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"content": "\u003cp>Joseph Bower has seen a lot of changes in \u003ca href=\"http://www.trinitycounty.org\">Trinity County.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re sitting in his pickup truck a few miles from his house in central Trinity. About 10 years ago, nothing but forest surrounded this winding dirt road. Now it’s lined with marijuana farms. Cannabis plants pop out everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The road cuts through \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/01/business/fi-dope-county1\">Trinity Pines,\u003c/a> a private subdivision tucked in National Forest land. There are hundreds of lots where people farm medical marijuana for dispensaries. 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But it's also a source of tension. Over the last decade people have been flooding in, hoping to strike it rich by cultivating cannabis. The industry could grow even faster if Californians pass \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_64,_Marijuana_Legalization_(2016)\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> and legalize recreational marijuana. With the way \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/21/polls-voters-favor-legalizing-pot-outlawing-capital-punishment/\">the polling looks now\u003c/a>, it seems like there’s a good chance that will happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bower says if voters decide to legalize marijuana this November, the problems in Trinity won't just go away. They could even worsen under the pressure of bigger businesses and more competition. Legalization has smaller growers in the area worried as well. You can \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/25/will-small-marijuana-growers-stay-competitive-if-california-legalizes-pot/\">read this story\u003c/a> about two small-time cultivators in \u003ca href=\"http://www.humboldtgov.org/\">Humboldt County \u003c/a>who have a plan to survive as the industry balloons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285101185\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bower says it's up to local communities to keep the \"green rush\" in check. In Trinity, the pressure of the industry is bringing people together who have been at odds for decades. Environmentalists like Bower are now joining forces with their mortal enemies -- loggers like Clarence Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose lives in \u003ca href=\"http://weavervilleonline.net/\">Weaverville\u003c/a>, about an hour's drive from Joseph and Susan Bower's home. With around 3,600 people, Weaverville is the largest town in Trinity County. It, too, is surrounded by marijuana grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We’re in this green-rush phase and it's attracted people from all over the country who know that we're vulnerable here.' \u003ccite>Clarence Rose, logger\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If we can start to get the message out that this county is no longer a pushover for exploitative growers, that would be huge,” Rose says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose moved to Trinity in the '70s when logging was king. “Trinity County had seven sawmills,” Rose says. “You could start from nowhere, and by hard work over the years you could become part of the middle class. Those opportunities don't exist the way they did once. So people are turning to other means to make a living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving to Trinity, Rose fought against environmentalists like Bower for decades in what's known here as “the timber wars.” Now the two have a common enemy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11108321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of medical marijuana growers have set up operations in the private lots of Trinity Pines. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1163\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-400x242.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-800x485.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-1180x715.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-960x582.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of medical marijuana growers have set up operations in the private lots of Trinity Pines. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re in this green-rush phase and it's attracted people from all over the country who know that we're vulnerable here,” Rose says. “We're being taken advantage of by people with all kinds of different motives, but all revolving around money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose wishes there were no marijuana farms in Trinity County, but he says that is not possible. Marijuana cultivation is too entrenched. So he is joining forces with a third ally in this unlikely coalition: small-time, mom-and-pop cannabis farmers like Liz McIntosh and her husband, Duncan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The understanding that there is big business that wants to come into our community has pushed all the moderates together,” Duncan says. “It got the dialogue moving that cannabis wasn't really the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duncan and Liz formed an organization of small growers called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/trinityfarmsforcompliance/\">Trinity Farms for Compliance\u003c/a>. They meet as often as once a week, frequently at a pub in Hayfork called \u003ca href=\"http://www.northerndelightshayfork.com/\">Northern Delights\u003c/a>. The organization worked with environmentalists and loggers to urge the local Board of Supervisors to pass \u003ca href=\"http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/local/article_e4157d1a-748a-11e6-b075-a3573ddd07b4.html\">an emergency marijuana growing ordinance\u003c/a> last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Either we're going to work with them or we're going to lose everything.' \u003ccite>Duncan McIntosh, small business marijuana grower\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The ordinance sets guidelines for cultivation and establishes a permitting process like they have done in nearby \u003ca href=\"https://humboldtgov.org/2159/Commercial-Medical-Marijuana-Permitting\">Humboldt County. \u003c/a>It has provisions to try and slow down the number of big new growers pouring into Trinity. 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So people are turning to other means to make a living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving to Trinity, Rose fought against environmentalists like Bower for decades in what's known here as “the timber wars.” Now the two have a common enemy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11108321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of medical marijuana growers have set up operations in the private lots of Trinity Pines. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1163\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-400x242.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-800x485.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-1180x715.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-960x582.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of medical marijuana growers have set up operations in the private lots of Trinity Pines. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re in this green-rush phase and it's attracted people from all over the country who know that we're vulnerable here,” Rose says. “We're being taken advantage of by people with all kinds of different motives, but all revolving around money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose wishes there were no marijuana farms in Trinity County, but he says that is not possible. Marijuana cultivation is too entrenched. So he is joining forces with a third ally in this unlikely coalition: small-time, mom-and-pop cannabis farmers like Liz McIntosh and her husband, Duncan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The understanding that there is big business that wants to come into our community has pushed all the moderates together,” Duncan says. “It got the dialogue moving that cannabis wasn't really the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duncan and Liz formed an organization of small growers called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/trinityfarmsforcompliance/\">Trinity Farms for Compliance\u003c/a>. They meet as often as once a week, frequently at a pub in Hayfork called \u003ca href=\"http://www.northerndelightshayfork.com/\">Northern Delights\u003c/a>. The organization worked with environmentalists and loggers to urge the local Board of Supervisors to pass \u003ca href=\"http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/local/article_e4157d1a-748a-11e6-b075-a3573ddd07b4.html\">an emergency marijuana growing ordinance\u003c/a> last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Either we're going to work with them or we're going to lose everything.' \u003ccite>Duncan McIntosh, small business marijuana grower\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The ordinance sets guidelines for cultivation and establishes a permitting process like they have done in nearby \u003ca href=\"https://humboldtgov.org/2159/Commercial-Medical-Marijuana-Permitting\">Humboldt County. \u003c/a>It has provisions to try and slow down the number of big new growers pouring into Trinity. 