g_DSC1224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Sugar-Bowl-1-barta_g_DSC1224.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Sugar-Bowl-1-barta_g_DSC1224-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Sugar-Bowl-1-barta_g_DSC1224-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sugar Bowl is among the closest ski resorts to the Bay Area, reducing the travel time for commuters significantly. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sugar Bowl Resort)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Storms basically push up against the crest of the Sierra, and before they dump over, they just dump snow right on Sugar Bowl,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slaughter also lauded the resort’s diverse terrain options and advanced areas that are sectioned off so skiers of all levels have something to enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have two 10-year-olds and I’m happy to just let them go ski wherever, and I’m not worried about it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://shop.sugarbowl.com/s/season-pass\">full adult season pass\u003c/a> at Sugar Bowl this year still goes for $1,400, exceeding even the costs of the Epic Pass. But the resort also offers discounted passes, including a $600 option that only allows for midweek skiing, a midweek three-day pass option for $300, and an anytime three-pack pass for $600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another plus of Sugar Bowl? The mountain is independently owned by the local community, creating a “spirit” that is felt across the mountain, Slaughter said. “There’s just a different feeling when you’re here versus some of the other resorts in the area,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s also the case for Diamond Peak in Incline Village, which is owned and managed by the Incline Village General Improvement District: essentially the town’s government and utility wrapped into one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community-owned resort is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and all its events — including the annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.diamondpeak.com/event/dummy-downhill/\">Dummy Downhill\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.diamondpeak.com/event/ullr-fest/\">Ullr Fest\u003c/a> — will be “retro” themed in honor of the anniversary, Paul Raymore, Diamond Peak’s marketing and communications manager, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full adult season pass to Diamond Peak is $733, and passholders can also get a trio of \u003ca href=\"https://www.diamondpeak.com/tickets-passes-rentals/season-passes/reciprocal-partners/\">bonus days to 50 similarly sized resorts\u003c/a> nationwide. They also sell a three-day pass and a $1,300 transferable pass for large families or businesses for their employees, as well as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.diamondpeak.com/tickets-passes-rentals/special-offers/\">Parent Interchangeable Lift Ticket\u003c/a> for parents of young kids who may want to take turns on the slopes versus the lodge for the day. In honor of this year’s anniversary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.diamondpeak.com/event/60th-anniversary-60-days/\">$60 lift tickets\u003c/a> will also be available on select days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymore said Diamond Peak’s layout, which funnels all skiers down to the main base lodge, makes it great for families or groups with differing skill levels since it’s “almost impossible to get lost,” by allowing folks “to ski potentially different runs, but all meet up at the bottom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike the major resorts full of local and traveling passholders, “the lift lines at Diamond Peak never get out of hand,” he said. “If you are able to come midweek, non-holiday, it’s almost like a private ski resort experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want an even smaller, even more “local” Tahoe experience? Try an adult pass at \u003ca href=\"https://www.tahoedonner.com/skiseasonpasses/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23138916203&gbraid=0AAAAADpsX2kvwb1UE-ORFwkCE4g_Hf5vu&gclid=Cj0KCQiAq7HIBhDoARIsAOATDxBI25iih3z9PaKfW6kcQ260Vd93xWsTuPkOS1OCjHlhGXQfe3JKSX0aApxhEALw_wcB\">Tahoe Donner \u003c/a>($408), \u003ca href=\"https://www.donnerskiranch.com/\">Donner Ski Ranch\u003c/a> ($600), \u003ca href=\"https://www.skisodasprings.com/\">Soda Springs\u003c/a> ($340), or \u003ca href=\"https://www.skytavern.org/\">Sky Tavern \u003c/a>($275).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Findalearntoskiprogramthatincludespasscosts\">\u003c/a>Enroll in a learn-to-ski program that includes a pass\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Palisades Tahoe will be teeming with Ikon Pass holders this winter, its sister mountain, Alpine Meadows, has far fewer crowds — and also offers a unique opportunity for anyone still learning to ski who wants to get as many days in as possible this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.palisadestahoe.com/plan-your-visit/snowboard-ski-lessons/camps-clinics-and-seasonal-programs/perfect-progression-program\">Perfect Progression Program\u003c/a> is for first-timer adults and costs $799 for three half-day beginner ski or snowboard lessons, which include beginner lift tickets, rentals and lunch. But the real kicker is this: Upon completion of your three lessons, you’ll get a \u003cem>full \u003c/em>season pass to use across both Alpine and Palisades — plus half off additional group lessons all season long. The only way to enroll in this under-the-radar program is to call the resort at 1-800-403-0206.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Dodge-Ridge-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Dodge-Ridge-1.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Dodge-Ridge-1-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Dodge-Ridge-1-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dodge Ridge Mountain Resort is one of the smaller Central Sierra resorts offered on the Cali Pass. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dodge Ridge Mountain Resort)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Patrick Lacey, spokesperson for Palisades Tahoe, said the program is intended to get brand-new skiers and snowboarders on the right track from the very beginning — while avoiding the risks of injury, both physical and emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You never teach your significant other how to ski,” Lacey said. “That either ends up in a divorce or a breakup. 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We called the series called, “Love You for You.”[aside postID=news_12063889 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-30-KQED.jpg']And now we’re bringing you two bonus episodes of young people in their 20s interviewing transgender elders who are trailblazers when it comes to LGBTQ+ activism here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a heads up, these intergenerational conversations carry heavier histories and more mature themes than the ones we’ve been diving into with the family conversations in \u003cem>Love You for You\u003c/em>. So parents, you might want to listen before deciding whether to share with your kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode, we’re gonna meet Andrea Horne, an actress, model and singer who also spent decades as a social worker. And Zen Blossom, who works at TGIJP, a Black trans cultural center and services organization in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Peace, everyone. 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My whole family went to those. My father, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>OK. I was gonna ask my next question was like, what was that process trying to invite them into your life, as you, or maybe not invite them into your life?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>They’ve never been in my life since I transitioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>I think that’s why it’s really important to speak to like, chosen family too. And like why it important that you had your drag mom there around you to support you in these really difficult times. What was the name of your chosen mom?