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He wants to fix the world and make a fortune doing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that article was published, Levandowski worked at Google X, the company's experimental lab. It's unclear how the current dispute might affect his reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waymo's lawsuit is the latest in a series of dramatic shifts in the relationship between Alphabet and Uber. Back in 2013, Google Ventures \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/google-ventures-puts-258m-into-uber-its-largest-deal-ever/\">invested more than $250 million\u003c/a> in the car service. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waymo's accusations center on LiDAR — essentially, the technology that allows self-driving vehicles to see the world around them by using lasers to shape an evolving 3-D image of other objects on the road. Waymo says it invested millions of dollars and thousands of hours to develop its advanced and cost-effective LiDAR sensors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waymo says Levandowski, who worked as a manager in its self-driving car project, downloaded nearly 10 gigabytes of data — more than 14,000 files — and attached an external hard drive to his company computer. A big chunk of that data, Waymo says, was related to LiDAR technology — including \"confidential specifications for each version of every generation of Waymo's LiDAR circuit boards,\" the company says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its lawsuit, Waymo also says its former employees who left to join Levandowski's new venture brought proprietary information with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These secrets included confidential supplier lists, manufacturing details and statements of work with highly technical information,\" the company says in its complaint, \"all of which reflected the results of Waymo's months-long, resource-intensive research into suppliers for highly specialized LiDAR sensor components.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LiDAR is also at the heart of an email that seems to have been sent to Waymo by mistake by a vendor who copied the company on a message to Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7dzPLynxaXuQjY3dkllZ2ZKb0k/view\">the complaint\u003c/a> filed in U.S. District Court:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Waymo was recently – and apparently inadvertently – copied on an email from one of its LiDAR component vendors. The email attached machine drawings of what purports to be an Uber LiDAR circuit board. This circuit board bears a striking resemblance to Waymo's own highly confidential and proprietary design and reflects Waymo trade secrets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waymo accuses Levandowski of attempting to conceal his activity in the Waymo design server, saying that he installed a new operating system on his company-issued laptop in an attempt to wipe the laptop clean — and that after that activity, he only used the laptop again for a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the rough timeline of events Waymo alleges in its court filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Dec. 11, 2015: Using special software, Levandowski downloads more than 14,000 files. Seven days later, he reformats the laptop.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jan. 14, 2016: Levandowski attends a high-level meeting at Uber's headquarters, according to Waymo.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jan 15, 2016: Levandowski forms a new venture called 280 Systems, which will later becomes OttoMotto.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jan. 27, 2016: Levandowski resigns from Waymo without notice, the company says.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Feb. 1, 2016: Otto Trucking is officially formed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>August 18, 2016: Uber \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.uber.com/rethinking-transportation/\">announces deal to acquire Otto\u003c/a> — \"shortly after Mr. Levandowski received his final multi-million-dollar payment from Google,\" Waymo notes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dec. 13, 2016: Waymo receives an errant email from a LiDAR-component vendor, including an attached image of a circuit board that Waymo says strongly resembles its \"highly confidential current-generation LiDAR circuit board.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Feb. 9, 2016: Waymo receives documents from Nevada regulatory authorities that show Otto mentioned an \"[i]n-house custom built 64-laser\" LiDAR system that it said it had developed shortly before being acquired by Uber.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Along the way, Otto and Uber marked two high-profile milestones. Last September, Uber \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.uber.com/pittsburgh-self-driving-uber/\">enacted a pilot program\u003c/a> using self-driving cars in Pittsburgh. And in October, Otto performed what was called \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2016/10/ubers-self-driving-truck-makes-first-delivery-50000-beers/\">the world's first autonomous truck delivery\u003c/a>\" in Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While at Google, Anthony Levandowski was widely regarded as a star, a gifted engineer with a knack for integrating his work into the real world. The Ghost Rider robotic motorcycle he led the development of now belongs to \u003ca href=\"http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1332301\">the Smithsonian\u003c/a>. He joined Google back in 2007 — and in 2013, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/25/auto-correct\">New Yorker profile\u003c/a> said of him, \"Levandowski is equal parts idealist and voracious capitalist. 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"content": "\u003cp>The generation that pioneered organic farming is beginning to retire. These farmers want what they’ve built to last. Some growers are passing on their farms to their kids. But not all of them have a second generation who wants to take over the family farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what longtime organic growers \u003ca href=\"http://tdwilleyfarms.com/\">Tom and Denesse Willey \u003c/a> discovered when they decided over the past few years that it was time to retire. When the Willeys asked their kids if they wanted to take over their 75-acre farm in California’s Central Valley, they all said “no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re all pursuing other professions and interests in life,” Tom Willey says. “We considered a number of different alternatives over the last five years of how to hand off the farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vegetable growers began working the soil in California’s Madera County in the 1980s. The Willeys are local organic pioneers. The idea of letting their history fade away was just too painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of us started 30 to 40 years ago and it’s time to hand the baton to somebody else,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1.jpg\" alt=\"Food Commons Fresno took over the Willeys' food box program — Ooooby — a year and a half ago.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"957\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-800x638.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-768x612.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-1020x813.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-1180x941.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-960x766.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-240x191.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-375x299.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-520x415.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food Commons Fresno took over the Willeys’ food box program — Ooooby — a year and a half ago. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And besides, growing organically is actually a way for farmers to make money. “Organic is becoming very, very popular now,” he says. “It’s breaking into big conventional retailers now like Costco, Wal-Mart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Willeys recently announced they’re in the process of leasing their farm to \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodcommonsfresno.org/\">Food Commons Fresno\u003c/a>. It’s the same group that took over the Willeys’ food box program – \u003ca href=\"https://www.ooooby.org/fresno\">Ooooby\u003c/a> – a year and a half ago. \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodcommonsfresno.org/people\">Kiel Schmidt\u003c/a> is the wholesale and development manager for the group. He says Food Commons Fresno would like to see the region become a farm-to-fork hub like Sacramento is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>“Food is a mystery for lots of people and it just ends up on the grocery store shelf or on your plate, and we want to demystify that as much as possible,” Schmidt says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Jenny Saklar and Kiel Schmidt are both on the Food Commons Fresno team. Schmidt says he would like to see the Central Valley turn into a farm-to-fork hub like Sacramento.\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115478\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85-160x167.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85-240x251.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85-375x392.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85-520x543.