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"content": "\u003cp>California's state treasurer has announced he is suspending major parts of the state's business relationship with Wells Fargo because of a scandal involving unauthorized customer accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/news/releases/2016/20160928_letter.pdf\">In a letter to Wells Fargo\u003c/a>, John Chiang asked, \"How can I continue to entrust the public's money to an organization which has shown such little regard for the legions of Californians who have placed their well-being in its care?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/27/495649072/report-wells-fargo-considers-clawing-back-executive-pay-over-fake-account-scanda\">As NPR reported\u003c/a>, \"Wells Fargo said earlier this month it had agreed to pay $185 million to settle charges that it opened some 2 million deposit and credit card accounts for its customers without their permission over a five-year period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new sanctions include the bank's \"most highly profitable business relationships with the state,\" as Chiang's letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, California's deputy treasurer for public finance, Tim Shaefer, laid out the sanctions against Wells Fargo. 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That $1.65 billion would be expected to produce high hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not low millions of dollars, in revenue for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, Shaefer said the state will no longer use Wells Fargo to underwrite bonds. Over the last 18 months, the state has appointed Wells Fargo to five bond offerings, he said. \"Two of those were terminated Monday afternoon, so that left them with three.\" Those remaining three have amounted to about $1.75 million during that time period, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said two major aspects of California's relationship with the bank will remain in place. Local governments can still use Wells Fargo to wire money to the state government. And two major public pension funds — the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California State Teachers' Retirement System — have at least $2.3 billion invested in the bank's fixed income and equity. That money will remain where it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message of these sanctions, Shaefer said, is that \"ethics and responsibility in the community matter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11108226\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Chiang-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"In a letter to Wells Fargo, California Treasurer John Chiang asked, “how can I continue to entrust the public’s money to an organization which has shown such little regard for the legions of Californians who have placed their well-being in its care?”\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Chiang-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Chiang-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Chiang.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Chiang-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Chiang-960x629.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a letter to Wells Fargo, California Treasurer John Chiang asked, “how can I continue to entrust the public’s money to an organization which has shown such little regard for the legions of Californians who have placed their well-being in its care?” \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR after Chiang's announcement, Wells Fargo said that it has \"diligently and professionally worked with the state for the past 17 years to support the government and people of California\" and it stands \"ready to continue delivering outstanding service.\" It added that it is \"very sorry and take full responsibility for the incidents in our retail bank.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, the company announced that its CEO and former retail-banking head \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/27/wells-fargo-ceo-to-forfeit-tens-of-millions-in-stock-awards-amid-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">will forfeit tens of millions of dollars \u003c/a>in outstanding stock awards. 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"content": "\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/blue-cut-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cut Fire\u003c/a> swept through San Bernardino County earlier this summer, it destroyed over 36,000 acres and some 300 structures. Among them was a beloved iconic diner. Twelve Naugahyde booths, 18 seats at the horseshoe counter, a jukebox and memorabilia lining the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was on the 15 freeway, on what was once a section of the most historic highway in the country, Route 66.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve made the drive between Los Angeles and Las Vegas in the last 64 years, you’ve passed the Summit Inn. It was a diner, a gas station and a gift shop. The “inn” part of the name wasn’t just filigree; there was a small motel on the 9-acre property that closed down in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perched near the top of the Cajon Pass, the big red sign with the white block letters announced the down-home outpost against a sky of blinding desert blue. At night, the sign became a blinking neon beacon to countless weary travelers looking for a cup of coffee, a bite to eat, or a place to gas up and stretch their legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/284839081\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a landmark. You could not go by the Summit Inn without going, 'There it is!'” says author and pop culture historian Charles Phoenix. “It was one of those places you never didn't notice on your way to Vegas or Yellowstone, or doing the old classic Route 66 trip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the fire, there’s not much to notice anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw the flames coming up the hill and I knew we had to go,” says Michelle Keeney. She was on duty that day in August, but then she’s been on duty for most of the last 24 years. Since Keeney was hired as a teenager, she’s worked as everything from graveyard shift cashier to, most recently, general manager. The fire took her job, her house and everything she owned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't want to say it was a curse, but it’s almost like it was a curse,” she continues. “Really strange. Maybe like they’re mad that Mr. Stevens is gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who’s “they”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They? The fire gods? I don’t know!” says Keeney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11104956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"Former Summit Inn owner Cecil Stevens (R) with former general manager Michelle Keeney. She worked at the Inn for 24 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11104956\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-400x257.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-960x617.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Summit Inn owner Cecil Stevens (R) with former general manager Michelle Keeney. She worked at the Inn for 24 years. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Mr. Stevens she’s talking about is Cecil Stevens. He bought the inn on Friday, Oct. 13, 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the things I’ve done in my life have been on Friday the 13th,” Stevens reveals. “So I always look forward to Friday the 13th every year. Man, something good’s gonna happen!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sold the business on Friday, July 1. Six weeks later it burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens was born in Dale City, Oklahoma, “an arm’s throw” from Route 66. Ever since, the venerated road has loomed large in his legend. Just ask him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a 66 type of guy. Born on 66, lived on 66, enjoyed 66, know a lot about 66. Sixty-six seems to be the key to me. I probably wouldn’t have been able to be up here if it wasn’t for Route 66.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His initial fateful encounter with the inn came in 1952, the year it was built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first day I laid eyes on the Summit Inn I was with my brother Calvin,” Stevens recalls. “I had been drafted in the Army during the Korean deal, and so we decided we'd take a trip from where we lived in San Diego to Utah, and on our way we stopped at the Summit. It was new at that time. We sat there at the counter and had coffee. That gas station was doing real big business at that time, and I kind of liked that spot. I just had a good feeling about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11105017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Cecil Stevens holds a photo of neighbors Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11105017\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-400x274.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cecil Stevens holds a photo of neighbors Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the 50 years he owned the Summit, Stevens was a boss, a father figure, a tough guy and a sweetheart. But mostly, he was a man who liked talking to people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would always talk to customers about everything that was going on at the time,” he says. “I enjoyed it. They call it schmoozing or something? And I loved talking to movie stars. They come in there a lot. I had Clint Eastwood, I made him a bet I could beat him in my Pantera, he had a Porsche or something. He said, 'I don't want to take your money.