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Her name is Duchess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Duchess? OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>And then there was Eva, her best friend, my kind of drag auntie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>And how old were you when you met them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> I was 15. And Duchess was in her 20s. And Eva was in her twenties as well. And they kind of took me in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>How did y’all meet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> Well, it’s an interesting story. It was summer vacation. I was 15. And my mother had become kind of a psycho about my transgenderism. It drove her mad. I was with my friends from high school, and my friends are like saying you don’t have to take that from her. You know, you’re be your own person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we were at Venice Beach and when it got dark, they all went home for dinner and left me sitting at Venice Beach. And so that empty feeling of having nowhere to go had stayed with me. So anyway, I sat there an hour not knowing what to do. I just had on. I didn’t even have a jacket. It was summer in L.A. One of my friends came back. Thank God. And. Said, let me take you to my cousin. And so my trans girlfriend from high school brought me to her cousin, named Duchess, who ended up being my drag mother. And we looked similar, so we could say we were sisters. And the moment I met her and she looked me up and down and she said, “Do you want titties?” I said, “Yes, ma’am.” And she reached in her pocket and she pulled out this hormone pill, a premarin pill, purple. It was like bitten in two, and it had lint and dust and grease and tobacco all clinging to it, and I didn’t care. I just inhaled it. And in the morning, I thought I was gonna be Dolly Parton. But I wasn’t. (Laughs) Dolly Parton takes years, but I didn’t know that at the time. However, my drag mother, we’ll just call her Duchess. She did sex work, survival sex work. That’s all she knew. She got kicked out of her house when she was my age. And after I met her, I think probably within an hour, I was doing sex work. But not real sex work because Duchess’ thing was to not turn the trick, to get the money and run or something like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>And so we did a lot of times that I learned how to run in five-inch heels from the tricks, from the police, jumping over back fences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Changing outfits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Changing outfits. It wasn’t it was it was quite wild. It’s a miracle I survived it. However, duchess like me, during the quiet moments, we just sat around and read. And she liked to read, I liked to read. From 1987 to 2007, I read a book a week. That’s 30 years. I read a book a week. You know, I mostly read biographies and autobiographies from people that I admired to see how they did it. Not how they did stardom, but how they got from where they started to becoming a star. That fascinates me. But as soon as I got my first laptop in 2007, I stopped reading a book a week, so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Thank you to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Yes, thanks to the internet. So you asked me about my family, what about yours? How did they support your transition?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Oh my goodness. Absolutely not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Are they church people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Yes, very much so. Grew up in the church. Grew with a lot of that, a lot of reading the Bible. I read the Bible multiple times. I still hold it dear to me in certain ways, aspects. And in other ways, I push it very, very far away. I definitely identify with growing up with my grandmas a lot more than my immediate parents. I felt like my grandmas kept me safe a lot better and they knew what was happening. And so I was with them until they both passed away, unfortunately, when I was 10. And then it was pretty rough, and then I ended up leaving and going to college away from family at 18, and that’s when I was able to like really be myself, explore myself. Do those things, and that was my way out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Where’d you go to school?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>I went to school on the East Coast. I wanted to get as far as possible. I was very fortunate that I got a full ride because I also got a full ride for high school to also get away from my family and went to a private school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>So, do you talk to your family?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>I’m not in connection with them, besides my great-grandma. And that was a really cool thing for me because during the pandemic, when I stayed with her for a little bit, we were discussing and talking about, like just all the things. And she was teaching me how to sew. And when we were sewing, she was like, “Oh, do you want,” um, it was a dress that you would match. It was a robe, essentially, so you would either put the buttons on the left side or the right side. And she was like, ‘Which side are you gonna put it on?’ And for her, you know, depending on which side you have it on, that’s cross-dressing, you know, against the law. So she was trying to ask me what my tea was, essentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Because she did my measurements and it said, like, you know, 40-36-42, you know, so I had the, I had a figure. And so she was already like, no, clocking certain things here and there with me. She was like, “OK, so you have breasts. OK. So which side is this supposed to go on?” And then when we were sewing it together, she was just like, “You know what, this reminds me. Of when I was growing up, off of Central, and there’s someone that you remind me of,” and it was Lady Java.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so that was a really powerful moment for me to know that we’ve always been here, and that there’s also points for people, especially the older generations, to still connect with us, because people think … That, oh, just because you’re older, that means you don’t have exposure to it. And it’s just very interesting for me that the older people in my life actually had more experience with transness than the people who were closer to me in age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>I thought it was really cool that my great grandma had an understanding of what could be read as transness with Lady Java without having the exact words for it. And so I would love for you to share more about the prolific work of Lady Java.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Well, her stage name was Sir Lady Java, and she was incredibly important to me, and incredibly important to all the other sort of black trans women in Los Angeles, because she was the queen. And why was she the queen? Well, she was a glamour girl associated with celebrities. And I know in L.A., that’s important. But she’s really famous for her activist work that kind of goes unrecognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she was performer, a showgirl. And she kept getting arrested as a female impersonator because that was illegal. And it gave the police the right to arrest you if they perceived that you may be trans in quotation marks. And so you had to, one had to wear three clothes, if you were a trans woman, you had wear three pieces of men’s clothing. And I remember Java told me that she wore a man’s wristwatch and a T-shirt under her mini dress and men’s socks, but she had them rolled down like Mary Jane’s. And so that’s how she could not get arrested. But she did get arrested whenever she appeared at Black clubs. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Off of Central.