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenny Saklar and Kiel Schmidt are both on the Food Commons Fresno team. Schmidt says he would like to see the Central Valley turn into a farm-to-fork hub like Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The person who will eventually work the Willeys’ land is organic farmer David Silveira. Willey is mentoring Silveira on the ins and outs of the farm, such as checking out the soil health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like really rich, dark soil,” Silveira says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Willey adds, “We really improved the tilth of soil and the workability of the soil over the years, putting all of that organic matter in there with compost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://jpmktg.com/team/jane-quebe/\">Jane Olvera Quebe\u003c/a>, chair of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnostate.edu/craig/ifb/index.html\">Institute for Family Business\u003c/a> at California State University, Fresno, says the Willeys are just one of many organic businesses in California looking for successors. There are more than 4,000 organic businesses in the state, and groups like California Certified Organic Farmers are reaching out to hundreds of aging growers to help them with the changeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it’s a family business, it’s not only a complicated matter, it’s also an emotional matter,” Quebe says.\u003cem> \u003c/em>“The ones that are the most successful are where the older generations have put a high level of trust and faith in the younger generations. That allows them to let go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Father and daughter growers \u003ca href=\"http://www.masumoto.com/about-us/\">Mas and Nikiko Masumoto\u003c/a> are navigating this transition firsthand on their farm south of Fresno, where they grow organic stone fruit and raisins. “Now you have this millennial generation who have a different need for compliments and this whole life-work balance,” says Mas, whose peach farm became \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/14/390148229/the-family-peach-farm-that-became-a-symbol-of-the-food-revolution\">a symbol of the food revolution\u003c/a> in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nmasumoto?lang=en\">Nikiko\u003c/a> is in her 30s, and she moved home to live and work on the farm several years ago, after receiving a master’s degree. She realized she didn’t want her family’s farming history in the Central Valley to disappear if her father were to pass away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1045px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b.jpg\" alt=\"The Masumoto Family Farm in Del Rey, Calif., is going through a change in season.\" width=\"1045\" height=\"674\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b.jpg 1045w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-800x516.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-768x495.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-960x619.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-240x155.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-375x242.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-520x335.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1045px) 100vw, 1045px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Masumoto Family Farm in Del Rey, Calif., is going through a change in season. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jim Choi and Chihiro Wimbush)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think, Dad, you really, really do love just grinding away. And I want to stop every once in a while, and I want to pause, so there’s a huge difference,” says Nikiko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mas doesn’t want to just retire and hand over the farm to Nikiko. The farm is his life and he says it’s important that they work the land together, so that Nikiko can learn the reasoning behind his farming methods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://shop.blossombluff.com/\">Blossom Bluff Orchards \u003c/a>near Parlier, Calif., Bryce Loewen, 39, is currently going through a similar handover under the guidance of his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it wasn’t so lush and beautiful here – and it wouldn’t be if it wasn’t an organic farm – I doubt I would’ve come back,” says Loewen, who used to work as an animator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loewen says he and his sister will eventually take over the 80-acre farm. But for some farmers, having a family member continue farming their land isn’t an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 956px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/loewen_family_custom-38e3d1fbbc774f68098bf0817792c9cd3d92c617.jpg\" alt=\"The Loewen family farms around 80 acres of tree fruit in Sanger, Calif.\" width=\"956\" height=\"639\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115473\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/loewen_family_custom-38e3d1fbbc774f68098bf0817792c9cd3d92c617.jpg 956w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/loewen_family_custom-38e3d1fbbc774f68098bf0817792c9cd3d92c617-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/loewen_family_custom-38e3d1fbbc774f68098bf0817792c9cd3d92c617-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/loewen_family_custom-38e3d1fbbc774f68098bf0817792c9cd3d92c617-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/loewen_family_custom-38e3d1fbbc774f68098bf0817792c9cd3d92c617-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/loewen_family_custom-38e3d1fbbc774f68098bf0817792c9cd3d92c617-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/loewen_family_custom-38e3d1fbbc774f68098bf0817792c9cd3d92c617-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Loewen family farms around 80 acres of tree fruit in Sanger, Calif. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richard \u003ca href=\"http://www.vworganic.com/grower/peterson-farm/\">Peterson \u003c/a>has farmed organic stone fruit in the Reedley area for four decades. This was his last season and now he’s retired. His kids weren’t interested in taking over the farm. So he found someone else to lease his land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We like it because he has a son-in-law who’s involved, so that’s another young person getting into farming,” says Peterson. “It’s very hard for young people to get into farming these days because the capital investment is so great just to buy land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Petersons, Willeys and Loewens all chose to farm organically before it was popular and lucrative. Now they say it’s up to young people to decide how the organic industry will grow in the future. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.kvpr.org/\">Valley Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The generation that pioneered organic farming is beginning to retire. These farmers want what they’ve built to last. Some growers are passing on their farms to their kids. But not all of them have a second generation who wants to take over the family farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what longtime organic growers \u003ca href=\"http://tdwilleyfarms.com/\">Tom and Denesse Willey \u003c/a> discovered when they decided over the past few years that it was time to retire. When the Willeys asked their kids if they wanted to take over their 75-acre farm in California’s Central Valley, they all said “no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re all pursuing other professions and interests in life,” Tom Willey says. “We considered a number of different alternatives over the last five years of how to hand off the farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vegetable growers began working the soil in California’s Madera County in the 1980s. The Willeys are local organic pioneers. The idea of letting their history fade away was just too painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of us started 30 to 40 years ago and it’s time to hand the baton to somebody else,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1.jpg\" alt=\"Food Commons Fresno took over the Willeys' food box program — Ooooby — a year and a half ago.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"957\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-800x638.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-768x612.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-1020x813.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-1180x941.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-960x766.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-240x191.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-375x299.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/veggies_custom-51b13616b12a86c24e9dbde1ee1605b21ec850e1-520x415.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food Commons Fresno took over the Willeys’ food box program — Ooooby — a year and a half ago. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And besides, growing organically is actually a way for farmers to make money. “Organic is becoming very, very popular now,” he says. “It’s breaking into big conventional retailers now like Costco, Wal-Mart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Willeys recently announced they’re in the process of leasing their farm to \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodcommonsfresno.org/\">Food Commons Fresno\u003c/a>. It’s the same group that took over the Willeys’ food box program – \u003ca href=\"https://www.ooooby.org/fresno\">Ooooby\u003c/a> – a year and a half ago. \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodcommonsfresno.org/people\">Kiel Schmidt\u003c/a> is the wholesale and development manager for the group. He says Food Commons Fresno would like to see the region become a farm-to-fork hub like Sacramento is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>“Food is a mystery for lots of people and it just ends up on the grocery store shelf or on your plate, and we want to demystify that as much as possible,” Schmidt says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Jenny Saklar and Kiel Schmidt are both on the Food Commons Fresno team. Schmidt says he would like to see the Central Valley turn into a farm-to-fork hub like Sacramento.\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115478\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85-160x167.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85-240x251.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85-375x392.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85-520x543.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/kiel_schimdt_custom-5569597a1570d27569c16996d7d32254832d8a1a-s700-c85-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenny Saklar and Kiel Schmidt are both on the Food Commons Fresno team. Schmidt says he would like to see the Central Valley turn into a farm-to-fork hub like Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The person who will eventually work the Willeys’ land is organic farmer David Silveira. Willey is mentoring Silveira on the ins and outs of the farm, such as checking out the soil health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like really rich, dark soil,” Silveira says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Willey adds, “We really improved the tilth of soil and the workability of the soil over the years, putting all of that organic matter in there with compost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://jpmktg.com/team/jane-quebe/\">Jane Olvera Quebe\u003c/a>, chair of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnostate.edu/craig/ifb/index.html\">Institute for Family Business\u003c/a> at California State University, Fresno, says the Willeys are just one of many organic businesses in California looking for successors. There are more than 4,000 organic businesses in the state, and groups like California Certified Organic Farmers are reaching out to hundreds of aging growers to help them with the changeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it’s a family business, it’s not only a complicated matter, it’s also an emotional matter,” Quebe says.\u003cem> \u003c/em>“The ones that are the most successful are where the older generations have put a high level of trust and faith in the younger generations. That allows them to let go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Father and daughter growers \u003ca href=\"http://www.masumoto.com/about-us/\">Mas and Nikiko Masumoto\u003c/a> are navigating this transition firsthand on their farm south of Fresno, where they grow organic stone fruit and raisins. “Now you have this millennial generation who have a different need for compliments and this whole life-work balance,” says Mas, whose peach farm became \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/14/390148229/the-family-peach-farm-that-became-a-symbol-of-the-food-revolution\">a symbol of the food revolution\u003c/a> in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nmasumoto?lang=en\">Nikiko\u003c/a> is in her 30s, and she moved home to live and work on the farm several years ago, after receiving a master’s degree. She realized she didn’t want her family’s farming history in the Central Valley to disappear if her father were to pass away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1045px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b.jpg\" alt=\"The Masumoto Family Farm in Del Rey, Calif., is going through a change in season.\" width=\"1045\" height=\"674\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b.jpg 1045w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-800x516.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-768x495.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-960x619.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-240x155.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-375x242.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/511400711_custom-925ecdc93b8748a9577e39e79c498b0d2b7b289b-520x335.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1045px) 100vw, 1045px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Masumoto Family Farm in Del Rey, Calif., is going through a change in season. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jim Choi and Chihiro Wimbush)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think, Dad, you really, really do love just grinding away. And I want to stop every once in a while, and I want to pause, so there’s a huge difference,” says Nikiko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mas doesn’t want to just retire and hand over the farm to Nikiko. The farm is his life and he says it’s important that they work the land together, so that Nikiko can learn the reasoning behind his farming methods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://shop.blossombluff.com/\">Blossom Bluff Orchards \u003c/a>near Parlier, Calif., Bryce Loewen, 39, is currently going through a similar handover under the guidance of his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it wasn’t so lush and beautiful here – and it wouldn’t be if it wasn’t an organic farm – I doubt I would’ve come back,” says Loewen, who used to work as an animator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loewen says he and his sister will eventually take over the 80-acre farm. 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And we’re hoping that he’s able to answer some very tough questions about protecting workers, and the role of the secretary of Labor,” said California Labor Federation spokesman Steve Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re reserving judgment for the time being until those questions are asked and answered. But certainly this is light years away from where we were last week with Puzder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first choice for the cabinet post, \u003ca href=\"http://andy.puzder.com/\">Andrew Puzder,\u003c/a> had become mired in personal scandals and controversies over treatment of employees working in the fast food chains overseen by Puzder’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ckr.com/about.html\">CKE Restaurants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder started building his vast fast food empire as chief of Southern California-based Carl’s Jr. The Missouri-born former trial attorney took the company way beyond its humble hotdog cart origins to build\u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/company-741487-puzder-carl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> CKE Restaurants\u003c/a> which now also includes the Hardee’s and Green Burrito chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His confirmation hearing had been postponed for months as Puzder apparently struggled to disentangle himself from his financial holdings and deal with mounting opposition from labor groups and even some within the Republican ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Puzder prepared for this week’s scuttled confirmation hearing, graphic details of alleged spousal abuse from the 1980s resurfaced. And scores of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuqV4XfARMQ\">protesters rallied outside Carl’s Jr restaurants\u003c/a> from Anaheim to New York opposing his confirmation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor activists are especially aggrieved over Puzder’s opposition to minimum wage hikes and workplace violations racked up by CKE Restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His entire record as a business man is about undermining and ignoring those very legal protections that he’d be in position to enforce (as U.S. Labor Secretary) and that makes him uniquely unqualified to be labor secretary,” said Roxana Tynan director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.laane.org/\">Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy \u003c/a>upon hearing news of Puzder’s withdrawal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really glad that that message got through to at least some of the senators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11320153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-800x493.jpg\" alt=\"Fast-food workers protest Andrew Puzder Labor secretary nominee on January 26, 2017 in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"493\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11320153\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-800x493.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-1180x727.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-960x592.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-240x148.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-375x231.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-520x320.