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk of making bets with Clint Eastwood aside, driving through the high desert was treacherous, and the Cajon Pass could be a desolate place for travelers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a highway and they get stranded out there and they didn't have any way to get out of there and they'd hang around the Summit for a week,” says Stevens. “They’d sleep out in back and dig in the trash. It was awful. Sooner or later somebody'd come to get'em or I'd take them back to Victorville and drop them off in town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the pancakes and ostrich burgers, the inn was the stage for decades of transient human drama. Heart attacks, drunken drivers, Vegas losers reeking of depression, and road rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These two cars got into a road rage incident on the freeway,” says Keeney. “They followed each other into the Arco station and that led to a fight inside. The man who was working the graveyard shift told them to take it outside and they did. The offender who started the incident was actually pushed into the middle of the road, and an 18-wheeler hit him and he was killed. It was a shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But horrific highway tragedy aside, there were the regulars. Dave Ellis first ate there as a kid in the '50s traveling with his family on Route 66. As an adult he became a fixture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11105024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Ellis, Summit Inn regular for almost 20 years, at home with his massive automotive memorabilia collection.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11105024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-800x604.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-400x302.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-1180x891.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-960x725.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Ellis, Summit Inn regular for almost 20 years, at home with his massive automotive memorabilia collection. \u003ccite>(Peter GIlstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I went to the Summit every day,” he says. “If it wasn't for lunch it would be for breakfast, and when I first moved up here I’d go for dinner a lot, too. I've been up here for 19 years and I've been a regular customer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s something else about retired roofing contractor Ellis: \"I was a stand-in for Jerry Mathers, the Beaver, on the 'Leave it to Beaver' show.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the 1950s Cleaver family on \"Leave it to Beaver\" represented a warm, happy all-American fiction of a time gone by, the Summit Inn was the real thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people I worked with, we were like family,” says Keeney. “It was your work family, but you could depend on them if you need them. It was insanely wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wonderfulness is what Katherine Recinos-Juarez thought she and her mother, Annabella, and brother, Otto Recinos, were buying when they purchased the Summit Inn from Cecil Stevens. At 84, he was ready to retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first couple weeks I was there 15 hours a day, and we clicked very, very fast, all of us,” she says. “We became a family within weeks, days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11105028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"People examine the remains of the historic Summitt Inn after the Blue Cut Fire burned the historic diner to the ground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11105028\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-400x255.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-960x613.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People examine the remains of the historic Summitt Inn after the Blue Cut Fire burned the historic diner to the ground. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 16 Recinos-Juarez was running errands in L.A. when she got a warning call from Keeney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By 3 p.m. she calls me, we’re being evacuated. By 6 I was receiving all the pictures of it being burned down. I was driving and I pulled over and just stopped driving for about 40 minutes because I was just broken inside of me,” says Recinos-Juarez. “It was my baby, and just kind of went away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the fire, the charred hulk of the inn was fenced off. Then, everything apart from the sign was demolished and removed. But Recinos-Juarez says they aren’t giving up on the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're still in discussion with insurance. Hopefully, crossing fingers, we can rebuild the Summit Inn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, the lingering smell of smoke still hangs in the air where the Summit Inn once stood, and that red sign with the white block letters is still there. The cars and trucks still speed by, but -- for now anyway -- they don’t stop anymore.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/blue-cut-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cut Fire\u003c/a> swept through San Bernardino County earlier this summer, it destroyed over 36,000 acres and some 300 structures. Among them was a beloved iconic diner. Twelve Naugahyde booths, 18 seats at the horseshoe counter, a jukebox and memorabilia lining the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was on the 15 freeway, on what was once a section of the most historic highway in the country, Route 66.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve made the drive between Los Angeles and Las Vegas in the last 64 years, you’ve passed the Summit Inn. It was a diner, a gas station and a gift shop. The “inn” part of the name wasn’t just filigree; there was a small motel on the 9-acre property that closed down in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perched near the top of the Cajon Pass, the big red sign with the white block letters announced the down-home outpost against a sky of blinding desert blue. At night, the sign became a blinking neon beacon to countless weary travelers looking for a cup of coffee, a bite to eat, or a place to gas up and stretch their legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/284839081&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/284839081'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a landmark. You could not go by the Summit Inn without going, 'There it is!'” says author and pop culture historian Charles Phoenix. “It was one of those places you never didn't notice on your way to Vegas or Yellowstone, or doing the old classic Route 66 trip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the fire, there’s not much to notice anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw the flames coming up the hill and I knew we had to go,” says Michelle Keeney. She was on duty that day in August, but then she’s been on duty for most of the last 24 years. Since Keeney was hired as a teenager, she’s worked as everything from graveyard shift cashier to, most recently, general manager. The fire took her job, her house and everything she owned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't want to say it was a curse, but it’s almost like it was a curse,” she continues. “Really strange. Maybe like they’re mad that Mr. Stevens is gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who’s “they”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They? The fire gods? I don’t know!” says Keeney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11104956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"Former Summit Inn owner Cecil Stevens (R) with former general manager Michelle Keeney. She worked at the Inn for 24 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11104956\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-400x257.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-960x617.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Summit Inn owner Cecil Stevens (R) with former general manager Michelle Keeney. She worked at the Inn for 24 years. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Mr. Stevens she’s talking about is Cecil Stevens. He bought the inn on Friday, Oct. 13, 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the things I’ve done in my life have been on Friday the 13th,” Stevens reveals. “So I always look forward to Friday the 13th every year. Man, something good’s gonna happen!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sold the business on Friday, July 1. Six weeks later it burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens was born in Dale City, Oklahoma, “an arm’s throw” from Route 66. Ever since, the venerated road has loomed large in his legend. Just ask him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a 66 type of guy. Born on 66, lived on 66, enjoyed 66, know a lot about 66. Sixty-six seems to be the key to me. I probably wouldn’t have been able to be up here if it wasn’t for Route 66.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His initial fateful encounter with the inn came in 1952, the year it was built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first day I laid eyes on the Summit Inn I was with my brother Calvin,” Stevens recalls. “I had been drafted in the Army during the Korean deal, and so we decided we'd take a trip from where we lived in San Diego to Utah, and on our way we stopped at the Summit. It was new at that time. We sat there at the counter and had coffee. That gas station was doing real big business at that time, and I kind of liked that spot. I just had a good feeling about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11105017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Cecil Stevens holds a photo of neighbors Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11105017\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-400x274.