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Yeah, off Central. And so, but she fought in the courts with the ACLU, so that cross-dressing quote was not illegal any longer. And she fought, and it took years, and I think she lost the first couple of times, but they kept at it. And the law was changed, and it made an incredible difference for trans people everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It set a precedent, a nationwide precedent, that cross-dressing or drag was OK. The police, when it became legal, they had to kind of back up off black trans women who they normally harassed on a regular basis. And so her activist work changed the lives of all queer people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a white gay man might not know that it was Sir Lady Java that did that, but it’s always been black trans woman leading the call. I guess that’s just our karma. and now we can be who we want to be. But as a little trans child growing up in L.A., I would see her name, Sir Lady Java, up in marquees, theater marquees. And so I knew what she was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, so Java passed away this year, actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/arts/sir-lady-java-dead.html\">late last year\u003c/a>. And I went to her memorial service in Los Angeles, but she was important. I realized that’s another privilege I had. I didn’t realize I didn’t grow up in isolation in a small country town where I had no point of reference. I grew up in the city and I saw her name in marquees, so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Even like growing up in a rural town or something. ‘Cause for me, I like, I grew up in Los Angeles and I still didn’t have access to Lady Java until after the fact, you know, after. And so it was just like, that’s also a really big thing that is like, that I feel like people need to understand about California that it’s like a golden state. Like it’s this progressive place, but also it can be very unsafe. For trans kids at homes that are unsupportive. I wish I knew about Lady Java and everything growing up because if I did, I probably would have invited more people into my life a lot earlier on. But you know. (Dog barks) But that’s not how life goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>And Mei Mei, sitting here, my little five-pound mocha chocolate little Pomeranian, she’s sitting in my lap, she just barked a little bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> She’s really cute, y’all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Yeah, she is really cute. It’s been five minutes since someone told her she was cute, so just like her mother. Right, right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>I find that since I’ve been doing the research for a book I’m working on about black trans women called, the working title is \u003cem>How Black Trans Women Changed the World\u003c/em>, I’ve found that people were so much more tolerant about queer issues before World War II. Right, and it changed after World War II with the sort of the conservatism of the 50s and the civil rights movement. I think really kind of turned the tide for trans people, we’ll just use that word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> In quotations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>In quotations because there was no such thing as trans people a few years ago. My drag mother and auntie still don’t let me refer to them as that. They just live their lives as women. But yeah, it flipped, the script flipped from tolerance to being really intolerant and even violent towards us. But before World War II, we were considered just part of the community. As long as you stay in your lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>And what were those lanes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>The lanes were a hairdresser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> Sex work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> Work in a bar of some sort, a show girl and housewife. You know, that’s kind of, that’s it. That was all available to us. I remember a girl from my crowd. She got a job at the phone company. I was astounded. I didn’t know that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>The girls could do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>The girls could get jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>So you were asking me about my book and I’m kind of focusing on three black trans women that were born before 1900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Mm-hmm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>But I’ll talk about Lucy Hicks Anderson the most, because she’s my favorite. And she was accomplished. And her story is super unique, I think. She was born in 18, circa 1890. She told her family that her name was no longer Tobias, that her name was Lucy and to call her Lucy. And remarkably, her parents brought her to the doctor, two doctors, and both doctors said, “Just call her Lucy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Right. And this speaks back to what you were saying earlier, how there was a lot more tolerance for us back in the day and awareness around us possibly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Well, people seem to understand that trans is part of the human condition. But now they’re trying to sell it as something weird that just kind of happened in the 21st century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Yeah, the trans turning point with Laverne (Cox).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Well, now they’re trying to sell the public that transgenderism is something new. It wasn’t called that before. So when I was growing up, the girls called themselves drag queens. But now drag queens is the domain of gay men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>And so Lucy, getting back to Lucy, love her. She was a gourmet chef and a madam, and then she met her husband, her second husband, and they moved to Oxnard because she always wanted to move to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> Makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>So she decided on Oxnard, which is about midways between Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, coastal. And she stayed there for 35 years and she ran a catering business and a brothel. And she was a bootlegger during the ‘20s. And she was a fashion plate and so she became the darling of the wives of the heads of studios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone knew her from her past and told that she wasn’t assigned female at birth. They ran her out of Oxnard. But she was smart with her money and she’d bought a couple of houses over by Central Avenue in Los Angeles. And that’s where she moved to and she spent her last days there quietly. But she did so much that she changed people’s minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is why I admire her so much, that she had the wherewithal to sort of just live her authentic life. In retrospect, it takes courage to live your authentic life, which is why I think a lot of non-trans people hate trans people, because we have the courage to live our authentic lives. And a lot of people are envious of that ability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> She was a philanthropist too, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>During World War II, she gave $50,000 in war bonds, which is a couple million dollars today. So she loved America and she loved her life, but they wouldn’t let her just live her life out. So I wanna tell her story because it needs to be told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> It does. She was stealth. What does that mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Stealth is a relatively new term. And I think it’s a white term, but it means being a trans person living in your true gender without people knowing about it. Passing, as they call it. That’s what stealth is. And I myself lived stealth from age 15, from that first hormone pill I told you about, until I was 50. I never denied my transness, but it just wasn’t on display. It wasn’t open for discussion. Yeah, it just wasn’t opened for discussion and I just had a regular little job and a husband and so I was just living my life like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something happened like that to me in San Francisco in the ‘90s. I was working in an office downtown. And someone I know, I saw in the building. I don’t know who he told, but he told my tea. And when I came back from lunch, the police and the building security guards were standing at my desk. And they handed me my paycheck and escorted me out. No words were spoken, and they escorted me out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the girl I had just had lunch with, she was screaming at the top of her lungs, “I just had lunch with it. Arrrh!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Hmmm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> Now, that was over 30 years ago, and that wouldn’t happen today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>So when I first met Sylvester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> Right. How old were you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> I was 15. Sylvester was in his early 20s. And I went to my first kind of queer party and there were lots of trans women and men there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>OK, yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>And I thought that Sylvester, or Dooney, was a real woman, which is so fascinating, because years later, you would think it’s impossible. But I’ll show you a picture on my phone, he was flawless. But I moved here partly because of Sylvester, because I knew him in L.A. And I just kept coming up to visit and I got a modeling job through Sylvester. So I had to get an apartment, and that was in 1979. I got my first apartment in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>How much was rent?