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fast-food workers protest Andrew Puzder Labor secretary nominee on January 26, 2017 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Puzder pulled out of the running when it was clear he may not have enough Republican votes to be confirmed. He is the first major Trump cabinet nominee to withdraw before a confirmation hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview earlier this week former \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/james_talent/300096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican Senator Jim Talent\u003c/a> of Missouri seemed confident of confirmation despite the mounting trouble. Talent was helping Puzder, a long-time friend, prepare for what was sure to be a bruising hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the people opposing him now are in a year or two going to say; this guy is a lot better than we thought because he’s an honest and caring person and he’s going to enforce the law and do everything he can to create jobs and I think a lot of people in Washington are going to like that,” said Talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder relocated to Southern California from St. Louis in the 1990s, hired by Carl’s Jr founder\u003ca href=\"http://www.ckr.com/about_history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Carl Karcher\u003c/a> to help get the franchise back on solid financial footing. The conservative, anti-abortion Catholic was eventually named CEO. He’s credited with expanding its fleet of restaurants and overseeing a controversial ad campaign featuring half-naked girls chowing down on dripping Carl’s Jr burgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder was also a frequent guest on cable news programs offering conservative analysis and opinion on various issues including opposition to a higher federal minimum wage and President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at home in the tony, celebrity studded community of Montecito along the Santa Barbara Coast, Puzder flew under the radar. Several local Republicans contacted for this story were either unaware that Puzder lived in their midst or rarely saw him around town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Puzder pulled up stakes and relocated his family to Tennessee. He also closed CKE corporate offices near Santa Barbara. Probably for the best, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Barbara Independent \u003c/a>newspaper columnist \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.com/staff/nick-welsh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Welsh\u003c/a>. Puzder’s cultivated bubble of privacy was probably about to burst wide open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sort of cynical joke about Santa Barbara is; oh it’s Saturday, let’s go to the farmers market, let’s have brunch and then we’re going to go protest Trump,” laughs Welsh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pudzer would have been a very good target for anti-trump demonstrations; people would have been in front of his house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder also clashed with many Republicans over his views on immigration. Earlier this month he acknowledged hiring an undocumented housekeeper to work at his Montecito home. Puzder says he fired the woman after discovering her immigration status, paid back taxes related to her employment and claims he also offered to assist her adjust her legal status. Puzder says she declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That and Puzder’s long-running support of immigration reform made him a target for immigration hardliners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were able to hire people who are currently here illegally, if there were a way to change their status so that they are here illegally that would be a big benefit to us and to everybody else that has to hire workers in that category,” said Puzder during a talk a the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C. four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aggressively business friendly, multi-millionaire tied the rising fortunes of low wage workers to the rising tide of business, which he saw as being hamstring by over burdensome regulations and union organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder also plowed hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to various conservative causes and politicians. But he was initially reluctant to endorse candidate Donald Trump, until Mr. Trump had secured the Republican presidential nomination. He then backed that endorsement with campaign contributions topping $250,000.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Less than 24 hours after President Trump’s first choice for U.S. secretary of Labor \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/15/trump-labor-nominee-andrew-puzder-withdraws-first-cabinet-pick-to-fall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dropped out of the running\u003c/a>, Trump introduced Florida attorney and former National Labor Relations Board member \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHNiVvpcrgs\">Andrew Acosta \u003c/a>as his next pick to be the nation’s top labor chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acosta, dean of \u003ca href=\"https://law.fiu.edu/\">Florida International University’s law school\u003c/a>, is the first Latino to be nominated for a cabinet position in the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, the Harvard-educated Republican was appointed by President George W. Bush to be the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some labor groups in California said they are cautiously optimistic about the new choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319956\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11319956 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-800x950.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Acosta, dean of Florida International University’s law school, is President Trump's new pick for Labor secretary.\" width=\"800\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-800x950.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-160x190.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-1020x1212.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-1180x1402.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-960x1141.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-240x285.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-375x446.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PUZDER-Acosta-FIU-520x618.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Acosta, dean of Florida International University’s law school, is President Trump’s new pick for Labor secretary. \u003ccite>(Florida International University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At the very least we know Mr. Acosta has some experience with labor law. And we’re hoping that he’s able to answer some very tough questions about protecting workers, and the role of the secretary of Labor,” said California Labor Federation spokesman Steve Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But certainly this is light years away from where we were last week with Puzder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first choice for the cabinet post, \u003ca href=\"http://andy.puzder.com/\">Andrew Puzder,\u003c/a> had become mired in personal scandals and controversies over treatment of employees working in the fast food chains overseen by Puzder’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ckr.com/about.html\">CKE Restaurants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder started building his vast fast food empire as chief of Southern California-based Carl’s Jr. The Missouri-born former trial attorney took the company way beyond its humble hotdog cart origins to build\u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/company-741487-puzder-carl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> CKE Restaurants\u003c/a> which now also includes the Hardee’s and Green Burrito chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His confirmation hearing had been postponed for months as Puzder apparently struggled to disentangle himself from his financial holdings and deal with mounting opposition from labor groups and even some within the Republican ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Puzder prepared for this week’s scuttled confirmation hearing, graphic details of alleged spousal abuse from the 1980s resurfaced. And scores of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuqV4XfARMQ\">protesters rallied outside Carl’s Jr restaurants\u003c/a> from Anaheim to New York opposing his confirmation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor activists are especially aggrieved over Puzder’s opposition to minimum wage hikes and workplace violations racked up by CKE Restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His entire record as a business man is about undermining and ignoring those very legal protections that he’d be in position to enforce (as U.S. Labor Secretary) and that makes him uniquely unqualified to be labor secretary,” said Roxana Tynan director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.laane.org/\">Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy \u003c/a>upon hearing news of Puzder’s withdrawal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really glad that that message got through to at least some of the senators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11320153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-800x493.jpg\" alt=\"Fast-food workers protest Andrew Puzder Labor secretary nominee on January 26, 2017 in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"493\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11320153\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-800x493.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-1180x727.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-960x592.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-240x148.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-375x231.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/PuzderProtest-520x320.