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cecil Stevens holds a photo of neighbors Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the 50 years he owned the Summit, Stevens was a boss, a father figure, a tough guy and a sweetheart. But mostly, he was a man who liked talking to people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would always talk to customers about everything that was going on at the time,” he says. “I enjoyed it. They call it schmoozing or something? And I loved talking to movie stars. They come in there a lot. I had Clint Eastwood, I made him a bet I could beat him in my Pantera, he had a Porsche or something. He said, 'I don't want to take your money.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk of making bets with Clint Eastwood aside, driving through the high desert was treacherous, and the Cajon Pass could be a desolate place for travelers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a highway and they get stranded out there and they didn't have any way to get out of there and they'd hang around the Summit for a week,” says Stevens. “They’d sleep out in back and dig in the trash. It was awful. Sooner or later somebody'd come to get'em or I'd take them back to Victorville and drop them off in town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the pancakes and ostrich burgers, the inn was the stage for decades of transient human drama. Heart attacks, drunken drivers, Vegas losers reeking of depression, and road rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These two cars got into a road rage incident on the freeway,” says Keeney. “They followed each other into the Arco station and that led to a fight inside. The man who was working the graveyard shift told them to take it outside and they did. The offender who started the incident was actually pushed into the middle of the road, and an 18-wheeler hit him and he was killed. It was a shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But horrific highway tragedy aside, there were the regulars. Dave Ellis first ate there as a kid in the '50s traveling with his family on Route 66. As an adult he became a fixture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11105024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Ellis, Summit Inn regular for almost 20 years, at home with his massive automotive memorabilia collection.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11105024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-800x604.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-400x302.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-1180x891.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-960x725.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Ellis, Summit Inn regular for almost 20 years, at home with his massive automotive memorabilia collection. \u003ccite>(Peter GIlstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I went to the Summit every day,” he says. “If it wasn't for lunch it would be for breakfast, and when I first moved up here I’d go for dinner a lot, too. I've been up here for 19 years and I've been a regular customer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s something else about retired roofing contractor Ellis: \"I was a stand-in for Jerry Mathers, the Beaver, on the 'Leave it to Beaver' show.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the 1950s Cleaver family on \"Leave it to Beaver\" represented a warm, happy all-American fiction of a time gone by, the Summit Inn was the real thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people I worked with, we were like family,” says Keeney. “It was your work family, but you could depend on them if you need them. It was insanely wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wonderfulness is what Katherine Recinos-Juarez thought she and her mother, Annabella, and brother, Otto Recinos, were buying when they purchased the Summit Inn from Cecil Stevens. At 84, he was ready to retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first couple weeks I was there 15 hours a day, and we clicked very, very fast, all of us,” she says. “We became a family within weeks, days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11105028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"People examine the remains of the historic Summitt Inn after the Blue Cut Fire burned the historic diner to the ground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11105028\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-400x255.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-960x613.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People examine the remains of the historic Summitt Inn after the Blue Cut Fire burned the historic diner to the ground. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 16 Recinos-Juarez was running errands in L.A. when she got a warning call from Keeney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By 3 p.m. she calls me, we’re being evacuated. 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"content": "\u003cp>For decades, small growers in Humboldt County have made a living cultivating and selling cannabis. But over the last 10 years or so, outsiders have been pouring in to the region trying to cash in on the \"green rush\" for commercial cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medical marijuana industry has certainly sparked a cannabis boon, but if Californians vote for \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_64,_Marijuana_Legalization_(2016)\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> and allow adults to smoke cannabis purely for recreation, it will be a game changer for the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not hard to find local farmers who worry that larger corporations will eventually squeeze out their smaller operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers like Chrystal Ortiz-Beck and her husband, Noah Beck. Chrystal and Noah currently cultivate medical marijuana for dispensaries. Their farm, or “grow,” as it is known around here, is in Holmes, an unincorporated town right off Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/284377273\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes is a remote and rugged place. The South Fork of the Eel River drifts through the valley in which the tiny town sits. It's sparsely populated and laced with redwood trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like in much of Humboldt County, marijuana cultivation has replaced logging as the main livelihood. Chrystal says most of the people here have grown marijuana for decades. But they've hidden it. And for good reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrystal is a second-generation grower and says pot farmers used to live a much more fearful existence. She starts to tell me about her family, who lived in Mendocino County. But she stops herself before getting into the details. Growers from her parents’ generation still don’t like to talk about their business. All she will say is that her family's operation was raided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11098950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11098950\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0640-800x600.jpg\" alt='Small growers in Humboldt hope \"connoisseur cannabis\" helps them stay competitive in a changing industry. ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0640-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0640-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0640-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0640-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0640-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chrystal and Noah obtained permits to grow legally on their small farm under regulations Humboldt County established last February. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Up until a few months ago, Chrystal wouldn't have been so public about her marijuana grow either. She wouldn’t have cultivated plants out in the open and she definitely wouldn't have invited an outsider like me to visit the farm. But times have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're moving into the full sun,” Chrystal says, “out of the trees and out of the shadows and into full sun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I'm not for the prostitution of the plant. I'm not for the commercialization of the plant.' \u003ccite>Chrystal Ortiz-Beck, marijuana grower\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Today, Chrystal isn’t shy about showing me her farm. As we walk through the greenhouses, she points out the different cannabis strains, with names like OG Kush, Girl Scout Cookies and Blue Dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrystal and Noah’s farm is small, less than an acre and fenced off from the road. The couple obtained \u003ca href=\"https://humboldtgov.org/2124/Medical-Marijuana-Land-Use-Ordinance\">permits from the county \u003c/a> to grow legally under regulations Humboldt County established last February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These permits are a big deal in Humboldt County. Over 300 growers have signed up for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrystal says that while young growers are embracing the new openness, the old-time growers are still suspicious. She says they remember the “pot wars” in the '80s when law enforcement ripped up plants and put people behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100653\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Chrystal-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Chrystal Ortiz-Beck believes there will always be a market for high-grade, organic cannabis. \" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Chrystal.