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>My rent was $200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>A month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Hmm-mm. But yeah, Sylvester kind of changed the world. Sylvester sort of invented this sort of non-binary genderqueer thing that’s very popular right now. But Sylvester was the first one sort of publicly doing that. You know, he was a boy one day and a girl the next and a mustache the next and smooth shaving the next. And, you know, eventually became a star, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>No it’s so cool hearing about your story, especially with Sylvester at such a young age, holding you down, because really Sylvester is prolific here in San Francisco: huge musician, queer icon and a lot of folks don’t know this history about their gender queerness, possibly like non-binaryness and we can’t erase that and be simple in how we see gender or our community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>You know, I agree with you on that. It’s just that gay men have claimed Sylvester. But he also started as a trans woman, and I think that should be part of his story also, because that’s what really happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Right. You talked a bit about the conversation around just having to be stealth and not wanting to disclose because it’s honestly not people’s business, so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> True.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>How do you think that’s similar to now? Versus then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>I think that for all the trans people that are out professing their transness, there’s just as equally as many trans people who are still living stealth. And I don’t think they have any plans on coming out, especially now, with the political climate the way it is. I want to go back stealth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> You would, or would not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> I want to, but I’m on the internet now, so I can’t, but, you know, it’s scary times for us now, and things have gotten better for trans folks, but black trans women are still getting (beep) over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Mm-hmm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>And are restricted and precluded from resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Even here in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Even here in San Francisco, yes. San Francisco is fabulous if you’re a white gay man. It is Disneyland with the A-ticket and the Matterhorn and all of that, but for the rest of us, it’s just America. M-E-R-K-K-K-A. Oh, I forgot an I in there somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so just know that as many trans people that you see on TV and Pose and everyone’s twerking and all that, there’s just as many people that are living stealth lives in the suburbs married. So when you hear people say, “I’ve never used the bathroom with somebody trans!” You probably have. They probably have, but.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Many a times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Many a times. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>What advice do you have for Black trans girls today, especially for like building sisterhood?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Stay in school, that’s that’s your way out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: Blossom:\u003c/strong> Mmm-hmm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Yeah, that’s my message to young Black trans women, stay at school. And if you’re a teenager and they’re bullying you at school because you’re trans, you’re not gonna remember those (beep) in five years. You won’t even remember their names or their faces or anything. The people that bullied me when I was in high school, I wish somebody had told me, you’re not even going to remember them. But when you’re a teen, the present is everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: Blossom:\u003c/strong> Yes, yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> And you haven’t yet developed the ability to kind of foresee in the future. And so it’s all immediate. And the message is it will pass, you’ll survive it, and you won’t even remember them. Just stay in school, educate yourself. That’s undeniable. Stay in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Go as far as you can in school and my dream, my lottery-winning dream is to have a scholarship fund for black trans women. I had a dear friend named Dana Turner, who was a Black trans woman who went to Georgetown Law School, which is pretty impressive. I want to have it in, in her name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> Dana Turner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> Dana Turner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Well, it’s been rewarding at the very least to get immersed in the history and the knowledge and the lineage of the work. And also that we have so many different folks to look to and different possibility models there’s ones as philanthropists, we have people who are cooks. We have people who are going to law school. We have who read books every week for 30 years. We have our different miniature worlds that we can create for ourselves and curate. It takes a lot of investment, but in the long term, it’s worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Well, I think, Zen, it’s important that we have conversations like this, because America teaches us not to really care about our old folks. As trans folks, we want to start a new model, an intergenerational model, an interaction where we really support and help each other. I want to see us moving in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>For the culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>For the culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>For us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> Yeah, for the girls. We’re saving lives here. Yeah. Yeah. We’ve got to save lives, and we got to let people know that transgender is nothing new. It’s always been part of the human condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>All the way back to Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>All the way back to Africa, all the way to Africa. It’s interesting how contemporary Africans say that there’s no queers, there’s no African queers. But of course that’s not true. But Europeans brought, they didn’t bring queerness, they brought …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: and Andrea Horne together:\u003c/strong> homophobia and transphobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>It was good continuing to build with you, Andrea, and you, Mei Mei. I will never forget. Don’t worry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Well, I hope this is just the first conversation of many, because we really just scratched the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> We really did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Continues\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sasha Khokha: \u003c/strong>Transgender elder Andrea Horne, in conversation with Zen Blossom, a 26-year-old transgender activist from Oakland who works with the TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center. The center was founded by Miss Major, a trailblazing Black trans activist and who passed away this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s it for TCR Mag for this week. This interview was produced by me, Sasha Khokha with Srishti Prabha and Suzie Racho with help this week from Gabriela Glueck. Our senior editor is Victoria Mauleon. Our engineer is Brendan Willard. Special thanks to Tuck Woodstock, host of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.genderpodcast.com/\">Gender Reveal\u003c/a> podcast for his help on this episode. And to KQED’s Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Ana de Almeida Amaral and Anna Vignet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by the way, if you didn’t catch our series on trans and nonbinary youth and people who love them, check out our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/love-you-for-you\">Love You for You\u003c/a> series on our podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californiareportmagazine\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a>. Your State, Your Stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Fades Out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music fades in\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sasha Khokha: \u003c/strong>Hey, you’re listening to the California Report Magazine. I’m Sasha Khokha. And as you may know, it’s Transgender Awareness Month. For the last few weeks, we’ve been bringing you conversations between gender-expansive kids and the people in their lives who love and support them so they can thrive. We called the series called, “Love You for You.”And now we’re bringing you two bonus episodes of young people in their 20s interviewing transgender elders who are trailblazers when it comes to LGBTQ+ activism here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a heads up, these intergenerational conversations carry heavier histories and more mature themes than the ones we’ve been diving into with the family conversations in \u003cem>Love You for You\u003c/em>. So parents, you might want to listen before deciding whether to share with your kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode, we’re gonna meet Andrea Horne, an actress, model and singer who also spent decades as a social worker. And Zen Blossom, who works at TGIJP, a Black trans cultural center and services organization in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Peace, everyone. My name is Zen. I use she-her pronouns. I am currently 26 and I reside in Oakland. I am born and raised in Los Angeles, six generations my family’s been in California.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nAndrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Well, my name is Andrea, and my pronouns are Her/she, like the chocolate candy bar.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Love that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>I’m a woman of a certain age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Period. And I’m originally from L.A. myself, but I lived in San Francisco longer than I lived in L.A. But I still feel like I’m from L.A., even though I’ve lived here over 40 years in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Fades in\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-49-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063828\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-49-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1412\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-49-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-49-KQED-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-49-KQED-1536x1084.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea Horne points to a photo of Sweet Evening Breeze, center, a Black trans woman born in 1982, on her laptop at her home in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2025. Andrea is working on a book called “How Black Trans Women Changed the World.” \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sasha Khokha: \u003c/strong>Andrea moved to San Francisco in part because she was friends with Sylvester, the disco artist and singer who’s become a queer icon. These days, Andrea’s a historian, working on a book called \u003cem>How Black Trans Women Changed the World\u003c/em> — focused on women who lived from 1836–1936. Andrea shares some of that history and her own history in this conversation with Zen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They start by talking about how they both left Los Angeles because they had unsupportive families. Andrea was only 15 when she ran away from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Fades \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>I felt like there has been a long-lost history in a sense of the connections between Los Angeles, San Francisco and trans people migrating up and down. I just love hearing about your story, you being from L.A. and self-determining for yourself that you need to get out and figure out some other things for yourself at such a young age, 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Well, I was just following behind the girls that came before me, and I feel, since I’ve been working in the social work field with trans people for the last 25 years, I realized that I was lucky to have what we call a drag mother, someone to help me see my way through. I love your lips, by the way. (Laughs)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-37-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063825\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-37-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-37-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-37-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-37-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea Horne shows a photo of a Black trans woman named Kate, parading in front of a group of San Quentin prisoners in 1925, on her phone in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Yeah, so I could tell you a little bit about my background, I guess. My mother’s people are from Louisiana and my father’s people are from Texas. And they moved to California during World War II. And my mother’s father was a Pullman porter. I don’t know if you know about the histories of the Pullman porters in America, but the Pullman porters created the black middle class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>What was their role for people who don’t know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Pullman porters were like flight attendants on trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>And it was all handsome black men. I know that was some probably gay guy during the hiring or something, because they were all handsome, educated black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-32-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_TRANSELDERSYOUTH_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea Horne, a performer, historian and activist poses for a photo with her 4-year-old Pomeranian Mei-Mei, outside of her home in San Francisco on Nov. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>My family is from Texas, too. My grandma got here in the ‘20s with her mom and her grandma. They took the 66 all the way up to like the northern middle part of California and then came down to Los Angeles. But they stopped in Delano for a second. But a lot of the folks that she worked with were like in the factories and things and doing the canning and the industries, especially during the world wars and stuff, she was doing the canning and stuff. So it’s just interesting to see, like, how, regardless of different class backgrounds, too, that the migration affected like black people as a whole still. There’s a type of racism that happens that doesn’t allow people to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Interestingly, the Black people that stayed in the South are like runnin’ it. You know, they’re in every office, everything, which I find amusing. They stayed there. My mother’s from New Orleans, and she went to Xavier College, which is a black Catholic, HBCU Catholic. My whole family went to those. My father, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>OK. I was gonna ask my next question was like, what was that process trying to invite them into your life, as you, or maybe not invite them into your life?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>They’ve never been in my life since I transitioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>I think that’s why it’s really important to speak to like, chosen family too. And like why it important that you had your drag mom there around you to support you in these really difficult times. What was the name of your chosen mom?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Her name is Duchess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Duchess? 