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fast-food workers protest Andrew Puzder Labor secretary nominee on January 26, 2017 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Puzder pulled out of the running when it was clear he may not have enough Republican votes to be confirmed. He is the first major Trump cabinet nominee to withdraw before a confirmation hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview earlier this week former \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/james_talent/300096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican Senator Jim Talent\u003c/a> of Missouri seemed confident of confirmation despite the mounting trouble. Talent was helping Puzder, a long-time friend, prepare for what was sure to be a bruising hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the people opposing him now are in a year or two going to say; this guy is a lot better than we thought because he’s an honest and caring person and he’s going to enforce the law and do everything he can to create jobs and I think a lot of people in Washington are going to like that,” said Talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder relocated to Southern California from St. Louis in the 1990s, hired by Carl’s Jr founder\u003ca href=\"http://www.ckr.com/about_history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Carl Karcher\u003c/a> to help get the franchise back on solid financial footing. The conservative, anti-abortion Catholic was eventually named CEO. He’s credited with expanding its fleet of restaurants and overseeing a controversial ad campaign featuring half-naked girls chowing down on dripping Carl’s Jr burgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder was also a frequent guest on cable news programs offering conservative analysis and opinion on various issues including opposition to a higher federal minimum wage and President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at home in the tony, celebrity studded community of Montecito along the Santa Barbara Coast, Puzder flew under the radar. Several local Republicans contacted for this story were either unaware that Puzder lived in their midst or rarely saw him around town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Puzder pulled up stakes and relocated his family to Tennessee. He also closed CKE corporate offices near Santa Barbara. Probably for the best, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Barbara Independent \u003c/a>newspaper columnist \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.com/staff/nick-welsh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Welsh\u003c/a>. Puzder’s cultivated bubble of privacy was probably about to burst wide open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sort of cynical joke about Santa Barbara is; oh it’s Saturday, let’s go to the farmers market, let’s have brunch and then we’re going to go protest Trump,” laughs Welsh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pudzer would have been a very good target for anti-trump demonstrations; people would have been in front of his house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder also clashed with many Republicans over his views on immigration. Earlier this month he acknowledged hiring an undocumented housekeeper to work at his Montecito home. 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"content": "\u003cp>In cities around America, thousands of construction companies, restaurants and other businesses are bracing for \"A Day Without Immigrants,\" a combination boycott/strike that highlights the contributions of immigrants to U.S. business and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement is a response to President Trump's immigration agenda, which includes a pledge to seal the U.S. border with Mexico and a travel ban on citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries (which is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/02/13/514966051/for-refugees-and-advocates-trump-immigration-order-stay-leads-to-disarray\">now on hold\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some businesses are closing for the day; others are staying open and pledging to contribute a share of the day's proceeds to nonprofits that aid Latino communities. In a number of cases, business owners are abiding by the wishes of their staffs, after holding votes to decide whether to open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"PgL0tf0mQohRq9Dp4d1Q4rwLOH4wuXFp\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several closures are high-profile: Chef and entrepreneur \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/15/515441650/chef-jos-andr-s-to-close-restaurants-for-day-without-immigrants\">José Andrés told NPR\u003c/a> this week, \"It was a very easy decision\" to close his restaurants in Washington, D.C., saying he wants to support his employees who had planned not to work Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrity chef Rick Bayless, who's famous for popularizing the complex flavors of Mexico's cuisine, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Rick_Bayless/status/832018508120629248\">says he closed\u003c/a> four Chicago restaurants for the day out of respect for his staff's vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Los Angeles, Danielle Karson reports for our Newscast unit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Thousands of immigrants are skipping work; not shopping; not eating at restaurants, buying gas, or sending their children to school. LA County Supervisor Hilda Solis says immigrants, regardless of legal status, contribute 40 percent of LA County's gross domestic product: almost $300 billion a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\" 'It's incumbent on us to be brave, which we're prepared to do,' Solis said. 'To step up; to say to him, not in my house; not in my county; not in my state.'\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The day of protest comes after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents alarmed immigrant rights advocates by arresting some 680 people in raids across the U.S. last week. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/13/515032423/75-percent-of-immigration-raid-arrests-were-for-criminal-convictions-dhs-says\">As NPR has reported\u003c/a>, the Department of Homeland Security has called those raids routine, saying they targeted people who had criminal convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Charlotte, North Carolina, teacher Hayley Rowley tweeted an image of empty desks in her classroom \"as over half my class stays home,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HayleyaRowley/status/832249028251414528\">she wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/HayleyaRowley/status/832249028251414528\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 250 businesses in the Charlotte region are closed today, \u003ca href=\"http://wfae.org/post/more-250-businesses-remain-closed-thursday-immigrants-protest-ice-arrests?utm_content=buffer63570&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">member station WFAE reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kansas City, Missouri, protesters spilled off of the steps of City Hall and into a plaza — one of many cities where public rallies are being held today. According to member station \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/laurazig/status/832279772550070276\">KCUR's Laura Ziegler\u003c/a>, hundreds of people in Kansas City chanted \"USA! USA!\" in support of immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/laurazig/status/832279772550070276\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, D.C., at least two schools are closed for the day. And Ahmad Erfani, who was born in Iran and grew up in France, says he's closing his bakery, Le Caprice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mostly the people who work here are immigrants. We spoke with them. They thought it's good for solidarity with the others to not work,\" he tells \u003ca href=\"http://wamu.org/story/17/02/16/bars-restaurants-schools-close-doors-day-without-immigrants/\">member station WAMU\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erfani added, \"They are hard workers. I am not happy when I see they are not very happy these days, because it is difficult. They work hard, they come here 6 in the morning. It is not very comfortable for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Day Without Immigrants comes more than 10 years after another national movement, the Great American Boycott, used a May 1 boycott to protest the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5373673\">Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That legislation, also called HR 4437, would have required hundreds of miles of new fencing to be built along the Mexican border, along with toughening the federal stance toward people who are in the country illegally — and toward anyone in the U.S. who offers them shelter or aid. The bill won passage in the House of Representatives before failing in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>When the state auditor gauged the fiscal health of California cities in 2015, this port community on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay made a short list of six distressed municipalities at risk of bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond has cut about 200 jobs — roughly 20 percent of its workforce — since 2008. Its credit rating is at junk status. And in November, voters rejected a tax increase that city leaders had hoped would help close a chronic budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s