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Chrystal-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chrystal Ortiz-Beck believes there will always be a market for high-grade organic cannabis. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chrystal says many older growers actually oppose Proposition 64, fearing it will bring costly regulations. And, if larger corporations eventually get into the business, the farmers worry it will drive down the price of marijuana. Chrystal says prices are already dropping. Over 15 years, she says, cannabis dipped from $4,000 a pound to around $1,500 a pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrystal says many growers in Humboldt County feel like \"Budweiser and Coors and Big Tobacco and Big Alcohol and Big Ag are going to come in and wipe us off the map.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrystal and Noah are making plans for how to survive if Proposition 64 is approved. They're staking their success on small-batch, organic, high-grade marijuana -- or as they call it, “connoisseur cannabis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah oversees much of the couple’s cannabis cultivation. He takes painstaking care of each individual plant. He doesn’t use pesticides, but instead sprays them down with seed oil and Dr. Bronner’s soap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11099044\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11099044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Noah-Plant-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Noah Beck pays painstaking attention to each of his plants.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Noah-Plant-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Noah-Plant-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Noah-Plant-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Noah-Plant-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Noah-Plant-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah Beck pays painstaking attention to each of his plants. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Noah points out the tiny hairy flowers on a healthy 6-foot plant. He says, “If these hairs are really looking lush and white and full and thick and sticking up toward the sun, and these leaves are sticking way up and stoked, then I know they are fat and healthy and the crystal formation is coming on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make a living with marijuana these days, Noah says you need to do more than sell great weed. He and Chrystal want their farm to be a tourist destination — like a vineyard, but for cannabis. “A place,\" Noah says, \"where you can sit down, have a nice lunch and enjoy a smoke, a glass of wine, maybe stay the night in a little house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A “bud-and-breakfast,” Chrystal chimes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If California voters do agree to legalize recreational marijuana, then tourists could stop in at Noah and Chrystal's \"bud-and-breakfast\". Yet, Chrystal can't help worrying about the local cannabis culture turning corporate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm not for the prostitution of the plant,” Chrystal says, “I'm not for the commercialization of the plant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrystal says older growers are used to life off the grid. They aren’t good at following regulations and working with the law. She thinks many of them won’t have the business sense, the money or the inclination to compete on a larger scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"4VnaPrK78MTCG2xnnJlfDq9mfkjNarPE\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Chrystal if she plans to vote to legalize. She pauses a moment before answering. “I would say no,” she says, because of how it could impact small growers. Then, she adds, “I will probably vote for it only because I feel like some lightning bolt will come down and strike me out of the sky if I vote against legalization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At night Chrystal, Noah, their kids and a few helpers from the farm gather around a big picnic table for dinner. They relax, banter and share news of the day. Later, around a campfire, Noah and Chrystal pack a bowl and smoke. Some day soon, they hope tourists will be pulling off the highway to join them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like in much of Humboldt County, marijuana cultivation has replaced logging as the main livelihood. Chrystal says most of the people here have grown marijuana for decades. But they've hidden it. And for good reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrystal is a second-generation grower and says pot farmers used to live a much more fearful existence. She starts to tell me about her family, who lived in Mendocino County. But she stops herself before getting into the details. Growers from her parents’ generation still don’t like to talk about their business. All she will say is that her family's operation was raided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11098950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11098950\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0640-800x600.jpg\" alt='Small growers in Humboldt hope \"connoisseur cannabis\" helps them stay competitive in a changing industry. 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But times have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're moving into the full sun,” Chrystal says, “out of the trees and out of the shadows and into full sun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I'm not for the prostitution of the plant. I'm not for the commercialization of the plant.' \u003ccite>Chrystal Ortiz-Beck, marijuana grower\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Today, Chrystal isn’t shy about showing me her farm. As we walk through the greenhouses, she points out the different cannabis strains, with names like OG Kush, Girl Scout Cookies and Blue Dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrystal and Noah’s farm is small, less than an acre and fenced off from the road. The couple obtained \u003ca href=\"https://humboldtgov.org/2124/Medical-Marijuana-Land-Use-Ordinance\">permits from the county \u003c/a> to grow legally under regulations Humboldt County established last February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These permits are a big deal in Humboldt County. Over 300 growers have signed up for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrystal says that while young growers are embracing the new openness, the old-time growers are still suspicious. She says they remember the “pot wars” in the '80s when law enforcement ripped up plants and put people behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100653\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Chrystal-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Chrystal Ortiz-Beck believes there will always be a market for high-grade, organic cannabis. \" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Chrystal.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Chrystal-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chrystal Ortiz-Beck believes there will always be a market for high-grade organic cannabis. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chrystal says many older growers actually oppose Proposition 64, fearing it will bring costly regulations. And, if larger corporations eventually get into the business, the farmers worry it will drive down the price of marijuana. Chrystal says prices are already dropping. Over 15 years, she says, cannabis dipped from $4,000 a pound to around $1,500 a pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrystal says many growers in Humboldt County feel like \"Budweiser and Coors and Big Tobacco and Big Alcohol and Big Ag are going to come in and wipe us off the map.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrystal and Noah are making plans for how to survive if Proposition 64 is approved. They're staking their success on small-batch, organic, high-grade marijuana -- or as they call it, “connoisseur cannabis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah oversees much of the couple’s cannabis cultivation. He takes painstaking care of each individual plant. He doesn’t use pesticides, but instead sprays them down with seed oil and Dr. Bronner’s soap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11099044\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11099044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Noah-Plant-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Noah Beck pays painstaking attention to each of his plants.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Noah-Plant-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Noah-Plant-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Noah-Plant-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Noah-Plant-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Noah-Plant-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah Beck pays painstaking attention to each of his plants. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Noah points out the tiny hairy flowers on a healthy 6-foot plant. He says, “If these hairs are really looking lush and white and full and thick and sticking up toward the sun, and these leaves are sticking way up and stoked, then I know they are fat and healthy and the crystal formation is coming on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make a living with marijuana these days, Noah says you need to do more than sell great weed. He and Chrystal want their farm to be a tourist destination — like a vineyard, but for cannabis. “A place,\" Noah says, \"where you can sit down, have a nice lunch and enjoy a smoke, a glass of wine, maybe stay the night in a little house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A “bud-and-breakfast,” Chrystal chimes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If California voters do agree to legalize recreational marijuana, then tourists could stop in at Noah and Chrystal's \"bud-and-breakfast\". 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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles County's growing homeless population includes one group that’s not so visible: immigrants who came to the United States to earn a better living but couldn’t, and are ending up without shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On any given day at a Cypress Park Community Job Center, located in the parking lot of a busy Home Depot, some of the day laborers waiting for work don't have a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them are staying on the streets,\" said Luis Valentan, who manages the day labor center, which is run by Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California, \u003ca href=\"http://idepsca.org/\">a community nonprofit\u003c/a>. \"We know a couple of workers that sleep in the back of a truck or under a bridge, or in a park,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/284292368\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the day laborers is a 51-year-old man who goes by Alonso. He did not want to use his full name because he doesn't have legal status and he does not want this family to know he's homeless. He said he's been that way for about four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sleep on the street, not in the open street, but someplace where I have a tent,\" said Alonso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso said he camps high up in Elysian Park, about a 15-minute walk from the Home Depot. He shows up for work looking clean and presentable. He said he tries to use public showers when he can, but other times, washes in the L.A. River or in the nearby Arroyo Seco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. ... There are no more decent rents.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I bathe when it rains and it is clean,\" he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso has struggled since the recession. Until about four years ago, he was able to rent a room nearby. But the work dried up, and the money wasn't enough. He stopped sending money home to his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who came to the U.S. to find work have found themselves on similar footing, Valentan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more about survival,\" Valentan said. \"This gentrification that is happening in Los Angeles, it is leaving pretty much everybody without opportunities. Like rents are very expensive now. There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. There are no more decent rents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11100566 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established The Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-960x635.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established the Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lately, Valentan and the job center staff have referred a growing number of workers to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dolores-mission.org/\">Dolores Mission\u003c/a> in Boyle Heights. The shelter is unique in that it caters to Spanish-speaking immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, we have seen a huge increase in the number of people coming to us, and newly homeless, since 2009,\" said Cynthia Sanchez, director of Proyecto Pastoral, the nonprofit that runs the shelter at Dolores Mission Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church shelter first opened its doors nearly 30 years ago to house refugees fleeing war-torn Central America. Now, it shelters a different crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of them are day laborers. They work in construction or they work in restaurants, they work in landscaping,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep inside the church sanctuary and several others sleep in adjacent buildings. A smaller women's shelter opened a year and a half ago, housing mostly older women who work in domestic jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those who wind up on the street are single men, Sanchez said. They are here on their own, without families in the U.S., and often send money back home to relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Shadow' Population\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others who work with the homeless immigrants see them as a shadow population within Los Angeles' growing homeless ranks. Since last year, the number of homeless in Los Angeles County rose by almost 6 percent over the past year to 46,874 people, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/05/04/60286/la-homelessness-up-6-percent-over-last-year/\">a census of the homeless\u003c/a> released in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immigrant homeless are part of this population, but there are barriers to assisting them. Many are reluctant to seek services or go to shelters, according to local day labor centers and others who work with them. They said they are afraid of others on the street who are mentally ill or use drugs. Some from foreign countries are fearful of the black homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"S0uDkOER4VT30ZR60ZpzaYElt0IUuC09\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a sense of shame, Sanchez said. Some among the immigrant homeless are reluctant to accept help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, they don’t see themselves as being homeless or as needing shelter, but rather as needing support so they can work,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lack of legal status in the U.S. also makes them reluctant to step forward, whether to report a crime or to enter a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even when they come here to the program, and we start putting their information into the computer, they ask: Where does this information go? Is it going to affect us?\" said Salvador Mendoza, who handles intake at Dolores Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said those who lack legal status also have other issues accessing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the most part, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for public benefits, that being federal housing subsidies, or CalFresh benefits, formerly known as food stamps,\" said Phil Ansell, director of Los Angeles County's new \u003ca href=\"http://priorities.lacounty.gov/homeless/\">Homeless Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said that's not to say U.S. citizens and legal residents who are homeless have it much easier. He said there isn't enough federal Section 8 housing assistance to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The overall challenge is that rents are high and that wages are low,\" Ansell said. \"And that is the same challenge that faces most other homeless families and individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said he hoped recent minimum wage and anti-wage theft laws might help. Wage theft -- when employers withhold wages or benefits owed to an employee -- is rampant in day labor and other low-wage industries that attract immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez at Dolores Mission said for now, their best solution for moving people into permanent housing is to place them with roommates in private rentals. But rising rents lately have made that difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Off the Streets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every night at the Dolores Mission, after dinner, the cots go up inside the church, even where the altar stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gets pushed to the side to allow space for eight cots to go up on the altar,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep in the church. Others sleep in adjacent buildings. Altogether the men's shelter houses 45. There is also a smaller women's shelter that opened a year and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent evening, a few of the men gathered around the TV before dinner. Among them was 59-year-old Andres Gonzales Perez, a relatively recent arrival to the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for two months,\" Gonzales said. \"It is the first time I am here at a mission, unfortunately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales said it's the first time he has been homeless. He used to work as a baker, but became sick with a lung ailment that needed treatment and couldn’t keep working. He tried unsuccessfully staying with his brother. About three months ago, he wound up on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very cold,\" Gonzales said. \"I got an ugly cough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rigoberto Bejerano has been on the street longer. He said he tried staying for a time downtown, near Skid Row, where all the services are, but he found that frightening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s lots of drugs, lots of alcoholism, lots of perdition, lots of vandalism,\" said Bejerano, who has worked as a handyman. \"People don’t have any money, so they attack others to get what they want. It’s dangerous living downtown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Cypress Park, Alonso said one reason he camps in the hills is to avoid the dangers of the streets. He said he's been thinking lately about heading back to Mexico after 16 years in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he hasn't talked to his parents since he’s been on the street. At first, he told them everything was OK. Then he stopped calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of making them happy to hear from me, it would make them upset,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been years now since he had contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What really breaks my heart is that I don’t know if my dad is alive, if my mom is alive, if my siblings are OK,\" Alonso said. \"I love them very much ... and I’m afraid they will think that I am ingrate, that I don’t want to help them, that I forgot about them -- and it’s not like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that if things don’t get better within a couple of years, he’ll head home.