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And so that empty feeling of having nowhere to go had stayed with me. So anyway, I sat there an hour not knowing what to do. I just had on. I didn’t even have a jacket. It was summer in L.A. One of my friends came back. Thank God. And. Said, let me take you to my cousin. And so my trans girlfriend from high school brought me to her cousin, named Duchess, who ended up being my drag mother. And we looked similar, so we could say we were sisters. And the moment I met her and she looked me up and down and she said, “Do you want titties?” I said, “Yes, ma’am.” And she reached in her pocket and she pulled out this hormone pill, a premarin pill, purple. It was like bitten in two, and it had lint and dust and grease and tobacco all clinging to it, and I didn’t care. I just inhaled it. And in the morning, I thought I was gonna be Dolly Parton. But I wasn’t. (Laughs) Dolly Parton takes years, but I didn’t know that at the time. However, my drag mother, we’ll just call her Duchess. She did sex work, survival sex work. That’s all she knew. She got kicked out of her house when she was my age. And after I met her, I think probably within an hour, I was doing sex work. But not real sex work because Duchess’ thing was to not turn the trick, to get the money and run or something like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>And so we did a lot of times that I learned how to run in five-inch heels from the tricks, from the police, jumping over back fences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Changing outfits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Changing outfits. It wasn’t it was it was quite wild. It’s a miracle I survived it. However, duchess like me, during the quiet moments, we just sat around and read. And she liked to read, I liked to read. From 1987 to 2007, I read a book a week. That’s 30 years. I read a book a week. You know, I mostly read biographies and autobiographies from people that I admired to see how they did it. Not how they did stardom, but how they got from where they started to becoming a star. That fascinates me. But as soon as I got my first laptop in 2007, I stopped reading a book a week, so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Thank you to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Yes, thanks to the internet. So you asked me about my family, what about yours? How did they support your transition?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Oh my goodness. Absolutely not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Are they church people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Yes, very much so. Grew up in the church. Grew with a lot of that, a lot of reading the Bible. I read the Bible multiple times. I still hold it dear to me in certain ways, aspects. And in other ways, I push it very, very far away. I definitely identify with growing up with my grandmas a lot more than my immediate parents. I felt like my grandmas kept me safe a lot better and they knew what was happening. And so I was with them until they both passed away, unfortunately, when I was 10. And then it was pretty rough, and then I ended up leaving and going to college away from family at 18, and that’s when I was able to like really be myself, explore myself. Do those things, and that was my way out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Where’d you go to school?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>I went to school on the East Coast. I wanted to get as far as possible. I was very fortunate that I got a full ride because I also got a full ride for high school to also get away from my family and went to a private school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>So, do you talk to your family?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>I’m not in connection with them, besides my great-grandma. And that was a really cool thing for me because during the pandemic, when I stayed with her for a little bit, we were discussing and talking about, like just all the things. And she was teaching me how to sew. And when we were sewing, she was like, “Oh, do you want,” um, it was a dress that you would match. It was a robe, essentially, so you would either put the buttons on the left side or the right side. And she was like, ‘Which side are you gonna put it on?’ And for her, you know, depending on which side you have it on, that’s cross-dressing, you know, against the law. So she was trying to ask me what my tea was, essentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Because she did my measurements and it said, like, you know, 40-36-42, you know, so I had the, I had a figure. And so she was already like, no, clocking certain things here and there with me. She was like, “OK, so you have breasts. OK. So which side is this supposed to go on?” And then when we were sewing it together, she was just like, “You know what, this reminds me. Of when I was growing up, off of Central, and there’s someone that you remind me of,” and it was Lady Java.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so that was a really powerful moment for me to know that we’ve always been here, and that there’s also points for people, especially the older generations, to still connect with us, because people think … That, oh, just because you’re older, that means you don’t have exposure to it. And it’s just very interesting for me that the older people in my life actually had more experience with transness than the people who were closer to me in age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>I thought it was really cool that my great grandma had an understanding of what could be read as transness with Lady Java without having the exact words for it. And so I would love for you to share more about the prolific work of Lady Java.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Well, her stage name was Sir Lady Java, and she was incredibly important to me, and incredibly important to all the other sort of black trans women in Los Angeles, because she was the queen. And why was she the queen? Well, she was a glamour girl associated with celebrities. And I know in L.A., that’s important. But she’s really famous for her activist work that kind of goes unrecognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she was performer, a showgirl. And she kept getting arrested as a female impersonator because that was illegal. And it gave the police the right to arrest you if they perceived that you may be trans in quotation marks. And so you had to, one had to wear three clothes, if you were a trans woman, you had wear three pieces of men’s clothing. And I remember Java told me that she wore a man’s wristwatch and a T-shirt under her mini dress and men’s socks, but she had them rolled down like Mary Jane’s. And so that’s how she could not get arrested. But she did get arrested whenever she appeared at Black clubs. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Off of Central.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Yeah, off Central. And so, but she fought in the courts with the ACLU, so that cross-dressing quote was not illegal any longer. And she fought, and it took years, and I think she lost the first couple of times, but they kept at it. And the law was changed, and it made an incredible difference for trans people everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It set a precedent, a nationwide precedent, that cross-dressing or drag was OK. The police, when it became legal, they had to kind of back up off black trans women who they normally harassed on a regular basis. And so her activist work changed the lives of all queer people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a white gay man might not know that it was Sir Lady Java that did that, but it’s always been black trans woman leading the call. I guess that’s just our karma. and now we can be who we want to be. But as a little trans child growing up in L.A., I would see her name, Sir Lady Java, up in marquees, theater marquees. And so I knew what she was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, so Java passed away this year, actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/arts/sir-lady-java-dead.html\">late last year\u003c/a>. And I went to her memorial service in Los Angeles, but she was important. I realized that’s another privilege I had. I didn’t realize I didn’t grow up in isolation in a small country town where I had no point of reference. I grew up in the city and I saw her name in marquees, so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Even like growing up in a rural town or something. ‘Cause for me, I like, I grew up in Los Angeles and I still didn’t have access to Lady Java until after the fact, you know, after. And so it was just like, that’s also a really big thing that is like, that I feel like people need to understand about California that it’s like a golden state. Like it’s this progressive place, but also it can be very unsafe. For trans kids at homes that are unsupportive. I wish I knew about Lady Java and everything growing up because if I did, I probably would have invited more people into my life a lot earlier on. But you know. (Dog barks) But that’s not how life goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>And Mei Mei, sitting here, my little five-pound mocha chocolate little Pomeranian, she’s sitting in my lap, she just barked a little bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> She’s