any chance we can avoid it,” said former City Councilman Vinay Pimple, referring to bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major cause of Richmond’s problems: relentless growth in pension costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payments for employee pensions, pension-related debt and retiree health care have climbed from $25 million to $44 million in the last five years, outpacing all other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2021, retirement expenses could exceed $70 million — 41 percent of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a stark example of how pension costs are causing fiscal stress in cities across California. Four municipalities — Vallejo, Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes — have filed for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/municipalities-declared-bankruptcy/\">bankruptcy\u003c/a> protection since 2008. Others are on the brink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is that there are cities all over the state that just aren’t owning up to all their problems,” said San Bernardino City Manager Mark Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, pension costs consume \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-squeeze/\">15 percent or more\u003c/a> of big city budgets, crowding out basic services and leaving local governments more vulnerable than ever to the next economic downturn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11318519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"RichmondChart\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-375x220.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a racially diverse, working-class city of 110,000 whose largest employer is a massive Chevron oil refinery. Like many California municipalities, Richmond dug a financial hole for itself by granting generous retirement benefits to police and firefighters on the assumption that pension fund investments would grow fast enough to cover the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That optimism proved unfounded, and now the bill is coming due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Bill Lindsay insists that Richmond can avoid going off a cliff. Last year, financial consultants mapped a path to stability for the city by 2021 — but at a considerable cost in public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city cut \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/06/facing-prospect-of-further-credit-downgrade-richmond-passes-budget/\">11 positions\u003c/a>, reduced after-school and senior classes, eliminated neighborhood cleanups to tackle illegal trash dumping, and trimmed spending on new library books — saving $12 million total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials also negotiated a four-year contract with firefighters that freezes salaries and requires firefighters to pay $4,800 a year each toward retirement health care. Until then, the benefit was fully funded by taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s a huge mess. I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.'\u003ccite>Mayor Tom Butt\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen some of my good friends go through it in Vallejo and Stockton, and what we found out during those [bankruptcies] is that your union contracts aren’t necessarily guaranteed,” said Jim Russey, president of Richmond Firefighters Local 188.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s consultants said the city had to find \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/richmond-five-year-budget-forecast-2016/\">$15 million\u003c/a> more in new revenue or budget cuts by 2021. Lindsay said the city has been looking hard for additional savings, and the police union recently agreed to have its members contribute toward retirement health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the five-year forecast, with reasonable assumptions, even with the growth in pension cost, it does start to generate a surplus,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Nation, a former Democratic state legislator who teaches public policy at Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy Research, is not so sanguine. He reviewed Richmond’s retirement cost projections and said they leave little room to maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, every dollar the city collects in new revenue will go toward retirement costs, leaving little hope of restoring city services, Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an economic downturn of any kind, I can imagine that they could be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy, if not bankruptcy,” Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the state’s main pension fund, lowered its projected rate of return on investments from 7.5 percent to 7 percent per year. That means Richmond and other communities will have to pay \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/calpers-circular-letter/\">more\u003c/a> each year to fund current and future pension benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is expected to increase local government pension payments by at least 20 percent starting in 2018, according to CalPERS spokeswoman Amy Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318524\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg\" alt=\"The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"895\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-160x179.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1020x1141.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1180x1320.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-960x1074.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-240x268.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-375x419.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An analysis by the nonprofit news organization CALmatters indicates that Richmond’s retirement-related expenses could grow to more than $70 million per year by 2021. That represents 41 percent of a projected $174 million general fund budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city’s estimates of future pension costs are lower because of different assumptions about salary increases and other costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters approved a sales tax increase in 2014 to help stabilize the city’s finances. But in November, voters rejected \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/39147\">an increase in the property transfer tax\u003c/a> that was expected to bring in an additional $4 million to $6 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city was never counting on the property transfer tax in its five-year plan. If the city needed more cash, he says Richmond has properties it can sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Budget management is much more difficult in Richmond than in Beverly Hills, but you still manage it,” Lindsay said. “To say it’s spiraling out of control into bankruptcy does incredible damage to our community and it’s just not accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is especially hard hit by personnel costs because of high salaries for public employees. The city’s \u003ca href=\"http://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/Cities.aspx\">average salary of $92,000\u003c/a> for its 938 employees was fifth highest in California as of 2015, according to the state controller. The city’s median household income is $54,857.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers and firefighters in Richmond make more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$137,000\u003c/a> per year on average, compared with an average $128,000 per year for Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-police-2015.pdf\">police\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-fire-2015.pdf\">firefighters\u003c/a>, where housing prices are more than 60 percent higher than in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public safety salaries averaged \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/oakland-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$115,000\u003c/a> in Oakland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/vallejo-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$112,000\u003c/a> in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1180x845.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-960x688.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond Mayor Tom Butt, an architect and general contractor who has served on the City Council for two decades, says the city that was once among the state’s most dangerous has little choice but to pay higher salaries to compete for employees with nearby communities that are safer and more affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t convince anyone here that they deserve less than anybody in any other city,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the decision to offer higher salaries for public safety employees was strategic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City Council made a conscious decision to put a lot into public safety, in particular reducing violent crime. And largely, we’ve been successful,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent crimes have been declining in the city over the past decade, with homicides dropping to a low of 11 in 2014. But Richmond is experiencing an uptick, recording 24 homicides in 2016, according to the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge with public safety costs dates to 1999, when Richmond, like many local governments, matched the state’s decision to sweeten retirement benefits for California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers could retire as early as 50 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service, providing up to 90 percent of their peak salaries in retirement. Other police departments soon demanded and got similar treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond firefighters are eligible to retire at age 55 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service. Recent hires will have to work longer to qualify for a less generous formula under legislation passed in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1180x744.