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He stopped sending money home to his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who came to the U.S. to find work have found themselves on similar footing, Valentan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more about survival,\" Valentan said. \"This gentrification that is happening in Los Angeles, it is leaving pretty much everybody without opportunities. Like rents are very expensive now. There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. There are no more decent rents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11100566 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. 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They work in construction or they work in restaurants, they work in landscaping,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep inside the church sanctuary and several others sleep in adjacent buildings. A smaller women's shelter opened a year and a half ago, housing mostly older women who work in domestic jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those who wind up on the street are single men, Sanchez said. They are here on their own, without families in the U.S., and often send money back home to relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Shadow' Population\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others who work with the homeless immigrants see them as a shadow population within Los Angeles' growing homeless ranks. 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Some among the immigrant homeless are reluctant to accept help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, they don’t see themselves as being homeless or as needing shelter, but rather as needing support so they can work,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lack of legal status in the U.S. also makes them reluctant to step forward, whether to report a crime or to enter a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even when they come here to the program, and we start putting their information into the computer, they ask: Where does this information go? Is it going to affect us?\" said Salvador Mendoza, who handles intake at Dolores Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said those who lack legal status also have other issues accessing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the most part, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for public benefits, that being federal housing subsidies, or CalFresh benefits, formerly known as food stamps,\" said Phil Ansell, director of Los Angeles County's new \u003ca href=\"http://priorities.lacounty.gov/homeless/\">Homeless Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said that's not to say U.S. citizens and legal residents who are homeless have it much easier. He said there isn't enough federal Section 8 housing assistance to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The overall challenge is that rents are high and that wages are low,\" Ansell said. \"And that is the same challenge that faces most other homeless families and individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said he hoped recent minimum wage and anti-wage theft laws might help. Wage theft -- when employers withhold wages or benefits owed to an employee -- is rampant in day labor and other low-wage industries that attract immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez at Dolores Mission said for now, their best solution for moving people into permanent housing is to place them with roommates in private rentals. But rising rents lately have made that difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Off the Streets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every night at the Dolores Mission, after dinner, the cots go up inside the church, even where the altar stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gets pushed to the side to allow space for eight cots to go up on the altar,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep in the church. Others sleep in adjacent buildings. Altogether the men's shelter houses 45. There is also a smaller women's shelter that opened a year and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent evening, a few of the men gathered around the TV before dinner. Among them was 59-year-old Andres Gonzales Perez, a relatively recent arrival to the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for two months,\" Gonzales said. \"It is the first time I am here at a mission, unfortunately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales said it's the first time he has been homeless. He used to work as a baker, but became sick with a lung ailment that needed treatment and couldn’t keep working. He tried unsuccessfully staying with his brother. About three months ago, he wound up on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very cold,\" Gonzales said. \"I got an ugly cough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rigoberto Bejerano has been on the street longer. 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"content": "\u003cp>When we talk about the economy, we spend a lot of time talking about jobs -- how to create more of them and how to replace the ones being lost. But what if we’re entering an automated future where there won’t be enough jobs for the people who need them? If this happens, how will people pay for food and shelter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Silicon Valley, a growing number of those in the tech sector believe that one solution may be the universal basic income. Simply put, the idea is that Uncle Sam will cut citizens a regular paycheck whether they work or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/283983969\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishachellam\">Misha Chellam\u003c/a> is a tech entrepreneur in San Francisco and is part of the burgeoning basic income movement here. He took me to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2015/08/18/san-franciscos-newest-fast-food-healthy-cheap-and-served-by-robots/\">eatsa\u003c/a>, a healthy fast-food joint, to show me why many in tech are coming to this conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant is in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco. If Apple opened a fast-food place, I imagine it would look sort of like eatsa. The space is bright and the decor is sparse in that trendy modern way. But when we enter the restaurant, I notice right away there are no cashiers to take our order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s part of the magic here,” Chellam says. “We’re not going to order from anybody. We’re going to order from computers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chellam and I walk up to one of the iPads mounted on the wall. The first step is to swipe your credit card, which Chellam does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now what are we going to eat?” Chellam asks after his credit card is accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eatsa’s thing is \u003ca href=\"https://www.eatsa.com/menu\">quinoa bowls\u003c/a>, and you can see photos of its offerings on the screen. I go for the burrito quinoa bowl and Chellam orders the kale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, I’m in San Francisco. I feel like I need to do with kale,” he says. “But oh, I don’t want that cheese.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of clicks later and we’re done. 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While technological advances make some jobs obsolete, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/17/technology-created-more-jobs-than-destroyed-140-years-data-census\">past \u003c/a>has shown that tech has also created new opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFQw3zmTBWY&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advancements in artificial intelligence are intensifying this debate. In Silicon Valley, there are lots of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/technology/on-wheels-and-wings-artificial-intelligence-swarms-silicon-valley.html?