really cute, y’all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Yeah, she is really cute. It’s been five minutes since someone told her she was cute, so just like her mother. Right, right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>I find that since I’ve been doing the research for a book I’m working on about black trans women called, the working title is \u003cem>How Black Trans Women Changed the World\u003c/em>, I’ve found that people were so much more tolerant about queer issues before World War II. Right, and it changed after World War II with the sort of the conservatism of the 50s and the civil rights movement. I think really kind of turned the tide for trans people, we’ll just use that word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> In quotations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>In quotations because there was no such thing as trans people a few years ago. My drag mother and auntie still don’t let me refer to them as that. They just live their lives as women. But yeah, it flipped, the script flipped from tolerance to being really intolerant and even violent towards us. But before World War II, we were considered just part of the community. As long as you stay in your lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>And what were those lanes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>The lanes were a hairdresser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> Sex work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> Work in a bar of some sort, a show girl and housewife. You know, that’s kind of, that’s it. That was all available to us. I remember a girl from my crowd. She got a job at the phone company. I was astounded. I didn’t know that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>The girls could do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>The girls could get jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>So you were asking me about my book and I’m kind of focusing on three black trans women that were born before 1900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Mm-hmm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>But I’ll talk about Lucy Hicks Anderson the most, because she’s my favorite. And she was accomplished. And her story is super unique, I think. She was born in 18, circa 1890. She told her family that her name was no longer Tobias, that her name was Lucy and to call her Lucy. And remarkably, her parents brought her to the doctor, two doctors, and both doctors said, “Just call her Lucy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Right. And this speaks back to what you were saying earlier, how there was a lot more tolerance for us back in the day and awareness around us possibly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Well, people seem to understand that trans is part of the human condition. But now they’re trying to sell it as something weird that just kind of happened in the 21st century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Yeah, the trans turning point with Laverne (Cox).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Well, now they’re trying to sell the public that transgenderism is something new. It wasn’t called that before. So when I was growing up, the girls called themselves drag queens. But now drag queens is the domain of gay men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>And so Lucy, getting back to Lucy, love her. She was a gourmet chef and a madam, and then she met her husband, her second husband, and they moved to Oxnard because she always wanted to move to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> Makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>So she decided on Oxnard, which is about midways between Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, coastal. And she stayed there for 35 years and she ran a catering business and a brothel. And she was a bootlegger during the ‘20s. And she was a fashion plate and so she became the darling of the wives of the heads of studios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone knew her from her past and told that she wasn’t assigned female at birth. They ran her out of Oxnard. But she was smart with her money and she’d bought a couple of houses over by Central Avenue in Los Angeles. And that’s where she moved to and she spent her last days there quietly. But she did so much that she changed people’s minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is why I admire her so much, that she had the wherewithal to sort of just live her authentic life. In retrospect, it takes courage to live your authentic life, which is why I think a lot of non-trans people hate trans people, because we have the courage to live our authentic lives. And a lot of people are envious of that ability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> She was a philanthropist too, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>During World War II, she gave $50,000 in war bonds, which is a couple million dollars today. So she loved America and she loved her life, but they wouldn’t let her just live her life out. So I wanna tell her story because it needs to be told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> It does. She was stealth. What does that mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Stealth is a relatively new term. And I think it’s a white term, but it means being a trans person living in your true gender without people knowing about it. Passing, as they call it. That’s what stealth is. And I myself lived stealth from age 15, from that first hormone pill I told you about, until I was 50. I never denied my transness, but it just wasn’t on display. It wasn’t open for discussion. Yeah, it just wasn’t opened for discussion and I just had a regular little job and a husband and so I was just living my life like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something happened like that to me in San Francisco in the ‘90s. I was working in an office downtown. And someone I know, I saw in the building. I don’t know who he told, but he told my tea. And when I came back from lunch, the police and the building security guards were standing at my desk. And they handed me my paycheck and escorted me out. No words were spoken, and they escorted me out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the girl I had just had lunch with, she was screaming at the top of her lungs, “I just had lunch with it. Arrrh!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Hmmm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> Now, that was over 30 years ago, and that wouldn’t happen today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>So when I first met Sylvester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> Right. How old were you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> I was 15. Sylvester was in his early 20s. And I went to my first kind of queer party and there were lots of trans women and men there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>OK, yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>And I thought that Sylvester, or Dooney, was a real woman, which is so fascinating, because years later, you would think it’s impossible. But I’ll show you a picture on my phone, he was flawless. But I moved here partly because of Sylvester, because I knew him in L.A. And I just kept coming up to visit and I got a modeling job through Sylvester. So I had to get an apartment, and that was in 1979. I got my first apartment in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>How much was rent?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>My rent was $200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>A month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Hmm-mm. But yeah, Sylvester kind of changed the world. Sylvester sort of invented this sort of non-binary genderqueer thing that’s very popular right now. But Sylvester was the first one sort of publicly doing that. You know, he was a boy one day and a girl the next and a mustache the next and smooth shaving the next. And, you know, eventually became a star, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>No it’s so cool hearing about your story, especially with Sylvester at such a young age, holding you down, because really Sylvester is prolific here in San Francisco: huge musician, queer icon and a lot of folks don’t know this history about their gender queerness, possibly like non-binaryness and we can’t erase that and be simple in how we see gender or our community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>You know, I agree with you on that. It’s just that gay men have claimed Sylvester. But he also started as a trans woman, and I think that should be part of his story also, because that’s what really happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Right. You talked a bit about the conversation around just having to be stealth and not wanting to disclose because it’s honestly not people’s business, so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> True.