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-960x605.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-520x328.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">actuarial pension report\u003c/a> shows there are nearly two retirees for every police officer or firefighter currently on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, Richmond is a preview of what California cities face in the years ahead. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/board-agendas/201609/financeadmin/item-8c-01.pdf\">CalPERS\u003c/a>, there were two active workers for every retiree in its system in 2001. Today, there are 1.3 workers for each retiree. In the next 10 or 20 years, there will be as few as 0.6 workers for each retiree collecting a pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because benefits have already been promised to today’s workers and retirees, cuts in pension benefits for new employees do little to ease the immediate burden. It “means decades before the full burden of this will be completely dealt with,” said Phil Batchelor, former Contra Costa County administrator and former interim city manager for Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Richmond’s taxpayers are spending more to make up for underperforming pension investments. CalPERS projects that the city’s payments for unfunded pension liabilities will more than double in the next five years, from $11.2 million to $26.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the lower assumed rate of investment return is projected to add nearly $9 million to Richmond’s costs by 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge mess,” said Mayor Butt. “I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Judy Lin is a reporter at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CALmatters\u003c/a>, a nonprofit journalism venture in Sacramento covering state policy and politics. This story is part of an ongoing project involving the Los Angeles Times, CALmatters and Capital Public Radio.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2021, retirement expenses could exceed $70 million — 41 percent of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a stark example of how pension costs are causing fiscal stress in cities across California. Four municipalities — Vallejo, Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes — have filed for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/municipalities-declared-bankruptcy/\">bankruptcy\u003c/a> protection since 2008. Others are on the brink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is that there are cities all over the state that just aren’t owning up to all their problems,” said San Bernardino City Manager Mark Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, pension costs consume \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-squeeze/\">15 percent or more\u003c/a> of big city budgets, crowding out basic services and leaving local governments more vulnerable than ever to the next economic downturn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11318519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"RichmondChart\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-375x220.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a racially diverse, working-class city of 110,000 whose largest employer is a massive Chevron oil refinery. Like many California municipalities, Richmond dug a financial hole for itself by granting generous retirement benefits to police and firefighters on the assumption that pension fund investments would grow fast enough to cover the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That optimism proved unfounded, and now the bill is coming due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Bill Lindsay insists that Richmond can avoid going off a cliff. Last year, financial consultants mapped a path to stability for the city by 2021 — but at a considerable cost in public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city cut \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/06/facing-prospect-of-further-credit-downgrade-richmond-passes-budget/\">11 positions\u003c/a>, reduced after-school and senior classes, eliminated neighborhood cleanups to tackle illegal trash dumping, and trimmed spending on new library books — saving $12 million total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials also negotiated a four-year contract with firefighters that freezes salaries and requires firefighters to pay $4,800 a year each toward retirement health care. Until then, the benefit was fully funded by taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s a huge mess. I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.'\u003ccite>Mayor Tom Butt\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen some of my good friends go through it in Vallejo and Stockton, and what we found out during those [bankruptcies] is that your union contracts aren’t necessarily guaranteed,” said Jim Russey, president of Richmond Firefighters Local 188.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s consultants said the city had to find \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/richmond-five-year-budget-forecast-2016/\">$15 million\u003c/a> more in new revenue or budget cuts by 2021. Lindsay said the city has been looking hard for additional savings, and the police union recently agreed to have its members contribute toward retirement health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the five-year forecast, with reasonable assumptions, even with the growth in pension cost, it does start to generate a surplus,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Nation, a former Democratic state legislator who teaches public policy at Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy Research, is not so sanguine. He reviewed Richmond’s retirement cost projections and said they leave little room to maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, every dollar the city collects in new revenue will go toward retirement costs, leaving little hope of restoring city services, Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an economic downturn of any kind, I can imagine that they could be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy, if not bankruptcy,” Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the state’s main pension fund, lowered its projected rate of return on investments from 7.5 percent to 7 percent per year. That means Richmond and other communities will have to pay \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/calpers-circular-letter/\">more\u003c/a> each year to fund current and future pension benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is expected to increase local government pension payments by at least 20 percent starting in 2018, according to CalPERS spokeswoman Amy Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318524\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg\" alt=\"The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"895\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-160x179.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1020x1141.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1180x1320.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-960x1074.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-240x268.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-375x419.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An analysis by the nonprofit news organization CALmatters indicates that Richmond’s retirement-related expenses could grow to more than $70 million per year by 2021. That represents 41 percent of a projected $174 million general fund budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city’s estimates of future pension costs are lower because of different assumptions about salary increases and other costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters approved a sales tax increase in 2014 to help stabilize the city’s finances. But in November, voters rejected \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/39147\">an increase in the property transfer tax\u003c/a> that was expected to bring in an additional $4 million to $6 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city was never counting on the property transfer tax in its five-year plan. If the city needed more cash, he says Richmond has properties it can sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Budget management is much more difficult in Richmond than in Beverly Hills, but you still manage it,” Lindsay said. “To say it’s spiraling out of control into bankruptcy does incredible damage to our community and it’s just not accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is especially hard hit by personnel costs because of high salaries for public employees. The city’s \u003ca href=\"http://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/Cities.aspx\">average salary of $92,000\u003c/a> for its 938 employees was fifth highest in California as of 2015, according to the state controller. The city’s median household income is $54,857.