_r=0\">experiments in automation\u003c/a>. There's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Robot-retail-is-here-8148122.php\">robot at Lowe’s\u003c/a> home improvement store in Sunnyvale that checks inventory. There’s the “robot butler” working at a hotel in Cupertino. And then there’s Uber, which is experimenting with \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/technology/our-reporter-goes-for-a-spin-in-a-self-driving-uber-car.html\">driverless taxis\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-tech-volvo-otto-idUSKCN10T1TR\">trucking\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that affects 3.5 million truck drivers, another 5 million people who service the truck-driving industry, and then all the towns and services that support trucking routes,” Chellam says. “And that’s just one example of automation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chellam says software is eating white-collar jobs, too, and everyone from bookkeepers to doctors and lawyers will be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chellam criticizes politicians for not talking about this automated future. At best, he says, they talk about “retraining,” which doesn’t address the scope of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Take the truck driver example,” he says. “What are you going to retrain 3.5 million people to do in a short enough period of time when whatever you’ve retrained them to do isn’t automated itself?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A future in which technology eliminates human jobs is raising an alarm among some experts. But Chellam is part of a small cohort of tech entrepreneurs in the valley who think there could be a solution: The government could give people “cash” to help pay for those basic needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like we need to do something to lessen the blow, and I think basic income could be a good solution,” Chellam says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s interest in the universal basic income is one part guilt and one part optimism, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.iftf.org/nataliefoster/\">Natalie Foster\u003c/a>, a fellow at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.iftf.org/home/\">Institute for the Future\u003c/a>, a nonprofit research organization in downtown Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a community that likes big \u003ca href=\"http://siliconvalleyism.com/silicon-valley-quote.php?id=328\">moonshot ideas\u003c/a>,” Foster says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some technologists suggest setting the basic income at \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/books/review/rise-of-the-robots-and-shadow-work.html?_r=0\">$10,000 a year\u003c/a>. Others have proposed raising\u003ca href=\"http://climatecolab.org/plans/-/plans/contests/2015/us-carbon-price/c/proposal/1309306\"> carbon emission\u003c/a> taxes to pay for it. Foster says there hasn’t been enough research on basic income to have serious policy discussions. She says that right now tech workers are in the “inquiry and research phase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re holding meetups and hosting panels asking what would it mean to give people money they didn’t work for, Foster says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://blog.ycombinator.com/moving-forward-on-basic-income\">Oakland\u003c/a>, they’re about to find out. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ycombinator.com/\">Y Combinator\u003c/a> is funding a research project on basic income, where it will pay 100 people enough money for food and shelter -- no strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prestigious tech accelerator helped launch companies like Airbnb and Reddit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y Combinator declined requests for an interview, but in a\u003ca href=\"https://blog.ycombinator.com/basic-income\"> blog post\u003c/a> its president, Sam Altman, stated that at some point in the future, as technology continues to eliminate traditional jobs, some version of basic income will be rolled out nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate about whether machines are taking our jobs is beside the point, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ChrisHughes\">Chris Hughes\u003c/a>. He’s a co-founder of Facebook and active in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-hughes/the-case-for-cash-for-all_b_10004590.html\"> basic income movement\u003c/a>. He says the reality is that work has already changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepofeldt/2015/05/25/shocker-40-of-workers-now-have-contingent-jobs-says-u-s-government/#5c07abdf2532\">40 percent of jobs are now contingent\u003c/a>, meaning they’re part-time, independent contractors, Uber drivers,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he says that shift has left middle-class Americans economically insecure. In May, the Federal Reserve released a study that said 46 percent of Americans surveyed didn’t have enough cash to cover a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/25/the-shocking-number-of-americans-who-cant-cover-a-400-expense/\">$400 emergency expense\u003c/a>. 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He’s a co-founder of Facebook and active in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-hughes/the-case-for-cash-for-all_b_10004590.html\"> basic income movement\u003c/a>. He says the reality is that work has already changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepofeldt/2015/05/25/shocker-40-of-workers-now-have-contingent-jobs-says-u-s-government/#5c07abdf2532\">40 percent of jobs are now contingent\u003c/a>, meaning they’re part-time, independent contractors, Uber drivers,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he says that shift has left middle-class Americans economically insecure. In May, the Federal Reserve released a study that said 46 percent of Americans surveyed didn’t have enough cash to cover a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/25/the-shocking-number-of-americans-who-cant-cover-a-400-expense/\">$400 emergency expense\u003c/a>. 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In the long run, these companies believe it will be cheaper to hire workers rather than rely on contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve got two audio pieces about the shift some gig companies are making. The first is a story about a company called Trusted, which offers on-demand child care and decided to hire all of its employees from the start. To follow up, we spoke with the CEO of Shyp, an on-demand delivery company that used to have the gig worker model but has now hired its employees. First, the story of Trusted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Economic Argument\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nugget of the Trusted story is that the decision to hire workers is an economic one. The CEO of Trusted, Anand Iyer, calculated he would actually save money by hiring employees instead of getting gig workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the logic. In the short term, employees cost a business more. Companies have to pay higher taxes and offer benefits like workers’ compensation. But Iyer says employees tend to stick around longer and fewer quit. There is less “churn,” or worker turnover, which means less money spent on finding and training contractors to replace the ones who stop working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iyer ran the numbers and found that employees would save him money in the long run. “The math,” Iyer says, “totally checks out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The math totally checks out.’ \u003ccite>Anand Iyer, CEO of Trusted\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gig companies are realizing that employees can save them money. Other new businesses one might assume would go the gig-worker route have come to the same conclusion. There’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/managed-by-qs-good-jobs-gamble.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this story about Q\u003c/a>, the office cleaning and management company. 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As employees, workers have access to more benefits like workers’ comp and potentially a company health care plan. They also pay less in taxes. Independent contractors face higher tax rates. They can lower how much they pay by working some deduction magic come tax time, but that itself takes time and work. For gig workers, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/15/uber-lyft-gig-workers-face-tax-problems/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it can be especially complex\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palak Shah is from the National Domestic Workers Alliance and oversees the \u003ca href=\"http://www.goodworkcode.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Good Work Code\u003c/a>. It’s a set of guidelines for treating workers well in the digital age. Shah says employment is generally a better deal for workers than gigs are, but she says handing out W-2s does not automatically fix the generally precarious position of workers in the gig economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The W-2 status can serve as a really important floor,” Shah says, “but there’s a lot of other dimensions like safety and shared prosperity and whether the voices of workers are heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah says workers in the gig economy often aren’t getting a big share of the prosperity, have limited voice and suffer a large amount of instability. The rules can change overnight for gig workers, and they can start taking home less income or have less flexibility. See \u003ca href=\"http://ssl.marketplace.org/2016/05/10/world/instacart-workers-feel-sting-pay-restructure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this story about Instacart\u003c/a> workers for details. 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