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>How do you think that’s similar to now? Versus then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>I think that for all the trans people that are out professing their transness, there’s just as equally as many trans people who are still living stealth. And I don’t think they have any plans on coming out, especially now, with the political climate the way it is. I want to go back stealth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> You would, or would not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> I want to, but I’m on the internet now, so I can’t, but, you know, it’s scary times for us now, and things have gotten better for trans folks, but black trans women are still getting (beep) over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Mm-hmm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>And are restricted and precluded from resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Even here in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Even here in San Francisco, yes. San Francisco is fabulous if you’re a white gay man. It is Disneyland with the A-ticket and the Matterhorn and all of that, but for the rest of us, it’s just America. M-E-R-K-K-K-A. Oh, I forgot an I in there somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so just know that as many trans people that you see on TV and Pose and everyone’s twerking and all that, there’s just as many people that are living stealth lives in the suburbs married. So when you hear people say, “I’ve never used the bathroom with somebody trans!” You probably have. They probably have, but.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Many a times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Many a times. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>What advice do you have for Black trans girls today, especially for like building sisterhood?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Stay in school, that’s that’s your way out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: Blossom:\u003c/strong> Mmm-hmm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Yeah, that’s my message to young Black trans women, stay at school. And if you’re a teenager and they’re bullying you at school because you’re trans, you’re not gonna remember those (beep) in five years. You won’t even remember their names or their faces or anything. The people that bullied me when I was in high school, I wish somebody had told me, you’re not even going to remember them. But when you’re a teen, the present is everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: Blossom:\u003c/strong> Yes, yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> And you haven’t yet developed the ability to kind of foresee in the future. And so it’s all immediate. And the message is it will pass, you’ll survive it, and you won’t even remember them. Just stay in school, educate yourself. That’s undeniable. Stay in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Go as far as you can in school and my dream, my lottery-winning dream is to have a scholarship fund for black trans women. I had a dear friend named Dana Turner, who was a Black trans woman who went to Georgetown Law School, which is pretty impressive. I want to have it in, in her name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> Dana Turner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> Dana Turner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>Well, it’s been rewarding at the very least to get immersed in the history and the knowledge and the lineage of the work. And also that we have so many different folks to look to and different possibility models there’s ones as philanthropists, we have people who are cooks. We have people who are going to law school. We have who read books every week for 30 years. We have our different miniature worlds that we can create for ourselves and curate. It takes a lot of investment, but in the long term, it’s worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Well, I think, Zen, it’s important that we have conversations like this, because America teaches us not to really care about our old folks. As trans folks, we want to start a new model, an intergenerational model, an interaction where we really support and help each other. I want to see us moving in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>For the culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>For the culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>For us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne:\u003c/strong> Yeah, for the girls. We’re saving lives here. Yeah. Yeah. We’ve got to save lives, and we got to let people know that transgender is nothing new. It’s always been part of the human condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>All the way back to Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>All the way back to Africa, all the way to Africa. It’s interesting how contemporary Africans say that there’s no queers, there’s no African queers. But of course that’s not true. But Europeans brought, they didn’t bring queerness, they brought …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: and Andrea Horne together:\u003c/strong> homophobia and transphobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Bridge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom: \u003c/strong>It was good continuing to build with you, Andrea, and you, Mei Mei. I will never forget. Don’t worry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrea Horne: \u003c/strong>Well, I hope this is just the first conversation of many, because we really just scratched the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zen Blossom:\u003c/strong> We really did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music Continues\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sasha Khokha: \u003c/strong>Transgender elder Andrea Horne, in conversation with Zen Blossom, a 26-year-old transgender activist from Oakland who works with the TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center. The center was founded by Miss Major, a trailblazing Black trans activist and who passed away this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s it for TCR Mag for this week. This interview was produced by me, Sasha Khokha with Srishti Prabha and Suzie Racho with help this week from Gabriela Glueck. Our senior editor is Victoria Mauleon. Our engineer is Brendan Willard. 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Bonta is not accused of any wrongdoing, but questions about his connection to the East Bay recycling executives \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018120/family-center-oakland-fbi-raid-backed-thao-secure-lucrative-contracts-da-says\">at the center\u003c/a> of the scandal have swirled alongside speculation about his political future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As attorney general, Bonta has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910625/california-attorney-general-rob-bonta-on-standing-up-to-the-trump-administration\">spearheaded California’s legal battles\u003c/a> against the Trump administration, and his position as the state’s top law enforcement official could serve as a springboard to pursue the governorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said he had initially hoped former Vice President Kamala Harris would run to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is termed out in 2027. When Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030198/prewrite-kamala-harris-enters-california-governor-race-upending-democratic-landscape\">decided against running\u003c/a>, Bonta shifted his support to Sen. 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In exchange, Thao is alleged to have promised an extension of Oakland’s contract with California Waste Solutions, an appointment of a city official hand-picked by the Duongs and a city purchase of housing units from another company run by the Duongs. Both Andy and David Duong, along with Thao and her romantic partner, Andre Jones, have pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Duongs were longtime political supporters of Bonta, who previously represented Oakland and Alameda in the state Assembly. 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