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers and firefighters in Richmond make more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$137,000\u003c/a> per year on average, compared with an average $128,000 per year for Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-police-2015.pdf\">police\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-fire-2015.pdf\">firefighters\u003c/a>, where housing prices are more than 60 percent higher than in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public safety salaries averaged \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/oakland-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$115,000\u003c/a> in Oakland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/vallejo-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$112,000\u003c/a> in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1180x845.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-960x688.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond Mayor Tom Butt, an architect and general contractor who has served on the City Council for two decades, says the city that was once among the state’s most dangerous has little choice but to pay higher salaries to compete for employees with nearby communities that are safer and more affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t convince anyone here that they deserve less than anybody in any other city,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the decision to offer higher salaries for public safety employees was strategic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City Council made a conscious decision to put a lot into public safety, in particular reducing violent crime. And largely, we’ve been successful,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent crimes have been declining in the city over the past decade, with homicides dropping to a low of 11 in 2014. But Richmond is experiencing an uptick, recording 24 homicides in 2016, according to the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge with public safety costs dates to 1999, when Richmond, like many local governments, matched the state’s decision to sweeten retirement benefits for California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers could retire as early as 50 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service, providing up to 90 percent of their peak salaries in retirement. Other police departments soon demanded and got similar treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond firefighters are eligible to retire at age 55 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service. Recent hires will have to work longer to qualify for a less generous formula under legislation passed in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1180x744.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-960x605.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-520x328.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">actuarial pension report\u003c/a> shows there are nearly two retirees for every police officer or firefighter currently on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, Richmond is a preview of what California cities face in the years ahead. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/board-agendas/201609/financeadmin/item-8c-01.pdf\">CalPERS\u003c/a>, there were two active workers for every retiree in its system in 2001. Today, there are 1.3 workers for each retiree. In the next 10 or 20 years, there will be as few as 0.6 workers for each retiree collecting a pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because benefits have already been promised to today’s workers and retirees, cuts in pension benefits for new employees do little to ease the immediate burden. It “means decades before the full burden of this will be completely dealt with,” said Phil Batchelor, former Contra Costa County administrator and former interim city manager for Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Richmond’s taxpayers are spending more to make up for underperforming pension investments. CalPERS projects that the city’s payments for unfunded pension liabilities will more than double in the next five years, from $11.2 million to $26.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the lower assumed rate of investment return is projected to add nearly $9 million to Richmond’s costs by 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge mess,” said Mayor Butt. “I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 4:15 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-food executive Andrew Puzder withdrew his nomination to head the Labor Department on Wednesday as his support on Capitol Hill faltered. Facing criticism from both sides of the aisle, Puzder became the first Trump Cabinet pick whose nomination failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AndyPuzder/status/831973151730958336\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder put out a statement on Wednesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“After careful consideration and discussions with my family, I am withdrawing my nomination for Secretary of Labor. I am honored to have been considered by President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Labor and put America’s workers and businesses back on a path to sustainable prosperity. I want to thank President Trump for his nomination. I also thank my family and my many supporters—employees, businesses, friends and people who have voiced their praise and hopeful optimism for the policies and new thinking I would have brought to America as Secretary of Labor. While I won’t be serving in the administration, I fully support the President and his highly qualified team.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Ahead of his scheduled confirmation hearing on Thursday, which had been delayed several times, it became less clear that Puzder had support from his own party, facing pressure to withdraw. Several Republican senators, including Maine’s Susan Collins, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, Georgia’s Johnny Isakson and South Carolina’s Tim Scott, signaled trouble by saying they were undecided on Puzder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement responding to Puzder’s withdrawal, Scott said, “As revelations regarding paying employees in cash, illegal immigration, and comments regarding some of the American workforce came to light, I developed serious concerns regarding his nomination.” Scott said he informed Senate GOP leadership about his reluctance to support Puzder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder has faced a range of criticisms, from his record running the Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr.’s fast-food chains to old allegations — since retracted — of domestic abuse made by his ex-wife. More recently, Puzder disclosed he employed a housekeeper who was not in the country legally. Labor unions, which had planned to protest his nomination outside the Senate offices where the hearing was to be held, have argued a Puzder-led Labor Department would undermine their efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, expand the eligibility for overtime pay and enforce wage and hour violations, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puzder, a corporate attorney by training, was first a lawyer for CKE Restaurants, which operates Hardee’s, Carl’s Jr., Green Burrito and Red Burrito restaurants. He helped founder Carl Karcher settle an insider trading case with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Then, after the chain fell into financial trouble following its acquisition of Hardee’s in the late 1990s, Puzder helped turn the company around and in 2000 was named CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As CEO, and later as a Trump campaign adviser, Puzder has been outspoken about his views on labor policy, contributing to newspaper opinion pages and on television, discussing issues such as immigration. During the Republican presidential primaries, Puzder advocated creating a path to legal status for unauthorized workers living in the U.S. He endorsed a more moderate “comprehensive immigration reform,” similar to what candidates Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio were proposing at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That endorsement won him critics from the right, who want the Trump administration to make good on promises to get tougher on illegal immigration and crack down to deport those in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an opinion piece titled “No to Puzder” in the \u003cem>National Review\u003c/em> published Feb. 15, the conservative magazine wrote: “The case for his confirmation has diminished to the point of disappearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most vocal critics, however, have pointed to his industry’s record at the very department he would lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the fast-food industry overall, during the 2016 federal fiscal year, the agency found violations in 86 percent of the 1,300 cases it investigated for wage theft or for unpaid overtime. CKE Restaurants had one of the lowest incidents of reported cases, faring relatively well in an industry that came in for a lot of criticism under the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, said Puzder would not have enforced labor laws against his own industry. “How can he possibly go out and defend workers,” he said, arguing the agency should be headed by someone with a history of trying to protect the interests of workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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